Rise from the sword

Chapter 411 Zhao Political Commissar's Eagerness
At dawn the next day, the whole area around Zhaojiayu was in full swing.

It's still winter, it's the season of slack farming, and the common people don't have much to do, so the common people from more than a dozen villages around Zhaojiayu mobilized together, as well as the disaster victims who came from the Japanese-occupied areas and other places, a small number of 1 people Carrying shovels, shovels, hoes, sledgehammers and other tools, under the leadership of engineering personnel from the headquarters, young cadres, and grassroots rural cadres, they began to build simple roads.

Despite the lack of professional machinery, the principle of strength in numbers was vividly demonstrated at this time.

Digging, gravel, pit filling, paving.

In just half a day, the original winding and rugged path was widened and compacted, and a simple road that can drive jeeps began to take shape around Zhaojiayu and gradually extended to the surrounding area.

With three meals and fine grains, food is distributed on time and in sufficient quantities as wages every day, and the people who build roads burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm.

At the same time, the commander of the third battalion and Huang Baowang led more than 1000 soldiers from the third battalion and the transport team to start building warehouses for parking the garages of Sanbengzi and big jeeps. In order to avoid being bombed by devils, these garages dug a cave directly in the mountain .

The security work has not relaxed in the slightest.

All the forty machine guns of the air defense company were dispatched, occupying various positions around Zhaojiayu, and a heavy machine gun was waiting in formation. The twenty single-barreled 20mm anti-aircraft guns that had just been acquired were also pulled up to various high grounds to defend the vicinity of the independent regiment headquarters. Sky.

At noon that day, Zhao Gang, who was covered in dust, wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked into the regiment headquarters. Because he didn't notice the mud on his hands, there was an obvious mud mark on his forehead.

"what."

Seeing Zhao Gang, Li Yunlong, who was making final preparations at the regiment headquarters, was a little surprised.

Since the start of widening the horse trails and building roads, Zhao Gang, who is in charge of management and coordination, rarely has time to rest during the day, and is so busy that he does not touch the ground. Li Yunlong was very surprised to see that Zhao Gang could come to rest during the day today.

"Ha ha··"

Zhao Gang knew why Li Yunlong was surprised, he smiled and said:
"That group of young cadres is really good, with excellent quality, strong ability, and strong knowledge base. With them, I only need to formulate specific management measures, and then ask them to manage and implement them."

"good."

Li Yunlong immediately nodded in satisfaction. He was also happy that the old man could rest.

At this moment, a person came in from the door:

"Regimental Commander, Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan returns to the team."

"Haha, Shen Quan."

Seeing the visitor, Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong were very happy.

The second battalion commander, Shen Quan, was injured in the previous retreat from Shou County, and the injury was not serious. He went to the headquarters hospital for treatment.

"Okay, how is your body recovering? The Second Battalion still needs you to lead it!"

Li Yunlong said immediately.

At this point, Shen Quan's face darkened obviously. He walked into the regiment headquarters and said as he walked: "Regimental commander, political commissar, I'm afraid I can't lead troops to fight anymore. This injury..."

Both Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong were acutely aware that Shen Quan's walking posture was obviously unfavorable at this time. It should be that there was a hidden disease in his leg, which did not affect his walking and exertion of strength, but there would be problems with intense tactical actions on the battlefield.

"fine."

Zhao Gang immediately comforted him and said, "Anywhere you go, you can fight the Japanese and fight devils, it's just that everyone has a different division of labor."

"You kid can drive?"

Li Yunlong asked suddenly.

"meeting."

Shen Quan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded:
"When I was studying, I had a friend from my hometown who was a truck driver. I learned how to drive a truck with him, and I also knew a little bit of mechanical knowledge. Before that, Battalion Commander Zhang asked me to teach Xiu Sanju."

"Ha ha··"

Li Yunlong was overjoyed immediately:
"That's right, I'm planning to form a small truck transport team here, and I'll leave the captain to you. You have been a battalion commander before, and you should know very well that transport work is no easier than being on the front line. If something goes wrong, don't blame me for ignoring it." feelings."

"Yes."

Shen Quan immediately turned cloudy and gave a military salute.

In the afternoon of that day, Shen Quan couldn't wait to see the twenty Dodge jeeps that were going to be handed over to him, while Li Yunlong led the Second Battalion and Wang Chengzhu's Second Artillery Company, and rushed to the Zhengtai Railway in the distance. At night, we will pass through the transition zone of Ping'an County and Pan County to Zhengtai Railway.

Not long after Li Yunlong left, the independent group ushered in a person.

A signal cavalry from the [-]th Regiment.

"Chief Chu is coming to visit?"

Zhao Gang was stunned when he heard the communication cavalry in front of him.

"Correct."

The communication cavalry nodded, with a somewhat arrogant tone: "Three days later, our regiment commander Chu Yunfei of the [-]th Regiment of the Jinsui Army will visit the Independent Regiment."

"it is good."

Zhao Gang smiled and nodded.

Zhao Gang met Chu Yunfei before, and the two groups also met several times later. Zhao Gang has a good feeling for Chu Yunfei, and the two have met several times. Although they have different positions, Chu Yunfei is the one who truly maintains the united front officer.

"Oops. Li Yunlong is not here."

After the communication cavalry left, Zhao Gang just remembered that Li Yunlong had already led his troops to lift the Devils Railway. According to the plan, he would not come back until at least five days later. Now the independent regiment has no regiment leader at all.

Originally, he wanted to send someone to notify Chu Yunfei to come back in a few days, but when Zhao Gang was about to call someone, he stopped.

"Chu Yunfei, Jinsui Army..."

Commissar Zhao fell into deep thought.

He remembered a thought from earlier.

Li Yunlong often goes to the headquarters and the brigade to play the tsundere. Recently, he even plans to drive a big jeep and go to Ding Wei and Kong Jie to play the tsundere. He has been fascinated by it for a long time, which makes Zhao Gang a little curious about the tsundere. .

Is this thing really that good?
Although curious, Political Commissar Zhao has never had the chance to try it. He is embarrassed by his superiors, and Commander Ding, Commander Kong, can't hold back that face, but this Commander Chu Yunfei of the Jinsui Army...
Although they are friendly forces, the relationship between the two sides has not been very good. There are relatively few open battles, but the secret war has never stopped. It is necessary to properly reveal a little strength and show a little strength to avoid future troubles.

Commissar Zhao found a reasonable reason.

"Come on..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Gang called the guard platoon leader.

Since he intends to try to show off, he has to prepare. There are some things that can show up, such as six mountain cannons, 120 heavy pressure, and anti-aircraft machine guns. These devils already know things that can be displayed to show their strength.

But some things are not suitable, such as the newly acquired 20mm anti-aircraft gun.

Finally, Zhao Gang looked at the map on the table.

The road construction plan has been going on for a long time, and the construction of the road on the Loess Plateau is relatively simple, and the expansion of the horse road has made the difficulty even lower. At this time, the simple soil road has extended far from Zhaojiayu.

He called a guard platoon soldier again and asked him to notify Shen Quan, the captain of the truck transport team, and Sun Desheng.

After the two came, Zhao Gang said:
"Get ready, three days later, form a convoy to meet Chu Yunfei from the [-]th Regiment,"

Zhao Gang suddenly felt impatient.

"Take the heavy machine gun company, too."

Finally, Zhao Gang added.

Although judging from the number of previous bombings by Devil planes and the situation at Taiyuan Airport, the Devils will not bomb in the near future, but in order to prevent the only one and show off his muscles, Zhao Gang decided to attach the heavy machine gun.

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The day.

The new regiment is based in Zuojiabao.

Ding Wei is also very busy.

"How's the road expansion going?"

Early in the morning, he found the person in charge of building the horse trail.

The expansion of the horse road was carried out by the three regiments at the same time. After consultation, the three decided that the independent regiment would be responsible for the main road section, but the surrounding areas of the two regiments should be responsible for themselves, and the independent regiment was only responsible for the delivery of materials.

However, due to the lack of talents, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment did not have all kinds of talents provided by the headquarters, and the road construction was a lot of trouble.

The person in charge of the new road repair group said:
"Relying on food, we organized 500 people to build roads, but we lacked tools, so the repairs were slow. I have asked the nearby blacksmith to speed up the construction."

"Okay, pay attention to safety. In addition, the food must be distributed in place. On this point, there is absolutely no room for any problems."

In the end, Ding Wei narrowed his eyes and raised his tone.

"Yes."

The person in charge paid a military salute and then left.

Lack of tools, I will go to Li Yunlong for the key points in a few days... Ding Wei muttered, thinking about it in his heart.

He knew that in order to build roads, Li Yunlong got a lot of iron tools from the arsenal at the headquarters, and even set up a repair shop in Zhaojiayu, using the steel plates of the trucks captured by the devils to make tools.

"Chenghe."

Later, Ding Wei called Chenghe, the battalion commander:

"How's the recruiting going?"

After learning about Li Yunlong's plan to expand the independent group to 6000 or more, Ding Wei also became concerned.

As soon as he returned to the regiment, he organized further expansion of recruits. Anyway, Li Yunlong provided weapons and ammunition, and he would give Li Yunlong as much as he recruited, and all unified Mauser rifles and Bren machine guns.

Ding Wei thought to himself, although it cannot be compared with the independent regiment, the new regiment is responsible for the left wing defense of the future stable base. If the devils come to attack, it is estimated that it will definitely be larger than the previous Shou County, so his new regiment will have to 3000 people, that is, the strength of a devil's alliance.

Therefore, he plans to expand the new group to 3000 people.

"All enrollment expansion has been completed, and training is currently being organized."

Cheng He replied.

"So fast?"

"good."

Ding Wei is very satisfied.

At this time, a voice came from outside the regiment headquarters: "Head, the independent regiment sent someone to deliver something."

"what?"

Ding Wei was taken aback: "Let them in."

A few minutes later, Ding Wei looked at the radio station in front of him, then at the telegraph operator trained by the headquarters who came with him, as well as a large pile of telegrams and pencils, touched his chin, and fell into deep thought for a while. .

He had a premonition that he might not be at peace for some time to come...

at the same time.

Kong Jie of the new second regiment was also watching a radio station, lost in thought.

(End of this chapter)