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Chapter 263 Chapter 262, Everyone’s Thoughts

"In addition, there are those comrades who were injured in the battle. After they have recovered from their injuries, they are a group of veterans with combat experience!" Zhu Xingyu said, looked around at everyone, and continued: "We have so many veterans, it is a good time to increase our manpower! Moreover, the brigade commander and Minister Zhang have been stationed here before, and they know that we can produce weapons ourselves."

"But the brigade commander still left us an infantry company's worth of equipment! Isn't this to allow us to expand our team? Also, we have captured so much food here, and those injured animals are basically unable to work, so we might as well kill them and eat their meat! So, what are we waiting for? Isn't this a good time to recruit soldiers for training?"

"I propose!" Zhu Xingyu raised his hand excitedly and said, "We will go east all the way to Qigeng Village and recruit new soldiers along the way to increase our strength! This time, we can be bold and directly recruit 200 new soldiers. Now is the end of mid-July. After training these 7 new soldiers for three months, by the end of October, our guerrillas will have more than 200 soldiers!"

"Moreover, after this actual combat test, our underground warfare method has achieved excellent results! Therefore, in the next period of time, we will also strengthen the surrounding villages, send infantry platoons into these villages, mobilize the masses to dig tunnels, build double walls, reinforce the village walls, and build underground traffic roads!"

"Comrades, I believe that as long as we work together, by the end of the year, when each of the villages around us has tunnels, each of our villages will be a strong fortress to resist the Japanese invaders' raids! Relying on these fortresses, we will be able to gradually surround Ping'an County and make the Japanese invaders in the county dare not leave the city!"

"Comrades, what do you think of my proposal?" Zhu Xingyu's tone was a little excited. As he spoke, beads of sweat kept dripping from his forehead, wetting the table in front of him.

"Hiss... Old Zhu, you not only proposed the issue of conscription, you also sorted out our future development path!" Xing Weiguo took out the newly seized white towel from the table support and handed it to Zhu Xingyu, then said with a smile: "In fact, I also agree to increase the number of troops! After all, we still have dozens of guns idle, plus the equipment of this company, we can't just leave it here to eat dirt, right?"

"Comrades, since we came back from Beiyue District, we have never worried about equipment. But we still have many brother units, and we can't get enough guns for each person! It is said that the comrades in the replenishment battalion and the replenishment brigade are still at the level of three people to one rifle and 12 grenades! If the comrades knew that we have so many weapons unused, how would they feel?"

"We don't know how they feel. After all, the weapons in our hands are either made by ourselves or captured by ourselves, and they can't explain the details. However, these precious combat supplies cannot be left here to eat dirt!" Zhao Danian took over the conversation.

"Captain, is it possible for us to get a platoon of soldiers from the brigade's replenishment battalion? Captain Xing also said that they have three people to one gun and 12 grenades. Don't we still have a batch of weapons and ammunition seized from the puppet army? Although there are only 31 Zhongzheng rifles and 48 Hanyang rifles, these weapons can also kill the enemy!"

"What do you think? If we take these 79 guns and add three old-fashioned Mauser pistols, can we exchange them for a company of new recruits?" Li Yuexuan suggested.

"Your idea..." Hearing Li Yuexuan's proposal, Zhao Danian, Xing Weiguo, Zhu Xingyu, Xiao Fengyun and other old men looked at each other, and then hesitantly said: "We haven't had this idea before, we can give it a try! However, we'd better report it to the brigade commander. If someone is not happy, we will definitely be criticized!" "Okay, it's better to report it! In fact, I also agree to recruit soldiers. After all, we can understand the strengths and weaknesses of each soldier by training new soldiers from scratch, and we can make the best use of them when we use them! I just think that those equipments are a bit wasted!" Li Yuexuan didn't say much. In fact, he also had his own ideas, but he didn't know if everyone would agree.

"All that equipment... Comrades, can we develop some militia? Let's recruit more soldiers this time, and recruit 300 people for training! We have enough food, so we can train 300 new soldiers, and then keep the 200 best ones and eliminate the 100 who are not so good!"

"Don't we still have some seriously injured soldiers? After those seriously injured and disabled comrades recover, they can return to the village and form a militia team with these new recruits!"

"Old Zhao's suggestion is good! Let's not bother the brigade. The brigade commander is exhausted fighting on the Baijin Line in the west. We can just develop our own business! Therefore, I also propose to recruit 300 soldiers and accept 200! By the way, we have to select some soldiers who can ride horses to join the army this time! Even if they can't ride horses, those who can walk on stilts are fine! How about we form a cavalry platoon with the 30 war horses that Old Zhao left behind?"

Xing Weiguo said, and the guerrillas added 100 new recruits, and raised a new question. Zhao Danian seemed to have had this idea for a long time, so he was not surprised at all, but said calmly: "Okay!"

"Then let's vote by raising our hands. We will recruit 300 soldiers this time. Those who agree, raise your hands!" Zhu Xingyu, as the instructor in the actual sense, proposed a vote by raising his hands.

Then, swish, swish, swish... the comrades participating in the meeting raised their hands one after another, indicating that this time the proposal was passed unanimously. Wow, this time, the guerrillas directly recruited 300 soldiers, kept 200, and there was also a militia reserve, which was definitely the scale of a battalion!

After everyone voted, the meeting was almost over. However, Zhao Danian asked Li Yuexuan, "Comrade Youshun, do you have any good suggestions?"

Li Yuexuan admired Zhao Danian's sharpness, so he was not surprised that he could see that he had other ideas. So, he said directly: "My proposal is not to focus on the organization, but on the equipment! In the past few battles, everyone has seen the combat effectiveness of semi-automatic rifles, so my proposal is to continue to let the ordnance workshop manufacture semi-automatic rifles!"

"According to my understanding, our guerrillas should be a highly mobile force, but we are now tied down by our strongholds and cannot conduct guerrilla warfare. However, after our team grows and our militia develops, we will definitely need a mobile and flexible combat team! And for this team, I think it would be best if all members were equipped with semi-automatic weapons! We can even fight on horseback. We really need mobility!"

(End of this chapter)