June 1, 1936, Shaanxi and Gansu Revolutionary Zone in Northwest China: Zhangjiawan Town.

A young soldier who was only sixteen or seventeen years old in a coarse gray military uniform stood on the dirt slope, holding a new box cannon of six or seven percent in his hand, staring closely ahead, and did not even bother to take out the sweet potato in his arms and eat it. Suddenly, billowing yellow smoke rose in front of the little warrior's eyes. Watching the yellow smoke gradually retreat, the half-sized man's legs and stomach crumbled, and he jumped up to a height of more than two feet.

"Withdrawn! Withdrawn! ”

With a shout in his mouth, he put the gun in his hand back into his waist and ran down the dirt slope with a puff of smoke.

Beneath this dirt slope were four or five warriors of about the same age.

"Baozi, what are you yelling about?! Beware of exposure! ”

One of them, a round-faced warrior who looked older, whispered a lecture with a straight face, his dark face looking very serious. At his waist, there was also a flat, large twenty-gun box cannon.

"It's not! Monitor! The opposite one is withdrawn! Withdrawn! ”

"Huh?!"

As soon as the round-faced warrior heard this little warrior named Baozi speak, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked for sure.

"Are you sure the white dog of Giethoorn has withdrawn? Don't dare to talk nonsense! ”

As soon as he said this, Baozi immediately blushed.

"Squad leader, how can I talk nonsense. Let's keep our eyes open, the white dog on the other side is really withdrawn! ”

"I'll take a look!"

The squad leader didn't say much, he got up and climbed up the dirt slope, and several other fighters followed him. The squad leader put his hand on the pergola and looked into the distance, and laughed when he confirmed that Baozi was not mistaken.

"Ah, these white dogs are really withdrawn!"

The squad leader said excitedly, and several other fighters were also happy.

"Baozi, you guys continue to stare here, I'll go back and report to the head of the regiment immediately."

Baozi immediately straightened up and grabbed the box cannon in his hand again. The squad leader nodded and didn't say anything more, took out half of the sweet potato that was already cold in his arms, and stuffed it into his mouth in two bites. He lifted his pants and ran back. After running for half an hour, I climbed over a beam and went down a slope. That's when he got back into town.

It is said that it is a town, but in fact, there are not many people in Zhangjiawan, and there are no too decent houses, almost all of them are caves. After getting on another beam, he turned back and walked down to the cave where he saw his destination.

"Captain! Head! ”

As soon as he reached the outside of the cave, he began to shout, trying to tell the good news to the people inside as quickly as possible. His appearance attracted the attention of people along the way.

"Captain!"

However, after walking to the door, he stopped and ran in without directly opening the curtain.

"Come in."

After hearing an unhurried permission from inside, he opened the dirt curtain and walked in.

"I said what you kid shouted, I sat in the house and listened to your loud voice. Hurry up and change your name, call it Leizi, you kid is really a thunderbolt. ”

Lei Zi pursed his lips and smiled, he knew that the head of the regiment was just habitually scolding him. The regimental commander is only terrible when he does not curse.

The head of the regiment who looked at Lei Zi was about twenty-six or seventeen years old. In the ranks of the revolution, it is not uncommon to become a regimental commander at this age. But the interesting thing is that although this regiment leader is in his twenties, he is forty or fifty years old. The hair is shaved short and neat, the beard on the face is meticulously shaved, and the clothes are clean and tidy although they are washed white. At this time, he was sitting cross-legged on the kang steadily, holding a roll of tobacco leaves that was not thicker than the millet rod between his fingers. While smoking a cigarette, he also took a sip of the earthen bowl in his hand.

Yue Siliang's appearance Lei Zi looked very familiar, because he vaguely remembered that when he was a child, when he worked long hours for the landlord Lao Cai, the hateful old guy was like this, sitting and smoking and drinking. However, Yue Siliang's style was not hated at all in Lei Zi's opinion.

The regiment commander looks like a landlord and an old fortune at the moment, but when he went to the battlefield, he rushed forward with a gun like himself, and he was the same as he was on the Long March. And don't look at Yue Siliang holding a wine bowl at the moment, in fact, the wine in his bowl doesn't know how much water is mixed with, and the taste of the light is no different from water. This is because the head of the regiment does not drink much, he simply likes the feeling of drinking and the faint smell of wine, and usually the head of the regiment likes to think about things while drinking light wine.

People from other groups sometimes like to say strange things in their mouths, saying that Yue Siliang is just being poor, and they can't forget the score of his eldest young master. But Lei Zi didn't think like this in his heart, in the hearts of all of them, the head of the regiment was like a person from their seventeenth regiment. The people of the entire 17th Regiment always remember Yue Siliang's words in their hearts: You can't fight a fight, and you can't live a sloppy life! No matter how hard life is, you have to treat me like a person!

"Commander, you are a god. You said that the white dogs of Giethoorn had to retreat these days, and those white dogs really withdrew from Giethoorn just now. ”

"Hey, that Young Marshal Zhang is a person who hasn't fought many tough battles after all. Last year, we pouted twice in a row, and it was not easy for him to survive until now. ”

Yue Siliang's words Lei Zi could understand every word, but he was a little blinded when they were connected.

"Commander, what do you mean by that?"

Lei Zi's stunned face made Yue Siliang almost choke on the smoke.

"Why don't you grow at all? Last winter, we beat them up in Zhiluo Town, and even Niu Yuanfeng, the commander of the 10th and 9th Divisions, died in Laoniuwan. Now we are blocking the opposite side in Zhangjiawan in the west and Yangquan Town in the east, and we and the brother troops are connected in a line in the east and west, and the whole line allows us to operate like an iron bucket. This kind of doomed can only lose money, can not earn a war, they are willing to fight? The confrontation for so long is just to prevent us from beating the water dogs. ”

"Oh~~, I see."

Lei Zi showed a suddenly realized expression, and Yue Siliang nodded with a "teachable" expression. But he didn't want to follow again.

"You said that if you don't fight a battle to lose money, you won't fight, I understand this."

"Ahem......"

At this time, Yue Siliang was really choked, and shook his head helplessly.

"You, I said, why don't you grow up? When the commissar comes back, let him give you a good lesson. I'm not going to worry about that. ”

The first half of Lei Zi didn't care, but the second half of the sentence made him overjoyed.

"The commissar is coming back?!"

"Well, the appointment I made a few days ago is no secret now, but it's up to you. Just when Hamming comes back, he can put a little splint on you. You've been a bit of a bad habit for me all this time. ”

Yue Siliang said, put the cigarette butt on the sole of his shoe and extinguished it, and walked off the kang. His stature is not very high, only around 1.7 meters, but he walks with a tiger's style.

Lei Zi couldn't help but slander for a while, the sky was pitiful, their head of the regiment didn't look at it like a bowl of warm water, but he had never been used to them, and he still didn't understand what the meaning of folding the quilt into tofu cubes was, and the usual requirements for their lives were more like a political commissar than a political commissar.

"Let's go, come out with me, although the enemy has retreated, we can't let our guard down. Everything has to wait for the commander's decision to settle down. ”

Yue Siliang walked out of the cave, and Lei Zi hurriedly followed. Looking at Yue Siliang's back, Lei Zi was a little speechless and stopped.

"Commander......"

"What's wrong?"

Yue Si turned his head curiously, and at the same time tightened his shirt. Even though it's already June. But the weather is not completely warm, and it will still be a little cold when the mountain breeze blows in the morning and evening.

"Commander...... Two days ago, when I went to the market with a few soldiers from the cooking class to buy groceries, I met a few soldiers from a regiment. They...... They said that our group is a group of two white dogs! If you never fight a tough battle, you know how to fight a good fight. They resist hard in the front, and our 17th Regiment picks up ready-made ones in the back! Let's take the credit for them! And said that you don't know how to fight at all, it's ......"

"What is it?"

Yue Si looked at Lei Zi with a good smile, waiting for his next step. But Lei Zi was filled with righteous indignation, and he couldn't say the rest of the words at all. Seeing Lei Zi's face, Yue Siliang couldn't help laughing, and said lightly.

"Well, I know all of that. Let them say it, it's not who says if we can fight or not. After all, I'm all named in the boss's place, the head of the cotton regiment. ”

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