Soon, after the mobilization of village chief Zhang Deli and several elders in the village, all the wounded of nearly 100 people in the Reading Brigade were properly settled, looking at the busy villagers, Liu Hua was secretly happy, because he knew that this place was about to become his base camp.

Soon, a battle statistics table was handed over to Liu Hua, and of course, the first thing to see was the results. After nearly an hour of brutal fighting, the Reading Brigade wiped out a total of 1,125 soldiers, including five destroyed cars, 923 Type 38 rifles, 21 light machine guns, 8 heavy machine guns, nearly 50 grenadiers, four mortars, four mountain artillery, 450,000 rounds of ammunition, 52,000 grenades, 400 mortar shells, 600 mountain artillery shells, more than 500 grenades, and 650 sets of intact devil uniforms. Seeing this, Liu Hua couldn't help laughing. "Commissar, now we have two more battalions of equipment. Finally, I can do it without worrying about ammunition in the near future. "Yes, as long as one regiment is replaced with armament and equipment, the ammunition of our domestically produced equipment will be enough for us to fight several battles. Are you going to have those two battalions redressed? "What I'm thinking of is a mess of all the changes, so that it is convenient to replenish the ammunition, you see?" Liu Hua asked.

"I agree."

After speaking, Liu Hua continued to look at the report in his hand, but, slowly, Liu Hua's face became more and more ugly, "Political commissar, the casualty data is not wrong!" The attrition is so big. ”

The political commissar looked at Liu Hua's expression and shook his head helplessly, "Brigade commander, according to what I know, most of these fallen soldiers died in the process of fighting with the enemy with bayonets. In the process of fighting with the devils, many commanders saw the devils running over with bayonets, and they were red-eyed, and they did not give full play to the advantages of our automatic firepower, and directly fought with bayonets, you also know that the bayonet technology of the fighters cannot be compared with the devils"

"Nonsense, this is simply treating the lives of the soldiers as child's play." Speaking of this, Liu Hua gradually calmed down and thought of Wang Hong who he saw on the battlefield.

"Political commissar, what do you think of Wang Hong, the platoon commander of the Second Regiment?"

Faced with Liu Hua's sudden question, the political commissar was stunned, "Eh, is it the one I met on the battlefield today." I think he is very clever and calm in battle, and it is very good that one platoon completely annihilates two squads of the enemy at such a small cost, what's the matter, you want to promote him. The commissar asked rhetorically.

Liu Hua smiled and said: "It seems that nothing can be hidden from your sharp eyes, I have this meaning, wasn't the commander of the second company of the first regiment killed, I want to train him." There is also a company commander of the third regiment, named Zhou Bin, who is the one who puts stones on the road, and I want to transfer him to the teaching team as a deputy leader. As he spoke, he looked at the silent commissar with an inquiring eye.

After a long moment, the commissar nodded.

In the evening, the combat summary meeting of the Reading Force Brigade did not rejoice because of the victory, and many cadres felt guilty because of the heavy casualties caused by their own wisdom mistakes. Liu Hua began to arrange the work in the near future.

In the near future, that is, when the devils are engaged in the Battle of Taiyuan and cannot estimate themselves, the Reading Brigade will vigorously develop the base areas, strive for all the surrounding villages to be included in the Reading's Brigade's sphere of influence, expand the influence of the Reading Brigade in Jindong, and let the common people know that the Jindong activists are a resistance armed force led by the Eighth Route Army. The specific tasks are:

A regiment is developing to the north of Zhangjiazhuang, you should pay special attention to a group of bandits on Woniu Mountain, I heard that the number of bandits is about 300 people, it is best to wipe them out, and leave all those who can be soldiers to be sent to the new regiment for training.

According to the villagers, the landlord is called Wang Ping, who is very powerful and has nearly a battalion of arms, and my request is also to try to annihilate all of them, and send those who can be soldiers to the new corps, and pay special attention to the landlords' property, in addition to leaving a certain amount of grain to distribute to the local villagers, all the rest will be transported to Zhangjiazhuang, and from now on, we must establish a policy of accumulating grain.

The third regiment left one battalion, and the remaining two battalions advanced to the east of Zhangjiazhuang.

Each regiment was asked to raise as much grain and grass as possible, to gather new soldiers, and another task was to collect a large amount of black powder from the people, and I came to great use. Okay, that's all, nothing to do, dismiss now, and you can decide for yourself when you set off, and meet in a week. ”

After the meeting, Liu Hua returned to his room and began to recall the history he knew. It won't be long before Taiyuan will fall, and then there will be no more Kuomintang troops in the whole of Shanxi, and it will not be long before there will be many base areas on the land of Shanxi, so it is necessary to establish base areas during this period of time, so that by seizing this opportunity, it will be possible to stand out among the countless base areas in the future.

The next day, when Liu Hua woke up, the originally lively Zhangjiazhuang became unusually quiet, the original three main regiments in order to replenish the soldiers earlier, all set off with the troops early in the morning, and now only a few battalions of troops are left in the entire Zhangjiazhuang.

"Staff Officer Wang, is the reconnaissance battalion back?" Liu Hua hastily ate some breakfast and came to the war room.

"Brigade commander, you're back, and now you're resting, and our staff is drawing a topographical map of a hundred miles around us based on the drawings brought back by the reconnaissance battalion."

"Okay, you go ahead." As he spoke, he picked up a few record drawings of the reconnaissance battalion and looked at them. Suddenly, a place called Woniu Cave caught Liu Hua's eyeballs.

"Messenger, go, call a local hunter."

Soon, an honest and honest man came to Liu Hua under the leadership of the communicator. Liu Hua hurriedly got a glass of water.

"Fellow, drink tea." Liu Hua hurriedly beckoned the fellow to sit down.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." The fellow hurriedly refused.

In the end, under Liu Hua's continuous persuasion, the hunter sat down.

"Fellow, I don't know if you are familiar with the terrain of Woniu Mountain." Liu Hua asked.

"Comrade, you don't know this, I have been hunting on Woniu Mountain since I was a child, and there is no one more familiar here than me." The fellow said proudly.

"Fellow, do you know where the Lying Cow Cave is?" Liu Hua hurriedly asked.

"Lying Cow Cave, you know, I used to stay there at night because of hunting, you must know that Lying Cow Cave is really a good place, but it's too remote, comrade, is there anything I can help with?"

"Fellow, there is really something to trouble you, I don't know you"

"Comrade, you will see the outside, this year, if you didn't come, maybe our whole village would have frozen to death, you are our benefactor, if there is anything, you can just say it, I Li Chunhua will definitely do it."

"Then thank you, fellow, I want to ask you to show me the way, I want to go and see the Lying Cow Cave."

"That's easy, go now."

In this way, Liu Hua took a guard platoon to follow the fellow to Woniu Mountain, in fact, the distance is not too far, mainly too remote, the road is difficult to walk, and it took a lot of time, and finally after two hours, the group came to the mouth of a cave, the mouth is very large, and a spring water flows out next to it. "This spring water is coming out of the hole." Looking at Liu Hua looking at the spring, Li Chunhua next to him hurriedly said.

"Let's go, go in." As he spoke, he led the way into the cave.

The entrance of the cave is about to enter three meters wide, more than two meters high, Liu Hua took everyone along the entrance of the cave is less than ten meters, and the eyes suddenly open up, the three-meter-wide hole slowly becomes more than ten meters wide, and the length is nearly 20 meters, Liu Hua probably calculated, the area of the entire flat land is 400 square meters. There was a stream running down the side of the field, and there was a skylight overhead, which shone the sunlight obliquely into the hole.

Liu Hua continued to walk along the stream, and several large holes of dozens of square meters were found in succession, and the air inside was dry. "God help me." Liu Hua thought secretly.

In Liu Hua's heart, these big holes have been useful, the big holes in front can be used to place a set of processing equipment and open their own arsenal, and a few smaller caves in the back are used to store grain.

Everyone went out of the cave, Liu Hua ordered the guards to platoon the cave entrance to be hidden, and then returned to the headquarters with everyone, but from a distance, he saw the political commissar running towards him.

"Commissar, what's wrong!" Looking at the pale face of the political commissar, Liu Hua asked.

"Good news, brigade commander, we have new recruits today." The commissar replied breathlessly.

"What, recruit, there." Liu Hua asked excitedly. followed the political commissar to the station of the recruit regiment, and saw three rows of young men standing in the center of the station of the recruit regiment, Liu Hua counted them, a total of sixty people. "Commissar, what's going on?" Liu Hua asked eagerly.

It turned out that after the Reading Brigade distributed food to the villagers yesterday, the villagers had already believed in the Reading Brigade, and when they saw the things captured by the Reading Brigade, those simple villagers were even more convinced of the Reading Brigade, and thought that participating in the Reading Brigade could avenge their dead mother and ruined sisters, and the young people in the village couldn't bear it anymore, and they found the village chief one after another, wanting to join the army.

In the end, under the leadership of the village chief, 60 soldiers who were willing to join the Eighth Route Army were sent to the new corps.

"Report to the brigade commander, the new regiment received 60 recruits and is preparing for training." The head of the new regiment finally relaxed his brows, and replied happily.

"Okay, practice hard, don't live up to the trust of the villagers in us, and we must turn them into veterans of a hundred battles. Let's start training! Liu Hua returned a military salute and said excitedly.

"Political commissar, today is really a good start, I believe that our base area will definitely develop and grow."

"Well, I also believe that I really didn't expect that yesterday's dozens of bags of flour helped us open up the situation. What a good start. The political commissar also replied excitedly.

"Let's go, commissar, go back to the headquarters, I'm telling you good news." As he spoke, he took the commissar's hand and walked towards the headquarters.

(To be continued)