Just as he was talking about the formation of an anti-aircraft artillery battalion, a loud voice shouted outside, "Division, are you going to add new weapons!" Before the words fell, no one had already walked in, it was Duan Shuanghu, the commander of the 33rd Brigade. As soon as he saw the mountain of supplies, he was pleasantly surprised: "So many! It's almost time for us to rob the devil army! Everyone laughed when they heard this, Duan Shuanghu touched his head in embarrassment, and also smirked a few times.

Zheng Weiguo said: "Have the soldiers eaten? ”

Duan Shuanghu said: "After eating, the place where I live is also settled." Division, are you going to get a new weapon? If you want to get it, get it now! ”

Zheng Weiguo nodded and said, "Well, you notify the 331st Regiment to come over and change clothes." ”

Duan Shuanghu patted his head and said, "I'm afraid the 331st Regiment won't be able to come for a while, they are currently changing guards with the special agent battalion." "After the special battalion entered the city, it directly took over the defense, and food and accommodation had not yet been arranged, so the 331st regiment took over this errand.

Zheng Weiguo thought for a moment and said, "Then let the 332nd regiment come first!" ”

When Duan Shuanghu went to inform the 332nd regiment, Director Lu whispered: "I just arrived today, why should the division be so anxious." ”

Zheng Weiguo sighed and said, "It's not that I'm in a hurry, seeing that the war is about to break out, it's time for me to wait!" ”

It is now January 38, and in another month in history, the Japanese army will attack Jinnan from the east and north. Although the Chinese army desperately blocked the Japanese army in Dongyang Pass, Han Xinling and other places, and once tried to counterattack Taiyuan, it still lost its division and lost ground in the end, and even the commander Wei Lihuang was almost captured alive by the devils.

Zheng Weiguo hoped that the troops would be able to improve their combat effectiveness as soon as possible, so that they could capture the flag and fight a battle of strength in the upcoming war. Even if you die on the battlefield, it will not be in vain. At present, although the strength of several units has greatly increased, the equipment is not as neat as before, so it is imperative to replenish and transfer weapons.

The 332nd Regiment is the former main second battalion, and the current regiment commander is Li Dazhuang. After looting the Japanese military columns, the four battalions of the main force were all replaced with Japanese weapons. However, after collecting the rout troops in various places, the Japanese weapons were not enough, and Zheng Weiguo had to order the first and second battalions to use 79-caliber weapons as much as possible. Although they use weapons of the same caliber, due to the different sources of soldiers, their weapons and equipment and mental outlook are quite different.

The first battalion was the old foundation of the Northwest Army, and most of the defeated soldiers were the remnants of the 29th Army, and the weapons were basically collected from these defeated soldiers. Although these soldiers have lost their organization, most of them still have anti-Japanese enthusiasm, otherwise they would not have run from Pingjin to southern Hebei. So as long as you have a little rectification, you are an elite soldier.

When the 29th Army is mentioned, everyone will think that they are poorly equipped. It seems that in addition to the big knife or the big knife, even the military song is a big knife to cut the devil's head. In fact, it was already the old emperor's calendar, and they were not only well-trained, but also very well equipped. Especially after getting the rich land of Pingjin, it was simply soaring into the sky, and even the central army had to bow down.

It's a pity that such a good army was expelled from North China by the Japanese army without fighting any beautiful battles after the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, and most of its troops were scattered on the land of Hebei, most of which were elite in southern Hebei.

After Duan Shuanghu and Ma Biao came back from a circle in southern Hebei, they were very arrogant. The rifles were replaced with Czech VZ24s, and the light machine guns were either Czech or Belgian-made Browning M1930s. The latter machine gun is the same as the BAR automatic rifle used in the United States, but the caliber is different. In addition, weapons such as flower traps, twenty rings, grenades, grenades, and grenadiers were also returned.

What made Zheng Weiguo happiest was that there was still a 60-mm mortar. This treasure was not mass-produced at that time, and was made by the 29th Army itself using the equipment of the Dagu Shipyard. Although its performance is not as good as the French Blunde 1930 60 mm mortar, it is much stronger than the Japanese 89 50 mm heavy grenadier canister. Unfortunately, there is only one one, and the arsenal is preparing to copy it, but due to the lack of raw materials and corresponding techniques, progress is currently slow.

The weapons of the second battalion were mainly obtained from the rout of the Wanfulin Division of the Northeast Army, and the equipment was also quite good, such as rifles mostly Liao 13 rifles produced by the Shenyang Arsenal, and machine guns were mainly Czech-style light machine guns. This was absolutely first-class equipment in China at that time. Historically, this group of routed soldiers was absorbed by the Northeast Guerrilla Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the Sichuan Army brothers who were envious of the Sichuan Army when the troops passed through the defense area of the Li Jiayu Department of the Sichuan Army drooled. Later, the 178th Division of the 178th Division saw the wealth uprising and robbed the Northeast Guerrilla Column of the essence, causing the Eighth Route to work in vain. As a result, the Northeast Guerrilla Column was withdrawn.

From this incident, it can be seen that the Northeast Army really has no combat effectiveness, and it can only be slaughtered by others with excellent weapons. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the second battalion is far inferior to that of the first battalion. The military appearance and prestige of its troops are also much worse, and the military discipline is also chaotic. At the beginning, in order to transform those northeast routs, it took Zheng Weiguo a lot of thought. Fortunately, when he was a major in the special forces before, there was no shortage of cowhide coaxing soldiers under his command, and after using some means, he finally suppressed those soldiers. Of course, it was the mule or the horse that pulled it out, and everything was still to be tested by the war.

It didn't take long for the 332nd Regiment to drive over under the leadership of Li Dazhuang. The troops wore uniform winter camouflage uniforms and steel helmets wrapped in camouflage cloth, and they still looked quite vigorous, but they lacked a murderous aura. This kind of momentum cannot be experienced without bloody battles.

Li Dazhuang saluted Zheng Weiguo and said happily: "Master, do you want to give us new weapons." ”

Zheng Weiguo explained: "It's not a full change, just an appropriate addition. You let the troops platoon by platoon, and if the weapons are not usable, or if there is a shortage, you can replenish and replace them. ”

Don't look at the fact that there are more than 2,000 rifles, and nearly a hundred machine guns, if you really want to allocate them, they will be gone in a blink of an eye. The 332nd Regiment has a strength of 1,000 and 8 men, accompanied by a 300-man baggage brigade. This baggage brigade was composed of local troops, militia and ordinary people drawn from Ping'an County, and did not participate in the battle, but only served as auxiliaries. Zheng Weiguo hoped that in this way, the local troops would grow up as soon as possible.

After some clean-up, the 332nd Regiment handed over all the miscellaneous weapons in its hands, and then replaced them all with Czech rifles, and those lacking machine guns were also supplemented, with an average of two machine guns per squad, one Czech and one crooked. The Czech model acted as a squad machine gun with the riflemen, and the crooked handle acted as a suppressive firepower.

Director Lu couldn't help but say: "Since it is a unified caliber, why do you want to make two machine guns of different calibers?" In this case, the logistics will be very troublesome. ”

Zheng Weiguo explained: "The crooked handle can nominally be used for 65 rifle cartridges, but in fact it is often jammed and the power is small; The same is true of the Czech style, which requires the use of heavy bullets to be effective. We have too few heavy pointed bullets at the moment, and rifles can only use a lot of light pointed bullets, so the bullets are not universal. As for logistics, we have a large number of personnel in each machine gun group, which is enough to carry sufficient ammunition. ”

In order to ensure that the firepower would not be interrupted by casualties, Zheng Weiguo had four or five people in each machine gun crew. In this way, it can not only carry a large amount of ammunition, but also make up for it in time if there are casualties.

After the replenishment of 332, the other ministries also changed their weapons. In addition, Zheng Weiguo also ordered the formation of mortar battalions and anti-aircraft artillery battalions. The mortar battalion will use the 16 82-mm mortars, and the troops will be assigned to regiments in companies after training. The anti-aircraft artillery battalion consisted of eight anti-aircraft guns and 16 heavy machine guns using anti-aircraft gun mounts. In order to get the fighters used to these weapons as soon as possible, the troops began training in the afternoon of the same day.

A few days later, the former enemy headquarters in the Second World War Zone sent a telegram asking Zheng Weiguo to rush to Linfen to receive the honor. The telegram said that Zheng Weiguo was awarded the fourth-class Baoding Medal for leading his troops to annihilate the Japanese Yamamoto Brigade at Erlong Mountain, and was specially awarded the fourth-class Yunlu Medal for going thousands of miles to aid Taiyuan and successfully escaping the friendly army after the lone army was broken.

This great news soon spread to An Zecheng and the entire 33rd Division, and his subordinates asked Zheng Weiguo to treat him to celebrate. Zheng Weiguo said: "How can I have time now? Chief of Staff, you and reply to the general seat, please keep the medal on your behalf, and get it back together with the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal after this battle! ”