under fire

Chapter 743

Ma Liang pointed to the map on the wall and looked at the dozen or so soldiers in the room: "Have you all learned how to read maps?"

A soldier was triumphant: "Hey, if you can't even understand the map, can you still be called the Ninth Company?"

Another soldier scratched his head in embarrassment: "It's just that some words are not familiar, but as long as you say the name of the place, I promise to point it out on the map!"

"I can draw your wall picture in the sand!"

"I can make a sand table"

Boom, when Ma Liang slapped the table, all the soldiers immediately shut up and said nothing, you look at me, I look at you, did you say something wrong?
Ma Liang was indeed a little surprised: "Okay!"

The Eighth Route Army was poor, and the companies of ordinary troops didn't even have maps at all, and there were many company commanders who didn't know maps.

Literacy is hand-painted simple maps.

Seeing the strange expressions of the soldiers, Ma Liang finally smiled: "Tell me, why do you all know how to read maps?"

A squad leader quickly replied: "We don't have much to do in the base area, think about it. The plains are short of water, and the fields can't grow crops, and it's useless to build dilapidated houses. When the devils come, they burn them. We train the queue during the day, throw A hand grenade, and play with tactical coordination, we practiced digging trenches and turned almost all the land outside the village.”

This guy is good at eloquence, but he is too long-winded, so Ma Liang had to interrupt him: "Then you start learning to read maps?"

"That's not true. We are not interested in fighting bayonets. The team practiced so-so and started throwing grenades. We are poor, and we don't have regular instructors. The dozen or so people under Dagou Pai Banxian still have a little foundation
Ma Liang had a black thread: "If you say it again, I will beat you."

The squad leader smiled: "I said the platoon leader, you want to ask the reason, so can you stop interrupting?"

Ma Liang was stunned for a moment, this product is a bit oily, Luo Fugui's row: "Then you continue to talk."

The soldier wanted to say more, but Tian Sanqi entered the room from the outside, looked at the soldiers sitting in a room full, and asked Ma Liang: "Is there a meeting?"

Ma Liang kicked away a squad leader next to him, and that squad leader quickly got up to give Tian Sanqi a seat: "No, I'm asking why they can read maps, you should know."

Tian Sanqi was taken aback for a moment, originally he came to ask Ma Liang to discuss the marching at night, and he replied casually: "I know about it, you guys went to the Anti-Japanese University to study, and the soldiers left behind have nothing to do all day long. Go to the blockade ditch in the east to practice quickly crossing the blockade ditch, and occasionally go to the enemy-occupied area for activities, to get rid of a traitor and get some supplies. Seeing that you were in the way, there were several fights."

The squad leader next to him immediately interrupted: "It's all the fault of Tang Dagou's squad, and it's their responsibility to ruin the atmosphere of the entire Jiulian. They don't do morning exercises, they don't practice stabbing, and they don't dig trenches. They have long been disliked." gone."

Ma Liang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't interrupt."

Tian Sanqi glared at the squad leader of Luo Fugui's platoon: "At the beginning, Lao Qin put the fighters who fought in confinement. Later, he found that the light confinement didn't help much, and it was a waste of food, so he asked the soldiers to write self-criticisms. They can read every day. It was boring, and the effect was not very good. As the fights continued, more and more fighters committed crimes. Even my platoon fought them twice.

Lao Qin got angry for a while, and when he went to the security team to talk about work, he asked Director Su for advice. Director Su suggested finding some difficult goals for us to achieve!Lao Qin asked the soldiers who made mistakes to read maps, memorize maps, and draw maps on the sand. "

The squad leader next to him smiled triumphantly: "That's right, Lao Qin is so ruthless. If anyone fights, he won't be put in confinement, and he will be asked to draw a map on the ground. If he can't draw a map, he won't have dinner. Later, we have a lot of local people, and many people The houses in my hometown were all burned by devils. Looking at the familiar place names on the map, I felt familiar after a long time, so I learned to read the map when I had nothing to do, but there was only one map in our company, and there were too many people and it couldn’t be crowded. "

Speaking of this, the soldiers have sold a pass.

Ma Liang scolded with a smile: "You are really inferior if you don't talk about books."

The squad leader was stunned for a moment: "Platoon leader, how do you know that I am a storyteller? My grandfather is a storyteller and so is my father. It has been passed down to my generation, and here comes the little devil."

Tian Sanqi shook his head: "Later, he thought of a way. Since there was only one map, he drew it himself, and took the soldiers out all day long. Later, he increased the map from the plane to the facade.
Is this still Tian Sanqi who only knows how to fight bayonets and follow Li Xiang to learn how to use bullet-throwing bullets?
Tian Sanqi curled her lips: "Don't go online, tell me, how are we going tonight?"

Ma Liang withdrew his thoughts, and said solemnly: "I plan to take the soldiers borrowed from the division and lead them to separate operations. After all, there are so many of us. It's hard to find them."

Tian Sanqi was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean, wait for the division to arrange?"

"Think about it, we now have a list of Huidaomen and bandits in our hands, and directly use the platoon as a unit to go through the villages on the east side of the railway line one by one, how good it is?"

Tian Sanqi shook his head: "This matter is not as simple as you think. Take us as an example of the gang of bandits who beat horses and sticks. We had the advantage and still ran a few. In addition, Director Zhang died. Big responsibility."

Ma Liang thought for a while: "It's because your intelligence work is not in place. You have also read the intelligence sent by the division. How detailed is it? What kind of help will you have? The name, age, where you live, and how many subordinates you have. People, all inquiries are clear, in terms of intelligence, we have to learn from the comrades in the division."

Tian Sanqi hesitated for a moment: "Why don't you guys go fight Huidaomen, and I'll fight Wang Taigong's bandits in Neihuang County?"

Ma Liang was stunned for a moment: "Just relying on your 100-plus number? Do you dare to attack his old den of bandits with more than 2000 people?"

"There are only two or three hundred Wang Taigong's direct lineages in the city, and the rest of the outside of the city will belong to you. Didn't you say that the company commander is also there, and with the strength of one or two companies, those bandits recruited by Wang Taigong really have no fighting power at all. We fight on our own, can he compete with us?"

"Don't underestimate it, think about it, why didn't so many people in the sub-district do anything? We asked for reinforcements only to deal with the armed forces of the Daoist sect, get rid of those traitors, and recruit the armed forces that intend to resist the Japanese. As for the large group of bandits, we don't have that. Strength." Looking at the letter of appointment on the table, Ma Liang was hesitating whether to tell Tian Sanqi that the Ninth Company had been promoted to the battalion, after thinking about it, he felt that it would be better to wait for the company commander to personally appoint him.

Seeing Ma Liang's strange expression, Tian Sanqi said, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Ma Liang tilted his head: "I think you have a big tone, and you look a bit like a company commander."

"Hey, it's still up to you to say, you're gone, and I and Lao Qin and Lao Meng are the ones who supported the nine days."

"show off."

(End of this chapter)