The heads of the headquarters and division headquarters unanimously approved the plan submitted by Zhou Weihan.
Afterwards, everyone present made various inferences about the threats that the base area would face in the future, and discussed several plans.
That evening, a group responsible for transporting supplies arrived at Zhuanbi Village, where the Eighth Route Army headquarters is located.
The huge transport team immediately caused a sensation in several nearby villages. Many soldiers and cadres gathered around and watched eagerly.
The supplies sent to the headquarters include not only weapons, equipment, ammunition and other supplies, but also clothing, military uniforms, cans seized from Japanese army warehouses, medical equipment, medicines and various non-staple food products seized from Japanese army field hospitals.
The amount of money handed over alone was more than 1.5 million yuan, and 300 large yellow croakers. You must know that just from buying and selling land in the suburbs of Changzhi, more than 1.2 million yuan was made.
As for the assets confiscated from the homes of various puppet army officers, traitors, and Japanese expatriates, they also included a lot of Japanese yen, counterfeit coins, military notes, and French currency. Zhou Weihan kept all these coins and planned to dispose of them through the trading channels of the cargo bank.
When Director Yang of the Headquarters Logistics Department and Zhang Wanhe, Director of the Division Logistics Department saw this batch of supplies, they almost considered Zhou Weihan as the God of Wealth.
That night, in order to thank the group of soldiers who were responsible for escorting the supplies, Zhang Wanhe, who had always been picky about things, generously used part of his family fortune to entertain nearly two thousand soldiers.
Anyway, the supplies that should be handed over have been handed over to the Tainan Military Region. How they are distributed has nothing to do with Zhou Weihan.
During the dinner party, Zhang Wanhe and Minister Yang were arguing in the corner about how to divide the supplies.
Early the next morning, everyone said goodbye, and Zhou Weihan and his party returned the same way.
After passing through the Handan-Changchun Highway, Zhou Weihan decided on a temporary basis to visit Li Yunlong's Xinyi Tuan.
"Dagang, you can go back with the first regiment first. Go back and tell the chief of staff that I will go to the new regiment!"
"Yes!" Jing Dagang nodded in response.
Zhou Weihan was still accompanied by two guards and a cavalry platoon. When he arrived at Li Jiazuo, where the new regiment was stationed, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon.
The New Regiment has been transferred to the Tainan Military Region for a long time. Not long ago, it fought jointly with the independent detachment in Weizi Town, so Zhou Weihan was recognized as soon as he entered the defense area of the New Regiment.
"You're here!" Zhang Dabiao, commander of the first battalion stationed near the regiment headquarters, rushed over immediately after receiving the news.
"Is Li Yunlong at the regiment headquarters?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"Here it is, there it is!"
After some inquiries, Zhou Weihan learned that Luo Benzhong, political commissar of the new regiment, was leading some cadres to carry out land reform movements in the newly occupied towns, while Li Yunlong was in charge at the regiment headquarters.
At this time, inside the new regiment headquarters.
Li Yunlong was sitting cross-legged on the Kang. On the table were a plate of peanuts, a plate of scrambled eggs, and a bottle of Japanese sake.
In the past two days, when the political commissar was away, Li Yunlong had no one to supervise him. He drank by himself, and the bottle of sake quickly ran out.
Then the correspondent from the first battalion broke in and said out of breath: "Commander, the battalion commander asked me to tell you that the *** is coming!"
When Li Yunlong heard Zhou Weihan's name, he was immediately startled: "What? Zhou Weihan is here?"
"Quickly, clean up quickly!" After Li Yunlong said that, he fell off the kang and hurriedly ran outside the house, got a bucket of water, and washed himself.
On the other side, Zhou Weihan was not in a hurry to come to the headquarters of the new regiment. Instead, he asked Zhang Dabiao to take a tour of several villages where the first battalion was stationed.
You can see the whole leopard at a glance, and you can give feedback on the overall situation of the new regiment through the situation of one battalion.
"How did your battalion suffer casualties in this battle?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"Report ***, after several battles, 315 people of our battalion were killed and 102 were injured. We have five companies of the battalion, with a total of just over 800 people, and more than half of them were killed or injured!" Zhang Dabiao said sadly.
In the Tainan Military Region's combat sequence, the New Regiment suffered the heaviest casualties, and among the New Regiment, the battalion that acted as the sharp knife suffered the most.
"Your battalion is doing a great job. Have the pensions for the sacrificed soldiers been distributed?"
"The death list has been handed over to the regiment headquarters, but it only includes soldiers in the Taihang base area!"
Zhou Weihan understood what Zhang Dabiao meant. The new regiment was expanded from the second battalion of the 386th Brigade Supplementary Regiment.
The source of the first batch of soldiers of the Second Battalion was divided into two parts, one part was the reformed Red Army from northern Shaanxi, and the other part was the old Red Army brought from the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui base areas.
After successive battles, it is estimated that there are not many left of this group of old Red Army soldiers who serve as the backbone.
"I heard from Li Yunlong that you were originally from the 29th Army Swordsman Team?"
"I was in the 29th Army during the Great Wall War of Resistance. It's a pity that a few years later, why did we lose when we said we were defeated?" Zhang Dabiao said.
"During the Great Wall War of Resistance, although the 29th Army had poor weapons and equipment, the officers and men of the 29th Army were united as one and used all their strength to fight the Japanese. However, Commander Song was confused for a moment and actually tried to negotiate peace with the Japanese invaders and wanted to be autonomous in North China. He even gave in step by step, and the morale of the army was
Unstable, by the time he repented, it was too late. In the end, the huge 29th Army lost all its people and fell apart!"
Zhou Weihan is a person who has personally experienced this period of history and is the most qualified to speak.
"Your battalion has the same momentum as the Broadsword Team back in the day. This is a fine tradition and we must keep it up!"
When the 29th Army was at its peak, it had hundreds of thousands of soldiers. After the July 7th Incident, the war was defeated and most of the soldiers followed the army southward. However, there are still many soldiers of the 29th Army scattered in the three provinces of Shanxi, Chacha, and Hebei.
Many of these stragglers were recruited by the Eighth Route Army. Jing Dagang, Zhang Dabiao and the anti-Japanese armed force Guo Huaiwu of Lin County were all from the 29th Army, and Zhou Weihan was one of the representatives.
"Okay, don't send me off. I know how to walk the rest of the way. The current task of your new regiment is to take a good rest. You are a good fighter, but you must cooperate with the instructor's work on weekdays and understand the soldiers' thoughts in a timely manner.
Fluctuate!" Zhou Weihan finally warned.
Zhou Weihan and his party rode on horseback and arrived at Lijiazuo, where the new regiment headquarters was located. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw Li Yunlong squatting and smoking at the entrance of the village.
"Hey, ***, you made it easy for me to wait!" Li Yunlong stepped forward and said eagerly.
Zhou Weihan dismounted from his horse and handed the reins to the monk. As soon as he approached Li Yunlong, he smelled the smell of alcohol.
"Did you drink again in broad daylight?" Zhou Weihan asked with a frown.
"Hey, we, political commissar Luo, are not here, so we made a fuss secretly, let's go into the village!" Li Yunlong tried to fool him.
"Damn it, do the disciplines of our Eighth Route Army still have any use in your eyes?"
"You are the leader of a regiment. You have just finished fighting and have nothing to do?"
"Have the pensions for the fallen soldiers been distributed?"
"As the regiment leader, have you ever visited the injured soldier?"
"Do you know the soldiers' postwar ideological conditions?"
"Luo Benzhong is a political commissar, but these things are not just his job!" Zhou Weihan asked one after another.
"What are you doing, what are you doing! Why don't I just drink some wine?"
"Our new regiment has sacrificed so many soldiers, why can't I drink some wine?"
"It's okay if you don't come. But if you come, I have to ask you, Old Zhou, whether our new regiment's defense area in southeast Li is under the jurisdiction of Tainan District Government or Changzhi District Government?" Li Yunlong
asked rhetorically.
"Good fellow, some towns and villages are going to carry out land reform after the war, and people from both sides are here. If our Luo political commissar hadn't been the mediator, there wouldn't have been any trouble!"
"Let me tell you, you are entirely responsible for this. You conquered the base area, so you should have done a good job of dividing the work as soon as possible!"
"Otherwise, we would still be wiping our political commissar's butt. With this time, our new regiment's post-war aftermath work would have been sorted out long ago!"
