News of the successful rescue of the miners by the Dragon's Tooth Task Force has spread throughout the village of Zhaojiapu, and many of the village's miners have been able to reunite with their long-separated families.

The village is full of touching scenes of relatives hugging and crying, hugging and crying.

While the people were excited and happy, their gratitude to the Dragon's Tooth Task Force also rose to an extremely high level.

I learned that the Eighth Route Army was going to hold a public trial meeting in the village, and dealt with those two devils and traitors who helped the devils harm the people and did evil.

More than 1,000 women and children from all over the village spontaneously came to the scene of the public trial.

"Folks, today is a day to be happy about, after the heroic fighting of all the officers and men of our Dragon's Tooth Task Force, we have successfully rescued the miner brothers trapped in the mine.

So that everyone's relatives can be reunited, our Eighth Route Army is also very happy.

Below, in front of our old and young folks in Zhaojiabao, we have to deal with these two devil captives to vent the anger of the people! ”

As soon as Qiao Youhua's words came out, the nearly 3,000 miners present and the people applauded in unison and applauded.

After a trial, dozens of half-dead traitors who had been smashed with stones and wooden blocks by the onlookers villagers and miners were sentenced to death and executed on the spot as an example.

These two devils can be selected by the devils to serve as guards in such a heavy place as the mine, they are definitely hardcore traitors, in the words of the miners who have suffered their persecution, these dog traitors are more hateful than the Japanese devils at some times, and torture their compatriots in order to please the Japanese devils.

Subsequently, Qiao Youhua's impassioned speech seemed to mobilize, and the people who were grateful to the officers and soldiers of the dragon tooth for rescuing their relatives all agreed to relocate, and the miners from other villages were also escorted back to the village by the small team sent by Qiao Youhua, and while reuniting with their relatives, they quickly mobilized the villagers of their village to move to Luquan County.

After all, at this juncture, escaping from the mine, everyone knows that devils and traitors will not give up.

The Dragon Tooth Task Force was willing to provide them with protection and various promises, and the villagers who were already grateful to Dade had no worries, and were naturally willing to follow the Eighth Route Army to the Luquan anti-Japanese base area.

Three days later, more than 20,000 people in dozens of villages east of Pingshan County and in the border area with Zhengding County moved away, leaving behind uninhabited villages, and the Japanese military in Pingshan County found out.

The commander of the Japanese garrison in Pingshan County, who figured out the cause and effect of this qiē, almost vomited blood and died.

The most annoyed was the commander of the Japanese garrison in Shimen County, Wuchun Watanabe Nakasa, because all the people in his jurisdiction within a radius of dozens of miles south of the county town had also quietly moved to Luquan County.

Wuchun Watanabe, who was later discovered, hurriedly sent people to pursue, but was ambushed by Jiang Haidong's first battalion, lost nearly two squads, and retreated to Shimen County in disgrace.

"Your Excellency, Honorable Chief of Staff, recently, the headquarters of the Dragon Tooth Task Force of the Eighth Route Army of the Zhina Army, which was originally entrenched in Feiyunling, has become more and more rampant! Not only did it capture the county seat of Luquan, but it also mobilized the civilians of China within the surrounding counties to relocate as a whole.

Due to the lack of troops, our troops could not stop it, and seeing that the Chinese Dragon's Tooth Task Force was growing stronger and stronger, the Imperial Army was becoming more and more passive in this area, and the situation was deteriorating.

Please send reinforcements to the headquarters of the front army to curb the development of anti-Japanese armed forces! In order to ensure the safety and smoothness of Zhengtai Railway! Annoyed, Wu Chun Watanabe directly crossed the level and called the staff office of the North China Front Headquarters for urgent help.

On the other end of the phone, after listening to Wu Chun Watanabe's report, Naosaburo Okabe, chief of the General Staff of the Japanese North China Front, nodded with a heavy face: "Wu Chunjun, I know what you said, and I will report it truthfully to General Terauchi Shouichi!" Keep holding on, reinforcements will definitely arrive! ”

"Hay!" After Wu Chun Watanabe's complaining report, he bowed his head in fear and replied.

After hanging up the phone, Naosaburo Okabe walked straight to Terauchi Shouichi's office.

"General, it seems that the situation in Luquan and Shimen is really getting worse!" Naosaburo Okabe came to Toshiichi Terauchi's desk and said.

"Tell me about it." Shouichi Terauchi raised his head and sat back in his chair, helped his glasses and asked for a while.

Okabe Naosaburo immediately recounted the situation reported by Takejun Watanabe to Terauchi Shouichi, and then concluded: "General, if this development continues, this Dragon Tooth Task Force will definitely become the biggest henchman of our North China Front Army in Hebei.

The failure of the last Feiyunling encirclement and suppression campaign is the best proof. ”

Terauchi Shouichi's face was gloomy, his brows were frowning and he was silent for a while, and said: "Call the garrison troops of Pingshan, Lingshou, and Shimen counties to strengthen the garrison, temporarily take a defensive position to ensure the smooth flow of the Zhengtai railway line, and the headquarters will do its best to draw troops to form a new round of encirclement and suppression, and encircle and annihilate the Dragon Tooth Task Force in the area of Luquan and Feiyunling in one fell swoop!" ”

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Luquan County, which was originally empty, with ten rooms and nine empty houses, is now full of people again, and the whole county has become more and more lively.

Qiao Youhua commanded each company to try their best to arrange accommodation for the people, and came in according to the original number of people in each village, demarcating the living area, so that after the people arrived in the county seat, they could continue to be neighbors and feel the unchanged atmosphere between neighbors.

This arrangement made the people feel more favorable and embraced by the Dragon's Tooth Task Force.

In the end, the more than 1,300 miners who were rescued all took the initiative to join the Dragon Tooth Task Force and join the Eighth Route Army under the encouragement and supervision of their families and relatives.

In addition, more than 200 young people will also join.

This time, the strength of the Dragon Tooth Task Force has been fully doubled, reaching more than 3,000 people, the size of a class A regiment, Qiao Youhua can finally form his own artillery battalion, and all the artillery captured before will be put to use.

While handing over the work of subordination of these 1,500 or 600 recruits to the officers of each battalion and company, Qiao Youhua ordered the reconnaissance company to return to Feiyunling and pull out batches of weapons and ammunition that had been captured and hoarded by the Dragon's Tooth Task Force in previous battles.

The Dragon's Tooth Task Force now has enough weapons and ammunition to arm a division, so there is no need to worry about running out of weapons.

Two days later, all the recruits were evenly divided into three main battalions and three regimental companies, and the main structure of the expanded Dragon's Tooth Task Force remained unchanged.

It's just that the basic combat units of the company platoon squad have changed, and each squad has expanded from the original ten people to 20 people, and one light machine gun and two grenadiers have been added, as well as three sharpshooters, so that an infantry squad has reached a super basic firepower equipped with two light machine guns, four sharpshooters and two grenadiers.

This is enough to ensure that in terms of the formation and equipment at the squad and platoon level, the Dragon's Tooth Task Force can complete the squads and squads of devils.