In this way, Chen Guofu and they stayed in Gaoyou Lake for two days, Zhou Wu and Ding Ning took Chen Guofu and them around Gaoyou Lake every day, because Luping they worked hard to buy sulfur and saltpeter, and charcoal in Gaoyou Lake is not a problem at all, there are many trees on the islands dotted around, and high-quality charcoal can be made by cutting down.
The three things can be used to make gunpowder and explosives for bullets and shells according to a certain proportion, although the power is not as good as what comes out of the regular military factory, but it should be able to use it to fight devils and puppet soldiers Chen Guofu and his men saw that Gaoyou Lake was rich in products, and there were countless kinds of wild ducks, prawns, and fresh fish, but the daily salt needed by the officers and men was pitiful, which seriously affected the recovery of the wounded brothers who had just been rescued from the hands of death.
"Brigade Commander Zhou, you can send someone to the market town on the other side of our base to exchange for salt, your Gaoyou Lake is so rich, I'm afraid there will be nothing to change."
Zhou Wu heard that this was a good idea, why didn't he think of it at the beginning, and immediately ordered Lao Xu, the quartermaster department who accompanied him, to quickly send people to the market town controlled by the New Fourth Army to purchase the things that were lacking here in Gaoyou Lake, fortunately, the independent brigade still has some oceans, and at present, there is no need to exchange those things for the specialties in Gaoyou Lake.
Three days later, more than 20 platoon and company-level cadres sent by the New Fourth Army came to the Gaoyouhu Independent Brigade, and Zhou Wu warmly entertained them, and the officer training team of the Independent Brigade led by Ding Ning and Fat Man set off to the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army as early as a day ago, and naturally Chen Guofu personally arranged for the reception.
The fat man and Ding Ning also lived up to expectations on the side of the New Fourth Army, conscientiously and assiduously training the newly recruited recruits and soldiers of the Third Regiment, and by the way, helping the veterans of the Third Regiment to train the skills of fighting bayonets and throwing grenades, Ding Ning was also specially responsible for teaching those cadres above the company commander level of the New Fourth Army how to draw military maps and make terrain sand tables, and the brothers of the New Fourth Army, especially the Niu political commissar who had some prejudices against the independent brigade, couldn't help but be amazed after reading the terrain sand table made by himself after reading the military map hand-drawn by Ding Ning.
"Chief of Staff Ding's military map is better than all the military maps I have seen before, and this sand table is vividly done and lifelike.
Comrades should seize this rare opportunity to learn and ask Chief of Staff Ding for advice, because he is a talent with a lantern and nowhere to be found, so everyone should cherish it.
Lao Niu really deserves to be an old Red Army who was born as a political worker, and he never left his profession in three sentences, and asked the cadres of the New Fourth Army to learn from Ding Ning.
The fat man's work was obviously much harder than Ding Ning's, in addition to taking the recruits to practice formation, training in shooting and bombing, and fighting bayonets every day, he also had a rather laborious job, that is, he took the brothers of the Third Regiment of the New Fourth Army to dig trenches on the small hillside.
When he saw Chen Guofu and the trenches they dug out were crooked, high and low, and rugged, he personally took several officers of the independent brigade under his command to demonstrate, and the trenches dug out were horizontal and vertical, the ditch walls were smooth and steep, and the depth and width were just right.
"Brother is really good, the trenches dug out are as neat and slippery as tofu blocks, even if you don't fight, it's comfortable to look at, you see what we dug is simply incomparable, it really deserves to be out of the regular army, everything has rules, if it weren't for your chairman and those high-level blind commands, how could you be fighting like that in Shanghai and Nanjing, the generals are really incompetent, tired to death of the three armies.
Fatty, I'm not talking about your Independent Brigade, today I saw the trench you dug and the kung fu of Chief of Staff Ding Ning, I dare to say that your Independent Brigade is like this in the national army.
Chen Guofu said as he stretched out a thumbs up to the fat man, and the fat man opened his mouth and laughed.
The work team sent by the New Fourth Army also did a good job in the Independent Brigade, and their approachable work style deeply infected the brothers of the Independent Brigade, especially those brothers who used to be in the Gaoyou Lake cottage, so that the brothers below quickly mingled with these cadres of the New Fourth Army, and even ate and slept together, regardless of each other's ranks.
The new type of guerrilla warfare brought by these cadres of the New Fourth Army opened the eyes of the platoon-company level officers of the Independent Brigade, who thought that there were such mysterious and novel tactics in addition to regular positional warfare and movement warfare.
The cadres of the New Fourth Army and these company-platoon-level officers of the Independent Brigade hid and sought out on the dotted islands in Gaoyou Lake every day, and the officers of the Independent Brigade who were familiar with the terrain were always running back and forth, but they could not find those cadres of the New Fourth Army, but they were counter-surrounded by them again and again, and they were miserable to be cleaned up.
In the end, Zhou Wu personally led his officers and brothers led by the New Fourth Army to a combat exercise in Gaoyou Lake, but no matter what method Zhou Wu used, he was led by the brothers led by the New Fourth Army on the opposite side.
Although Zhou Wu was well aware of the terrain and waters on the side of Gaoyou Lake, he was still defeated by the cadres of the New Fourth Army who were more proficient in guerrilla warfare tactics than them.
The month passed quickly, and the deadline for the Independent Brigade and the Third Regiment of the Jiangbei Detachment of the New Fourth Army to send officer training teams to each other was approaching.
In the past month, Zhou Wu has formed a deep friendship with these cadres of the New Fourth Army who came to the Independent Brigade to help train guerrilla warfare tactics, and he is really reluctant to let them go, and those cadres of the New Fourth Army are also very compatible with the major general and brigade commander of the regular army of the National Army, and feel that he is different from other officers of the National Army, and it can almost be said that he has no official frame at all, and he is also the same as the leaders of the New Fourth Army, and he mingles with the soldiers and brothers below.
In particular, Zhou Wu's concern for the wounded and sick was in no way inferior to that of the leaders within the New Fourth Army, and this was particularly valuable in the deep-hierarched Nationalist Army, and even in the New Fourth Army, it was not necessarily better than the Independent Brigade, and this was probably one of the reasons why the combat effectiveness of this relatively special Nationalist Army unit surpassed that of other Nationalist troops.
The strength of the will to fight often determines the outcome of a battle on the battlefield, and in the face of the frantic attack of the little devils and the puppet army armed to the teeth, it is a miracle that the national army troops that can stabilize their positions and can also fight against the little devils and achieve victory at this time.
But there is always a time to disperse when they get together, and finally it is time to return to the team, Zhou Wu took the officers of the Independent Brigade to reluctantly bid farewell to these brothers of the New Fourth Army, although they got along for a month, but Zhou Wu felt that this time was too short, how he hoped that he could stay with these brothers for a while, but the agreed time could not be reversed, plus the independent brigade officer training team led by Ding Ning and the fat man had returned to the independent brigade, and Chen Guofu, the third regiment of the same New Fourth Army, was also reluctant to Ding Ning and them go, The Niu political commissar, who has always had prejudices against the Independent Brigade, also rarely opened the Chrysostom to retain.
"Chief of Staff Ding, I really can't bear you to leave, this time we have cooperated very well with the Independent Brigade, which can be called a model of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party's cooperation in the anti-Japanese united front, I hope that after you go back, you can talk to your Brigade Commander Zhou Wu, so that we can do more things that are beneficial to both of us in the future, I really hope that next time you can come here in the New Fourth Army."
Commissar Niu was born as a political worker, although he has always been very principled and has some prejudices about the Independent Brigade and Zhou Wu, but through this month's getting along, he found that his original views were wrong.
The Kuomintang army is not as dark and corrupt as it has always been propagated, and there are also those who are as disciplined as their New Fourth Army, who are unequivocal in fighting devils, and who can sacrifice their lives without hesitation at a critical juncture, in order to drive out of China these Japanese devils who invaded our land, killed our compatriots, and fornicated our sisters.
At this point, the old Red Army political commissar Niu still has a lot of respect and admiration for Zhou Wu and the Independent Brigade, and he sincerely hopes that there will be cooperation with the Independent Brigade next time, and everyone will unite to defeat the little devils and drive them out of the land of China.
Winter is about to pass, the spring that brings hope is finally coming, the independent brigade in Gaoyou Lake is also full of vitality at this time, the old Xu of the quartermaster department and his brothers with Lu Ping desperately got the sulfur saltpeter finally made the bullets and shells that the independent brigade urgently needed, and a lot of grenades were also made.
Under the careful treatment of the new medical company commanders Shi Gazi and Shen Lina, most of the wounded brothers of the Independent Brigade recovered their health, except for thirty or forty seriously wounded who died of their injuries, most of the wounded brothers recovered their health and returned to their own ranks.
One day at the end of March 1938, this day was bright and sunny in the spring, and the warm breeze was blowing, Zhou Wu and Ding Ning were boating on the lake, watching the actual combat confrontation between the two teams with the fat man as one group and Ge Sanmin as the other group.
"Brigade seat, news came from the direction of Taizhou, it turned out that the father of the head of the independent brigade security regiment Wang was arrested by the little devil and is currently being detained in Taizhou City, according to the internal information we arranged in Taizhou City, the devil will escort Mr.
Wang to Nanjing on the same day, and the devil plans to kill Mr.
Wang in Nanjing, in order to make an example and deter the anti-Japanese armed forces around Yangzhou in Nanjing." t1706231537: