Chapter 41 Headquarters Rewards Flying Pavilion Network

  Liu Feng released the pseudo-army commander Zhang Changfeng back to Guangping County. Zhang Changfeng knew that there was only one class of devils and a squadron of pseudo-troops in the city. And this group of Eighth Route Army was well-equipped, with many cannons, he saw with his own eyes how the arrogant devils were suppressed by one or two people on the other side, unable to lift their heads. Moreover, the north gate of Guangping County is now under the control of the Eighth Route Army.

  Anyone who can pretend to be the commander of a regiment is not an ordinary person. At this time, if he still followed the little devils, it was obvious that his brain had gone bad. He immediately went back to mobilize his confidants and took advantage of the devils' unpreparedness for the pseudo-army. In one go, they killed half of the devils in a class inside the city, and the remaining ones were surrounded in a small house.

  Then he used a hand grenade to blow up the remaining devils in the small house. After that, he personally welcomed Liu Feng and others into the city. Liu Feng had already sent Han Dada to secretly follow Zhang Changfeng into the city, witnessing the whole process of Zhang Changfeng wiping out the little devils. So Liu Feng and others entered the city with ease.

  Liu Feng immediately gave Zhang Changfeng instructions, telling him that after the Eighth Route Army left, he should disperse most of the puppet troops and say they were defeated. As for himself, he would have to take a bullet, so as to pass the Japanese inspection and continue serving as the commander of the puppet army. Zhang Changfeng thanked him profusely, saying that from now on he would definitely cooperate with the Eighth Route Army's actions and serve as their inside agent.

  Chen Zhengwei, who soon received the news, came with his fellow villagers and started moving the Guangping County devils' ammunition depot. Of course, the puppet army's weapons and ammunition also belonged to the Eighth Route Army.

  Liu Feng's raiding team fought a battle, back and forth for over 100 miles, pulling out the strongholds of Dongdaxin and Xixiandian, and finally capturing Guangping County again. They annihilated more than 700-800 Japanese puppet troops, seizing large quantities of weapons, ammunition, and supplies.

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  The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the Chief of Staff, holding a telegram from Liu Feng's assault team, came to find the commander-in-chief with great joy: "Old General, Liu Feng and his men have won another victory. This time they took out the Dongdaxin and Xixian stores strongholds, and once again took down the Guangping County city. They annihilated a whole Japanese company, and over 500 puppet troops. They also captured a large amount of weapons and ammunition."

  The commander took over the telegram and looked at it carefully, hehe smiled: "Liu Feng this kid is okay, a small assault team, can actually do such a big thing. Give Liu Feng's assault team a commendation order. This special operation, indeed has its own rules! We need to study it well."

  The Chief of Staff said: "Old General, shouldn't we also establish a small team like this in each regiment of the Eighth Route Army to conduct special operations?"

  The commander said, "Well, but special operations are currently inexperienced in each unit. Each regiment should send three to five people to Liu Feng's assault team for training. Participate in the battle with Liu Feng and his men, and when they return after learning, use them as the backbone to form a new assault team."

  The Chief of Staff said: "Alright, I'll go and make arrangements."

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  When Sakai Hanji, the commander of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, learned about the situation in Guangping County, he was so angry that he split a table in two with his command sword. Then he scolded Akio Akiyama, the battalion commander responsible for Guangping County, until he was covered in blood and demanded that he immediately send troops to sweep and thoroughly eliminate the nearby Eighth Route Army.

  Akio Akiyama immediately led a large team out to sweep through the villages and search for the Eighth Route Army's traces.

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  Hanxi Village, Liu Feng is holding a summary meeting for the entire assault team. This is something that needs to be done after every battle. Summarize combat experience, correct mistakes, and prevent the same mistakes from being made again in the future.

  Moreover, each combat team, everyone has to speak, the team leader organizes team members to summarize. After summarizing, report to Liu Feng, and let Liu Feng specifically strengthen training on the shortcomings of team members in the next stage of training.

  Comrade Chen Zhengwei walked in excitedly with a telegram, saying: "Fellow assault team members, good news! Our assault team has been commended by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. This is the commendation order!"

  Lin Xuejun and Liu Feng were overjoyed, and they had Chen Zhengwei publicly read out the commendation order from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. Everyone was excited beyond measure.

  Comrade Chen Zhengde continued: "The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army will also send three to five people from each regiment to our assault team for training and participation in battles, so that they can form similar assault teams when they return."

  Lin Xuejun said with excitement: "That's great, if our Eighth Route Army can form such a shock troop in every regiment, will the little devils still have a day to live?"

  Everyone burst out laughing.

  Liu Feng said: "We can achieve such results, it is the strong support of the headquarters and everyone's hard work, fearlessness of hardship, tiredness and sacrifice. Now the headquarters has recognized our way of fighting and requires other troops to learn from us, this is our honor, but also a test for us. We want to maintain our honor, we can only work hard, expand our results. What do you think?"

  "Good!" Everyone replied in unison, including Captain Lin and Commissar Chen.

  Captain Lin and Commissar Chen had suspicions about Liu Feng from the beginning, but now they completely trust and believe in him. Although this strike team has Lin Xuejun as captain and Liu Feng as chief of staff, in reality, Liu Feng has gained complete command authority. Whether to fight or how to fight, it's all decided by Liu Feng, with Lin Xuejun being the deputy captain.

  As for Chen Zhengwei, since receiving the headquarters' telegram on flexible grasp of discipline, he also slowly felt that some of Liu Feng's decisions were reasonable.

  Liu Feng is not a bloodthirsty person, he just has no mercy when it comes to killing little devils or fake soldiers who might hinder the next action. However, he absolutely does not kill those who may become anti-Japanese forces or Han traitors who can help fight against Japan. This can be seen from Liu Feng's successful conversion of the county heads of Qiu County, Zhouchuan County, and Guangping County. Liu Feng is a fighter with rich experience in fighting against enemies. Therefore, Chen Zhengwei's attitude towards Liu Feng has changed from initial distrust and non-support to full support and trust now.

  Soon, the personnel dispatched by each unit of the Eighth Route Army arrived one after another. However, Liu Feng handed over the task of receiving them to Chen Zhengwei, and he didn't treat them as guests at all, but trained them as usual, treating them completely as members of the assault team. Since each regiment had sent three to five people, the assault team has now expanded to nearly a hundred people.

  There were more people, but for live ammunition training, even including artillery shells, Liu Feng was not stingy at all. He took out all the captured weapons and ammunition this time for training. Those personnel from various units did not understand why the assault team wasted so much ammunition. More people did not understand Liu Feng's seemingly tedious training methods either. Many people raised objections. However, these objections were directly vetoed by Liu Feng, who told them that the Liu Feng Assault Team was like this. If you don't agree with the training method here and are unwilling to learn here, then please go wherever you came from.