The general is open-minded and upright all his life, and he likes his subordinates very much, but he is extremely disgusted with flattery and sycophants.

The general was very satisfied with Li Yong's answer: "By the way, if you have anything to say, it is a good thing to have a high rank, you should be happy, don't be pretending like some people, talking and doing things like a bear and ambushing them."

I have already contacted you about the costume, and I will be able to send it over after a while, and the director of the clothing factory Liu told me that he is very familiar with you, and he has dealt with you before, and he will definitely complete your military uniform in the fastest time. ”

The general paused and asked, "How many prisoners have you taken?" What good things did you catch? If there's anything really good, don't forget me, the commander, and tell you two boys that our column headquarters is also very poor. ”

Li Yong knew that the troops had won a great victory, and the commander was in a good mood now, so he hurriedly replied: "When we withdrew from Yulin, we had an ambush on the enemy's halfway and captured more than 600 people, and we captured more than 4,000 people in the battle of Changgao Mountain, and I selected more than 1,000 people from it, and then sent two more platoons to Shajiadian to participate in the attack with the Ninth Brigade, and captured more than 500 people, adding up to more than 2,200 people. ”

The commander couldn't help but be stunned after listening to Li Yong's report, there are so many prisoners? Also sent troops to participate in the battle of Shajiadian? Why didn't anyone report this to me?

"You two boys really don't have a lot of strokes, if they are all added, there will be more than 3,000 people in your regiment, it's a good thing that there are more people, but the troops composed of so many prisoners must be careful not to decline in combat effectiveness, what is the best way?"

"Our method is to make full use of our army's political and ideological weapons to educate the captured soldiers, to carry out a group to complain and comment on grievances, to explain to the fighters clearly the ideology and program of our party, and to let every soldier consciously join the melting pot of our troops."

Wang Chengde then reported some small methods and details to the commander.

The commander listened carefully to Wang Chengde's report: "Yes, it should be like this, let every soldier understand the truth of our party's and army's armed struggle, and let every soldier consciously fight, so that our army can be an invincible army, and write down these practices and some of your experiences and give them to the political commissar, you must know that our political commissar is also very interested in your army." ”

The commander, who had taken two steps, suddenly smiled and said to Li Yong again: "By the way, tell me what good things you have seized, I have heard that you kid is very good in this regard." ”

Li Yong said a little embarrassed: "Twenty-nine mortars, thirty-two heavy machine guns, more than one hundred light machine guns, more than five hundred submachine guns, more than two thousand rifles, nine jeeps, twenty-six large trucks, two 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, twelve 100 and 5 mm howitzers, that's all there is to it, and the rest are some bullets, grenades and steel helmets." ”

"Really? So many? Have you not become rich men now? And a dozen howitzers and two anti-aircraft machine guns? Well, there are fewer anti-aircraft machine guns, and we have suffered a lot from this since the time of the Red Army, and many cadres and soldiers were killed by airplanes, so with anti-aircraft machine guns, the situation may be better. The commander said happily.

Li Yong: "Commander, although there are only two anti-aircraft machine guns, there are bullets, and when the soldiers got them back, I took a look, and the boxes of bullets basically didn't move, and we didn't have planes on the Eighth Road, and the anti-aircraft machine guns of the 36th Division were all furnished.

In order to take the Changgao Mountain position, the 123rd Brigade of the 36th Division ran out of shells, and we are calculating how to get some shells, and it is best to shoot a few live ammunition for the soldiers to feel when we train. ”

The bearded commander walked around the room twice: "This is a problem, you practice first, let's figure out a way together about the shells, but don't pin your hopes on others, you have to train without shells."

At present, in our northwest, our army does not have a factory capable of producing large-caliber artillery shells, all artillery shells have to be captured, and other units also take a few shells as treasures, not to mention the 105 mm howitzers you have captured, and even the shells of smaller caliber field artillery are very rare, and some troops have to ask their superiors for instructions when firing a few shells, and you still have to solve the problem on your own. ”

After reporting some other information to the commander, the two of them took their farewell to the chief. Li Yong, who came out of the column headquarters, was very excited, and the commander didn't say anything to him to pick prisoners in private, and this big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

From that day on, Li Yong started a large-scale training activity for the troops, and as when he first started, everyone had to conduct six-kilometer cross-country training in the morning, of course, the three female soldiers could train without weight, although this captive Li Jia was still very stubborn, but no matter what she thought, the training must also participate.

Li Yong told Hu Xiaolian and He Cuihua that no matter how much resistance this Li Jia has, she must participate in the training, and she must be tied up, so if she can't do it, she will be tied with a rope.

Then there is individual soldier technical training, the focus is still our army's shooting, bomb throwing, assassination, earthwork and demolition five tactics, from the baggage platoon transferred two jeeps for the soldiers to learn to drive, although gasoline is very precious, but the car also has to be learned, each platoon must have at least ten soldiers to learn to drive.

The captured heavy machine guns and small guns were divided into Wei Gang's machine gun platoon and Gao Xiang's artillery platoon, and with the distribution of weapons, Wei Gang and Gao Xiang were also assigned two antiaircraft machine guns and 12 large-caliber howitzers.

This made Gao Xiang and Wei Gang very happy, looking at the equipment in the hands of their soldiers, these two guys felt that they were really rich, and they became rich people if they were not careful.

Li Yong's order to the two of them was to familiarize themselves with the new weapons, master the performance, and form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time, especially Gao Xiang's artillery platoon, although there were no large-caliber artillery shells, but they should also master the performance of the artillery, and the shells would be available sooner or later.

The weapons were distributed, but Wei Gang and Gao Xiang said that there were too many weapons, and the more than 80 people in each platoon were no longer enough. Li Yong told them not to worry, the recruits could be divided after training.

The captives were divided into four brigades, with four veterans in charge of daily training, and Li Yong and Wang Chengde had to attend their political and ideological discussions every day and hold meetings with everyone.

The prisoners also gradually learned some information about Li Yong from some other soldiers, and learned that Li Yong was a private in the Kuomintang army like them half a year ago, and was captured by Li Jiangguo, a platoon leader.

This shows that no matter where the People's Liberation Army comes from, as long as you do it well, you can have the same potential, and what these captured soldiers didn't expect is that most of the people in this army are from captives like them.

In this way, there is no estrangement between everyone, and the ideological education is carried out more smoothly, and Li Yong did not expect that his background would be useful for educating prisoners.

Later, when I thought about it, there were only about 20 veterans in my own army at the beginning, and later when I was in Longdong, the field army headquarters added a hundred veterans, only these people are the real old Eighth Road, plus the recruited Li Yuming and Sanniu and their batch of recruits, there are only more than 300 people who really have no prisoner status, and even they are half of the prisoners.

It was only at this time that Li Yong truly understood the power of our military and political ideological weapons, and those who could only be ordinary soldiers in the hands of the Kuomintang could be heroes when they arrived in the first army.

Hu Xiaolian and He Cuihua reported to Li Yong that Li Jia, the operator of the 36th Division of the Kuomintang, was very stubborn, and no matter how hard they tried, Li Jia just ignored it.

Another night, Li Yong came to the cave where Hu Xiaolian and He Cuihua lived, and the captured Li Jia also lived here.