Three months later.
The three hundred people from Cangyun Ridge, as well as the more than one hundred recruits Li Qiufan recruited from surrounding towns and villages in the past three months, stood upright in the open space.
The current independent battalion has a total of three infantry companies, an artillery platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, a guard platoon, and a communications squad.
In terms of weapons, each infantry company is equipped with three light machine guns. In addition to the rifles in the hands of veterans, the more than 100 people who have just joined are still unarmed.
The artillery platoon is equipped with three mortars and one light machine gun, while the reconnaissance platoon is equipped with all rifles.
After three months of training, Li Qiufan planned to go out and get some equipment and come back. He couldn't let the recruits fight the Japanese with their fists.
"Listen to my order, all new recruits come out!"
Li Qiufan gave the order to everyone, and soon more than a hundred recruits stood up.
"All new soldiers stay at the station, while the others advance towards Wanjia Town!"
That's right, Li Qiufan planned to go to Wanjia Town to bring back the horse equipment before Lao Li. As for Lao Li, he could only say sorry.
Half a day later, the independent battalion arrived at the outskirts of Wanjia Town.
"Reconnaissance platoon leader, bring someone in to help me find out the enemy's situation. Be more detailed about the firepower configuration. The others will hide on the spot."
Li Qiufan called the reconnaissance platoon leader in front of him and gave the order, and then arranged for the troops to hide.
Not long after, the reconnaissance platoon came back and reported that there was only one battalion of puppet troops inside, and they were all cavalry and not equipped with heavy weapons.
"Okay, tell brothers to get ready for battle!"
When Li Qiufan heard that there was only one cavalry battalion, he immediately felt relieved. No wonder Lao Li only sent one battalion and captured Wanjia Town.
"The second company goes to the left, and the third company goes to the right. Let me trap this group of puppet soldiers. Don't let any of them escape!"
"Follow me and follow me in the company. Ma, take the artillery platoon and shoot accurately. We don't have many artillery shells, so save some for me!"
After arranging the combat mission, Li Qiufan waited for the second and third companies to move to the designated positions.
A few minutes later, the two companies arrived at the designated position, and Li Qiufan immediately ordered the bombardment to begin.
"Boom boom..."
The explosion sounded in the puppet army camp, and the puppet army inside became a mess for a while.
"Keep charging at me!"
Li Qiufan shouted and immediately took the lead and rushed forward.
When Heizi saw that Li Qiufan was going to take the lead, he immediately hugged Li Qiufan back.
"Damn it, why did you bring me back?"
Li Qiufan glared at Heizi and was hugged back as soon as he ran out for two steps.
"Brother, charging is a matter for brothers. You just stay here!"
Heizi didn't say much, held Li Qiufan down and took the lead in rushing forward.
Li Qiufan was stunned to see this operation, and he forgot to scold his mother for a moment.
"His grandma's, bring me a rifle!"
After Li Qiufan reacted, he cursed, then took a rifle from the hands of the soldiers in the guard platoon next to him, and started shooting at the puppet soldiers.
Sure enough, the puppet army's combat effectiveness was not good. They were directly rushed by a company of troops and were thrown into confusion. They fled in all directions.
The Second Company and the Third Company began to massacre the puppet troops who escaped. The entire battle took less than half an hour from start to finish.
"The second and third companies quickly cooperated with the first company to clean up the battlefield. With such a big movement, enemy reinforcements will come soon!"
Seeing that the battle was over, Li Qiufan hurriedly ordered the two peripheral companies to come in and clean up the battlefield. Everyone plucked the geese and returned to the station with the seizures.
After returning to the station, Li Qiufan began to inspect the seizures. This time, he seized more than 500 military horses, more than 600 rifles of various types, six crooked light machine guns, five grenades, and 600 Many sabers.
As for the bullets, I didn't count them. There were quite a lot of them, about four to five thousand rounds. I also pulled back four boxes of grenade shells.
"Hey, hey, I'm getting rich, I'm getting rich!"
Heizi looked at the weapons and ammunition piled on the floor and laughed, and he was just about to shed a few more drops.
"Stop it, you look like you have never seen the world."
Li Qiufan looked at Heizi with a look of disgust on his face, thinking that if he showed you a ballistic missile, his eyes would pop out of his head.
"Leave one company's equipment of horses, rifles and sabers, and load the rest on a donkey cart."
After hating Heizi, Li Qiufan spoke to Heizi again.
"What are you doing loading the pallet truck?"
Heizi was a little confused and looked at Li Qiufan and asked.
"There's so much nonsense, if I ask you to pretend, just pretend!"
Li Qiufan gave Heizi a kick and asked, "Do you think I want to pretend? I don't want to show my respect to the lovely brigade commander." "
"Oh, is the grenade machine gun loaded?"
After being beaten, Heizi became honest and asked, pointing to the crooked handle and the grenade.
"Nonsense, of course I won't pretend anymore. Let's keep this thing for ourselves, as well as all the bullets!"
Li Qiufan kicked Heizi again.
The next day, Li Qiufan drove a cart and more than 300 horses to the brigade headquarters.
"Hahaha, Qiu Fan, you are giving me a gift!"
The hearty laughter of the old brigade commander could be heard across the distance.
"What are you talking about, Brigadier? I'm turning it over for capture."
Li Qiufan waved his hand. He didn't want to be known as bribing his boss.
"Hehe, you are a wise boy, otherwise I will go to your station to play with things."
The brigade commander raised his glasses and looked at Li Qiufan with a smile.
"Huh? That's not right. Why do you only have a gun and bullets?"
The brigade commander opened the cloth on the cart and looked at the weapons inside.
"Haha, brigade commander, you see, my independent battalion will consume a lot of money in this battle, so I will keep the bullets."
Li Qiufan laughed twice at the brigade commander, and then started to talk nonsense.
Upon hearing this, the brigade commander's face turned dark, and he gritted his molar teeth and said, "Really, it consumes a lot of money?"
"Um, it's pretty big, it's pretty big!"
Li Qiufan paused for a moment looking at the brigade commander's dark face, but still did not let go.
Seeing this, the brigade commander shook his head helplessly and said: "Forget it, just stay. It's okay if we can send you these equipment."
Li Qiufan was overjoyed when he heard that the brigade commander was no longer asking questions, and he hurriedly followed the brigade commander inside.
When they arrived at the room, the brigade commander remembered something and turned to look at Li Qiufan: "By the way, why haven't you sent me the roster? I, the brigade commander, don't even know how many soldiers your independent battalion has."
"Forehead…."
Li Qiufan was stunned when he heard this. He had really forgotten about the roster. For the past three months, he had been busy training and recruiting troops all day long and never thought of it at all.
"Brigadier, I forgot. I have been training during this time."
Li Qiufan told the truth and did not hide it.
"Okay, I'm also responsible for this. I forgot to let people take a look."
The brigade commander waved his hand to Li Qiufan, and then asked, "How many troops does your independent battalion have now?"
"Three infantry companies, an artillery platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, a guard platoon, and a communications squad."
Li Qiufan directly reported the current configuration. As for why it is now, it is because he plans to form a cavalry company and a machine gun platoon when he returns.
