Dear readers and friends, the prince was suddenly sent by the leader to go on a business trip, and he left in a hurry and didn't bring anything, which caused a break in the past few days. The prince apologizes to all his friends for this! Today, the prince has just returned, so I will upload a chapter first.

Wang Haitao's words were interrupted by a burst of warm applause below, and in the hearts of these people sitting below, Wang Haitao is a legend and a figure that everyone admires very much. To be publicly praised and thanked by Wang Haitao, all the people were full of excitement and excitement. After a while, Wang Haitao raised his hands and pressed down, and the applause below also stopped.

Wang Haitao looked at these people sitting there, and continued: "The development of the base in the past few years has exceeded my expectations, I will not hide it from everyone, I am prepared before coming here, if the base is very difficult to maintain, I am ready to let everyone move back to Longzhou." However, it is not easy for everyone to work together to develop the base to this scale in a difficult environment surrounded by enemies on all sides, and I also understand that everyone has paid a lot in recent years.

Now that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has reached its most critical moment, both China and Japan are struggling to hold on. However, the stamina of small Japan cannot be compared with that of China. Little Japan is now showing signs of fatigue, and is no longer able to launch an offensive on various battlefields, so it can only take a defensive position. On the other hand, our Chinese army is in full swing, and the day of a counteroffensive against Little Japan will soon come, and I believe that the day of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is not far off!"

Wang Haitao's words were interrupted by applause again, and Wang Haitao also used gestures again to calm the applause and then said: "The current base and independent regiment are a sharp knife inserted in the heart of little Japan, and I have decided that the base will remain here, and when our army launches a large-scale counteroffensive, with the cooperation of your base, our army will get twice the result with half the effort." My request to you is to continue to endure here, to produce as many weapons and ammunition as possible in the factory, to train the troops as soon as possible, to cooperate with the troops of the national army to act at the opportunistic opportunity, and to strike at the Japanese army as much as possible. Once again, I would like to thank all of you!"

After Wang Haitao finished speaking, Tang Yisheng, as the person in charge of the base, also spoke on the stage. Most of Tang Yisheng's speeches were in line with Wang Haitao's speech, and he also made assurances to Wang Haitao. After the meeting, Wang Haitao asked the troops to stay, and the rest of the people dispersed first. Under the leadership of Tang Yisheng, Wang Haitao and the people from the army came to the small conference room of the base and sat down.

The reason why he wanted to keep the troops was because Wang Haitao was ready to let the defense force of the base move, so that they could truly become a sharp knife inserted in the heart of the Japanese army. After everyone sat down, everyone looked at Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao glanced at everyone and said: "I left you here today because I have some ideas about the troops left behind at the base, and I want to discuss it with you." ”

After listening to Wang Haitao's words, Huang Guizhong thought that there was something in the army that made Wang Haitao dissatisfied, so he hurriedly stood up and said: "Junzuo, is there anything wrong with the troops? Wang Haitao smiled and waved his hand, and said: "Gui Zhong, you sit down first, to tell the truth, your troops are deficient, but the flaws are not hidden, on the whole, I am still satisfied, today I want to discuss with you the issue of troop expansion." ”

Hearing Wang Haitao say this, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on their faces because it was about to be expanded. Wang Haitao continued: "Your independent regiment now has six battalions, there should be more than 5,000 people, right?" Huang Guizhong stood up and replied: "Report to the military seat, now there are six battalions in the independent regiment of the base, and there are also three reinforced companies directly under the regiment, with a total of 6,385 officers and men. ”

Wang Haitao motioned for Huang Guizhong to sit down again, and said with a smile: "Good guy, a regiment of more than 6,000 people is about to catch up with a division of the miscellaneous army." I am ready to upgrade your Independent Regiment to an Independent Brigade. It has three regiments and three brigade battalions. According to the establishment number, it is 8,400 people, and the insufficient number is recruited by you yourself within the base. However, the number of people has increased, and the combat effectiveness must also be increased accordingly. ”

What Wang Haitao said made the people of the independent regiment smile, and then Wang Rong, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the base, stood up and said: "Report to the military seat, our reconnaissance battalion also requests to be upgraded to a reconnaissance regiment." Wang Haitao glanced at Wang Rong and asked, "How many people are there in your reconnaissance battalion?" Wang Rong replied: "Report to the military seat, the reconnaissance battalion has five reconnaissance companies, with a total of 760 officers and men. ”

The reconnaissance brigade of the 90th Army was brought out of the reconnaissance company by Wang Haitao little by little, and he knew very well how big the difference between scouts and ordinary soldiers was, and the reconnaissance brigade could deal with five to eight ordinary soldiers by calling out a soldier at will, but Wang Haitao had always trained scouts as special forces in later generations. If the reconnaissance battalion at the base can also be trained like a reconnaissance brigade, then these 760 fighters are a force to be reckoned with.

Wang Haitao thought for a while and said: "In this way, your reconnaissance battalion is not in a hurry in advance, tomorrow I will arrange for Regiment Commander Wei Changxing to conduct an assessment of your reconnaissance battalion, if your reconnaissance battalion passes the assessment, I will promote your reconnaissance battalion to a reconnaissance regiment, if you fail the assessment, then not only will you not be able to become a reconnaissance regiment, but you, the battalion commander, will also be criticized." Wang Rong replied loudly: "Welcome to the assessment of our reconnaissance battalion by Junzuo and Regiment Commander Wei, and we are confident that we can successfully pass the assessment." ”

After Wang Haitao motioned for Wang Rong to sit down, he turned the topic back to the independent regiment, Wang Haitao said to Huang Guizhong: "Guizhong, your independent regiment has guarded the base well in recent years, but I think that on the premise of completely ensuring the safety of the base, you can also expand the scope of activities and dare to take the initiative to attack the surrounding Japanese troops." A warrior will only fully mature when he passes the test of battle, without actual combat, without going through life and death fighting, no matter how well he is trained, he is just a rookie. ”

Huang Guizhong lowered his head and replied: "The military seat is right, I have paid too much attention to the safety and security of the base in the past few years, under normal circumstances, as long as the enemy does not invade the base, we will rarely take the initiative to attack the enemy." This has made it rare for the soldiers to have the opportunity to engage in actual combat, so I will change my approach and follow the teachings of the military seat and take the initiative to attack the enemy. ”

Wang Haitao nodded and said: "It is necessary to take the initiative to attack, but the safety and security of the base should still be put in the first place, and the fight against the Japanese army should not only think about fighting a big battle. Don't think about eating a big fat man in one go, the Japanese army is not a soft persimmon, you can pinch it. ”

Huang Guizhong and his subordinates nodded hurriedly and said, "The lowly duty understands! The lowly duty will definitely do what the military seat teaches." Wang Haitao also asked the reconnaissance battalion to pay attention to the actions of the independent regiment and provide timely information on the movements of the Japanese army. Wang Rong also nodded in response. It was already noon when the meeting was held, Wang Haitao asked them to disperse, and then said to Tang Yisheng: "Yisheng, I will take most of the weapons and ammunition with me when I leave this time, and you have to bite the arsenal to do a good job of logistics support for the expansion of the troops." ”

Tang Yisheng nodded again and again, and when Wang Haitao asked Tang Yisheng what difficulties he had, Tang Yisheng said: "Military seat, everything else in the base can be self-sufficient, but now the funds are insufficient, and I only have less than 100,000 current oceans in my hands, and once the troops are expanded, military spending will increase a lot, and I am afraid that these current oceans will not last long." ”

Wang Haitao was shocked before he remembered that the last time he came to the base before leaving, he only left Tang Yisheng with one million current oceans, and in the past few years, Tang Yisheng has relied on this million current oceans to maintain the operation of the entire base, and now he can still leave 100,000 current oceans, which is really not simple. When Wang Haitao asked Tang Yisheng how to keep the base running, Tang Yisheng's answer made Wang Haitao suddenly realize.

It turned out that Tang Yisheng had been doing business with the national army troops in southern Anhui in the past few years, and the base's liaison stations in various places would sell some guns and ammunition to the national army troops from time to time, and the weapons produced by the arsenal were of excellent quality and were very popular with the national army troops, although the price was expensive, it was still in short supply. Tang Yisheng relied on the arms business to maintain the base.

However, Wang Haitao took away most of the weapons and ammunition in stock this time, and the weapons and ammunition produced by the arsenal must first meet the needs of expansion, and Tang Yisheng will not be able to sell weapons and ammunition at all in a short time, so he is worried that the funds will be insufficient. After knowing these circumstances, Wang Haitao secretly complained about his carelessness, and hurriedly asked Tang Yisheng to take him to the warehouse, and took out two million yuan of cash from the storage ring and gave it to Tang Yisheng.

In the next few days, Wang Haitao patrolled around the base, Feng Zisheng left a guard squad to follow Wang Haitao, and the rest were invited by Huang Guizhong to train the officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment. And Wei Changxing and the reconnaissance company were also busy assessing and further training the reconnaissance battalion at the base. From Wei Changxing's report and his own personal observations, Wang Haitao learned that the reconnaissance battalion at the base was trained by Wang Rong quite well, and the only drawback was that it lacked a little actual combat experience.

Seeing that Wang Rong and his reconnaissance battalion had successfully passed Wei Changxing's assessment, Wang Haitao agreed to Wang Rong's request to upgrade the reconnaissance battalion to a reconnaissance regiment, and agreed that Wang Rong's reconnaissance regiment could give priority to selecting soldiers from the independent battalion when it was expanded. This is also the tradition of the 90th Army, and although Huang Guizhong and his family are distressed about this, they still unconditionally support the expansion of the reconnaissance regiment.

Wang Haitao's task at the base was basically completed, and looking at the current ocean that was about to bottom out in the storage ring, Wang Haitao started the idea of the Japanese trading companies and banks in Nanjing. However, before Wang Haitao could take action, a piece of information sent by the base liaison station attracted Wang Haitao's great attention.

The information was sent back from the liaison station in Tunxi County, saying that the Chinese Communists had reached an agreement with Lao Chiang that the New Fourth Army would leave southern Anhui and enter northern Jiangsu to fight behind enemy lines, and that the New Fourth Army was now preparing to cross the river to northern Jiangsu, and that the first batch of troops crossing the river would leave the New Fourth Army garrison in three days.

More than two years ago, when the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was ordered to go north and go to Jing County, it was besieged by 80,000 Kuomintang troops, and as a result, only more than 2,000 troops of more than 10,000 people rushed out, Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, was captured, and Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the army, and Zhou Zikun, deputy chief of staff, were shot dead by adjutant Liu Hou. caused the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked China and the rest of the world.