may have remembered his gaffe last night, and when Guo Meng was notified and rushed to meet Qiao Youhua, his expression was a little unnatural.

Qiao Youhua took advantage of this time, finished washing, wiped his mouth with a towel and said, "Let's go, let's go and see what the situation is down the mountain." ”

The sentry who came to report hurriedly arrived: "Those people said that they are from Magou Town, and the devils and traitors have occupied Magou Town, and they are now homeless, so they have come to join us." ”

Qiao Youhua nodded: "This is also understandable, after all, the people of Magou Town participated in the action of fighting local tyrants and killing traitors with us, and the remaining traitors and devils will definitely not let them go, and they are the only choice to come to us." ”

Guo Meng nodded and said, "In this way, we can recruit more recruits in our base area." ”

Qiao Youhua said: "That's natural, the soldiers are in the four surrounding counties, don't worry at all, as long as we have enough food, military salaries, weapons and ammunition, we can even recruit one or two divisions, but the key is that we have to afford it."

China lacks everything now, that is, there is no shortage of people. ”

Guo Meng said as if he had some feelings: "Also, there are already more than 1,000 people on the mountain, plus the officers and soldiers of our troops, the number is already almost 3,000, if you add the new arrivals under the mountain, the population will be four or five thousand."

Relying on the materials we have captured alone is not a long-term solution after all, and it seems that we have to find a way to solve this problem, not to mention letting them pay military rations to feed us, at least let them be self-reliant and able to support themselves. ”

"It is not a long-term solution to always nest in a nest in the mountains, and sooner or later we still have to fight out and occupy the vast rural areas and land, so that we can truly stabilize our base areas and gain a firm foothold behind enemy lines.

It's just that at the moment, the time is not ripe, it can be regarded as the most difficult period, through this period, the situation will improve, and I plan to build an arsenal in the future to solve our worries about weapons and ammunition. ”

The two of them talked, and after a short time they went down the mountain, accompanied by the sentry, and came to the outside of the mountain, and sure enough, they saw more than a thousand people crowded on the road into the mountain.

"Could there be enemy agents in this?" Guo Meng looked at the dense crowd and said with some worry.

"What do you mean?" Qiao Youhua stopped, this may not be nothing, after all, whether it is the Japanese or Chongqing, they all hate themselves to the core, so it is always right to be cautious.

"It's certain to let the people go up the mountain, but to be on the safe side, they must be strictly inspected just in case." Guo Mengdao.

Qiao Youhua nodded and agreed, this is indeed necessary, at this juncture, any negligence may cause irreparable losses.

Qiao Youhua, who is already a congenital martial artist, is naturally not afraid of the attack and assassination of enemy agents, but the people around him can't do it, others don't say it, just Guo Meng, the political commissar, if someone really assassinates her, it will be dangerous.

Guo Meng said to one of the guards who came with him: "Go and inform the battalion commander Jiang and ask him to bring a company of soldiers down the mountain to check the people entering the mountain one by one, just in case." ”

It didn't take long for Jiang Haidong to be notified and arrived with a company of soldiers, Qiao Youhua stepped forward and said to the people: "Folks, you come to join our Eighth Route Army, we are very welcome, but in order to prevent devils and traitors from mixing into your crowd, take the opportunity to sneak into our base area and sabotage."

Please all of you will be investigated and questioned one by one later, each family knows each other, it is best to guarantee each other, please cooperate, okay? ”

As soon as the people heard that the Feiyunling Eighth Route Army was willing to accept them, they naturally did everything, and they took turns to be inspected and entered the mountains in turn.

In the end, all the people in this group took the initiative to investigate Guo Meng, Jiang Haidong and others, and entered the Feiyunling base area along the way.

Ma Shoutian was a general investigator, and after going up to the mountain, he took advantage of the opportunity of Qiao Youhua walking by and learned from those soldiers to salute Qiao Youhua: "Sir, I want to join the Eighth Route Army, please approve it." ”

Qiao Youhua stopped, looked at the strong Ma Shoutian and asked, "What's your name?"

"Ma Shoutian, a native of Magou Town, is twenty-one years old this year!" Ma Shoutian replied.

Qiao Youhua nodded and said, "Very good, I approve you to join the Eighth Route Army." ”

"Is what the chief said true?" Ma Shoutian was overjoyed, he didn't expect it to be so smooth.

"Of course it's true, we'll organize a recruitment operation later, you just sign up for it, and say that I approve it." After Qiao Youhua finished speaking, he strode towards the Juyi Hall.

Ma Shoutian stepped forward excitedly and saluted: "Thank you, sir!" ”

One of the guards who followed behind Qiao Youhua reminded him with a smile: "Brother, let's call the chief or regiment commander in the future, hehe." ”

"Well, thank you." Ma Shoutian nodded heavily, his face full of sincerity. Then he turned around and walked to the old mother who was looking at the situation on the mountain with the other villagers.

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In the afternoon, the officers and men, who had been drunk all the night before, basically came to their senses one after another, and after they had washed up and had eaten.

Qiao Youhua and Guo Meng ordered the troops to begin to assemble, and Guo Meng read out the order of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as they heard that they were going to be incorporated into the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, the guerrillas in the four counties were excited, which meant that they were going to become regular main forces.

And it was so enjoyable to fight with a regiment commander like Qiao Youhua, and all the officers and soldiers cheered in unison.

Subsequently, Jiang Haidong led people from the new people of Magou Town, who had gone up to the mountain, and recruited more than 100 qualified recruits, including Ma Shoutian.

At this point, the total strength of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force had reached more than 1,530 people, and then Qiao Youhua announced that the 1,500 people would be organized into three main battalions, each of which had three infantry companies, a guard platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, and a heavy machine gun fire platoon, about 400 people.

The other 300 people were organized into a guard company, a reconnaissance company, and an artillery company directly under the regimental headquarters.

In fact, according to the number of artillery pieces captured by the Dragon Tooth Task Force this time, Qiao Youhua can even form two artillery battalions, but in terms of troops and branch technology, this establishment is temporarily impossible.

It can only be an artillery company, but this artillery company is better than any regimental artillery company, because it has more than 30 Type 92 infantry guns and more than 30 60mm mortars.

Of course, at present, the reconnaissance company only has more than 100 troops, and these troops, operating 20 artillery pieces are the limit, and it will have to constantly replenish new recruits in the future.