Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

It is good to be a soldier. It is glorious to be a soldier. Soldiers and the people have a deep bond and are like one family! When there are difficulties, the soldiers will be there! This is the general understanding of people in later generations.

But in this era, the relationship between soldiers and the people is not so harmonious. There are few troops like the Eighth Route Army that truly put the people in their hearts. There are few troops like the Eighth Route Army that do not harm the people and always think about protecting the people! The people have sharp eyes and can see clearly who is good to them.

Therefore, in the Eighth Route Army's base, once the announcement was made to recruit soldiers, young people of appropriate age would rush to join the army, for fear of being left behind.

Ordinary people may have all kinds of little thoughts in mind, such as if someone in the family joins the army, the village and clan will not be bullied; if the children join the army, if they do a good job, they may become officers, which is the class transition from ordinary people to officials; if the children join the army, the family can reduce some food consumption, especially those fifteen or sixteen-year-old children, which is just the right age to eat...

Of course, there were also honest people who wanted to send their children to join the army, and then go to kill the enemy to serve the country and avenge their fellow villagers! Especially those families and villages that had blood feuds with the devils.

No one is perfect in the world. So no matter what the people think, as long as they send their children to the team, they are great! Therefore, whether it is the independent regiment, the new regiment, or the Beishan detachment, thousands of new recruits have been added to the team in just over 4 months, allowing the overall force to be reorganized or even overstaffed.

For the training and education of new recruits, the Eighth Route Army has naturally developed a set of effective methods over the years! For example, at the beginning, new recruits not only have to learn to read and write, but also have ideological education classes and grievance meetings from time to time... Through these means, the new recruits' thoughts are gradually transformed from the original social youth to the thoughts of soldiers with faith and strength under the leadership of the Party.

At the same time, these soldiers also went from being illiterate to being able to read at least a few hundred common characters. Although they were not intellectuals, they could still read newspapers and write letters! Of course, as they served in the army for a longer time, they would master more knowledge, which was a certainty.

It is not enough to just provide the recruits with knowledge and military training. They must have sufficient practical experience to help them grow!

The combat effectiveness of veterans who have experienced the battlefield is different from that of new recruits who have never been to the battlefield, and their reactions to emergencies are also different, so new recruits must complete this lesson!
On the mountain road on the east side of Jigongling, there is a training ground for the first brigade, which is also the garrison of the entire Jigongling defense line. At this time, 500 new recruits are gathered here with great expectations, waiting for their first mission since they were incorporated into the company. The reason why there are 500 people is that the remaining 1000 new recruits need to stay in the base to continue training and wait for the first batch to come back before setting off.

"Captain, would you like to say a few words?" On the Jigongling position, Guo Zhongmin looked at the neatly arranged troops and asked Zhao Danian who was standing next to him.

"Then say a few words..." Zhao Danian took out a loudspeaker, which turned out to be a battery-powered speaker that was captured from the Japanese. It had a very loud sound.

"Ahem, comrades..." Zhao Danian glanced at the new recruits standing at attention, and then continued, "Comrades, you have been in the army for more than four months, and have been in the company for a month. You have heard the battle stories of the veterans, right? Now, it's your turn to go out and fight!"

"We are the Eighth Route Army, an army under the leadership of the Party, and the Beishan Detachment! Our mission is to protect the people, the base areas, the Taihang Mountains where our ancestors have lived, our parents and sisters, our wives and children, and every inch of land under our feet!" "In the past few months, you have grown from ignorant young people to educated young people who can read and write letters by themselves; from ordinary people with only brute force, you have grown into a soldier who is familiar with all tactical movements, can fight with bayonets and dig trenches, can go up the mountains to kill the enemy secretly, and can shoot. All of this is inseparable from your sweat and tears, and even more inseparable from the hard work of the people!"

"But, winter is coming, and the Japanese devils can't sit still. They know that our base has a good harvest, so they want to enter our base to raid it, burn our houses, steal our food, and by the way, take our sisters back to their base and wantonly abuse them!"

"So, we can't just sit there and wait for death, we can't just watch helplessly, we must pick up our weapons and fight the enemy! Anyone who wants to take our food has to ask the bullets in our gun barrels, the bayonets on the muzzles, our fists, and our blood!"

"Now, I ask you, are you ready? Are you ready to fight to the death with the Japanese devils for the people behind you and the land under your feet? Answer me loudly, are you ready?"

"Ready at all the time!"

"Okay, very good! Now, I declare that your mission has begun! In a moment, your company and platoon leaders will come to call for people. If they say so, just follow them, get your equipment, and go out to kill the enemy!"

After Zhao Danian finished speaking, he walked to the side. Then someone came up, took the loudspeaker, and started calling people with a small notebook.

According to the battle plan with the independent regiment and the new regiment, the first batch of 500 recruits were mostly recruits from combat units, and most of them were recruits from the second battalion. For these recruits, the entire squad of those with more recruits in the original squad was mobilized to take action. For those with fewer recruits in the squad, new recruits were selected to form combat squads, with veterans as squad leaders, deputy squad leaders, machine gunners and other backbones leading the training for half a month.

The personnel read out at this time are the previously prepared personnel. They are just reorganized and distributed with supplies and equipment.

In this battle, the new soldiers were equipped with 6.5mm Type rifles from the warehouse, while the veterans were equipped with mature weapons such as Qi Lali light machine guns, assault rifles, and semi-automatic rifles, as well as a small number of submachine guns, shotguns, and shotguns.

As for supplies, each soldier will carry 10 days of marching rations (fried noodles); for ammunition, the bullet quota for the Type 80 rifle is 120 rounds, the semi-automatic is 300 rounds, the Qi Lali light machine gun is 5 rounds, and the dedicated submachine gun bullets are a full magazines. Of course, the transport team will also carry some boxed bullets, the quota is based on the number of firearms, plus a base number. (End of this chapter)