Chapter 30: The Second Meeting of the Northwest Shanxi Iron Triangle
Linyuan County, the headquarters of the new 1st Regiment.
In order to welcome his old comrade, Li Yunlong sent someone to buy wine and meat early in the morning.
"Come, come, let me introduce you. This is my old comrade.
I used to eat in the same class with you, and I am the leader of the independent regiment, Kong Jie. "
It's time to eat.
Li Yunlong pulled a relatively thin man wearing an old Eighth Route Army uniform.
A man with a pipe in his hand walked over and introduced himself to everyone.
Then he introduced everyone present to Kong Jie one by one.
"This is my current political commissar and chief steward, Zhong Zhicheng. Political Commissar Zhong, you should know him."
"Old Kong, long time no see."
"Haha, haven't seen you for a few years."
"This is the former commander of the Jinsui Army. He got confused for a moment.
Now that I have thought it through, I have joined my new regiment and am my deputy leader."
"Hello, Captain Kong."
"Welcome, welcome. It doesn't matter if you made a mistake temporarily. As long as you admit your mistake and correct it, you are great."
"This is the commander of the first battalion of the new first regiment, Zhang Dabiao!"
"Captain Kong!"
"You are Zhang Dabiao. Lao Li mentioned you a lot in the letters he wrote to me."
"You don't recognize this person. He is Qin Yangming, the commander of the Vanguard Battalion, who shared the blame with me when we crossed the grassland."
"Qin Yangming? He's the Qin Yangming who wrote the training outline. He's so young?"
"Hello, Captain Kong. I wrote this."
"You are indeed a hero when you are young. You are as strong as a bear and your arms are thicker than my thighs."
Kong Jie pinched Qin Yangming's arm, gestured, and looked at him in shock.
"Hehe, this kid is incredibly strong. He attacked Linyuan County a while ago.
Several of the battalion commanders attacked him and were beaten black and blue. "
Li Yunlong proudly told Kong Jie about Qin Yangming's fighting ability.
How can we not show off when old comrades meet?
After satisfying his competitive spirit, Li Yunlong also talked to Kong Jie about support.
As the saying goes, I am afraid that my brothers will suffer, but I am also afraid that my brothers will drive a Land Rover.
Now compared with Kong Jie, Li Yunlong is obviously the one driving the Land Rover.
Li Yunlong couldn't bear to see his old comrade living such a difficult life.
"Old Kong, I still have more than a thousand new soldiers here.
These people were originally puppet soldiers from Linyuan County, but later surrendered.
The brigade commander said he would leave it to you, but I didn't just leave it there.
I drew out five hundred puppet soldiers and dispersed them to join my new regiment.
Then I drew 400 new recruits from my battalion and 200 veterans from the first battalion to fill in."
"This batch of soldiers is given to you to expand the army. You will have to recruit new soldiers yourself for the rest. I will leave the second and third battalions and the original base of my regiment headquarters to you."
"As for the grassroots officers, you need to solve it yourself.
The new recruits I gave you all brought guns with them.
All of them were Type 65 rifles and Type 65 light machine guns of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.
It is equipped with four Type 92 heavy machine guns.
Two 60mm mortars,
A 37mm infantry gun from the Japanese."
Captain Wu standing by did not comment on Li Yunlong's suggestion to disband his troops.
There is no excessive feeling in my heart.
Because the brigade commander had already talked to him and asked him if he was willing to stay in the Eighth Route Army.
Then the Eighth Route Army will treat these surrendered puppet troops equally.
As long as there is no problem with their ability and character, they should be the company commander and the platoon leader should be the platoon leader.
After the final screening, except for two of his trusted company commanders who were not competent enough,
Others were either platoon leaders or company commanders, or even platoon leaders of the main battalion.
As for himself, his ability was indeed a little lacking. He never won a single sandbox exercise.
However, Li Yunlong discovered that although Captain Wu had no talent in combat,
But this guy is very good at leading new recruits and can always sense what they are thinking.
Li Yunlong decisively asked Captain Wu to be responsible for the training of new recruits.
Captain Wu was delighted to see that Li Yunlong not only did not put him under house arrest because of his identity, but instead entrusted him with such an important task as training new recruits.
None of the Eighth Route Army soldiers looked down on him because he had served in the puppet army. All of them respected him.
Moreover, when he went out in the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, the common people would not avoid him.
I was afraid of myself, and even some children came and circled around me.
When I go out to eat, the boss still won't charge me. In the past, it was out of fear, but now it's out of respect. But Captain Wu knows very well that this respect comes from the military uniform he wears.
From the countless soldiers who sacrificed their lives for this uniform.
Kong Jie nodded with emotion after listening to Li Yunlong's words: "Old Li, I won't say much, it's all in the wine."
Kong Jie picked up the big bowl and drank all the wine in it in one gulp.
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Time always passes quickly, and it started snowing early in the north.
Looking at the calendar hanging on the head of the bed, Qin Yangming realized that the New Year was approaching.
"I didn't expect that it has been almost a year since I recovered my memory."
"Alas, this year should be the last peaceful New Year."
Not only Chinese people celebrate the New Year, the Japanese also have this custom.
Not launching a war during the New Year seems to be an unspoken rule reached by the armies of both sides.
How dare the Japanese commander start a war at the risk of collapsing the morale of his troops?
After a year of fighting,
Even the Japanese who have been brainwashed by militarism and Bushido would feel tired.
I will miss my hometown too.
Especially now that the Japanese have the upper hand, they feel there is no need to start a war during the festival.
At the same time, it is also because it takes time to mobilize the army, and launching a battle requires preparing supplies, which also takes time.
The Japanese also wanted to take advantage of the New Year period when all the resistance forces were more well-behaved to quickly prepare supplies.
The same is true for the National Army. The soldiers of the National Army were conscripted men, and their morale was not very high.
Now during the New Year, you let the soldiers go to fight, while the officers stay at home with their wives and children.
Do you believe that the soldiers can mutiny on the spot?
As for the Eighth Route Army, they simply wanted the soldiers to have a good New Year and have a good rest.
However, the corresponding defensive work will still be done.
It's not like the Japanese haven't launched sneak attacks during holidays before.
During the New Year holidays, the battalion commanders returned to Linyuan County, reported their work to Li Yunlong, and then returned to their respective troops.
At this moment, red lanterns representing joy are hung everywhere on Baihu Ridge.
Considering that some soldiers' relatives were not in Linyuan County, Qin Yangming did not allow the soldiers to bring their relatives to the mountains to celebrate the New Year together.
Instead, the soldiers who had relatives in Linyuan County were given two days off.
Qin Yangming, a soldier who had not yet had a holiday, promised them that he would ensure they had as much dumplings as they could eat during the Chinese New Year.
On New Year's Day, the entire pioneer camp was filled with jokes.
After the squad leaders of each squad took the ingredients for making dumplings back home, they led the soldiers to make dumplings themselves.
Otherwise, if so many dumplings were to be made by the kitchen staff, how long would it take?
What's more, the training has stopped and the soldiers are idle anyway, so why not let them make dumplings and noodles together.
Qin Yangming stood in front of the command room and grabbed a handful of snow on the ground.
Zhang Ye, who was standing nearby, looked at the thickness of the snow and said, "Auspicious snow means a good harvest. Next year will definitely be a good harvest."
"Unfortunately, this good year is not a good year for the people."
Qin Yangming looked up and seemed to see the people living at the foot of the mountain.
Because the Eighth Route Army occupied Linyuan County, the lives of the people throughout the county became much better.
During the entire autumn harvest, all the grain in their fields belongs to them.
The Eighth Route Army also exchanged military rations for money or other things.
The people of Linyuan County had a rare good New Year, and the children happily ate meat-filled dumplings.
"Captain, sooner or later we will be able to drive the Japanese out of China, and then the people will be able to live a good life every day."
“Well, I think that children in the future might be very unhappy if their parents force them to eat meat;
I think children in the future will hate eating;
I think every child in the future will have books to read.
Be able to happily do what you want to do,
All children can grow up happily and healthily.
No longer have to be born in troubled times like now,
Growing up in the midst of bombardment, fighting tooth and nail for a bite to eat. "
Zhangye listened to Qin Yangming's words and sighed: "Captain, I can't imagine the kind of world you are talking about. I think it should be the world of great harmony mentioned by Confucianism."
“Our generation was born to fight.
Only when we finish the war, our children will not have to fight and will have the possibility to live in the kind of world you describe."
(End of this chapter)
