Now is a rare period of calm, and Zhang Yunfei has made great efforts to train the New Ninth Regiment and the militia.

The soldiers of the New Ninth Regiment are better, but the militiamen are really miserable. It's okay to let them stand guard, and they are also good at holding hoes.

But it would be a bit difficult to ask them to carry out standard military actions such as holding guns and throwing grenades.

They used to be militiamen, but they had no formal training, so it was really difficult to adapt to it. Take throwing grenades for example. They used to rely on the strength of a crop handle to throw them, but now they learn how to use force to throw them. It is very awkward, but instead

It can't be thrown far by brute force.

Changing habits cannot be accomplished overnight. For these militiamen, it is a painful process.

Zhang Yunfei's training for this group of militiamen was repeatedly extended, and he did not release them until the next year.

The militiamen, who had been struggling with military postures, bomb dropping, and basic tactical training, had not yet finished celebrating the New Year at home. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, they received a notice to conduct training again.

For the common people, the New Year is not celebrated until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is over. Who is willing to endure the hardships of the New Year?

The training camp years ago was really impressive to these people. Zhang Yunfei's order was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue to them.

I have been struggling for such a long time, and I have finally celebrated the New Year, but I am still not finished. After all, for farmers who have been busy for a whole year, the real off-farm period only lasts so long. This is the only time they can rest in a year.

time.

In this winter, staying at home with my wife and children warming up on the kang is not to mention very comfortable, but the little rest time I have is also ruined.

Many militiamen still have strong objections to such intense training, but most of them still dare not not come.

Because if militia cadres at all levels do not come, they will be dismissed from their posts on the spot and the militia ranks will be cleared out.

Although the militia and militia cadres are not formal cadres, in this era, the Eighth Route Army has a very high prestige among the people in the base area.

Being a member of the Eighth Route Army, even if you only become a militiaman, you usually only stay in the village and stand guard, which is a very honorable thing.

They are all activists. If they are really fired, it will not only be embarrassing for themselves, but also difficult to explain to their families. People want face and trees want bark, so they have to persist no matter what.

Zhang Yunfei has a very clear grasp of their mentality, so the training intensity is also very intense, and he always follows what the regular army requires of them.

If they couldn't abide by it, then he would not show mercy. The Eighth Route Army needed disciplined and loyal soldiers. His training could also be regarded as a preliminary selection.

After all, being a militiaman is an honorable thing in the village, and some people join the militia simply because they feel respected and prestigious by the villagers.

Once these people make them suffer and get tired, they won't be able to endure it any longer, and will naturally give in. If they are eliminated, they will be eliminated.

What is left behind is the real backbone, the elite soldiers that Zhang Yunfei wants to train, and these fishermen who fish in troubled waters naturally have to be eliminated.

Maybe if they really join the army, they will become excellent soldiers under the influence, but now they don't have so much time to talk nonsense, so they can only choose the best from the best in an extensive way and let some people grow up first.

Those who can stay will have firmer beliefs, so Zhang Yunfei will naturally put a heavy burden on them and let them experience what is called spoon-feeding education.

After all, time is limited. If you want them to understand all the knowledge and subjects in a short period of time, they can only cram it in like cramming.

All the lessons in this training camp were stuffed into their heads like feed to ducks.

Zhang Yunfei also opened a special training class, focusing on cultivating locally selected militia cadres and backbones. They had to learn squad and platoon command courses during the day, earthwork, the use of light and heavy machine guns, and the setting up of marching routes and warnings.

There is a full schedule of training and courses during the day, and even at night, I have to learn cultural courses, not only literacy, but also some simple mathematical addition and subtraction.

This will cost you your life. They are usually extremely shrewd and know better than anyone else how to measure the land and how much grain to harvest.

To make them literate and arithmetic is like killing them, and each one is tortured to the point of death.

These militia cadres and backbones are all exhausted from training, which is much more tiring than working in the fields. It is both mentally and physically demanding.

At the end of the day, their backs ached, their heads were dizzy, and they were all confused. There were a lot of questions in their minds. They were just militiamen. Do they need to learn so many messy things?

Are the main forces responsible for directing operations, guns and artillery so rich that they have to issue heavy machine guns and mortars to their militia?

It's not like that. Now they are still holding old guns that can't fire. Even if they found out, the superiors did equip their militia with a batch of weapons, but they were kept like treasures and they couldn't touch them at ordinary times.

No matter what, it's not as arrogant as equipping them with machine guns and mortars.

These confused guys, after asking all kinds of questions and getting no answers, could only accept training and study honestly.

The military cadres in the army have fought one battle after another. They have rich combat experience and have quite solid military quality. Even if they study, it is basically at the advanced level and cannot be regarded as knowing nothing.

And these militia backbones were trained according to the standards of military cadres in the army, and they didn't have much time, so it was really a waste of time.

For this group of militia cadres, Zhang Yunfei worked hard. In order to give them a personal experience, he not only gave them live-fire training, but also gave them a taste of machine guns and mortars.

There were also barbed wire fences and other obstacles commonly used by the Japanese and puppet troops. Zhang Yunfei even showed them.

Of course, for the Eighth Route Army, where iron sheets and copper sheets were all good things, they naturally did not have high-end things like barbed wire.

But of course this was not a problem for Zhang Yunfei. They could borrow things temporarily. The Eighth Route Army was familiar with borrowing things. They walked around the puppet army's artillery towers and swaggered to dismantle the barbed wire fences placed outside the artillery towers to prevent the Eighth Route Army from sneak attacks.

Came down and shipped it back.

The puppet troops guarding the artillery tower did not dare to let go of a single fart. When they left, the Eighth Route soldiers even scolded the soldiers guarding the artillery tower, but they could only listen silently.

After Li Jianfeng and Liu Wencai were defeated twice, the puppet troops in Xincheng no longer dared to go against the Eighth Route Army. They did not have the courage to shoot first, and they did not dare to anger the Eighth Route Army. As long as they did not attack the gun towers they were guarding, they could tolerate other things.

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