After the reorganization plan was decided, it was immediately followed by the transfer of cadres and the formation of regimental headquarters of the four main regiments, and they were busy for several days. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In just a few days, the situation on the battlefield in Xuzhou has changed dramatically.

As soon as the Japanese army exerted its strength, planes bombed indiscriminately in the sky, heavy artillery brigades and regiments were raging on the ground, tanks and armored vehicles went into battle together, and the attack momentum was very fierce. On May 19, when the Japanese army rushed into Xuzhou City, they found that it was an empty city!

Since the Fifth Theater issued the order to retreat two days in advance, the troops on the battlefield in Xuzhou had relatively ample time, and they easily jumped out of the encirclement and moved to the west and south of Xuzhou by separate routes.

The Japanese army, which had failed to encircle, pursued along Longhai Road and Jinpu Road by separate routes. The 10th Division of the Japanese Army took the 3rd Brigade with the Kwantung Army, the 16th Division with the 13th Brigade, the 5th Division and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 5th Brigade. The 3rd, 6th, 9th, 13th, and 110th Divisions of the Central China Dispatch Army from the south were also unwilling to be left behind, fearing that their military exploits would be robbed by the North China Front.

The commander of the Japanese Central China Army, General Shunroku Hatata, and the commander of the North China Front, General Toshiichi Terauchi, jointly commanded, and Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, chief of staff of the North China Front, also went to Jinan from Beiping and established the former enemy headquarters in Jinan.

In the early morning of the second day after the Japanese army captured Xuzhou on May 20, on an open field outside Leling City, there was a colorful gate with a unique jujube tree in Jilu and a reed decoration, and a banner was hung on the lintel of the "Inaugural Meeting of the Eastward Advance Detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army". Slogans were pasted on the doorposts on both sides, one side was "The first battle of the North Anti-Japanese War was fought in the north, and the name of Guan Wei was raised all over the world", and on the other side was "Advance behind the enemy line to create a base area across the Hebei and Lu borders".

This couplet is not neat, but it points out the origin and mission of the eastward advance detachment. As long as you are literate, you will know that the eastward advance detachment originated from the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and it was an old Red Army unit that came down from the Pingxing Pass, and it could not be broken or dragged down!

This is not nonsense, the predecessor of the advance detachment, the advance brigade and the independent battalion, were all born out of the wounded squad of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army who recuperated in the mountains behind the Tibetan Mountain Shrine in Yuxian County after the Battle of Pingxingguan, and all walked through the Central Red Army of the Long March. Later, two batches of cadres who were transferred to the independent battalion and the advance brigade were mostly old Red Army veterans who had gone through the Long March.

This historical origin is enough to make those recruits proud!

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the units of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which had completed the training, arrived at the meeting venue and lined up neatly in the morning light.

Eight tanks and four armored vehicles of the armored battalion were parked on the east side of the team, and the grass green body, with the red star pattern and the big characters "August 1st", looked particularly eye-catching!

Next to the armored battalion was the newly formed artillery regiment of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the Gaoping dual-purpose guns of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion, the Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns of the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion, and the 92 infantry guns of the infantry artillery battalion, all of which were raised high and pointed diagonally to the east!

On the west side of the artillery regiment is a newly formed regiment, with three battalions of three machine gun companies in front of the 92nd infantry guns, 92 heavy machine guns, grenadiers of each company, and 96 light machine guns, and behind are the squares of each battalion!

On the west side of the first regiment were the 2nd Regiment, the 3rd Regiment, the 4th Regiment, the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion, the Engineer Battalion, the Baggage Battalion, the Guard Battalion, the Reconnaissance Company, the Communications Company, and the Teaching Team.

On the westernmost side, there is a cavalry battalion, a color of Oriental horses, neatly arranged, and the soldiers are holding sabers on their horses, which looks particularly majestic and majestic!

The cadres of all regiments and directly subordinate battalions and companies all wore the summer gray cloth uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, with solemn faces and solemn military postures, and stood at the front of the queue.

Cadres of the eastward advance detachment, cadets of the Jilu border military and political school, and cadres of the anti-Japanese democratic government of Leling County were also ordered to attend the inaugural meeting of the eastward advance detachment.

It's definitely the conference!

After the reorganization, the eastward advance detachment has a total strength of 8,000 people, with four infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, and directly subordinate battalions and companies.

This does not include the Wudi Independent Regiment, the Yanshan Independent Regiment and the newly reorganized Deping Independent Regiment, which were created and commanded by the Eastward Advance Detachment. With them, the number of troops that Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming were able to mobilize and command had reached more than 1,200 people, which was about to catch up with the strength of a main division of the Eighth Route Army when it went north to resist Japan.

Such a fully organized, mighty, and majestic brigade-level unit is not only unique in the Eighth Route Army system in terms of its composition and equipment level, but also unique in the entire Chinese army.

Of course, there are many new recruits in the eastward advance detachment, and the quality of the soldiers cannot be compared with the old Red Army soldiers of the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army when it went north to resist the Japanese.

From the beginning of the Tibetan Mountain Temple to meet the enemy, under the leadership of Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui, this unit, which was developed from the wounded squad of the Eighth Route Army, grew from scratch, grew from small to large, and fought successively, and even developed to the point where it is today. This speed of development, in the current environment of the Eighth Route Army's large-scale expansion, is also hungry is one of the few!

For example, the Hebei guerrilla army that Meng Qingshan pulled up in central Hebei far exceeded the advance detachment, but they did not have the advance detachment, which was built in accordance with regularization from the very beginning, and the level of equipment and combat effectiveness were incomparable with the advance detachment that could be used by the headquarters as the main force.

Tanks, armored vehicles, Gaoping dual-purpose guns, and Oriental horses shocked the cadres and soldiers who had just been reorganized from the 31st Detachment into four regiments!

The most shocking thing was not the cadres and soldiers of the Fourth Regiment, but those local cadres, who never dreamed that the equipment of the eastward advance detachment was so good, their eyes were straight, and from time to time someone let out a low exclamation!

With such a mighty and majestic main force, are you still afraid that the little devils and traitors and puppet armies will attack the Jilu border base area?

This is the common idea of the local cadres who participated in the inaugural meeting of the eastward advance detachment!

Wang Zhaoming, deputy commander of the 31st detachment, was not appointed deputy commander of the regiment when it was reorganized this time. The head of the political department of the detachment, Fan Puquan, was also not appointed head of the political department.

Fan Puquan, like Di Yudong, who stepped down as director of the political department of the Yanshan Independent League, was transferred to the county party committee and secretary to strengthen local work.

Wang Zhaoming's situation was different, and after being transferred from the 31st Detachment, he went to the newly established Hebei-Lubian Cultural and Educational Propaganda Committee under Lu Qi's charge as deputy director, and followed Lu Qi to restore the schools in the Jilu Border.

This arrangement, not only Wang Zhaoming is not satisfied, but Xing Renfu is also not satisfied! But there was no way, the instructions of the headquarters were very clear, the 31 st detachment was under the unified command of the Hebei-Lubian Military and Political Committee, and Xing Renfu and Wang Zhaoming had to unconditionally obey the orders of the Military and Political Committee.

Wang Zhaoming fought against the 31st Detachment, which was reorganized into the Fourth Regiment of the Eastward Advance Detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. He once went to Wang Lushui, secretary of the Military and Political Commission, Xiao Siming, deputy secretary, and even Ma Zhenhua, and repeatedly stated that the 31st Detachment was a regular number unit of the **** system, and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army had no right to reorganize the 31st Detachment. The problem is that the appeal is useless, whether it is Wang Lushui, Xiao Siming and Ma Zhenhua, the reason for him is the same. That is, the 31st Detachment is an anti-Japanese armed force created by the Hebei and Lubian Party organizations of the Communist Party of China, and it must be incorporated into the regular army of the Eighth Route Army!

Wang Zhaoming also tried to pull a team from the thirty-first team and do it himself. It is a pity that since the Eighth Route Army marched eastward into the Hebei and Shandong borders, the 31st Detachment was reorganized and trained in Qingyun, and in accordance with the methods of the units of the advance brigade, it carried out a campaign to complain about grievances, and implemented the establishment of the branch on the company, and the troops were reborn. In particular, after Li Qihua and Yang Jingyuan, who were selected by the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, arrived at the Hebei-Shandong border, Li Qihua served as deputy director of the Political Department of the 31 st Detachment, and Yang Jingyuan served as deputy commander. Without the consent of the two of them, Xing Renfu would not have been able to mobilize the troops of the 31st Detachment!

This matter, just like when Zhang Shaodong, the head of the 687th Regiment, defected, it was easy for him to defect, and if he wanted to defect with the troops, there was no door!

This is also a distinctive feature of our regular army that distinguishes it from other armed forces!

Wang Zhaoming couldn't pull away the troops, and he was completely transferred out of the troops during the reorganization, so only he knew what it was like in his heart.

At this moment, Wang Zhaoming was also at the venue, looking at the mighty and majestic Eighth Route Army, and his heart was also extremely shocked. He never imagined that the Eighth Route Army would have tanks, armored vehicles, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns!

Wang Zhaoming graduated from Huangpu and once presided over the central unification system in Nanjing, and his mind was full of resourcefulness, so he naturally knew that his current situation was very bad, and maybe one day the security department of the Eighth Route Army would find him and clean him up! Because he is a member of the Kuomintang and the Party, and he is the backbone of the Central Union!

In case, if the Eighth Route Army knew his true identity, it would be over.

No one could have imagined that the inaugural meeting of the eastward advance detachment had not yet begun, and Wang Zhaoming, who was at the venue, and Wang Zhaoming, the former deputy commander of the 31st detachment, had already made up their minds in their hearts: go, go immediately! Leave the Eighth Route Army and go to find Liu Jingliang!

How did Wang Zhaoming know that Xiao Siming, who had crossed through the soul, knew his roots very well, and the reason why he was transferred out of the army to do cultural and educational work was to prevent him from pulling away a unit and defecting like in history. Moreover, the reason why the security department of the Eighth Route Army did not look for him was because Xiao Siming was a soul traveler, more tolerant and tolerant, as long as he did it with a gun and a little devil, he was an anti-Japanese hero in Xiao Siming's heart. As long as Wang Zhaoming does not defect, Xiao Siming will not let the security department touch him. Moreover, when he is free, Xiao Siming is ready to have a good talk with him, mobilize him to participate in the Eighth Route Army sincerely, and I will contribute to the War of Resistance! (To be continued.) )