After the Jingyuetan tragedy, Lin Junxiong was as cold as ice and did not say a word. Originally a little injured, he refused everyone's help, and walked back with the bodies of Xue Nai and the child one foot deep and one foot shallow, and nearly thirty people followed slowly behind him.

When she returned to the Lotus Mountain base, Cai Yuexiu was already waiting at the bottom of the mountain, and when she saw that her son brought back the remains of Xue Nai and her grandson, she stepped forward slightly, and held her son in her arms without crying, she was worried about the successive blows, whether his heart could still be complete, and whether his ambition could still be restored?

In the following month, there was a lot less laughter in the Lotus Mountain base area, and the soldiers were training in the snow with all their might, silently paying tribute to Lin Junxiong's heart.

Except for a brief conversation with Master Yuan and a brotherly hug with Da Zhuang, Lin Junxiong spent most of his time in the arsenal and worked with Ji Antai and them to overcome some difficulties with the new weapon, and spent the rest of the time sitting alone in front of the graves of Xue Nai and the child with a bottle of wine.

During this period, Lin Junxiong only issued an order to one column to grasp the movements of the Japanese troops in the vicinity and related situations, especially the intelligence of Japanese officers, and strengthened the training of each column, especially the training after the expansion of the commando.

During this period, the only good news for Xie Qin was that Lin Junbi was sent to his side by Wu Hansheng for the rest of his life, and the bad news was that a large number of Japanese troops had recently arrived in Helong County, and the intelligence heard back showed that a force of resistance to the United Nations was chased by the Japanese army from the direction of Hunchun all the way to the vicinity of Helong County.

On this day, Bian Zhengnan rushed in and said: "Captain, a force suspected of being the Anti-Japanese Federation is besieged in the area of Huyueling, should we go to the rescue?" ”

Xie Qin thought for a while and said: "Huyueling is only a day's journey from our base area, and they are all anti-Japanese troops, so we must be saved, but we must also reconnoiter carefully, and we can't put ourselves in it." By the way, due south, how have you been in contact with several group tribes in Longxian County recently? ”

"Captain, rest assured, a consensus has been reached, at present, the security chiefs of several group tribes are gathering together to discuss the selection of those reliable people to enter our base area, and the first batch should arrive at the base area in a few days, and I have sent soldiers over there to coordinate."

"Well, I want the soldiers to pay attention to the severity, and it is estimated that the ones left behind will not escape the clutches of the Japanese army, as long as they are not hopeless, they can consider bringing them into the base area first, and then concentrate on education, and then dispose of them if they can't do it."

Bian Zhengnan's heart warmed, as a Korean, he didn't want to see people of his own clan die tragically under the Japanese sword, and he was more sure of Xie Qin, the captain. In a short period of more than two months, the Yanbian base area has developed rapidly under Xie Qin's arrangement and command, and has fully implemented Lin Junxiong's idea of uniting all anti-Japanese forces and building a solid anti-Japanese logistics fortress; at present, the three verticals have grown to more than 1,000 people, and the base areas have also grown to more than 10,000 people; if all the three group tribes in the north of Helong County can be absorbed into the base areas this time, the strength of the three columns will be further increased, and the number of people in the base areas will also grow to nearly 30,000.

Xie Qin saw Bian Zhengnan in a daze, and couldn't help asking, "Zhengnan, is there anything embarrassing?" ”

"Captain, I'm just feeling how right it was to join the revolutionary army in the first place, especially the honor to fight side by side with a capable person like Captain Xie!"

When Xie Qin heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Zhengnan, if you want to talk about ability, no one in the revolutionary army can compare with the commander, it's just that this successive events have hit him too hard, I don't know when I will be able to ease up, and I don't know what the situation is now?" ”

Bian Zhengnan sighed: "Hey, the Japanese are too cruel, but the soldiers all believe that the commander can quickly survive this hurdle, and now the matter of the commander in the army has become the motivation for everyone to train hard, and they are all waiting for the day of revenge!" ”

"Due south, come with me in a moment to see how the training of the commando team in charge of due north is going."

"Captain, you should rest assured that the veteran members of the commando team are all veterans who have been with the commander for a long time, and they are more concerned about the shame of the commander.

Thinking that the development of the troops was going smoothly, and the enthusiasm for recruit training was unprecedentedly high, Xie Qin was also a little excited, and he said thoughtfully: "The commander's order this time focuses on the commando, and the next operation should be dominated by the commando, and one day, the blood debt owed by the Kwantung Army to the people of the Northeast over the years will be recovered with interest!" ”

Bian Zhengnan also said with certainty: "Captain, there will definitely be that day!" ”

"Well, due south, we must pay close attention to all aspects of work, and now the development of our three verticals is only a little better than the four verticals of Lao Wei, and Lao Diao's five verticals have a unique geographical location and mass foundation, and the current development is the best, with more than 50,000 people in the base area and more than 3,000 soldiers. Old Tang's second column and Fang Yun's first column did not show weakness at all, we have to work harder, and we can't retreat when the revolutionary army shows its sword. ”

Bian Zhengnan heard the situation in other base areas for the first time, and asked in surprise: "Captain, have those columns developed to such a scale now?" ”

Xie Qin said: "Yes, several columns in the west started nearly a month earlier than us, the most important thing is that the current national war of resistance is unprecedentedly unified, and after the outbreak of war in Europe, Lao Jiang no longer hopes for the armistice of the European and American columns. In addition, the people's anti-Japanese sentiment is constantly rising, and the Chinese who are unwilling to be slaves of the country have stood up to fight, and these will be opportunities for the anti-Japanese forces to grow. ”

Bian Zhengnan saw that Xie Qin had analyzed everything in order, and touched his head embarrassedly and said: "We don't understand these big truths, we just need to follow the captain's footsteps." ”

Xie Qin shook his head slightly and said: "Zhengnan, when the military training is held again in Lianhua Mountain, I recommend you to go and study by the commander's side for a month, and you can withstand a year of fighting by yourself, many advanced ideas and military strategies, I have not yet completely digested them." ”

Bian Zhengnan said excitedly: "That's great, don't forget it when the captain comes." ”

When Xie Qin led more than 200 troops to take the path and step into Huyueling again, a wing of the Japanese army had already launched a fierce attack on a high ground in Huyueling.

After observing the Japanese army's arrangement with a telescope, Xie Qin suddenly laughed, making Bian Zhengnan a little baffled, more than 200 soldiers faced such a grim situation of thousands of Japanese troops, the captain actually laughed, is there any clever plan? Flooded Seventh Army? But where does the water come from in this snowstorm?

Xie Qin saw Bian Zhengnan's doubts and explained: "You see, Zhengnan, the Japanese army attacked the high ground from three sides, but these three sides were basically in the canyon area, and the Japanese army was also eager to attack, eager to eat this anti-coalition force, and the commander would do this thing without regard for the future." ”

Seeing that Bian Zhengnan was still puzzled, Xie Qin said: "When I was in Dongfeng County, the commander used to use the tactics of segmented annihilation to destroy four or five times the enemy, and we can follow suit this time. Due south, you and Nie Yuan each take sixty people to the mountains on both sides, pry loose the exposed stones, and plant explosives in the stone gathering place, we learn from the commander, without a single shot, we can kill many Japanese soldiers with stones alone, remember to leave a certain space for the Japanese army to escape, if they are forced to fight with us, the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

The Japanese army attacked the anti-union troops on the high ground several times, but they were stubbornly repelled by the anti-union fighters, and they were about to attack again, when suddenly the sound of an avalanche came from behind them, and before they could come to their senses, stones fell like rain, and the snow also slid down with the vibration.

The snow continued to flood the Japanese troops, and the stones continued to demand the lives of the Japanese soldiers, and the unknown commander of the Japanese army hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat, and only half of the troops of more than 3,000 people were withdrawn.

The anti-coalition troops on the high ground and Xie Qin's troops converged and chased for a while, and the Japanese army fled in a hurry like a lost dog, and did not dare to turn back.

"In the era of hot weapons, your army can also give full play to the strategy of the era of cold weapons according to the terrain, Jin admires!" One of the anti-coalition forces said in Korean.

After Bian Zhengnan translated, Xie Qincai said with a smile: "Hello friendly friends, I am Xie Qin of the third column of the Northeast Revolutionary Army, and my friend has won the award." ”

"Kim Il Sung, commander of the Second Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, the prestige of the revolutionary army has been very loud in the land of Northeast China in the past few months."

Bian Zhengnan acted as an interpreter, and the two kept communicating.

It turned out that Kim Chong-il and Choe Yongjian were originally from the North Korean Peninsula, and after the Korean Peninsula was occupied by the Japanese army, they came to Hunchun, joined the Second Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and developed the Hunchun Detachment, and later became the commander and deputy commander of the Second Army. If Lim Jun-woong had been there, he would have been surprised that Kim Il Sung and Choe Yong-kun, the two first-generation leaders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, were in China's anti-coalition forces at this moment, and they were also serving as middle-level commanding officers.

In a chat with Kim Chong-il, Xie Qin also learned that some commanders of the Second Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance first defected to Japan, and then faced the frenzied encirclement and interception of the Japanese army, and now the Second Army has been broken up, and less than one-tenth of the survivors have survived.

Xie Qin General The revolutionary army has just started to develop, and most of the soldiers are still new recruits, so they can only attack and harass the Japanese army in the vicinity, and cannot support the anti-union forces on a large scale.

Kim Il Sung, who was fortunate to survive, immediately expressed his understanding and hoped to strengthen cooperation with the revolutionary army in the future and work together to resist Japan.

When Xie Qin invited Kim Il-sung to take his troops to the Third Column Base Area for a temporary rest, Kim Il-sung politely refused, saying that he would definitely visit him if he had the opportunity to do so in the future, and that now that he had achieved the goal of leading his troops to attract the main Japanese forces to leave, he would immediately take advantage of this gap to rush back to the base and gather the scattered troops.

The brief reunion between the two men also led to a later meeting between Lim Junxiong and Kim Il Sung and Choe Yong Jian, and opened the prelude to the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to help North Korea become independent.