The War of Resistance

"Battal Commander, our two companies now have 153 box guns and 65 box guns, including 34 twenty-gun guns and 16 light machine guns." Cheng Peng reported to Shang Zhen, with Liu Keqiang standing next to him.

Shang Zhen said "Oh", nodded his head and whispered thoughtfully, "There are a little few cannons in the box. Twenty shots will be even less."

"Is it less? Why didn't I feel it?" Liu Keqiang didn't understand.

"How many?" Shang Zhen raised his head and asked, "What about the pistol company and the pistol brigade?"

"That's true." Cheng Peng and Liu Keqiang both agreed.

Nowadays, China is short of all kinds of weapons, but this box of artillery is the only one that is not lacking.

They were imported directly from Germany, bought from German arms dealers in Hong Kong, and copied by arsenals across China. No one can tell the specific number.

Which warlord doesn't have a standing pistol company under his command, so the gun he uses is naturally a twenty-ring speed machine.

And as Shang Zhen said, there are even warlords who have a pistol brigade, which means that the people in that brigade actually have a twenty-ring box cannon!

Although different brigades under different warlords have different strength, they must have two to three thousand men anyway, which means they have two to three thousand twenty-ring box cannons.

In this way, Shang Zhen and his two companies now only have 65 20-shot box guns, which is indeed a shortage!

"Batalion Commander, do you want so many boxes of cannons?" Cheng Peng asked curiously.

Before Shang Zhen could answer, Liu Keqiang also asked: "Do you want to organize a death squad?"

No wonder Liu Keqiang thinks so. The standard equipment for the death squads organized by the National Army nowadays is often a twenty-ring box cannon, plus a machete or grenades.

But then he denied it himself: "No, we have two companies in total. If one company is sent out to serve as a death squad, less than half of our battalion will be lost.

"Stop guessing, I'll tell you." Shang Zhen smiled.

"Don't tell us!" Cheng Peng laughed.

"Why?" Shang Zhen was surprised.

"Hehe." Cheng Peng smiled, "Battalion Commander, you don't know, the people below us all compare you to Zhuge Liang, saying that you are good at calculating and never suffer losses in battles.

Then if you tell me why you prepared the box cannon, wouldn't it be just a clever trick from the storyteller?

At the most critical moment, seeing that the blood moves were gone, he opened the small bag and found a small note inside, and then the person below had a move. "

"What a bullshit." Shang Zhen was also amused by Cheng Peng, and after a while he said: "What I mean is that if we have a fight with the little devils, it is best to use box cannons to fire continuous rounds. The Japanese think that we are the elite of our division.

The Japanese would think that the division headquarters is here. Wouldn't the division headquarters be safe?

Of course, there are risks when we do this, so we must find a way out. "

Upon hearing what Shang Zhen said, Liu Keqiang and Cheng Peng realized that Shang Zhen had such an idea.

The two of them looked at each other, but neither spoke.

"Why don't you two stop talking?" Shang Zhen was curious.

"What's there to say? Is there anything you wouldn't dare to do?" Liu Keqiang said with a wry smile.

Shang Zhen laughed when he heard what others said, and then he began to wonder where to find the Japanese army. He also wondered whether the "spies" sent by Qian Chuan'er could bring the latest information about the Japanese.

Shang Zhen temporarily stationed his two companies in this small village.

It's just that this village is really small. Even if all the people in the village are kicked out, they can't accommodate nearly 300 people.

Fortunately, this village is called "Houyao Village", but it is used to bake bricks for villages and villages within a radius of dozens of miles. There is a large brick kiln outside the village, which can accommodate one-third of the soldiers.

Then Shang Zhen made another rule, asking everyone to sleep in the brick kiln in reverse order, one group of people sleeping one night, which was exactly three days.

He promised that if there was no news of the Japanese and puppet troops within three days, then they would continue to advance into their guerrilla zones.

Why doesn't Shang Zhen want to bring his people into the guerrilla zone? That's because he has his own petty ideas.

After all, it was his own territory. If he fought in his guerrilla zone, the people would definitely suffer heavy losses, but it would not be conducive for them to station there in the future. He still hoped that the battle would take place outside his guerrilla zone.

Shang Zhen understood that although his Northeast Army was the Northeast Army with the best military equipment, it was by no means the Eighth Route Army.

So he simply set an example and lived outside with the rest of the people. That was just a matter of getting firewood among the common people and using the sky as their bed and the earth as their bed.

Inspired by his daughter-in-law Leng Xiaozhi, before dark on the first day they were stationed in Houyao Village, Shang Zhen began to inspect the soldiers camping outside, and even started to chat with the soldiers.

What he said was that it is very hard to fight the Japanese now, but we cannot harm the people yet, and we can still count on the people to help us in the future! We can't ruin our camp's reputation just because we are happy for a moment.

It's something like that anyway.

The battalion commander was so courteous and polite to the soldiers that even if the soldiers had complaints in their hearts, they would never show them.

Then when he went into battle, he expressed his position at the right time: "Bring me some firewood, I will sleep here tonight!"

When Zhang Zhen said this, Liu Keqiang and Cheng Peng next to him naturally wanted to persuade him. For example, we could spend some money to let the battalion commander live in ordinary people's homes, or at the very least, he would have to live in a brick kiln.

Shang Zhen firmly disagrees!

Then if he lives outside, Liu Keqiang and Cheng Peng will naturally have no choice but to follow him.

Since the battalion commander and the two company commanders are sleeping outside, what's the difference between the platoon commanders of each company? have to! If there is a bedroll, use a bedroll. If there is no bedroll, then go to the common people's house and borrow firewood!

This is what Shang Zhen wants. It doesn't make sense for an officer to want the soldiers to obey without leading by example!

But Shang Zhen knew that this was not a long-term solution after all, so he asked Qian Chuan'er to constantly send people out to find out about the Japanese and puppet troops.

News keeps coming back, but the problem is that now is the so-called "Suppression" period of the Japanese army, and the Japanese and puppet troops are operating in large groups.

They don't want to mess with the large army now, but even if they want to sneak attack others, it is unrealistic to go on an expedition. So how can it be so easy for them to find a suitable target to attack?

Two days passed like this, and on the third day Shang Zhen thought, could he really take his people back to the guerrilla zone?

But this time, instead of waiting until dark, someone unexpectedly sent the information.

The person who came was a traffic officer named Li from the Lunan guerrillas, who sent him the news that Japanese and puppet troops would be going to Baodugu Village in the next two days.

It turned out that Shang Zhen didn't know that he had brought his soldiers to live in Houyao Village. The news had already spread through the mouths of the people.

It is said that there is a Northeastern army that neither robs nor beats people, nor harms the common people. This is new in the Chinese army nowadays. Is it the national army? That's the Eighth Route Army!

As a result, traffic officer Li contacted the soldiers Qian Chuaner had photographed. Knowing that Shang Zhen and the others wanted to fight the Japanese army, they simply sent the information over.

When Shang Zhen confirmed the accuracy of the information with Traffic Officer Li again, it was almost dark, but Shang Zhen laughed heartily and shouted: "Don't tell me, if you want to sleep after dark, someone will help you." Pillow!"

This is just a metaphor made by Shang Zhen, but what kind of pillow is he talking about? It was just a piece of log borrowed from an ordinary person's house.