Shiguai Town is located next to Xingyu Highway in the northwest of Heshun County, backed by Bafuling, facing the upper reaches of Qingzhang River, and 60 kilometers away from Heshun County.

At this time, Shiguai Town was the anti-Japanese capital of Jinzhong. In an ordinary small mountain village, there are the Jinzhong Special Commission, the Qinlai Detachment Headquarters, and the troops and staff of the Eighth Route Army in the past, and the tiled houses, thatched houses, and caves of the common people's homes are all full of people.

Due to the tight accommodation, that night, Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng lived in a hole in the villager's house.

When he got up in the morning, Xiao Siming felt a little itchy on his body, reached out and touched it, grabbed a black, chubby little lice, and immediately shouted: "Get up, get up!" Political commissar, Lao Huang, Lao Hu, Lao Huo, how long have you not taken a bath? It's full of lice! It's all crawling on top of me! ”

Chief of Staff Hu Qingyun was lying on the earthen kang, his body did not move, his eyes were confused, and he said angrily: "What are you talking about in the morning?" You're not a rookie egg, it's worth all the fuss about seeing lice? Really, it seems that you are the regiment commander and brigade commander of the Central Army and the Jinsui Army, you eat and drink enough every day, and you can also let the orderly soldiers boil a basin of hot water and wash it! ”

Huo Cheng, director of the Political Department, lay on the bed and didn't move, so he slipped away: "That's it!" During the Long March, the troops could not sleep for many days. When I arrived in northern Shaanxi, everyone among the cadres and soldiers was like a flower child, thin as a hemp pole, and they couldn't walk! Everyone's torn uniforms were covered with a layer of black oil, lice crawling out from the inside, on their necks, ears, and collars, and they could be seen clearly under the sun. You were the commander of the doll company at that time, leading dozens of people, basking in the sun and catching lice with the soldiers when you had time, and I didn't see you shouting! Now that you have made a great contribution, you are the youngest regiment commander of the Eighth Route Army, and you will make a fuss when you see lice, as if you don't have lice on you! ”

How did Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng know that the Xiao Siming in front of them was not the real red ghost Xiao Siming, but the soul crossing Xiao Siming, who had good hygiene habits, and when he saw lice, he would get goosebumps all over his body!

Xiao Siming was angry, pointed at Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng, and said after a long time: "Okay, good, you two don't pay attention to hygiene, lice on your body, and you are reasonable!" Don't be verbose, get up for me, boil hot water and take a shower after eating, and clean up the lice on my body first! ”

Wang Lushui had already been woken up, and after getting down from the earthen kang, he glanced out of the window, and then said unhurriedly: "What is the noise in the morning?" Old guys don't have to show their relationship in this way, right? Don't look at what time it is, the sun is on the buttocks, and the troops are out early and have morning exercises! Get up, hurry up and wash up and eat, and have a meeting after eating! ”

Deputy Captain Huang Hua had a thin face and thick eyebrows, and he usually didn't smile, but at this time he also sat up from the earthen kang and said slowly: "It's strange to say, this guy is like a traitor, he comes out at every opportunity, and he does bad things!" It's time to clean them up! By the way, the captain and the political commissar, since there is a meeting, before the meeting, I have to give the captain a suggestion! I heard that Captain Xiao left the troops, brought a guard and a Japanese interpreter to Taiyuan City to investigate the enemy's situation, and brought back equipment and medicines from Yan Xishan's arsenal by the way, that scene is even more legendary than the storyteller's drama! However, this matter must not be a second time! I have to talk about it in a meeting, and the captain has to do a review! You can't do it without a review! ”

Huang Hua is a very principled person, when Wang Lushui pulled Xiao Siming to the cave where he lived last night to talk, he led Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng around the door, and he didn't have a chance to talk to Xiao Siming, but he didn't expect that the first thing he did when he got up in the morning was to give Xiao Siming advice, and let Xiao Siming do a review!

It's just that Hu Qingyun, Huo Cheng and Xiao Siming have all had a fateful relationship, and they are not afraid that Xiao Siming will be annoyed at all!

Hearing what Huang Hua said, Hu Qingyun hit the snake with the stick, sat up from the earthen kang with a "whew", and then said: "Yes, we really have to do a review!" The separation of military and political officers from the army is a very serious issue, what if there is danger? This is obviously a matter of me, the chief of staff, how can you, a regimental commander, go beyond his authority and go quietly by himself? In the future, there is no need for the head of the regiment to go out for this matter, I just go! ”

Huo Cheng followed, and also sat up from the earthen kang: "I also want to give advice to the head of the regiment!" You are such a big regiment leader, with one or two thousand men and horses, and you have a clear priority and priority in the work, and you can't grab your eyebrows and mustaches! For things like boiling hot water, bathing and catching lice, I, the director of the Political Department, can arrange it, where is the need for you Grand Master to worry about it? It is recommended that the regiment commander put his mind on fighting! Alas, regiment commander, the little devil is fighting in Shanxi, and he still wants to attack the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area, the main force of the division is fighting with the devil in Xi County, let's no longer clean up the devil, just raise my feet and go east, I'm sorry for the people of Shanxi, right? According to me, we have to fight another battle anyway, and it can be regarded as setting up a sacrificial flag for our eastward advance brigade! ”

Xiao Siming's position is the captain of the eastward advance brigade, at the regimental level, it is naturally right to be called the captain, and it is not wrong to call the regiment commander! However, in the hearts of the cadres and soldiers, it seems that the regiment commander is more formal. If you call yourself a captain, you are like calling your own regular army a guerrilla. Therefore, Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng opened and closed their mouths and shouted Captain Xiao Siming.

Obviously, Huang Hua gave Xiao Siming advice with a serious face, and let Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng mix, and the topic changed!

Especially Huo Cheng, the independent battalion had just withdrawn from the battle to capture Shouyang, and he was screaming here to fight again, obviously seeing that the equipment of the independent battalion was so good, his eyes were red, his heart was beating faster, and he only hated himself for coming late, and he didn't keep up with the classic battle of destroying Taiyuan Airport and the battle of occupying Shouyang County, and he was looking forward to fighting again!

Let Huo Cheng say this, Deputy Captain Huang Hua seemed to have forgotten to give Xiao Siming advice, got off the earthen kang, put on shoes, and then straightened up and said to Xiao Siming: "The little devil is so lively in Shanxi, the garrison of Pinghan Road must be empty!" I think it's better to go east immediately and go to Pinghan Road to do a little devil, and the effect will definitely be good! ”

Well, in a minute, it's all going to be a combat meeting!

Xiao Siming was no longer angry, shook his head, and said to a few people: "These things will be discussed at the meeting later!" Let's go wash up first, I can say okay, we have toothpaste, if anyone eats without brushing his teeth, I will never eat with him again! ”

Who wants not to brush their teeth with toothpaste? Wasn't that a difficult condition in the past? Since so much toothpaste has been captured by the Japanese army, there is no need for Xiao Siming to say that cadres and soldiers will brush their teeth. It's a new recruit egg, who has never eaten pork and seen a pig run, so he will learn to brush his teeth like this!

The troops won a big battle, and so much rice, flour and oil were transported back from Shouyang, and they were about to go eastward again, and they couldn't always let the soldiers carry so much food on their shoulders, and the cooks of each unit could be made with great effort, and the food must be very good!

The battalion headquarters sections and the guard platoon, reconnaissance platoon, communications platoon, and radio platoon directly under the battalion had dinner together.

Xiao Siming and the others really got up late, and the troops had already come back for dinner after the morning exercises.

After washing up in a hurry, Xiao Siming led Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng to eat in the courtyard next door where the communication row lived.

Huo Cheng saw that the soldiers were in a pile with the squad as a unit, and they were eating fragrantly, so he walked over to take a look, and came back and said to Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui, such a level of food, after eating for three months, the physical strength of the soldiers will go up, and then fight with the little devil with a bayonet, maybe two people can fight a little devil!

Huo Cheng's words are based on the actual situation on the battlefield now, and he is honest!

Xiao Siming replied that it was not enough to have good food, but to focus on training and improve the level of technical warfare. The quality of the little devil's individual soldiers is high, and they are very good at shooting and fighting bayonets, so we have to train the troops according to the characteristics of the enemy, and we must train the soldiers to be of higher quality than the little devils' individual soldiers, and the guns are more accurate, and the stabs are more ruthless!

Huang Hua said that in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, a very crucial measure is to run a teaching team and a military school. The infantry schools and universities of the Red Army during the Red Army period were the cradles of training cadres! The teaching brigade specializes in cultivating grassroots backbones! They are all ordinary soldiers, whether they have entered the teaching team or not, the gap is huge, let alone attending the Red Army school or the Red Army university!

During the training in Yuxian County, Xiao Siming proposed to set up a teaching team, and he was also the captain, and spent a few days training for the squad leaders. If it weren't for those few days of intensive training, the company and platoon cadres of the independent battalion would not have progressed so fast. It's a pity that due to the lack of backbone cadres to lead the team, the teaching team has not really set up a shelf until now!

Huang Hua is a regimental-level cadre who has attended the Red Army University, and his arduous career has already trained him into a backbone cadre of the Eighth Route Army who is both civil and military, and it is not surprising that he can have such a statement!

Xiao Siming applauded in his heart when he heard this, and felt that with Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng, there was no problem for the independent battalion to develop into a regiment-level unit for the eastward advance brigade, or for the eastward advance detachment to develop into a brigade-level unit. These four people are obviously the leaders of a brigade-level unit! Like Wang Lushui and Huang Hua, pull out one at random, is it a very good brigade commander!

This is not Xiao Siming's blind thinking, in history, Wang Lushui soon became the director of the political department of the Jinxi detachment, and when he died, he was the division commander and political commissar of the Shandong Eighth Division; Huang Hua was also soon transferred to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region to take up the main leadership position, and was the deputy commander of the Bohai Naval Region at the time of his death.

If it were not for the purpose of strengthening the leadership of the eastward advance brigade, it would have been impossible for such cadres to be transferred from their original posts to a new unit at the same level or even demoted by half a rank!

It seems that when the leaders were equipped with cadres, they placed high hopes on the eastward advance brigade! (To be continued.) )