"Thank you brigade commander for the compliment. These are the results of the joint efforts of comrades!" Wang Ping said modestly.
The brigade commander waved his hand and replied: "It's your credit that's yours. There's nothing to be modest about. In your telegram, you only told me about the general situation of the new regiment. Now that I'm here, I want to know the specific situation. The more detailed it is."
The better!”
"Yes! Brigadier!" Wang Ping replied immediately.
"To be precise, we have a total of 1,582 prisoners of various kinds in our hands. After this period of mobilization, 1,149 people are willing to join our Eighth Route Army, and there are more than 200 people who are hesitating!"
"After screening, among those prisoners who are willing to join our Eighth Route Army, 966 agreed to join the Eighth Route Army. The remaining one or two hundred people were unable to join the main force due to various reasons such as age or injury. But I plan to
Organize them into the logistics force of our new regiment and strive to establish the new regiment’s own logistics support!”
"As long as the brigade headquarters agrees to the new regiment's reorganization plan, these more than 900 new recruits will immediately be added to the army for cooperative training!"
Brigadier Chen thought about it and replied: "Including the original strength of the new regiment, it is more than 1,200 people, which is exactly the size of a regiment. How do you plan to reorganize? Be specific. The more detailed the better!"
"First form three main battalions. Each main battalion includes three main companies, a heavy machine gun platoon, and a guard platoon, with a total strength of 500 people!"
"Each main force company includes three combat platoons, a direct guard squad, a small artillery squad, which is the Japanese grenade squad! A cooking squad, plus company cadres and paperwork, the total strength is one hundred and fifty
people!"
"The combat platoon consists of three ten-man infantry squads, a machine gun team, plus the squad leader and deputy squad leader, a total of 35 people!"
"The troops directly under the regiment include a new battalion, a guard company, an artillery company, a baggage transport company, an engineering platoon, a communications platoon, and a health center..."
"The total strength of the entire regiment is tentatively estimated at 2,000 people!"
The brigade commander nodded and affirmed: "The establishment is very complete, I have nothing to say. But you only have more than 1,200 people, how are you going to deal with the remaining 700 to 800 people!"
Wang Ping immediately expressed his thoughts: "I plan to fully staff one or two battalions, guard companies, and artillery companies first, and other battalions and companies will set up their frames. When new recruits are available in the future, they will be directly supplemented to form combat effectiveness!"
"Yes, I will do as you said. I have no objections. When appointing personnel, try to select them from the existing cadres of the new regiment. There is also a shortage of cadres at the brigade headquarters, so it is impossible to send them to you. You must make sure first, and then report to
That’s all I need, I’ll ask the political commissar to decide it for you!”
For the next two days, Wang Ping locked himself in the headquarters.
Because the political commissar of the new regiment is shouldered by one person, and the new regiment does not have a chief of staff, only Wang Ping can decide who will be the battalion commander and the company commander.
The only thing that makes Wang Ping happy is that the backbone of the new regiment is still there, and among the puppet troops who are willing to join the Eighth Route Army, many of them are former low-level officers of the Jinsui Army. They are well-trained and have no problems at all as platoon leaders.
The brigade commander was not idle either. Based on the intelligence collected by the new regiment outside the mountain, he studied the map for two days.
"Brigadier, this is the appointment of the new regiment that I have confirmed. Do you have a look?" Wang Ping interrupted the brigade commander who was thinking, and then sent the list to the brigade commander!
"If Zhong Chenggong is made the chief of staff of the new regiment, will the promotion be faster?" The brigade commander asked with a frown as soon as he read the beginning.
Seeing that Wang Ping was silent, the brigade commander continued to ask: "Can he be promoted in terms of ability? After all, he was just a deputy battalion commander two months ago. The deputy battalion commander and the regiment chief of staff are two completely unrelated positions?
"
Wang Ping was very optimistic about Zhong Chenggong and directly affirmed: "The situation may have been a little worse half a month ago, but after this counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, he has made great progress. Let him practice in the position of chief of staff for two months, and he will definitely be able to
competent!"
The brigade commander immediately understood the meaning of Wang Ping's words: "Okay, then it's him!"
The next battalion commander and company commander were too far away from the brigade commander. After just a glance, the brigade commander agreed.
"Bang..." At this moment, a faint sound of gunshots suddenly came over.
Regardless of whether it was Wang Ping or Brigadier Chen, both of them were veterans on the battlefield. They could tell that the gunfire came from at least two kilometers away just by the sound. Therefore, after looking at each other, neither of them panicked.
However, as the host and the brigade commander here, Wang Ping must ensure the absolute safety of the station.
"Brigadier, don't worry. I'll find out what's going on right away and ensure the safety of the station."
In the next ten minutes, Wang Ping heard several gunshots one after another, getting louder and louder from far away. But just when he sent Li Wen over and was about to ask him to find out what was going on.
, the intermittent gunfire suddenly stopped.
Finally, before Li Wen came back, Zhong Chenggong, who was teaching prisoners in the prisoner camp, rushed back first.
"Captain, the gunfire just now must have been caused by the puppet troops who entered the mountain!"
"During this period, the Japs were going crazy. They sent a large number of puppet troops into the mountains every day, and fired a shot every 100 meters to embolden themselves. Our patrol troops and guard posts have arrested more than 100 people in a row, and the Japs are still
Without a long memory, they continue to send people into the mountains. Don’t they know that the mountains belong to our Eighth Route Army?”
"It is estimated that this Japanese soldier escaped from our patrol before the gunfire came. The gunfire stopped just now. The patrol should have followed the gunfire to find him and captured him!"
Wang Ping's thinking was not as simple as Zhong Chenggong's.
In Wang Ping's eyes, the Japanese were not only not stupid, but also very smart.
In particular, Major General Matsumoto, the newly appointed brigade commander of the Japanese army in Linfen, is definitely a very difficult opponent.
To lose so many puppet troops in a row and still continue to send people into the mountains, the Japanese must be doing this in order to achieve some secret that they don't know.
Unknowingly, Wang Ping's brows had furrowed, he stared at Zhong Chenggong and asked: "When did this start and why didn't you report it?"
Zhong Chenggong was frightened by Wang Ping's seriousness, and quickly explained: "It started seven or eight days ago, because the people we caught were all puppet soldiers, and I didn't ask anything useful from them. I just took them.
They treat us as scouts for the Japanese to spy on our intelligence, and they don’t care if we send people to prisoner camps to receive ideological education!”
"During this period, more than a dozen puppet troops were sent back by patrols every day. We are all used to it!"
Seeing Wang Ping's face becoming more and more serious, Zhong Chenggong continued: "Captain, is there any conspiracy in this? Don't scare me!"
"I'm sure things are not as simple as you think!" Wang Ping affirmed.
"Although the Japanese think these puppet soldiers are not human beings, they are trained with money after all. It would be too generous to send them to us as prisoners for nothing!"
Zhong Chenggong also frowned: "If you think about it seriously, it's true!"
"I will lock these prisoners up alone now. Maybe there are Japanese intelligence agents hidden inside!"
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