In the headquarters of the 717th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the regiment Cheng Qian was looking at the military map on the wall, frowned, and he was frowning. He was about to be the Chinese Lunar New Year in another half a month, and he was worried about the New Year.

His own troops are not having a good life at the moment, and there is no bullet at the top. It is not a big mistake to the top. After all, although the Eighth Route Army is the 18th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Chiang Kai-shek has never given the 18th Army a penny. There is no way, the Eighth Route Army can only solve the problem of weapons and equipment by itself.

Looking at the soldiers standing guard outside the door, wearing thin and worn clothes and their cheeks that were red from cold, Cheng Qian felt a burst of guilt. The guard company of his regiment headquarters was still not warm, and he didn't know what happened to the three battalions scattered outside.

At present, only the Eighth Route Army has a radio station with division and brigade level. The communication of the battalion relies on the communication of the cavalry oral communication. I haven't contacted the battalions for many days. I wonder how everyone is doing now.

Just when Cheng Qian was worried, the guard came over to report that the 3rd battalion commander Zhang Yunfei had come to the regiment headquarters.

What a good guy, I haven't seen this guy for two or three months, and I almost couldn't recognize him. He was wearing a brand new and clean cotton uniform, and there were more than a dozen mighty and powerful soldiers with submachine guns behind him, exuding a murderous aura.

The regiment commander Cheng Qian excitedly hammered Zhang Yunfei's chest and said, "Good boy, I haven't seen him for three days, which is impressive."

Zhang Yunfei smiled: "Captain, recently he won a small victory and seized some of the Japanese equipment."

"Oh, tell me in detail how a small victory was won." The regiment commander Cheng Qian said with interest.

"Captain, we attacked Xin'an County a few days ago, annihilated more than 500 Japanese devils, and seized a large number of weapons and equipment. However, it was rare for fighter planes at that time. We were backward in communications and didn't have time to ask the regiment headquarters. I hope the regiment commander will forgive me."

"Annihilate more than 500 Japanese devils? How about your camp's casualties?" regiment commander Cheng Qian asked nervously.

If the troops suffered too many casualties, even though more than 500 Japanese devils were wiped out, I am afraid that even a regiment commander would not be able to bear the responsibility.

"Thank you for your concern, our 3rd battalion only sacrificed more than a dozen soldiers, and more than 30 others were injured." Zhang Yunfei said relaxedly.

"My goodness, I annihilated more than 500 Japanese devils, but we only sacrificed more than a dozen soldiers. This is a great victory. If not, I will report it to the division headquarters and brigade headquarters." The regiment commander Cheng Qian said in surprise.

The regiment commander Cheng Qian turned around and said loudly to the guards: "Send cavalry correspondents quickly and report the Xin'an County victory to the division headquarters and brigade headquarters."

Zhang Yunlong hurriedly said, "Captain, don't work hard on the cavalry and communications soldiers, see what I have brought to you." After saying that, he waved his hand, and the special forces behind him quickly put two packages from all directions on the table of the regiment headquarters, slowly unpacking the packages, and two new radio stations appeared in front of everyone.

The regiment commander Cheng Qian saw the radio station and said excitedly: "Radio, this is a radio station. Our regiment will have a radio station in the future. This is the first in the first level of the Eighth Route Army Barracks."

In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, radio stations were definitely a luxury for the Eighth Route Army. Due to the limited number of radio stations, the entire army was equipped with telegraphers at the first level, but there were no radio stations. If you want a radio station, you had to rely on your own ability to seize them at the Japanese.

The leader Cheng Qian Xiangqian gently stroked the radio station, as if he was stroking an artistic treasure, his fingers trembled slightly.

When Zhang Yunlong saw the great reaction of the regiment commander Cheng Qian, he thought to himself that our third battalion had seized a total of 6 radio stations and kept 4 of them himself. Is it a bit too unauthentic?

Zhang Yunlong gritted his teeth and continued to say to Cheng Qian: "Captain, our battalion has actually seized a large amount of weapons and equipment, but according to what the division commander said, whoever has the ability will seize it, and whoever seizes it will be the principle. You can't look at our battalion and ask for it."

"Good boy, it seems that Datou hasn't told me yet. Let's talk about it. How much equipment has your camp seized?" the regiment commander Cheng Qiandao.

Zhang Yunfei thought about it and decided to hide the equipment for half of it, so he said: "Captain, we seized more than 1,000 Type 38 fast guns, more than 100 crooked machine guns, more than 50 Type 92 heavy machine guns, and more than 100,000 bullets of various types. In addition, we also seized some oceans and 100 kilograms of gold."

Cheng Qian heard that he had seized more than one Japanese infantry brigade's equipment and 100 kilograms of gold, and immediately said to the guards: "Import the confidential correspondent quickly and use the radio station to send a report to the division and brigade department to report the victory in Xin'an County of the 3rd Battalion."

As soon as Cheng Qian finished speaking, the guard immediately turned around and notified the confidential correspondent to send a report.

After the guards left, Cheng Qian solemnly said to Zhang Yunfei: "Third Battalion Commander, the entire regiment is in a difficult period. The New Year will be celebrated in half a month." After that, Cheng Qian looked at Zhang Yunfei with the look you know what I mean.

Zhang Yunfei blushed when he was seen and said to Cheng Qian: "Captain, our 3rd Battalion supports the regiment headquarters with 500 Type 38 fast guns, 50 crooked machine guns, 20 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 100,000 bullets of various types. In addition, we support the regiment headquarters with 1,000 sets of new cotton coats and 1,000 sets of cotton pants, 1,000 quilts, and 2,000 oceans, how about it?"

Cheng Qian was very happy and said "Okay" three times in a row.

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Commander Liu was holding a military meeting with everyone at the headquarters of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. The correspondent rushed in with a telegram and stood at attention and reported to Commander Liu: "Chief, the 717th Regiment sent a telegram saying that the 3rd Battalion won a great victory in Xin'an County and annihilated more than 500 Japanese soldiers. The 3rd Battalion only sacrificed more than a dozen soldiers, and more than 30 others were injured. More than 1,000 Type 38 fast guns, more than 100 crooked machine guns, more than 50 Type 92 heavy machine guns, more than 100 bullets of various types, and 100 kilograms of gold."

After listening to the correspondent's report, Commander Liu carefully read it with the telegram and said, "This Third Battalion must be able to kill more than 500 Japanese devils with the power of the first battalion."

He also told the correspondent to send the battle report to the headquarters.

At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy commander-in-chief read the battle report forwarded by the 120th Division and said to the deputy chief of staff: "Do you want to reward this third battalion?"

The Deputy Chief of Staff said: "Now the Third Battalion needs money and guns, so we can't praise him, so why don't we praise him?"

The deputy commander-in-chief paced back and forth, and after a while, he said: "This third battalion commander is a good player in fighting. They are now equipped with no shortage of weapons and equipment. How about expanding the third battalion into the 719th Regiment of the 359th Brigade?"

The Deputy Chief of Staff pondered for a while and said, "I'm afraid that Chiang Kai-shek would not agree. Chiang Kai-shek gave me three divisions, each division under its jurisdiction and each brigade had two regiments."

"That was a political method that Chiang Kai-shek played. I was afraid that our Eighth Route Army would grow and grow. In the current form, our Eighth Route Army would inevitably grow and grow. This is the trend. The third battalion was expanded into the 719th Regiment of the 359th Brigade, and that's it." The deputy commander-in-chief said firmly.

"Boss, the 3rd Battalion has seized a lot this time. We don't want him to hand over the weapons and equipment, but 100 kilograms of gold is not a small amount. I think if the 3rd Battalion will hand over 100 kilograms of gold to the headquarters?"

"Yes, we are not rich now. With this 100 kilograms of gold, we can buy a lot of grain and cloth. Then let the 3rd battalion hand over the gold to the headquarters." The deputy commander-in-chief said with emotion.

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After returning from the regiment headquarters, Zhang Yunfei brought back a confidential officer and then transferred several literate soldiers from the army to form a confidential room, responsible for contacting superiors using the radio station.

In addition, Zhang Yunfei sent three special forces members to make up and become ordinary people to Xin'an County to spy on the enemy's situation.

In the next few days, Zhang Yunfei devoted his main energy to the training of the recruit company. Since the last annihilation of more than 500 Japanese devils in Watanabe's brigade, the reputation of the 3rd Battalion has spread across this hundred miles. The people all know that the 3rd Battalion is an Eighth Route Army team that can fight Japanese devils.

This time, recruitment was unprecedentedly popular. Many people rushed from all over the world to join the Eighth Route Army. After repeated selections, they recruited 1,500 people. Zhang Yunlong organized these recruits into 40 recruit platoons. Fortunately, Xiaowangzhuang is spacious, otherwise it would not be able to accommodate so many people's training.

Zhang Yunfei personally wrote a training outline based on the experience of later generations. The training of recruits was carried out according to the training outline. During the day, Zhang Yunfei would go to the training ground to inspect. When he found that there were any wrong training, he would correct it in time. At night, he would give lectures to more than 40 instructors in the recruit company and explain in detail the content of the training outline.

As usual, Zhang Yunfei was guiding the recruits training. Deputy Battalion Commander Liu Dazhu ran over excitedly and shouted loudly a few meters away: "Battery Commander, congratulations, the headquarters call."

After taking the telegram from Liu Dazhu, Zhang Yunfei looked at it carefully. It turned out to be a commendation telegram, which said that the headquarters expanded the 3rd Battalion into the 719th Regiment.

This is a good thing. I still have a lot of equipment in the warehouse. I have just recruited 1,500 new recruits, and the time for expanding the army is ripe.

Afterwards, Zhang Yunfei held a military meeting of the company and above, conveyed the commendation telegram from the headquarters. When the company commanders heard the content of the commendation telegram, they immediately cheered.

Zhang Yunfei immediately reorganized each company into a battalion, and the company commander was promoted to battalion commander, and the platoon commander was promoted to company commander. The vacancies of each platoon commander were recommended by the battalion commander and registered with the regiment headquarters.

However, the personnel have not changed for the time being. After the recruits have been trained for a month, they will be replenished to each battalion and company.
Chapter completed!