Majia Village has not had such a festive day for a long time. The food that was forcibly taken away was sent back by the Eighth Route Army, and there was a lot of it.
Whatever you hand over at noon, you will get back in the evening, and the Eighth Route Army will make up for the shortage!
Chu Xiong was mentally prepared to post hundreds of kilograms of grain, but people in this era were honest and no one overreported.
The patriarch, Ma Sihai, was the last person to receive it, and the difference was only a few liters of grain.
Chu Xiong asked someone to send a few liters of grain to make up for it!
"Captain Chu, this is impossible. You have already shown great kindness to the people by helping them recover money and food. How can you let your Eighth Route Army pay a few liters of food?
With thousands of kilograms of grain, there will always be losses! "
When Ma Sihai was young, he traveled all over the country and had contacts with the early Beiyang Army, the later Central Army, and the Shanxi-Sui Army;
I have never seen anyone like the Eighth Route Army - they did not requisition food, but instead paid for it.
This batch of money and food was acceptable even if the Eighth Route Army did not send it over. After all, they captured the money and food from the defeated troops of the Jinsui Army.
It's already passed through one hand. It was captured by the Eighth Route Army based on their ability. Why should I give it back to you?
Giving is a great kindness, but not giving is also a duty. The young and old men in Majia Village can't fault them.
Chu Xiong still insisted on replenishing the few liters of food. The Eighth Route Army could not break its promise at any time.
Trust comes from persistence in details!
"Clan Chief Ma, you don't have to be polite. Our Eighth Route Army has discipline and will not take advantage of the masses!"
Chu Xiong said the most classic sentence.
At the kind invitation of the folks in Majia Village, Chu Xiong decided to rest in Majia Village for a few days.
He mainly wanted to let the several seriously wounded men recover from their injuries, and by the way, he could collect the dozens of captive stragglers.
Leave it to Yang Wei to maintain good relations with the masses. This is his specialty.
Such as helping people carry water, repairing houses, bringing warmth to the elderly and aunties, etc. This is how the Eighth Route Army gained its reputation among the people.
Chuxiong has not yet found a suitable place to establish a base.
Majia Village is so open and unobstructed that it is impossible to defend it when the Japanese attack.
You have to go to the mountains!
After coming out of Xiaowangzhuang, the Seventh Company successively wiped out three defeated troops, captured more than 150 people, obtained more than 100 guns, and accumulated a lot of food.
Among them were 5 Czech-style light machine guns, no heavy machine guns, and a dozen Jin-made Thompson submachine guns.
Many of these defeated soldiers even threw away their guns!
Most of the defeated troops were from the Jinsui Army. The central army was small, mainly soldiers, and there were only 4 officers.
It has been more than ten days since the battle at Xiaowangzhuang, and many lightly wounded comrades have returned to the team. Now there are only a dozen more seriously injured comrades who have not yet fully recovered;
What makes Chu Xiong happy is that these injured people have survived and will return to the team in the future. The 102 veterans of the seventh company are the cornerstone of his team.
In Majia Village, Chu Xiong decided to recruit all the captured defeated troops into the Seventh Company, except for a few who were really unfit to serve as soldiers. He wanted to reorganize the troops according to his own experience in later generations:
Each squad is expanded from 10 to 13 people and divided into 4 combat groups;
There are 3 people in each group, 1 group leader and 2 group members.
Each platoon has six squads, and there are exactly 80 people including the platoon leader and correspondent.
There are 3 platoons in the company plus an 8-person company headquarters, a total of 248 people. There is no longer a special cooking class. Each platoon only needs to designate a few part-time cooks.
Wartime rations were mainly fried noodles, which were easy to carry and store and were the most suitable logistical support method for mobile warfare;
During combat, each person can carry a week's worth of rations, which can basically meet the needs of a medium-sized battle.
The weapon configuration is as follows:
One row is all captured Japanese weapons, equipped with 4 crooked light machine guns (1 main and auxiliary shooter each, and the auxiliary shooter is also the ammunition hand), 3 grenade launchers (1 main and auxiliary shooter each), and each other. A 38-type rifle.
The second and third rows each have three Czech light machine guns, and the rest are all rifles and a small number of pistols.
Chu Xiong didn't plan to divide the dozen submachine guns, he kept them for great use.
The ammunition is quite sufficient, with an average of more than 60 rounds per person for Japanese weapons, more than 30 rounds for each person for Chinese weapons, and 150 rounds for each machine gun;
In addition, the average number of grenades or grenades per person is less than 3, which is barely enough for a small-scale battle.
After the formation of the troops was completed, Chu Xiong was not in a hurry to find trouble with the Japs. He just sent out a squad to detect the Japs' movements.
He planned to find an opportunity to engage in the Japanese transport team and get some ammunition.
Chuxiong plans to introduce a diamond tactic, which is an upgraded version of the inverted triangle tactic.
Anyone who has studied mathematics knows that a rhombus divided diagonally into two triangles.
The diamond shape is the most changeable shape and the most stable shape. It is transformed into infantry squad tactics and makes squad tactics more changeable.
There are 13 people in each class. One group leads in the front, one group on the left and one group on the left. Another group supports the back, with the squad leader in the middle giving command.
If there are casualties in the first three groups, the members of the back-up group can serve as substitutes and eventually evolve into a triangle tactic.
The distance between groups is 10 to 15 meters, and the distance between people is 5 to 7 meters. During the attack, one squad can open up a front of 80 to 150 meters;
Such an offensive formation can minimize the damage caused by enemy artillery and machine gun fire.
Chu Xiong regarded this tactic as his first choice among the Seventh Company's offensive tactics and required everyone to train strictly and master it proficiently.
This set of tactics alone took the Seventh Company to train in Majiacun for a week.
This week, the Seventh Company has established a deep relationship with the fellow villagers in Majia Village. Most of the fellow villagers regard the Eighth Route Army as their own team.
There are more than a dozen young people in the village who joined the Eighth Route Army. The people of this era are still very simple, and they will definitely repay the favor.
The squad sent out to investigate returned good news. They discovered a logistics transportation line for the Japanese.
"Village Chief Ma, we have a mission and have to leave Majia Village. You must remember not to tell anyone that we have been here;
The Japanese will retaliate, and if they find out, they will seek revenge from Majiacun. "
When the Seventh Company left, Chu Xiong repeatedly told Village Chief Ma that he knew the Japanese's peeing habits very well.
When the Seventh Company left, the folks in Majia Village stuffed the jujubes, eggs, steamed buns, and sticky pancakes that they usually couldn't bear into the soldiers' arms, but they couldn't stop them.
Chu Xiong, who has always had a strong heart, couldn't help but shed a few tears. Soldiers and people are the foundation of victory!
The love between soldiers and civilians is hard-won, and Seventh Company must protect it with their lives.
"Comrades, let us first accept the deep friendship from our fellow villagers, and in the future we will fight more Japanese enemies to repay our fellow villagers!"
Chu Xiong took a piece of cake with residual warmth and hid it deeply in his arms. He would trade the heads of countless Japanese for this piece of cake!
"Comrades, fight the Japanese!"
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After leaving Majia Village, the Seventh Company stayed day and night, and finally arrived near the Japanese supply line before early the next morning.
"Company Commander, we have observed that a convoy transporting supplies passes by on this road every other day, and the number of escorting troops will not exceed one squad..."
When the main force of the company arrived, Yan Haoyu, the fifth squad leader who was responsible for the reconnaissance mission, reported the detected enemy situation to Chu Xiong.
"Haoyu, based on your on-the-spot investigation during this period, which place do you think is the most suitable for a Japanese ambush?"
"Liujiawa!"
"Come on, let's go take a look together!"
Chu Xiong decided to take a few platoon leaders to see on the spot.
