The railway mileage from Texas to Luokou is nearly 120 kilometers, and it is at least 110 kilometers from where Xiao Siming and his family camped to Texas. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After ordering the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments to secretly move near Dezhou, Xiao Siming took the troops who participated in the Battle of Luokou and set off in the night, and did not stop at Qihe County, Yucheng County, and Pingyuan County, but only took Hu Qingyun, the chief of staff in Pingyuan County, and instructed the Deping Independent Regiment to establish contact with the Wudi Independent Regiment, and assume the garrison of Pingyuan, Yucheng, and Qihe counties, and he drove all the way to Dezhou.

In Texas. Xiao Siming left behind the troops to participate in the Luokou Bridge, and took Huo Cheng, director of the Political Department of the Eastward Advance Detachment, Hu Qingyun, chief of staff, and Zheng Xiuchuan, deputy chief of staff, who were sitting in Dezhou, to a village near Wuqiao County before dawn, and met with Xiao Hua, deputy director of the Political Department of the 115th Division and political commissar of the 343rd Brigade, who commanded the operation here.

Xiao Hua is only 22 years old this year and is a "baby commander".

The International Division of the Young Communist Party was proposed by Xiao Hua to the Central Committee that year, and when he was only 17 years old, he was appointed as the political commissar of the International Division of the Young Communist Party.

When the red imp Xiao Siming joined the Red Army, Xiao Hua was still the political commissar of the Red 15th Division, that is, the International Division of the Young Communist Party, and the division commander at that time was Peng Shaohui. After the Battle of Xiangjiang, the Red Army was downsized, the number of the International Division of the Young Communist Party was revoked, and Xiao Hua was transferred to the head of the organization of the Red First Army, and later to the political commissar of the Red Second Division.

After the Eighth Route Army fought the first battle of Pingxingguan, Xiao Hua served as the political commissar of the 343 Brigade. At that time, the commander of the 343 Brigade was Chen Guang, the deputy brigade commander was Zhou Jianping, the political commissar Xiao Hua, and the chief of staff Chen Shiqu. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Jianping, deputy brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade, remained in Jinchaji as the commander of the Jinchaji Fourth Army Division.

Because the commander of the 115th Division returned to Yan'an for treatment after being injured, Chen Guang, the commander of the 343 Brigade, served as the acting commander of the 115 Division in March, the deputy brigade commander Zhou Jianping was in Jinchaji, and the political commissar Xiao Hua took the brigade headquarters to the Hebei and Lu borders, and the chief of staff of the 343 Brigade, Chen Shiqu, was preparing to build a detachment in western Jinxi, and the 685th Regiment advanced to the Huxi area under the leadership of the regiment commander Peng Mingzhi and political commissar Wu Mingyu, and the 686th Regiment defended the Yellow River crossing in western Shanxi with the division headquarters, which means that the 343 Brigade has become an empty number.

The red imp Xiao Siming performed well on the Long March, and after the Long March, he was sent to Kang University to study, and Xiao Hua knew him from the beginning.

After Xiao Siming's soul crossed, he inherited the memory of the red ghost Xiao Siming, and he was naturally familiar with Xiao Hua.

Xiao Hua had already received a telegram last night, knowing that Xiao Siming was going to come to see him, but he didn't expect Xiao Siming to come so quickly!

After the meeting, Xiao Siming saluted Xiao Hua, Fu Zhuting, director of the Political Department of the 343 Brigade, Zeng Guohua, head of the fifth detachment, and other leaders, and then shook hands and said hello.

During the war years, there were not so many hypocrisy and politeness, and Xiao Siming came out of the International Division of the Young Communist Party and the Red Second Division, and the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

No, although he knew that Xiao Siming had come over overnight, Xiao Hua only asked the guards to bring him a glass of water, and asked him to report in detail on the work since the formation of the independent battalion, and asked him to focus on the work after approaching the Jilu border.

Since the Tibetan Mountain Temple received the enemy, Xiao Siming has met Zhou Jianping, the former deputy commander of the 343rd Brigade and the commander of the Fourth Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, in Yuxian County, Zhang Hao, the first political commissar of the 129th Division, on Taihang Mountain, and Chen Zaidao and Song Renqiang in Nangong in southern Hebei, and now he has met Xiao Hua, the political commissar of the 343 Brigade, and Fu Zhuting, the director of the Political Department, and he feels very cordial in his heart!

To tell the truth, from the beginning of Yuxian's reception of the enemy, Xiao Siming reported his work to his superiors, mainly through telegram exchanges. reported to the leaders in person, and only reported to Zhou Jianping and Zhang Hao. This is the third time I have reported to the leader in person!

Xiao Siming felt that the leaders wanted to listen to his comprehensive report, so he straightened out his thinking, starting from the Tibetan Mountain Temple to receive the enemy, and the report was opened, and it was reported until the Battle of Luokou.

Xiao Siming's record is indeed too brilliant, so brilliant that Xiao Hua and others, who have also insisted on fighting the Japanese army on the battlefield in North China, are stunned!

Xiao Hua sighed: "It's not simple, it's really not simple!" Who would have thought that a squad of more than 20 wounded men, fearless of a strong enemy, took the initiative to attack, and would have developed into today's main force with cavalry, engineers, artillery, tanks, and armored vehicles? Fight well, play the majesty of our first army! ”

These words sounded the same as the tone of Division Commander Lin, who pretended to come down from Jinggang Mountain, and opened his mouth and closed his mouth, "A legion!" ”

After sighing, without waiting for Xiao Siming to ask again, Xiao Hua conveyed to him the spirit of Yan'an's instruction telegram, and pulled Xiao Siming to begin to study the establishment of a new military and political committee on the Hebei-Shandong border and the formation of an eastward column.

Xiao Hua is 22 years old, Xiao Siming is 18 years old, they are not very old, and the pronunciation of the surname is the same, I don't know if the little devil can figure out that this "Xiao" is not the other "Xiao" can't!

Wang Lushui is still in Leling, as the former deputy secretary of the Hebei-Lu Border Military and Political Committee and the commander of the eastward advance detachment, Xiao Siming must have introduced the details of the Hebei-Lu border to Xiao Hua and them.

Xiao Siming first briefed Xiao Hua on the geography, division, products, customs, and customs of the Hebei-Shandong border region, and then introduced the situation of the struggle of the party organizations in the Hebei-Shandong border area, focusing on the basic situation of the eastward advance detachment in building the party and the army after advancing to the Hebei-Shandong border.

Among them, Xiao Siming's most detailed introduction is the situation of the main cadres in the Jilu border area, the situation of the miscellaneous armed forces, and the situation of the Japanese puppet forces.

Because Xiao Hua was anxious to reorganize the troops remaining in the Jilu border, Xiao Siming introduced the Fourth Regiment formed by the 31st Detachment, the Yanshan Independent Regiment, the Wudi Independent Regiment, the Deping Independent Regiment, and the local armed forces in each county in great detail.

With such a foundation, plus the five detachments and the Jinpu detachment, it would not have taken much effort to form the eastward column of the Eighth Route Army.

Historically, after Xiao Hua arrived at the Jilu border in September 1938, he fought with the Japanese puppet and wrote a legend.

Now and different from history, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the team to advance to the Jilu border first, laying a good foundation, Xiao Hua and their insistence on the struggle on the Jilu border can save a lot of things!

After the briefing, Xiao Siming solemnly put forward two demands: One is that after graduating from the first batch of cadets of the Jilu Border Military and Political School, except for the local cadres who need to stay in the Jilu Border, all military and political cadres will in principle return to the eastward advance detachment for assignment. Because the eastward advance detachment is a new unit, there is a large cadre gap. Another requirement is that after the eastward advance detachment successfully advances to the Yimeng Mountains, the arsenal remaining on the Jilu border should be moved to the Yimeng Mountains, and in the future it should be developed into an ordnance production base of the entire 115th Division system. Now, because the eastward advance detachment has to carry out external combat missions, it cannot march and fight with the equipment of the arsenal, and needs to stay on the Jilu border to hide, so political commissar Xiao must put the safety of the arsenal in the first place, send strong troops to protect it, and ensure the safety of the arsenal.

These two requests are considered from the overall situation, and Xiao Hua naturally agreed.

Because Xiao Hua had a cadre of more than 100 people, Xiao Siming asked Xiao Hua to send cadres to the eastward advance detachment.

This cadre corps comes from the 343 Brigade Headquarters and the redundant cadres of the Eighth Route Army when they were reorganized, all of which are the essence of the Central Red Army!

When expanding the troops, the most important thing is the backbone cadres. With cadres, recruits can be trained into veterans, and local armed forces can develop into the main force!

Xiao Hua's task was to reorganize the armed forces along the Hebei and Shandong borders and form a column to advance eastward, which itself required a large number of cadres. But Xiao Siming proposed it, and the eastward advance detachment really needed cadres, so Xiao Hua thought twice and sent 30 cadres to Xiao Siming from the cadre team.

As for the upcoming anti-Japanese heavy siege, Xiao Siming's suggestion is one word "hide".

Xiao Siming said that when the Japanese Fifth Division swept the Jilu border with heavy troops, with the strength of our army on the Jilu border, it would definitely not be possible to have a hard top. It is necessary to make the fortified walls clear the wilderness solidly, so that the places where the Japanese army goes are deserted. As for our army, we must jump behind the ass and flank of the Japanese army, fight guerrillas, and bite it when we have the opportunity, and we must not be encircled.

Xiao Hua said: "The key is to see if your outside operations can succeed in one blow!" ”

Speaking of which, Xiao Hua asked Xiao Siming, do you have any preliminary plans for external operations?

Xiao Siming replied that he had a preliminary idea, that is, to lead the Japanese army by the nose, lead the little devil to the direction of Pinghan Road, and then lead the devil to the Yellow River and Longhai Road, which is equivalent to taking the devil on a trip. When the time was ripe, he broke away from enemy contact and jumped to the Lunan Mountains.

As soon as Xiao Hua pondered it, he said that this idea was naturally excellent, but it was very dangerous. Because the Japanese army has planes in the sky to reconnoiter and bomb, once our army's intentions are exposed, its daytime marches and battles will be restricted, and it is difficult to say whether it will be able to get rid of the Japanese army, which has a strong ability to maneuver. This matter must be studied carefully, and the plan must be reported to the headquarters and Yan'an, so that the leaders can carefully consider it, and it must be foolproof!

Is there a war that does not take risks? The question is whether the risk is worth it!

At present, the eastward advance detachment must also take this risk! Otherwise, the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, and maybe even other troops, will make a mess of the base areas along the Jilu border!

Xiao Siming reminded Xiao Hua that he had to reconnoiter and defend to the north, strictly prevent the enemy in Pingjin from taking advantage of the fire to loot, and cooperate with the Fifth Division to flank our army!

As soon as he said this, Xiao Siming suddenly felt that he had miscalculated something, so he stopped saying nothing at that time, frowned and began to think.

As he was talking, Xiao Siming suddenly stopped talking, which made Xiao Hua and the others inexplicable!

But Xiao Siming frowned and thought about it for a long time, his brain was so busy that he couldn't remember what he had overlooked or omitted!

After a while, Xiao Siming didn't think about it anymore, turned around and said to Xiao Hua that the fifth detachment and the Jinpu detachment had just arrived at the Jilu border and urgently needed to repair and replenish. For the enemies of Wuqiao, Dongguang, and Nanpi, force them to shrink back to the county seat and the railway line to hold on, and they cannot attack forcibly. The casualties of the assault were too great to be cost-effective. In particular, you can't have a hot brain and fight hard with the backbone of the Red Army company!

Xiao Hua smiled and said, "Okay, we'll pay attention!" Unexpectedly, Xiao Siming, a red imp who did not have a high rifle during the Long March, has become a veteran of war after the test of war and the study of Kang Da, and knows the truth that you can't fight hard with the backbone! ”

Xiao Siming laughed! (To be continued.) )