At the high-level meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, it was unanimously agreed that Commander Wang Haitao should train the officers of the Eighth Route Army and the Central Guard Corps. As for the task of colluding with Commander Wang Haitao, it was completed by Ye Jianying, chief of the General Staff of the Eighth Route Army, and Comrade *, who was the director of the Political Training Office. In the evening, the Chinese communists again hosted a banquet for Wang Haitao and his entourage, at which Commander-in-Chief Zhu personally asked for training, and Wang Haitao readily agreed.

The next day, Chief of General Staff Ye and Director Deng found Wang Haitao on how to train, and Wang Haitao was already prepared and replied: "Chief of General Staff Ye and Director Deng, I will personally communicate with the personnel of your Eighth Route Army who participated in the officer training. As for the troops, I think that the basic skills of your troops are still very solid, and what they lack is the concept of using advanced weapons and some special operations skills. I'll let my men train them. ”

Chief of General Staff Ye asked: "Commander Wang, in your opinion, how long will it take to see the results?" Wang Haitao replied: "Seeing the results is very fast, half a month is enough, but to become a real elite, it needs to go through a long period of accumulation and the test of actual combat." The two companies I brought with me this time have been in the past seven or eight years from the beginning of training to the war. I dare to use these two companies against a Japanese brigade. ”

If Wang Haitao's words were to say that before the confrontation exercise, Chief of General Staff Ye would not believe it at all. A full-strength infantry brigade of the Japanese army numbered more than 1,200 people, and if the Eighth Route Army wanted to confront it, it would probably have to dispatch a regular brigade, so how could two companies with more than 400 men confront these more than 1,000 Japanese troops? But now they knew that this Commander Wang Haitao was by no means bragging.

Wang Haitao saw that Ye and Deng were listening to their speeches very carefully, and after thinking for a while, he continued: "The weapons used by my troops have very strong continuity of firepower, and the firepower of a company far exceeds the firepower of an infantry squadron of the Japanese army, but this also makes my troops have a great demand for ammunition. A fighter equipped with *, in a high-intensity battle, will fire two to three hundred rounds, and the ammunition consumption of the machine gun is even greater. With the current situation of your Eighth Route Army, it is impossible to afford such ammunition consumption. Therefore I can only train you a small and capable army, about six hundred to eight hundred men. The weapons I brought with me could only equip this unit. ”

Wang Haitao's words surprised both Ye and Deng, and they didn't expect that the use of this weapon would bring such a huge consumption of ammunition. Just as Wang Haitao said, if the whole army is equipped with even one division equipped with this kind of weapon, it will not be able to meet the consumption of ammunition at all. Chief of General Staff Ye asked: "Commander Wang, we are preparing to let all the guards of the Central Guard Regiment receive your training, the number of the Central Guard Regiment is 1,300 people, do you think it will work? Also, you have brought a lot of ammunition this time, but there is always a time when it runs out, how can we replenish it once the ammunition is exhausted?"

As for the number of people, it's nothing more, but Wu Wei may not be enough for the time being. As for the point of bullets, Wang Haitao had already considered it, and when he saw General Ye Jianying mention it, he replied: "General Ye, as for the replenishment of ammunition and shells, I have also thought about it, if you want to transport it from Guangxi, not only is the distance too far, but there are many checkpoints along the way, which is not realistic. However, I still have a base in Jurong, from which your New Fourth Army can get some supplies, and I will send them a telegram asking them to increase the supply of ammunition to you, but how to deliver it will depend on your own figure. I have no opinion on the training of the entire Central Guard Corps, but the weapons and equipment are insufficient, and I will let the Jurong base make up for you. ”

Different from Wang Haitao's previous life, the current New Fourth Army has become a standout in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui because of its strength, and although the Kuomintang also has three divisions of troops around the New Fourth Army, it only dares to engage in some small frictions with the New Fourth Army, and these Kuomintang troops are unable to mobilize such a tragedy as the Southern Anhui Incident.

The commander of the New Fourth Army is still General Ye Ting, and the deputy commander has been General Chen Yi; with the cooperation of the New Fourth Army, the small unit that Wang Haitao left in Jurong at the beginning now has a scale of 5,000 people. After reporting to Wang Haitao and with Wang Haitao's consent, the independent regiment of Jurong base has been upgraded to an independent brigade, with the former regiment commander Huang Guizhong serving as the commander of the independent brigade and Wang Lili serving as the deputy brigade commander. The general responsibility of the base is still Tang Yisheng, deputy director of the logistics department of the 90th Army.

At present, in Jurong, Liyang, Zhenjiang, and other places, the Japanese army only occupies the cities, and the countryside is controlled by the New Fourth Army and the Independent Brigade. General Ye Jianying and Director * both know the situation of the New Fourth Army and understand that this kind of thing still needs to be coordinated by the central government, but it is not easy for Commander Wang Haitao to do this.

Seeing that Ye and Deng had no opinions, Wang Haitao said again: "I suggest that the first step of training start with learning the use of weapons, I don't know what Chief of General Staff Ye and Director Deng think?" General Ye Jianying and Director * naturally had no objections, and the matter of training was decided. After Ye and Liu Er left, Wang Haitao gathered all his subordinates together and told them that they would train the CCP's Central Guard Corps from tomorrow.

Wang Haitao said: "Brothers, you have grown up from fighting with Little Japan, and the CCP's troops are not as experienced as you in fighting on the frontal battlefield with Little Japan, and the task of the guard company is to teach them how to preserve themselves on the battlefield and destroy the enemy. The reconnaissance company is to train them to be special forces like you. Time is very tight, you have about a month to train them, I don't care what method you use, you have to see the effect in half a month. This training is in charge of Tangshan Leopard. ”

After Wang Haitao left, Tangshan Leopard said to the soldiers under him: "Brothers, the task of the military seat has been clearly explained, and it is up to you whether you can complete the task assigned by the seat. There are more than 1,300 communist troops, and we have to train them the same way we used to train them, understand?"

Early the next morning, the entire Central Guard Regiment assembled at the large playground in front of Yangjialing, and the task of defending the CPC Central Committee was temporarily handed over to a regiment transferred from the 120th Division. Opposite them were the officers and men of the two companies brought by Wang Haitao, who were heavily armed. Wu Lie had been approached by Mao, Zhu, and Peng to talk before, and although he was still a little uncomfortable now, the order must be carried out to the letter.

The first step in the training of Tangshan leopards is to select people. The Central Guard Regiment was dispersed except for officers above the battalion level. The guards company and the reconnaissance company were selected respectively. The selection of personnel for the reconnaissance company is much stricter, and only the rest of the personnel they select will be handed over to the guard company. With regard to the conditions for selecting troops, the reconnaissance company strictly followed the requirements for selecting troops in Guangxi, and in this regard, the reconnaissance company adhered to the criterion of preferring shortage to excess, and a central guard regiment only selected 198 people, plus two chief and deputy officers, exactly 200 people, which can be regarded as a company.

The rest of the people were handed over to the guard company, and this time Wang Haitao accompanied the main leaders of the CCP and the chief officer of the Eighth Route Army to watch from the sidelines. When the reconnaissance company was recruiting, the strict and almost harsh conditions made these leaders extremely surprised, but seeing that all Wang Haitao's subordinates could easily meet these conditions, they couldn't help but marvel at Wang Haitao's subordinates for such skills.

Wang Haitao explained to the leaders why there are these conditions, what skills are prepared for each condition, and so on. In the morning, the selection of troops was basically over, and the next step was the use of various weapons, and Wang Haitao's reconnaissance company left a platoon to train the 200 selected soldiers, and the rest joined in the training of other soldiers.

More than 300 people had to train 1,100 people, and one person had to be responsible for several people, and Tangshan Leopard divided these 1,100 people into more than 150 combat groups according to Wang Haitao's teaching. Two fighters were responsible for training a combat group. Such a combination has never been seen before by the CCP troops, and in addition to a curiosity, the CCP leaders have doubts about how effective such a separate combat group can be.

The officers will not be able to rush to Yan'an in a few days, and Wang Haitao has been paying attention to the training of the troops in the past few days. Fifty 75-caliber field guns were handed over to the Independent Artillery Regiment of the CPC headquarters, and after receiving these 50 field guns, the CCP immediately expanded the original independent artillery field into an independent artillery brigade, with two independent artillery regiments under its jurisdiction, each regiment under the jurisdiction of three artillery battalions. Now the number of soldiers has also been expanded, and the Chinese communists have also handed over the training task of the artillery brigade to Wang Haitao.

Wang Haitao could only draw 50 soldiers from his subordinates who had a very good artillery attack and go to train the artillery brigade first. The training of the artillery brigade and the training of the Central Guard Regiment are not in the same place, and to train the artillerymen, they must first be trained to drive and maintain the trucks.

Driving is by no means an easy task for these fighters who have never touched a car and have not even seen it. Fortunately, the CCP fighters have no spirit of hardship and seriousness, and often until the night, there are still soldiers groping on the car and skillful technical movements. There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb. With this spirit, after overcoming the fear of cars at the beginning, within a few days, these fighters have mastered the basic driving skills, but the improvement of technology depends on the accumulation of practical use in the future.