Yan'an

"This little guy is amazing. He has wiped out a gang of Japanese soldiers with more than 1,000 bandits!" The great man smoked.

"Yes, it's a pity. Otherwise, according to Comrade Liu Yuan, he is still very likely to join us."

"What a pity? Fighting the Japanese is the same everywhere! As long as he can fight the Japanese, who can trip him up?"

"It's better to win over you. Even if you can't win over you, you must maintain a good relationship. I think Comrade Qiu Ming's approach is very correct." The great man continued, "And now is the national united front of the anti-Japanese war. As long as he fights against Japan and does not become a traitor, he will be a good thing!"

...

Chongqing

"What? That brat is now in the enemy-occupied area in Shandong?" The chairman stood up in shock and said angrily.

"Yes, Principal!"

"Why didn't he come back?"

"According to our speculation, in the battle of Linyi, the Japanese used poison gas bombs. Since he escaped, there must be few people. At that time, Xuzhou was surrounded by one after another. It is very likely that he was discovered by the Japanese and could only avoid the Japanese's pursuit. Later, he could not escape." Dai Li analyzed, "It is said that when he arrived at the Eighth Route Army, there were only a few more than 30 people left."

"Hey." The chairman sighed, "Thank you for your hard work, but fortunately he did not join the Eighth Route Army, otherwise, I would be really sorry to me, Mr. Jiang."

"He was born in Huangpu and was helpless to fall behind enemy lines. What's more, his father was a veteran of the Tongmenghui, so he could only accept bandits from the surrounding areas."

"Take more than 1,000 bandits and wiped out a gang of the Japanese. Although it is just a gang of the mixed brigade, it is really good. Let's do it. Arrange people and send them to him for appointments, and put all the bandits into the kid's sequence." The chairman waved his hand and said.

"Principal, he is independent in Suqian, and some of them are in Suqian."

"There are now isolated from the Central Plains, and I have no choice." The chairman sighed, "In the near future, the Japanese will inevitably occupy the entire territory of Jiangsu."

"That's the Suqian part?"

"Just order them to stay in Suqian."

"yes!"

...

Finally, when Zhou Weiguo wiped out a Japanese corps, his name appeared in front of the supreme leaders again. Zhou Weiguo didn't know that because he did not join the Eighth Route Army by chance, Chiang Kai-shek was very pleased with this. But what Chiang Kai-shek didn't know was that Zhou Weiguo was disappointed with the retreat of the Kuomintang army. Zhou Weiguo, who was familiar with history, certainly knew that the Kuomintang army was the main force of the War of Resistance, and millions of people were sacrificed on the front-line anti-Japanese battlefield. But these millions of people were not all well-trained soldiers. Many of the millions of national troops who had sacrificed in history, were the farmers who put down their farm tools and picked up guns. During the Battle of Nanjing, Zhou Weiguo wanted to reject such soldiers, but the state was in ruins, and he finally accepted such soldiers. However, the casualties were heavy, and the help of the war was the passing of countless lives.

The troops he had never been fully staffed since the Independent Brigade. Of course, it was because he himself did not want untrained recruits. But he knew clearly that other troops of the National Army had the habit of eating empty wages. Some people were eating empty wages to make money by themselves, while others were eating empty wages to improve the treatment of soldiers, but there were fewer such people, which was different. This was also one of the reasons why Zhou Weiguo was disappointed with the National Army.

Before the July 7 Incident, the Kuomintang army had only 1.7 million active soldiers, and later the Kuomintang army lost more than 3.5 million. It was not easy for the Kuomintang army to recruit new soldiers while insisting on the war of resistance. However, due to the corruption of officers and the chaos of the military system, there was a large gap in the army, and even the Supreme Command could not confirm the actual strength of the Kuomintang army.

The problem of "eating empty quotas" in the national army has been around for a long time, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it became increasingly fierce. Even the so-called "first division in the world" under Hu Zongnan's command was the same. Tao Cuiquan, who was in the 17th phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, served in Hu Zongnan's army. He recalled that "the name of "eating empty quotas" in the First Division was an open secret. With the establishment of the company of about 130 soldiers, the company would have to eat about 10%; the battalion commander had to 5 vacant quotas in each company, so the vacant quotas in each company was about 20 people; the division's direct troops were even more problematic. It is said that a division stationed in the suburbs of Xi'an had only 3,000 people in the entire division." If Tao Cuiquan's statement was true, then at least 1/6 of the soldiers in the First Division did not exist.

If the number of soldiers is falsely reported, there is a chance to embezzle military pay, so what the commander in the army is most afraid of is that his troops are reduced by the central government. When Li Zongren was appointed as the commander of the Fifth War Zone, he used the mentality of some people to win over it. In 1941, "Tang Enbo wanted to eat the Mi Wenhe unit of the 68th Army of the War Zone (the remnant of Shi Yousan)" and forced Mi Wenhe to surrender to the Fifth War Zone. "Li Zongren still retained his original system (actually only one division of troops), which made Mi Wenhe cry in gratitude." As a result, Mi Wenhe could continue to receive military pay from the central government.

...

June 25, 1938

"What? The Japanese have come another gang?" Zhou Weiguo stood up and asked Zhang Ruikuan.

"Yes! And it's the same route as last time!" Zhang Ruikuan replied, "One hour ago, the Japanese were less than 5 miles away from our first position before."

"In this way, it will definitely be too late to go to the first position to defend the defense now." Zhou Wei Guodao, "Ruikuan, you immediately send an order to take all your brothers to the second defensive position. The special forces assist in defense! In addition, bring all the equipment in the warehouse, don't be stingy with ammunition, and you must suppress the Japanese in firepower."

"yes!"

...

The second defensive position is 8 miles away from Qingfeng Village, and is wrapped on two small hills.

If the Japanese wanted to attack Qingfeng Village, they had to pass by the two small hills, but the two small hills became the best area for defensive positions.

...

"Xiao Ya, this time you stay at home peacefully. I will let the monk and Zhao Sheng stay and protect you." Zhou Weiguo looked at Xiao Ya who was frowning and said gently.

"Okay." Xiao Ya reluctantly smiled and replied, "Then you must be careful and come back."

"Um."

Xiao Ya naturally knew that the current situation in Qingfeng Village was with Zhou Weiguo for a long time, and she also knew what it meant to be 700 people to 4,000 people. But she couldn't stop it. Now because of pregnancy, she couldn't keep up with the battlefield. What she could do was accept Zhou Weiguo's arrangements and make Zhou Weiguo feel at ease.

"I'm going." After Zhou Weiguo said this, he took the special forces team members without looking back and walked out of Qingfeng Village and rushed to the second defensive position.

He did not expect the Japanese to come so quickly. The chances of winning in this battle are not great. After all, it is a big trouble for Qingfeng Village to have too few people now, but with the special forces in hand, everything is hard to say. Moreover, it is already 3 pm now, and today's battle will end in more than three hours at most.

After nightfall, everything is variable.
Chapter completed!