Soon, after the mobilization of village chief Zhang Deli and several elders in the village, all the nearly 100 wounded people of the Independence Brigade were properly placed. Looking at the busy villagers, Liu Hua was secretly happy because he knew that this place would soon become his base camp.
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Soon, a battle statistics table was handed into Liu Hua's hands. Of course, the first thing he saw was the results. After nearly an hour of brutal fighting, the Independence Brigade wiped out a total of 1,125 Japanese troops, including five cars and the seizure of Type 38
923 rifles, 21 crooked light machine guns, 8 heavy machine guns, nearly 50 grenades, four mortars, four mountain guns, 450,000 rounds of bullets, 52,000 grenades, and 400 mortar shells.
There are 600 rounds of mountain artillery shells, more than 500 grenades, and 650 sets of intact Japanese military uniforms. Seeing this, Liu Hua couldn't help laughing. "Political Commissar, now we have equipment for two more battalions. Finally, we can use it in the near future.
No need to worry about ammunition."
"Yes, as long as one regiment is equipped with Japanese equipment, the ammunition of our domestic equipment will be enough for us to fight several battles. Do you plan to let those two battalions change their equipment?"
"What I want is to replace them all in one batch, so as to facilitate the supply of ammunition. What do you think?" Liu Hua asked.
"I agree."
After saying that, Liu Hua continued to look at the report in his hand, but slowly, Liu Hua's face became more and more ugly. "Political Commissar, the casualty data are correct! The reduction in personnel is so huge."
The political commissar looked at Liu Hua's expression and shook his head helplessly, "Brigade Commander, according to what I know, the vast majority of these soldiers who died in battle died fighting the enemy with bayonets. During the fight with the Japanese,
During the battle, many commanders became jealous when they saw the Japs running towards them with bayonets pointed out. Instead of taking advantage of our automatic firepower, they directly fought with bayonets. You also know that the bayonet skills of the soldiers are incomparable with the Japs..."
"Nonsense, this is simply treating the lives of the soldiers as child's play." After saying this, Liu Hua gradually calmed down and thought of Wang Hong he saw on the battlefield.
"Political Commissar, what do you think of Wang Hong, the platoon leader of the Second Regiment?"
Faced with Liu Hua's sudden question, the political commissar was stunned, "Well, is he the one I met on the battlefield today? I think he is very smart and calm in fighting. One platoon wiped out two enemy squads at such a small cost.
Very good, what's wrong, you want to promote him?" the political commissar asked.
Liu Hua smiled and said: "It seems that nothing can be hidden from your sharp eyes. That's what I mean. Wasn't the commander of the second company of the first regiment killed in battle? I want to train him. There is also a company commander of the third regiment.
, his name is Zhou Bin, he is the one who placed stones on the road, I want to transfer him to the teaching team as the deputy captain." As he said that, he looked at the silent political commissar with questioning eyes.
After a long moment, the political commissar nodded.
In the evening, the independent brigade's operational summary meeting was not happy because of the victory. Many cadres felt guilty because their intellectual mistakes caused heavy casualties to the soldiers. After the summary meeting, Liu Hua began to arrange the recent work.
The Independent Brigade will vigorously develop the base area in the near future, when the Japanese are unable to estimate themselves during the Taiyuan Battle, and strive to bring all surrounding villages into the Independent Brigade's sphere of influence to expand the Independent Brigade's influence in eastern Shanxi.
Let the common people know that the Jindong activists are an anti-Japanese armed force led by the Eighth Route Army. The specific tasks are:
The first regiment is developing to the north of Zhangjiazhuang. You should pay special attention to the group of bandits on Woniu Mountain. I heard that the number of bandits is about 300. It is best to annihilate them all and send all those who can serve as soldiers to the new regiment.
, handed over to the new corps for training.
The Second Regiment develops east to west, paying special attention to the landlord in Xizhuang. According to the villagers, the landlord is named Wang Ping. He is very powerful and has nearly a battalion of armed forces. My request is also to wipe out all of them as much as possible and send those who can serve as soldiers to Xinjiang.
The Corps also paid special attention to the property of the landlords. In addition to leaving a certain amount of grain to distribute to the local villagers, the rest was transported to Zhangjiazhuang. From now on, we must establish a policy of accumulating grain extensively.
The Third Regiment left one battalion behind and the remaining two battalions moved east of Zhangjiazhuang.
Each regiment is required to raise as much food and grass as possible and recruit recruits. Another task is to collect a large amount of black gunpowder from the people. I am here to be of great use. Okay, that's all. Nothing to do. Let's break up the meeting now. You can set the departure date yourself.
Decided to meet up in a week."
After the meeting, Liu Hua returned to his room and began to recall the history he knew. It won't be long before Taiyuan falls, and then there will be no more Kuomintang troops in Shanxi. Not long after, Shanxi will be
There will be many base areas, so we must establish the base areas within this period of time. Only by seizing this opportunity can we stand out among countless base areas in the future.
The next day, when Liu Hua woke up, the bustling Zhangjiazhuang became unusually quiet. It turned out that the three main regiments had set off with their troops early in the morning in order to replenish their troops earlier. Now only the whole Zhangjiazhuang was left.
Several battalions of troops were assembled.
"Commander Wang, has the reconnaissance camp returned?" Liu Hua had a hasty breakfast and then came to the war room.
"Brigade Commander, you are back and are resting now. Our staff department is drawing a terrain map of a hundred miles in radius based on the drawings brought back by the reconnaissance battalion."
"Okay, you continue." He said, picking up a few records of the reconnaissance camp and looking at them. Suddenly, a place called Woniu Cave caught Liu Hua's attention.
"Correspondent, go and call a local hunter."
Soon, an honest and honest man came to Liu Hua under the leadership of the correspondent. Liu Hua hurriedly got a glass of water.
"Fellow, drink tea." Liu Hua quickly asked the fellow to sit down.
"I don't dare to take it, I don't dare to take it." The fellow quickly refused.
Finally, with Liu Hua's constant persuasion, the hunter sat down.
"Fellow, I wonder if you are familiar with the terrain of Woniu Mountain." Liu Hua asked.
"Comrade, you don't know this. I have been hunting on Wuniu Mountain since I was a child. There is no one here who is more familiar with me than me." The fellow said proudly.
"Fellow, do you know where Woniu Cave is?" Liu Hua asked quickly.
"Woniu Cave, you know, I once stayed there at night because of hunting. You know, Woniu Cave is a really good place, but it is too remote. Comrade, is there anything you can do for me?"
"Fellow, I really need to trouble you with something. I didn't know you..."
"Comrade, you are out of touch. This year, if you hadn't come here, maybe our whole village would freeze to death. You are our benefactor. If you have anything, just say it. I, Li Chunhua, will definitely do it if I can.
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"Then thank you, fellow man. I would like to ask you to show me the way. I want to see Woniu Cave."
"This is easy to handle, let's go now."
In this way, Liu Hua led a guard platoon and followed the fellow villagers up to Woniu Mountain. In fact, the distance was not too far. The main reason was that it was too remote and the road was difficult to walk. It wasted a lot of time. Finally, after two hours, the group of people
We came to the entrance of a cave, which was very big, and a spring water flowed from the side. "This spring water comes from the cave." Li Chunhua said quickly as Liu Hua looked at the spring water.
"Go in." He said, taking the lead into the cave.
The entrance of the cave was about three meters wide and more than two meters high. Liu Hua led everyone along the entrance of the cave for less than ten meters when his eyes suddenly opened up. The three-meter-wide hole slowly turned into a width of more than ten meters and a length of more than ten meters.
It is nearly twenty meters long. Liu Hua roughly calculated that the entire flat area is 400 square meters. There is a stream flowing along the side of the site, and there is a skylight above the head, which slants the sun.
In the cave.
Liu Hua continued walking along the creek and found several large holes of dozens of square meters inside, and the air inside was dry. "God is really helping me." Liu Hua thought to himself.
In Liu Hua's mind, these large caves have already been used. The large cave in the front can be used to place a set of processing equipment and open his own arsenal. The smaller caves in the back are used to store grain.
In dry air, it will definitely not be a problem if it is left for two years.
After everyone left the cave, Liu Hua ordered the guards to line up to hide the entrance of the cave, and then led everyone back to the headquarters. However, from a distance, he saw the political commissar running towards him.
"Political commissar, what happened?" Liu Hua asked, looking at the political commissar's pale face.
"Brigadier, good news, we have new recruits today." The political commissar answered breathlessly.
"What, the recruits, where are they?" Liu Hua asked excitedly. He followed the political commissar and ran to the headquarters of the new corps.
I saw three rows of young adults standing in the center of the new regiment's station. Liu Hua counted sixty people in total. "Political Commissar, what's going on?" Liu Hua asked eagerly.
It turned out that after the Independence Brigade distributed food to the villagers yesterday, the villagers had already believed in the Independence Brigade. After seeing the Japanese things captured by the Independence Brigade, those simple fellow villagers became even more convinced of the Independence Brigade. They thought that joining the Independence Brigade could
In order to avenge their dead mother and ruined sisters, the young people in the village could no longer bear it and approached the village chief one after another, wanting to join the army.
Finally, under the leadership of the village chief, 60 soldiers who were willing to join the Eighth Route Army were admitted to the new corps.
"Reporting to the brigade commander, the new regiment has received 60 recruits and is preparing for training." The commander of the new regiment, whose frown had been furrowed, finally relaxed and replied happily.
"Okay, practice hard. Don't betray the trust that the folks have in us. We must unite them into veterans of hundreds of battles. Let's start training!" Liu Hua returned the military salute and said excitedly.
"Political Commissar, today is a good start. I believe our base will definitely develop and grow."
"Well, I believe it too. I didn't expect that the dozens of bags of flour yesterday helped us open up the situation. It's really a good start." The political commissar also replied excitedly.
"Come on, political commissar, go back to the headquarters. I have some good news for you." With that, he took the political commissar's hand and walked towards the headquarters.