Chu Xiong watched Li Yaozu handing out 8,000 silver dollars before leading the second platoon to leave Lijiacun.

There are still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with on the Shenxian Ridge side, and the Lijiacun side will be put on hold for a while.

This time, more than 150 bandits were captured. He needed to shave off some of them and recruit the others to join the Seventh Company after education and transformation.

After returning to Shenxianling, Chu Xiong finally had time to see what good things were in Hu Shuangqiang's treasure house.

Hu Shuangqiang had been a gangster for many years, and his job was to rob passing business travelers and kidnap people for extortion. The treasure house contained more than 800 taels of gold, more than 156,000 silver coins, and a large number of antiques, calligraphy and paintings that were impossible to estimate.

The stockpiled grain amounts to more than 100,000 kilograms, which is enough to feed the current personnel of the Seventh Company for more than a year.

Compared with the income from suppressing bandits, the 5,000 silver dollars obtained from the Li family are not enough. There is still "a way to make money" from suppressing bandits.

After freeing up our hands, we will see if there are any bandits nearby that need to be eliminated. The Eighth Route Army will do their part and do some side work.

There are two urgent matters that need to be resolved urgently. One is the adjustment of the troops:

Chu Xiong decided that the establishment of the Seventh Company would remain unchanged for the time being, and he would only add a 16-man special operations team. He would temporarily serve as the team leader. He had already thought of a name and called it the Tiger Team.

The personnel selected people with martial arts foundation and good marksmanship from the entire company. This raid on Goddess Ridge made Chu Xiong realize the importance of forming a professional special forces team. Now that there are few personnel, he can only organize a small team first.

Each of the three platoons takes out a main squad, and forms a garrison company based on the main squad, in a three-by-three system, with each company having three platoons and each platoon having three squads, with a total number of 120 people.

Their task is to guard the old camp at Shenxianling. The company commander is He Zhenhua, the seventh squad leader, and the instructor is Yang Wei.

Yang Wei's future task is to be responsible for looking after the house, and all the missing soldiers will be replaced by captured bandits. Yang Wei also has another task to be responsible for reforming them. This is his old profession.

Chu Xiong gave him an idea, which was to launch a complaint campaign. This was a big killer.

The adjusted main company includes three 80-man main platoons, a 16-man artillery squad and a 16-man special operations detachment, with a total number of 272 people.

The equipment of the garrison company is mainly national weapons, each platoon has three Czech light machine guns, and the rest are all rifles.

The second thing is the defense of the old camp. The enemy's attack power is different from that of the Jinsui Army. The existing defense system must be upgraded and three lines of defense must be established based on the dangerous terrain.

The first one is located at Yingzui Cliff, which is where the bandit checkpoint used to be. Once the area has been renovated, one man can guard the gate and no one can open it.

The method used by Chuxiong was to dig tunnels, just like the tunnels in Ganling. The entrance of the tunnel was located on the platform of Yingzui Cliff, and shooting holes similar to bunkers were built on the platform with stones.

Several interconnected basements were excavated in the tunnel. The basements were separated by smoke-proof boards. Ammunition, food and drinking water were stored inside. There were two exits leading to the reverse slope of the mountain.

On the mountain, you can replenish personnel and equipment into the tunnel through the exit. Usually, there is only one squad and two machine guns in the tunnel, which is the main line of defense.

A tunnel defense line is set up every 200 meters up Yingzui Cliff. The three tunnels are connected by straight roads to form a defense system.

In addition, a line of defense is also set up on the back cliff. This is mainly to prevent attacks by special forces. The cliffs are so steep that ordinary troops cannot get up at all.

A platoon is permanently posted on the back cliff to guard.

Chu Xiong himself liked to conduct special operations for the Japanese, so he wanted to prevent the Japanese from doing this to him.

With the old battalion, the seventh company will have roots in the future. After the troops are trained, he can lead the main company to find trouble with the Japanese.

With the addition of more than 100 fresh blood to the army, training has become a top priority. The method is to use the old to lead the new. The tactical patterns are all ready-made, so just practice them.

The duration is about a month, especially physical training, sports warfare and guerrilla warfare. The basic thing is to be able to run.

The troops had to run three times from the top of the mountain to the mountain every day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. They also had to collectively dig tunnels at night.

In order to increase the physical strength of the soldiers, Long Qianli sent people to buy meat from nearby villages to ensure that the troops could eat one meal of meat every week.

Training ammunition is 30 rounds per person!

There is certainly no way to compare this with later generations, but it is already remarkable in this era.

The training of the troops is the responsibility of the platoon leader and squad leader, and Chu Xiong specializes in training the Tiger Special Forces.

These 16 team members will become the seed troops of the future special operations team. Everyone is a future special operations commander, so they all must be literate.

In addition to completing training tasks, each team member also has to learn 20 words every day.

The training subjects and methods were adopted from later generations and simplified to make them more suitable for the needs of special operations in this era.

In a sense, special operations are an upgraded version of guerrilla warfare. It is difficult to establish a simplified version of special forces, but it is easy to say that it is easy. Awareness is the first priority!

Chuxiong's biggest advantage is that he has a special operations consciousness that is nearly a hundred years ahead of this era. It is a summary of actual combat and experience in various countries. The knowledge he has mastered is a system, including:

Special operations thinking, weapons and equipment configuration, troop training, application of various combat methods, etc.

He planned to use a month to complete the initial training, and the rest was left to actual combat. He did not have much time for long-term training like later generations, so he could only train a simplified version of the special operations team first, and then use it in actual combat.

Continuous improvement.

What he lacks most now is special operations weapons. It is difficult to replenish submachine gun bullets. Live ammunition should be used as little as possible in shooting training.

Each person can only be allocated one magazine of training ammunition, and the others can only be replaced with Type 38 rifles and box guns.

Shooting is similar in a sense.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, a whistle blew, and the Tigers special team began a day of training:

First, the 16 team members each carried a weight of 20 kilograms for a ten-kilometer mountain cross-country training.

Then there are the "Five 100s", 100 squats and stand-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 standard push-ups, 100 burpees, and 100 rock-lifting (that is, moving a 20-kilogram stone up to a height of 1 meter)

The training in the morning was about logging. Three people worked as a team to cut down a tree as thick as a bucket bowl from the foot of the mountain. Then the three people worked together to carry it to the mountain for tunnel construction. Tunnel construction requires a large number of tree stumps for support, which is just right.

Use it.

In the afternoon, there was shooting training. Each person had a stone hung on his gun for gun shooting training...

Take him to the jungle at night for disguise and lurking training...

Training subjects also include capture, swimming, fighting, rock climbing (unarmed and rope), setting booby traps, demolition, field survival, special operations gestures and language, team cooperation, etc.

It boils down to two major parts, physical fitness and skills, and each subject is interspersed.

Although people in this era may be physically poorer, their willpower is much stronger than that of later generations.

As for nutritional supplementation, we hunt together in the mountains and forests before the end of training every night. We rely on hunting to supplement our daily meat. This is also a kind of training. The beasts within a dozen kilometers of Shennu Ridge are really suffering.

Any excess meat will be donated to the main company.
Chapter completed!