Speaking of the problem of turf, this shows that Yang Bangzi has changed from a simple Hunan officer to a middle-level officer in our party's Eighth Route Army in the course of our party's own development over the years.

At present, the land problem he hopes for has been solved, and with the land, the next step is the human problem.

First of all, this site is a typical mountainous area in northwest Hebei, where many generations of villagers live, and many people have never even left the village where their home is located in their lives, such as when I went to Taihang Mountain in the late eighties, I once lived in a small mountain village called Artemisia Ping for a few days.

This small mountain village is surrounded by mountains, and the mountain nest is a mountain nest land, and the grain produced can feed a village of 100 people, and it is said that this village has always been in and out of the village in the past, and if you marry a daughter-in-law, you have to marry a daughter, or the crops in this field will not be able to feed the population.

Because it is surrounded by mountains and steep cliffs, nearly half of the old people in this village have never been out of the mountains around the village in their lives, until the 80s, when the government collapsed one of the stone cliffs with explosives and opened a road into the mountain, which made this small mountain village and the outside of the mountain gas.

The same situation is simply too common in Taihang Mountain! It was in such an environment and among the people that the Eighth Route Army survived.

If you want to keep this territory, you have to establish a solid political power, and you have to build an army, where will the large number of soldiers come from? Isn't it from these local people who are recruited? This is what I said earlier, our party, which has lost its regional outlook, will in turn use this regional outlook to build up political power and army.

What kind of people are most motivated to resist the enemy? Of course, it's the locals whose homes and relatives were burned by the devils! This part of the people is the group most active in fighting devils in the anti-Japanese armed forces.

In addition to them, there are seats for outsiders, and the "Old Eighth Road" is basically a southern cadre and soldier who came from the Long March. There are also some cadres and fighters from the old Shaanxi-Gansu District from Shaanxi and Gansu.

These two parts constitute the basic strength of the Eighth Route Army, and they are also the reason why the Eighth Route Army can still maintain relatively strong combat effectiveness when it is inferior in comparison with the same equipment.

In addition, some of the Kuomintang soldiers who were scattered, some private armed forces that spontaneously formed a civilian force to resist the Japanese, and the puppet army that came over anyway and surrendered.

All these forces are mixed together, and they are a little far from a regular combat force. In the initial period, the number of troops in each base area increased dramatically, in order to expand the troops as much as possible and occupy as much territory as possible.

You're like a Yang stick. Start with a few people. Along the way, they picked up the half-crippled district squad, and then the half-crippled county brigade, persuaded the half-bandit soldiers of the new second division, and also took in the captured puppet army. plus the people who were later taken away from the logistics department of the 6th Division. In short, it took a lot of effort to get a few hundred people out.

But with that, people can hold thousands of square kilometers of land. That's basically a fool's dream! The territory of the first division is twice as much as that of Yang Bangzi, and there are only three main regiments alone! There were also several small regiments, which at their peak had more than 20,000 soldiers. Even in 41 years, the entire base area has basically fallen!

The people under Yang Bangzi's current subordinates can't even get a whole group together, so why fight with the devil and keep the basement?

Therefore, the second biggest problem behind the territory is the problem of this person, how to turn such a "motley army" composed of more than 1,000 and different personnel into a united, single-purpose, and relatively strong combat effectiveness under the leadership of our party in a short period of time.

You see, the little devil has a complicated process of changing from an ordinary person to a soldier from a farmer with a hoe or a lumberjack with an axe, or a fisherman, a miner, or a young man in the city.

From the day they were drafted into the army, the recruits of the Japanese army had to go through a three-month period of recruitment and undergo a series of standardized training, including basic physical training, basic military quality training, use and maintenance of weapons and equipment, shooting training, and so on. After the end of the recruit period, it will take more than half a year of intensive training, and when there is no war, it is to frequently change the garrison to strengthen the soldier's military quality, and if there is a war, then go to the battlefield as a reserve for actual combat training.

Therefore, from the beginning of joining the army to becoming a standard soldier, a Japanese has to go through very strict and very standardized training to become a war machine.

From the day a soldier joins the army, he will receive a set of equipment that is basically the same, and this set of standardized equipment will accompany the soldier's military career from beginning to end.

For example, the equipment standards of individual soldiers in the Japanese army in 36 are: military caps in the style of combat caps, rain coats (ponchos), and coats (coats).

Inside the backpack: 1 shirt for changing, a crotch cloth, two pairs of socks, towels, two days of health emergency rations, washbag: there is bath soap, laundry soap, toothbrush, toothpaste powder, sewing kit: there are scissors, knives for opening cans, spools and sewing needles, and letter paper.

Then there are the instructor logs, cultivation days, important combat task orders, instructor regulations, shooting lessons, poison gas protection lessons, observation notes, field battle fortification lessons, and so on. By the way, the soldier's back bar is made of cloth, and the officer's leather.

There are also steel helmets, aluminum lunch boxes, a 60-piece ammunition box at the back of the waist, two ammunition boxes with 30 pieces at the front, bayonets and belts.

But what about our Eighth Road, with the cooperation of the local government, through encouragement and publicity, after recruiting young adults, the relatively wealthy base areas can be issued with a set of military uniforms, of course, they are basically homespun military uniforms made by each base area, and generally a pair of cloth shoes, a military hat and a satchel will be issued.

Bullet bags, grenade bags, leggings, etc. can also be distributed uniformly, but guns and ammunition are not so easy to get into your hands. Many of the new fighters had to go to the battlefield on their own and capture them before they could replace the broadswords and pikes in their hands.

As for the soldiers trained on the assembly line like the Japanese army, it is basically impossible to be on the side of the Eighth Road, and they are generally trained while marching and fighting, but fortunately, there is one point. At that time, the recruitment of soldiers was basically from the basic militia of each village, so training in the use of weapons and other things was also eliminated.

But to be honest, such a soldier doesn't have much combat effectiveness, and he is qualified if he is not afraid to run away on the battlefield, so to put it more cruelly, the battle loss rate of recruits of the Eighth Route Army at that time was still quite high!

For example, in the 40-year Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the 1st Division fought very bravely, but the casualties of the troops were also very large, and a main regiment could not even make up a battalion after the war, and the losses were all veterans who had fought for more than two years.

As a result, before the new recruits who were replenished formed their combat effectiveness, the 41-year almost year-round sweep began. As a result, the 1st Division failed to organize even a battle like the Battle of Loess Ridge. At the most critical moment, the entire first sub-district basically fell, and tens of thousands of party and government organs and fellow villagers were surrounded on Langya Mountain.

The same problem also plagued Yang Bangzi, and his composition of more than 1,000 people was complicated enough. And two-thirds of the number of recruits. It can be said that there is no combat effectiveness. Even the basic tactical requirements such as blocking the ditch have to be explained by Yang Bangzi himself. Coupled with the fluctuation of the veterans' hearts, this makes Yang Bangzi really a headache.

So after he returned to Kawaguchi Town. Handed over the affairs of the local government to Hong Mei and Lao Feng, he led the troops to the horse post and began a new style of army reorganization! Why do you want to go to the Horse Walk? Quite simply, this is the hinterland of the 11th Division, far from the edge of the confrontation between the enemy and us, and the whole army must be kept secret!

Yang Bangzi did not carry out the purge of the first sub-district in that year, and he was going to regularize the troops in this reorganization, at least to turn a group of stragglers and peasants into soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the shortest possible time.

But it was very brain-consuming, first of all, the two bald dragons brought over the remaining hundred or so people, Yang Bangzi thought about it, and formed a separate company, put it in a battalion, and the veterans dug by Yang Bangzi from the old third regiment served as instructors, and the company commander was still the person of the second bald dragon.

The entire first battalion, this company composed of the two bald dragons, as well as a company composed of the remnants of the county brigade and the district squad that year, plus those soldiers brought from the barracks and towns formed a company, these three companies are the family of the first battalion.

The advantage of this organization is that it does not disperse the soldiers with combat effectiveness to the whole regiment, but retains a battalion that can fight and can fight to the greatest extent, at least Yang Stick can use it immediately.

The battalion commander is a big man, and the instructor is a political cadre transferred from the Sixth Division when the Lingman Prefecture was formed, or is it Director Cheng's subordinate. The two tasks given to them by Yang Bangzi are that they do not need to focus on military training and engage in ideological activities! Stressing the situation and policy, the entire battalion has become a resounding main battalion.

As for the second and third battalions, all of them are locals who have just been recruited, and the militia also has croppers, needless to say, ideological and political work and military training go hand in hand!

During the day, the veterans will take them to practice physical fitness, assassination, bomb throwing, etc., and at night, after dinner, there will be a meeting! Tuition! Run a study class! Even Yang Bangzi had to go to the two battalions to give lectures at night, and many of the instructors came out of the political work cadre training class run by Hong Mei in Kawaguchi Town.

At present, many people either deliberately ignore this kind of political and ideological work of our party in the process of administering the army, or they simply do not understand and do not want to understand it, and feel that politics is very boring and hypocritical.

In the past, I always talked about such a thing, the first day was the national army soldiers on the Huaihai battlefield, after being captured by our army, they were educated, and in one class, the national army's cockade was not taken off. Why? Our party's ideological work has done so well!

Look at how Yang Bangzi is in class with these fellow soldiers!

"Comrades, let me ask first, is there any one who Lao Tzu tied you with a rope! Stand up if you have one! Lao Tzu bowed to you and paid you the passage fee, so that you can go home! ”

They all came voluntarily, and none of them were kidnapped, you look at me, I look at you, no one squeaked.

"No, yes! Lao Tzu is going to say, why did you come to be the Eighth Road? Devil fighting? Right! That's right! The little devil robs things and kills people without giving money! The little devil burns the house and robs the woman! Mother, you don't see us as human beings at all, do you? Then don't get used to him, if you don't cut off his head and fart, he can't call us fathers! ”

This fucking talk, don't look at the rough words, it's very simple, the little devil kills the Chinese without any reason to greet first, then we Chinese can only rise up to defend ourselves, that's why we are soldiers!

Next, let's talk about the situation of the Anti-Japanese War, talk about the comparison between the enemy and me, and after a class, the soldiers are full of confidence! You've got to get their fighting spirit up first, so you can look like a soldier!

The rest of the military quality can depend on personal cultivation, the smarter ones will basically master the tactical use of various terrains in a few days, and the stupid ones may only come in a few days to learn to listen to the password, this can't be helped, people are different!

Of course, there is another very important thing, which is also the reason why Yang Bangzi pulled the troops to the mountains west of the horse post to train the whole army, that is, to investigate the spies and the enemy!

Not to mention that after more than ten days, through investigation and identity comparison, plus auditing, it was really found that more than a dozen suspicious people were really found, all of whom were fellow villagers who volunteered to join the army from the edge of the base area, and this was the result of the review team sent by Lao Feng, and the suspicious elements were brought back to Kawaguchi Town, and Lao Feng and they went to try them.

If we want to become an army and a system, we must work together in military training, political ideology, internal rectification, and other aspects, just like striking iron to temper and forge, and to smash it with a big hammer and a small hammer.

At the same time, when Yang Bangzi was solving this person's problem, in the east of Baoding Ximachi, the devil's Qing Shui Dazuo was not idle, and he was also reorganizing the army!

Because Shimizu Daizo had the sword of the North China Front Army in his hand, and the gendarmes and secret services in Baoding were heavily damaged, Shimizu Daizuo implemented a series of measures as soon as he took office, and he was hardly interfered with or hindered by anyone.

He ordered the checkpoints leading to the Luxi Eighth Route Base Area to be checked and the checkpoints were relaxed, and the military control order that had been in force a year ago to cut off exchanges between Luxi and Ludong had been cancelled, with the sole purpose of sending people to the Eighth Route Base Area as much as possible to spy on intelligence.

At the same time, Zhao Yukun was asked to use his previous status in the Eighth Route to send people to the common people in the base area and within the Eighth Route Army to spread the news that the Japanese army would maintain the Nanyang operation and would not strike at the Eighth Route within half a year or a year.

And the special combat personnel selected from the army are also conducting special training in the base of Ximachi almost brutally! The teaching materials are German, the instructors are transferred from Lu University, and Qing Shui himself is also one of the instructors, and the supplies are the best, for example, each special combat member has 500 grams of beef a day, which must be eaten! (To be continued......)