Xiao Siming's speech was responded, and not only Cao Zhendong was convinced, but also Xu Zhongyang, Zhang Guangdi, Dong Jingting, Mi Qingyun and several other Cao Ministry's initiators, officers and soldiers were also convinced. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

No way, in this era, what Xiao Siming said must be very advanced. Not to mention the officers and soldiers of the Cao Division, even if you go to the Fifth Theater Commander's Department and the Second Theater Commander's Department, you will also be impressed!

Because he was impressed by Xiao Siming, the next thing was easy to do. Really like in history, after a night of discussion and pondering, early the next morning, Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang took the initiative to find Xiao Siming and asked the Eighth Route Army to incorporate them!

Xiao Siming agreed!

Next, Xiao Siming led Zhao Huanwen and Shi Zhen to negotiate with Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang.

is different from the historical reorganization of Cao Zhendong in the east, this time, Xiao Siming was ruthless and wanted to completely incorporate Cao Zhendong. Therefore, Xiao Siming demanded that Cao Bu must be thoroughly reorganized in accordance with the principle of army building of the Eighth Route Army, and the whole detachment should be organized into a regiment, numbered Deping Independent Regiment, the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong both proposed whether they could be organized into a brigade?

It stands to reason that Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong's request is not excessive, and the conditions for integrating other people's teams must be a little preferential. Moreover, the 2,000 people in the eastern part of Cao Zhen, according to the practice of our army at this time, it is normal to be organized into a brigade.

No one expected that Xiao Siming laughed when he heard it, saying that when the main force of the Eighth Route Army was reorganized, there were only three divisions and six brigades in total, and the division commander and division political commissar were all well-known figures in China, that is, the brigade commander and political commissar, and they were all Red Army generals who could lead the army alone. With Caobu's existing strength and equipment, its combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of any battalion of the 685th Regiment and 686th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade, so how can it be reorganized into a brigade? Moreover, the troops of the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, especially the three main regiments of the First Division, each regiment had more than 3,000 troops. Compared with them, Cao Zhendong's 2,000 people could not be organized into a brigade under any circumstances.

said that Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong both had a look of shame on their faces.

In fact, this is when Xiao Siming is encountered, and if he is replaced by Shen Honglie to check it, or if other units of the Eighth Route Army come to be recruited, Cao Zhendong will definitely be organized as a brigade-level unit!

The reason why Xiao Siming had to organize Cao Zhendong into the Deping Independent Regiment instead of a brigade-level detachment was because he was familiar with history and knew that Cao Zhendong, Xu Zhongyang and others at this time were all orthodox with the Nationalist Government in their hearts, and the level of the troop was set high, and the status of Xu Zhongyang, Cao Zhendong and others was too high, and it was not easy to control them. In case Shen Honglie sends Ning Chunlin to Lubei to inspect the local armed forces, or if Shen Honglie personally comes to Lubei to do work, it is really difficult to say whether Cao Zhendong can stand the test! Only by lowering the organizational level of Cao Zhendong and organizing it into the Deping Independent Regiment and mobilizing the defensive ground can Shen Honglie have no way to start.

Xiao Siming patiently enlightened Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong and said that it does not matter how high or low the level of the troops' structure is, the key is to train the troops into an invincible elite army! Only then can we withstand the test of the protracted war of resistance!

Xiao Siming explained the truth a lot, and although Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong also listened to it, they still had a look of disappointment in their hearts.

Xiao Siming, who saw the disappointment in Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong's hearts, took the trouble to tell them that the brigade commanders of the Eighth Route Army were all commanders during the Red Army. The reason why he, Xiao Siming, can now be the commander of the brigade-level detachment, is a special case. Strictly speaking, his military-political cultivation is still far from the commander of the brigade-level detachment, and it needs to be further tempered!

Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong have been convinced by Xiao Siming, he said that he is far from the requirements of the commander of the detachment, what else can Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong say?

Xiao Siming also said that with Cao's existing troops, equipment, and combat effectiveness, it would be most appropriate to organize it into an independent regiment. If it had to be organized into a brigade, the eastward advance detachment would not be able to lead, and it would all be a unit at the same level, and it would have to wait for the division headquarters to send a higher-level leader to the Jilu border to take command.

The meaning of this couldn't be clearer, that is, if he insists on being reorganized into a brigade-level unit, he Xiao Siming said that it doesn't count, and he can't lead it!

Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong finally stopped insisting on being reorganized into brigade-level units.

Although the unit was not reorganized into a brigade-level unit, the other benefits were real!

Xiao Siming promised to give Cao Bu a one-time allocation of 50,000 yuan in legal currency, and allocate 300 domestically made rifles, each with 100 rounds of ammunition, to completely eliminate Cao Bu's home-made rifles. In the future, the Deping Independent Regiment will no longer separately levy grain and distribute funds, and military quarters will be uniformly allocated by the logistics office of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army. After the formation of a unified anti-Japanese democratic government in the Hebei and Shandong borders, the military expenses of all troops in the border region will be settled by the government of the border region in a unified manner; Cadres at or above the platoon commander level of the Deping Independent Regiment will be given priority to study at the military and political cadre school in the Hebei-Shandong Border Region, and the backbone combat cadres will be given priority to the teaching team of the eastward advance detachment for training.

Give money to rob, and also help train troops, and it has become a fact that Cao Zhendong accepted the incorporation of the Eighth Route Army!

As for the leadership of the reorganized Deping Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, Xiao Siming's opinion was that military and political cadres should be transferred from the main force of the Eighth Route Army to serve as cadres, Xu Zhongyang, Cao Zhendong and others should be transferred to local work to form the Deping County Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, and Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong should go to work in the Jilu Border Military and Political Committee to assist Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming in leading the border area in a unified manner.

Xiao Siming, who is in the soul crossing, thinks that this arrangement is to make the best use of people's talents, which is very good, and it is very beneficial to the political future of Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong!

Unexpectedly, this is the point that was unanimously boycotted by Xu Zhongyang, Cao Zhendong, Zhang Guangdi, Dong Jingting, and Mi Qingyun!

These people, in their bones, still regard the troops as their own personal forces, and in their hearts they are not willing to completely hand over the troops to the Eighth Route Army.

made Xiao Siming a little discouraged, and he didn't want to incorporate Cao's department.

You must know that as long as Cao Zhendong and others still control the troops, it is useless to give more money and more guns. Once Shen Honglie comes to check and gives a number of security brigades and security divisions, Cao Zhendong will definitely change his body, change his court, and accept the number given by Shen Honglie. In the future, once the difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War is reached, the main force of the Eighth Route Army is transferred, Cao Zhendong will not be able to hold on, and it is very likely that he will save the country and surrender to the Japanese army as in history!

That's a bamboo basket for water, and it's empty!

Xiao Siming was patient and gave Cao Zhendong and Xu Zhongyang the example of the Eighth Route Army's reorganization of Zhang Ziliang's department and Liu Yanchen's department. said that these two troops, originally in the hands of Zhang Ziliang and Liu Yanchen, were just miscellaneous arms, and when they saw the Japanese army, they would only retreat when they heard about it; When I saw the people, it was a militia group that levied grain and distributed money, was fierce and vicious, and was purely disturbing the people and harming the people! This is the kind of unit that, after a short period of training by the Eighth Route Army, was led and commanded by cadres sent by the Eighth Route Army, and as a result, in the battle a few days ago, it performed very well and was able to fight with the pseudo-regular army.

No matter what Xiao Siming said, Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong did not let go, and only promised that the Eighth Route Army could send political cadres to Cao to serve as directors, instructors, and instructors of the political department, and the military command should be firmly held in their own hands.

In Xiao Siming's eyes, this kind of co-optation is not interesting at all, it is equivalent to giving Cao Zhen a rotation training cadre, subsidy funds, guns and ammunition for nothing!

Negotiations are at an impasse!

Later, Xiao Siming also thought about it, and felt that this kind of thing should not be too strict and idealistic. The people who pull the team in this era are all so virtuous, and they all regard the team as their own!

Zhang Xueliang and his son are like that, Yan Xishan is like that, Song Zheyuan, the commander of the 29th Army, Han Fuqu in Shandong, the various departments of the Sichuan Army, Longyun in Yunnan, and the Gui family in Guangxi, all like that! Including Chairman Jiang, isn't he also like that bear?

Since Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong can't change their thinking for the time being, I will leave them a process of changing their thinking. After the cadres at and above the platoon commander level of the Cao Department go to study at the Jilu Border Military and Political School, our party's foundation in the Cao Department will be more solid, and then it will be thoroughly reorganized.

Another point, as long as Cao Zhendong accepts the reorganization of our army, it will be the Eighth Route Army. In the future, even if Shen Honglie comes to woo him, Cao Zhendong will still see the wind and rudder like in history, and Xiao Siming will not be afraid. Because, when the time comes, if Cao Zhendong is reorganized by force, the division will be famous, and that is the Eighth Route Army cleaning up the portal by itself, not counting the Eighth Route Army's reorganization of the National * Army's numbered troops, which does not violate the united front policy!

The matter was thus negotiated, and Cao Zhendong, the 10th detachment of the North China Anti-Japanese Salvation Alliance, was reorganized into the Deping Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

Since Xu Zhongyang is the commander of the newly established North China Anti-Japanese Salvation Alliance, it is still necessary to establish a good united front relationship with Li Yushuang and Zhang Guoji for the time being, and the reorganized Deping Independent Regiment will be headed by Cao Zhendong, deputy head Zhang Guangdi, chief of staff Dong Jingting, and director of the Political Department Zhao Huanwen!

On April 30, in Yidukou Town, Deping County, the Deping Independent Regiment, the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, held a flag-awarding ceremony!

In order to make this flag-awarding ceremony more grand, Wang Lushui specially led the guard battalion that was undergoing training to rush over. Xiao Siming ordered the cavalry battalion that was fighting in Lingxian County to rush to Yidukou Town on time to strengthen the army!

Before the flag-awarding ceremony, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui had a very serious conversation with Xu Zhongyang, Cao Zhendong, Zhang Guangdi, Dong Jingting, and Mi Qingyun.

Xiao Siming told Xu Zhongyang, Cao Zhendong, and others that before the flag-awarding ceremony, the troops still belonged to the Deping Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army, and were also called the 10th Detachment of the North China Anti-Japanese National Salvation Alliance, and the Eighth Route Army were friendly troops, and they were also free and not subject to the discipline of the Eighth Route Army. However, after the flag awarding ceremony, the 10th detachment was the Deping Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which must obey orders and listen to commands, be subject to the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, and fight for the defeat of the invaders like other units of the Eighth Route Army, and will not hesitate to shed blood and sacrifice! If you can't stand the discipline of the Eighth Route Army in the future, don't want to be the Eighth Route Army, and want to change your court, accept the numbers of other troops, and pull the team away, I'm sorry, it's a mutiny, it's a rebel of the Eighth Route Army! The rebels, whether it is the former Red Army or the current Eighth Route Army, have never been soft on them, and they will be eliminated!

Xiao Siming said that if Commander Xu and Commander Cao regret it now, it's still too late! But after the flag ceremony, I can't regret it! Be sure to think about this!

Xu Zhongyang and Cao Zhendong are both on the rise of becoming a regular army, so they naturally said in unison that they will never regret it! (To be continued.) )