Section 12
After several consecutive rains, the newly repaired dam in the field was filled with water, and everywhere was sparkling with water, a beautiful landscape of Jiangnan Water Township.
Li Tie took the company commander on an inspection tour of the base area.
When the Second Dog Long saw the array on the south slope, he couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine. Even if he led the entire company through this array, even if the soldiers in the dark fort didn't open fire, it's likely that not many people would be left after passing through this array. If the soldiers in the dark fort opened fire, it's estimated that not one person could get through. Although there's nothing profound here, everything inside is sinister and vicious, a despicable trick.
At first, he didn't believe in evil and thought it was just some ordinary traps. Just then, a wild rabbit ran down from the nearby hillside, jumping very far and easily clearing a patch of shrubs. It seemed to be about to cross the hillside when suddenly the rabbit fell and never got up again. A small team of fox soldiers carefully avoided the trap and arrived at where the rabbit had last landed. After a while, they picked it up and found a small hole in its belly that had pierced through it. Following Li Tie into the formation, under his guidance, Er Gou Lian Zhang walked for dozens of meters before breaking out in a cold sweat. If he were to follow the original path back, he wasn't sure if he could make it back intact. In just a few dozen meters, there were two large traps, one small trap, two landmines, and some mechanisms that he couldn't even name.
This is not a formation, this is clearly an open-mouthed tiger. The entire formation is the tiger's mouth, entering the formation is like having one foot already in the underworld.
This hillside is hard to get in, there must be a way elsewhere, Er Gou Lian Chang thought to himself.
But after Li Tie took him on a tour of several other places, Er Gou Lian Chang completely dispelled the dream of entering the base without permission.
Let's just talk about that small path, don't even mention the power of one regiment, even a whole division might not be able to take it down.
And as for the other cliffs, let's not even mention them. When you're climbing up, a bullet suddenly flies in from somewhere and hits your body. If you haven't fallen off yet and are still climbing, when you finally make it to the top with great difficulty, what awaits you won't be some high-tech weapon, but just a few stones. You might be standing on an unstable rock that will take you back down before you can jump onto another one. At the same time, countless rocks of all shapes and sizes will also come tumbling down with you. Or if you're lucky enough to climb up without falling again, congratulations, you've officially set foot on the territory of the base. Now it's just a matter of whether you have the ability to break through the hidden bunkers that appear every hundred meters.
When Er Dong saw the so-called dark castle, he couldn't help but sigh that his own barracks were far worse than this.
After seeing the other arsenal, Li Tie's mind was left with only one thought: it's really rich, really wealthy, even more so than the military base. Although these arsenals seemed far from enough to Li Tie, each person only got a few hundred bullets.
When Second Brother Long saw that there was actually a radio station, he really had an unbelievable feeling. A small guerrilla team actually had a radio station, it's really awesome.
If it's said that up to this point, Er Gou Lian Chang was only amazed at how rich this guerrilla team was, but when the wounded soldier was arranged into the bunker, Li Tie casually handed two boxes of penicillin to the medic. He was thoroughly stunned - there was actually penicillin here that was more precious than gold? It was taken out so casually, and there were other medicines he didn't recognize, he had no idea what they were used for. In fact, Li Tie didn't know either, so he didn't dare give them randomly. He only recognized the penicillin.
After seeing the local ability, especially after knowing that all this was brought by Li Tie through Captain Zhang, Er Gou Lian Chang found himself looking more and more unclear about this little Li Zi. Although he didn't feel any change in Little Li's feelings towards him, but how come he hadn't seen this kid being so capable of making trouble before?
Contact was made with the superior via radio. The travel leader instructed that a Mong County District Team be established locally, with Zhao Ergou as the district team leader, and his rank temporarily set at company level; other cadres would be appointed by Zhao Ergou himself.
Zhao Ergou decided to merge this small guerrilla team into his own district team.
Li Tie was originally a soldier of the Second Regiment, as for Captain Zhang, now wherever Li Tie points to, he will fight towards that direction, in short, no problem. As for other team members, it's even more unnecessary to mention, once they heard that they became regular Eighth Route Army, who would be unwilling?
The adaptation was completed smoothly.
The Mong County District Team was formally established.
Specifically compiled as follows:
Squad leader: Zhao Er Gou. Responsible for all daily work of the squad.
Deputy Captain: Zhang Xiangfu (also known as Captain Zhang), in charge of logistics supply for the district team.
Instructor: Lin Sihai. Responsible for the ideological and political work of district team members.
Under its jurisdiction are four platoon-level squads: First Squad: Mainly composed of the original 1st Platoon, plus guerrilla members from the 1st and 2nd Platoons. Led by Chen Hai. Main combat unit. Equipped with two grenade launchers and one light machine gun.
Second Squad: Mainly composed of the original second and third platoons, led by Wang Fei. Main combat unit. Equipped with two grenade launchers and one light machine gun.
Third Squad: Composed entirely of guerrilla members, led by Old Bao. Main responsibilities: Conduct reconnaissance on enemy movements, establish external communication with other anti-Japanese organizations that cannot be contacted via radio, and perform other temporary tasks. Each member is equipped with a Southern-style 16-shot automatic pistol.
Fourth Squad: Mainly composed of the original Fox Squad, supplemented by a small number of warriors drawn from the Second Company. Captain: Li Tie. Primary responsibility: Conducting special warfare against the enemy. The method of combat is decided by Li Tie himself, with a report to be submitted to the District Team afterwards. Each member is equipped with one submachine gun and one handgun, while the entire squad is equipped with one sniper rifle.
After reorganizing, Zhao Er Gou took advantage of the momentum from the counter-attack victory and relentlessly cleared out all the artillery towers within a 50-mile radius around the base.
But due to the failure of the devils' sweep, the troops withdrew, so there were not many things in the artillery tower. This time, although they also carried out a three-all attack on the enemy's artillery tower, the gains were not great, and some artillery towers even had less booty than the losses from attacking the artillery tower.
Two dogs are in charge now, and they have been worried sick for two days along with Deputy Captain Zhang.
The autumn grain has not yet been harvested, and the summer grain was originally not much. Due to the drought in the mountainous areas, wheat was planted very little, and the most commonly planted were sweet potatoes and corn, which are drought-tolerant and high-yielding grains. However, none of these have been harvested yet. In the past, 30 or 40 people didn't feel too much difficulty, but now with over a hundred people gathered together, the grain supply problem has become prominent. As the stored grain is getting less and less, it will soon be cut off. Asking for grain from higher authorities, they probably have about the same amount as us, or even less, and even if they do have some, it's not certain that it can be transported over.
We fired a few cannons at the granary, but there wasn't much grain inside. It's barely enough for a few days. What can we do now?
The two dog sons and Captain Zhang gathered all the small team leaders together, introduced the difficulties encountered in the current base to everyone, and hoped that everyone would hold a Zhuge Liang meeting to see if they could solve the food problem.
Team leader Zhang had just explained the situation when Li Tie stood up awkwardly.
"This, Captain Zhang, Battalion Commander, this, sorry, I forgot to report something to the leader."
"What's the big deal? If it's not important, let's just forget about it. The main issue now is to solve everyone's food problem," said Captain Zhang.
"This is what happened, last time I took the Fox Team out, we flipped over one of the enemy's trains, there was a little something inside, we didn't bring it back. Later when we came back, we went to pick up the landmines given by our superiors, and then we counter-attacked and forgot about this matter, heh, that little something seemed to have several bags of flour, don't know how many days' worth of problem it can solve for everyone."
"This is better than nothing, you take your team and go again, bring back the things, it can solve a few days, let's think of another way."
The captain of the Erduo district team didn't hold out much hope, thinking that it was just a few bags of flour after all.
Li Tie led the Fox Team out and also pulled a batch of strong young men from a row, he himself knew how many things there were, after all, one more person means one more share of strength.
The fox team took away all three cars.
After the reverse sweep was over, in addition to two cars, several barrels of gasoline were also captured. Li Tie bluntly took them all over.
Half a day later, three cars were repairing the road while rushing along, and finally arrived at the foot of the mountain where things were hidden.
The mountain cave where goods were hidden was opened, and everyone loaded the goods onto trucks.
One car was loaded with flour, another with other foodstuffs, and the third with ammunition and medical supplies.
On the way back, it was much faster, after all, no need to repair the road.
When the captain of the Second Dog District saw the supplies brought back by Li Tie and his fox team, he was shocked again.
Three cars came back and forth without stopping, each car pulled four times, plus the remaining soldiers carried on their shoulders to transport the materials in the cave.
At that time, I was busy burying things and didn't even look at how many there were. Now that I take a look, it's actually quite a lot.
Apart from the four trucks of flour and a truck of canned goods, unexpectedly there were sixty boxes of ammunition inside, shells for the Type 92 infantry gun, as well as a large quantity of medicine and clothing.
Apart from these, there were also sixteen bundles of long strip-shaped objects wrapped in straw. After removing the straw, fifty brand-new Type 38 rifles and six submachine guns were obtained.
A case of twenty rifles packed in wooden boxes, each with one hundred rounds of ammunition.
Two Dogs took one look and immediately threw away his old shotgun, although he had used it for several years and had some feelings about it. But Two Dogs didn't care about that feeling anymore, the new gun was just too enticing. He put on a brand-new shotgun along with its case and finally stood up satisfied. Similarly, Captain Zhang and each of the squad leaders were among the first to be equipped.
Then, all the old rifles and bird guns in the squad were retired, replaced by brand new Type 38s.
Under Li Tie's suggestion, all team members' combat uniforms were also replaced with camouflage uniforms, and the original gray military uniforms became the team members' formal wear, which was only worn during major celebrations and meetings.
With these weapons, it is enough to make the combat effectiveness of the squad take another step forward.
With the cannonballs, Er Gou District Team Leader again drew people from the district team to form a five-man team: the artillery team. It just so happened that there was indeed a genuine artilleryman in the district team.
This artilleryman is called Zhang Dazhu, originally a ** gunner, later captured by the Eighth Route Army and joined the Eighth Route Army after education. In the second company, he is also a number one figure, brave in battle and kind to people. In short, he has all the advantages of an Eighth Route Army soldier.
Two dogs knew about this, but how could one regiment be equipped with big guns? So they could only use him as infantry. Now not only are there big guns, but also shells, sixty boxes at once, and he suddenly thought of Zhang Dazhu.
So Zhang Dazhu suddenly became the eighth-in-command of the district team and the captain of the fifth squad from an ordinary soldier.
Zhang Dazhu selected a group of soldiers suitable for artillery from the district team and formed the fifth squad. Every day, he took them to familiarize themselves with the big guns through practice.
The preliminary solution to everyone's food problem, the second dog district team leader is ready to expand and consolidate the base.
The artillery towers that were initially solved had seized many telephones and telephone lines, which came in handy this time.
Each of the higher hills had an observation post set up, and each observation post was equipped with a telephone. As soon as any enemy came into view, it could be immediately reported to the ears of Er Gou District Commander.
To address the situation where cars can only be placed at the foot of the mountain, the leader of the Second Dog District has incorporated a range of fifty miles around the base into his own sphere of influence. The mountain top base is usually left with only one small team, while the other four teams, except for the fifth team which is not convenient to act and has just been established, need to familiarize themselves with their weapons, and the third team needs to gather intelligence outside, the other two teams patrol this area every day.
To quickly reach the designated location, under Li Tie's suggestion, Er Gou District Captain led the local military and civilians to repair several mountain roads. Although they could only allow cars to move slowly, it was still faster than walking, and also saved a lot of physical strength. Of course, all the roads had been camouflaged, if the enemy came in, these roads would not let them pass easily, besides landmines, there were also traps waiting for them.
