With the steady stream of American-style equipment being sent, the weapons of each combat unit began to be gradually replaced.

Starting with the units of each company, one stubble after another.

As for the replacement and improvement of the weapons of the main force of a detachment of field troops, there is no one who is happiest than the local army units and militia units.

Why?

Because once the main field army of a team changes its weapons, the weapons that are eliminated will not be assigned to the local army and militia units in the defense area of a detachment!

In this regard, the comrades of the local army and militia around the detachment did not dislike the weapons eliminated by the comrades of the main army.

On the contrary, there is no dissatisfaction and expectation.

It has always been a tradition for the troops of the Eighth Route Army to use the weapons that the local troops have eliminated from the main forces.

There is no way, the materials of the Eighth Route Army are too expensive and scarce.

In addition, the main army and the local army, as well as the militia, have to deal with completely different enemies after all.

Plus the combat qualities of the troops are not the same.

The main forces tend to use the best equipment against the most powerful enemy, and the equipment that is eliminated is re-equipped with the local army, and the weapons that are eliminated by the local army are further distributed to the militia units or guerrillas.

But it was also eliminated by others.

It depends on who.

Today's detachment is the most well-equipped field main force of the entire Eighth Route Army.

In the words of some county captains:

"Our team, what kind of team is that? Even if you pull out a hair, it's thicker than our legs! ”

"In these years, we are only equipping the weapons that have been eliminated by the main force of the detachment, good guys, you go to the surrounding area to inquire, the equipment of many of the main combat regiments of the Eighth Route Army may not be comparable to our county brigade!"

For example, in the recent anti-sweeping operation, comrades of the county brigade to which the detachment belonged to the defense zone took action.

The sophisticated equipment and powerful firepower, as soon as they broke out, the Japanese puppet army officer on the opposite side was stunned and shouted that they had encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the field.

As a result, the main team of field troops has not yet arrived!

Just the local army fought all the way to the little devils and puppet armies and retreated in a hurry.

Therefore, when I recently heard that the main force of a detachment was going to be replaced with another piece of sophisticated equipment, many county captains, district squadrons, and district squad captains came to inquire about the situation.

Zhao Ming, the former captain of the district squad who once fought side by side with the commander of the Huang Company of the first team and repelled the eighth mixed brigade of the puppet army, is now the captain of the district squadron.

Thanks to the revolutionary friendship that fought side by side.

It's called a familiarity between the two.

"Lao Huang, I said that the 50 mortars of your company, when can they be sent to our district squadron?"

As soon as they met, Zhao Ming, the leader of the district squadron, couldn't wait to ask.

Company Commander Huang's face was stunned, and he retorted: "I said Lao Zhao, didn't you send a batch of 50 small cannons to your district squadron not long ago?" Still not satisfied? ”

"Lao Huang, look at what you said, can the 50 small cannon be compared to the 50 mortar renovated by our arsenal?" Zhao Ming's eyes rolled, "The transformed 50 mortar, that hit far, high precision, and great power!" ”

"That's much better than the 50 small cannon, and our comrades in the squadron have been thinking about it for a long time."

When Company Commander Huang heard this, he immediately scolded: "Okay, you old Zhao, look at what you said, such good equipment has been given to your local army, so what will our main force do to fight devils?" ”

"Pretend, pretend!"

Zhao Ming stared at Huang Lian Commander intently, and then lowered his voice and said, "I said Lao Huang, who are our brothers with whom?"

Don't hide it from me, I've heard that the detachment commander has recently gotten a lot of American-style equipment for the detachment, and the main forces of our detachment are basically replacing American-style equipment!

As soon as the old American 60 mortars are equipped, can you still look at these 50 mortars? ”

"Hehe, Lao Zhao, you are really powerful, you know all the news?"

In the end, Zhao Ming couldn't bear it, so Huang Lian Chang had to let go and promised: "Okay, okay, old Zhao, I agreed to this."

As soon as we have changed our equipment and the order from the command has come down, I will immediately arrange for the soldiers to send the changed equipment to your squadron.

It's all done, right? ”

"Haha, that's what we're waiting for!"

After getting the promise of Huang Lianchang, Zhao Ming left satisfied.

And Zhao Ming's words when he came to Commander Huang can basically be said to represent the unanimous expectations of the comrades of the county brigade, the district squadron and the district squadron.

Everyone is waiting for the main force of the team to change their weapons!

……

Detachment command.

Detachment Commander Kong Jie, Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, and Political Commissar Li Wenjie also happened to talk about the development of militia units.

Strictly speaking, militia forces are actually divided into off-duty militias and non-off-duty militias

The non-part-time militia is a militia force in the conventional sense, which often lives in the village where it is located, and when the farming is busy, it follows the villagers to work in the fields.

In his spare time, he conducted some military training and took on the task of defending the village and guarding against bandits, traitors, and Japanese raids.

After leaving their villages, the militias gathered together to form local armed forces.

For example, district squadrons, district squadrons, and county brigades, etc.

"Over the years, thanks to the military, economic and even cultural rapid development of our detachment.

Not only has the main force of our detachment developed rapidly, but also the local army units under the leadership of the local county party committee and district party committee, including our militia units, have all developed greatly in the defense area. ”

Chief of Staff Xu Guoxin had a ravine, and said slowly about the development of a detachment of local army units in the defense area:

"If you don't count the militia units of each village, two years ago, around the base area of our independent regiment, there were only two armed brigades in the county, only five squadrons, and less than ten district squadrons.

The surrounding local army units are all added together, and there are only more than 1,000 people, and now ......"

There was a bit of excitement and pride in his expression:

"After two years of development, so far, our team is surrounded by local military units led by the local county government and district government, with a total of 12 county brigades, 20 district squadrons, and nearly 50 district squadrons.

Coupled with the help of our detachment in weapons and logistics, the establishment of county brigades, district squadrons and district squadrons is relatively unified compared with the past.

If calculated in this way, even if each county brigade has 300 people, the district squadron has 100 troops, and the district squad has 30 people.

Then the total strength of our local army has exceeded 7,000 people.

Even more than the strength of the main army of our team.

And that's not even counting the militia militia units that have rapidly developed and trained to form combat effectiveness under the guidance of our militia military training manual. ”

But don't underestimate this militia with two branches, maybe there are only a dozen or twenty people in a village

But you must know that behind enemy lines, in the vast countryside, there are many villages, not to mention only the villages under the jurisdiction of a detachment, and if you include the peripheral guerrilla areas, there are already more than 1,000 villages.

There are only 10 militiamen in each village. That's quite an exaggerated amount.

In the words summed up by Xu Guoan: "Our detachment can really be called strong now, not only our main combat army has made great progress, but even the local army and militia units have also developed rapidly.

The constantly consolidating militia foundation and local army units, as the reserve of our main army, can ensure that there will be no fault in the soldiers of our main army. ”

In the end, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart for a while, and Xu Guoan, who had always been calm, blurted out a sentence for no reason:

"Sometimes I think about it, I really don't want to wait any longer, I can't wait to immediately lead the soldiers to defeat the counties and towns occupied by the devils, and recover all the great mountains and rivers we lost!"

Of course, Xu Guoan also understands that now is definitely not the time.

Although the team was strong, it only accounted for a very small part of the Eighth Route Army.

In terms of the general situation of the Sino-Japanese war, there is still a situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak.

The grand strategy of encircling the cities with the countryside and finally seizing power by force in the whole country still cannot be changed in any way.

The combat effectiveness of a team is to be strong and able to fight.

It's not like you can drive all the Japanese invaders out of China with one detachment, right?

But the detachment leader Kong Jie's answer was unusually firm:

"Yes, sooner or later."

"The land that the little devils took from us, we will take it back sooner or later. The blood feud left by the devil to us, sooner or later, we will get it back bit by bit! ”

…… Textural words reverberated throughout the room.

Then, the topic returned to the development and construction of local forces and militia forces.

Kong Jie said: "On the one hand, it is necessary to continue to strengthen the training of militia units in accordance with the militia military training manual and consolidate the military foundation of militia comrades.

On the other hand, it is necessary to continue to strengthen the defense of villages, townships, towns, and even villages, including those in the outlying guerrilla areas.

Tunnels, pits, hidden batteries, machine-gun fortifications, and more.

It is necessary to integrate all the rural areas in the future into one and build it into a battlefield for our resistance against Japan, so that the little devils can not move an inch everywhere.

In addition, our armed engineering team behind enemy lines must also be further developed.

To equip the comrades with sophisticated equipment is to beat his little devil to sleep unsteadily in the lair.

Finally, there is the development of equipment for local armies and militia units. ”

Head Kong is quite generous about this.

"After the equipment of our companies is replaced, the eliminated weapons will be given priority to the local army units, and the weapons that will be eliminated by the local army can be transferred to our militia."

"In addition, corresponding cadres will be arranged to teach the comrades of the county brigade and district squadron, including the district squad, the experience and skills of using these weapons while delivering the equipment."

"The so-called teaching a man to fish is better than teaching a man to fish."

"We have the conditions now, so we must teach people to fish at the same time, but also teach people to fish!"

"If the equipment is delivered to the local army and the militia units, then it should play a corresponding role."

"This point needs to be made clear to the local troops and militia comrades, and the equipment sent out by our team is not left at home waiting to be moldy."

Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan nodded approvingly.

Then the three of them quickly came to an agreement.

Kong Jie proposed: "Our team is the most elite combat unit of the Eighth Route Army, and the corresponding militia unit should also be the most elite militia unit in our entire base area." ”

"Even to build the most elite militia combat unit in the history of our Eighth Route Army!

This is my ultimate requirement for the development and construction of our militia. ”

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan responded with a smile.

As soon as the order from the command was issued, the equipment of the main combat units of the detachment was quickly replaced and immediately sent to the local units and militia units through the transport units.

The equipment sent over this time was particularly attractive to the local troops and militia units.

In the past, only veterans of the main force could use the Type 38 rifle.

In the past, there were not even a few grenadiers in the main combat regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and all of them were transformed into 50 small cannons with better performance.

Even the 50 mortar, which the main combat regiment of the Eighth Route Army did not even have in the past.

With a wave of his hand, Kong Jie still sent a lot to the local army and militia troops.

Another team's arsenal has newly produced a variety of mines, explosives packs, and even targeted anti-infantry mines, the King of Kills.

A lot of them were sent to the local army.

In the words of a certain county captain with an emotional face after receiving the equipment: "With these equipment and weapons, where are we still like a county brigade?" Our detachment leader, this is clearly to build our county brigade into an elite field army! ”

The company commander who delivered the equipment quietly put his mouth to the ear of the captain of the county brigade and said, "Comrade, you are really right.

Just the batch of equipment that the detachment commander sent to our local army.

Not to mention the local army and militia units, do you know how many commanders of the main combat regiments around our detachment are squeezing their heads to ask for it?

But in the end, our detachment commander still didn't say a word, and sent these replaced equipment to our local army troops! ”

When the county captain heard this, he said with gratitude: "Seventh company commander, don't say anything, please tell the detachment leader for our county brigade after you go back."

The detachment leader sent the best equipment to our county brigade, and the comrades of our county brigade will definitely not disgrace our detachment leader! ”

The words spoken by the county captain at this moment can be said to be a microcosm of the surrounding local army units.

Of course.

Kong Jie sent equipment, it was free equipment, not free equipment.

Equipment and ammunition sent to the local army, including militia units, will have to be "repaid" from then on.

How to repay it?

Or according to the old rules of the team.

The local army and militia units took the equipment sent over, won the battle, and captured it, and the raw materials and materials produced by the military industry had to be sent to the detachment.

In the words of Boss Kong: "The wool comes out of the sheep, and only in this way can we ensure the stable development of our entire detachment!" ”

In this way, for most of the next half month, the entire detachment, including the surrounding local army units and militia units, was rapidly changing weapons.

Until the time flickered, it was already the autumn harvest season.

The crops are ripe all over the fields, and the heavy fruits are constantly moving their heads under the blowing of the autumn wind.

It should have been the joy of a bumper harvest, but it also attracted the covetousness of the Japanese invaders, and a battle to defend the autumn harvest was about to kick off......