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Chapter 843: I want both the militia and the traitors!
Rested in the woods for a night.

The next morning, Yang Yuanshan led his troops to Qixia Town.

Liu Chengan and others naturally hurried to catch up in their carts.

On the way, Yang Yuanshan chatted with Liu Chengan while walking, inquiring about the situation in Jinyang City.

This time in his hometown, he reported the situation of the special forces regiment to his leaders.

After careful consideration, the leaders expressed their attitude to Yang Yuanshan: to encourage the expansion of the scope of activities of the special forces group.

He even thought that he hoped they could move westward, cut off the Tongpu Road, occupy one or several large river crossings, facilitate travel between his hometown and the front line, and make Lao Chang's blockade of the base a joke.

Guided by this idea, Yang Yuanshan would of course pay special attention to Jinyang City.

If there is a chance to capture Jinyang City, the leader's idea can be easily realized.

By then, my hometown and Jin will be connected, personnel and materials can flow better, and the entire situation of our army will be very different.

We can even retake Xinkou in the north, sweep Pingyang, Hedong and other places in the south, and drive the Japanese out of Shanxi directly!

……

Liu Chengan was an experienced man, and of course he knew that Yang Yuanshan was gathering information.

But he did not refuse to reveal the situation of the Japanese devils.

——If the Liu family grain store was a group of traitors who were determined to serve the Japanese, Wei Dayong would not have visited them.

From Liu Chengan's words, Yang Yuanshan learned that after the battle of Hedi Village, the Japanese devils only gathered less than 1 remnants into Jinyang City.

During this period, although the Japanese also withdrew their troops from the surrounding areas, overall, the defense situation in Jinyang City was still very weak.

It can even be said to be stretched to the limit.

In order to fill the gap in the city's defenses, the Japanese had to organize many vagrants and expatriates in Jinyang City, distribute weapons to them, and let them stand guard in the city.

Create the appearance that the city defense force is sufficient to deter the surrounding areas.

As soon as Yang Yuanshan heard it, he knew that the Japanese troops were really under extreme pressure.

I couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

I feel like there will be many opportunities to take advantage of the Japanese.

……

By noon, everyone had bypassed Qingniu Mountain and arrived at Qixia Town.

At this time, the sentries deployed by the regiment outside the town discovered them.

He immediately arranged for someone to report to the deputy head of the regiment, Zhan Haishan, who was in charge of military affairs, while welcoming him:
"Captain, you're back?"

Yang Yuanshan nodded:
"Yeah, it was a smooth trip."

Then he asked:

“How is the reconstruction of Qixia Town going now?

Has the regiment moved here?"

It has been more than a month since he left Hedi Village.

Time really flies like flowing water.

"The reconstruction is about 60 to 70 percent complete, and Captain Zhao and his fellow villagers are still busy working on it.

But our regiment headquarters moved here a few days ago, and the tank company and artillery battalion were also transferred here for training."

The sentry replied quickly.

"Okay. You guys continue to keep watch."

Yang Yuanshan nodded, and then led everyone to move forward.

After walking for a while, Yang Yuanshan saw a number of ochre-colored thatched houses being built in the distance.

These thatched houses are of the same shape, color and height, lined up in rows like densely packed pigeon cages, and are extremely large in scale.

It is obviously a recent product.

At this time, Zhan Haishan and Zhou Xianpei came out from the other side with a few people and greeted Yang Yuanshan from a distance.

"Captain! Are you back?"

After meeting again after a long separation, both of them had smiles on their faces.

When Yang Yuanshan saw the rosy complexion on their faces, he knew that they were living a good life recently, and he felt much more at ease.

If they were starving and skinny, he would be furious.

If Yang Yuanshan’s troops can’t get enough food, wouldn’t that be a joke?
He also stepped out and greeted the two of them.

After the greetings, Yang Yuanshan pointed at Liu Chengan and said to Zhou Xianpei:

"Old Zhou, you should know this Manager Liu, right?

He has brought us more food, you can go and entertain him.

The purchase price should be more favorable to Manager Liu."

Zhou Xianpei had met Liu Chengan last time, so of course he remembered him and nodded quickly.

On the other side, Liu Chengan was greatly surprised when he heard what Yang Yuanshan said.

He quickly said:
"Captain Yang, you are too polite. I will just follow the last price.

We businessmen seek long-term business.”

“Hahaha, Manager Liu, you don’t have to be polite.

Our leaders have told us to be as warm as the spring breeze to our friends."

Yang Yuanshan laughed.

……

Leaving Liu Chengan and others to be received by Zhou Xianpei, Yang Yuanshan followed Zhan Haishan into the town.

As they walked, he asked, "Haishan, what's the situation in the group now?
Have the staff been fully replenished?"

"The five main infantry battalions and three artillery battalions have basically replenished 5% of their personnel.

Half a month ago, after basically completing the training of the recruits, I arranged for them to attack the Japanese's artillery towers and strongholds.

Judging from the feedback from the front line, the situation is not bad.

The Japanese are now short of manpower. There are only a few Japanese in many turrets, and the rest are traitors with little combat effectiveness. Our casualties are very small."

Zhan Haishan replied.

"The traitors are good. I like the traitors."

Yang Yuanshan chuckled.

The Japs can only be killed for their equipment, but the Traitors can be captured and used for hard labor.

Moreover, those who have no blood debt on them can be transformed into new recruits of our army. It is simply wonderful.

Zhan Haishan also understood why he said the two devils were good, nodded, and introduced:
"Well, I'll have all the troops bring back the captured Japanese soldiers and have them do some hard labor for a few days under Zhao Li's command. Then I'll have a public trial on them at night.

Those who meet the requirements and are willing to join our army will be added to various units.

Those who do not meet the requirements or are unwilling to join our army will be paid and asked to work for me.

These people have made great efforts in rebuilding Qixia Town this time."

"Okay! Not bad!

Why can't the other troops replenish the force?"

Yang Yuanshan asked again.

"Commander, how many soldiers has our regiment recruited in northwest Shanxi?

If we continue to absorb them on a large scale, local production will be delayed.

So I told Han Yang not to recruit new soldiers from the militia in the base area.

I estimate that once the wounded in the field hospital have recovered, we can incorporate them into the army, and the whole regiment will be fully equipped and staffed."

Zhan Haishan explained.

Jin is not like northern Hebei, which has a flat terrain, dense population and abundant resources.

The population and food in the entire Jin area were quite limited.

It makes it difficult to expand the size of the army.

Unless one day our army can drive out the Japanese invaders who occupy the six major basins in Shanxi, there will be no possibility of achieving explosive growth.

"All right.

Local production cannot be delayed.”

Yang Yuanshan nodded repeatedly.

To put it bluntly, the war potential of the base occupied by the special forces regiment has been exhausted.

These days, there were few machines and even fewer oxen for plowing, so farming depended entirely on manpower.

If there are too few young and strong laborers in a village, the fields will become a problem.

In addition, there are no chemical fertilizers and high-yield seeds nowadays. Once the cultivated area is too small, the grain produced may not be enough for the whole village to eat.

By then, people will starve to death.

However, despite this, he did not intend to accept Zhan Haishan's slow approach.

After all, the special forces regiment will not be fully equipped and staffed until one or two months, or even two or three months later.

By then, once the Japanese troops are freed up, the strategic advantage gained from the previous continuous bloody battle will be immediately lost.

The blood of more than 10,000 soldiers who were killed and wounded before was shed in vain!

So Yang Yuanshan thought for a moment and said:

“Haishan, your arrangement is too conservative.

We can't wait.

I hope our special forces group can continue to expand, and ideally, it can be expanded to about 2 people in three months."

"What? Twenty thousand people?
Captain, this... this is too much, right?"

Zhan Haishan's eyeballs almost popped out.

The special forces regiment now has a full staff of more than 1 people, which is already shocking enough, but he didn't expect that Yang Yuanshan was still not satisfied!

2 people, that's a solid Type A division!
You know, at the beginning of our army's reorganization, there were only three Type C divisions!
"not much!
This time I was in my hometown and reported my ideas to my leaders.

The leaders all support us to expand the troops as much as possible while we have sufficient weapons and food."

Yang Yuanshan raised the imperial sword.

Of course, our army did implement the policy of streamlining the military and administrative structure during the period of fighting against the Japanese invaders, but that was due to economic difficulties and we had no choice but to do so.

Now, the economy of the Special Forces Group is not a problem at all, so he certainly won't slow down the pace of development.

Seeing that he had returned with the leader's opinions, Zhan Haishan could not object and could only nod and ask:
“But now, the potential of our base has been almost tapped, and it is difficult to expand it further.

Unless we go to the defense areas of the New 1st and New 2nd Regiments to develop our team, but in this case, Captain Ding and Captain Kong will definitely not be happy! "

"Haha, we can expand outward.

Order all battalions to advance vigorously westward and northward.

Militia soldiers and traitors, I want them all!"

Yang Yuanshan laughed heartily, looking very wise.

……

(End of this chapter)