Xiao Siming rescued this part of the National * Army soldiers, Eighth Route Army soldiers, and local cadres in Yuxian County, a total of 200 people.

Among these 200 people, except for the individual stragglers and separated personnel of our army, the wounded and hidden scattered and hidden, and the local cadres, most of them are scattered scattered in the process of retreating from the various units of the National * Army after the Battle of Niangziguan, and they belong to the ****17th Division of the Shaanxi Army, the Teaching Regiment, the 26th Route Army of the Northwest Army Sun Lianzhong, the Third Army of Zeng Wanzhong, and the Deng Xihou Department of the Sichuan Army, and the composition is relatively complicated.

During the Battle of Niangziguan, the ****17th Division of the Shaanxi Army, which resisted from the Baoding front line and withdrew to the front line of Niangziguan one by one, fought with the Japanese army and fought repeatedly, and paid great sacrifices. The whole division has been reduced from 17,000 at the time of the expedition to more than 3,000. The sacrifice of the whole platoon, the whole company, and the whole battalion of the troops wrote a tragic and glorious poem in the Battle of Taiyuan!

In addition to the 17th Division, Sun Lianzhong's 26th Route Army, Zeng Wanzhong's Third Army, and Deng Xihou's Sichuan Army, which then rushed to the battlefield one after another, fought equally bravely and fearlessly!

It is a pity that although the anti-Japanese war propaganda in Shanxi was organized early and the mobilization was relatively sufficient, the strength of the Jin Sui army was limited, and it was unable to build strong national defense fortifications on the front line of Niangzi Pass before the war, let alone deploy strong troops to hold on here for a long time. The troops that withdrew from Pinghan Road to the front line of Niangziguan were divided into different systems, their command was not uniform, and they did not have strong fortifications to rely on, so they hurriedly deployed their defenses, and it was conceivable that they could not hold the east gate of Shanxi under the attack of the Japanese army's modern aircraft and artillery.

These soldiers of the National * Army, who retreated from the front line of Niangzi Pass and were stranded behind enemy lines, in Xiao Siming's eyes, were all veterans of a hundred battles and baby bumps. He will definitely not let these veterans be lost in front of his eyes, and he will definitely be incorporated into his own troops!

The platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders appointed by Xiao Siming, except for Han Chunyi, platoon commander of the five counties guerrilla brigade of Meng Pingyang Shouyu, who served as the deputy platoon commander of the fourth platoon, Yang Tong, deputy platoon commander of the five counties guerrilla brigade of Meng Pingyang Shouyu, and Mei Ying, who served as the chief of the medical section, are all veterans of the Long March, and the platoon commanders are basically company commanders and instructors during the Red Army period, and the squad leaders are all platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders during the Red Army. Those are the essence of our army crawling out of the sea of corpses and blood, but their low level of education, slow promotion, actual combat ability, and actual work level are definitely croaking!

Xiao Siming has been talking for so long, the ideological mobilization work has achieved initial results, and there are eight Type 96 light machine guns on the field, not to mention the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who have been reorganized and rescued, they themselves are equivalent to being rebuilt, that is, those soldiers of the national * army, in this case, they also have to accept the reorganization!

The reason is very simple, this is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, and the stragglers have no supplies and no troops to rely on, and it is very difficult to survive. If they don't accept the adaptation, don't say that Xiao Siming, who has eight machine guns on the field and is standing on the table, has a murderous face, even if Xiao Siming lets them go, how many people can return to the army alive? There are only three endings, either be wiped out by the Japanese army, or fall into the grass and go up the mountain to become a bandit, or surrender to the Japanese army and become a traitor!

This is the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army was busy chasing and annihilating the main force of the national * army, attacking cities and conquering places, and had not vigorously supported the puppet regime and established a large number of puppet armies. In addition, at this time, it was a period of close cooperation between the Eighth Route Army and the National * Army, and they both belonged to the National * Army, and the reorganization was just a change of number. So, the rearmament went well.

After each platoon opened up the whole team, Xiao Siming knew that his small unit had 196 people who could be put into battle, which was equivalent to absorbing 147 people from the rescued soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the soldiers of the National * Army.

In addition to the local cadres who could not be reorganized, there were also 14 wounded from the 685th Regiment, 24 wounded from the rescued Eighth Route Army and the Nationalist Army, and 6 recruits from Xiaoshan Village who joined the army.

If these wounded return to the team after healing, and the six recruits have undergone intensive training, Xiao Siming's team will already have 236 people. This does not include him, Wang Lushui, and Chen Yisheng.

Although the number of people is a bit small, and each platoon is not satisfied, Xiao Siming is already very satisfied!

After getting off the table, Xiao Siming walked up to Wang Lushui and Chen Yisheng, raised his hand and saluted, and said apologetically: "Political Commissar Wang, Secretary Chen, just now I heard Secretary Chen say that he would send travel expenses to the captured brothers of the National * Army and let them return to the building. Criticize, Chiefs! ”

In an instant, a team of more than 200 people was pulled up, and this team was basically composed of veterans of the Red Army and the National * Army who had gone through the Long March. Wang Lushui's face was full of admiration and admiration, where would he be willing to criticize Xiao Siming!

Wang Lushui said with a smile: "Don't say anything that makes us criticize, you wait for the meritorious service to be awarded!" Hurry up and do the right thing! Xiao Siming, I will appoint you as the acting commander of the independent battalion in the delegation, and after contacting the regiment headquarters, I will report to the brigade headquarters and the division political department for formal appointment, and assign you all battalion-level cadres. Don't waste time here, let's go down to each platoon immediately to help the cadres do their work, run in the troops, and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible! I am in charge of the first platoon, the fourth platoon, the baggage team, and the recruit team, Secretary Chen goes to the second and third platoons, and Xiao Siming goes to the heavy machine gun platoon and the grenadier platoon, let's go separately! ”

After speaking, Wang Lushui raised his leg and left.

Chen Yisheng didn't leave immediately, his face was depressed, and there was a hint of ridicule in his tone: "Battalion Commander Xiao, you eat meat, why don't you leave soup for my Meng Pingyang Shouyu Five County Guerrilla Brigade to drink?" You didn't say a word, and you sucked one of my platoons, what's the matter! ”

Xiao Siming was amused in his heart, and quickly explained: "Secretary Chen, I didn't mean to eat your row. Your platoon is, to put it bluntly, a platoon of recruits, and it has no combat effectiveness when fighting alone. The main reason for temporarily combining them with these veterans is that the proportion of soldiers in the national * army is too high, and you need to incorporate your platoon into it as the foundation for army building. After all, this platoon is a team that we pulled up ourselves, politically reliable. Again, put your platoon in, and after a few more battles, their combat effectiveness will go up, and after they return to the building, they can become the backbone platoon and sharp knife platoon of the guerrilla brigade of Mengpingyang Shouyu Five Counties, and you can use them as fists! ”

With this statement, Chen Yisheng's face looked a little better, and he said: "This is almost the same, like an old Red Army cadre who has been on the battlefield!" By the way, you have to give back the 15 38 big covers you promised me, and you can't rely on the debt just because your team has expanded and your weapons are tight! ”

Xiao Siming immediately asked, "What about the 50 soldiers you promised to transfer to me?" ”

Chen Yisheng was not ambiguous about this point, and replied that there was no problem!

However, Chen Yisheng added: "When my platoon was rebuilt, the original domestic-made weapons had to be brought back, and the Japanese-style weapons they are using now had to be brought back!" ”

Xiao Siming couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to agree, but he also put forward a condition, that is, starting tomorrow, the central county party committee of Mengpingyang Shouyu County and the anti-Japanese democratic government of Yuxian County must fully support the independent battalion to recruit troops in Yuxian County, let the independent battalion be fully staffed, and be responsible for the food and socks supply of the independent battalion during the training and training in Yuxian County.

Chen Yisheng did not hesitate at all, and said that he would personally arrange and personally mobilize and recruit troops and expand the independent battalion troops!

After the two men said goodbye, they were about to go down to each platoon to do ideological mobilization, when a soldier who served as a mobile sentry on the city wall ran back breathlessly to report that a Japanese army was heading towards the county seat, and it was about 5 miles away from the east gate.

Chen Yisheng hurriedly asked how to judge that it was the Japanese army?

The soldier reported that the Japanese army used a flashlight!

There are no more formed national army units in this area. The Eighth Route Army did not have flashlights, and the night marches were all torches. Moreover, with such a good moonlight, if you change to our army, you can only move quietly at night, and it is impossible to light torches. As long as you use a flashlight, it must be an advanced Japanese army!

Xiao Siming didn't hesitate at all, he directly blew the whistle and ordered the troops to assemble!

Wang Lushui hurriedly ran over and asked what was going on?

Xiao Siming told the sentinel report and told Wang Lushui and Chen Yisheng that the Japanese troops who came should be the squadron deployed by the devils in the east of the county, that is, the squadron where the squad eliminated on the threshing floor was located.

Chen Yisheng immediately proposed to pull the troops to the city wall of the east gate, resolutely block the devils, and not let them enter Yu County!

Chen Yisheng's reason is that although this devil squadron has lost one squad, there are still two squads with more than 100 people, maybe they have lost contact with the devils in the county seat, and they already know that our army has attacked and occupied the county seat, and they are prepared, and it is not easy to fight, so they can only use the strong city wall of Yu County to block them out of the city. After the fighting, if the Japanese brigade in Changchi returns to the division for reinforcements, we can abandon the county seat and withdraw to the mountains to fight guerrillas.

Without waiting for Wang Lushui to express his opinion, Xiao Siming waved his hand to interrupt Chen Yisheng, and said with a smile: "Secretary Chen, you are very thoughtful. However, the devils in the county town have no radio, and the telephone lines have long been destroyed, and this devil squadron must not know the news of our attack on the county seat. After judging that they could not contact their own squad, I sent a cavalry messenger to look for it, found the corpse of the devil on the threshing floor, searched for us but could not, burned and looted to retaliate, fearing that we would be attacked by our army at night, so I hurriedly withdrew to the county seat. Don't say anything, according to the division of labor, the operational command listens to me. We must take advantage of the fact that the devils don't know that the county town has been lost, and put this group of little devils into the city and wipe them out on the East Street! ”

After speaking, Xiao Siming stopped discussing with Wang Lushui and Chen Yisheng, and pulled the two of them together in front of the team that had been assembled.