Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Shi Huirong spoke.

Feng Yuxiang's troops had much better military discipline than other warlord troops of the Beiyang Army.

However, the warlords' problems were also completely inherited. To the warlords, those things were their own property, and they could treat them as they pleased. Beating and scolding soldiers was very common. Later statistics showed that the proportion of soldiers in the Nationalist army who were disabled due to scolding soldiers was astonishing. Feng Yuxiang even scolded his own generals like his sons. For example, Feng Yuxiang would make Han Fuqu and others kneel down when he was unhappy. But at that time, these people were already army commanders, division commanders, and even high-ranking officials, holding the position of provincial governor.

When you say they are just soldiers, you beat and scold them a few times, and they may think you value them. But they are already in high positions, and if you still scold them like your sons, how can they be satisfied?

During the Central Plains War, Han Fuqu argued that there was no point in cooperating with Yan Xishan. He said that if Feng Yuxiang agreed, he would lead his troops into Shanxi and destroy Yan Xishan. Feng Yuxiang got angry and made Han Fuqu kneel outside.

After the meeting, Feng Yuxiang went out and asked Han Fuqu to stand up, then slapped Han Fuqu in the face and told him not to talk nonsense.

The Northwest Army fell apart during the Central Plains War. Besides being broke and unable to withstand Chiang Kai-shek's financial offensive, it was also because of Feng Yuxiang's troops' behavior. It was completely like the behavior of a warlord army.

Wei Hongjun nodded and said, "The Northwest Army originated from the 16th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army in the early years. It has always been an elite unit with top combat effectiveness in the Beiyang Army. Although the Northwest Army had poor weapons and equipment and poor food, its combat effectiveness has always been strong. But why did the Northwest Army lose the Central Plains War and eventually fall apart? It was because the entire army lacked faith and discipline. Their goal was nothing more than to get promoted and make money, and they had no intention of doing anything for the country and the nation. When Chiang Kai-shek offered some money and official positions, half of them rebelled. Besides, the generals of the Northwest Army were all bigwigs with heavy troops at the time. How could they be satisfied if they were asked to kneel down at any time? Such an army cannot save our country and nation. The only party and army that can save our country and nation that has been sinking for a century is one that has ideals and beliefs in their hearts and is willing to sacrifice everything for the liberation of the country and the nation."

Wei Hongjun admires these two people.

Both of them have a certain level of ideological awareness.

As long as they sincerely join the Eighth Route Army, their local identity will definitely be of great use in building a base here in the future. Sometimes, establishing a base behind enemy lines requires a lot of compromise.

Especially when facing these local powerful factions and people with high local prestige, some compromises must be made. Only in this way can the base behind enemy lines be stabilized in a short period of time.

Although this compromise would leave some hidden dangers, it was an effective option to seize the opportunity presented by the current shortage of Japanese troops behind enemy lines. We should grasp the main contradiction and resolve it. As for these people, we could gradually educate and reform them.

"Report."

"Have you finished cleaning up the battlefield?"

"Yes."

"Report it."

"There's some food in the truck, but not much. The other truck is loaded with weapons and ammunition, including 110 repeating rifles."

"Water beads?"

"Yes."

Wei Hongjun nodded.

Not surprisingly, the so-called water-jet rifle refers to the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle. This rifle flowed into China in large quantities, especially in the hands of northern warlords.

One of them is the Northeast Army and the other is the Northwest Army.

The Northeastern and Northwestern armies had fought in the Chahar region, and their armies had suffered defeats, so there were many Shuilianzhu scattered among the people, and many were captured by the Japanese army. The Japanese used this weapon to win over the landlords' armed forces.

The performance of this rifle is still very good.

In any case, any gun that could be fired was a scarce commodity for the Eighth Route Army during that era. Even homemade rifles would not be discarded casually as long as they could be fired. This was even more so with a water-jet rifle.

"Do you have ammunition for the water-breathing rifle?"

"Yes, there are more than twenty boxes of bullets, all of which are water-jet rifle bullets."

"anything else?"

"We seized seventy-nine Type 38 rifles, five magazines, four light machine guns, and thirteen intact Japanese horses."

"That's right. Tell the troops to hurry up and dispose of the Japanese corpses, and then go back."

"Commissar, you're too anxious. There's another good thing besides these."

"what?"

"Transmitters. Commissar, we have seized two transmitters.

"Really?"

Wei Hongjun was overjoyed.

Because there was no radio transmitter between the independent detachment and the military district and division headquarters, people had to run back and forth to deliver messages.

It's OK now, but if we need to cooperate in a war in the future, this situation will be very dangerous. Now that we have captured the transmitter, it will be much easier to communicate.

"Yes."

"Okay, great."

The Shilifeng ambush was a small-scale ambush.

Since the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River, the main force has fought not just one or two ambushes. There have been numerous ambushes that wiped out 300 to 400 people at a time, not to mention ambushes on the scale of the Pingxingguan, Guangyang, and Shentouling ambushes.

An ambush targeting a hundred or so people can only be a small-scale ambush.

There were even more such ambushes.

During the last siege by the Eighth Route Army alone, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region carried out a large number of ambushes of this scale.

However, the success of this ambush was a huge encouragement to the officers and soldiers of the Lianzhuang Association and the officers and soldiers of the Xuanhua County Brigade, who were fighting the Japanese army for the first time. They usually punished traitors and fought against traitorous armed forces, but had never fought against the Japanese army. This time, they fought against the Japanese troops, and they were overjoyed.

At the same time, a huge earthquake slowed down the landowners in the Sanggong area.

Those landlords who had some ulterior motives were temporarily put to rest. At this time, no one dared to oppose the work group's plan to reduce rent and interest.

"Political Commissar Wei, this is Comrade Xia Houwen, the head of the Civil Affairs Section of my Pingxi Detachment."

Chapter 113: Opening up the Sanggong Anti-Japanese Base Area 2

"Comrade Xia Houwen, hello."

Wei Hongjun walked up and shook hands with Xiahou Wen.

Xiahou Wen was thirty-one, but looked in his forties. People of this generation looked old, including Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun. Twenty-two and twenty-three, in the 21st century, would be considered children, the equivalent of recent college graduates. But Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun, both having served in the military for seven or eight years and having participated in the Long March, already looked quite mature. If they were to live in the present, Wang Qiuyun and Wei Hongjun would also look in their thirties. Compared to those who grew up in peacetime, people of this generation participated in more labor and naturally appeared older.

Xia Houwen's hands were the same ones he'd used to doing farm work all year round. He smiled and said, "Commissar Wei, I've heard of your great name in Zhenbiancheng Village. They're saying the Eighth Route Army is a divine force sent from heaven. That's why I came to Sangshan Fort."

"This time, the Japanese were caught off guard. Now that they know that the main force of our Eighth Route Army is in the Sanggong area, they will certainly mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress us. Comrade Xia Houwen, I wonder what the situation is like over there?"

In order to open up a base in the south of Chahar, the Pingxi Detachment and the Pingxi Prefectural Committee sent a number of working groups to Huailai and Zhuolu areas.

Xiahou Wen is one of them.

Xia Houwen shook his head and said, "Of course, my area is not as good as the Sanggong area. So far, I have only developed four rural bases, recruited only seven party members, and have 17 or 18 activists under investigation. I have also formed a guerrilla force of about 100 people."

"That's pretty good. If Political Commissar Wei hadn't brought the independent detachment here, we would have been wiped out by Dong Baji."

Han Kaiming said self-deprecatingly.

Han Kaiming's team was clearly stronger, having brought over twenty cadres with them. If the independent detachment's cadres were included, they had nearly fifty Party members and cadres in the Sanggong area. But in addition to reorganizing Dong Baji's forces, they had also trained some Party members here.

Other work was carried out in general.

This was mainly because they placed too much hope on Dong Baji and his men, believing that reorganizing Dong Baji's armed forces would solve all problems. Therefore, their focus was primarily on base construction.

As a result, the base area they were proud of was nothing in the face of Dong Baji's gun.

In comparison, Xiahou Wen single-handedly established a base in the local area.

Being able to recruit seven party members and form a guerrilla team of 100 people, the work has achieved remarkable results. Xia Houwen smiled and said: "I also want to thank the independent detachment for this great victory. I have been in contact with a village association called the Black Horse Team in the village next to us. Although the work is done well, they have been hesitant and doubted the combat effectiveness of our Eighth Route Army. This time, the independent detachment wiped out a Japanese squadron, which surprised them all. Before I came, I had reached a cooperation with this Black Horse Team. This village association armed force will be reorganized into our anti-Japanese guerrilla force. In this way, we have an armed force of about 200 people there, with more than 100 long and short guns. In addition, some other village association armed forces in the surrounding area have also begun to contact us, expressing their desire to join our Eighth Route Army. I am confident that within two months, I can form a battalion of troops."

“You guys are doing really well.”

Han Kaiming was so envious.

Wei Hongjun was also very happy.

Ever since the establishment of the Japanese Army's Mongolian garrison, Wei Hongjun had been considering how to develop the Chahar base. Unexpectedly, the Pingxi Detachment and the Pingxi Prefectural Committee had already done so much work. By uniting these forces, their strength was truly formidable.

The current situation is that the independent detachment has people and guns, while the Pingxi detachment and the Pingxi Prefectural Committee have cadres and a strong foundation in Huailai.

This would be a problem if we don't unite.

So Wei Hongjun looked at Han Kaiming and Xiahou Wen and said, "Comrade Han Kaiming, Comrade Xiahou Wen, I think the anti-Japanese situation in Huailai is very good now. The Japanese army only has one independent infantry battalion, the 2nd Battalion, in Huailai, and we have eaten up one of their companies. So their manpower is seriously insufficient. Once we want to deal with these anti-Japanese armed forces in Huailai, we can only mobilize troops from Xuanhua and Zhuolu. However, our independent detachment is also very strong in Zhuolu. As long as the Japanese troops in Zhuolu are dispatched, we will cause a big incident in Zhuolu. In this way, we can contain the Zhuolu troops. So now is our opportunity to make great progress in Huailai."

"Yes. The independent detachment completely wiped out an entire Japanese squadron, which is very encouraging news for the Huailai area. When the Japanese army marched north from Mentougou, they killed many people in the southeastern part of Huailai. Therefore, the rural areas in southeastern Huailai have a very good foundation for anti-Japanese resistance. Seizing the current opportunity, we can quickly expand our rural base."

Xiahou Wen nodded.

Compared to central and northern Huailai, the southeastern part had a stronger foundation for resistance against the Japanese. This was because the Japanese army massacred many civilians when they passed through. Having personally experienced the brutality of the Japanese army, the people of southeastern Huailai rose up to resist the Japanese.

During the Eighth Route Army's siege, this area was also a key target for Japanese raids. Although the anti-Japanese forces suffered heavy casualties, and many were even wiped out, Xia Houwen's arrival reignited the anti-Japanese flames. The local people had a deep-seated hatred for the Japanese army. Given a chance, they would be willing to fight against the Japanese.

It can be said that this is the place with the best anti-Japanese foundation in the entire Huailai.

"Political Commissar Wei, what you said makes perfect sense. We should take advantage of this favorable opportunity and rapidly develop an anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines in the area south of Yanghe."

Han Kaiming also supports it.

Wei Hongjun was very happy to see the two of them supporting him.

One of them is a member of the county party committee in charge of the Sanggong area, and the other is a cadre of the Pingxi detachment in charge of the southeastern area of ​​Huailai.

As long as they could unite the two of them, everything would be easy. So Wei Hongjun deliberately showed a hint of hesitation and said, "But there's a problem here. We come from different systems. Our independent detachment is a unit under the First Division and must obey its orders. Comrade Yang Kaiming is a member of the Xuanzhuohuai County Committee, which is under the Pingxi Prefectural Committee, and Comrade Xiahou Wen is the head of the Civil Affairs Section of the Pingxi Detachment. We are not under the same command, and if we want to fight together, with different orders, coordination will be a big problem."

Han Kaiming and Xiahou Wen frowned instantly.

They couldn't figure out Wei Hongjun's intentions. Did he want to monopolize power? Did he want to annex them? The Eighth Route Army was different from the Nationalist Army. The Nationalist Army liked to annex other troops because it made them stronger. As long as they were strong, the higher-ups couldn't do anything about it.

But these things don't work in the Eighth Route Army.

No matter how powerful you are, the Party is the one who commands you, and you can be transferred away with just one order from above.

Seeing that the two men were silent, Wei Hongjun continued, "My idea is, can we set up a temporary command organization to unify the command of these armed forces in Huailai?"

"I wonder how Political Commissar Wei plans to establish a temporary command structure?"

Xiahou Wen immediately asked Wei Hongjun.

Xia Houwen also came from the Independent Regiment. So he also knew some of the conflicts between the Independent Division and the Pingxi Detachment. Therefore, Xia Houwen was more cautious.

"My suggestion is to set up a temporary Party committee. Several of our sister units will send people to form this committee and have it take full responsibility for the work here.

This includes opening up new bases, building up the current bases, and commanding the troops here. Comrade Zhang Zihua will serve as the head of the temporary command organization and as the secretary of the Party Committee. The Third Battalion of our independent detachment will remain here. To ensure that Comrade Zhang Zihua can smoothly command this unit, we have temporarily appointed Comrade Zhang Zihua as the deputy commander of our independent detachment. This way, he will have no problems commanding the Third Battalion of our detachment. What do you think?

"This is a huge matter. It requires approval from higher-ups."

Xiahou Wen didn't dare to make a decision.

Han Kaiming was very supportive of this idea. If the Third Battalion stayed here, the Sanggong region would have sufficient strength to protect the newly opened base. But why did the independent detachment unconditionally keep its Third Battalion here?

Anyway, Han Kaiming supports Wei Hongjun's idea.

Only when everyone works together can we achieve great development.

However, Han Kaiming had little say when it came to military matters involving the First Division of the Independent Division and the Peace West Detachment. Wei Hongjun smiled and said, "I've thought of that. This is just a temporary, collaborative command structure, not a formal one. Once things are settled here, I'll immediately return and report to the military district. The situation in Huailai is so complex right now that unified leadership is imperative."

The military district will definitely give a clear answer."