The strongest militia

() The **du li brigade stationed in Xingtai saw that the division headquarter was still preserved except for those things cast in cement, and the rest of the things that could be dismantled were completely dismantled by Deng Chenggong and others.What even made du li brigade commander Bi Xiangjun dumbfounded was that Deng Chenggong and others scoured all the phone money laid in the division headquarters.This kind of sweep like locusts crossing the border really shocked the Japanese soldiers stationed here.

The first time Bi Xiangjun arrived in Xingtai City was to arrange troops to take over Xingtai's defense, and the rest of the surviving former division soldiers were also dispersed by him to enrich his own troops.Looking at the devastated division headquarters, Bi Xiangjun, who was somewhat prepared before coming here, had to admit that these militiamen were no different from bandits.

In order to prevent Xingtai from being attacked in the future, most of Bi Xiangjun's brigade soldiers were stationed in the city defense positions this time, and only a small number of them began to rebuild the division headquarters.Seeing that the soldiers he brought at least had houses to sleep in, Bi Xiangjun couldn't help but feel thankful that the bandits didn't demolish the house of the division headquarters, otherwise his thousands of soldiers would have to sleep on the streets.

After calling the chief of staff of the former division headquarters who survived this time, he asked about the situation of the militia brigade, and learned that the other party was indeed a unit adapted from bandits.Just because they attacked the family of a division commander-level officer in **, today's situation is somewhat difficult to deal with.Bi Xiangjun's first reaction to Deng Chenggong's militia brigade was that these people should not be provoked easily, unless they can be eliminated at once, there will be endless troubles.

After understanding this, Bi Xiangjun did not rush to send troops out to investigate the movement of the militia brigade, but focused on consolidating Xingtai city defense.For him, the order he received was to solve the bandit army that captured Xingtai and ensure that Xingtai was safe.In his opinion, the former is a little difficult. After all, the opponent's activities are in the countryside or even deep in the mountains. It may not be effective to encircle and suppress this kind of troops even if he has a few thousand more people in his hands.

What's more, he has learned from the surviving soldiers that the attitude of this army towards the common people is still good.They don't have the habits of bandits, and they can be called an army supported by ordinary people. Bi Xiangjun still appreciates this kind of army.For this reason, most of his orders to encircle and suppress the opponent were rejected with excuses. Anyway, at the moment, he only needs to ensure that Xingtai will not fall.

The attitude expressed by Bi Xiangjun also quickly received feedback from the militia brigade. Several county brigades that had been wandering around Xingtai all retreated to their respective defense areas to rest and recuperate after Bi Xiangjun showed no hostility.This made Bi Xiangjun even more certain that this is a unit that doesn't like to fight against the police, as long as everyone lives in peace, the other party will not intentionally provoke trouble.This is undoubtedly the most favorable situation for Bi Xiangjun, who is eager to change the status quo in Xingtai.

Deng Chenggong, who had also moved his headquarters to Yinlong Valley, also began to increase the construction of the base after seeing the new Xingtai City Defense Officer and not being in the mood to pay attention to them.In order to better control the troops, Deng Chenggong decided to establish an officer training school in Yinlong Valley after discussing with Hu Guangzong and others.At the same time, according to the current situation that the regular militia has exceeded [-], it has been decided to upgrade the militia brigade to the level of a militia column, and he will be the commander of the column.The candidate for the deputy commander was naturally Hu Guangzong, the director of the political department of the column was Xu Mingyuan, and the post of chief of staff was also given to Liu Guang who joined the militia with Hu Guangzong.

After the headquarters was upgraded, the militia teams at all levels below naturally had to establish a command organization, and the original county brigade was expanded into a militia regiment.The head of the brigade took over as the head of the regiment, and the political director was sent by the headquarters to ensure that the militia team could be in the hands of the headquarters.Moreover, through the confiscation of materials from the attack on Xingtai this time, Deng Chenggong formed another artillery regiment directly under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, a cavalry regiment, a Jingwei regiment, and a special flying eagle detachment directly under Deng Chenggong's command.

Although the level has risen, Deng Chenggong is very aware of the strength of these troops under his command, and even if they rely on ambushes and sneak attacks, if they really want to pull them out to fight in a positional battle, it is estimated that they have a division-level army and let them be defeated.For this reason, as soon as the military academy in Yinlong Valley was established, Deng Chenggong transferred several militia regiment commanders and battalion commander-level officers in the controlled area to the military academy for training.It is changed every three months, and it will not be terminated until all low-level officers have received training.

While strengthening military preparations, Deng Chenggong also put forward a proposal to regularize the militia, relying on the quilt factory already established in the Yinlong base, and began to change all the regular militia.And according to the corresponding official position, the military rank corresponding to the current era will be distributed.As for his commander, he was also appointed by Deng Chenggong as a major general, and the four major leaders of the headquarters are all major generals.The heads of the remaining militia regiments were awarded the rank of colonel, and the uniforms were also camouflage uniforms that did not exist in this era.The armband on the clothes is a very direct word for militia. After a change of clothes, this army, which looks like a bandit to outsiders, has also become regular.If it weren't for the word militia on the armband, no one would treat them as a third-rate army like the militia.

As for the choice of camouflage uniforms as official military uniforms, it was Deng Chenggong's selfishness. After all, the printing and dyeing technology of this era was limited, and it was impossible to print and dye the camouflage uniforms of later generations.However, it is still possible to dye the white cloth into grass green, so that although the troops look uniform in uniform, others still think the clothes are strange no matter how they look.It wasn't until Deng Chenggong made the first batch of camouflage uniforms and let the Flying Eagle Special Forces wear them into the bushes that Hu Guangzong realized that these clothes undoubtedly provided an extra layer of protection for the militia columns whose base was built in the mountains. cover.Without careful observation, it is difficult to find the camouflage uniforms that are close to the vegetation.

After the militia column completely changed their outfits, Deng Chenggong took Qin Ming, who had been reassigned to his side as a police guard, and a flying eagle special force led by Wu Zhongyuan, and started a patrol in the controlled area.He also took a look at how the lives of the people in the area controlled by nearly [-] militiamen were like.

The first place Deng Chenggong inspected was Xingtai, which was established as a sub-base. At this time, Xingtai started from here because the militia brigade started, and all the villages in the jurisdiction were fortress households of the militia brigade.In addition, Deng successfully used the method of boiling frogs in warm water. Except for the land of small troops in the control area, it was still controlled by some landlords, and the rest of the land of large troops had been allocated to villagers in various villages.

Although the land harvest is not very satisfactory these years, without the apportionment of the government and the exploitation of the landlords, the life of the common people in the jurisdiction area is several times better than before.Originally, the clothes of the family were worn out by adults and given to children. Now at least every commoner can still be self-sufficient in terms of clothing.

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the people in his base area are much more than before, Deng Chenggong, who has been desperately accumulating strength, also feels very comforted in his heart.Through the smiles of these people, it can at least prove that the development policy he is currently implementing is still very correct.

During the inspection, Deng Chenggong would patiently explain to some villagers who did not understand why they had to dig tunnels in the village, and they might face the aggression of little devils next.Although the strength of the militia column has increased a lot, it can only take defensive operations in the face of the little devil's aggression for the time being. The excavation of these tunnels is to prepare for the future.

As the footsteps of 37 years approached day by day, Deng Chenggong knew that there was not much time left for them. For this reason, after calling several county militia heads for a meeting, he issued an order for all villages in the controlled area to build a road. It is connected to the tunnel in the mountains outside the village, and there is also a warehouse for storing villagers' grain.This is a dead order, and it must be completed unconditionally.Although these militia chiefs didn't understand what kind of tunnels to dig properly, but seeing Deng Chenggong's serious face in announcing orders that could not be refuted, most of them were very serious about digging tunnels and holes in their own areas.

Because some villages are located on plains, there are no mountains to drill. Deng Chenggong asked them to extend the tunnels to several miles outside the village as much as possible.In this way, in the event of an irresistible situation, the villagers can also leave the village immediately through the tunnel and enter the sub-base established by the militia column to live.Moreover, in order to achieve the effect that all the people are soldiers, Deng Chenggong took the time to compile a combat textbook on tunnel warfare, mine warfare, sparrow warfare, and harassment warfare.Distribute these textbooks to commanders at the level of village militia captains. With these combat textbooks, it is believed that these militia commanders will be able to make corresponding defense and counterattack plans when encountering little devils in the future.

In a word, as long as Deng Chenggong thought of suggestions about the war of resistance, they were implemented in the controlled area without reservation.Even for some children in the village aged 16 to [-], he formed a children's regiment under the village militia according to the People's Party's anti-Japanese tradition.In addition to distributing ten catties of food to them every month, they can also conduct live ammunition shooting training with the militia team once a month.

In this way, the control area can be said to be a real iron bucket. Originally, the intelligence personnel of the Nationalist Party and the People's Party could find out some falsehoods when they entered the village, but with the strengthening of these defense methods, they gradually lost the corresponding effect.Most of these intelligence personnel were reported to the village militia team by the people not long after they entered the village, and after being interrogated by the militia team, they were unceremoniously driven out of their villages.

It is precisely because of this strict precautionary measure that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the little devils knew nothing about the situation of the militia columns in the occupied area. In addition, the rest of the control area has become the world of militia columns.

When Deng Chenggong walked non-stop along the control area from south to east, he finally came to the Qingyuan militia station in Baoding, North China.This militia group was also expanded within less than two months of its establishment.Its head, Zhao Changbao, was originally from Ranzhuang, Qingyuan, but later worked as a long-term laborer in a landlord's family in Xingtai to make a living.Later, after the landlord was liquidated by Deng Chenggong's militia brigade, he resolutely joined the militia brigade, which was still in its infancy at the time. Later, he performed well in military training and later battles, and was promoted step by step to his current position.

For this reason, when 80.00% of the villages in Qingyuan had formed militia teams, Deng Chenggong decided to form a militia group of about 500 people, with Zhao Changbao, a local, as the first militia leader.For this reason, after being notified that Deng Chenggong had arrived outside the regiment headquarters, Zhao Changbao walked out to greet him with Fan Wen, the newly appointed political director.

After getting off his horse, Deng Chenggong walked into the newly formed militia station, and said happily: "Changbao, Fan Wen, your work is going well. I came all the way just now, and I found that your station is very good, that is, the hidden It is also good for defense, and this place is relatively close to the Taihang Mountains, so it will be convenient for you to move if there is any situation. It seems that you have had a lot of luck in the past two months!"

Zhao Changbao and Zhao Changbao who were praised a lot were naturally happy. After all, they knew that the captain was a leader who didn't like to praise others. Hearing words of praise from him was enough to prove that they had done a good job during this period of time.

Zhao Changbao smiled with embarrassment and said: "Actually, the local militiamen spent a lot of time looking for this place. Director Fan and I came here to observe and started construction because we thought it was a good place. In addition, the heads of the headquarters asked for money. Give money, ask people to give people, if we still can't put on a good face, we will really be ashamed to see people."

Seeing that Zhao Changbao was still so modest, Deng Chenggong nodded with a smile and said: "Although what you said is good, the fact that you can complete the construction of the resident in two months is enough to prove that you have put a lot of effort into it. It should be Those who praise should still be praised, you are welcome.

This time I will not stay here for too long, and I will still visit the Xinxian militia.I heard from San Fatty that the work over there is not going very smoothly, and this time it is inevitable that I will go over to see the situation.I came here this time to see how your preparations are going, and another important thing is to see how the tunnel digging in Ranzhuang, the tunnel pilot village I proposed last time, is going.You know, in order to do a good job in your Ranzhuang tunnel pilot project, our headquarters spent a lot of money. If you still don't see any results, don't blame me for hitting you two! "

Few people may know the place of Ranzhuang, but when it comes to the famous tunnel warfare during the Anti-Japanese War in later generations, this village has to be mentioned.And when he received for the first time that Ranzhuang had established a militia squad, Deng Chenggong felt that this anti-Japanese base, which was originally famous in later generations, could not be lost in history.For this reason, when forming the county militia group, he deliberately allocated [-] yuan of ocean as pilot funds for excavating the Ranzhuang Tunnel.What he wants is to strive to establish a complete authentic battlefield in this village before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, so that the little devils will be frightened.

Regarding Deng Chenggong's proposal to see how the tunnel excavation in Ranzhuang is going, Zhao Changbao said confidently: "Please rest assured, Commander, since we accepted the order, Director Fan and I have been taking turns watching the tunnel excavation in Ranzhuang. Now basically every house has a tunnel entrance, and there is a network of tunnels in and outside the village. After dinner, I will take you to see it in person, and I promise not to let you down."

Seeing Zhao Changbao's confidence, Deng Chenggong smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll wait to see your results."