Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

So their training was simple, or rather sloppy. But they were suddenly caught off guard when they encountered the New Third Regiment.

They didn't even react.

Where did all these guns come from?

They hadn't even considered that this was an anti-Japanese armed force. In fact, they hadn't seen any anti-Japanese armed forces since the establishment of their so-called "Anti-Communist Self-Defense Corps." While it was nominally an "Anti-Communist Self-Defense Corps," they themselves had no idea what it was for. So they hadn't expected to encounter Eighth Route Army troops in the city today.

But Xia Houwen and the officers and soldiers of the New Third Regiment were different. They had already prepared for battle, their guns loaded. After seeing the patrol of about 30 people from the Self-Defense Corps, some of them got nervous and opened fire directly.

"Bang—Xia Houwen was a little dissatisfied.

The defenseless thirty or so people could be disarmed without firing a shot. As long as the two sides were close to each other, they could be disarmed directly.

Or the troops’ training is not up to standard.

When you encounter an enemy and get nervous, just shoot.

However, Xia Houwen was a very experienced commander. Since the shots had already been fired, there was nothing more to say. So he immediately fired the box gun in his hand, killing the officer in front with a single shot.

Xiahou Wen opened fire, and the other members of the New Third Regiment also opened fire.

The New Third Regiment was a newly formed unit, but that didn't mean it had never fought. On the contrary, within the First Battalion of the New Third Regiment, there was a company led by Xia Houwen, and Zhou Yuanming's Lianzhuang Association, which had not only fought against bandits but also the puppet Manchukuo army.

So even though there were some problems with discipline, they were still good at fighting.

There were only about thirty or so self-defense corps officers and soldiers, and they were completely unprepared. Half of them were killed or wounded in a few rounds, and the other half surrendered directly. The light machine guns on the New Third Regiment did not even open fire.

Since the guns had already been fired, Xia Houwen didn't hide anything and said directly, "Set up the machine guns."

The gunshots did alarm the surrounding enemies.

The patrol included the Self-Defense Corps and the police. When they heard the gunshots, they came over here. Xia Houwen didn't hesitate and said, "Shoot."

Although the Japanese needed puppet troops, they did not trust them very much. Therefore, the weapons they provided to the puppet troops were also limited. Unlike the puppet Manchurian army, they were given the Type 38 rifle.

But the self-defense group here has a wide variety of rifles.

There are Soviet water-breathing rifles used by the Northwest Army in the early years, as well as the Hanyang and Zhongzheng rifles of the National Government, and of course the Shanxi-made rifles.

There are some light machine guns, but heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns will not be given to the puppet army.

As a result, they encountered the New 3rd Regiment, which had seven Czech light machine guns, and they were killed right away.

Xiahou Wen has rich combat experience.

The self-defense forces and police who came over were dealt with in a few moves.

"Where was the shooting?"

When the shooting started, Li Deguang thought someone was setting off firecrackers.

But he was no fool after all, and he quickly realized that it was gunfire. Then came the sound of light machine guns, which made Li Deguang furious. Throughout Longguan, there were all kinds of armed forces. But the most powerful armed force was in Li Deguang's hands.

At his birthday party, someone actually fired a gun.

It is unbearable.

"Master, master, it's not good."

"You bastard, your master is fine. Tell me where the shooting happened."

"Master, Zhou Yuanming has rebelled. He's leading his men straight here. There's a huge clamor of people, hundreds of them, all armed with guns."

"What did you say?"

Li Deguang was furious.

He couldn't help but curse, "Zhou Yuanming, that bastard! I spared his life, yet he dared to rebel! Gather everyone together, I'm going to kill him."

"Master, we're going to fail. The militia and police can't stop them. They have so many machine guns, we're no match for them. Let's retreat quickly. They're targeting you, Master."

"What's the point of me raising a bunch of good-for-nothings like you?

Li Deguang was furious.

The self-defense corps and police force together numbered five to six hundred people.

Couldn't stop Zhou Yuanming.

But thinking of his own safety, he immediately said to An Hu: "Old An, let's go quickly. Let's go to your eldest son."

An Hu's eldest son was the commander of the pseudo-Mongolian cavalry division.

Now the only option is to go to him.

"well."

An Hu had never imagined that Zhou Yuanming, who had always seemed timid and cautious, would actually rise up in rebellion. He had exploited him for many years, and besides, Zhou Yuanming's brother had died at the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops. The best thing to do now was to escape.

"Master, let's go to the north gate. There are no enemies there."

"Pack your valuables quickly."

When the traitors heard that Zhou Yuanming had started a rebellion, they all cried and fled with Li Deguang.

They left the city through the north gate and hadn't walked two miles when they heard the sound of horse hooves. Ma Hongyuan had about four hundred men, but they weren't four hundred cavalrymen. How could Ma Hongyuan afford to maintain four hundred horses?

Ma Hongyuan only had about 130 horses.

But enough.

More than a hundred cavalry troops are coming roaring, giving you no chance at all.

Although Ma Hongyuan had joined the Eighth Route Army, he had only just joined. He had previously said, unpleasantly, that he was a bandit. There was no military discipline at all; they simply charged back and forth and killed everyone who left the city.

They really killed them all, not a single one was left.

In Ma Hongyuan's eyes, there was no such thing as the elderly, the weak, or women. Those who escaped from the north gate were all traitors and should be killed. So he really didn't spare a single one, and the cavalry killed them all in a few rounds.

"Clean up the battlefield, take everything with you, and return to the city to report."

Chapter 154 Three Major Disciplines

Longguan County was captured.

They were defeated by the New Third Regiment, a group of ragtag men who had only been established for a week. Such incidents were common in the early days of the War of Resistance. For example, the Jidong Uprising, which saw the capture of over twenty county towns in Yidong.

If this had happened two or three years later, it would have been extremely difficult for the main force of the Eighth Route Army to capture the county town.

Because at that time the Japanese army increased its troops behind enemy lines and trained a large number of puppet troops. Therefore, at that time, the Japanese and puppet troops in many counties had thousands of people, and it was not easy to attack the city.

But in the current battlefield behind enemy lines, such incidents of capturing county towns are not uncommon. But after the capture, Xia Houwen became even busier.

The New Third Regiment captured Longguan County and encountered a lot of problems.

Some went to rob things, some went to eat, drink and have fun, and some even went to rob women. In short, there were all kinds of chaos. Xia Houwen had no choice but to call an emergency meeting of the New Third Regiment.

"The army has its own discipline. Although the New Third Regiment has just been established, it still needs to maintain proper military discipline. Look at what the soldiers you led have become after entering the county."

Xia Houwen was very angry.

Fortunately, he was mentally prepared.

The same thing happened with the development of the Red Army. In its early years, the Red Army's troops were mostly peasants with little education, resulting in a host of problems. Everyone was in disarray, with no idea what to do. Not only were the newly enlisted peasants clueless, but even the central leadership at the time was unclear on how to address these issues. The true resolution of these problems can be traced back to the Gutian Conference. If the Sanwan Reorganization marked the beginning of the new army, then the Gutian Conference completely transformed the Red Army into a completely new type of army.

Although the development of the Red Army later experienced many twists and turns, the idea of ​​building the army has always followed the spirit of the Sanwan Reorganization and the Gutian Conference.

So although Xiahou Wen was angry, he was still very patient.

Dao: "I have told you before about the three major disciplines of the Eighth Route Army.

The first is to follow orders in all actions. I won't discuss this for now, but will start with the second. Not taking a single needle or thread from the masses is an iron rule of our Eighth Route Army. Most of you are members of the local village association. The reason the village association was established was to prevent bandits. In other words, your original purpose was to ensure the safety of the village and the people. So now you're allowing your people to loot and eat indiscriminately in the city. What kind of behavior is this?

"Why do you oppose bandits? Why do you join the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese? Isn't it because bandits rob the people, isn't it because the Japanese oppress us? But what are you doing now? Is there any difference between that and the bandits and the Japanese?

Zhou Yuanming stood up.

"Captain, I need to reflect on myself. I was not a good leader."

"I'm not blaming you. I want to explain something to you. You established the village association to protect your fellow villagers from bandit attacks. Now you join the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese so that fellow villagers all over the world will not be oppressed by the Japanese. Think about it, the people in other places, just like the villagers in your hometown, have parents and relatives. The bandits you hate may be very kind to their own relatives, but they are cruel and vicious to others.

Do you want to be seen as bandits by other villagers?"

"The reason we successfully captured Longguan County this time was not because of our strength, but because there were no Japanese troops in the county. I have fought against the devils before. With the strength of our New Third Regiment, we are no match for a Japanese battalion, let alone a Japanese squadron. So how can we defeat the Japanese? If three of us can't beat one of them, then five of us can beat one of them, and if that doesn't work, ten of us can beat one of them. To do this, we must expand the army and get more people to join our Eighth Route Army. But how can we get ordinary people to join our Eighth Route Army?"

"If we oppress the people like the bandits and the Japanese.

So why would the people support us and join our ranks? Only if we are different from the bandits, the Japanese, and the former warlords will the people support us and join our ranks.

"Therefore, we in the Eighth Route Army have iron discipline. The most important one is not to take a single needle or thread from the masses. Even if there are traitors, we only execute those who have committed the most heinous crimes. But we will not touch the family members of traitors whose hands are not stained with blood. I want to ask, can everyone do this?"

Zhou Yuanming was the first to stand up and make a promise.

"We must do it."

"Ok."

"can do it."

Ma Hongyuan finally said, "I will definitely restrain my people."

"Okay. Now let me talk about the third one, which is that all captured items must be turned over to the government. In other words, everything captured on the battlefield must be turned over in a unified manner."

"Captain, this is not right."

Ma Hongyuan objected loudly.

Xia Houwen was not angry. He smiled and said, "Comrade Ma Hongyuan, tell me, what's wrong?"

"Why should we hand in spoils we captured on the battlefield? This has never been the norm since ancient times. Whoever gets something on the battlefield owns it."

"What about the rest?"

Many people nodded.

Xia Houwen shook his head and said, "No, that's not right. Comrade Ma Hongyuan, let me ask you a question."

"You said."

"If one day, we have to fight the Japanese army. The Japanese army attacks us from two directions. Our plan is to have one unit block one of the directions, and the other units will join forces to encircle and annihilate the other. In the end, the plan succeeds, and we encircle and annihilate one of the Japanese troops. Then, tell me about this blocking team. Did they contribute anything?"

"Of course."

Ma Hongyuan nodded.

This is a no-brainer.

Xia Houwen smiled and said, "But because this unit was engaged in a blocking operation, they suffered heavy casualties and didn't capture any loot. If, as you said, whoever captured something on the battlefield owned it, then this unit would have nothing. If that's the case, would you be willing to serve in the blocking unit?"