"What's the matter, so flustered?" Wu Chun Watanabe's heart jumped and he asked.

"Our department was attacked by the Zhina army of Erdaogouzi, and suffered heavy losses, and now the grain harvest south of the county has been forced to stop, and many Shunmin have been captured by the other party." The devil lieutenant was shocked.

Wu Chun Watanabian gritted his teeth angrily: "Eight Ga Yalu!" The people of China are really deceitful! ”

"Sir, what are we going to do then?" The devil second lieutenant looked at Wuchun Watanabe as if he had been greatly wronged, as if he was waiting for his order to lead his troops out of the city directly to take revenge.

Unexpectedly, although Wuchun Watanabe's face was pale, he still suppressed his anger after all, and sighed and said: "Report this information to the front army headquarters, and organize the Imperial Association Army to avoid the eight roads of China, and collect as much grain as you can." ”

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The devils in Shimen, Pingshan, and Lingshou counties were afraid that they would be ambushed by the Dragon Tooth Task Force when they left the city, and they couldn't retreat, so the Dragon Tooth Task Force took the opportunity to grab the grain in Lingshou, Pingshan, Zhengding, and the three and a half counties south of Shimen.

The most dramatic was the battle in Lingshou County, where Liu Jianhua led his troops to make a feint for two hours before he was ordered to stop the attack, retreat five miles with his subordinates, and stand on guard on the spot.

The Japanese garrison captain Kuya Kyoji repeatedly sent scouts to reconnoiter the situation, but they were all ambushed and killed by Liu Jianhua's scouts.

The situation in Pingshan County is similar, Guo Meng adopted the same tactics as Qiao Youhua, and with the full assistance of the artillery battalion, her strength is not at a disadvantage compared to the Japanese puppet army in Pingshan County.

In just one day and one night, thousands of acres of sorghum fields within a five-kilometer radius of the county seat were harvested in the two counties.

According to the original plan, Qiao Youhua and Guo Meng commanded the troops to retreat in turn, and Jiang Haidong dispatched a group of migrant workers to help collect it.

In just three days, most of the grain of hundreds of thousands of acres in Lingshou and Pingshan counties has fallen into the hands of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, and the harvesting team began to continue harvesting within the county seat of Zhengding.

Ma Biao and Jiang Haidong also took the opportunity to command their subordinates to organize the people to seize tens of thousands of acres of sorghum within dozens of kilometers south of Shimen County, which borders Luquan and Shimen.

After another week, the four-way recovery army had completed its task, returned with a full load, and returned to Luquan along the way.

Guo Meng began to organize people to dry sorghum rice, and began to harvest the mature crops in Luquan County.

However, Guo Meng quickly found Qiao Youhua and reported to him a serious problem that had just come to mind.

"Regiment Commander, we have almost robbed the crops of the four surrounding counties, although we have avoided the grain from falling into the hands of the Japanese puppet army and traitor landlords, but there are still many people in Pingshan, Lingshou and north of Shimen, although they are all tenants, but now that there is no harvest, how can they survive the winter?"

After listening to Guo Meng's question, Qiao Youhua couldn't help frowning, he had neglected this question before, thought about Qiao Youhua and said: "In this way, after going back and waiting for the grain to come out, you organize people to secretly go to the counties and villages, and send grain and silver dollars to the farmers door to door."

In any case, first help the people through this winter, and wait until next year, the situation should be much better, and maybe we will have recovered Pingshan, Lingshou and even Shimen by then. ”

"Well, this method is good, anyway, we now have enough food and money, which can also improve the prestige of our Eighth Route Army among the common people, and even secretly establish our underground strongholds in various rural areas, secret contact points and other organizations in advance.

Plant the seeds for our counteroffensive in the future, and when the people work together, there will be unexpected harvests. Guo Meng's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Qiao Youhua praised: "It is worthy of being a political commissar, and the consciousness of engaging in political and ideological work is high." ”

After finishing the harvest work in the surrounding counties, the grain in Luquan County can be harvested slowly, in fact, it is not slow, tens of thousands of people work together, and the efficiency is still very high.

It's just that the officers and men of the combat units of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force can free up their hands and no longer participate in harvesting crops and doing farm work.

The most urgent task at the moment is to reorganize the more than 2,000 new recruits.

After discussing with Jiang Haidong, Guo Meng, Ma Biao and others, Qiao Youhua decided to integrate all the more than 2,000 recruits of the three independent battalions of recruits into the existing establishment of the Longya Task Force, and mix them with the original three main infantry battalions, so that the strength of each battalion reached about 1,200 to 300 people.

Originally, Qiao Youhua planned to directly expand the troop establishment to the brigade, but Guo Meng said that this had to be reported to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and approved before it could be implemented.

Moreover, the Nationalist Government's combat sequence for the Eighth Route Army is pitifully small, and the situation of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force is so special, so for the time being, I don't want to get the official number and establishment of the troops officially recognized.

In the final analysis, even if it is its own self-appointed number and expansion establishment, it has to be reported, this is the rule, although the Dragon's Tooth Task Force has made great achievements, it must not break the rules, otherwise it is easy to fall into the truth.

Qiao Youhua was right when he thought about it, so he agreed to suspend the expansion, temporarily mix more than 2,000 recruits with various battalions, companies and platoons, and then expand the combat establishment below the battalion and company level.

That is to say, the original battalion had three main infantry companies under its jurisdiction, and the establishment of several platoon-level combat units directly under the battalion headquarters remained unchanged, but one company was no longer the original main platoon of 30 people, but had six platoons under its jurisdiction and more than 360 people, which had actually reached the scale of one battalion.

Moreover, there are also advantages to this kind of mixing, because there are at least one-third of the veterans in each expanded squad and platoon, which can lead this group of recruits who have just put down their hoes to grow rapidly and form combat effectiveness.

After the completion of the reorganization, Qiao Youhua commanded all battalions and companies to devote themselves to strengthening training except for the necessary vigilance tasks, so as to improve the overall combat effectiveness of the troops as much as possible.

In the past ten days, Wan Hu, who has returned to Tianjin, has another good news, that is, the British guy Billy Lavis has replied to him, and his design drawings were sent to the UK by plane, and the British high-level agreed to Qiao Youhua's previous trading conditions.

In other words, it won't be long before Qiao Youhua will be able to obtain the coveted weapon production equipment and set up the Feiyunling Arsenal.

As the saying goes, misfortune is not a one-way street, blessing is unparalleled, just got this good news, Qiao Youhua didn't have time to celebrate happily, Guo Meng hurriedly walked into the regimental headquarters combat conference room.

"Regiment commander, just now there is an emergency in the underground party of my Eighth Route Army, the 5th and 10th master regiments of the Japanese army and the attached troops, about 60,000 people have left Shanxi and are heading north along the Zhengtai Railway. Guo Meng said with a solemn expression.

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