The happiest person is Wang Chengzhu. Since joining the guerrillas, the mortar shells have only been consumed and not captured. Before these shells were seized, the artillery unit only had 16 shells in hand. This time he no longer had to worry about not having any shells.
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Xu Dalong praised the militiamen of each village who participated in this battle, and distributed 20 rifles, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and 200 oceans to the militiamen of each village. The militiamen were very happy and left happily.
The victory of this battle caused a huge response. Not only the eight villages under Qilin Peak supported the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, but many villages outside the mountain also accepted the anti-Japanese propaganda of the Mawushan guerrillas and became the Mawushan guerrillas.
Part of the anti-Japanese base area.
As of mid-April, 31 villages had joined the Qilinfeng Anti-Japanese Base Area.
Young adults enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and after selection, the guerrillas recruited 120 new fighters.
Including the 50 new soldiers recruited previously, the Mawushan guerrillas had a total of 170 new recruits. The guerrillas established a recruit training team for this purpose, and Sun Desheng was responsible for training the recruits.
The houses in Qiligou Village were burned down by the Japanese and puppet troops, and the villagers suffered great losses. This incident was a good thing for the guerrillas. They no longer had to spend time propaganda about the brutality of the Japanese and puppet troops.
What happened in Qiligou Village is a living example, and the people hate the Japanese and puppet troops even more.
Of course, Xu Dalong could not let the people of Qiligou Village suffer. The guerrillas distributed 5 yuan and 50 kilograms of grain to each villager, and sent soldiers to help the people rebuild their homes.
Xu Dalong was very interested in Wei Heping and the puppet army he led. He did not pay them travel expenses or send them away as before, but kept them.
Let them help people build houses and do farm work.
Wei Heping was very bloody, and he was unwilling to sacrifice his life for the Japanese. The reason why he became a puppet army was because they were originally part of the Jinsui Army. Later, their regiment surrendered to the Japanese army, and he was coerced into becoming a puppet army.
He has rich combat experience and is a very good soldier. He himself has no blood debt.
Xu Dalong hoped to mobilize him to join the Eighth Route Army.
The puppet troops led by Wei Heping are veterans with rich combat experience, and their military quality is much better than those of new recruits.
Xu Dalong believed that most of these puppet soldiers were from ordinary poor farmers. As long as they received education, their ideas could be changed, and he believed that they would definitely become qualified Eighth Route Army soldiers.
For several days, Xu Dalong and Wei Heping slept together and talked all night long. Wei Heping admired Xu Dalong very much and finally decided to join the Eighth Route Army.
Xu Dalong was very happy and convened a meeting with the puppet soldiers together with him to mobilize them to join the Eighth Route Army.
Xu Dalong originally thought that these puppet soldiers had killed the Japanese and they had no way out, so most of them should be able to join the Eighth Route Army.
Unexpectedly, after mobilization, most people chose to leave.
Xu Dalong asked curiously: "Brother Heping, why is this?"
Wei Heping said: "Although my brothers also hate the Japanese, they also sympathize with the Eighth Route Army, but they have to support their families, and your Eighth Route Army has no military pay, so they are unwilling."
Xu Dalong expressed his understanding that these puppet soldiers do not have such a high level of consciousness now, and it is indeed a bit difficult for them to join the Eighth Route Army like this.
After careful consideration, Xu Dalong believed that the Mawushan guerrillas were isolated behind enemy lines and could have certain flexibility in implementing policies.
He told Sun Desheng, Wang Chengzhu and others his thoughts, and then held a meeting of squad leaders and above to discuss the issue of military pay for the guerrillas.
This is a good thing and everyone applauds it.
Xu Dalong decided to give the puppet soldiers an additional 50 cents per month according to their original military pay standards, and the officers also received an increase of 2 to 5 yuan on the basis of the original salary. All officers and soldiers of the guerrillas
It is also distributed according to such standards.
Seeing the conditions offered by the Eighth Route Army, Wei Heping's soldiers basically all stayed.
The Mawushan guerrillas now have a total of 340 people. The original guerrilla organization is no longer suitable, so it was expanded.
The Mawushan Guerrilla Force has now reached the size of a brigade, but in order to hide its strength, the expanded Mawushan Guerrilla Force is temporarily called the Mawushan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force.
The guerrilla squadron consists of a squadron headquarters, a police communication unit, an intelligence squad, an artillery squad, a logistics squad, two cavalry squads, and an infantry squad. Each squad has three squads.
Squadron leader Xu Dalong, deputy squadron leaders Sun Desheng and Wang Chengzhu.
Wang Chengzhu (concurrent), captain of the artillery squad, Sun Desheng (concurrent), captain of the first cavalry squad,
Wei Monk, captain of the second cavalry squad, Wei Heping, captain of the infantry squad, Zheng Xirong, captain of the intelligence squad, and Wang Xiaohu, captain of the logistics squad.
Xu Dalong wrote a report, part of which was a summary of the work during this period, and part of which was related to the expansion of the guerrillas.
He called Wang Xiaohu and asked him to lead two soldiers to Zhaojiayu and report to Li Yunlong.
Zhaojiayu.
The Independent Regiment was responsible for the security mission of the headquarters and had been stationed in Zhaojiayu for several months. It was really uncomfortable for Li Yunlong to have nothing to do. He had nothing to do, so he focused all his energy on training troops.
Li Yunlong was very ruthless in his military training. When the soldiers practiced assassination, they had no protective gear and some were often injured.
Zhao Gang was very worried about this and was worried that he would be criticized by his superiors.
But Li Yunlong didn't care. He said: "What's the point of being injured? Who told you to be incapable? It's better to be injured when training now than to be killed by the Japanese on the battlefield. Just practice like this, something went wrong.
I'm responsible."
Li Yunlong not only required the soldiers to train like this, but he also personally practiced with the soldiers with a broadsword.
During training, a soldier accidentally made a small cut on his arm with a machete. The young soldier was frightened and hurriedly apologized to Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong laughed nonchalantly and said, "Okay, you have the ability to hurt me. Let the cooking class cook a special dish for you at noon today."
Although Zhao Gang also admired Li Yunlong's brave spirit, he always felt that Li Yunlong's training methods were not as scientific as Xu Dalong's.
He said: "Old Li, I don't know how Xu Dalong and the others are doing?"
There is an old Chinese saying that says Cao Cao, Cao Cao will come.
This man really couldn't help but talk about it. That evening, Li Yunlong was chatting with Zhao Gang when he heard the police platoon leader Zhang Feng running in to report. He said: "Report to the leader and political commissar that Wang Xiaohu is back."