Ma Qian'an left behind Li Tieniu and another soldier because he saw that the newly established district team was uneven and his combat power was extremely low. Although they were equipped with brand new fast guns, how could the big hand who had just put down the hoe quickly master the skills of killing the enemy? Even if they were honorable, if they met the same number of Japanese, they would definitely be eaten by others.

Training became a top priority. After watching the democratic vote to select the team leader, Ma Qian'an was very "generous" and left him with two soldiers as training instructors for the time being.

Farewell to the reluctant new armed forces, the company that received supplies continued to march eastward. Along the way, Ma Qian'an found that the Japanese destructive power was very strong. The Fourth Mixed Brigade of the First Japanese Army sent heavy troops to carry out a crazy sweep of the Taihang Mountain base. Tens of thousands of Japanese were divided into more than 30 groups, burned and killed all the way, and plundered them all the way, causing ruins to the base area, hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed, and countless food, cattle and sheep were robbed. At this moment, the Hundred Regiments War began to enter the third stage, and the anti-sweep stage was not only the stage.

After walking for two more days, Ma Qian'an and his friends encountered a heavy loss of new recruits. Ma Qian'an chatted with Commander Jia of the 3rd Regiment for a while and learned that the new recruits were surrounded by the Japanese reinforcements who arrived in time when attacking the Japanese stronghold. After fighting hard, they broke through the siege. More than 40 people were lost and more than 30 guns were lost. Only half of the new recruits had their combat power. It seemed that they could not recover their vitality within a few months. War! The Eighth Route Army, which was not always brave, robbed the Japanese guns and was sometimes stolen by the "evil" Japanese devils, but instead snatched the Eighth Route Army's guns. The battle was fierce and everyone was destroyed. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese had one thing in common, that is, they would destroy the guns before they died so that the precious guns would not fall into the enemy's hands.

Judging from the situation along the way, the situation was much worse than I expected, and the losses of the Eighth Route Army and the people were everywhere. But the good information is that the army and people in the base area shared their hatred of the enemy and were full of fighting spirit, and still maintained a high morale, not defeated, and not frightened by the arrogance of the Japanese.

In this new recruit team, Ma Qian'an unexpectedly found a rocket launcher, and the opening of the tube had been blown open by the Japanese grenades. But in this way, this broken thing was still tightly held in his hands and carried on his shoulders by the soldiers as a treasure.

"Hey, little comrade." Ma Qian'an called out to the bazooka hand passing by, "Can that broken thing still be used?"

The little warrior walking in a silence, Ma Qian'an stood with their regiment commander and chatted. When he heard someone slandering his bazooka, he looked at him in the sound and was furious, "Hey? You little comrade, what is a broken thing? I repaid two Japanese bunkers with it and killed 7 or 8 Japanese. You are not a broken thing. Kill 7 or 8 Japanese for me, take a look?"

Ma Qian'an scratched his head in confusion. Since he became the captain of the detachment, no one has called him a little comrade anymore. Suddenly, a soldier younger than him called him a little comrade, which is not very used to it. It seems that this little comrade was angry and deliberately.

Commander Jia glared at the little warrior carrying the rocket launcher and said, "Don't be big or small, this is Comrade Ma, it's the leader." Commander Jia already knew the identities of Hu Bo and others. Seeing that the company commander of the Central Guard Regiment had been obeying Ma Qian'an's command, he thought that Ma Qian'an had a very big background.

After being scolded, the young soldier appeared as the commander. His expression changed and then he blushed and apologized to Ma Qian'an with a pity, "Look, look, I'm saying the wrong thing, you criticize me!"

What do you mean? What is there to criticize? As a warrior, he should love his weapons as much as he cares about his own eyes. Ma Qian'an not only did not criticize, but instead praised this warrior who loved his own weapons.

Zhang Yuan came up and asked for the "crapped" rocket launcher. After looking at it for a while, he turned to Ma Qian'an and squeezed his eyes, "Ma Detachment, is this made under your guidance? It's not very qualified!" When Ma Qian'an came in June, the quality of the rocket launcher created by the guidance was certainly not comparable to that made by Zhang Yuan and his friends in S1.

Another guy who slandered me was another "baby". The little soldier was very dissatisfied and gave Zhang Yuan a roll of his eyes.

Oh no, I heard from this man that the long-time man in front of him could build this rocket launcher. Didn’t that thin guy say that, it was built under the guidance of the long-time man?

"Chang? You can build a bazooka? Then you will definitely repair it, right? Please, repair my phone quickly! I still need to use it!" The little soldier was very smart and immediately arranged work for the young boss.

Ma Qian'an couldn't refuse the little warrior's longing eyes and pointed at Zhang Yuanyang's chin, "Look for him and see if he can repair it."

Zhang Yuan opened his mouth and tsk. The Ma Detachment is so stingy. This rocket launcher is not very good at first. Looking at the steel mouth and the rough workmanship, I really don’t know how the rocket was fired.

The little soldier ran to Zhang Yuan again, looking at him with his big watery eyes open.

"Oh, okay, okay, I will practice, can't I practice it?" Oh my, I'm a ancestor, these are all things that should be scrapped, and I still practice it? Zhang Yuan couldn't stand the two people's runs, so he turned around and untied his toolbox from a pack horse.

Captain Jia and Ma Qian'an looked at each other, discussed in a low voice, and nodded.

"Resting on the spot! Resting on the spot..." The messenger immediately issued a rest order to the moving team. This place is still a mountainous area, but not the kind of desolate earthen mountain. There are large areas of forests to hide in.

Hu Bo's company immediately sent a lookout post to all sides, a warning post. Commander Jia looked at the two battalion commanders following him, and saw that the two battalion commanders were unclear, so he couldn't help but curse in anger, "What are you doing when you stand stupidly? How can you let your brothers do all the tiring work? Send a warning post! What's wrong with losing your soul after losing your battle?"

The battalion commander, who was covered in smoke, retreated in shame. Ma Qian'an looked at the battalion commander's slightly lame steps, then looked at the somewhat irritable Commander Jia, and understood something.

"Old Jia, when fighting, there is no reason that we can only win but not lose. We have won a big defeat, and we will be able to find it next time."

Commander Jia already knew Ma Qian'an's identity at this time and sighed, "Little Ma, this is the reason, but whoever loses the battle feels uncomfortable. At that time, I underestimated the enemy. At that time, I thought our regiment had 1,000 people, and the Japanese reinforcements were 1,000 people. Even if they couldn't beat them, how could they last for a long time? If they had been suffocated for a long time, the brothers would come and give them a counter-encirclement from outside, and we would fight from the inside out. Unexpectedly, the Japanese were too fierce. They defeated us with one charge. We could not fight with one hand and fight, and many good soldiers were sacrificed. I am guilty!"

Commander Jia saw Ma Qian'an comforting himself, and felt that he had found a partner of confiding. He didn't care whether Ma Qian'an listened or not, so he began to summarize the reasons for the failure of this battle. First, he did not build a good position in a hurry. He was originally a stronghold, but was on the attacking side, and did not dig a defensive position at all. Once the Japanese reinforcements charged, he could not hold it down immediately. Second, the reason why he couldn't hold it down was because there were few machine guns, and the whole regiment had only 2 heavy machine guns and 20 light machine guns. The number of machine guns was only one fifth of the Japanese, and two mortars. The Japanese had infantry cannons, mortars, and grenade launchers. The total number of weapons in the two teams was more than 30. The weapons of the two teams were not of the same level at all. As for rifles, you see, more than 100 soldiers were holding large blades, and rifles could not be equipped with one rifle. Not to mention, each machine gun only had more than 100 bullets, and only 15 rifles.

Ma Qian'an sympathized with Captain Jia. Especially when he saw the old sleeves in the hands of most soldiers, this broken gun was...oh!

"In order to cover our retreat, the heavy machine gun did not withdraw." At the end, Captain Jia added in frustration.

"Oh!" Ma Qian'an sighed heavily.

"Where are you going?" Ma Qian'an asked.

Commander Jia looked at the sky in confusion and lowered his head, "I don't know, our new 3rd Regiment has no radio station, and the original station has been occupied by the Japanese. Wait for the order! I just sent a communicator to find the brigade headquarters, but I heard from other troops I met that even the Eighth Route Army headquarters has been moved away, and all the troops are fighting and are looking for fighters to fight the Japanese. Without a radio station, it is really hard to find a superior."

"I have it! I'll tell you earlier!" Ma Qian'an patted Captain Jia on the shoulder, Oh, I already know the name, Jia Yonggen.

But Ma Qian'an was not in a hurry to hand over the radio station for use by Captain Jia. He continued, "Brother Yonggen, I have a suggestion. Can you listen?"

"Let's talk." Anyway, it's all like this. I don't know what punishment my superiors will give him. It's better to listen to the advice of Captain Ma.

Ma Qian'an thought for a moment, "Your regiment has no place to go now, so it's not good to stay here like this. Even if you contact the brigade headquarters, your brigade commander will probably have to put you in the rear to rectify, train, and replenish the recruits. If you want to fight again to recover this loss, I will see it a few months later."

Jia Yonggen has no objection, it should be that way.

"So, if you want to recover the impact of the defeat now, you have to make a contribution. Make a point of credit, and quickly make up for the lost morale and soldiers. Only by making up for the merits can you let you go."

Jia Yonggen's eyes lit up immediately, "Do you have a way?"

"We." Ma Qian'an pointed to Zhang Yuan and then the cavalry company resting in the distance. "I was originally going to go to the Eighth Route Army headquarters first. As you said just now, the headquarters is not going to go. Even if we contact them, we have to work hard to find them. Besides, our main purpose is not to find them, we are going to Huangyadong Arsenal. In this way, I want to go directly to Huangyadong, but this force is not enough."

Regarding the issue of military strength, Ma Qian'an is telling lies. Everyone knows that a small team of cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and there is basically no possibility of being caught by the Japanese unless it is very unlucky.

Jia Yonggen knew Ma Qian'an's kindness. If he followed Ma Qian'an to Huangya Cave, he would have escorted merits. This was what he thought, and Ma Qian'an thought more.

Ma Qian'an knew that Huangya Cave was in the depths of the base area and was not dangerous, so the original escort force was very weak. He had contacted Liu Ding once before he came. Liu Ding said that Huangya Cave had more than 3 ooo workers and one company of the escort troops.

"Thank you for providing this opportunity, but..." Jia Yonggen hesitated, and the escort was not a "credit".

"Okay, there is another point, do you know the importance of Huangyadong Arsenal?"

"I know, we passed by a while ago. Minister Liu saw that we had too few guns, so he gave me 2o rifles."

"The Japanese are likely to attack the arsenal, and the troops are insufficient. If this is the case, if you "stop" encountering the Japanese, you can make a great contribution! Don't worry, it is said that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack in that place. Half of your regiment's troops can complete this task." Ma Qian'an came up with his own conclusion.

Can such a good thing happen? If the Japanese attacked Huangya Cave as Ma Qian'an said, and he "stumbled" there and defeated the Japanese, it would be a great achievement, and Jia Yonggen was overjoyed after hearing this. What's more, Ma Qian'an agreed to add the 150 new Mauser he had escorted to him, oh, there were 10,000 bullets.

OK! If you don’t hesitate, what are you waiting for? Let’s go! Brother Ma, Jia Yonggen, saw hope, and the sorrow on his face faded, and he became generous and happy.
Chapter completed!