Li Qinglin smiled and said, "If you think about it more, don't you know what's going on?"

Zhang Ergou interjected, "The boss has made the most contributions, and everyone knows that. Chen Zhendong is now on the rank of colonel. If the boss is promoted to lieutenant colonel this time, then the colonel will be just around the corner, right? By then, will Chen Zhendong still be the leader of the detachment?"

The big man Zhao Shoushan nodded and said, "That's the reason! This deputy commander is just a false name. The boss can really command our third team."

Xiao Liuzi said hatefully: "These people are so bad, right? Next time we encounter Japanese attacks, we will never save them. Let's see who they will do the same for!"

Li Qinglin shook his head and said, "No matter what, he is still our commander. We are not strong enough now, and the enemy will come to us at any time. Maybe they will need their support at that time."

Xiao Liuzi said: "In the future, we will expand our army if we have the opportunity. At that time, the troops you command are stronger than one of his detachments. It seems that he can't do anything yet!"

Li Qinglin smiled and patted Xiao Liuzi on the shoulder, but didn't say anything.

At the request of the Ninth Detachment, the Eighth Detachment also brought additional soldiers, weapons, ammunition and military pay to the Ninth Detachment from the south bank of the Yellow River.

This time, Li Qinglin was not ruthless and made a series of requests to the detachment. After all the ammunition was replenished, the soldiers asked for fifty soldiers. In addition, in order to increase the firepower of the Ninth Detachment, the Independent Guerrilla Column specially added two mortars and some Czech machine guns this time. Li Qinglin also asked Chen Zhendong that a mortar and some machine guns were needed.

Perhaps Chen Zhendong thought he had treated Li Qinglin badly this time, maybe he really hoped that the third team would improve its combat effectiveness and all Li Qinglin's requirements were met.

After bringing back soldiers and supplies ammunition from the detachment, Li Qinglin once again adjusted the troops.

Another mortar squad was established, which joined the machine gun platoon of the direct detachment. The machine gun platoon now has two mortar squads and a Japanese-made 92-heavy machine gun squad. Such firepower made the platoon leader Deng Zhongxiang so happy.

All the machine guns brought back from the detachment were divided, and now each infantry squad can have a Czech style; all the additional recruits are divided by each detachment, and now the three infantry detachments have 140 people each. Among the squadrons of the Ninth Detachment, the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Squadrons are the largest number of people and super firepower. The remaining personnel are all organized into the direct squadrons, and the direct squadrons and the brigade headquarters have a total of 147 people. The Third Battalion currently has a total of 567 officers and soldiers.

The bonuses paid by the column were also taken out by Li Qinglin to buy pigs, cattle and sheep. The officers and soldiers of the third brigade were full of oil every day, and they became more and more motivated when training.

There are more people and more equipment, but these equipment must also be adjusted.

There are now several types of rifles in the third brigade, such as the Type 38, Zhongzheng, and Hanyang, and the bullets they use cannot be universal.

The largest number was built in Hanyang, so Li Qinglin asked the ordinary infantry of the 7th Squadron, the 8th Squadron and the 9th Squadron to be replaced with the Hanyang Squadron issued by the war zone, so that the ammunition supplements during the war were more convenient. Of course, the sharpshooters of those sharpshooters still used the 38th Squadrons. The 38th Squad bullets were replenished at one time by the brigade, and they would seize them on the battlefield themselves, and the brigade would no longer be replenished.

The official number of the 52nd Army now appears to be small, so all the equipment is in the direct squadron. The direct squadron is insufficient to make some equipment in Hanyang, and other other like horse rifles are wiped and sealed.

However, the Eighth Detachment also brought a group of very special people, namely the political workers sent by the Political Department of the First War Zone.

In order to control these guerrilla troops behind enemy lines, political departments were established in each theater and political liaison units were forced to set up political liaison rooms. The political liaison room had political liaison officers and liaison assistants. These personnel were stationed in the headquarters of each detachment. Some of the personnel were composed of Central Commission for Discipline and some were Military Commission for Discipline. The main task was to monitor these guerrilla troops and report the situation of the troops to superiors regularly and irregularly.

The political liaison room of the Ninth Detachment is naturally set up in Chen Zhendong's detachment headquarters in Miaodian Town, and the political liaison officers are also stationed in Miaodian Town for a long time.

In order to control the subordinate brigades, each brigade is also equipped with political liaison assistants. According to regulations, these political liaison assistants must also be with the brigade headquarters, and various situations of the brigade must be informed of them at any time. Li Qinglin naturally cannot refuse such an arrangement.

The Third Brigade was under intense training. That morning, the assistant liaison officers who were dispatched to the Third Brigade finally arrived. Li Qinglin immediately convened the officers to meet to welcome the arrival of the assistant liaison officers.

At the welcome meeting, Li Qinglin delivered a warm welcome speech. His emotions and sincere attitude were almost moved by Li Qinglin himself. The two liaison assistants were indeed very excited. They also spoke a lot of words of working together to fight against the war at the welcome meeting. The welcome meeting was very successful.

After the welcome meeting, it was lunch time, and the assistant of the political liaison officer had lunch with a group of officers at the brigade headquarters.

I thought the third brigade would hold a banquet, but the cooks brought a large basket of cakes mixed with cornmeal, a few pots of pickles, and a large bucket of pork stew.

The cake is naturally hard and rough, but the oil and water of the vegetables are very good, but very salty.

For soldiers from farm families, such food is really good. The army's training intensity is high and it needs to supplement nutrition and salt. Hard cakes are hungry, vegetables with high oil and water are supplemented with nutrition, and vegetables with high salt are added to supplement salt flowing out with sweat.

But for these spies coming from behind, they had never eaten such food. The hard and rough corn cakes and very salty vegetables were hard to swallow. The fat meat with two fingers floating on the soup looked greasy, let alone eating them. The two assistants ate a few bites and never put chopsticks again.

Seeing that Li Qinglin and other officers were eating happily with cakes and bowls, the two of them asked the cooks quietly and the reply was: "The captain, like the soldiers, eats these foods every day."

The two originally wanted to propose to Li Qinglin to improve their food, but now they heard that the captains all ate the same food as soldiers. They looked at each other and swallowed all the words.

After dinner, the two thought they should have arranged a rest. But less than an hour later, Li Qinglin sent someone to inform them to participate in the five-kilometer cross-country training of the direct squadron's cooking squad and the baggage platoon.

The two asked the messenger and the reply was: "From the captain and the cooks, everyone must participate in military training. In order to take care of the liaison assistant, the intensity of this first off-road training is relatively small. The two only need to keep up with the worst-fitting kitchen team and baggage platoon with empty hands."

The messenger finally emphasized: "Captain Li also participated in the afternoon off-road training, please ask the two assistants to participate."

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