I really came here to fight against Japan

Our guerrilla divisions in the north were not idle during the three-year War of Resistance Against Japan.

We have been maintaining support for the Eighth Route Army and supplying troops and weapons and equipment.

We did not ignore the New Fourth Army. Over the years, many people have joined it intermittently.

Due to the changes in the situation, I have now begun to prepare to provide blood transfusions for our New Fourth Army in Jiangnan."

The detachment commander said happily: "Oh, it's finally our turn.

Come on, tell me what the benefits are. I can’t wait any longer.”

Song Wenwan: "Then I still have to say sorry to you first.

Since the Jiangnan area has always been someone's stronghold, I can't cover up everything.

So in the past three years, I have not dared to give you strong support.

Another reason for this is that there are too many eyes here.

We don’t have the same ideas, and I’m afraid someone will expose me.”

Song Wenwan's words were vague, and the commander just laughed it off. Some things are indeed difficult to say out loud.

“This time your team is heading east, so I finally have a chance.

Now we can finally increase our support for you.

Of course, this is also what the Shaanxi-Northern Organization requires of me.”

A team laughed and said, "Then Commander Song, please tell us more quickly. I am looking forward to it."

Song Wenwan: "First, adjust all your weapons and equipment.

Because you are fighting behind enemy lines, you have the opportunity to seize weapons and ammunition from the Japanese.

So I will adjust all your weapons reserves to prepare for the Japanese army.

Let's replace those old sleeves, the Hanyang-made ones, etc.

My suggestion is that if you can't bear to throw away these junk.

It would be better to give it to those civilian anti-Japanese organizations along the eastward route.

Now, of course, more friends mean more paths. These people will become our reliable source of soldiers in the future.

In order to suppress the heavy firepower of the Japanese army and also to march faster.

The heavy machine gun for you will be adjusted to Browning M1917, which is of suitable weight.

It is less than half the weight of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and can be carried by two soldiers.

In fact, the Browning air-cooled heavy machine gun is even lighter.

But that would result in overlap in equipment with that of the Gannan team.

This will easily attract the attention of the intelligence department of the temporary capital, I hope you can understand."

Commander: "This is indeed a problem. Let's use Maxim..."

Song Wenwan said: "You can use it without any worries, it doesn't matter much.

If someone asks you, just say it's smuggled goods from the concession in Shanghai.

There are many waterways in this area, so it is difficult for the Japanese heavy artillery to play a role. At most, they can use the Type 92 infantry gun.

The Japanese army usually used artillery with a caliber of less than 90 mm, such as small steel cannons and grenade launchers.

Then I will give you a light artillery battalion!

Our Eastward Brigade is already fighting behind enemy lines, we can’t let your artillery be worse than the Japanese!”

The commander resisted the urge to scratch his head and thought silently in his heart.

Commander Song, do you have any misunderstandings about fighting behind enemy lines?

Even if you give me a light artillery battalion, no more, just ten small steel cannons. Where can I find artillery shells behind enemy lines?

Song Wenwan: "Your military force is too weak, I plan to support you with a regiment of troops.

We should be able to open up a new situation in the Yancheng area.”

Commander: "You gave away a regiment of troops in one go. Commander Song, you are really generous."

Zhu Bei: "Commander Chen, you're welcome. This is what we should do."

Song Wenwan: "Yes, yes, yes. We are all here to fight the Japanese. We are one family and should not have different opinions."

The commander felt that he had gained a lot today, not only were all the weapons and ammunition refurbished.

We have another group of people joining us, which is really a great harvest.

The commander said: "In this Huangqiao defense battle, we held the outer positions of Huangqiao for nearly a day and a night.

In the end, more than a thousand soldiers were killed or wounded, which was a considerable loss.

In the past few days, quite a few young people have joined the New Fourth Army, but it is still difficult to make up for the losses of the entire army.

With the addition of your regiment of veterans, the number of our Eastward Detachment has immediately recovered to more than 7,000 people."

Song Wenwan and Zhu Bei were stunned. What does it mean to restore the strength of "seven thousand" people?

Do you have any misunderstanding about how many people there are in a regiment of a militia division?

The commander and the detachment leader seemed to understand something when they saw the expressions of Song Wenwan and Zhu Bei.

“It doesn’t matter, even if the soldiers we’re adding this time are all new recruits, it’s fine.

The Chinese people today are all good. If they fight a few battles, they will become veterans of the Anti-Japanese War. "

Song Wenwan and Zhu Bei's expressions remained the same, or rather, they were becoming uglier and uglier.

Could it be that the regiment they sent over was a core regiment of 500 people?

"Five hundred people is five hundred. It's not good to have more people. We will be easily discovered by the people in the secondary capital."

Song Wenwan didn't want the leader to guess any more, so he simply made the gesture of "six" with his hand.

The commander's frown seemed to relax, and he said, "Six hundred people? That's not bad, much higher than I expected at the beginning."

Zhu Bei said weakly: "Add another zero."

The commander and the detachment leader looked at each other. What did "add another zero" mean? Was it what we imagined?

Zhu Bei: "It's all Wen Nuan's fault for not explaining it clearly just now. It's a gift to the Eastward Detachment, a regiment of 6,000 people.

Weapons, ammunition, and equipment are all provided by us, so as not to cause trouble for our New Fourth Army."

Song Wenwan: "The militia divisions under Guan Zhan are developing too fast.

Their regiment is almost as big as a brigade, otherwise there wouldn't be more than 30,000 people in a division.

The number of people in this regiment is still small, because they all came from the Soviet area.

These soldiers have a high level of political awareness, and most of them are party members.

They are also safer to use than ordinary soldiers.

Because the current position of our Gansu Army cannot be exposed to the people of our country.

So I asked them to join the New Fourth Army, which was the best choice for them.”

The detachment leader said: "Commander Song, you just said that there were 6,000 people coming, but there are only 5,000 people?"

Song Wenwan: "I promised you that we would add a light artillery battalion, so the number of people is just over 6,000."

Commander: "A light artillery battalion has a thousand people? Even a heavy artillery battalion wouldn't need that many people, right?"

Zhu Bei: “A regiment-level light artillery battalion has more than 50 mortars of various types.

The artillery unit has more than 200 soldiers, and its own baggage unit alone has more than 3000 people.

In addition to our artillery units, we have our own land combat units.

So this artillery battalion also has an artillery marine battalion of 500 people, which is slightly more in number.”

After talking about the affiliation of the troops, Song Wenwan took out a letter from her briefcase and handed it to the commander.

This letter was from a senior leader in northern Shaanxi, who specifically asked Song Wenwan to pass it on to the commander.

Since it's a confidential matter, we didn't follow the old method of having the courier deliver the letter.

Watching the commander reading the leader's letter, Song Wenwan continued to talk to the detachment commander about the current situation.