Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 49 Guerrillas

In February, Chen Chengxing received a document from the headquarters, and all units fully restored the political commissar system.

There is no doubt that Luo Ping is the political commissar of the new second regiment.

At the same time, the headquarters also requires each unit to be as self-sufficient as possible, and the support that the headquarters can provide in the future will be very limited.

"Lao Luo, congratulations, you have been reinstated." Chen Chengxing put down the documents in his hand and said with a smile.

"What's the big deal? My job hasn't changed. What's the difference between being deputy regiment commander or political commissar?" Luo Ping waved his hand.

All officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were equal, there was no such thing as military rank, there was only a difference in division of labor. Although Luo Ping was changed from deputy regiment commander to political commissar, his job did not change at all.

"We are ahead of the curve this time. The headquarters requires each unit to be self-sufficient, but we have already started clearing the land ahead of time." Luo Ping said with a smile.

Although the land reclamation work progressed slowly due to the weather, everything was ready and the enthusiasm of the people was aroused.

You can divide the land after you reclaim wasteland. This is the first time since the beginning of the world. If it happened before, if the land is not yours, your reclamation would be in vain.

"The headquarters has to consider the whole situation, unlike us, whose small ship is easy to turn around and can do it as soon as we think of it."

"However, since the headquarters has issued such a document, it means that the future situation may not be optimistic. We have to make plans early." Chen Chengxing said.

Chen Chengxing was well aware that in order to seize resources and maintain their rule, the Japanese would build strongholds and artillery towers on a large scale in the future, and the blockade of the base would become more and more severe.

"What do you think, captain?" Luo Ping asked.

Now Luo Ping admires Chen Chengxing's brain very much. He can always look at problems from different angles. Sometimes, the two angles of looking at a problem are so disconnected from each other.

In fact, this problem can be regarded as a sequelae of Chen Chengxing's time travel. Chen Chengxing's brain contains the memories of the original owner, and the two memories are intertwined but incompatible. This causes Chen Chengxing to look at problems from both the perspective of the original owner and the perspective of future generations. This phenomenon is most obvious when he just travels through time.

However, after a few years of adjustment, the symptoms have been greatly alleviated. Now they only occur during major events. I believe that in a few years they will completely disappear.

"According to intelligence, the Japanese are now recruiting puppet troops on a large scale to establish a puppet regime, so I want to vigorously develop militia and guerrillas to let them attack these puppet troops and puppet regimes," said Chen Chengxing.

"Militia? Doesn't every village in our base area have militia now?" Luo Ping was a little puzzled.

Developing militia forces is an established plan of the headquarters, and each village within the base has its own militia organization.

"Different from ordinary militia, what I'm talking about is full-time militia," Chen Chengxing explained.

"Now all the counties and towns near the base area have local governments. I want to draw troops from each battalion to form an independent guerrilla team. While fighting guerrilla warfare, I will assist the local government in setting up county brigades and district squads."

The county brigade and district squad are full-time militias and also guerrillas, but they are under the dual management of the local government and the military region. The political commissar is generally the county or district secretary, and they operate within the county or district.

The independent guerrillas are considered vassals of the main force. They have military uniforms, and although their weapons are all light weapons, at least each person has one, so it is not impossible for them to have a few light machine guns.

When we arrived at the county brigade, the military uniform only had a hat, and the weapons were all weapons discarded by the independent guerrillas. Machine guns were basically out of the question.

As for the lowest-level ordinary militia, they can only carry a red tasseled spear, after all, the county brigade does not have enough weapons.

In fact, strictly speaking, the New Second Regiment is still half a level away from the main field forces like the numbered regiment.

However, since the New Second Regiment has begun to develop independently, Chen Chengxing must put himself in the position of the main force.

Even if the king of kings comes, the new second regiment is also the main force.

After listening to Chen Chengxing's plan, Luo Ping thought about it and felt that this was a good idea.

During this period, Luo Ping also felt the oppression of the devils. Although the Yokogawa Battalion withdrew halfway through the battle last time, the devils did not stop occupying this area.

By the end of the year, the Japanese had occupied all the county towns and large townships near Dayun Mountain.

Although the Japanese did not have many troops stationed there, they had recruited a lot of puppet troops and security forces.

The Japs have even built a stronghold near the base.

In places like Xizhuang on the west side and Lequanzhuang on the south side, the Japanese have set up strongholds. Now the New Second Regiment can no longer take the road to the west of Laolong Mountain, and can only choose to take the mountain road to cross Laolong Mountain.

Passively accepting a beating is not the style of the Eighth Route Army. If conditions permit, Luo Ping also supports the troops to fight.

After Chen Chengxing and Luo Ping discussed the details again, they asked the communications squad to pass the order to the three battalions.

Ask them to each select three cadres, and have each cadre bring five veterans to report to the regiment headquarters.

The New Second Regiment is also short of people now, so Chen Chengxing certainly cannot draw a large number of troops. It can only be led by military cadres.

The regiment headquarters can only provide certain support at most.

The next day, Chen Chengxing looked at the list in his hand, and then at the nine people sitting upright below.

Xu Wu and the other two were so stingy that they were unwilling to even give away a deputy company commander. Among the nine people sitting below, three were platoon leaders and six were deputy platoon leaders.

Chen Chengxing felt that if there were not so few deputy platoon leaders, they would definitely use deputy platoon leaders to make up the numbers.

Fortunately, the order stated that veteran soldiers were required, otherwise Chen Chengxing would be afraid that these guys would simply recruit some new soldiers and send them over.

With these veterans, we will be able to set up the guerrilla force.

"You all know why I called you here, right?" Chen Chengxing asked after putting down the list.

"Yes, the battalion commander said that the regiment is going to form a guerrilla force."

"Haha. It's true that we are forming a guerrilla force, but it's not one, but nine!" said Chen Chengxing.

9? These people were confused. They only had 9 people with 45 soldiers. Doesn't that mean 6 people make up a team?
"I will organize your guerrilla force into a reinforced company. As for how far you can develop it, it depends on you."

"If you can only mobilize a platoon of troops, then you can be a platoon leader; if you can mobilize a company of troops, then you can be a company commander; if you can mobilize a battalion of troops, then you don't have to be limited to the guerrilla organization, I can promote you to battalion commander."

"What position you hold depends on you," said Chen Chengxing.

According to the organization given by Chen Chengxing, the guerrillas have 5 platoons, each platoon has 5 squads, each squad has 5-15 people, and if fully staffed, there will be nearly 400 people.

"Captain, what if I can bring a group back?"

"Then get out of here as soon as possible. The New Second Regiment does not allow such an awesome person to exist!" Chen Chengxing said with a smile.

Chen Chengxing knew very well that although he could achieve good results by relying solely on guerrilla warfare, it would be difficult to obtain sufficient weapons.

It is easy to deal with when the guerrillas are a small target, but once their numbers increase, the Japanese will inevitably encircle and suppress them. If you don't have enough weapons at this time, you will definitely suffer a great loss.

Chen Chengxing would never allow the blind expansion of military forces.

(Brothers, it’s almost the end of the month, can you please vote for the monthly ticket?)

(End of this chapter)