Liu Gen is the commander of the first independent battalion in eastern Henan, he has been active in a piece of northeastern Henan before, originally thought that it would be better to come to this new territory in Henan, after all, there is a lot of room for development, and there are few competitors, but they only learned about the suffering of the world after they came here......

Damn, Henan people are poor, the people are poor at home, the family may only have one set of clothes, and several people in the family wear them in turns, and they are only wrapped in a pair of torn short pants at home.

Originally, he thought that it would not be a big deal for the common people to be poor, but the income from farming was small and the materials were scarce, and as long as they worked hard, they still had the opportunity to get rich.

However, after two years of development, he realized a truth, that is, the nearby bureaucrats and landlord class were too difficult to deal with, and if they were forced to reduce rent and interest, they would find shelter from officials layer by layer.

Then Liu Gen found out that the officials in Henan were exploiting the people together with the big landlords, the key is that the people can't resist, and resisting is death, and even they are still numb.

This is a very bad sign, numb to life, loss of confidence in the government, not very serious about everything, and even the phenomenon of cannibalism.

For this reason, Liu Gen made great efforts, but in the end there were no results, and the people in the vicinity were still afraid of the officials and landlords.

The reason is very simple, the Eighth Route Army can shelter them while they are here, what if the Eighth Route Army leaves? At that time, what should the landlord class do to take revenge on the common people?

It was a bit difficult to unite the common people, especially since they had a strong fear of the landlord class and did not dare to resist.

Sure enough, just recently, they received an order that many independent battalions in the vicinity must cooperate with the Li Feng Brigade of the Eighth Route Army in the south to meet the devils.

Liu Gen had heard of Li Feng, and he joined the army a year earlier than Li Feng, but he didn't expect this Li Feng to mix so well.

And just yesterday, he suddenly received news that the superiors had returned them to the Li Feng Brigade in the Eastern Henan Advance Column, and now they are still under the jurisdiction of the Li Feng Brigade, and they will be accompanied by the three independent battalions.

For this reason, the superiors asked them to go to Furong Town in the past few days to get to know the new superiors.

The commander of the 3rd Independent Battalion is called Luo Jin, and he came out of a company, and now he has also set off with people, presumably he will be able to see them on the road later.

Sure enough, the troops marched less than fifty miles before they encountered a group of ragged Eighth Route Army, these people looked similar to them, all of them were ragged cotton clothes and dog-eared hats, and there were even wounded.

"Lao Liu, you guys are a little slow, I've been waiting for you here for a long time!"

At this moment, a Luo Jin, who was wearing a torn army coat and hanging ears on both sides of his hat, walked over and smiled.

"Lao Luo, don't you have more than 300 people in your army, you don't seem to have more than 200 wounded!"

Liu Gen didn't talk nonsense, and pointed to the people on Luo Jin's side and said.

Luo Jin's face also frowned when he heard this, and he replied with a little sadness:

"Some time ago, the casualties in the battle were too great, and the little devil Kwantung Army was really powerful, and the strength of less than one squadron beat us like this.

If Li Feng hadn't directly sent a batch of supplies over, maybe my combat attrition would have been more serious.

Don't patronize me, your troops have suffered a lot of casualties! ”

As soon as he said this, Liu Gen's face was also a little uncomfortable, and he lit a cigarette and said bitterly:

"Don't mention it, I dealt with the nearby devil garrison, but they were so scattered that our battalion had to break up and block it, and then it was troublesome, and I almost let the devils break it through!

No, look at my deputy battalion commanders are all injured! ”

The two old brothers met, first complained for a while, and then talked about the problem of the new superior.

"I said Lao Luo, our new superiors are not very good-tempered, I heard Brigade Commander Chen say before that Li Feng's brain is not the same as ours, you said that our group of remnants will not be discriminated against by them when they go over, right?"

"I said Lao Liu, you are just worrying, haven't you heard of it? The militia nearby are armed with very good weapons and equipment, and I haven't seen Li Feng discriminate against them!

The combat effectiveness of our troops is a bit poor, but no matter what, it is stronger than the nearby militia, and it has been on the battlefield more times than these militias!

As long as we are given enough weapons and ammunition, I believe that our combat effectiveness will be able to raise a notch! ”

Luo Jin knew Li Feng's troops, and they also sent him a batch of supplies some time ago, otherwise he would probably be beaten by devils.

Liu Gen frowned a little suspiciously, he had only heard of Li Feng's brigade, but he had not specifically contacted it.

"Don't talk about anything else, I don't think your troops have a lot of things, even weapons, ammunition and food together, it's only three carriages, is this enough to survive this winter?"

Liu Gen talked about the problem of materials at this time, and then Luo Jin smoked a cigarette, looked at him with a smile and said:

"It's just that you kid don't know, I can tell you that Furong Town has prepared the supplies for us, and there is no need to worry about the problem of food at all, that is, you have to worry a little about weapons and equipment, after all, Li Feng and they have also fought a big battle recently, and the consumption of equipment is also very large!

However, I received news that Li Feng secretly purchased a batch of weapons, and I believe that we will not be too poor when we go over.

And the two of us together are only 500 people, Li Feng and their battalion of equipment is enough for us, our most important problem now is how to prove our worth!

So your brother should think about it first, what is so brilliant about you, the troops over there in Furong Town all speak according to their ability, as long as you are good enough, you can open your mouth if you want money, guns, and food! ”

Liu Gen couldn't help but frown again when he heard Luo Jin say this, why didn't he believe it? The Eighth Route Army still had such a rich army.

In the past, when I asked the brigade commander for equipment, the lawyer commander just said, if you don't have money, you want a life, and the brigade commander also said, if he has something, then what do you want you to do?

Now there are people who are willing to give them weapons and equipment.

The two battalions merged into one battalion, and continued to walk forward, and after walking less than thirty miles, they ran into several cavalry, and just when they thought it was the cavalry of the devil, they suddenly found that the other party was wearing the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army.

"Are the 1st and 3rd separate battalions ahead?"

At this moment, a cavalryman with a short gun in his hand asked Liu Gen and Luo Jin.

"I don't know which unit you belong to?"

Liu Gen didn't answer, but instead shouted at the other party, and immediately spoke.

"We are from the Li Feng Brigade in Furong Town, our captain asked me to pick you up here, and brought a truck, bring your wounded over first, let's send the wounded to the hospital first!"

After speaking, the two battalion commanders saw a big truck driving into their field of vision, and the two of them couldn't help but take a breath, but they didn't expect that Li Feng even had a truck.