Zhou Zuopeng didn't say anything more, silently took off the Browning pistol on his waist and handed it to Lin Guozhong:

"Lao Lin, with our friendship, I won't say anything about thanks, no matter whether I succeed this time, I can't turn back, this gun is for you, leave a thought."

Lin Guozhong reached out and took the Browning pistol and let out a long sigh.

In fact, he and Zhou Zuopeng both knew in their hearts how difficult it was to do this.

It is true that Zhou Zuopeng is a division commander, but he does not dare to guarantee that several regiment commanders under him can also follow him.

There are battalion commanders below the regiment commander, company commanders below the battalion commander, all the way to ordinary soldiers, who dares to guarantee that everyone is willing to follow you regardless of life and death to fight for the illusory goal?

Although Zhou Zuopeng was very good to every soldier under his command on weekdays, at this time, he was not even sure that he could take a regiment away.

And Zhou Zuopeng did not decide to follow Liu Cheng on this matter, but planned to make a decision in the process of negotiation.

He prefers to leave with someone willing to go with him and go alone.

It's not that he is unwilling to live under others, but he is not sure whether Liu Cheng has the ability to lead a large-scale army.

Fifteen minutes later, Zhou Zuopeng and Lin Guozhong got into a jeep together and rushed to the agreed negotiation place.

Prior to this, he tentatively revealed to several regiment commanders under him that he didn't want to work for the Japanese anymore, but only Shao Jun, the commander of the 44th Regiment, said on the spot that he had the same idea as Zhou Zuopeng.

Zhou Zuopeng did not feel surprised, for him, this was expected.

The agreed time was a quarter past nine in the evening, and the time when Lin Guozhong and Zhou Zuopeng arrived at the designated place was nine and a half past one.

The two only brought their respective guards, counting Lin Guozhong and Zhou Zuopeng, there were only six people.

However, on the position about 150 meters behind them, there were two regiments waiting for them, and at the slightest situation here, those soldiers would immediately rush up.

A guard behind Lin Guozhong raised the torch in his hand and waved it at the opposite side, and then a fire lit up twenty meters away.

Liu Cheng arrived ten minutes ago, and only Gao Yuan and Duan Jinghe came with him.

When the opinions could not be unified, Liu Cheng finally decided to wait for the results of the negotiations to come out before making a decision.

However, over how many people to bring and who to bring, there was another dispute between the people.

Tian Liuwa insisted on coming, but Gao Yuan insisted on following on the grounds that he had seen Lin Guozhong and Zhou Zuopeng and had several faces.

Duan Jinghe didn't give an inch, and the green tendons on his neck bulged.

After much consideration, Liu Cheng chose to only take Gao Yuan and Duan Jinghe to negotiate.

The distance between the separate battalion and the enemy's positions was less than three hundred meters, and the place of negotiation was in the middle of the positions of both sides.

There are 260 Type 38 rifles equipped with quadruple scopes on the side of the independent battalion, and once the situation changes, Liu Cheng will naturally be safer than Lin Guozhong and Zhou Zuopeng.

Although Lin Guozhong and Zhou Zuopeng had already learned some information about Liu Cheng from Zhang Haipeng in advance, when they saw Liu Cheng with their own eyes, they were still a little incredulous.

They couldn't imagine how a young man who looked like he was only about twenty years old could command a battle of this magnitude.

After Zhou Zuopeng's gaze swept over Liu Cheng, he stopped at Duan Jinghe's face.

"Are you Duan Jinghe?" Zhou Zuopeng's voice was full of doubts.

Duan Jinghe grinned:

"Head Zhou, don't come unharmed?"

Liu Cheng turned his head to look at Duan Jinghe with a suspicious face, and asked in a low voice:

"You know?"

Duan Jinghe nodded:

"Yes, I was a platoon commander under Commander Zhou at the beginning."

In fact, this is the real reason why Duan Jinghe has to follow.

After he graduated from Fengtian Lecture Martial Arts Hall, he was transferred to Zhou Zuopeng as an artillery platoon commander for two months, and met Zhou Zuopeng several times.

At that time, he was afraid that others would use this as an excuse not to let him come, so he didn't say that he knew Zhou Zuopeng.

Although he has only been a platoon commander under Zhou Zuopeng for two months, Duan Jinghe has a certain understanding of Zhou Zuopeng's personality.

At that time, everyone knew that although Zhou Zuopeng had a somewhat impatient personality, he was an upright person, and Duan Jinghe did not believe that Zhou Zuopeng would lose his personality for the little benefit given by the Japanese.

Although he didn't know what was going on between Zhou Zuopeng and Zhang Haipeng, he firmly believed that there must be some reason for this.

"Head Zhou, I really didn't expect that it would be in this situation when I see you again." Duan Jinghe's tone was full of regret.

As soon as this sentence came out, Zhou Zuopeng's face was red to the base of his neck, if it weren't for the cover of the night, Zhou Zuopeng would have been eager to find a crack in the ground to get into.

After the Huanggutun incident, Zhou Zuopeng, then the head of the 39th Regiment under Zhang Haipeng, was ordered to confront the Japanese army on the Taonan border for two months, so that the devils did not dare to make any moves.

When Duan Jinghe was a platoon commander under him, Zhou Zuopeng once inspected the training ground and said in front of the officers and men of the regiment, "The Japanese wolf is ambitious, and we wear military uniforms and vow to defend the country and not give an inch."

At that time, the impassioned voice was still in my ears, but it was no longer human.

Zhou Zuopeng waved his hand weakly and said in a low voice:

"Zhou is ashamed of Jiangdong's father, and he has no shame to talk to the old acquaintance, so there is no need to say it anymore!"

Liu Cheng saw Zhou Zuopeng's strangeness, and took the opportunity to take the conversation:

"It seems that Master Zhou is not willing to be in the company of the Japanese, I don't know what is going on? Maybe I can help last week's division commander......"

Liu Cheng's seemingly bland words shocked Lin Guozhong on the side.

Originally, the two sides were going to negotiate, but they didn't say a word about the negotiation, and Zhou Zuopeng was completely "trapped" by the other party.

If this is not a pre-arranged plan, then this Liu Cheng's adaptability and ability to figure out people's hearts are a little terrifying.

If you are an ordinary person, and you see that your own person and the enemy you want to negotiate with are old acquaintances, you will definitely be the first to worry about whether something will happen.

But Liu Cheng obviously didn't have any worries about this, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he hit the most tangled key point in Zhou Zuopeng's heart, which can be described as a sentence.

If it weren't for the grace of Zhang Haipeng's life, Zhou Zuopeng would not have followed him to the Japanese at all.

In the past few years, Zhang Haipeng has been using various means to win over and maintain, but he has not had an accident by covering and pressing; Now Liu Chengcheng has such a seemingly insipid sentence, and Zhou Zuopeng is classified into his same camp.

Even if Zhou Zuopeng will not "return to obedience" just because of this sentence, at least he will change his impression and attitude towards Liu Cheng to a certain extent.