When Jiang Cheng returned to Yan'an again, when he came to the cross street of Yan'an, he found that there were many young people, all wearing military uniforms, and there seemed to be countless interesting things in the small Yan'an street.

A young soldier drank the last mouthful of noodle soup, burped, and said to the person opposite, "Brother Teng, this is comfortable, what do you say this really looks like on the battlefield, I can't think of how this ten thousand cannons are fired." Haven't you been on the battlefield, can you tell me, huh? Why don't you eat it? ”

On the opposite side was a soldier who was older and about thirty years old, and said, "I can't eat, Tian Jie, you see that you young people are here this time, and I am a grade old, and I don't know if it's a mistake, this is finally a chance to go to the front, I really don't want to go back to school." ”

Tian Jie looked at the noodle soup in front of Teng Yifeng, swallowed his saliva, although he was full in school, but there was not much oil and water, he had accumulated four months of military salary to eat two better meals, Tian Jie couldn't wait to grab Teng Yifeng to eat mutton noodle soup as soon as he came to Yan'an.

Tian Jie said comfortingly, "Brother Teng, don't worry, you have been an artillery company commander in the Northeast, you have experience, and your grades in the artillery school have always been the best, so there must be no problem." ”

Teng Yifeng is a native of Northeast China, was originally the commander of the artillery company of the Northeast Army, after the fall of Northeast China, 26-year-old he came to Tianjin to work for a few years, after making money, he entered the university by himself, which became a good story, and he followed his teachers and classmates to the border area at the age of 34 this year. And entered the artillery academy to re-study, because of the foundation, quickly stood out and became a key training object.

Tian Jie looked at the pocket watch and said anxiously, "Yifeng, hurry up, it will be open in half an hour." ”

When Teng Yifeng heard this, he no longer thought about it, and hurriedly drank the noodle soup in three or two sips, and when He Tianjie came to the playground, there were already many people.

Jiang Cheng was also in the playground at this time. Looking at these student soldiers, he said to Chairman Mao next to him, "Chairman, compared with a few months ago, there is a big difference. ”

Chairman Mao's face was full of black lines, and after practicing for half a year, he could see in Jiang Cheng's eyes that his military posture was good. Chairman Mao coughed and said, "203." Your arms are very timely this time, these people have gifts to go to their commanders. By the way, you've been lucky both times, isn't there something wrong with you? ”

Jiang Cheng briefly told Chairman Mao about the events during this time. Chairman Mao raised his hand and almost wanted to beat Jiang Cheng, and said with red eyes, "How many times have I said it, your safety is the most important, don't you understand?" If you do it again. Don't come again, without you, we will succeed as well. I don't want to worry all day about whether something will happen in your time, and if Syria and Ukraine are so dangerous, you shouldn't go. ”

Jiang Cheng said with a grin, "Ge Ming is not a guest for dinner, where will it not be dangerous, the chairman rest assured, I will return here once I find out that something is wrong, and no one will hurt me." ”

Chairman Mao shook his hand excitedly and said, "The proud soldiers will be defeated, the proud soldiers will be defeated, how many times have I said it?" You remember that you can't ignore the enemy at any time, and you have to strategically despise the enemy. ”

"Tactically pay attention to the enemy, Chairman, I know this, you can rest assured, this time it was purely an accident, my time is now surrounded by many people to protect me, okay, everyone is waiting." Jiang Cheng smiled and pushed Chairman Mao out.

Chairman Mao glanced at Jiang Cheng fiercely and said, "Come back and clean you up." ”

Chairman Mao walked to the rostrum and said, "Comrades, good afternoon, everyone is a student who has studied from various military academies, although the study time is relatively short, and many things have not been learned, but the devil does not give us time, and we can only go to the battlefield to study, to the base area to study"

Jiang Cheng watched Chairman Mao do the mobilization meeting, turned his head and returned to the warehouse, the warehouse was still in the inventory, Yang Zhicheng was sweating on his head, and when he saw Jiang Cheng coming, he hurriedly complained, "203, I'm tired, but I'm getting happier the more I point." There are more arms than last time. ”

Jiang Cheng said hehehe, "This is only half of it, there are many more behind, Steward Yang, you can lose a few more catties of meat." ”

Yang Zhicheng looked at the machine guns one by one and said, "It doesn't matter if I lose ten or eight pounds." Looking at these things, I'm all overpowered. Looking at these guns, it was as if I had seen the heads of countless little devils. ”

Jiang Cheng patted the box of the container and said, "Wait, Steward Yang, it's not just the head of the little devil, one day I will bring the head of the emperor to you as a ball." ”

In the past few months from the division of troops in Luliang Mountain, from commanders and fighters to soldiers who have established a base area through great hardship, relying on the resolute implementation of rent and interest reductions, leading the masses to resist Japan and many other measures, the people's hearts in the base areas have gradually become attached to the Eighth Route Army, and everything is developing in a good direction. Although everyone can understand it, it has become a new problem who will leave and who will stay, and most of the newly recruited soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are natives of Shanxi, and whether they go to other provinces to help the people of other provinces fight desperately, whether this is ideologically acceptable and whether they have become conscious has also become a question in front of the commanders and fighters.

-- Lu Liangshan, headquarters of the Eighth Route Army

Mr. Peng looked at the flow of people who kept going up the mountain and said, "Huh? Didn't we have all the regimental cadres come to the meeting? So many people? ”

Zuo Quan next to him smiled and said, "The boss forgot, our troops are growing, in addition to the regiments that Lao Jiang gave us, there are also newly established independent regiments, temporary regiments, and local regiments, although these regiments do not have Lao Jiang's establishment, but they are also regimental level, and naturally they are all here."

Mr. Peng shook his head and said, "I know, but how much? I think there are hundreds of them. ”

Zuo Quan took out a small notebook, looked at it, and said, "As of yesterday." We now have 87 regimental levels in the whole army, and with their guards, there are naturally several hundred. By the way, this time the Shanxi New Army is also here, and there will be more of them. ”

Mr. Peng said with a sigh of relief, "Chairman Mao is right, as long as we insist on relying on the people, we will fight this war stronger and stronger, and the troops will fight more and more." ”

Zuo Quan nodded and said, "Our guerrilla warfare has penetrated into the hearts of all commanders and fighters, I have taken a look at the information reported at all levels, and the various units have been in guerrilla warfare for several months. Killing more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers and puppet troops is no less than a big battle, and we have persuaded a lot of bandits and village soldiers to surrender, but I don't think the little devil feels anything. ”

Mr. Zhu didn't know when he came over, and said with a laugh, "I just don't let them feel it, today there is one less class, tomorrow there is one less team, our soldiers, now it is a group of leeches." Slowly suck the blood of the big stupid cow of the Japanese army, and when we grow up, we will kill them in one go. Okay, everyone's almost here. Let's go to a meeting. ”

The meeting hall was particularly lively at this time, and after a few months of division of troops, everyone reunited, and many of them turned out to be battalion commanders. Even the company commander was promoted to regimental commander in these months, and of course, there were differences between the regiments. The regiments directly under the three main divisions are of the first class, with excellent weapons, most of them are German and Soviet weapons, and there are many veterans, and their combat effectiveness is the strongest. Each independent regiment is the second class, the weapons are mainly German weapons and Japanese weapons, mixed with cold weapons, the veterans are only three or four percent, the temporary word head regiment is the third class, most of the weapons are old-fashioned equipment and a small number of Japanese weapons, more than half of the cold weapons, less than two percent of the veterans, and the local guerrilla regiments, many of them have only one or two hundred guns, cold weapons account for the vast majority, number, as for the soldiers, the vast majority are farmers who have just put down their hoes, and even some troops, before the Anti-Japanese War, only the officers above the platoon commander have experience in shooting, These are actually the various guerrilla columns and detachments.

Mr. Zhu walked to the rostrum, pressed down, saw that everyone was quiet, swept down, sat in the first row were Lin Sanhu, He Long, Liu Bocheng and others, Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "Everyone, how is this year?" ”

He Long took down his pipe and said, "I have heard a lot of firecrackers this year, and the little devils have come to harass us." ”

Liu Bocheng shook his finger and teased, "But I heard that your 120th Division has not stopped this year, attacking everywhere and destroying many Japanese outposts. ”

He Long hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No, no, no, our 120th Division is poor and ruthless, and we haven't got anything good." ”

Mr. Zhu said hehehe, "Is it poor or rich, do you want to report it?" Well, Lin Sanhu, don't pretend to be asleep without talking, just start with you. ”

Lin Sanhu couldn't stand it, stood up and sighed and said, "In the past four months since the division of troops, we have expanded from more than 10,000 to 58,000 people, of which the five main regiments are fully staffed, excluding the troops left behind in the border areas, there are 17,000 people, and the others have five new independent regiments, eight temporary regiments and 11 local guerrilla columns, and there are not many weapons supplemented. Most of them were guns left behind by Yan Laoxi and guns collected in various towns and villages. ”

Before the words fell, the applause rang out, Lin Sanhu smiled, nodded to the people behind him before sitting down, and pushed He Long next to him, He Long said hehehe, "I just said, our 120th Division is the poorest, our four main regiments are full of 13,000 people, and there are four independent regiments." Six provisional regiments and nine local columns, with a total of 36,000 men, and in addition to the main force, the nineteen regiments have a total of more than 10,000 guns. ”

He Long's 120th Division was close to the border area, and the expansion of the troops was a little slower, but it was also full of applause, and He Long waved his pipe to express his gratitude.

Liu Bocheng pushed his glasses with a smile and said, "This is a little embarrassing, the four main regiments of our army, a total of 16,000 people, the other seven independent regiments, ten temporary regiments and sixteen local columns, a total of 31 regiments have 55,000 people, guns, more than 15,000." ”

"Wow!!" The applause rang out like crazy, the speed of this pulling force is really amazing, especially more than 15,000 guns, which means that these troops are combative, and this is also a real record, which means that the 129th Division has not been idle at all in the past few months, even if most of the guns are civilian, it is extremely amazing.

He Long immediately jumped up and said, "What did I say, what did I say, this one-eyed dragon is the most ghostly, and it really makes a fortune in a muffled voice." ”

Lin Sanhu frowned, looked at Liu Bocheng, who had always been arrogant and arrogant, compared himself with Mr. Peng, he found that he actually lost to Liu Bocheng, and said hehe, "A large number of people may not necessarily win the battle, the key is to look at the quality of the commanders and fighters." ”

Liu Bocheng didn't say anything, and sat down directly.

Liu Dake stood up at this time and said, "On the part of our Shanxi New Army, the main force has expanded to 17,000 people, and there are about 10,000 people in various local columns. There are probably more than 12,000 guns in the whole army. "Because the position of the Shanxi New Army is close to Yan Xishan's troops, the expansion is relatively slow.

Mr. Zhu calculated that the total number of troops had exceeded 200,000, nodded and said, "Today's meeting is mainly to convey the spirit of the Central Committee, General Li Zongren defeated the 10th and 5th divisions of the Japanese army in the decisive battle of Lunan, but the Japanese army is not only these two divisions, the central research believes that the Japanese army will soon set off an unprecedented offensive frenzy, according to intelligence, the Japanese army is ready to concentrate the main force to hold the Battle of Wuhan, and the scale of this battle may exceed two million people. Far better than the previous Battle of Songhu, our army, as the main force in the battlefield behind enemy lines, must also give full play to its own strength and cooperate with the frontal battlefield. ”

After speaking, Mr. Zhu saw that everyone was listening carefully, and then continued: "The Central Committee has decided that the 115th Division will send half of its troops to open up base areas in northern Hebei and Chahar, the 120th Division will send half of its troops to Suiyuan to open up base areas, and the 129th Division will send half of its troops to open up base areas in southern Hebei, and the Shanxi New Army will be ready to take over the vacant base areas after the transfer of various troops. ”

Lin Sanhu raised his hand high and said, "There are two problems, one is the command problem, when we set out from the border area, because we got a large amount of equipment supplies, especially radio stations, so that we can do that each company has its own radio station, but now after the expansion of the army, we can only do that each regiment has its own radio station, which greatly affects the convenience of command, can we find a way to build some more radio stations, and second, what about the supply of troops?" In particular, the Soviet armament is very powerful, but the ammunition is not universal, and if the troops are too far away from the border areas and cannot be captured from the battlefield, then the combat effectiveness of our main army will be greatly reduced. ”

Liu Dake continued: "Also, the problem of cadres, many of our cadres have already been promoted in the line of fire, once the base area is opened up again, I believe that our fighters will have no problem fighting, but the lack of government personnel will make the foundation of our base area not solid." ”

Mr. Zhu said with a smile: "Everyone should know that we have many college students who have come to the border area, and these people have come one after another since the July 7 Incident, and the central authorities have decided to send those students who are willing to join the army and enlist in the army, those who are relatively good at learning and who are politically progressive, to the grassroots troops, and everyone is ready to accept it." ”

University student? Everyone couldn't help but talk about it, it's not that they look down on readers, everyone who can sit here knows the importance of readers, but can these college students really deal with the complex environment behind enemy lines? Everyone was skeptical.

Mr. Zhu continued: "As for the radio matter, the central government will find a way to solve the problem of ammunition supply, and the central government of the main force will find a way to solve it, but the local troops below must find a way to focus on seizure. (To be continued.) )