After a small episode, Deng Chenggong and his group entered Ranzhuang under the leadership of Zhou Tuesday. At this time, Ranzhuang had not yet become the seat of the town government in later generations, but was a relatively large village. When Deng Chenggong and others in formal militia uniforms walked into the village, they still attracted the attention of many villagers.

When they learned that this young man surrounded by Zhou Ermeng and others was the highest leader of the militia, many elderly aunts and aunts felt that Deng Chenggong looked a little too young. After all, in their opinion, the leader who held 20,000 militias and others must be quite old. As a result, what they saw today was so young. Some of the unmarried girls Ran Zhuang looked at Deng Chenggong from afar and began to guess whether the young commander had gotten married. If they hadn't gotten married, would they have a chance?

Rejecting the invitation to go to have a tea and take a break on Tuesday, Deng Chenggong directly asked him to take him to the tunnel in the village. Deng Chenggong, who got into the tunnel from under the stove of a villager in the village, saw that the tunnel had been set up in all directions. Although some places still need to be further improved, the excavation of such a large project in two months is enough to prove that Zhao Changbao and others have spent some time.

But after walking around, he suddenly found that although the tunnels here are interconnected, it lacked favorable precautions because of this. If the tunnel entrance is discovered by the Japanese in the future and they are attacked through the tunnel, the tunnel will lose its due defensive effect, and the Japanese will encircle and annihilate the people hiding in the tunnel.

Thinking of this, Deng Chenggong was walking and directing Zhou Ermeng to make improvements to the authenticity. When each of the changed functions was expressed, Zhao Changbao, who was following behind, had to admire the knowledge of the young commander, which really should not be ignored. This ability to prepare for the future is indeed worthy of their subordinates' study.

Originally, when they were digging the tunnel, they only paid attention to the characteristics of Tibetans and convenient movement to fight the enemy. However, after Deng Chenggong's guidance, they found that the tunnel became an absolute defense base that could not be flooded or burned, and outsiders had only a dead end when they came in. Even based on the characteristics of the tunnel, Deng Chenggong even pointed out the preparation for defense against poison gas attacks. With such a well-defended tunnel base, the Japanese who invaded Ranzhuang in the future would definitely not get any benefits.

Deng Chenggong, who came out of the tunnel, did not continue to stay. He just reminded Zhao Changbao, the county militia commander when he left. He briefly stated the importance of Ranzhuang, and at the same time said that based on Ranzhuang's existing tunnel network, he tried to expand out as much as possible. If he could connect with several nearby villages, it would undoubtedly better play a role in attacking the enemy and protecting his own safety.

Moreover, in order to improve Ranzhuang's self-protection ability as much as possible, Deng Chenggong specially approved the promotion of Zhou Deng's militia team to a militia detachment, which could be expanded to a team of 100 people. At that time, Zhao Changbao will draw instructors from the militia regiment to conduct corresponding defensive combat exercises so that the people of the village can learn and apply it. There is no need to wait for the Japanese to enter the village, and they will be panicked because they are not familiar with the situation in the tunnel. In this way, they will lose the intention of building an authentic tunnel network in advance!

Zhou Meng was naturally very happy to hear that he became the captain of the militia detachment, because according to the configuration of the militia column, a militia detachment can have a heavy machine gun and four light machine guns. It also has a certain right to operate independently, which is easier than a militia squad that only protects the existence of the village.

After waving goodbye to Zhao Changbao and his party, Deng Chenggong found a village controlled by a militia column on the way to Xinxian on his way to Xinxian County and stayed for one night. He continued to move forward early the next morning. Until noon the next day, the group finally arrived at the Xinxian Militia Regiment station, which was the farthest from the militia column.

The location of this resident is located in a valley near Baiyangdian. It is relatively hidden. If you encounter land sweep, you can escape smoothly with Baiyangdian. When you encounter a blockade from the lake, you can retreat to the mountains to resist. This is consistent with Deng’s successful requirement that each militia garrison must have the policy of defending and retreating.

After also undergoing the inspection of the sentry, Sanpang (real name Wu Sanshan), who was assigned to serve as the militia commander here, and Wang Chao, the political director who also has a local identity, quickly came out of the regiment headquarters to greet him.

Seeing that the fortifications at the garrison were well constructed, Deng Chenggong asked as he walked: "Sanpang, I heard Mingyuan say that your kid's work is not easy to carry out. Is it because you kid's temper and curse people at any time?"

As the first old man in the militia to surrender to Deng Chenggong, Sanpang can also be called Deng Chenggong's confidant. Being able to become the leader of the twenty-two militia regiments under the management of the militia column is enough to prove that his ability is quite good. However, Deng Chenggong, who had been with him for a long time, knew that this strong man in front of him was a good fighter and was one of the best in the battle. However, because he had never read much and stayed in the bandit's nest for a long time, he was quite serious in bandit habits and liked to beat and scold people at every turn.

Sanpang was very honest in front of Deng Chenggong, because he had fought with Deng Chenggong several times and knew very well that the young commander had more violent factors in his body than him.

He murmured in a low voice: "I don't often scold people, but some guys can't teach them no matter how much they teach. Sometimes I'm so angry that I can't help but scold them. But the most important thing is that I have been here for so long, and I haven't even recruited five hundred soldiers. This makes me very angry, but I can't force people to join the army. So I was so anxious that I reported to Director Xu and asked for support from the headquarters. But I didn't expect that it was the commander who came here in person. If I had known this, I wouldn't report it."

Deng Chenggong looked at the three fat man who pretended to be a good baby in front of him, and slapped the other party in anger and said, "You guy, I won't report what I mean. Could it be that if I become the commander, I am not a member of the militia column? Let me tell you boy, since I am here this time, the affairs of your militia regiment must develop as soon as possible. I want to take a good look at whether you have made progress after becoming the regiment commander. If you still don't make any progress at all, I'd better choose someone else to serve as the regiment commander. You guy, you're wearing a colonel uniform all day but can't do the regiment commander."

Seeing a young man like Deng Chenggong, he dared to hit his own hot-tempered regiment commander, many militias who had been scolded by Sanpang felt that they were confused. The commander who was beaten even started to beg for mercy. This made the militia who thought Deng Chenggong was just a comrade-in-arms of his regiment commander, and immediately felt that this young man who suddenly appeared must have a bad identity.

When lunch was lunch, Wang Chao, the political director of the militia regiment, welcomed Deng Chenggong to the podium and said, "Please give us instructions," many militiamen of this newly formed militia regiment almost screamed out. Although they all knew from the two regiment leaders that they belonged to were young, they could not imagine this commander, which looked about the same size as many of them here.

After briefly speaking, Deng Chenggong did not give any more instructions. Deng Chenggong naturally yearned for this anti-Japanese base that was also famous throughout the country in later generations. He did not want the Baiyangdian anti-Japanese guerrillas, which were originally famous in the history of the Anti-Japanese War.

After lunch, Deng Chenggong didn't have time to rest and directly asked Sanpang to summon officers at the platoon level and above of the group department to attend a meeting. After some officers who went out to recruit soldiers, because there were many ethnic minorities here, they were mostly wary of the officers and soldiers of the militia who were sent to recruit soldiers in the villages below. Most importantly, there were some advance revolutionaries on this ground, that is, the People's Party organizations.

Later, due to the National Party's roundup, most of these People's Party members died heroically, and their families and villages were indispensable to the blow. As the saying goes, once they were bitten by snakes, they were afraid of ropes for ten years. These people who knew that there would be no good results in fighting the government, naturally did not dare to join the militia column easily. Only some young people with poor family conditions heard that they had five oceans for a month to become formal militias, and they joined here with the idea of ​​being a soldier to support their families.

This situation not only occurs in the militia regiment, but even the militia squads below are not as popular as other villages. After most militia squads are established, they eventually return their rifles and go home to fish because the militia squads are unable to stand the preaching of their families and point fingers to others. Therefore, it is really not easy to carry out the militia work here.

Deng Chenggong, who has always felt that he has been going smoothly to this day, suddenly felt that the difficulties that arise in front of him can better prove his ability?

To this end, he asked the accompanying radio operator to inform the headquarters that the time of the inspection might be delayed. Some work that was under his control at the headquarters could be handled by telegrams or by Xu Mingyuan and Hu Guangzong. He must establish an excellent militia team in this area before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. Otherwise, he would be sorry for the militia commander hat on his head.
Chapter completed!