The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1357 Establishing a Reclamation Camp (First Update)

In a ravine ten kilometers northwest of Qingshi Ridge.

Nearly three thousand absentees were divided into several groups, and some of them carried weapons and mixed with the Eighth Route Army soldiers for training.

Some of them were not mixed with the Eighth Route Army and formed several new camps for training. Nearly half of them were absent from work to take on the logistics work of the entire station. They accepted the ideological lessons of the Eighth Route Army and at the same time nourished their bodies that were hollowed out by continuous work.

"Captain..." Commander of the fifth battalion, Ma Wenshan, looked excitedly at Huang Yu.

"After the past few days of training, the fifth battalion has returned to its full strength of 600 people. Although it is not yet capable of confronting the Kwantung Army head-on, it is hiding in the woods and relying on favorable terrain to fight guerrillas and mobile warfare with the Kwantung Army at night. It’s definitely okay to attack them.”

"I think you can now replace the fifth battalion and the chief of staff who stayed in the mountain..."

"The chief of staff led the remaining soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions here to replenish new recruits, train the troops, and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops."

"I led my troops into the mountains to fight guerrillas with the Kwantung Army's mopping up troops...and continued to hold them back."

Huang Yu did not answer, but asked with expectation: "After deducting the five battalions that are already full, how many new recruits are left in the station, how many absentees can directly supplement the troops, and how many people can be mobilized to join us among the remaining absentees who have been rescued. Eighth Route Army?”

Ma Wenshan's face suddenly felt as if he had eaten candied fruit, and he replied with a smile on his lips: "Excluding the worries of having already joined the fifth battalion, there are still 713 recruits left in the station."

"Including 286 prisoners from the pass, the remaining more than people were ordinary absentees. I transferred a few cadres from the fifth battalion to conduct simple training for them. When the troops drove out the Kwantung Army in the mountains and ended the counter-mopping up, By establishing a base in Jinzhou and conducting formal military training on them, we can replenish the troops in at most two months..."

"Go to the battlefield and fight the Kwantung Army head-on for two battles. After seeing blood, these new recruits will grow into veterans."

"There are still 1329 absentees in the entire garrison who have not joined our Eighth Route Army..."

"I estimate that we can mobilize 600 people to join us..."

"Although the remaining six to seven hundred people don't want to join us, they don't dare to go home for fear that they will be caught by the Kwantung Army again and work as miners in the coal mines."

"If you want to stay in our station for the time being and work, as long as we take care of the food..."

"I think we can keep them..."

"We hired hundreds of strong laborers, but there is really no place to use them. Let them help carry stretchers, or find a place in the mountains and let them reclaim wasteland to grow food."

"One person cultivates five acres of land. These people can at least cultivate 3,500 acres of land. Subtracting their own food rations, it will definitely be no problem to provide the northbound detachment with four to five million rations of food every year."

"Anyway, the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated. There are plenty of places that can be cultivated for two days. There are many places around our station alone."

After hearing Ma Wenshan's thoughts, Tang Lin couldn't help but look at him one more time.

Because this proposal is not too different from a thick military camp.

He immediately agreed: "Just do it..."

"Beyond the mountain is Jinzhou City. We can't expand our base anywhere, we can only move inside the mountain."

"But the little devils drove all the people to the settlement outside the mountains. As a result, there were no people in the mountains. We lost our foundation. We couldn't even solve the basic food problem, let alone establish a base area."

"In this case, we will grow our own food and set up a reclamation camp based on those who are unwilling to join our Eighth Route Army. We will set up a reclamation company for every 100 people. We will find a place in the mountains and reclaim more than 500 acres of land. Specifically to help our Eighth Route Army with food."

"When we defeat the Kwantung Army outside the mountains and rescue the people who were concentrated in the settlement points by the Kwantung Army, if anyone is willing to go into the mountains, we will give them the land reclaimed from the mountains..."

"In this way, our base area will be established..."

"Contact Wei Dayong immediately, inform the troops so far, and ask the fifth battalion to replace them." "The second and third battalions immediately retreated here to replenish new soldiers, train the troops, restore combat effectiveness, and build the reclamation camp by the way."

"It just so happens that spring plowing is about to begin."

"Strive to cultivate these thousands of acres of land before spring plowing."

"If you don't have enough manpower, ask new recruits to help. If you don't have enough livestock, you can borrow Norma and Fury, who are the troops' equipment."

"If you don't have production tools, immediately send a telegram to Duan Peng and Cao Xing outside the mountain, asking them to attack more settlement points controlled by the Japanese expatriates, and find a way to send the captured farm tools into the mountains."

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Because Huang Yu joined the Jinzhou battlefield in time, the Northbound Detachment Regiment, which was seriously under-strength, slowly survived the most difficult period.

Nowadays, not only have the number of troops participating in the war not decreased, but they have increased in number due to the large number of absentees.

Faced with this situation, Lieutenant General Fujita and Lieutenant General Yoshino were so angry that they were dizzy, and their minds became a mess. They didn't understand how a good general sweep could be beaten like this by them in the blink of an eye.

"Fujita-kun..." Lieutenant General Yoshino looked at the message he had just received, and his frown deepened.

"Did the Eighth Route Army outside the city cause another trouble..." Lieutenant General Fujita asked with a look of helplessness.

Because every time he saw Lieutenant General Yoshino with this expression, nothing good would happen in the end.

"The Eighth Route Army escaped from the encirclement formed by the mopping up troops again..." Lieutenant General Yoshino replied solemnly.

"Since last night, the mopping up troops have no longer been attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Even the long-range artillery fire has disappeared."

"I sensed something was wrong at that time, and specifically reminded the reconnaissance troops and intelligence personnel outside the city to be on guard to prevent the Eighth Route Army from crossing the mopping up force blockade again..."

"In the end, they still managed to cross the blockade..."

"I just received news... three small strongholds and four settlement points controlled by armed expatriates behind the mopping up troops were suddenly besieged by the Eighth Route Army. The Kwantung Army and armed expatriates stationed there were all wiped out..."

"A large amount of weapons, equipment and supplies were lost..."

"This time I really can't figure out how the Eighth Route Army got through the blockade of the mopping up troops."

"Obviously we have sent supervision teams to all the puppet Manchurian troops on the front line..."

"With the Supervisory Team watching the battlefield, even if the Puppet Manchurian Army secretly liaises with the Eighth Route Army, it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement to escape from under the Supervisory Team's nose. What's more, they still have hundreds of troops, not dozens... "

"I can't understand..."

Lieutenant General Fujita was also in trouble. His brows were furrowed and his mind was in a blur. He had been thinking for a long time without any thoughts.

In the end, he could only reply with a long sigh: "We can't continue fighting like this."

"Until we figure out how the Eighth Route Army can cross the encirclement, we will be exhausted no matter how many troops we deploy on the front line..."

(End of this chapter)