Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 69 Construction of Base Areas

After the new second regiment fought against the little devils in Wuyi and Wu'an, they didn't retreat too far.

According to the agreed time, at [-] o'clock in the morning, the units of the New Second Regiment passed through Wuyi successively as planned and returned to the camps of the battalions.

"Head, Kang Shunzi is here, and he brought some supplies with him." Li Daben said in a treacherous manner.

Zhou Weihan frowned, really didn't want to understand what it meant, and said, "Let him come over."

"Captain Zhou, I am the deputy commander of the Wuyi Imperial Army. You can call me Kang Shunzi. I have admired your army for a long time."

Zhou Weihan saw Kang Shunzi chattering non-stop, and interrupted directly: "Commander Kang, please speak up if you have something to say."

Kang Shunzi smacked himself and said, "Hey, look at my stinky mouth. It's like this. The chief commander in the temple asked Captain Watanabe to entrust me to send some labor supplies to your army to express his gratitude for your cooperation."

"It's nothing good. There are eight big fat pigs and [-] rounds of ammunition in total. Please accept it, and I won't bother you." Kang Shunzi said with a painful face, and waved his hand to ask his subordinates to leave the car and lead the others and left.

Zhou Weihan who stayed in the same place looked at each other, Zhao Gang smiled and said: "Old Zhou, this temple is too particular about bravery."

"What's the point? This is reciprocity. I'll give Yuu Terauchi a sum of money for the supplies that Sakata United received," Zhou Weihan said, shaking his head. "However, bravery in this temple is considered to be very particular. We will accept it when we send it all over."

Since Si Neiyong launched an all-round cooperation with the New Second Regiment, the puppet troops in Wuyi and Wu'an counties have been greatly affected. There are more than a dozen rounds of ammunition, and they are all saved up to make a deal with Zhou Weihan.

The next day, Zhou Weihan convened a post-war summary meeting.

"Let me introduce first. This is Comrade Wang Wenying, who was sent by the superior to assist us in our work. According to the instruction of the superior, the base was officially established. Comrade Wenying, please tell me," Zhao Gang began.

"Hello, comrades. The comrades in the working group and I have been in our base area for some time. During this time, we have been visiting. According to my investigation, there are a total of [-] villages in the defense area of ​​our new second regiment. Most of them are in the mountains. A few On the plain, the enthusiasm of the people in the defense area is very high and they support the work. The revolutionary foundation is very good. These are the credits of the comrades. Please tell me the details of the regiment leader and political commissar first." Wang Wenying looked at Zhou Weihan and Zhao Gang and said.

Zhou Weihan saw that the two were staring at him, and said simply: "You guys tell me about the establishment of your various departments first, don't hide it, Jing Dagang, you come first."

"Leader, political commissar, our first battalion now has 835 people"

"Our second battalion doesn't have that many people, only 720 people"

The battalion commanders of the "Three Battalions of 690 people" reported in turn.

"I don't care how many people you have in each battalion, just remember how big your appetite is, how much food you eat, and being able to pull out the team is your ability, but there is one thing, the combat effectiveness cannot be reduced." Zhou Weihan said.

"With the establishment of the base area, our new Second Regiment has roots. We can't just shoot a gun and change places like before. How do you say that, political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. If you want to defend the base area, the barrel of the gun must be strong."

"After you go back, the ministries will strengthen training, and the regiment headquarters will set up training classes. The company commanders, platoon leaders, and squad leaders of each department will go to the regiment headquarters in batches for rotation training. The political commissar and I will take military and ideological education classes."

"On the basis of the original militia teams in each village, several adjacent militia teams formed district squads, and Wu'an and Wuyi established county brigades. The independent brigade is in charge, and then handed over to the local comrades for unified command, and you cooperate with the local comrades to consolidate the regime and gradually eat away at the little devil-occupied areas."

"Establishing an intelligence network is the responsibility of Li Daben. With the help of the goods dealers, he has established contact points in several surrounding counties to keep an eye on the little devil's movements and collect intelligence."

"Establish a repair shop, and plan to set up a small arsenal in the later stage. Of course, the goal is a bit far away. Your ministries should pay attention to recruiting talents."

"In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, a medical team was established, and the personnel were mobilized from the capture of seven little devil military doctors and fifteen health workers. You, the political commissar, are responsible for this."

"Comrade Wenying, your local comrades should send troops to the army, absorb educated patriotic youths, expand the armed forces of the Eighth Route Army; implement rent and interest reductions, and carry out the land revolution; at the same time, implement judicial administration in each village, and crack down on the old landlords who do evil. You can rest assured that my new second regiment will support you."

"The last point is that the three armies have to go first before using food and grass. If the soldiers want to increase their combat effectiveness, they must first have enough to eat. If we want to achieve more results with the little devil, we need to ensure that we have enough supplies. Although there is enough food now , but you have to plan for a rainy day, maybe it will stop at any time, the team is expanding too fast, relying on the supply and capture of the common people is far from enough, everyone is here to comment on this point." Zhou Weihan said a lot in one breath.

"Yes, Commander, the team has expanded. In my opinion, we can't just rely on the people to provide us with food. In order to reduce the burden on the people in the base areas, each battalion should carry out large-scale production and strive for self-sufficiency as soon as possible." Zhao Gang added.

"Head, now is a good time for spring plowing. I see that there is a lot of wasteland around the village. Let's reclaim the wasteland and plant some crops ourselves, or we can provide some crop seeds to reclaim the wasteland, and the rest will be handed over to you." Let the villagers do it, and when the grain is harvested, we will distribute some of the grain to the villagers?" Wang Wenying is still very experienced, and immediately proposed a solution.

"Yes, we can reclaim wasteland while ensuring combat effectiveness, but report this matter to the superior in time, increase income and reduce expenditure, and be self-sufficient. I think the superior will not disagree." Zhou Weihan nodded and said. "

"Leader, we have many crops suitable for planting here, such as sorghum, millet, corn, soybean, wheat, rice, barley, buckwheat, peanut, sweet potato, potato and many kinds of vegetables. It can be distributed to each household, and the villagers can help them to raise pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, and ducks, so that they don’t have to buy these supplies all the time.” Ding Dasuan knows the situation very well because he always deals with the common people. The more I talk, the more excited I get.

"Leader, leave the task of buying crop seeds, farm tools, and livestock to me," Li Daben said voluntarily.

"That's all for the specifics. You go back and implement them step by step. This is related to the future survival of our base area, so I will pay attention to it." Zhou Weihan instructed.

Zhou Weihan had already thought about the mass production movement. He knew very well how bad the living environment of the Eighth Route Army was in 1941.

After the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1940, the little devils stepped up their efforts to "sweep" and blockade the Japanese base areas. In addition to the natural disasters in successive years, the production in each base area was greatly damaged, and the common people could not eat enough. How could they be supplying the Eighth Route Army? At this time, the layout in advance is very important.

Zhou Weihan decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the New Second Regiment to engage in large-scale production, and put forward suggestions to the headquarters so that all departments of the Eighth Route Army could try it.

(End of this chapter)