The night of the 26th day of the first lunar month and February 25th of the Gregorian calendar is definitely a very weird night!

After the independent battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army retreated from Sangshuping to Huangling Village in the north of Shouyang County, it only rested for a day, and then waved its division south overnight to attack Zongai Town, an important town in Shoubei, and then continued to the south, surrounding the Baijiazhuang stronghold, which was only 12 kilometers away from Shouyang County, and did it with the little devil Ping Pong!

That is, on this night, the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which successfully formed the 689th Regiment in Pingshan County, Hebei Province and completed the rest of the troops, under the leadership of the brigade commander and political commissar, was ordered to march west from Pingshan County to participate in the counterattack against the Japanese army's nine-way siege operation in the southeast of Jin, and arrived in Xiyang.

The brigade commander and political commissar led the 688th Regiment and the 689th Regiment of the first echelon near Xiyang County, and the 687th Regiment of the second echelon camped in Dongyetou Village, Gaoluo Town, eastern Xiyang.

As soon as dinner was over, Secretary of Staff, Secretary Lan, quietly came to see the regiment commander Zhang Shaodong.

After entering the house, Lan Guoqing closed the door, approached Zhang Shaodong, and whispered mysteriously: "Commander, it's over, it's over!" ”

Zhang Shaodong frowned, and said a little impatiently: "What are you panicking about?" What's over? ”

Secretary Lan was crying with a sad face, and his voice changed a little bit: "Regiment commander, I just got the news that the brigade headquarters is going to reorganize the team and attack us!" ”

Zhang Shaodong stood up immediately, his rectangular face grew longer and longer, and it took a long time before he said hatefully: "Impossible!" Lao Tzu fought from Hubei, Henan and Anhui to northern Shaanxi, since the Anti-Japanese War, he has fought two flat passes, fought devils nine times, and made countless achievements, how could Brigade Commander Xu attack me! Sling the bull! ”

Secretary Lan hurriedly stood up, grabbed Zhang Shaodong, and whispered: "Commander, be quiet, be careful of others listening!" Think about it, the Central Soviet Region and Hubei, Henan, and Anhui have suppressed the rebellion, and those who were killed did not have military exploits? The battle exploits are a **! Don't be stupid, if you stare at it for a while, your head will be cut off by someone else, and you don't know how it was cut off! ”

Zhang Shaodong muttered: "Now is not the time to rebel, it's different!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Shaodong was still not enlightened, Secretary Lan sneered and said: "Those who were killed in the rebellion are all unjust ghosts, but we have really violated discipline, and some people don't say what we say!" ”

Zhang Shaodong said this, he was silent, sat on the stool, and hugged his head in pain!

Secretary Lan was also very lonely, so she sat down on the stool, took out a cigarette, and smoked it.

After a while, Zhang Shaodong said a little unconvinced: "Didn't Lao Tzu just get two money and sleep with a woman?" What is this? Now is the time of the Anti-Japanese War, and the Eighth Route Army is also a national army. Which of those regiment commanders and brigade commanders of the national * army has never made money or slept with women? Is it possible to take out the head of Lao Tzu and cut off Lao Tzu's head because of this little thing? I'm not convinced! ”

Lan Guoqing answered: "It's a pity, we are the Eighth Route Army!" The discipline of the Eighth Route Army does not allow money and sleeping with women! ”

Zhang Shaodong was deflated all of a sudden, drooping his head, and was silent!

What Zhang Shaodong and Secretary Lan said happened during the recuperation in Pingshan.

Speaking of which, Zhang Shaodong joined the Red Army early, and he was very simple, and he didn't have so many fancy intestines. Moreover, he was brave in combat and had strong command skills. Otherwise, when the Eighth Route Army was reorganized, there were three divisions, six brigades, and twelve main regiments, so many generals had no position, and it would not be his turn to be the commander of the 687th Regiment!

During the Pingxingguan ambush battle, Zhang Shaodong commanded the 687th Regiment to participate in the battle, and he fought very bravely and well, and his combat exploits were real!

It's a pity that this guy Lan Guoqing is a bad sweet potato, and Zhang Shaodong, a good general of the Eighth Route Army, just let him be smoked and dyed!

When he was resting in Pingshan, Secretary Lan pulled Zhang Shaodong to eat and drink. At the beginning, Zhang Shaodong was very disgusted with this set, but as soon as Secretary Lan said it, he couldn't help but compare himself with the officers of the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army. I don't know, the more I feel that I have suffered a loss, and a crack in my heart has appeared unconsciously, and I have eaten and drunk with Secretary Lan in a grand manner.

When there was no way to do it, Zhang Shaodong and Lan Guoqing started the Red Army period in the garrison to fight local tyrants, and got money from the landlords and old money. With money, there is a little wine to drink, and the primitive desire for women will explode, and it will be uncontrollable. Zhang Shaodong not only had a hot fight with the daughter of a landlord in the station, but also lured Lan Guoqing to prostitute *, which can be regarded as completely trapped.

The paper can't hold the fire, this matter was known by the brigade headquarters, and the brigade headquarters is indeed preparing to rectify the 687 regiment!

At this time, it was no longer the time for the Soviet area to purge the rebellion, and the punishment of those had to have real evidence, and the implementation of the policy was relatively accurate; under normal circumstances, it was impossible to kill people indiscriminately in the event of a purge of rebellion. What's more, Zhang Shaodong is a general who was born and died, and is also the favorite general of Brigade Commander Xu, or a division-level cadre of the Red Army and the commander of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, it doesn't matter what he will do with the 344 Brigade, it has to be reported to the Yan'an headquarters for a decision, and he will definitely not be killed! The biggest possibility is to give sanctions, remove from office, and send back to Yan'an to study.

Because the big battle was imminent, and it was on the march, the order of the brigade headquarters to rectify the 687th regiment had not yet been issued. But I don't know what's going on, Secretary Lan actually got the news!

If there was no bad sweet potato like Secretary Lan, Zhang Shaodong would not have fallen; If there is no Secretary Lan, even if Zhang Shaodong makes a mistake, he will be willing to accept the punishment of the organization, and he will not make a mistake to the end!

After Xiao Siming met Zhang Shaodong in Yuxian County, during the conversation, he knew that Zhang Shaodong lacked ink in his stomach, and he was a crude product, which could not be compared with the commanders of several other main regiments of the 115th Division!

Xiao Siming saw it accurately, if Lan Guoqing met a regiment leader like Yang Chengwu, Yang Dezhi, and Li Tianyou, I am afraid that he would honestly be a man with his tail between his legs. Even in the 687th regiment, when he met the deputy head Tian Shouyao, Secretary Lan didn't dare to talk nonsense, for fear that people would choke him.

Last time in Yuxian County, as soon as Lan Guoqing saw Mei Ying, he wanted to play a hooligan, but Tian Shouyao saw him and thought that he had ruined the prestige of the Red 25th Army, so he took out a pistol and put it against his head at that time, and almost killed him on the spot!

When Lan Guoqing saw Tian Shouyao, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, they all hid and walked!

It's a pity that Zhang Shaodong has great achievements, but because he has little ink in his stomach and lacks political vision, he can't withstand Secretary Lan's flickering!

Because he knew what he was doing and knew the consequences, Zhang Shaodong listened to Secretary Lan's report that the brigade headquarters was going to rectify the 687 Regiment, and he didn't need to ask the source or the authenticity of the news, so he believed it. Because he knows that it is true, and there can be no fake!

After a while, Secretary Lan finished smoking a cigarette, seemed to have made up his mind, threw away the cigarette butt, stood up, and said to Zhang Shaodong: "Commander, if you want to leave, you have to leave tonight!" If you miss tonight, after meeting with the brigade headquarters tomorrow, you can't go if you want to! Count the ball, there is no master here, there is a place to keep the master! Where can Lao Tzu not lead troops to fight, eat food and get paid? Why hang yourself on the tree of the Eighth Route Army? ”

Zhang Shaodong can be the commander of the Red Army and the commander of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, he is definitely the number one person! Although he has little ink in his stomach, he has seen a lot of things, and he has a set in his head.

Secretary Lan's words all poked into Zhang Shaodong's heart like a sharp sword.

Zhang Shaodong was born in 1907, he had just turned 30 years old, and his military experience was already eight years.

Seeing that Zhang Shaodong was silent, Secretary Lan said again: "Regiment commander, let's go to the national * army, still be the regiment commander, or even the brigade commander, with good equipment and high military salaries, and still fight devils!" Stay here in the Eighth Route Army, maybe tomorrow night will be the time for you and me to die! You weigh it up! ”

Zhang Shaodong didn't hesitate any longer, Huo Ran stood up and said to Lan Guoqing: "Go!" Let's go! ”

Secretary Lan offered another plan: "Regiment Commander, we can't go alone!" In that case, there will be no basis for pulling troops again. Let's take the battalion and company cadres away, and we can pull up another regiment casually, and when the time comes, the national * army can't give us a regiment commander or brigade commander! Do we have the strength? ”

Secretary Lan did not persuade Zhang Shaodong to take the entire 687 regiment away, because he knew in his heart that it would not be possible!

Zhang Shaodong thought about it and nodded in agreement.

The two of them discussed together for a while, and they finalized the details of the operation!

Immediately after that, the regiment headquarters notified the battalion and company cadres of the first and third battalions to accompany the regiment commander and chief of staff to see the terrain.

The composition of the old Red Army of the 687th Regiment is very high, and the cadres and fighters all have experience in fighting guerrillas, and they all know that after camping, they must be familiar with the surrounding terrain and be prepared in case they encounter enemy encirclement and attack. Therefore, after the order of the regiment headquarters was issued, the cadres of the battalion and company quickly rushed to the regiment headquarters to assemble and followed the regiment commander Zhang Shaodong and chief of staff Lan Guoqing.

After walking about a few miles out of the village, the head of the regiment, Zhang Shaodong, stopped, looked back at Dongyetou Village in the night, and a trace of confusion and nostalgia flashed in his eyes.

Secretary Lan Guoqing, who was following Zhang Shaodong, flashed over and ordered the cadres to gather, saying that the regiment commander was going to speak.

Originally, they came out to see the terrain, and it was normal for the regiment commander to speak, and the cadres lined up without the slightest suspicion.

At this time, Zhang Shaodong no longer hesitated, and explained his plan and inventory, saying that the commander of the 115th Division, Lin Division, had prejudices against the 344 Brigade and only attached importance to the 343 Brigade and did not attach importance to the 344 Brigade. And the political commissar Huang of the 344 Brigade, who is highly short-sighted, nicknamed Huang Blind, is blind and blind, and only knows that he came to the 344 Brigade as a political commissar, but he doesn't know how to care about the troops. The 344th Brigade is now like a motherless child, staying in Jinchaji for a while to fight guerrillas and help Commander Nie work; For a while, it was directly under the headquarters, but he couldn't even see the shadow of the headquarters; After a while, he was under the command of the 129th Division and came to work for the 129th Division for a short time. If this continues, there will not even be a base area of its own, and the troops will have no future! In particular, the brigade headquarters heard, slandered the head of the 687 Regiment, that is, he Zhang Shaodong himself, and was ready to take measures against him to seize the military power of the 687 Regiment! It is chilling to follow such a unit and such a chief! Therefore, he decided to lead everyone to break away from the army and go to the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan border area to pull the team, build a base area, and fight devils!

While pouring dirty water on the leaders, Zhang Shaodong said very emotionally that these cadres had followed him from Hubei, Henan, and Anhui to northern Shaanxi, and they were all comrades-in-arms who shared life and death.

At this point, Zhang Shaodong's true face of defection is completely exposed!

A cadre said that it is not good to go this way, so it is better to stay, report something to the chiefs, and ask the brigade headquarters to help solve it!

Before the words landed, Lan Guoqing jumped over, and the pistol directly hit the cadre's head, and shouted loudly: "Mother sells x!" The regiment commander has been bullied like this, are you still twittering here, or are you not the regiment commander's subordinates and comrades-in-arms? Lao Tzu killed you! ”

It is only a few miles away from Dongyetou Village, where the 687 Regiment is stationed, and when the gun goes off, it will definitely alarm the troops, and the deputy regiment commander Tian Shouyao will definitely come, and when Zhang Shaodong and they want to, they won't be able to leave!

Therefore, Zhang Shaodong stopped Secretary Lan and directly ordered the cadres to go with him!

In the vast night, Zhang Shaodong was in front and Secretary Lan was behind, which was tantamount to coercing the cadres to defect with them.

didn't go far, a battalion instructor couldn't stand, no matter how much Secretary Lan threatened, it was useless, just two words: don't go!

If one person doesn't leave, other cadres will also stop and don't go!

Zhang Shaodong saw that it was not a play, and if he delayed it any longer, he would change, so he immediately changed his words and said: "Those who are willing to go follow me, those who don't want to leave stay, and lead the troops to fight devils!" I, Zhang Shaodong, am the Eighth Route Army wherever I go! In the future, we will kill the enemy side by side on the battlefield, and no one will be a bad seed! ”

After speaking, Zhang Shaodong and Lan Guoqing ran away with a few scattered people and drowned in the night.

The strange thing is that the cadres who stayed behind may not be carrying weapons, or they may have encountered a sudden change and can't react, and it is more likely that they have complicated feelings for Zhang Shaodong, and no one shot at Zhang Shaodong and Lan Guoqing, and watched them run away! (To be continued.) )