The battle plan finalized by Zhou Jianping and Xiao Siming was to move south from the county seat of Yuxian County, penetrate the old street to the south through the Nanlou area, and seize the Zhengtai Road Stone Measuring Station near the old street by surprise attack, so as to shake and mobilize the Japanese army. When the Japanese army was reinforced, they relied on the Straw Hat Mountain south of the Shishi Railway Station to block the attack, consume part of the Japanese army, further angered the Japanese army, and then led the devil by the nose, went deep into the hinterland of Jinzhong, and made guerrilla attacks in the Japanese occupied area, forcing the Japanese troops deployed on the highway and railway lines to turn back and pursue Yuxian. After the purpose of mobilizing the Japanese army was achieved, the independent battalion could enter the Taiyue Mountains and escort Wang Lushui to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the headquarters of the 115th Division now stationed in Hongdong County.

Zhou Jianping set a combat time of 10 days for Xiao Siming, that is to say, in the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, no matter where the independent battalion is located, it can withdraw from the battle, disengage from contact with the enemy, and transfer to the Taiyue Mountains to rest or escort Wang Lushui south to rebuild!

It should be said that this plan is good, the old street is located at the junction of Binh Dinh and Shouyang, and is the junction of the Japanese defense line of Binh Dinh and Shouyang. Generally speaking, the junction of the defense line is the weak point of the defense line, and the attack is easy to achieve!

The key to this plan is whether the independent battalion can beat the Japanese army!

Only by beating the Japanese army and reminding them of the independent battalion is the unit that slaughtered the first infantry brigade of the 136th Wing in Yuxian County, the little devil will definitely pounce on the independent battalion without hesitation!

To put it bluntly, this plan is to be an independent battalion to be a wolf lure!

The reason why the leaders gave such a task to the independent battalion was not to sacrifice the independent battalion, but to give full play to the advantages of the independent battalion in being well-equipped and good at camouflaging the Japanese army!

The battle in front of the independent battalion was fought so well that it can be said to be a stunning appearance!

It's nothing to fight Lian Zhan Lianjie, the Red Army has fought a lot of battles, the key is that the Lian Zhan Lianjie of the independent battalion is different from other troops, it is zero casualties!

It's incredible!

In the eyes of the leaders, Xiao Siming's marksmanship is surprisingly good, his command ability is also strong, and he can speak Japanese.

After the combat mission was issued and the battle plan was finalized, the comrades of the newly established enemy engineering department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, who came with Shu, proposed that Mei Ying should be transferred back to the building, saying that they wanted to give full play to Mei Ying's advantages and send Mei Ying back to Beiping to do underground work.

Since he said that Mei Ying was his object when he was drinking with Zhang Shaodong and others on the night of December 14, Xiao Siming and Mei Ying have been very busy during this time and have not talked alone. Even if there is an occasional opportunity to meet alone, Mei Ying is also busy reporting on the work of the Publicity Section. As soon as Xiao Siming looked at the place where he shouldn't be looking between his words or his eyes, Mei Ying blushed, and then her face changed, and she immediately looked cold, and snorted softly in her nose, ignoring Xiao Siming, as if Xiao Siming had bullied her and was her enemy!

As soon as Xiao Siming heard that Mei Ying was going to go to Beiping to do underground work, as if she had been stung by a bee, he disagreed, and opened his mouth to say that Mei Ying could not return to the building, and that she was now the head of the propaganda section of the independent battalion of the 115th Division, and that the task was heavy and the responsibility was great, so he asked the enemy engineering department of the military region to arrange for other personnel to go to Beiping to carry out underground work.

Mei Ying used to be a Peking University student, had the experience of living and studying in Peiping, had a high personal cultural quality, was beautiful, and had a good temperament, and after training, she was likely to become an effective cadre on the hidden front, and her contribution was much greater than that of the propaganda section chief of an independent battalion!

Xiao Siming retorted that you don't need to be too beautiful to do concealment work, nor do you need to have a good temperament, what you need is the kind of person who looks mediocre and can't be found in the pile, so that it is easy to hide. Like Mei Ying, who looks so outstanding, and has a southern accent, as soon as she appears, she will be targeted by Japanese pseudo-spies. Maybe before you get a piece of information, you're already in prison. She's not fit to work underground!

As he spoke, the two of them clanged and quarreled in front of several chiefs!

Wang Lushui felt that Xiao Siming did not obey the organization's decision and criticized him for not having a strong organizational concept. Cadres, where they are needed, what is the price?

No matter how the comrades of the enemy engineering department and Wang Lushui persuaded him, Xiao Siming insisted that Mei Ying now belonged to the cadres of the 115th Division and was the head of the propaganda section of the independent battalion, and could not be transferred to the enemy engineering department of the Jinchaji Military Region!

Now, not only Wang Lushui criticized Xiao Siming, but Shu Tong, Zhou Jianping, and Liu Daosheng all began to criticize Xiao Siming. Criticism comes and goes, and I don't know who suddenly realized it first, the leaders finally knew that Xiao Siming had a crush on Mei Ying and regarded Mei Ying as their object!

The content of the criticism changed immediately, Shu Tong, Liu Daosheng, and Wang Lushui, the three old political workers, gave Xiao Siming a lesson in a solid manner, starting from the "258th Regiment" regulations in Yan'an, and continuing to the famous story of the red face and disaster in ancient Chinese history, and finally it boiled down to one point, that is, Xiao Siming is a red ghost who has gone through the Long March, so many comrades have died during the Long March, Xiao Siming can not stand the test, for a girl who is fascinated and forgets his responsibility.

No matter how the leaders criticize it, Xiao Siming just doesn't get the hang of it, and just one sentence over and over again, Mei Ying can't be transferred to the Jinchaji Enemy Ministry of Labor!

However, Mei Ying didn't know which cadre or guard soldier had sent a message, for fear that the leaders would think that she was afraid of danger and unwilling to do underground work, so she ran to report to the chiefs, saying that she resolutely obeyed the organization's assignment, and in order to resist Japan, she would not hesitate to go to the soup!

Angry, Xiao Siming said to the leaders with a sad face that if the organization must send Mei Ying to Beiping to do underground work, he is willing to accompany him, and please send another independent battalion commander to the organization!

Mei Ying stopped being wordy, ran away with a red face and crying!

This is the war years, where is a cadre allowed to give conditions to the organization!

Shu Tong was furious, so he ordered the guards to get out of Xiao Siming's gun and lock him up!

After the guards took off the gun from Xiao Siming's waist, Zhou Jianping, Liu Daosheng and Wang Lushui glared at him, no longer criticizing Xiao Siming, and turned to work for Shu Tong and the comrades of the enemy Ministry of Industry, saying that Xiao Siming was young, only 18 years old, and he didn't understand anything, at most, he just fell in love with Mei Ying, liked Mei Ying, and didn't have any out-of-the-ordinary actions, it didn't make sense to be confined, just give him some time to think about it! Besides, what Xiao Siming said also makes sense, Mei Ying is indeed too beautiful, too outstanding, and has a southern accent, so she may really not be suitable for underground work. Moreover, the independent battalion is a newly created unit, and one more educated cadre will give it more strength. Forget it, the enemy engineering department should re-elect people!

Zhou Jianping's qualifications are too old, so old that Shu Tong can't help but listen to his opinions carefully!

However, Shu Tong warned Xiao Siming that organizational discipline cannot be violated, and Xiao Siming is not allowed to fall in love and get married if he can't be a regiment-level cadre for a day, has less than eight years of military experience, and is less than 25 years old!

Speaking of which, even Shu Tong was said to be dizzy, forgetting what the nature of Xiao Siming was to resist and resist the transfer of Mei Ying by the enemy engineering department of the military region, and instead warned him that he was not old enough to marry the person he was talking to!

At this time, the 115th Division had not been separated for a long time, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region had just been established, and Shu Tong and they still thought that they were cadres of the 115th Division, so they were not polite to Xiao Siming at all. In fact, Xiao Siming and the independent battalion belong to the 115th Division, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region are already two systems. If Shu Tong and the others really wanted to punish Xiao Siming, it would not work. Even if it is punished, it must be punished by the Political Department of the 115th Division!

The reason why Xiao Siming was reluctant to let Mei Ying go to Beiping to do underground work was not for any other reason, but because he knew that if it wasn't for him, Mei Ying would have died under the devil's gun in the Tibetan Mountain Temple some time ago. It is difficult to say the fate of people, I saved Mei Ying, and it is difficult to guarantee that she will not fall into the clutches of the devil again after she arrives in Beiping. It would be too tragic for such a beautiful girl to die at the hands of the little devils again, and to die under the evil means of the devil agents. Therefore, Xiao Siming resisted softly and hard, and he had to let Mei Ying stay in the independent camp under his protection!

Anyway, it didn't end up in the end. Mei Ying still stayed in the independent camp, and Xiao Siming was not confined!

On the second day of accepting the combat mission, that is, on January 20, 1938, the nineteenth day of the lunar calendar, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui, who saw off Shu Tong, director of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, bid farewell to Commander Zhou Jianping and Political Commissar Liu Daosheng of the Fourth Division, and led the independent battalion to quietly leave the county seat of Yuxian County at night, along the highway leading from Yuxian County to Shouyang, to Nanlou Village, which is 6 kilometers away from the county seat, and met with Ye Changgeng, the captain of the three detachments stationed here. Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the troops to turn around and go south from Nanlou Town, and went south along the line of Jiangou, Luyu, Wangjiawan, and Baijiagou, and arrived at Nianzigou at the junction of Yuxian and Pingding.

The old street is located in the west of Yangquan and the east of Shouyang County, in the middle of the Yangquan to Shouyang section of the Zhengtai Railway. The town is facing the highway from Taiyuan to Niangziguan, the south is the Zhengtai Railway, the Taohe River flows through the middle of the railway and the highway, goes east along the ravine at the west foot of Taihang Mountain, and goes to the west of the river beach village and the Wenhe River under the Niangzi Pass, which is renamed the Mianhe River.

During the Battle of Niangziguan, our army did not have time to completely destroy the Zhengtai Railway, many people thought that the Zhengtai Railway and the Tongpu Railway were both narrow gauges, as long as the locomotive was transferred and withdrawn to Jinnan, it would be impossible for the Japanese army to transfer the train from the Pingjin area and the northeast region to enter Shanxi. The little devil is more cunning than a fox and more shrewd than a monkey, and the narrow-gauge train in Shanxi was bought from Japan, and Shanxi also imported locomotives and dozens of carriages from Japan before the incident, and the Tanggu Port left in Tianjin could not be transported back, and the whole city was spoiled by the Japanese army. After the little devils captured Taiyuan, they got the Zhaogui locomotives and carriages purchased from Shanxi in Tianjin, to Shijiazhuang, rushed to repair the Zhengtai Railway, resumed railway transportation, and supplied the Japanese army in Shanxi through the railway. This was also the main reason why it was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to ambush the Japanese army's baggage convoy transporting ammunition and baggage after the Japanese occupied Taiyuan.

As soon as the Zhengtai Railway was opened, the Japanese army relied on the railway to build a defensive line, and at once it separated the Jin-Cha-Ji border area and the Jinzhong and southeastern areas where the 129th Division was active!

If the independent battalion can attack the Shishi station according to the battle plan, it will cut off the railway transportation line of the Japanese army, and the battle plan of the little devils to attack the Ulxian area will definitely be affected!