Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 538 Chapter 537, respective stations

To use a rhetorical expression, that is Li Yuexuan's eyes, flashing with excitement! Although, this light is the light of the reflected lantern...

At this moment, there was a little man in Li Yuexuan's heart shouting: "Surprise, what is a surprise, what is a fucking surprise? The guerrillas now are a surprise!"

Li Yuexuan knew that the Eighth Route Army had a strong ability to recruit troops, and he also knew that the guerrillas had developed, but what he did not expect was that after they left, the guerrillas' strength doubled, so that after they came back, the guerrillas' strength increased to 2150 people, equivalent to the size of a main regiment.

What is the key point? The key is that these 2150 soldiers are veterans who have experienced at least one battle, and at least half of them are elite soldiers who have survived multiple battles! This is very important! Because in some other regiments, many squad leaders and even platoon leaders do not have much combat experience, and some squad leaders are simply new recruits who have been in the army for one or two months.

The troops are streamlined, and the recruits with little combat experience are streamlined. They are sent back to the local areas and the militias. They are reduced! And what about the guerrillas? What we need to do now is to refine these veterans with combat experience or the new recruits who have just left the rookie stage and gradually develop them into elite troops!
What does this mean? If we can really make all our troops elite and combine them with the existing equipment level, then the combat effectiveness of the guerrillas will be no less than that of a brigade-level unit!
Then we need to develop the militia! Since we are required to streamline the military and government and develop local armed forces, then we should work hard to develop them! Once the militias in the bases controlled by the guerrillas are trained, we can at least have a team of more than 1 people, right? The guerrillas will not expand infinitely like Li Yunlong did, and suddenly they have more than 1 regular troops, but we can also have more than 1 militias at once!
With more than 2100 regular troops carrying out the main attack and more than 1 militiamen providing support, even if a brigade of Japanese invaders comes to raid, they can't easily get out of the base!

Thinking about these things in his mind, Li Yuexuan had a smile on his face, and the meeting continued.

"According to Captain Peregrine, our artillery company still needs a special combat platoon, drivers who can drive trucks, an artillery squad, and a special ammunition transportation squad! The rest is easy to say, but where will the combat platoon personnel come from? Will they be drawn from all the companies, or will a special platoon be specially selected?" At this time, Zhu Xingyu raised a question.

"Let's draw some soldiers from our First Battalion...ah, First Squad to form this close combat support platoon!" Zheng Changfeng said, "Our First Squad has the most soldiers, and all the new recruits have martial arts skills and have participated in the First Line Sky battle. Therefore, it is most appropriate to draw 60 soldiers from our First Squad to form this close combat support platoon!"

"Drop 60 people?" Zhao Danian's voice was a little loud, but after thinking for a while, he said, "That's fine, it's not too many. 60 soldiers are enough to resist the roundabout attacks of a small group of Japanese devils, and they can also perform part of the team headquarters defense work. Then, let's discuss the garrison locations of each squad! Squadron , you are most familiar with Baijing Town, how about you station in Baijing Town tomorrow?"

"Baijing Town is great, and our first squad is the best choice! With us guarding Baijing Town, no matter if the Japanese come from the west, the east, or from Zhaojiayu in the north, they will never be able to come over!" Zheng Changfeng said.

"Well, second team, you should organize the team tonight and then set up camp in Huidong Village! How about the villages around Huidong Village be your defense zones?" Zheng Changfeng looked at Guo Liandong.

"This is the best. We just need to transfer the original 2nd Company, now the 4th Company! But in this way, will the Liangjia Village team headquarters be left without troops?" Guo Liandong asked.

"It's not like we're short of troops. When you left Liangjia Village, we still had the special operations team and the heavy cavalry company. The special service squad is back too, so we won't be short of troops! In addition, there's the 1st Battalion to the northwest, the 3rd Regiment of the st Division to the west, and the nd and rd Squads to the east. The Japanese would need wings to fly to our Liangjia Village! By the way, I suggest that the headquarters of the rd Squad be located in Ceyu Town. What do you think?"

Listening to Zhao Danian's words, Chen Changsheng interjected: "It doesn't matter if it is placed in Ceyu Town, it can take care of the north, south and east. But we can't give up on Qigeng Village!" "You are the squad leader, you have the final say on the defense work of that area! You are the one who has fought in hundreds of battles, you must understand how to arrange the defense, right?" Zhao Danian said.

"Hey, now that you have delegated your power, we can give full play to our abilities!" said Chen Changsheng.

"When did I not let you give full play to your abilities?" Zhao Danian glared at Chen Changsheng and said, "Work hard, stabilize the base, and develop the militia. This is the key to ensuring the smooth production of the arsenal! The smooth production and expansion of the arsenal are the key to the rapid development of our First Division! The 385th Brigade has also returned recently, just to the east, so we are still very safe."

"The 385th Brigade is back? That's right, they should have come back a long time ago! This time they traveled so far and fought continuously, they finally made a name for themselves in the army!" said Li Yuexuan.

"You're still talking about others? We heard that you set a fire in Yitiantian and smoked the Japanese tanks as if they were rabbits, and smoked the Japanese out of their turtle shells! Even so, you didn't let these Japanese go, and you attacked them all at once, causing a river of blood in Yitiantian! We have to say, when it comes to your cruelty to the Japanese, our entire army admires you!" Zhu Xingyu said with a smile.

"Hey, it's the comrades of the First Battalion who are fighting. My contribution is not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning! Look, the first-class collective merit awarded to the First Battalion... the First Squad is proof of that!" Li Yuexuan said.

"Haha, the first squad, the first battalion... We have to get used to this title first. When the head of the headquarters asks us about it, we will be confused, haha..." Zhao Danian smiled and continued, "Okay, we have said what we need to say, and the votes have been taken. It's time for the comrades who have returned to have some hot meals! Yan Jinghuai? Bring the noodles, we're ready to eat..."

Although Li Yuexuan's food and allowances were both above the standard, much higher than those of the head of the headquarters, he always treated these issues equally with officers and soldiers. For example, when it came to meals, he rarely made exceptions. He ate what everyone else ate, and he would use the allowances that he couldn't spend to buy things for the comrades in the special service squad to improve their meals.

Therefore, the white hand-rolled noodles, paired with the oily fried sauce, made Li Yuexuan's belly full and even his burps were filled with fragrance.

“Haha, the soybean paste used for stir-frying this time is made by ourselves, the beans are grown by ourselves, and the pork belly is from pigs we raised ourselves! By the way, the pork from castrated pigs is indeed more fragrant than that from pigs castrated without oil!” Zhao Danian said this after seeing Li Yuexuan was full.

"That's just what we have in mind. If it were somewhere else, we would be lucky to have meat to eat! By the way, the wild boars we left behind from hunting two years ago have returned this year, bringing with them several litters of baby wild boars. This winter's hunting will be another bumper harvest!" It seems that the guerrillas are developing really well. Zhu Xingyu no longer concealed anything when he spoke. He even said that hunting was not just target shooting anymore...

(End of this chapter)