Today, the Xinyi Regiment's camp hidden in the mountains is not what it was when Wang Ping came. It is shabby and looks like a refugee camp.
A total of nine tents captured by the Japanese and puppet troops were scattered in the forest.
The dense forest became the best shelter for these tents.
In addition to tents, the new regiment also used prisoners to build ten thatched houses, all of which were houses with walls and roofs, rather than the original shacks.
Coupled with enough food and a meal of meat from time to time, the expressions of disappointment and worry on the faces of the soldiers who rushed out of the mountain and then returned to the mountain for two days were swept away.
Wang Ping had been standing in front of the map for two hours in a temporary command post made up of a tent. His eyes staring at the map had not moved during these two hours.
Battalion Commander Zhong Chenggong stood nearby, also looking at the map, frowning, always telling the group leader what he knew about the situation outside the mountain before entering the mountain.
"Take two steps!" Wang Ping suddenly said, startling Zhong Chenggong next to him.
"Captain! What did you just say?" Zhong Chenggong, whose attention was also on the map, immediately asked.
"If we want to break the dangerous situation we are in now, we need to take two steps!" Wang Ping replied, his expression becoming more determined.
"How to go!" Zhong Chenggong asked immediately.
This problem has been tangled in his head for several days. He thinks about it all the time when he goes to bed at night. Except for Wang Ping in front of him, no one wants to know the solution more than him.
"First, stir up the situation outside the mountain. The more chaotic it is, the better it will be for us!" Wang Ping replied in a deep voice.
"In the process of disrupting the situation, we continue to accumulate strength. When the time is right, we will directly rush out of the mountains, fight several annihilation battles against the Japanese, occupy some villages and release our base areas. We will not leave and slowly restore the people's confidence in us!"
Zhong Chenggong didn't show any smile on his frowning face, and asked with a frown!
"How to disrupt the situation? Commander! The Japanese outside the mountain are heavily guarded, and there are maintenance committees and traitors everywhere. As long as we go out of the mountain, our whereabouts will definitely be exposed. By then, we will not mess up the situation outside the mountain, but we will have a large number of Japanese and puppet troops.
We suffered heavy losses during the encirclement and suppression, and we might even be wiped out!"
"Also, you just talked about building up strength. We don't have any new recruits, how can we expand our strength!"
"How to mess up the situation outside the mountain is my business. I will figure it out! However, it is up to you, Commander Zhong, to accumulate strength and expand the troops. After all, you are more familiar with this place than me, and you are a newbie.
A veteran cadre of the regiment!" Wang Ping said confidently.
Seeing Zhong Chenggong frowning and looking troubled, Wang Ping suggested: "I have a suggestion: "Battle Commander Zhong, you can consider the prisoners in our hands!"
"As long as we do our ideological work well, there will definitely be many prisoners willing to join our Eighth Route Army."
"After all, as long as there is a little bit of blood, no one wants to be a traitor and bear the lifelong infamy!"
"There are also those who are lightly or seriously injured. After they recover, they are all expected to be platoon leaders and squad leaders!"
"That's still not enough. The total number of prisoners and wounded is less than 150. Even if most of the prisoners are willing to join the Eighth Route Army, that's only the strength of one company!"
Wang Ping did not answer, but stared at Zhong Chenggong and asked: "You just need to tell me whether you are confident in transforming them into qualified Eighth Route Army soldiers!"
"At least 70% of the prisoners can be transformed!" Zhong Chenggong affirmed after thinking about it.
"Basically all the die-hard members of the puppet army were killed in the battle. The remaining people were either forced by their superiors to become prisoners of the Central Army and Jinsui Army of the puppet army, or they were strong men who were forcibly recruited by the Japanese. They were not transformed.
question!"
"That's enough!" Wang Ping affirmed.
"As for your worry about not having enough people, that's not a problem at all. If I go outside to stir up trouble, there will definitely be a war, and there will be prisoners in the war. As long as I capture prisoners outside the mountain, I will find a way to send them back."
"My request is to train 300 qualified Eighth Route Army soldiers in one month."
"Otherwise, our new regiment is said to be a regiment, but the total strength is not even a battalion, which is a joke. Moreover, even if we conquer the mountains and seize the territory from the Japanese, we will not be able to hold it!"
"Please rest assured, captain, as long as there are prisoners sent back, I promise to complete the mission!" Zhong Chenggong was persuaded and answered with an affirmative look on his face.
Two days later, the troops Wang Ping decided to bring out of the mountain were reorganized.
The first company plus the second company totaled more than 120 people. Each company was subordinate to two platoons, and each platoon was equipped with a light machine gun.
Because the combat troops lost a lot of people some time ago, Wang Ping directly deducted half of the troops from the third company before replenishing the two companies to a half-full state.
Including the direct guard squad under Li Wen's personal command, a new regiment of 140 soldiers is the force Wang Ping will lead out of the mountain.
At this time, all cadres above the platoon gathered at the headquarters with serious faces.
Wang Ping stood in front of him. After everyone took a look, he said: "Comrades, I wonder if you have ever heard of horse bandits, and do you know how horse bandits fight?"
"I know!" Ma Dongyun, the platoon leader of the second company's first platoon who was a cavalryman, replied loudly.
"They fight very well. They use the mobility of the cavalry to come and go without a trace. They never stop after attacking one place and immediately move to the next place to continue fighting. If the infantry is allowed to fight with them, let alone defeat them.
I can’t even find them!”
I saw shock, doubt, dissatisfaction on other people's faces... all kinds of things were revealed at once.
Wang Ping immediately realized that the horse bandits were too far away from them.
After thinking about it, he continued to ask: "Where are the bandits? Do you know how the bandits fight?"
"After attacking a place, loot it, and then move quickly, leaving no chance for the enemy to surround them!" Battalion Commander Zhong Chenggong replied!
"What Battalion Commander Zhong said is right, if ordinary people are not looted and massacred, the bandits' warfare has many similarities with our mobile warfare. Try not to engage in positional warfare with the enemy, destroy the opponent on the move, and then move after the battle is over!
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"What I want to tell you is: after I take you out of the mountains, you will fight the Japanese like bandits!"
"As long as it is the Japanese and puppet troops, we will fight and rob. If we hit, we will run away. When we find an opportunity, we will fight again. We will come and go without a trace, so that the Japanese can't find us!"
"Isn't this the mobile battle we have been fighting? Captain!" Zhong Chenggong asked with a frown.
"There is a difference!" Wang Ping replied.
"Mobile warfare is to destroy the enemy on the move and not to engage in positional warfare with the enemy. But this time we went out to the mountain mainly to attack. We attacked one Japanese stronghold in one night. We attacked if we could capture it and withdrew if we couldn't. There were also collisions along the way.
Kill all the traitors who arrive and beat the enemy so badly that we are so frightened that we have to deploy heavy troops to chase and intercept us! In this case, the stable situation outside the mountain will become chaotic as the Japanese and puppet troops begin to mobilize, and our chances may be reduced.
Appear!"
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