The Rise of the Great Powers in the War of Resistance

Chapter 3 "touch" a stronghold

3rd Battalion Headquarters, the instructor Fangzheng walked back and forth anxiously, the battalion commander took the soldiers to attack the Liujiaji stronghold. They, 12 soldiers, went to attack a small devil stronghold, in case the battalion commander made a mistake, how would he explain to the regiment commander.

When Fangzheng was full of annoyance, the correspondent ran over excitedly, and said happily: "Instructor, the battalion commander and the others are back, and they brought back a lot of spoils of war."

"The battalion commander is back, and brought back a lot of trophies." The instructor Fang Zhengzheng came to his senses after a long time, and then the eager team correspondent said; "Go, go, show me the battalion commander and the others."

Seeing that the soldiers returned to the station safely, and brought back so many trophies, the other soldiers were surprised at first, and then they all gathered around to see the trophies. They saw the brand new rifles, boxes of bullets and grenades, and especially saw the crooked machine gun. And heavy machine guns, everyone looked at the special forces with admiration in their eyes and smiles on their faces. [

Seeing such good equipment, the company commander Wang Haiyang said to Zhang Yunfei with a flattering smile: "Battlefield commander, I like machine guns the most. Let us share these machine guns with our company."

Before Zhang Yunfei could reply, the Second Company Commander Chen Erwa and the Third Company Commander Qian Long hurriedly said, "Wang Haiyang, you have a good idea."

Seeing the three company commanders starting to compete for equipment, Zhang Yunfei said: "Everyone, stop arguing and start a meeting right away. I have something to say."

Seeing that the battalion commander said that the meeting would be held immediately, everyone immediately stopped arguing and hurried to the battalion headquarters conference room.

In the conference room, Zhang Yunfei looked at everyone and said, "Today we took away the Liujiazhen stronghold and seized more than 30 Type 3 rifles, 5000 crooked machine guns, one Type 200 heavy machine gun, more than 3 bullets, and two grenades. There is also a radio station, more than [-] pieces of ocean, [-] gold bars, and some food and clothes. Among these things, the [-]-type rifle and the crooked machine gun are divided equally, and the [-]-type heavy machine gun is given to the company first, and then divided after capture Give it to Erlian and Sanlian, everyone has no objections."

"No opinion," the three company commanders said in unison.

Zhang Yunfei looked at Fangzheng again and said, "Instructor, the soldiers in our army are suffering too much. Except for the part that we seized to the regiment headquarters, the rest will be used to buy daily necessities such as food and clothing."

"Okay, Battalion Commander is fine, the soldiers are too hard." Fangzheng said happily.

"Instructor, I want you to be in charge of the life and logistics of the troops. The oceans and gold bars seized today will be placed in your place. Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, you should send someone to buy some cotton and cotton cloth tomorrow, and mobilize the troops in several nearby villages." The women came to make clothes and shoes for the soldiers. You arrange to dismantle and re-dyed the clothes you seized from the little devils today to make them into military uniforms for our Eighth Route Army. In order to facilitate future management, you'd better set up a clothing factory; Let’s go to the common people to buy a big fat pig, on the one hand, to improve the lives of the soldiers, and on the other hand, let’s celebrate.”

"Okay, I'll make arrangements later," Fang Zheng said.

In the middle of the night, at the garrison of the third battalion, 5 marching cauldrons lined up, the orange flame happily "licked" the bottom of the pan, the water in the pan was churning up and down, and the smell of stew wafted far away, the soldiers lined up neatly Everyone in the team was given a bowl of stewed meat from the cooking class and enjoyed eating it.

The next day, Fang Zheng, the instructor, recruited dozens of women from several nearby villages to make cotton clothes and trousers. Seeing that there were a large number of people, Zhang Yunfei specially found an independent and spacious small yard for making clothes and cotton trousers. shoes, and provide two meals at noon and evening for the women who come to help with work.

In addition, a few clever soldiers were sent to dress up as ordinary people, take the captured gold bars and oceans to the county seat, and secretly purchase a batch of cotton and cotton cloth. I believe it will not take long for the soldiers to wear warm cotton clothes and trousers. and cotton shoes.

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In Xin'an County, which is 7 or 8 miles away from the third battalion station, the Japanese Army Headquarters stationed in Xin'an County, Captain Ichiro Watanabe heard the report from the Chief of Staff that the Liujia Town stronghold was attacked, and more than 30 warriors of the Japanese Imperial Army collectively smashed their jade. He was so angry that he drew out his command knife and slammed it on the table, and said to the chief of staff angrily, "Can you find out who did it?"

"Your Excellency, Captain, we don't know who did it yet," said the chief of staff.

"Check, check for me, who did it, let me find out who did it, it's dead."

"Hi." The chief of staff stood at attention and bowed his head in salute.

"At the same time, strengthen the sweep of the surrounding villages." [

"Hi." The chief of staff stood at attention again and bowed his head in salute.

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In the following days, Zhang Yunfei strengthened the training of the troops. Whether it was shooting, bayonet fighting or tactical coordination drills, he personally participated in the demonstrations. The soldiers corrected any mistakes in time, and the military directors above the platoon also strengthened After studying military theory, he became a teacher himself.

As for the special forces, they mainly practice by themselves. Zhang Yunfei only spends two or three hours a day guiding the training of the special forces. Even so, the tactics and skills of the special forces have improved significantly.

A quilt factory was also set up, and a few non-combatants were recruited to work as managers in the quilt factory. Now the quilt factory has set up several small workshops, including a spinning workshop, which is responsible for spinning cotton into spindles; a weaving workshop, Responsible for weaving cotton yarn into cloth; there is also a finished product workshop, responsible for making clothes, cotton shoes and quilts.

Originally, it was planned to recruit only a few dozen "female" comrades, but people from several nearby villages heard that they were making clothes for the Eighth Route Army, so they actively signed up to participate, and finally recruited hundreds of people.

These "female" comrades are also very enthusiastic about their work, and they can make dozens of sets of clothes every day. It didn't take long for the soldiers to put on brand new cotton clothes and warm cotton shoes.

In terms of food, Zhang Yunfei bought all the oceans into food, and the soldiers could eat three meals a day, and occasionally a meal of meat, but Fangzheng, the instructor of this kind of eating law, was both happy and heartbroken. But with the improvement of the food, the physique of the soldiers is getting better and better, and the faces that used to be full of dishes gradually have a ruddy complexion. The heartache is that after this, the oceans and gold bars seized last time are basically It's almost over.

With food and clothing, Zhang Yunfei decided to expand his troops even though weapons were still in short supply. He knew very well that the ranks of the Eighth Route Army developed rapidly. From the three divisions in the early days of the War of Resistance to the victory of the War of Resistance, the ranks had grown to more than 100 million people.

With the publicity of the propaganda team, the recruitment work went smoothly. The young people in the nearby hundred miles all enthusiastically joined the Eighth Route Army. In just a few days, more than 500 people were recruited. This was the result of Zhang Yunfei's special control and screening, after all In this era, ordinary people and little devils have deep hatred, and most of them join the Eighth Route Army with the purpose of avenging their dead relatives. On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army is a team of ordinary people, and everyone is willing to join.

Seeing the recruited fighters, Zhang Yunfei was very satisfied. These fighters were all selected by themselves. They were all young and middle-aged, and there were no old, weak, sick or disabled.Zhang Yunfei organized these soldiers into a recruit company, organized them into more than a dozen platoons, and carried out training with the platoon as a unit. The recruit platoon leader was a veteran selected by each company, who was both the platoon leader and the instructor.