Devil's Army

After Commissar Du returned from Jinzhou, he was unaware that Mr. Zheng and the Central Daily News reporters were coming. He took two guards to visit Wang Laozuo, the leader of the Qingfengling Anti-Japanese Armed Forces, which was known as the only piece of Chinese territory that had not fallen.

Wang Laozuo welcomed the arrival of Political Commissar Du. After all, they were both anti-Japanese troops. And it was safe for them to enter Qingfengling Town with Political Commissar Du's troops. In the battle with the devils during this period, their troops also suffered a lot of casualties.

But Wang Laozuo opposed the merger with Du Zhengwei's troops. He trusted no one but himself. After all, he had a gun in his hand, which gave him confidence.

Political Commissar Du had three talks with Wang Laozao, but they failed to reach an agreement. He had no choice but to give up and told Wang Laozao to come to Chaoyang County to find him if he needed any help. Then he returned to Chaoyang County with the guards.

At this time, the temporary hospital on the front line had been moved to Chaoyang County. Political Commissar Du went to see his old partner Wang Zhuangfei.

Wang Zhuangfei has learned from the soldiers that they not only resisted the attack of the Jinzhou devils, but also recaptured Chaoyang County.

"Old Du, did the troops suffer heavy casualties in the attack on Chaoyang County?"

"Okay."

"What do you mean it's okay? How many casualties were there?"

"This battle was fought by the Third Brigade. I don't know."

Wang Zhuangfei stopped asking questions after hearing what Political Commissar Du said. The casualties of the troops in the urban street fighting were bound to be huge.

“Who is in charge of the troops now?”

"You should rest and recover from your injuries. The deputy commander has transferred a brigade commander to lead the troops."

At this time, He Shiqi came in. She thought that Political Commissar Du was disturbing Brigade Commander Wang's rest, so she drove him out.

The new recruits in the tribe were trained for more than half a month. Leng Feng was worried that the Japanese would attack the base, so he gradually assigned the new recruits to various brigades.

Red Wolf led the newly formed Seventh Brigade to garrison several places in the base area. The First Regiment of the Seventh Brigade was responsible for the defense of the tribe, the pass at the foot of the tribe mountain, and the Waterfall River Wharf. The Second Regiment of the Seventh Brigade was stationed north of Xiaoliang River, exchanging defense with the First Regiment of the Third Brigade, guarding against the Japanese in Kaiyuan. The Third Regiment of the Seventh Brigade exchanged defense with the First Regiment of the Fifth Brigade in Tieling County, maintaining the security of Tieling County and reinforcing the Second Regiment north of Xiaoliang River at any time. The Fourth Regiment of the Seventh Brigade was transferred to Yaobao Town to guard against the Japanese in Fengtian.

The newly formed Seventh and Eighth Brigades were seriously short of brigade-level cadres. Leng Feng transferred a group of political cadres who had assisted him from Secretary Li to the Seventh and Eighth Brigades to act as both father and mother, serving as commanders and political commissars of each regiment of the Seventh and Eighth Brigades.

The 1st Regiment of the 3rd Brigade north of Xiaoliang River in Tieling County returned to the army. The headquarters of the 3rd Brigade was located in Fuxin City.

The 1st Regiment of the 3rd Brigade took over the defense of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade and was stationed in the towns and villages south of Chaoyang County.

The Second Regiment of the Third Brigade was stationed in two newly built fortifications from Chaoyang to Jinzhou, fully guarding against the Japanese invaders in Jinzhou.

The Third Regiment of the Third Brigade was stationed in Chaoyang County, which not only maintained the security of Chaoyang County but also could reinforce the Second Regiment at any time.

The 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade, which was originally stationed in the southern towns of Chaoyang County, returned to the army. The battalion of the 2nd Brigade, which was originally deployed outside Chaoyang County to contain the Chaoyang and Jinzhou devils, and the troops stationed in Fuxin also returned to the army.

The headquarters of the Second Brigade was located in Zhangwu County. Except for one company of the First Regiment stationed at Aozuikou Pass, Hujia Village and the underground cave, the majority of the troops were stationed outside Zhangwu County.

Leng Feng deployed two brigades in the direction of Jinzhou, which was enough to show how much importance Leng Feng attached to this place.

Due to the lack of manpower in Jinzhou, the Japanese army did not launch another battle to occupy Chaoyang County, and the Chaoyang area gradually became stable.

Leng Feng ordered all the troops to retreat except the 3rd Brigade and the 2nd Brigade which were confronting the Japanese.

The 4th Brigade withdrew to Hejiazhao Village, the birthplace of the 1st Army, and stationed there. The 5th Brigade was stationed outside Tieling County, and the 1st Brigade was stationed outside Tiaobinshan County.

The original six brigades of the First Army quickly recovered their strength as new soldiers were added one after another. However, the ratio of new soldiers to veteran soldiers was as high as 1:1, and their combat effectiveness dropped significantly.

In order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, the Gray Wolf Army carried out the fine tradition of one veteran leading one new soldier. It also encouraged each unit to take the initiative to attack, find small-scale Japanese to practice, and train new soldiers.

For a while, there were occasional gunshots and grenade explosions in the area bordering the Japanese, but they were not large in scale and did not last long.

A company under the newly formed 4th Regiment of the 7th Brigade attacked two Japanese squads patrolling outside Fengtian City, annihilating one and severely damaging the other.

The Japs had to reduce patrols in areas bordering the First Army, and patrols in important areas were also upgraded to Japanese patrols above the squad level.

On this day, another severe Siberian cold wave hit the four eastern provinces.

The First Army already had sufficient winter clothing in stock, and they also seized a lot of Japanese uniforms during the Chaoyang County Campaign, so this cold snap had little impact on the First Army.

But it had a great impact on the Anti-Japanese United Army fighting guerrilla warfare in the Baishan and Heishui regions. So Secretary Li sent someone to ask Leng Feng to provide military uniforms.

Leng Feng didn't say anything and agreed immediately.

Gray Wolf told the people sent by Secretary Li that he wanted Secretary Li to provide another batch of cadres. The First Army was developing too fast and there was a big shortage of military cadres.

Secretary Li had no choice but to agree to provide ten more political cadres to the First Army.

Gray Wolf arranged for Jackal to take the two team members who went to Harbin last time, as well as Feilong, and load 2,000 sets of military uniforms to Harbin.