Chapter 443: Dressing up and reorganizing. Please subscribe.
The confrontation between the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army in Lin County was the most tense around Changzhi. Therefore, Zhou Weihan asked Zhang Hao's Lin County guerrilla brigade to occupy the northern part of Lin County from the east to the west.
After accepting the territory of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in the western part of Linbei, Linbei immediately bordered the defense area of Xu Dali's Second Regiment, and the territory of Tainan Second Division was completely connected.
Once Yang Han's 280th Regiment makes any changes, the Second Regiment can quickly provide support.
To the west of Linlin and the First Division of the Forty Army stationed at Huguan, there is a mountainous area in Linlu, which serves as a buffer zone. The spheres of influence of the two sides are not bordering each other.
Of course, before Zhou Weihan went north, he repeatedly warned Zhang Hao not to take it lightly at this critical moment.
Then Guo Huaiwu's 29th Regiment followed Zhou Weihan and quickly headed north.
That night, the troops arrived at Yamawang Mountain.
Since the leadership team of the military region had not expected that the 29th Regiment would go to Yamawang Mountain for training, they did not prepare the camp in advance.
In the end, Zhao Gang vacated the camp of one regiment stationed at the foot of the mountain, leaving the 29th regiment as the camp, while the other regiment dispersed and stationed in nearby villages.
"Comrade Huaiwu, Comrade Fanyu, these are the political commissar Zhao Gang and chief of staff Xing Zhiguo of our Tainan Military Region!"
"This is Guo Huaiwu, the leader of the 29th Regiment, and Hu Fanyu, the chief of staff!" Zhou Weihan introduced to everyone present.
Zhao Gang enthusiastically stepped forward and held Guo Huaiwu's hand: "Hey, comrades, we have all heard about your heroic deeds in resisting the Japanese and fighting the Japanese in the Linbei Mountains. I admire you so much. Welcome to join the Eighth Route Army!"
"Ashamed, ashamed, we were just having a little fight. You are Political Commissar Zhao. I have long heard Brother Zhang Hao, no, it was Comrade Zhang Hao who said that Political Commissar Zhao is a rare talent who can be both literary and military.
!" Guo Huaiwu also did not show weakness in the face of Zhao Gang's praise.
Who doesn’t like to hear nice words? Zhao Gang obviously found them very useful.
"Come on, Lao Zhao, comrades have been on the road all day. Are the meals ready?" Zhou Weihan stepped forward to interrupt the two of them from complimenting each other.
"Ready, just waiting for you, comrades!"
"Then stop talking nonsense and hurry up and eat. I'm already hungry!"
The regiment's camp at the foot of the mountain was self-built and could accommodate four thousand people. It was more than enough to accommodate the two thousand people of the 29th regiment.
In the camp, the manpower mobilized by Zhao Gang set up more than 30 large pots early in the morning, and prepared only one dish in the evening, chicken nuggets stewed with potatoes.
Zhou Weihan greeted everyone to eat quickly: "Comrades, don't be so polite. When you get here, you will go home and eat with your belly open. Enough is enough!"
"Okay!" The soldiers of the 29th Regiment responded loudly.
Zhou Weihan stepped forward and took a sea bowl, asked the soldier who was preparing the meal to fill a bowl of rice, and brought two more spoons of vegetables. Then he found a barracks wall and sat down.
Then Zhao Gang and others followed. Guo Huaiwu first took the kuaizi and scratched it in the bowl a few times, and then said: "It's really enjoyable. I have long heard Zhang Hao say that the food of our Eighth Route Army is good. Now I really believe it.
To be honest, in the past two years, we rarely had enough to eat in the mountains!"
"Only before the battle can the brothers open their bellies and eat!"
"Comrade Huaiwu, don't worry. I can't guarantee anything else. In our Eighth Route Army, having a full stomach is not a problem!" Zhao Gang directly made a guarantee.
"That's a good feeling!" Guo Huaiwu grinned.
Previously, the military region had no advance plan for the 29th Regiment to go north for training. Now that the parties involved were present, Zhou Weihan also took the opportunity to bring it up during the meal: "Old Zhao, didn't the quilt factory modify a batch of Japanese military uniforms? With Ding,
The big plan said that four thousand sets of new military uniforms would be given to the soldiers of the 29th Regiment!"
"Okay, the military uniforms will be distributed to the soldiers early tomorrow morning!"
This means that a lot of Japanese military uniforms have been captured. Otherwise, according to the expansion speed of the Tainan Military Region troops, the production speed of the uniform factory may not be able to keep up.
On the way north, Zhou Weihan also saw that the weapons and equipment of the 28th Regiment were far from reaching the level of one gun per man. At least five to six hundred soldiers still used large blades in their hands, and some guns even had smooth rifling.
However, the weapons and equipment in the arsenal under the jurisdiction of Ding Abacus were all allocated to the newly formed new regiments, and there was no inventory on Yama Mountain.
In addition to handing over the previously seized weapons and equipment to the headquarters, most of the remaining weapons and equipment are stored in the combat readiness warehouses of the three military divisions.
"Lao Guo, the weapons and equipment of your 29th Regiment will be distributed in two days!" Zhou Weihan said to Guo Huaiwu.
"The weapons and equipment are not up to par. Without a gun, the big blade can still be swung like a tiger!"
"I'm telling you, don't underestimate those brothers with swords. These are my sword team carefully selected to fight hand-to-hand combat with little devils!" Guo Huaiwu said proudly.
"Yes, this is the special skill of the 29th Army!" Zhou Weihan said with a smile.
"It's easy to talk about other things. Who is the political commissar of our 29th regiment? Can I get to know him?"
"Don't worry about this. Your political commissar of the 29th Regiment is still studying at the cadre school. Let us, political commissar Zhao, take the lead in the political work during this period!" Zhou Weihan pointed at Zhao Gang.
"Hey, that's appropriate. When will we go to the cadre school to study?"
"Let this matter go slowly for a while. When the soldiers have stabilized and adapted to the environment, you can go again!"
"Okay, I'll do whatever you want!"
Whether each unit of the Eighth Route Army can fight a tough battle and its combat effectiveness depends on the military chief, but the lower limit depends on the political chief.
Again, the troops in the Tainan Military Region have expanded too quickly. From the beginning of the new second regiment to the present, it has taken less than a year to reach full strength.
The newly promoted cadres, whether they are in charge of military or political work, are relatively inexperienced, and it is really impossible to select a suitable political commissar of the 29th Regiment.
However, Zhou Weihan and Zhao Gang had already had their preferences for the specific candidate for the political commissar of the 29th Regiment.
A comrade who was previously rescued from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp was engaged in political work in the army during the Red Army period.
Zhao Gang had a special conversation with him and found that his ability was qualified. The key was that he had no opinions on the adapted anti-Japanese armed forces. This was the basis for future work.
It's just that this comrade had been physically tortured in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and needed to take advantage of the opportunity of studying in a cadre school to rest for a while before taking office.
In the following period, with the active cooperation of Guo Huaiwu and others, the 29th Regiment first completed the replacement, and then the troops were reorganized and weapons and equipment were replaced. More than 1,900 people were reorganized into 12 recruit companies and a heavy machine gun company.
Political cadres in each company were quickly deployed, and each company was assigned additional cultural instructors.
Zhao Gang, who had just been idle for a while, became a beast again. He stayed in the 29th Regiment all day to get a deeper understanding of the actual situation of the soldiers.
Zhou Weihan also transferred a group of key personnel from the 1st Regiment to serve as temporary instructors in the daily training of the 29th Regiment.
