Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu said, "In addition to the minor and serious wounded people who can return to the team, our national rescue army has a total of 4,500 people, and there is still 5,500 people left to raise 10,000 people."

"Captain, you just said that you would add 500 people from the militia. The new defense zone I just occupied recruits 1,000 soldiers, so we are still short of 4,000 new soldiers!"

Speaking of this, Chen Zhengyu looked at Zhou Cheng with anticipation again.

Because the regiment commander just said that he would solve all the remaining two thousand new recruits in the army.

Zhou Chengxin understood the gods and immediately replied: "We will recruit 4,000 new soldiers in two ways."

"Four main battalions, two guerrilla squadrons, and the spy company, all of which form a platoon-level operation team based on the company. Taking advantage of the surrounding Japanese and puppet troops retreating to the county town, they go deep into the enemy-occupied areas to attack traitors and spies who have not had time to escape, and recruit some new recruits to come back!"

"We can send a hundred action teams, and one action team brings back one hundred recruits, and the vacancies of 1,500 recruits will be resolved."

"There are two thousand and five hundred recruits left to let the two independent battalions solve it!"

"After we completely take down the pacification, the troops' defense zone borders the coal mine area controlled by the Japanese."

"Last time we attacked Jingxing Coal Mine and saved nearly 3,000 absenteeism, and finally mobilized more than 2,000 absenteeism to join our National Salvation Army."

"Although Jingxing Coal Mine has not resumed production yet, there are still many small and medium-sized coal mines controlled by the Japanese around that are producing. The absenteeism inside are all prisoners of war captured by the Japanese army on the front line. Two independent battalions find ways to capture three or four small and medium-sized coal mines, and they will definitely rescue two or three thousand absenteeism. Then the remaining vacancies of our new recruits will be resolved."

Tang Yufeng's eyes lit up after hearing this.

"Two independent battalions are indeed the best candidates to attack coal mines."

"They are all absenteeized. They set an example and tell the absenteeism that they had just rescued about their experiences and the results of killing the Japanese. This is definitely more convincing than the cadres in the team, and can also inspire more absenteeists to join our national rescue army!"

Dashan Village, Shouyang County, is located on the side of a highway with developed traffic and two rivers around it. It has abundant water sources and fertile land. In less than ten years, the size of the village has doubled and the population has reached 1,000. It has become one of the largest villages in Shouyang County, and is larger than many towns.

After the Japanese occupied Shouyang, they immediately built a stronghold in the village, and sent a reinforcement team and a company of Imperial Army to garrison the stronghold to ensure that Dashan Village and the seven or eight surrounding villages were completely under the control of the Imperial Army.

In addition to the Japanese and puppet troops, the Japanese also developed Tang Wenyu, the largest landlord in the village, into a minion of the imperial army, and helped the troops manage the local people together.

After the Japanese Shouyang County garrison suffered losses at the hands of the National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army, they immediately retreated to the city as a turtle.

As the minion of the Japanese, Tang Wenyu also wanted to retreat to the county town together.

But the Tang family's wealth is mainly reflected in land, real estate, and grain.

People can withdraw to the county town, but the land and real estate cannot be moved away. Even the mountains of grain in the warehouse cannot be transferred to the county town in a short period of time.

In order to save his wealth, Tang Wenyu, who had hesitated, decided to stay in the village and not leave.

The Japanese also wanted someone to stay in Dashan Village to continue to help the Imperial Army control the place. Seeing that Tang Wenyu had this idea, they immediately decided to support him strongly.

Not only did a team of imperial troops be arranged to enter the Tang family compound, increase Tang Wenyu's strength and help him manage the local area together, he also drew a platoon from the Imperial Army to temporarily join the Tang family guards, so that they could reach 80 guns. Relying on the solid fortifications of the Tang family compound, they had certain self-protection capabilities.

Therefore, although the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Dashan Village retreated, the exploitation and oppression faced by the people in the village did not weaken, and they were even a little strengthened.

The guard suddenly had dozens of people who did not belong to him. Although the combat effectiveness of the guard greatly increased, the food consumed every day also increased greatly.

Especially the dozen soldiers left by the Japanese not only had to care about what they had eaten, but also let them eat and drink well.

In order to make up for the losses, Tang Wenyu could only focus on the people in the village.

Take the opportunity to collect more food and finance from them, and you can spend less wealth and food on these Japanese people.

It also calls it a saying that everyone spends money to buy stability.

Only when the money is paid, the Japanese who stay in the village will protect everyone's safety.

If the Japanese don’t pay money or food, they won’t protect everyone’s safety even if they stay in the village. If bandits and riots attack the village, they can only pray to God.

Faced with Tang Wenyu's naked threat and the seventy or eighty guards in his hands, the villagers had to hand over their food to Tang Wenyu to buy safety.

The first target of the 10th Company of the Fourth Battalion of the National Salvation Army happened to be Dashan Village.

Company Commander Huang Hongbing personally led the team and drew a full-scale infantry platoon and a firepower squad from the main force. A total of more than 40 soldiers entered the Japanese-occupied area and headed straight here!

Last night, they figured out the situation in the village and decided to take action during the day today to take down the Tang family compound in one battle.

Under normal circumstances, opponents such as the troops attacking the Tang family compound will choose to act at night. Under the cover of the night, they secretly approach the target and catch the enemy off guard.

However, the operation team has too few troops. If they follow the conventional playing method and forcefully raid under the cover of night, the troops will suffer heavy casualties if they win.

Although the strength of the Tang family guards has more than doubled, because the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold has withdrawn, they have become turtles after losing their reliance.

During the day, I continued to make friends with tigers in the village and oppressed the people.

As soon as it got dark, all the guards retreated to the Tang family compound and dared not come out.

Before the Eighth Route Army retreated, it sent a company to attack the Tang family courtyard, and launched an attack at night. However, because the courtyard wall was too high and thick, there was a small 6-meter-high artillery tower in each corner, with light machine guns inside, and seventy or eighty rifles, there were almost no shooting dead corners outside the courtyard. The attacking troops fought three times in a row but did not take it down, and they also lost nearly a platoon of soldiers.

In order to reduce casualties, the Eighth Route Army had to give up its attack and evacuate the battlefield.

This actual battle made Huang Hongbing realize the caution of the Tang family guards.

If the Operation Team does not find a way to consume some guards on other battlefields, it will definitely be difficult to kill them in one battle with the Operation Team's existing combat power and troops.

Faced with this situation, Huang Hongbing could only take a strange move.

The Tang family guards dare not come out at night, so they will force them out during the day, kill some troops first, and then attack vigorously, gather and annihilate them.

When he was investigating Dashan Village yesterday, he made a decision and then made a full half night preparation outside the village.

At ten o'clock in the morning, more than a dozen soldiers suddenly appeared in the fertile field more than 500 meters outside the village.

They led two mules and horses, with mortar parts and two boxes of shells tied to their backs.

After walking to the middle of the fertile field facing the Tang family compound, he stopped. The gunner guarding next to the mules and horses immediately became busy. Some assembled artillery, some fuses the shells, and some warned them...

Although it is very busy, everyone is doing it in an orderly manner.

On the roof of the artillery tower in the northeast corner of the Tang family courtyard, two guards were patrolling and guarding each other, regardless of day or night.

Seeing an enemy erecting mortars outside the yard, they panicked and immediately called Tang Wenyu.

The Japanese Chief Cao, who stayed in the Tang family compound, and the puppet army platoon leader, climbed up the stairs together.

"It's the national rescue army!" The puppet army platoon leader made a judgment as soon as he saw the military uniforms of the artillery.

"Is the main force of the National Saving Army coming!"

Tang Wenyu panicked when he heard this. The National Salvation Army was different from the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army, which is a company-level scale, only equipped with athletic machine gun, and even heavy machine guns are rarely equipped, let alone mortars.

This is also the fundamental reason for the Eighth Route Army's defeat outside the Tang family compound a few days ago.

The equipment level of the National Salvation Army is far greater than that of the Eighth Route Army. In addition to being equipped with pneumatic machine guns, the company-level troops are also equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns. Some troops even strengthened a certain number of mortars.

The Tang family compound can withstand the strike of machine guns, but cannot withstand the strike of mortars and heavy machine guns.

If the main force of the National Salvation Army really kills the Tang family compound, it will definitely not be able to defend it. Everyone who sticks to the Tang family compound will die here.

Seeing Tang Wenyu's face getting paler and paler, his whole body became trembling due to nervousness. The puppet army platoon leader who was speaking just now suddenly shook his head: "It should not be the main force!"

"Although they equipped two mortars, there was not much infantry cover!"

"And they were surrounded by fertile fields, not even a hiding place. I looked around: with the artillery position as the center, there was no other national rescue army unit within a radius of 500 meters, which means that the artillery in front of them was just an operation team sent by the national rescue army."

Cao Chang, the Japanese devil who rarely spoke, suddenly spoke: "I agree with Platoon Commander Wang's judgment. Before the main force retreated, he told me about the situation of the National Salvation Army. Although I don't know what conspiracy they used to eat the Noda United, it is an indisputable fact that the National Salvation Army suffered heavy casualties."

"The field hospitals behind them were full of wounded people, and many of them didn't even have medicines, so they had to ask for help from the Second World War Zone!"

"In this case, they have no strength to send the main force to attack our occupied areas."

"Boom..."

Two cannons suddenly rang out outside the yard. Chang Cao and the puppet army, who were responding faster, quickly hugged their heads and squatted down.

Tang Wenyu's reaction was slower. When he saw the Japanese squatting down, he was so scared that he quickly squatted down.

"Boom..." The shells smashed into the yard at this moment.

A shell hit the front yard, and black smoke rose from the ground. The three guards were blown up in an instant, and there was no movement when they fell to the ground.

Another shell hit a room in the front yard. In the violent explosion, the roof instantly turned into a pile of rubble.

Tang Wenyu's body trembled even harder.

He was just a landlord and old fortune. If he hadn't been a lackey for the Japanese, he would have never had the chance to go to the battlefield.

After having the opportunity to touch a gun, the most powerful weapon he has ever come into contact with was a heavy machine gun, but he has only seen it and has never used it.

Now the National Salvation Army comes up and uses cannons on them, which is good if he doesn't scare him to his butt and urinate.

At this moment, in addition to fear and fear, he also felt very distressed about the wealth he had accumulated throughout his life.

If it weren't for protecting the land and real estate, he would have gone to the county town with the Japanese and wouldn't have risked his life in the Dashan Village.

Now these wealth are being destroyed under his nose, which is even more painful than killing him.

Tang Wenyu turned his head and looked behind him and shouted anxiously: "We must find a way to kill the mortars of the National Salvation Army. We cannot let them continue to blow up, otherwise everyone in the yard will be blown to death!"

"Boom..." The second round of two shells quickly hit the yard. This time, in addition to the three soldiers in the escort team being killed, two puppet troops were bombed.

The face of the puppet army platoon leader also became solemn at this moment.

As soon as he heard Tang Wenyu's words, he agreed: "We can go out and kill the National Savior Army that attacked us. Maybe we can seize two more mortars!"

But Tang Wenyu hesitated when he heard the word "attack".

Although he is not a soldier, he still knows the minimum military knowledge.
To be continued...