Not only did the Eighth Route Army not requisition food from everyone, but they also helped everyone kill Li Zengyi and distribute food to everyone.
This alone convinced everyone that the Eighth Route Army was an army of benevolence and righteousness that was different from other armies. After hearing that their predecessor was the Red Army that the Central Army had encircled and suppressed, the people who knew many stories about the Red Army immediately had feelings for the Eighth Route Army in front of them.
Good impression.
Under such circumstances, the Eighth Route Army proposed to recruit troops here, and many people were moved.
In these troubled times, instead of leaving young men at home and waiting to be captured by the Japanese and other so-called anti-Japanese troops, it is better to join the benevolent Eighth Route Army.
Apart from anything else, if you follow the Eighth Route Army, at least your relatives will not be used as cannon fodder and die in vain on the battlefield.
Besides, if someone in the family joins the Eighth Route Army, not only will one person's rations be saved, but the Eighth Route Army will also give one hundred kilograms of white flour and three yuan as settlement expenses. If you save a little, it will be enough for the family to not go hungry for a year. This is true everywhere
The chaotic world of war is already the outcome that everyone longs for.
At this time, some people were also worried about whether their relatives would be retaliated by the Japanese after joining the Eighth Route Army.
What they didn't expect was that Yang Xiong had already thought of their worries.
A series of threats, plus the seven or eight corpses still bleeding on the rostrum. Everyone here believed that even if the Japanese reoccupied this place, no one would betray everyone behind the Eighth Route Army.
At this moment, a burst of excited shouts suddenly sounded next to the podium.
"The food has arrived, and the Eighth Route Army has begun to distribute it..."
More than a dozen carts filled with grain were pulled by the Eighth Route Army's mules to the side of the rostrum, and then several Eighth Route Army commanders were seen lining up to distribute the grain to the people nearby.
Soon, the first citizen received two bags of grain, one bag of coarse grains and one bag of flour. Four members of the family carried the grains and walked home very happily, expressing their gratitude to the Eighth Route Army as they walked.
"The Eighth Route Army really distributed food to everyone. It is indeed an army of benevolence and righteousness!" Everyone began to lament the Eighth Route Army's good deeds and keeping its promises, and then lined up to receive food under the command of the Eighth Route Army.
It took a full two hours for nearly 300 households to receive food. Except for more than 20 households whose family members died tragically at the hands of the Li family, they received 150 jins of white flour and 50 jins of whole grains.
They all received fifty kilograms of white flour and fifty kilograms of whole grains.
The public trial was over, and so was the distribution of food. They originally thought that the people gathered at the entrance of the town would disperse. But what Yang Xiong and Kang Sheng didn't expect was that after everyone sent the food back, they gathered around the rostrum.
Yang Xiong, who didn't know why, asked and found out that they all sent their families to join the Eighth Route Army.
"Lao Kang, food, have someone send food over right away, and bring Dayang over too!" Yang Xiong ordered with excitement on his face.
In less than half an hour, food and ocean were delivered.
After a family whose eldest son was sent to Yang Xiong to join the Eighth Route Army received three yuan and one hundred kilograms of flour as settlement allowance from Kang Sheng, the people around the rostrum became excited again.
These common people had all seen the Japanese and other anti-Japanese troops arresting young men.
They usually catch everyone they see. Those with better luck will lose a piece of ocean or two, while those with bad luck will leave nothing behind.
Not to mention, all the young men captured by them will lose contact as soon as they leave the village. If nothing else, these young men will be sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder by the officers, and they will not even be able to find a body after they die.
arrive.
Compared with those people, the current behavior of the Eighth Route Army undoubtedly shows everyone once again what a true teacher of benevolence and righteousness is.
The family members, who had been acting like they were watching a play just now and were a little hesitant, no longer hesitated and decided on the spot to send their loved ones to the Eighth Route Army.
For these unarmed ordinary people, leaving them at home in troubled times may not necessarily save their lives. Instead of being captured by the Japanese and other troops one day, it is better to join the Eighth Route Army now.
It wasn't until it was getting dark that the people who gathered at the entrance of the town dispersed.
Although the more than 10,000 kilograms of white flour that Kang Sheng had re-shipped was gone, there were 163 more recruits behind Yang Xiong. In the entire Li Gong Town, almost one young man from every two households chose to join the Eighth Route Army.
"Lao Kang, this is so exciting. In just two days, we have recruited a company of new soldiers, which is simply shocking!" Yang Xiong said, shocked and excited.
Kang Sheng obviously took a deeper look and said with a helpless look: "This is also the helplessness of the common people. As long as there is a chance, they will not give their young people to us for a hundred pounds of white flour and three oceans!
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"This is all caused by the Japanese. Lao Kang, I won't say any more nonsense. What I mean is that you take a squad and send all the recruits and our captures back to the station. In addition, leave me 20,000 kilograms of white flour.
For six hundred yuan, I estimate that the nearby villages should be able to recruit a lot of new soldiers, and I plan to visit the surrounding villages!"
I originally thought that Yang Xiong, a former puppet soldier, didn't understand political work, but I didn't expect that when recruiting troops, he would talk about the various policies of the Eighth Route Army one by one, and he would be more experienced than himself.
Therefore, when Yang Xiong decided to stay, Kang Sheng agreed without any hesitation or worry.
And he had already made plans to recommend Yang Xiong to join the party to the battalion headquarters when he returned to the station.
In Kang Sheng's view, with Yang Xiong's current qualifications and abilities, there is no problem at all in joining the party.
Yang Xiong didn't know what Kang Sheng was thinking. At this time, he was looking forward to a better harvest in recruiting troops tomorrow.
It really lives up to that saying, in troubled times, the most worthless thing is human life.
When they learned that the Eighth Route Army was recruiting soldiers, and that to join the Eighth Route Army, you could get one hundred kilograms of flour and three yuan to settle down, the surrounding villages immediately became excited.
At this time, even the people in towns like Li Gong Town were hungry, let alone the poorer surrounding villages.
Therefore, as soon as Yang Xiong put up the recruiting sign, young men who wanted to join the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese formed a long queue.
In just two days, all 20,000 kilograms of white flour were distributed. Yang Xiong also got 200 strong young men, and then hurriedly led them to the station!
Deputy Battalion Commander Zeng Quan already had nearly 600 new recruits in training, half of whom were captured Imperial Army soldiers. As long as they passed the running-in training, they could replenish the main force at any time.
When the three main companies returned from Laiyuan City, they brought back more than 600 prisoners for Cheng Xiao. After mobilization, Zeng Quan had more than 500 new soldiers in his hands.
If all these people are added to the main force, the total strength of the independent battalion can exceed 1,500 people, which can be said to be a strong force.
Both Cheng Xiao and Zeng Quan were very satisfied with the current expansion and development speed of the independent battalion. At this moment, the six combat platoons that had gone out to recruit soldiers came back one after another. Each platoon brought a large amount of supplies, and also
They brought back so many new recruits that the two of them almost collapsed.
