Liao Fan didn't care much about how the Eighth Route Army dealt with what he did in the Jingcheng area, Liao Fan had already thought about it, it was nothing more than to lose money and apologize, he could do it, after all, the matter had happened, and the next two sides were nothing more than to negotiate this matter and seek the respective interests of both parties.

For Yan'an, Liao Fan's overall feeling is still respectful, although they are likely to be in charge of the future of China, but now that things have changed, this world is no longer the world where Liao Fan is.

Liao Fan does not know whether the future will develop in the direction of peaceful nation-building, but Liao Fan knows very well that Taihang Mountain is now an emerging force, and a new country must be built on the ruins of another country, and it can also be used for all aspects of China's current forces.

How should this country go in the future, should it go to the evil capitalism, and go to the beautiful Zen attack, Liao Fan can't make a decision, the decision he can make now is to do everything possible to beat the little devil out of the way.

Compared with thinking about the big things in the future, Liao Fan still has a lot of small things to do in his hands.

The first thing Liao Fan considered was Du Weize's suggestion to let Shen Zhengwen be the captain of the mine protection team.

The mine protection team is now nominally a force to maintain internal order in the Jingcheng mining area, but the force of nearly 3,000 people looks faster than the Japanese prisoners of war in the mining area.

Therefore, Liao Fan's plan is to set up some supernumerary troops of the new 33rd Army, once the time is ripe, that is, there is no need to rely on troops to maintain order in the mining area, then this army will become a regular army at any time.

In this regard, although it is a bit of a feeling to let Shen Zhengwen be the captain of the ducks, but Shen Zhengwen, as an intellectual, has the ability to learn new knowledge quickly, and he only manages the troops, and there are no other messy things to delay time, so he also has enough time to study.

Liao Fan decided to talk to Shen Zhengwen and let a person who didn't understand military affairs be the captain of the mine protection team, which was indeed a bit unprecedented, but Liao Fan believed that he would not be wrong. As for Shen Zhengwen's future performance, whether he can develop in a larger direction depends on Shen Zhengwen's learning ability.

"How's that, are you interested?"

After Liao Fan told Shen Zhengwen the detailed arrangements, he looked at Shen Zhengwen and then asked his opinion.

"Brother Fan, since I came to Taihang Mountain, I haven't done anything, and I will go to the mine guard team to be a colonel captain, I'm afraid this is a bit inappropriate, let those brothers know that I have no military merits and no qualifications to be the captain, they will definitely not obey my orders!"

Shen Zhengwen was still in a state of confusion, Liao Fan had come to him today to surprise him, and now he was asked to be the captain, he really hadn't reacted from the shock yet.

"I'm just asking if you're interested!" Liao Fan looked at Shen Zhengwen and said.

"Do you want to tell the truth?" Shen Zhengwen looked at Liao Fan and asked.

"Of course, I'm not here to joke with you today!"

"Brother Fan, to tell you the truth, when I followed you on a mission for the first time, I thought about being a soldier, and I also wanted to be a company commander, but this time I have to manage a troop of nearly 3,000 people, and I was really a little caught off guard! And ......"

"Okay, as long as you're interested, let's not talk about ability for the time being, you also know the rules of survival of the New 33rd Army, those who have the ability can be capable anywhere, and those who are not capable are redundant to be soldiers in our army!"

"Brother Fan, I don't want you like this!" Shen Zhengwen immediately understood what Liao Fan meant, where is this to let him be the captain of the mine protection team, this is to let him clean up the mess of the mine protection team, he has heard from Du Weize, the mine protection team is temporarily organized The components are very mixed, although there are many veterans, but they are all captured soldiers from all over the country, plus some local people, this Liao Fan obviously threw him a mess.

This is not a matter of incompetence at all, that is, some capable regiment commanders under Liao Fan may not be able to deal with this mine protection team.

Liao Fan was guessed by Shen Zhengwen, and smiled embarrassedly at Shen Zhengwen: "That...... Lao Shen, we are all our own brothers, even if we do my brother a favor, their division commanders are very protective of the regiment commander in their hands, Lao Tzu asked them several times, they just don't give it, there is a shortage of officers in each unit, otherwise I wouldn't send young talents like you to the battlefield, right? ”

"Yes, Brother Fan, let's take a closer look first!" Shen Zhengwen interrupted Liao Fan's words and said.

"Okay, let's not get close, let's talk about dreams, you said that the time you came to Taihang Mountain is not short, Liu Deyun wants to engage in education, Du Weize wants to engage in weapons, you don't have to be bad with them, they have all taken the first step, what about your dreams? Teaching children in school for a lifetime, of course, is good, teaching and educating people, cultivating future talents for the country, and maybe cultivating a great man! ”

"But you also know about education, as the saying goes, ten years of cultivation, a hundred years of education, talent is not a generation can be cultivated, and in ancient times there was a person who put pen from Rong, and now we have a Taihang Mountain also out of one, Shen Zhengwen from Rong, there are ancients and there are comers! Sounds so ambitious! ”

Liao Fan began to flicker, and Shen Zhengwen came.

"Brother Fan, that person is Ban Chao! You're really bad at fooling around! ”

"Hey, hey, no way, I'm a rough person, I can't compare with you cultural people, when it comes to this cultural person, I put forward the concept of managing the army last year, the top level of the army must be composed of intellectuals, not all of them are old and rough mud legs, although they can fight and fight, but a literate army can go further than a unit that doesn't know a word......

Shen Zhengwen heard Liao Fan's concept for the first time, since ancient times, all the people in Chinese are soldiers, planting crops and fighting grain when they are busy, and fighting in the army when they are slack, most intellectuals in ancient times are exempt from the military service system, so the people who go into battle to fight are uneducated peasants.

Now that he heard Liao Fan say that the army should have a cultured concept, Shen Zhengwen's understanding of the entire 33 rd Army was immediately enhanced, and a cultured army should not mention the ability to fight a war, and with the development of science and technology, they will inevitably be the first to learn how to use the new science and technology.

"I'm going to be the captain of this team, but I have a few conditions!" Shen Zhengwen said suddenly.

Liao Fan hadn't finished what he said just now, and after hearing Shen Zhengwen's agreement, he quickly closed his mouth, this time it was his turn to be confused, could it be that he said something "wrong" that made this guy change his attitude.

No matter what he said, since Shen Zhengwen agreed, it was a hundred conditions, and Liao Fan was willing to agree.

"First, first of all, the mine protection team is subordinate to the military department, has absolute autonomy, and the most important thing is that it can't give us a tight spell!" Shen Zhengwen thought about it and put forward his first condition, what he wanted was the right to manage.

If you want the mine protection team to have combat effectiveness, you can't listen to the orders of the command headquarters dozens of kilometers away, and when the command command orders are issued, the daylilies will be cold.

"This can be ...... Be sure to submit a detailed report to the command afterwards, though! ”

Liao Fan must be well aware of the affairs of the troops, and there must be no mistakes, and the best way to understand the troops is to truthfully submit the reports submitted by the troops.

Shen Zhengwen nodded, it was not difficult for him to write a report, and then he put forward the second condition: "Second, I need a few experienced officers, Brother Fan, you give me such a mess, I can't manage the troops with my bare hands!" ”

"I'm afraid there is a problem with this, the officers of all units are holding on like treasures, but I have already transferred two deputy captains from Ma Wanzhong to you!"

"Two vice-captains are far from enough, the officers I want are those who are injured and retired, although they are missing an arm and a leg, but it's okay to give me some advice on the side!"

Shen Zhengwen didn't plan to ask for officers in various units, he knew that these officers had crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and even if several division commanders agreed, they were not willing to go to such an irregular unit as the mine protection team.

"Of course that's fine!"

For Liao Fan to let those injured and retired officers continue to exert their residual heat in the troops, this is simply an undesirable thing, not only does he not need to transfer officers from various units, but he can also solve the problem of the placement of a group of retired officers in the troops.

"As for the third condition, of course, there is the issue of weapons and equipment......

The two of them talked for a long time, and one after another, Shen Zhengwen put forward more than a dozen conditions, large and small, and Liao Fan agreed to all of them. It's all for their own troops anyway.

As for whether Shen Zhengwen can lead the troops, Liao Fan doesn't think about it for the time being, even if he can't bring it well, it will be good to change the captain when the time comes, Shen Zhengwen will continue to go back to school to teach, anyway, it will not be a loss for him.

"That, in that case, when can Colonel Shen report to the army?"

"Hmm...... Think about it tonight, pick up officers and equipment tomorrow, and report for duty the day after tomorrow! ”

Shen Zhengwen thought about it, the officer is easy to solve, just put it there, he can choose it at any time, but he needs to write a detailed list of weapons and ammunition, and Sun Boyong needs to approve and sign before he can take the weapon away!

For Shen Zhengwen to be able to change from a teacher to a colonel, the other teachers in the school were stunned, although they had no intention of becoming a soldier, but they still envied Shen Zhengwen's opportunity, a colonel has real rights in the army.

"When you become a general in the future, don't forget about us!" Liu Deyun came up and patted Shen Zhengwen on the shoulder and said with a smile, although they were very bad at first, but now the two of them have put aside their prejudices and began to serve Taihang Mountain wholeheartedly.

"Since Mr. Shen is leaving the day after tomorrow, we might as well give him a farewell dinner, now that Director Du has also left, you have to leave too, we will rarely have the opportunity to be together in the future, why don't we have a good meal together!"

"Brother Fan, come with you!" Liu Deyun invited Liao Fan to attend their farewell party in the evening.

"I won't get involved in your affairs, I won't say anything you can say with me, I still have some things to deal with, you have fun at night!"

Liao Fan knew very well that with the continuous growth of the New 33rd Army, everyone would definitely gather less and leave more, so he wanted to give them some enough space for the students who came to Taihang Mountain together to deal with their feelings.

In fact, Liao Fan still has one more thing to deal with when he comes to the school, that is, to see Liu Chunjian, since Liu Chunjian learned to send telegrams, it has been long enough, and now he has also taught the first batch of apprentices, who can master Morse code proficiently.

As the area controlled by the New 33rd Army continues to grow, War Horse Communications has begun to gradually show the backwardness of communications, and sometimes it is a matter of minutes to decide the outcome of a war.