Before distributing the grain, Qiao Youhua ordered to shoot Ma Ermao and his family in public, which won great support and praise from the people.

The grain distribution action was carried out in the grand occasion of the cheers of all the people, and the people who were grateful to Qiao Youhua were very conscious of lining up and receiving grain from the Majia warehouse in an orderly manner.

Subsequently, Qiao Youhua left a platoon of soldiers for Wu Ming, who had a high cultural level, and left Zhang Yunshan, a local, to assist him and began to preside over the division of Yangliu Town.

Of course Qiao Youhua won't do this kind of tedious thing, to use a very fashionable phrase, everything is the boss who does it himself, so what do you want the younger brother to do?

Qiao Youhua took the remaining two platoons of soldiers to drive ten military trucks that came over during the grain distribution, loaded the remaining grain, cloth, gold, silver, jewelry and other property, and returned with a full load.

The grain distribution operation lasted for a week, and was initially completed with the assistance of the local people, but when Wu Ming returned with the team, the number of troops had increased a lot.

It turned out that these extra people were all young adults from Yangliu Town, and they all volunteered to join the Dragon's Tooth Task Force that was so kind to them.

Qiao Youhua counted slightly, Wu Ming brought more than 100 people, so that the total strength of his troops reached more than 200 people, and a reinforced company could be formed in terms of structure, a machine gun platoon, and even an additional sharpshooter squad could also be formed.

In the past week, Qiao Youhua was not idle, and ordered his subordinates to use that batch of cloth to make more than 200 sets of summer military uniforms for the soldiers.

Now it is just right to be used, and soon, Qiao Youhua ordered the distribution of brand-new military uniforms and military caps to the soldiers, and after changing into the blue-gray military uniforms dyed with the same color of representative grass and wood gray, the mental outlook of these more than 200 people has changed greatly.

Qiao Youhua looked back and forth at his subordinates after changing clothes, and couldn't help nodding and said, "Sure enough, people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, this is what it looks like a regular army!" ”

Qiao Youhua's words caused the recruits to laugh, and someone asked, "Sir, what is a regular army?" ”

Qiao Youhua said awe-inspiringly: "The regular army is a well-trained regular army with strong combat effectiveness, as long as you arrive at my dragon tooth task force, you will definitely become the most powerful regular elite on the battlefield of resistance against Japan in North China, sooner or later, one day it will make the devil frightened, and the second devil will be scared when he hears our name!" ”

After a pause, Qiao Youhua continued: "The regular army must have the appearance of a regular army, and I will pay you military salaries below. ”

Qiao Youhua waved his hand to the side as he spoke, and a guard had already come to the front of the team carrying a box of heavy Xian Dayang.

The box was opened, and it was full of silver Yuan Datou, and the soldiers who had never seen so much money in their lives had their eyes straight.

Suddenly, a recruit took the lead and said, "Captain, we don't want military salaries!" ”

"Huh? Tell me why you don't want military pay? Qiao Youhua was a little surprised, he didn't want to give money, which was a bit interesting.

The soldier came out of the crowd, came to the front of the team, and said: "Captain, you are a good person, my mother and my father said that you are the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva, and you have great kindness to us ordinary people, let me follow you to fight devils and traitors wholeheartedly, just give you stuttering, and you can no longer ask for military salaries." ”

His words resonated with many recruits: "Yes, the captain has given us all the land, how can we still ask for military salaries?" ”

"We don't want military salaries, we don't want military salaries......" the recruits generously stated.

Qiao Youhua couldn't help but smile when he heard this, at this time, the folk customs were really very simple, he waved his hand to signal them to be quiet, and said loudly: "Brothers, I have received your wishes, everyone listen to me, since ancient times, it is a matter of course for soldiers to eat food and fight, and there is a way that the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers."

Now that we have just raided Ma Ermao's house, we have some money, and everyone has come out to serve as soldiers, and there is less labor in the family, and the heavy farm work has fallen on the elderly parents or weak brothers and sisters.

Therefore, it is appropriate for you to return to your family with a military salary, and if any of you unfortunately dies in battle and is loyal to the country, then there will be a pension.

Of course, I also hope that after you get your military salary, you can train diligently, fight bravely, and be worthy of this military uniform and these military salaries!

In the future, if you encounter a difficult period of financial difficulties, I hope that you can be considerate. ”

"Alright, let's start ringing, line up, come one by one." Qiao Youhua paused and continued.

After the military salary was paid, Qiao Youhua began to formally carry out the first regularized reorganization of the troops.

The changes in the composition of the contingent following the reconfiguration are as follows.

The task force still has three main infantry platoons, a new cannon platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, and a sharpshooter group.

It is worth mentioning that the personnel of the three main infantry platoons have been slightly reorganized from before, and each platoon originally had three ten-man infantry squads, but now it has been changed to twelve infantry squads.

In addition to this, each platoon was equipped with an additional grenadier fire squad equipped with two or three grenadiers, and the strength of one platoon reached about forty people.

The three main infantry platoons were more than 120 people.

The machine gun platoon was mainly formed from the captured Type 92 heavy machine gun and four 60mm mortars, and after the formation was successful, they would be the most powerful fire support unit in the whole team.

A heavy machine-gun squad and four mortar squads, a total of thirty men, most of whom were armed with pistols to deal with possible melee situations.

The sharpshooter team is based on a new formation of twenty people, in addition to one sharpshooter with excellent marksmanship in each infantry squad.

The previous Battle of Zhengcun was enough to prove the importance of the marksman in the battle, especially when it was used to suppress the Japanese light machine gunners and grenadiers, which played an extremely important role.

The reconnaissance platoon consisted of thirty people, and the whole platoon was lightly armed, without light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers.

The platoon commanders of the three main infantry platoons are still Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao, and Wu Ming, and Qiao Youhua, the reconnaissance platoon, as a direct subordinate unit, selected Zhang Yunshan as the platoon commander and placed under his direct command.

As for the leader of the sharpshooter team, for the time being, their instructor Jiang Haidong is still serving as the leader.

Due to troop strength, a guard platoon has not yet been formed, and the reconnaissance platoon will shoulder the duties of a guard platoon in many cases.

After the reorganization of the unit was completed, the training began in full swing.

Qiao Youhua found Xu Youcai and asked him to mobilize the people nearby to start the militarization of Zheng Village, that is, to dig tunnels and prepare to build permanent defensive fortifications.

Because Qiao Youhua understands that the Japanese army suffered a big loss last time and suffered heavy losses, it is absolutely impossible to give up and give up, and sooner or later they will make a comeback.

At that time, the troops and firepower faced will be beyond imagination, and in the current lack of reinforced concrete and other materials, building a perfect tunnel fortification will be the most effective way to hoard food, ammunition and other materials and transfer civilians to resist the Japanese army in the future.

Qiao Youhua drew the drawings and asked Xu Youcai to take the people from ten miles and eight townships who volunteered to come to help to carry out the excavation and construction in full swing, and he took the reconnaissance platoon to lurk on the road east of Zhengding County, and the last ambush was west of Zhengding County.

The highway here runs through the north and south, and it is a necessary place for the Japanese army's material convoy to be transported to the Shanxi front line.

There are two reasons why Qiao Youhua is so anxious to ambush this time, one is that after the consumption of Yangliu Town, the gasoline he seized before has been used up, but the construction of tunnel fortifications has brought so many people to eat after all, and the consumption of military food is also very large, so these two materials are in urgent need of replenishment.

Another reason is that if you strike more devils on the rear transportation line of the Japanese army, you may be able to relieve a little pressure on the Chinese resistance on the frontal battlefield.