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When Xiao Siming took Shi Zhen and Zhao Huanwen to Yidu on horseback, Zhang Guoji, Li Yushuang and others had already returned to their troops, and only Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong remained at Yidu.

At this time, the Wudi Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army had already entered the territory of Deping County and Lingxian County, but out of the need to maintain the united front, the Wudi Independent Regiment did not take any action against Cao Zhen's eastern part of Deping, but bypassed Cao Zhen's eastern station, blossomed everywhere in Deping and Lingxian, and began to mobilize the masses to form local political power and local armed forces.

Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang naturally knew that the advance brigade of the Eighth Route Army advanced to the Jilu border, and captured Ningjin, Qingyun, Wudi, Yanshan, and Yangxin, and reorganized Zhang Ziliang's department in Wudi by force, and solved Liu Yanchen's department in Yanshan, and did not dare to obstruct the Eighth Route Army's march into Deping County and Ling County, and was unwilling to be reorganized by the Eighth Route Army, so they had to think of contacting Li Yushuang in Dexian County, Zhang Guoji in Wuqiao, Yu Zhiliang in Lingxian County, Zhang Lizhi in Ningjin and other departments to form the "North China Anti-Japanese National Salvation Alliance", which means to keep warm. Avoid being reorganized by the Eighth Route Army or Liu Jingliang.

Hearing that Xiao Siming, the captain of the Eighth Route Army's eastward advance brigade, came to visit, Cao Zhendong, Xu Zhongyang, and Song Damin hurriedly came out to greet him.

Cao Zhendong is 38 years old, 1.82 meters tall, looks very burly, but polite.

Speaking of which, Cao Zhendong's experience is also legendary. He was originally a student majoring in fine arts at Jinan Aimei Middle School, and after graduation, he was admitted to the head of the People's Self-Defense Corps in 1928, which is often referred to as the head of the People's League, and worked in Deping for several years. Later, when he was sick, he resigned and went to Jinan to see a doctor, but he was blackmailed by Han Fuqu and was imprisoned. When Deping County found out, they had no choice but to spend money to eliminate the disaster and ransom him out. At this time, Cao Zhendong hated Han Fuqu so much, and he didn't stay in China anymore, so he was admitted to study abroad by the state and went to the Imperial University of Japan to study machinery.

At the time of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Cao Zhendong happened to return to China for vacation. With the war, the Japanese army closed the passage from Pingjin to Japan, and Cao Zhendong wanted to go back to Japan to continue his schooling. Just then, in accordance with the requirements of the Shandong Provincial Government, the Deping County Government began to publicize and mobilize the masses to support the anti-Japanese front, and invited Cao Zhendong and a number of other intellectuals from Deping County to participate in the matter.

Later, Japanese planes bombed Deping County, and the county magistrate Jia Wenzhi fled with India, and Deping County fell into anarchy.

At this time, Cao Zhendong, who studied in Japan and served as the head of the militia for many years, under the repeated invitations of Xu Zhongyang and Dong Jingting, relied on the Deping County Public Security Team and the Security Team to collect civilian guns and raise the Deping Anti-Japanese Guerrillas!

It should be said that Cao Zhendong at this time was a senior intellectual full of the ideal of resisting Japan and saving the country!

Such a person, if used properly and with his or her expertise, can become a prestigious local administrative leader, or an expert or leader in education or industry!

Although Xu Zhongyang is the commander of the "North China Anti-Japanese National Salvation Alliance", he has no real name and has to listen to Cao Zhendong!

Cao Zhendong was reorganized into the 10th detachment of the "North China Anti-Japanese National Salvation Alliance", and Cao Zhendong served as the deputy commander and commander of the 10th detachment of the "North China Anti-Japanese National Salvation Alliance".

Seeing Xiao Siming, Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang were a little disappointed. Because Xiao Siming, the captain of the Eastward Advance Brigade of the Eighth Route Army standing in front of them, is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old doll, and there is still a trace of childishness on his face that has not completely subsided!

Cao Zhendong remembered the Romance of the Three Kingdoms when he arrived, and an old saying popped up in his mind: There is no general in Shu, and Liao is a pioneer!

At this time, Xiao Siming, although his achievements were brilliant, he had not been publicized, and the forces and masses on the Jilu border basically did not know him, and he had no outstanding prestige!

Not to mention that Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang don't know Xiao Siming, even Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen, who came with Xiao Siming, don't know Xiao Siming very well, and they only know a scratch of the surface, they only know that he is a red imp who has gone through the Long March, the captain of the main advance brigade of the Eighth Route Army, the leader of the advance detachment after completing the training of the army, and a brigade-level cadre. As for Xiao Siming's young age, why can he be the commander of the brigade-level detachment of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen are also confused, no one has told them about Xiao Siming's outstanding achievements!

Xiao Siming didn't seem to see the disappointment on Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang's faces, saluted, greeted, shook hands, his movements were crisp and neat, and his tone was sincere!

The standard military posture and sincere tone, Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang finally saw that the captain of the Eighth Route Army was capable, calm, and heroic, but it was not as simple as a doll!

After shaking hands, Xiao Siming, who was smiling, said to Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong: "Commander Xu, Commander Cao, I am glad to hear that the North China Anti-Japanese National Salvation Alliance was established, and the two honorary commanders and deputy commanders are here to congratulate!" ”

Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang hurriedly said welcome, welcome the commander of the Eighth Route Army to come to contact and jointly resist Japan!

The reason why Xiao Siming first came to see Cao Zhendong was because he knew that Cao Zhendong took the initiative to ask for the reorganization of our army in history. It is a pity that at that time, our army was confined to the united front policy, and the reorganization of the Cao Department was not thorough, but only gave the number and sent a small number of cadres, and did not really integrate the Cao Department into our army.

As for Xiao Siming, who was familiar with history and was familiar with the history of Cao Zhendong, who later surrendered to the Japanese army and was reorganized by himself, the fate of Cao Min's history would be rewritten, and it would be impossible for such a thing to happen again.

This is just like Xiao Siming's reorganization of Zhang Ziliang's department into the Wudi Independent Regiment and Liu Yanchen's division into the Yanshan Independent Regiment, it is impossible for Zhang Ziliang's department to become the mortal enemy of our army in history!

Even if Zhang Ziliang does not change his temperament, he is still the enemy of our army, and he has no capital!

Xiao Siming did not have much politeness with Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang, and directly introduced Zhao Huanwen, who was going to be sent to Cao to do work, and said that Zhao Huanwen was a cadre of the Political Department of the Eastward Advance Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and his entourage.

Xiao Siming only brought Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen, and in addition to Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen's guards, he only brought a cavalry guard squad.

This is the war years, Xiao Siming only brought this little bit of people and dared to come to see Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang, that is a standard one-knife meeting!

However, at this time, Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang did not have the slightest intention of being enemies with the Eighth Route Army, and they didn't care about the problem that Xiao Siming had too few guards. Because they are all anti-Japanese friendly forces, and the Eighth Route Army is powerful, it is impossible for them to be harmful to Xiao Siming now!

After greetings, Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang took Xiao Siming to their headquarters.

After sitting down, Xu Zhongyang first asked what level of the advance brigade of the Eighth Route Army was and how many troops it was!

Xiao Siming did not hide it, and told Xu Zhongyang that the advance brigade was the number before the eastward advance, and the number of the Eighth Route Army on the Hebei and Lu sides now is "the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army". At present, the troops are nine infantry battalions, one artillery regiment, and other cavalry battalions, engineer battalions, baggage battalions, guard battalions and other units, and at the same time command the 31st detachment, the Wudi Independent Regiment, and the Yanshan Independent Regiment. At present, the unit is undergoing retraining, and after the completion of the retraining, the unit will be organized into an eastward advance detachment, with a brigade-level structure, under the jurisdiction of four main infantry regiments and two independent regiments, which can be regarded as the main force with complete infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineering, and baggage, with a total strength of about 10,000 troops!

In addition to not mentioning the armored battalion, reconnaissance company, and teaching team, Xiao Siming unreservedly told Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang all the strength of his troops.

Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang gasped when they landed, they never dreamed that in their hometown, right next to them, an Eighth Route Army with such a powerful force would appear unconsciously!

Without that, Xiao Siming then told Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang that our party and our army were very concerned about the situation of the War of Resistance in the Hebei-Shandong border area, and the five detachments of one of the old Red Army units that had been dispatched to Pingxingguan would advance into the Hebei-Shandong border area in the near future.

Probably afraid that Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang did not know much about the Eighth Route Army, Xiao Siming explained that the predecessor of the Fifth Detachment was the Second Battalion of the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division, that is, the Red Fifth Regiment of the former Red Second Division of the Central Red Army, one of the three tigers of the Central Red Army, and the pioneer on the Long March. Chairman Chiang mobilized so many large troops to encircle and pursue and intercept the pass, all because the Central Red Army had three tigers to act as the vanguard and temporarily seize the pass, so that the passage could not be hindered.

Xiao Siming also said that when the first regiment of the Japanese Itagaki Division was wiped out in the battle of Pingxingguan, the second battalion of the 685th regiment, which is now the fifth detachment, was the main attack battalion, and the fifth company of it was the sharp knife company.

Xiao Siming also said that he was from the Red Fifth Regiment and had served as a platoon commander and company commander in this heroic and glorious unit. During the battle of Pingxingguan, he was the platoon commander of the sharp knife company Red Five Lotus, and after being seriously wounded, he rolled down from the top of the mountain with a devil in his arms. Unexpectedly, the little devil fell to his death, he died and survived. Not only him, but the cadres of the current Eighth Route Army's eastward advance brigade are all old foundations of the Central Red Army, and they are all fought on the battlefield of Pingxingguan!

This is top-secret information, Xiao Siming was not afraid of leaking secrets, and directly told Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang!

Cao Zhendong is an international student at the Imperial University of Japan, and he must know a little about the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, and he is even more clear about the first victory of the Eighth Route Army in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the Battle of Pingxingguan.

Hearing that Xiao Siming came down from the battlefield of Pingxingguan, and that he was the last to die with the little devil, Cao Zhendong no longer dared to see Xiao Siming as a doll, and immediately shouted and ordered: "Tea, good tea!" Kill pigs, slaughter sheep, arrange banquets, notify the captains of each major team to come to the headquarters, hold a meeting, and ask Commander Xiao of the Eighth Route Army to give a lecture! ”

Cao Zhendong is going to receive Xiao Siming with a high standard! (To be continued.) )