Chapter 377

Li Wei personally took the porters to conduct preliminary physical examinations in the recruits' camp, then registered the recruits, and arranged the procedures for enlistment. Each porter got a set of training uniforms.

After arranging these porters to enter the recruits' organization, Li Wei said to them: "Now everyone should call each other a comrade. The ugly saying goes, our 12th District team is strict in training. Only by passing the assessment can we leave the recruit battalion and enter the combat troops. If the combat troops fail, they will be returned to the recruit battalion and returned to the furnace. This is called being able to go up and down. I hope you can withstand this test and become a qualified Eighth Route Army soldier."

"Don't worry, Brother Li! We have never suffered any hardships. No matter how hard we are, we can still bear the life of our porters carrying heavy burdens in the wind and rain." Wang Toer showed a confident smile. He could bring his brothers to a stable place to settle down. Finally, he let go of a big thing in his heart. After beating the Japanese, he could go home and farm peacefully and live a peaceful life, marry a wife and give birth to a baby. This life is worth it.

"You stay first. The instructors and veterans of the recruits will tell you how to do it. Don't worry, there is no such thing as bullying in the Eighth Route Army. If you don't know, you can ask your instructors for advice at any time. Of course! In the recruits camp, the respect you receive is entirely determined by the performance of military quality." Li Wei confessed that he had experienced in the recruits camp. The recruits of the 12th District Team were more strict. Li Wei first gave vaccinations to the new soldiers upgraded to these porters.

"I have something to do, let's go first, and you can chat slowly!" Li Wei waved his hand and said.

"Yes, Comrade Corps!" A group of new recruits sent Li Wei away with the newly learned military salute.

On September 10, a message that a torch threw into a pool of gasoline quickly spread throughout the base areas of North China. For a moment, radio waves over China were repeatedly sending the same message. One of the European Faspisan allies, a German ally, the Roman Empire that once ruled most of Europe, the Italian government announced its surrender.

In early September, the US-British Allied Forces landed in Sicily and southern Italy and officially launched an attack on Italy's mainland. The serious differences originally existed within Italy intensified. The sudden coup led to the former power Mussolini stepping down. The new government that had newly controlled the Italian regime was unable to fight again. It officially announced its surrender and signed an armistice agreement for unconditional surrender. The first rift appeared in the fascist alliance, which was in joy for all the anti-fascist warring countries in World War II. Since the first one was finished, the remaining fascist countries were not far from defeat.

This exciting news quickly spread throughout China, indicating that fascism is facing failure and the war against fascism will eventually win. Journalists and editors from major newspapers stared at the international telegraph station and quickly wrote news reports. The printing press rumbling at full speed. In just a few hours, newspaper boys on the street shouted with great enthusiasm: "Extra, Extra, Italy, the fascist country, was defeated and officially announced its surrender." The two copper plates were snatched away by the people on the street in a blink of an eye. There were a bunch of people huddled together on the streets, by the walls, and in every corner, widened their eyes, and listened to the newspaper readers reading the news on the outline word by word, as if they wanted to listen to every word without missing a single word and firmly imprint it in their minds.

From time to time, people on the street were too focused on the newspapers and news and collided with each other. However, the two sides had an extremely good temper and did not argue. They just glanced at the newspapers in each other's hands, smiled knowingly, pulled each other and stood up again, bowed or nodded to each other, and went their own way as if nothing had happened.

Whether on the battlefield of the Communist Army or the national army, the soldiers stared at the communications soldiers and read out loudly the great victory on the European battlefield. Then they cheered and jumped, regardless of the flying stray bullets, hugged each other, or pulled up machine guns and swept the rushing enemies. The charge sounded, and launched a full charge to commemorate this major victory.

Italy was defeated. Although this fascist country was thousands of miles away from China and was even inconsistent with interests, for China, which was deeply suffering from war, the fall of a fascist country means that there is a glimmer of hope for victory in the struggle against Japanese fascism on the battlefield in China. As long as there is such a glimmer of hope, everything is possible. The Chinese people need such a glimmer of hope to completely burst out all their fighting spirit.

In the base area, militiamen set up loud speakers and read out the news of Italy's defeat and surrender to the Japanese and puppet troops' strongholds. Every time they read, they attracted the attention of the people nearby. Many people even rushed over from other places to listen a few times, and they never got tired of listening. Every time the propaganda proclaimed, they would make the people cheer like a tide.

In the stronghold, both the Japanese soldiers and the puppet army were pale and trembling. They even had the courage to stick their heads out of the stronghold. On the surface, the puppet army just listened quietly to the loudspeakers outside, but they felt like storms inside. In their eyes, they probably didn't know what kind of country Italy was, but they knew that Japan was also one of the countries of the fascist alliance. Italy, as the Japanese alliance, was defeated, and the little Japan might be in danger.

The fluctuation of the puppet soldiers is inevitable. A few Japanese officers who were educated by Bushido and fascism strongly suppressed those Japanese and puppet soldiers who were likely to be restless.

In the company commander of the Fourth Company, a small oil lamp shaking the weak light, holding a battle briefing and intelligence summary of the 11th Division that had just been sent by the telegram. Li Wei carefully read on the small table beside the kang. The Japanese army's sweeping target was targeting the entire North China region, and the intelligence system of the 12th District Team could only take care of the base area where he was responsible. For areas outside the base area, there was nowhere to be reached. In addition to the emergency intelligence occasionally sent by local guerrillas, he could only rely on the General Staff of the 11th Division Commander to produce the intelligence editor-in-chief update to understand the latest enemy military force mobilization. In recent years, the Japanese army's repeated sweeping policies have been familiar with the anti-Japanese military and civilians, and the sweeping effect has become worse and worse. Instead, the Eighth Route Army guerrillas used their combat habits to deal with it several times.

At the beginning of this year, the Japanese army adopted a new combat strategy, similar to the frog jumping tactic, feinting in other regions, using cars and other transportation tools to launch a long-distance raid at night, causing considerable losses to the base areas. The battle reports and superior intelligence of each region analyzed the Japanese combat direction, and maintained the vigilance and combat effectiveness of the district team between one and one, and maintained the alertness and combat effectiveness of the district team.

Italy's announcement of defeat was completely expected by Li Wei. Italy has always had few elite forces that can fight and fight. Italy led by Mussolini is not as crazy and aggressive as Germany under Hitler's leadership. History still irresistiblely follows the established route. Whether Li Wei was sent to this era or not, even a ripples did not appear. This made Li Wei feel much more at ease about the future. China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression will surely win. The Chinese people and government who have experienced blood and fire will surely cherish this hard-won stable society. Although there will still be many detours to go in the future, as China, which has grown and strengthened step by step, how can we see the rainbow in the future without experiencing these storms?

Li Wei was focusing on browsing the documents in his hand. A noisy sound suddenly sounded outside the house, and the chaotic footsteps sounded from far to near outside the house, and even the voices of several people full of resentment could be heard.

"Damn it, do you deliberately mess with us? Is there no place to deal with it here?! Is there no king's law?"

"That's right, if you bully us as a coolie, you'll look down on us."

"No, you can't go over! Back!" The voice of the guard warrior sounded, and he tried to stop the people who broke into the dormitory camp.

The guards were not afraid of these people rushing to the dormitory area. The dormitory area was neither a military important place. These people did not carry guns on them. What they were going to was the dormitory of the fourth company commander. Even if the people in front of them were multiplied by ten times, it would be useless to rush forward. The fourth company commander had a machine gun, otherwise the guards would have fired guns to warn them.

Li Wei raised his head, glanced at the Czech light machine gun that was reaching at the edge of the side, reached out to the fighting thorn placed beside the table, and shouted outside the house: "Who is it? Why are you not sleeping so late?"

The chaos outside the house suddenly calmed down, and the voice of the guard soldier heard outside the house saying, "Report to the company commander, there are a few new recruits, who want to break in."

"Let them come in!" Li Wei stuffed the documents in his hand into a cowhide file bag. He was also familiar with the voices of people coming outside, just those porters who he recommended to join the recruit camp, but they didn't know why they came here and were noisy, as if they were suffering some grievances.

"Yes!" The guards outside immediately let go, but did not walk away, and stood at the dormitory and were on guard.

"Come in." Li Wei opened the door and saw several new recruits who were once porters and coolies in training uniforms.

"Hello, company commander!" The original porter, in the recruits battalion, led the original nickname Wang Gouer, and with the help of the instructors, he re-designed a new recruit named Wang Xuezheng and took several other recruits to salute each other outside the door. Although it was still not standard, the tight muscles on his right hand showed that the military salute was extremely serious.

"Haha, are you still free in the evening? Come and sit down." Li Wei never had any official airs. He didn't have it before, now, and it wouldn't be possible in the future. He pulled all the recruits in and sat down like old friends, and took a few small teacups to put them on the square table in the house, pouring the tea.
Chapter completed!