After listening to Li Yong's explanation, Zhang Jinsong and the deputy platoon commander also sat down happily, and at this time, someone was in a hurry, and Li Yong also knew that they would be in a hurry, only to see the eight veterans who were not assigned the task stood up and said, "Company commander, what are we doing?" "According to instructor Wang Chengde's idea, there are still fifteen squad leaders missing from the five combat platoons, so let these eight veterans be squad leaders.

But Li Yong didn't think so, he thought that these twenty veterans were all treasures in his hands, and the expansion of the army in the future would depend on them, and it would be too wasteful to let them be squad leaders. Seeing that they were anxious, they hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet, the position of the eight of you is the combat staff officer of the company, and the rank is the deputy platoon level, to assist me and the instructor in our work." ”

After hearing this, the whole room was stunned except for the instructor Wang Chengde, why? Because Li Yong and Wang Chengde discussed this matter first, or he would have been confused, the army only has staff officers at the regimental level, why do we have staff officers in the company? Li Yong saw everyone's appearance and hurriedly said: "Don't guess, the regiment commander said to me and the instructor when he left, I can make my own decisions about the situation we have, so it's decided, the eight of you are all company combat staff officers, the meeting is here, everyone go back, tomorrow morning the personnel are all selected, and then you will lead the training." ”

Everyone looks at it, since the company commander said so, let's go, the troops have been crushed to death by officials and senior officials since ancient times, and the troops of our PLA must obey orders and listen to commands. When they walked out of the courtyard, some soldiers said, "Do you think our company commander is confused or smart?" You say that if he is confused, even the instructors admire the training plan he formulated, you say that he is smart, but he has eight staff officers in our company, and I have been a soldier for several years, not to mention that I have never heard of it, not to mention that our troops, even the Kuomintang and the little devils do not have staff officers in the company, and our regiment does not have eight staff officers now. A soldier next to him said, "The instructor didn't object, it seems that this was discussed by the two of them, so let's not worry about it." ”

At present, the spy company has a total of 239 people, which is enough to withstand the two companies of other troops, but only 25 people can wear military uniforms, and the company commander Li Yong is also dressed in ordinary people's clothes, so weapons and clothing have become a problem that the spy company urgently needs to solve at the current stage.

After everyone left, instructor Wang Chengde was very uneasy, the company commander Li Yong knew too many things, you said that if some of the training methods and the story of the Red Army were what he saw from the book, this is understandable, but how did he know about these battlefield situations, including the situation on the brother battlefield? These have just happened, and there can't be any books, he is only nineteen years old, can he tell fortunes? It's impossible, we ** people are materialists and don't believe in any gods and Buddhas, but how to explain the phenomena in him? I really can't figure it out, ask him these questions, this kid is either talking nonsense or playing sloppy, forget it, I'll talk about it later. The next morning, the courtyard of the spy company was lively, why? The platoon commander and deputy platoon commander of the five combat platoons were busy grabbing fighters.

Seeing this situation, Li Yong hurriedly said: "Don't rob, pick from one row first, then two, three, four, and five rows, and only pick one at a time." "Only the reconnaissance and communication platoon commander Zhang Jinsong and the deputy platoon commander were relaxed, standing aside to watch the excitement, and shouting from time to time this is good, that is good, this body is good, hurry up and pick this, there is a body over there is also good, hurry up and grab it. After half an hour of chaos, the five platoons were finally put in order.

The entire spy company was divided into six parts, and the company commander Li Yong stood in front of the team and said: "Okay, comrades, take your team to train, now I emphasize a problem, that is, new comrades who do not have guns should increase the weight on their bodies, as for how to increase it is up to your platoon commander to decide, whether it is a sand vest or sand leggings, any way is fine, but it must be added, the weight can be a little bit, and it must be added to forty catties after half a month, some comrades may ask me why I did this?" I can tell you now, because we are soldiers, we are soldiers, and we will have to carry guns, ammunition, food, and water on our bodies in the future, and our PLA is mainly engaged in sports warfare, and we will often run away when we fight, so what should we do if we can't run when the time comes? Then it's only a prisoner, the soldier's body is not born, it is practiced, and if we don't practice now, we will suffer, and I, as a company commander, don't have a gun, I have to train with weights like everyone else, do you understand? ”

As soon as the soldiers heard that the company commander would also train like them, and that the training would be beneficial to the march and fight in the future, of course, they were all enthusiastic. In this way, half a month has passed, these recruits have trained in a good way, their mental state and discipline have been greatly improved, it can be said that they have almost never really fought, but there are new problems, and they are also old problems, that is, food, the troops have to eat, but the amount of exercise is too large, and the non-staple food cannot keep up, Li Yong trains like a soldier every day, and he also feels that there is no oil and water in his stomach.

Zhang Jinsong arrived at the company headquarters and said loudly: "Company commander instructor, what's the matter?" Wang Chengde said to Zhang Jinsong: "Jinsong, the two of you have also seen it, we have carried out a large amount of exercise training for half a month, and the combat effectiveness of the troops has been greatly improved, which is a good thing, but our food is not good, and the soldiers now have no oil and water in their stomachs. ”

Zhang Jinsong: "Instructor, I know if you don't say it, I don't have any oil in my stomach, and I'm thinking about this problem in the past two days." Li Yong hurriedly said, "Jinsong, if you have any ideas, say it and listen to it." Zhang Jinsong grinned and said: "Company commander, instructor, our platoon is a reconnaissance and communications platoon, this reconnaissance and communications can not always practice individual combat skills, but also practice skills related to reconnaissance and communications, I want to take more than 20 of them out for field training, hunting is one of the training subjects, so that even if we train the troops, we can also get our company's food." ”

Li Yong and Wang Chengde looked at each other and laughed: "That's what we mean by looking for you, it seems that your kid has already prepared in his heart, so let's do it, set off tomorrow morning, bring dry food, and you and the deputy platoon commander will formulate the training plan yourself, but you must pay attention to not have casualties, and we don't have many bullets, and try not to shoot for unnecessary trouble, and there is one more thing, when you train, you should also pay attention to whether there are caves nearby, what kind of caves are there?" How many? Is there anyone living nearby? It's good that only you and the deputy platoon commander know about this, don't tell the soldiers, why do you want to tell you after looking for the cave, but you must keep it secret. ”

Zhang Jinsong replied 'yes' and was about to leave, Li Yong pulled him and asked him to wait for a while There are other things, Li Yong asked Li Yuming to find the platoon leader, deputy platoon commander and eight veterans who did not have the task of leading the troops, after everyone came, Li Yong said that they all sat down and drank some water first, and when everyone sat down, Li Yong said: "I and the instructor came to you to discuss something with you, everyone has seen it, we are even strong now, and the quality of training and combat effectiveness are not said, but there is one thing, we have no weapons, no clothing, Think about it, is there any solution? ”

Twenty veterans looked at each other, and Ma Quanyou, the commander of the second platoon, said: "Company commander, our troops are different from the Kuomintang, there is no habit of issuing weapons, you see that the weapons in our hands are still taken from the hands of the little devils, even now we can't solve it when we return to the regiment, and there are not so many weapons in the regiment, so we need at least more than 200 rifles." ”

At this time, Ning Jinshan, the commander of the fourth platoon, said: "Company commander, not to mention weapons, even clothing is not easy to solve, now the Kuomintang is blockading us, the outside cloth cannot be transported in, the clothes of the troops rely on the homespun cloth woven by the local people, even our Vice Chairman Zhou and Mr. Zhu have woven cloth, the home-woven homespun cloth is very strong and durable, but the output is too low, even such a lack of more than 200 sets is really enough, our column has a clothing factory, not too far from us, there can be more than 50 miles of mountain roads, But the distribution of clothing must at least be approved by the brigade headquarters, even our regiment has no right to issue us with clothing, and besides, the brigade headquarters agrees, it is estimated that the clothing factory does not have so many clothes, I have been there, and the personnel and machines are available, but there is no fabric, which is really difficult to do. ”

Li Yong looked at it: "What other comrades think?" Say it all. Another veteran soldier said: "Company commander, this is probably the situation, we know the same as the two of them said, if you want to solve the weapon, the old way of our troops is to fight, our company only has twenty rifles, and a little grenade, we can only fight small battles, little by little, fight a battle and capture a little, and gradually arm ourselves." ”

Li Yong looked at the other veteran soldiers and reminded without squeaking: "Comrades, we can't just look at ourselves, we can't keep our eyes on problems inward, our People's Liberation Army is poor, we still have to look outward at the problem, we are poor but the enemy is not poor, we have to find a way from the enemy." As soon as everyone heard Li Yong say this, even the instructor Wang Chengde said: "Company commander, if you have any good ideas, say it quickly, don't sell it." ”

Li Yong smiled and said: "Now we have encountered problems not only in our company, but also in the main force of our field army, at the beginning of the war, the main force of our field army was only more than 20,000 people, after the local troops replenished and captured by the Kuomintang troops, the main force of our field army will also be greatly increased." ”

When Li Yong said this, everyone laughed, Li Yong thought about it and understood why everyone laughed, and hurriedly said: "Don't laugh, I'm not a prisoner, I escaped from the Kuomintang, I volunteered to join the army, and I can be caught by Li Jiangguo, this kid, that's because I saw that he didn't resist when he was wearing the gray uniform of our army, how can this be considered a prisoner?" Li Jiangguo: You said yes? ”

Li Jiangguo hurriedly said: "What our company commander said is right, if we are as wise as our company commander, if I resist, I will definitely be caught by him, how can I still be caught." Everyone laughed even more after hearing this, and the instructor Wang Chengde said next to him: "Okay Dayong, aren't you not a prisoner?" You go on. ”

Li Yong continued: "It is almost May now, but our main force, including our own single military uniform, has not yet been resolved, so I estimate that the main force of our field army may have to take a big operation, and the intention of the action should be related to the logistics supply of the troops." ”

When these veterans heard this, they understood that their company commander was going to predict again, but could the company commander's prediction be true this time? Only instructor Wang Chengde's heart flickered, he knew that Li Yong would not say this if he was not sure, since he said it, he should be very sure, and hurriedly said: "Dayong, you continue." Li Yong continued: "At present, there are two major parts of the enemy's logistics supply in the northwest battlefield, one is Yan'an, where more than half of the enemy's supplies for attacking northern Shaanxi are there, and the other is Panlong Town, where most of the enemy's mobile forces attacking our northern Shaanxi are supplied on the front line, and this is also the enemy's forward base, and we can't move Yan'an at present, so I estimate that the next step of our headquarters chief's idea should be here, which is Panlong Town."