The spring of that year in eastern Anhui came very late, and that year due to the arrival of Nanyun Ren's team, the strength of the Japanese army increased greatly, and the ** county where Murong Pei was located experienced the most severe situation since the Anti-Japanese War The Japanese puppet army was purged (at that time, there was no such term as sweeping).

In that purge Murong Pei's independent battalion attracted a large number of Japanese troops and suffered huge casualties, and by the end of the purge was over, only 211 of the 500 people in the battalion remained, which can be said to be more than half of the casualties.

In the same way, the casualties of the Japanese army were not light, and they were equal to the New Fourth Army in the process of clearing and suppressing Murong Qing's independent battalion in the early and middle periods, and the casualties in the later period far exceeded those of the New Fourth Army.

There was only one reason for the increase in Japanese casualties, and that was the arrival of Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion.

Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion joined forces with the remnants of Wei Jianxing's regiment, and the soldiers suddenly became stronger.

With the backing of this powerful force, Huo Xiaoshan changed the decline of being pursued and suppressed by the Japanese army in this purge process, and could only attract a pawn of the Nanyun Ninja Department.

He successively set up ambushes in Sandao Yazi and Qingshui Village, and planned to kill more than 300 people in the Nanyun Ninja Force, so that the elite forces in the Nanyun Ninja Department were completely lost.

Nanyun Shinobu himself was shot during the chaotic war and was desperately rescued by his subordinates, forcing the Nanyun Ninja Department to withdraw from the purge and return to the base camp in Wuhan.

And then Huo Xiaoshan took advantage of the emptiness in the countryside when the Japanese army went to the countryside in a big way, and ordered Shen Chong to lead a company into the county seat, and even took the county seat directly.

But under Huo Xiaoshan's instructions, Shen Chong did not occupy the county seat by himself, but deliberately led his troops out of the city to chase the enemy, and directly sent an empty city to the New Fourth Army that came after he secretly sent a message.

At this point, the 1941 spring purge of the Japanese army, which was later called by the ** county annals, ended with the defeat of the Japanese army and the great sacrifice of the New Fourth Army in the base area.

Huo Xiaoshan originally intended to reunite with Murong Pei after winning this anti-purging battle, but he didn't know which military commander who was hiding in a secret place secretly reported to the peak, Huo Xiaoshan actually led his troops to grab territory for the New Fourth Army!

So within one day, Huo Xiaoshan and Wei Jianxing received three telegrams from Shangfeng one after another, and strictly ordered the two departments to lead the team back.

In desperation, Huo Xiaoshan and Wei Jianxing could only leave a large number of captured weapons to the New Fourth Army to lead the team back.

And Wei Jianxing asked Liu Yu to take Shen Xiaoman back to the New Fourth Army before withdrawing.

Mu Kongyan, who learned that Huo Xiaoshan and Wei Jianxing were leaving, was eager to meet them again, but she didn't make the trip because she was investigated again.

This time, it was no longer He Qingsong who came to investigate her, but another political work commissioner who could look at Murong Pei without colored glasses.

But looking at Murong Pei without colored glasses is not the same as not having a working principle, Murong Pei knows that it is impossible to reunite with Huo Xiaoshan at least in this opportunity, so he can only sigh and accept the investigation.

The reason why she was investigated this time was why the Japanese squadron leader in Liujiapuzi Village let her go, and followed her order to slash Luo Lin, who was a traitor.

Murong Pei refused to answer, but secretly asked the little sister to send a letter to Liu Xiangkun, who was still serving as the political commissar of the military division.

Ten days later, Liu Xiangkun, the political director of the military sub-district, and a woman with a gentle temperament led the working group to secretly come to the county town occupied by the New Fourth Army.

After Murong Pei talked alone with the gentle woman for an hour, the woman came out and called two accompanying female political workers to enter, and the man was exempted.

Ten minutes later, three female staff members who came to investigate came out in surprise and whispered to Liu Xiangkun and the director of the political department about the investigation.

At that time, the top leaders of the two investigation teams could not help but sigh after listening to the report.

Subsequently, the investigators summoned Shen Xiaoman for questioning, and Shen Xiaoman burst into tears when he saw the gentle woman.

At this point, the investigation of Murong Pei by the Political Department of the Military Sub-district came to an end.

Before the investigators returned, Liu Xiangkun convened a meeting of party members and cadres of the directly subordinate battalion, but he only said one sentence: "Comrade Murong Pei is a good comrade of our party!" This is the conclusion of this investigation of Murong Pei.

Three days later, the military sub-district ordered the independent battalion to be expanded into an independent regiment, removed Murong Pei from the post of battalion commander, and reappointed as the political commissar of the independent regiment, with Liu Sile as the commander.

Murong Pei was not transferred, but was promoted, and the regiment commander was promoted from within the original battalion, and the whole battalion saw that it was not because Murong Pei was affected by the investigation that he wore "small shoes", but it did not cause major fluctuations.

It's just that after Liu Sile took over the post of head of the regiment, he was depressed for a few days.

Tang Tiantian, who has also been promoted to battalion commander, asked Liu Sile why he was unhappy, Liu Sile replied, I really don't want to be the commander of this regiment, how can I get into the tiger skin and hug you to sleep in the future?

Tang Tiantian replied, why not?

Liu Sile replied, nonsense! Have you ever seen a regiment commander of the New Fourth Army and his female battalion commander standing guard for the soldiers, but instead sleeping in a tiger's skin?

Tang Tiantian grinned, okay, one day I will report to the organization to marry you!

Liu Sile has just passed the rain and the sky is clear, and since then, he has changed his habit of being poor in front of outsiders, as if he is the head of the regiment.

The continuous expansion of the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines made the people of the Independent Regiment busy and fulfilling in the summer of this year.

On this day, when the work was over, it was rare to have leisure after dusk, but Murong Pei and Shen Xiaoman took their arms to take a walk on the hillside outside the village.

Shen Xiaoman has joined the New Fourth Army for a few months, and the whole person has also changed significantly in temperament, and the sorrow between his eyebrows has finally faded a lot, but he has added a bit of heroism because he is wearing a military uniform.

"You rejected Xiao Weizi like that?" Murong Pei asked.

"Well, I can't get over it in my heart, and I know that he can't get over it either." Shen Xiaoman replied leisurely.

When he was alone with Wei Jianxing, Wei Jianxing proposed to take Shen Xiaoman with him, but Shen Xiaoman refused.

In fact, Shen Xiaoman knew that he and Wei Jianxing were no longer possible, because he was no longer the female student wearing a student uniform and a white scarf.

She couldn't say anything to Murong Pei, even if Murong Pei understood it, she couldn't say it.

It's not just the heart that can't get over, but also the survival inertia that arose under the power of Nangumo's forbearance in the past.

From humiliation to numbness, from numbness to adaptation, from adaptation and even liking, this made her unable to face Wei Jianxing anymore after returning to her senses.

She also wanted to start over, but no, she couldn't!

This experience was like a boulder that always weighed on her heart, so she worked frantically every day to learn to shoot and lay down exhausted on the hard bed before she could sleep well.

Murong Pei is no longer a child, so why don't she understand Shen Xiaoman's thoughts.

At this time, she turned her back to the sunset and looked at the mountains and rivers dyed golden red by the sunset, and said: "Xiaoman, you think too much, and your mind is still not transparent enough.

I remember a poet who said that life is not only about poetry and distance.

But I want to tell you that life is not only about poetry and distance, but also about life.

Because of the inevitable reluctance we survived, we have the opportunity to poetry and distance.

Now we don't need to be reluctant, because we are already a warrior, and poetry is gone, so why don't we pick up the steel gun and go into the distance?

We're going to do a lot more than your little me!

Because as long as you don't step out of the land in front of you, everywhere you look is the hometown of us Chinese but occupied by Japanese dwarfs! ”