After the training, Xu Zilin asked the monk to bring a thick coat for Han Feng for the first time, put it on him without saying anything, and scolded him: "Old Han, you let me say what is good about you, you will be discharged from the hospital early before your injury has healed, just brave the wind and snow along the way to rush back, this winter is still bare-chested, do you really want to make yourself sick again, so that you can be idle yourself, right?"

Do you know how much pressure I have to face every day during the more than four months that you have been injured and hospitalized? Thousands of soldiers in a regiment are waiting for me to give an order, and I am afraid that one day I will give the wrong order and harm my comrades again. ”

Han Feng smiled: "Lao Xu, you are too modest, you see that you are not doing very well!" Don't worry, I'm fine, didn't you say that the comrades are lifeless, as soon as I toss like this, you can rest assured, all of them are alive and energetic. ”

"That's right...... Let's not talk about these things for a while, let's hurry back to the regiment headquarters, monk, you immediately burn a pot of charcoal, the regiment commander has just returned to the regiment, don't fall ill again. ”

"Hey!" Monk Wei answered and went to prepare.

In the small room, the windows were slit, and when the stored dry wood was lit in the brazier, the warmth quickly filled the whole room, and the body was extremely comfortable, and the mind was clear, and the chatter became relaxed, and the six people sat in a circle.

Xu Zilin added dry firewood to the brazier with the blacksmith's own fire tongs, and said with a smile: "Regiment leader, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief when you come back, from your training today, I also see very clearly, our new third regiment can do without monks, or without my political commissar Xu Zilin, but it must not be without you, the regiment leader."

You are like the soul of the new third regiment, you are here, the new third regiment is there, if you are not there, the entire new third regiment will lose its soul, in the past four months, you don't know how low the mood of the soldiers in the regiment is, to be honest, I have never seen the soldiers of a regiment so dependent on a regiment commander. ”

It was the first time for Han Feng to hear such words, and while his heart was shaking, he couldn't help but laugh: "Lao Xu, don't talk about these useless things, our fighters are fighters who belong to the party, soldiers who belong to the people, soldiers who belong to the motherland, not fighters who belong to anyone, let alone soldiers who belong to me, the head of the regiment."

The new third regiment can't survive without me, the head of the regiment?

So what if one day an order from the headquarters came and asked me to be transferred to another place to be the head of the regiment?

The fighters will always get used to it, and as for the current one, it's just because it's still a short time, just because the soldiers believe that I can get out of the hospital alive. ”

"In any case, without your leadership, the combat effectiveness of this army will be greatly reduced."

"We have this confidence."

The fire in the brazier gradually burned, Han Feng took out a gap in the middle of the brazier, the ashes pressed by the firewood, and with the injection of air, the fire became more and more vigorous.

He smiled and said, "See, this is the old proverb, fire must be hollow, and people must be loyal."

Lao Xu, I have been away from the regiment for so long, and I don't know the specific situation, what has the regiment developed into now? ”

Xu Zilin said: "I heard the monk and Duan Peng say that the two of them also told you about the situation in the regiment, and after this series of battles, the losses in our regiment are very large.

The regiment was originally nearly 3,000 men, but after the battle was over, only more than 1,000 soldiers survived, and the casualties reached almost half.

The family is almost exhausted, there are still a few heavy artillery pieces, but there is not a single shell left, and now if the whole regiment is pulled out, the average person can get no more than three bullets. ”

"Three!"

Han Feng stood up suddenly, and the wind that brought up blew a few sparks in the air, and the sparks lost their heat, and quickly disappeared in the cold snap, restoring the pitch black of the whole body, I don't know if they turned into ashes or fell somewhere.

"How is it that there is such a shortage of ammunition? That's impossible. ”

Shi Wencai, the commander of the first battalion, said: "Regiment commander, what the political commissar said is true!" ”

Han Feng regained his composure, slowly sat down on his bench, looked at Shi Wencai and said, "The situation should not be the same as I thought, Old Shi, you can explain it carefully!" ”

"Yes! Regiment commander, after these battles, our ammunition loss is indeed very large, not to say that each person can not get three bullets, these two county towns were attacked, plus a Japanese 21 brigade, we did capture some materials on hand.

But now there are a lot of us! There are more than 6,000 people in the whole regiment, and then all the ammunition is fired, and one gun is not enough for two people, and the political commissar said that each person can be divided into three bullets, which I think is a bit too much. ”

It's just that at this moment, Han Feng couldn't care about the ammunition that Shi Wencai said, he was just surprised, "When will our regiment have more than 6,000?" That's not a small amount. ”

Xu Zilin said depressedly: "Speaking of which, thanks to you, the regiment commander, all the battles were fought, and Heyuan County was also saved, after we returned to Heyuan County to garrison, the people in the county really fulfilled the promise of leaving at that time, and a large number of people came to us to join the army, and I couldn't refuse, so I took all those young ones, but I didn't expect that there would be so many people, and in the end, there were more than 6,000 in the whole regiment."

That's it, and the county guard army formed by the people of Heyuan County has not been counted, and if it is counted again, our number will be even more. ”

Sun Desheng said: "Damn, we have so many people now, how many little devils come, let's eat it too." ”

The monk and the other two battalion commanders nodded in agreement, and political commissar Xu Zilin did not refute, but Han Feng shook his head slowly.

After a while, he said heavily: "No, we have to retreat!" ”

"What? Fall back? Shi Wencai's face changed, "Regiment leader, we have more than 6,000 people now, why should we withdraw?" Are you worried that the little devils will come to encircle us? Can't we even keep a county seat with more than 6,000 people? ”

Han Feng didn't answer, just looked at the political commissar Xu Zilin and said, "Old Xu, they don't understand, but you went to the headquarters for a meeting, you shouldn't have told the big guy what the headquarters meant, right?" ”

Xu Zilin looked at Han Feng with a shocked gaze: "Leader, you know all this!" Who told you that? ”

"It doesn't matter who told me, since I'm back now, you can tell everyone about the order conveyed by the headquarters!"

"Good! I'll just tell the big guys directly, the order of the headquarters, after the battle of the hundred regiments, all the teams were divided into pieces and continued to enter the remote mountains to conduct guerrilla warfare, Heyuan County and Wucheng County, the regiment commander was right, we all have to give up. ”

"But why?" The faces of the other four were all written with doubt.

"Lao Xu, you explain to them."

Xu Zilin said: "There are some situations that you don't know, I also learned after I came back from the meeting at the headquarters, we have won a big victory in the battle of 100 regiments, but the price we paid in this battle is also not small, not to mention, just take the number of people we died in this battle, it is more than twice as much as the Japanese army."

Not only that, we have preserved our strength in the base area and continued to develop secretly for so many years, and after this war, it can be regarded as completely exposed.

Now not only the Japanese army, but even the fruit army is always on guard against us, the devils will not eat this dumb loss, they will definitely come to take revenge on us, carry out a brutal sweep of our base area, continue to stay in Heyuan County and Wucheng County, our new third regiment will be in danger.

Even if we have more than 6,000 people in the whole regiment, but if you think about it, the recruits account for seventy or eighty percent, as I said just now, the per capita is not even a gun, three bullets, such a tattered equipment, once the Japanese soldiers press the border, planes and tanks are mobilized, what do we use to fight with others? ”

Xu Zilin said the truth, and as soon as the simple truth was said, Shi Wencai and the others were silent.

After a while, the silence in the room was broken by Han Feng: "Old Xu, since you already knew the meaning of the headquarters, why didn't you plan to tell me in advance?" Or do you want to see if I have any ideas? ”