Time travel! Regrets will never happen again!

With the guidance and reorganization of the paratroopers, these lagging recruits were effectively and properly resettled, even though some of them were unable to keep up with the main force.

They would entrust the supplies to the homes of fellow villagers along the way, and of course leave a lot of money and food for them, and then return to the base after they recovered.

It took more than a month for more than 30,000 new recruits to arrive at Zhongtiao Mountain one after another after being on the road.

It was almost Christmas of 1942. Of course, few Chinese people at that time knew what Christmas was, let alone New Year's Day which came a few days later.

However, in about twenty days it will be the traditional Chinese Spring Festival, which is the most important festival for the Chinese people.

This year's Guancen Mountain, as well as northwest Shanxi and the entire area controlled by the national government, are completely different from previous years.

Everyone had a smile on their face. This was the most peaceful New Year's Eve in the past few years.

Ever since the Japanese were pinned to the ground and severely beaten by the 78th Army, they have not been jumping around anymore.

At this time of year in previous years, the Japanese would start coming to the homes of ordinary people to collect the pitiful things they had saved throughout the year.

So now no one dares to celebrate the New Year, because the arrival of the New Year means that the Japanese will start to go into the mountains to carry out raids again.

It’s different now. Not only are there no traces of the Japanese devils, but some areas near Guancen Mountain have received a gift of two kilograms of white flour from every household.

With these two kilograms of white flour, there was a guarantee for a meal of dumplings on New Year's Eve. Even those who did not get any were very grateful to the 78th Army because the Japanese did not take action.

Although it is winter now, the training of new recruits of the 78th Army has not stopped. Thirty thousand new recruits are receiving training in Zhongtiao Mountain.

At the Guancenshan recruit training center, nearly 2 people are also undergoing intensive training.

More than 800 military academy graduates have been transferred to squads and platoons to become grassroots officers. They will serve as deputy positions and quickly integrate into the army under the leadership of experienced officers.

These military academy graduates, who were originally somewhat frustrated about not being able to join the armored forces, were actually very pleased when they saw the equipment of the 78th Army's infantry units.

There was no more frustration and loss. The firepower configuration of an infantry division of my dear 78th Army far exceeded that of an army of the National Government’s Central Army.

In terms of artillery configuration with 105mm and 150mm caliber or above, it even exceeds that of an army group of the Central Army.

In fact, few people would agree that they are infantry now, because each infantry division is equipped with a large number of trucks and tracked armored personnel carriers.

A soldier in the Central Army carries 40 rounds of ammunition, but here each soldier needs to carry 120 rounds of ammunition. At the same time, each rifleman and machine gunner is equipped with a pistol.

You have to know that in the Central Army, only officers are qualified to carry pistols. These military academy graduates have seen too many weapons and equipment here that they have never seen before.

Rocket launchers, bazookas, vehicle-mounted heavy 120mm mortars, recoilless guns, self-propelled howitzers, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns…

All the equipment dazzled them. They had never imagined that in this mountain valley, there existed such an army whose equipment even surpassed that of the US military.

Not to mention, they saw the light weapons processing factories, artillery factories, tank repair factories, and aircraft manufacturing plants.

These newly graduated military academy students felt that as long as they were given some time, they would be able to recover the entire Shanxi Province even with just the 78th Army.

Today, the 78th Army no longer regards the Japanese First Army as an opponent. They are a group of pitiful creatures who now only dare to hide in the city and shiver.

As soon as winter is over, the 78th Army will launch a full-scale counterattack and strive to liberate the entire Shanxi Province before the arrival of summer.

The training lasted until the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which was the New Year's Eve in the north, and all the soldiers returned to the barracks.

This was Wang Chun's first Spring Festival here. In addition, he had received a lot of attention during this period, so the National Government purchased a lot of fighter planes, and Wang Chun made a small fortune.

The people who really made money came from the United States. After some members of the Flying Tigers came here, they learned that Guancen Mountain had many advanced weapons and some particularly effective medicines.

Especially some antibiotics, which the US military itself does not have.

Wang Chun needs funds, a large amount of food and supplies. These medicines will appear in a few years anyway.

Now that he could exchange it for money, why not? Wang Chun asked for half of the gold and the other half was food.

However, the transportation of grain was the responsibility of the national government, and Wang Chun did not know that their batch of grain had long been targeted by someone.

The national government is having a hard time now, and those parasites clinging to this old country are becoming even more unscrupulous.

This batch of 20 tons of grain was transported from the British Indian colony. It crossed the Himalayas. The Americans really put a lot of effort into transporting this batch of grain.

When this batch of grain that came through a special channel was delivered to the large warehouse of the logistics department.

This warehouse belonged to the Seven Star Company. They found out from somewhere that this batch of grain was not accounted for by the logistics department at all.

There is a food shortage everywhere in China now. If we can get these 200,000 tons of food, we can make a lot of money.

Well! After going through a few formalities, this batch of 200,000 tons of grain was transformed into a batch of grain purchased from foreign countries by the Seven Stars Company.

At this time, almost all of northwestern Shanxi was controlled by the 78th Army, which began to prepare to celebrate the first Spring Festival since the establishment of their base.

The logistics department of the 78th Army provided a large amount of food, wine and meat, and the farms in Guancen Mountain also slaughtered thousands of fat pigs, cattle and sheep.

Commander Wang said that on New Year’s Eve this year, he would treat all the people in the base area to a meat meal.

The food in the army is very good, but although the living standards of ordinary people have improved a little, they have long been accustomed to the poor life.

Now that the family had some surplus food, they did not indulge in feasting and drinking. Instead, they carefully and secretly stored all the food that they had saved for the first time in more than a decade.

After Wang Chun found out, he could only sigh. He said that it was not the common people’s fault for not knowing how to improve their lives, but rather that these poor people were afraid of hunger and suffering!

In fact, it can be summed up as an ancient Chinese saying: If you have food in your hands, you will not panic!

Wang Chun waved his hand and decided to distribute two kilograms of flour to each family on New Year's Eve, and also one kilogram of meat to each household. This can be regarded as a contribution made by him as a person of later generations!

Starting from the twenty-sixth day of the lunar year, people in the entire base area began to receive two pounds of flour and meat from the Logistics Department.

Whether they were wealthy families or refugees who had just arrived here, they were all grateful to Wang Chun and the 78th Group Army from the bottom of their hearts.

Many families erected a longevity arch for Wang Chun and kept him on a pedestal at home alongside their ancestors. If there were children in the family, they would also be given 10 fruit candies.

This made many children who had never eaten candy in their lives very happy. The elders in the family carefully broke the candies into pieces and gave the children a little bit at a time.

Many families save some of it, planning to give it to the women in their family to supplement their nutrition when they give birth and are in confinement.

On New Year's Eve, all families received gifts, and the new year arrived amid the sound of firecrackers and children's laughter.