All day, Xu Rui's mood was not very good.

However, in the evening, Xu Rui's mood finally improved, because in the evening, the third regiment of the ninth column of the young student death corps who ran away from Wuhan finally crossed the Dabie Mountain and rushed to Feicheng.

After Xu Rui heard the news, he hurriedly brought Wang Husheng and the Wolf Tooth Squadron to greet him.

Xu Rui was simply ecstatic about the arrival of the Ninth Column and the Third Regiment of the Young Student Death Corps, because for the Dameishan Independent Regiment, the more than 2,000 cadets are too important, although at present, the combat effectiveness of the more than 2,000 cadets is not even as good as the more than 200 veterans, but in terms of future development, those veterans from the army have basically been finalized, and they can be battalion commanders at best, and it will be very difficult to go up.

This is very obvious in He Guangming, Xu Dekun, Wan Chongshan, and Tie Gang, the battalion commanders.

Although He Guangming is desperately trying to make up for the language, but so far, these people still can't understand the map, you talk for a long time, they have never been able to connect the rings on the map with the mountains, they look at it, it is an irregular circle, how can they not see the mountains.

After all, there are still very few mud legs like Li Yunlong who are born to read maps.

If you can't read the map, it's just that the key battalion commanders are illiterate, so it will be even more difficult for them to find a certain village on the map, and they can really kill people alive.

At present, the scale of the independent regiment is small, the area of activity is also small, and the problem is not big.

In the future, when the independent regiment is expanded into an independent brigade or even an independent division, the area of activity will become larger, and the mode of operation will inevitably develop from the current guerrilla warfare to a large-scale mobile warfare; at that time, if a unit commander does not know how to read and write, and cannot read a map, the consequences will be disastrous, and there will be no way to fight this battle at all.

Having said that, it doesn't mean that these veterans from the army have no room for rise at all, they can only be the battalion commander to the end, no, these veterans from the army are experienced, and most of them have tough personalities, and they can lead the troops, Xu Rui is also very easy to use, so how to overcome their shortcomings?

One way, to give these old people who don't know a few big characters with rough staff!

With staff officers, the problem is simple, those things that require cultural knowledge are handed over to the staff officers, and those who are from the ranks are only in charge of fighting, and only have to make decisions at critical moments, so that they can learn from each other's strong points and make up for their weaknesses, so that veterans and cadet soldiers can give full play to their strengths at the same time, forming a kind of joint force.

Therefore, in the near future, when the independent regiment is expanded into an independent brigade or even an independent division, a large number of staff officers will be needed, but these staff officers will not fall from the sky by themselves. can wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the Horse.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Rui will send Liang Yixiao and Wu Qian back to Wuhan to lobby his classmates and teachers.

It's just that Xu Rui didn't expect that Wu Qian and Liang Yixiao would be able to make such a big move in the end.

Although the vast majority of the young student deciding corps that was finally formed into the army fell into the hands of the Kuomintang, Xu Rui was already very content to be able to snatch a regiment from Chairman Chiang's mouth.

Of course, the advantage of cadet soldiers is not only to train staff officers, but also to be able to train technical arms.

At present, only one machine gun company of the independent regiment can barely be regarded as a technical unit, but this is temporary, and in the near future, there will certainly be artillery, engineer, armor, and aviation units in the independent regiment.

Therefore, Xu Rui was happy about the arrival of the Third Regiment of the Ninth Column of the Young Student Death Corps.

Zheng Jiakang finally saw Xu Rui Zhenren, seeing the tall and straight officer in front of him, Zheng Jiakang couldn't help but feel a little emotional for a while, if it was ten days ago, he would never believe that he would actually join the army one day, but now, he has stood on the frontline battlefield and become a real national army!

However, Zheng Jiakang did not expect that he would not be able to become a soldier after all, and he would soon return to his old job.

Wang Husheng pulled an officer with the rank of major to Xu Rui and introduced to Xu Rui: "Old Xu, come, let me introduce you, this is Comrade Qiu Feng, who was originally the commander of the special service company of the 58th Division, because he was wounded, he was sent back to Hankou Hospital from the front line to recuperate, and he was about to return to the team after recovering from his injuries. ”

Because the Young Student Death Corps is not an army in the true sense of the word, the Military Affairs Department did not send key veterans to the Death Corps to serve as officers at all levels, but only sent some veterans to various columns and regiments to serve as instructors, and the Military Affairs Department planned to train these student soldiers to become officers and then send them to various units.

The result was also a coincidence, Qiu Feng, the leading instructor sent to the Third Regiment of the Ninth Column, was precisely an underground party, and then this unit soon fell into the hands of the Communist Party.

Wang Husheng also learned about these situations from the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army just now.

"Comrade Qiufeng, hard work." Xu Rui saluted first, then stretched out his hand and said, "You really helped us a lot this time." ”

Qiu Feng followed back the military salute, then stretched out his hand to shake Xu Rui, and said with a smile: "The regiment commander will see the outside world when he says so, in the future, we will be a brother who stirs a horse spoon in a pot, what is this between you and me?" ”

"Comrade Qiu Feng, on behalf of the Party Committee of the Independent League, I welcome you." Wang Husheng shook hands with Qiu Feng, and then turned back to Xu Rui and said, "Old Xu, the higher-level party organization has just issued instructions that Comrade Qiu Feng will stay in our independent regiment as the director of the political department in the future to assist me in doing a good job in the political work of the regiment." ”

"That's a good idea." Xu Rui naturally welcomed with both hands.

It is the consistent purpose of the Communist Party, which is the only magic weapon to break the cancer of warlords, and it is also one of Chairman Mao's major contributions to the Chinese nation.

In the Kuomintang army, the phenomenon of personal dependence is very serious, and the troops are only loyal to the commander and not to the country, let alone the so-called Kuomintang, so once a mutiny occurs, how big an officer can take away how large a formed unit is, a regiment commander can take away a regiment, and a division commander can take away a division! One army commander can take away an army group!

To cite an example, in 1939, He Xingjian, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army, led 50,000 people to defect to the enemy in Suzhou because of discord with commander-in-chief Yang Wei, which was unimaginable in the ranks of the Communist Party.

In the ranks of the Communist Party, even a veteran of the Communist Party of China like Zhang Guotao has no way to completely pull the team away and set up another mountain, even if he is a meritorious founding marshal like ****, once he betrays the country and the party, he will become a loner in the blink of an eye, and finally he can only flee alone.

The ranks of the Communist Party belong to the Party, and they do not belong to any individual, and no individual can pull them away.

And what does this depend on? Relying on ********, the party committees at all levels of the army only listen to the party organizations at higher levels, not to a certain person, in the face of major issues of right and wrong.

Therefore, for the independent regiment, the formation of the political department is very important and necessary.

Wang Husheng said again: "Comrade Qiufeng, we have already prepared the camp and dinner of the troops, so you should hurry up and take the troops to eat, these students must be tired after walking for such a long time on the mountain road, let them have a good meal first, and then sleep well." ”

"Yes, I'm going to gather the troops." The autumn wind snapped and saluted.

Wang Husheng smiled and said: "Comrade Qiufeng, we don't need to be so formal in our independent regiment. ”

"How's that going to work?" Qiu Feng smiled and said, "You are all my leaders, and you must be formal." ”

Wang Husheng shook his head, but Xu Rui asked: "Comrade Qiufeng, just now Lao Wang said that you were originally from the 58th Division Special Service Company?" ”

Qiu Feng stopped the steps that had been taken, and asked in surprise: "Yes, I am from the 58th Division, and it has been many years, and the regiment commander has acquaintances in our 58th Division?" ”

Xu Rui's face immediately appeared with hope, and he asked urgently: "Then do you know a little soldier named Xiaoshi?" I am only fourteen years old this year, and I followed the people of your 58th Division from Hankou not long ago. ”

"Little stones? Fourteen? Qiu Feng shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

The look of hope on Xu Rui's face immediately dimmed, and he didn't say anything more.

Wang Husheng entrusted the stone to six catties, and then entrusted Xu Rui with six catties to Qiu Feng.

After hearing this, Qiu Feng was in awe for a while, saluted and said: "Don't worry, the regiment commander, I will ask someone to send a letter to our division commander when I turn around, and ask the division commander to help find it in the division, and I will definitely be able to find the small stone." ”

Xu Rui nodded, turned around and walked away lonely, just talking about the small stone, Xu Rui inevitably thought of the death of six catties again, and his heart immediately became heavy, although six catties were voluntary, Xu Rui had no choice, but six catties died for him Xu Rui, but it is an indisputable fact, this guilt, I am afraid that I will have to be entangled with Xu Rui for the rest of my life.

Seeing Xu Rui's back go away, Wang Husheng said: "The death of six catties has become a dead knot that Lao Xu can't untie in his heart." ”

Qiu Feng nodded and said: "I can understand the mood of the regiment commander, he must have been very difficult when he made this decision, carrying a lifetime of moral shackles and a lifetime of conscience condemnation, but it is much more difficult than being generous to death, but sometimes we have no choice, this result can only be carried by the regiment commander alone." ”