The director, the regiment headquarters sent a message asking the director and the instructors of each battalion and company to go to the regiment headquarters for a meeting three days later, saying that the inspection committee members were coming down and holding a meeting to discuss the preparations. ”

Chen Shiping found Li Hai and said seriously.

"Meeting? What is the purpose of the meeting at this time? Lehi couldn't help but smile.

"Lao Li, what do you mean?"

Chen Shiping was a little puzzled.

"It's going to be done!" Lehi explained.

"No, do you really want to do it?" Chen Shiping couldn't believe it.

"Lao Chen, what's wrong with you? Still don't believe in the intentions of these old officers and the Kuomintang? The second column of the decisive death has been attacked by the Jin Sui army, do you still want to repay the luck mentality? "Lehi really wanted to strangle the other party.

No wonder there are so many losses in the three columns in history, and there is a reason for this group of people, a group of scholars who don't understand military affairs, don't understand anything, and don't listen to persuasion.

"There will be a column on the side of the second column to protest with the Jin Suijun, but we haven't been ordered, so we can't mess around." Chen Shiping said.

"Lao Chen, you don't care about this matter, you are responsible for leading the retreat of the military academy, communications class, health company, baggage troops, children's company, etc., and you don't want to participate in the battle."

This old Chen, every time he is afraid of wolves and tigers, he has illusions about Jin Suijun and others, and letting this kind of person take charge of the army is to harm these soldiers.

His order put an end to the possibility of Chen Shiping interfering in the command.

In terms of position, Li Hai is the director, while Chen Shiping is only the deputy; In terms of real power, the three battalions were under the control of Li Hai, and it was impossible for Chen Shiping to command them.

There is no doubt that Chen Shiping was angry when he left.

"Director, Deputy Director Chen's expression is a little wrong, is this appropriate?" Mao Hong worried.

"It doesn't matter, if he is interested, everything will be said; If he's not interested, I don't mind driving him away.

After this crisis, the headquarters also knows who is right and who is wrong, even if he goes to make a small report, it will not affect it. ”

The reason why Lehi said this is because the losses of the third column this time will certainly not be small, and it is not certain how many people will be alive at that time.

"Send someone to get in touch with the political workers at the Youth League headquarters, I want to see what this Sun Ruikun wants to do.

There was also an order to go down, except for the local guerrillas, three battalions must be returned within two days, and those who violated the order were to be engaged in military law. Lehi said in a deep voice.

"Director, are we going to give up the existing base area?" After all, Mao Hong was an old Red Army and guessed Lehi's plan.

"If we don't give up, we have to find a way to break through and join the Eighth Route Army after solving the internal problems.

The Jin Sui Army only dared to do anything to us, but they did not dare to do anything to the Eighth Route Army. ”

Li Hai did not lie, because the number of the Eighth Route Army this year is conservatively estimated to be 300,000, and the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi is no less than 100,000, after all, the main force of the 129th Division and part of the main force of the 120th Division are in Shanxi, and the strength will naturally not be small.

With the strength of the Jin Sui Army now, he did not dare to offend the Eighth Route Army at all.

Historically, the first column and the third column were stationed because the area where they were stationed was close to the Eighth Route Army, and the Jin Sui Army, including the Central Army, did not dare to make a large-scale move.

In fact, without waiting for Li Hai to send someone to get in touch with the political workers on the side of the regiment headquarters, the latter sent someone to report that Sun Ruikun was planning to take advantage of the meeting to arrest all the political workers of the Eighth Regiment who had died in the Eighth Regiment.

Only then did Chen Shiping believe that Li Hai was not wrong.

On December 10, the day before Sun Ruikun announced the meeting, the 2nd Battalion, the 1st Independent Battalion, and the 2nd Independent Battalion were all rebuilt and stationed in the mountains near Miaogou Village, awaiting Li Hai's orders.

Three battalion commanders, three battalion instructors, 12 company commanders, and 12 company instructors (including the regimental headquarters guard company, cavalry company, and artillery company) gathered in the small courtyard of the political department in Miaogou Village.

"Comrades, you know more or less about the current situation. Yan Laoxi is already going to do something to us, he himself doesn't want to resist Japan, and he doesn't allow us to resist Japan, and now he can't tolerate our existence.

The Second Column of Decisive Death has been attacked by the 61st Army of the Jin Sui Army, and Sun Ruikun, the commander of our Eighth Decisive Death Regiment, has also defected according to reliable information, and is planning to summon us to the regimental headquarters in the name of a meeting, and then arrest us people. ”

As soon as Li Hai's words fell, Zhang Cheng stood up and said, "Director, I have long said that Sun Ruikun is not a good thing. He usually withholds military salaries and connives, and his subordinates corrupt military discipline, such a person will definitely betray our column of death.

How to fight, the director directly ordered that the 1st Independent Battalion would definitely not lag behind. ”

"That's right, eliminate these old officers!"

"We listen to the director!"

For a time, a number of company-level cadres of the 1st Independent Battalion expressed their positions one after another.

"Lao Li, this kind of thing still needs to be asked for instructions from the column headquarters and the political department, and you can't act without authorization!"

Yes, Chen Shiping's old problem has been committed again!

"Lao Chen, in this case, to fight by asking for instructions is to joke with the lives of our commanders and fighters." Li Hai didn't give Chen Shiping a face, "When I was in a column meeting before, I met the head of the Eighth Route Army.

The chief instructed us to decisively get rid of the unreliable old officers in the army, and the column headquarters agreed.

So even if we send troops to eliminate Sun Ruikun and other old officers who have rebelled, it is a good reason. ”

"Since the chiefs have given instructions, we will obey them!" Mao Hong also took the opportunity to echo.

"Our 2nd Battalion also obeys the instructions of the chief, please give instructions from the director!"

Li Ta, the battalion commander of the 2nd Independent Battalion, said.

Unlike Mao Hong and Zhang Cheng, who were Li Hai's old subordinates, Li Ta was newly promoted by Li Hai, although he was also a scholar, but he was not as pedantic as Chen Shiping, but he had the demeanor of a Confucian general.

"Since everyone has no opinion, I'll tell you what I think." Lehi said, pointing to a map.

"Judging from the situation in the entire southeast of Shanxi, the six regiments of our decisive three columns are distributed in five counties, and they are surrounded by the six armies of the national army.

Including the 93rd Army of Liu Huan's Division, which was stationed in Fushan and Qinshui, there were also Chen Tie's 14th Army stationed in Yangcheng, Sun Dianying's new 5th Army stationed in Huguan and Lingchuan, Fan Hanjie's 27th Army stationed in Qinshui and Changzi, Pang Bingxun's 40th Army in Lingchuan and Gaoping, and Li Jiayu's 47th Army in Jincheng.

In addition, there is also the 8th Brigade of Sun Chu of the Jin Sui Army.

What we need to pay attention to is the 8th Brigade of Sun Chudu, as well as the mutinous regiments.

However, the 40th Army suffered losses at our hands before, and this time it will definitely send troops.

What I mean by this is to try to avoid fighting with the Central Army, because they are well equipped and outnumbered, and we are prone to losses.

The focus was on fighting the mutinous troops and the Jin Sui army.

Especially the Jin Sui army, they are well equipped, but their combat effectiveness is poor, if we want to exchange shotguns for artillery, then we have to get some benefits from the Jin Sui army. ”