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Chapter 348 Chapter 347, The militia returns, the military and civilians are one family

Before the New Year, the militiamen who were concentrated in four training points returned to their respective villages and returned to their parents and relatives. These militiamen came from these 35 villages, and most of them were young men who had made their fathers poor.

Now, seeing these young boys being sent back, the family members are very happy. Apart from anything else, this has saved the family more than a month's worth of food.

Look at these children again. They have grown taller and stronger after returning. They also brought back new clothes and shoes. Those with good training results even brought back a shotgun or double-barreled hunting rifle. This made the village heads and militia captains very happy! Seeing the children who already looked like soldiers and the weapons they brought back, they were so happy!
However, the old village chiefs were also puzzled, that is, the number of people who came back seemed to be not enough, as if one or two were missing. So, the old village chief with doubts called his grandson.

"Gou Wa, come here, tell your grandpa, what are you training for in the team?"

"Master, it's just queuing, running, doing push-ups, working on the horizontal bar, practicing rifle shooting and bayonet fighting, digging trenches, digging bunkers... Oh, yes, we also learn how to shoot guns!" said Gouwazi very steadily.

The old village chief was happy when he saw his grandson standing in front of him, who was a little taller than him. Is he still the naughty monkey who wiped his snot bubbles and climbed trees to rob bird nests? He has been away for two months and he seems to have become a different person. He has grown taller and his temperament has become calmer. If it weren't for the scar on his face, he would really feel like a different person.

"You have also learned how to shoot a gun? The one in your hand?" The old village chief looked at the double-barreled shotgun on Gou Wa's back and took a puff of his pipe.

"It's different, Grandpa. I was shooting with a steel rifle, the same Type 5 rifle used by the Japanese devils! I fired 4 bullets and hit the target with 100 of them at a distance of 30 meters! The one I'm carrying on my back is a double-barreled shotgun, which uses shotgun shells filled with iron sand. The instructor said that within meters, we just need to shoot at the devils!" Gou Wa continued seriously.

"Good boy, your grandpa has never touched the quick-robber in my life, and you used it first! Not bad, not bad, you didn't embarrass our Qiu family! By the way, where is your brother Tiedan? Why didn't he come back with us?"

"Brother Tiedan was selected by the team. They said he runs fast and the team liked him very much, so he stayed to continue training! When he came here, the instructor said that if Brother Tiedan is willing, he can still be a formal Eighth Route Army soldier! Grandpa, Brother Tiedan has become an Eighth Route Army soldier! And Brother Tiedan and the others ate very well during training..." Gou Wa's eyes were full of envy.

"Scared? Joining the army? Great, great, it's an honor for Tiedan's family! No, it's after the New Year, we have to send some food to the team to make a living, don't let the children suffer!" The old village chief was very satisfied.

The old village chief was not exaggerating when he said he would send food to the team. Actually, he actually had some extra food to send to the team!
How could these 35 villages live better? Because they have village committees to organize production, militias to protect production, and even hunting teams to hunt prey.

These days, the land is vast and the population is sparse, and the productivity is very low, but there are a lot of prey in the mountains! Especially wild boars, wild wolves, pheasants, wild rabbits, wild deer, wild monkeys and other large and small prey live in the surrounding mountains. The most hateful here are wild boars. Not to mention that they are thieves, they also like to wander around in groups and like to harm crops. With the protection of the militia, although the bullets in the hands of the militia are very precious, having guns means courage. What's more, there are many experienced old hunters leading the team. These villages can harvest some prey every time they hunt. While supplementing the meat supply of the people, these prey can also be sold to the guerrillas in exchange for cloth, iron tools, etc.

Now it is even more different. There are children in the village who are serving as soldiers in the army and training militia. Now there are 47 children left in the army. What does this mean? This means that the guerrillas are the army where our children are fighting, and the purpose is to protect our fellow villagers. Well, we can't let the children starve in the army!
The people's feelings were genuine. They would treat anyone who treated them well. Although there were some very bad people among them, the moral constraints of this era were much stronger than those of later times. Moreover, outside was an area occupied by the Japanese devils, and lives could be taken away at any time. Between life and taking advantage of others, everyone knew what to choose.

Therefore, during the first month of the lunar year, the troops in the training teams scattered in the four villages received various supplies from the people one after another. Moreover, the people came under the pretext of sending things for their own children. One family sent a bag of millet, another sent half a pig, and someone else sent a basket of eggs.

The Eighth Route Army was not allowed to take anything from the masses, which was a discipline, but you couldn't stop the people from giving something to their children, right? So the people stuffed the things on their children and walked away, not caring whether the children could carry the half-skewer of pork.

"Who would give their children half a pig when sending New Year gifts? This is the villagers supporting the team building! The villagers are not stupid, they all know that our guerrillas are powerful, only then can they live well, not be swept by the devils, not be captured by the devils to be coolies, do that... So, stay, and then tell the comrades to train hard and don't let the villagers down!"

Zhu Xingyu was a sensible man. Under his suggestion, the guerrillas accepted the supplies given by the people, which alleviated the guerrillas' food pressure.

Don’t underestimate the fact that the militia have been trained for the past two months. A lot of food has been consumed, but now we can solve the problem.

By the beginning of the first month of the year, the guerrillas' training pressure had been reduced. Because there were not so many militiamen to train with, the new recruits had more abundant training resources. After two months of physical fitness and basic military skills training, the new recruits entered the third training phase and could train for special military capabilities for the next company.

While the new recruits are training, the veterans are actually not idle either, and the intensity of the training is quite high.

According to the current strength and weapons, the guerrillas will have 4 to 5 companies. What kind of training will be carried out according to this standard? The assault soldiers will have to undergo cross-country and obstacle training, right? The whole army will have to undergo marksmanship training, right? The light machine gun group will need to train new machine gunners in case of emergency, right? 12 Min-48 heavy machine guns will require the training of at least heavy machine gunners, right?

(End of this chapter)