The contents of the three telegrams issued by the Fourth Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the headquarters of the 115th Division, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were inconsistent in content and conflicting, which made Wang Lushui feel a little at a loss, so he could only ask the division headquarters for instructions again, and forwarded the telegram from the headquarters and the telegram from Zhou Jianping, the commander of the Fourth Division, to the division headquarters, asking for clear instructions!

This time, the reply from the division headquarters came quickly and concisely, just one sentence and six words: "Carry out the orders of the headquarters!" ”

So, Wang Lushui asked Xiao Siming to give an order for the troops to pick up the buried steel rails again, and the troops moved in the direction of Mafang.

This time the march was relatively easy, because Jingshang was the base area, and here they met the Shouyang County Party Committee and the Lunan Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, Secretary Li and Su County Magistrate mobilized and organized enough forces to help the independent battalion transfer the captured ammunition supplies, plus the former villagers who were organized when they evacuated from the stone measuring station, the manpower was sufficient, the size of the team was expanded, and the burden was relatively light.

Judging from the map, from Jingshang in Shouyang County to Mafang in Heshun County, the straight-line distance is only 45 miles, but in fact, it is much farther. I walked all night before I arrived at the horse square.

Before leaving, Wang Lushui personally spoke to the villagers to carry out anti-Japanese mobilization, and emphasized that they must pay attention to secrecy, and not say anything about helping the Eighth Route Army carry out supplies, otherwise, let the Japanese puppet army and traitors know, and the whole family is in danger of life.

The common people may be illiterate, but there are few stupid people, and the people who come to support them are all young and middle-aged, and they can understand Wang Lushui's words, so they will naturally keep it secret. You know, the little devil kills people without blinking, and creates tragedies at every turn for no reason, kills people and sets fires, slaughters villages and towns, if they know which fellow once helped the Eighth Route Army transport ammunition and supplies, then it will be okay?

Before the villagers left, Mei Ying, the head of the propaganda section of the independent battalion, Deng Wenli, the captain of the recruit team, and Zhang Zhengren, the deputy captain, carried out propaganda among the villagers, mobilizing everyone to carry guns and join the army to fight devils!

Mei Ying is so beautiful, her voice is like a yellow oriole chirping, she will mobilize it, and the effect will definitely be good! As a result, the recruit team recruited another 100 recruits, plus 20 recruits from the villagers of Baijiagou and Nianzigou, and the recruit team became a recruit company, and weapons and ammunition were distributed before handing over ammunition supplies to the 129th Division's receiving troops.

The geographical location of the horse square is important. After the Battle of Xinkou, when the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army moved south from Nanru Village in Wutai County, it arrived in Yuxian County through Shangshe in the north of Yuxian County, and from Yuxian County along the county seat of Shouyang to Jingshang in the south of Shouyang to Zhanshang in the west of Xiyang, and from Zhanshang to Mafang. On November 9, 1937, the day after the fall of Taiyuan, Yan'an sent a telegram of instructions to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, analyzing the situation on the battlefield in Shanxi after the fall of Taiyuan, and ordering all units of the Eighth Route Army to deploy behind enemy lines, mobilize the masses freely, expand the ranks, abolish exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, reduce rents and interest rates, and carry out independent guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

In accordance with the spirit of Yan'an's instructions, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which marched south from Mafang to Shiguai Town, held the famous "Shiguai Conference" in Shiguai on November 11 to convey the spirit of Yan'an's instructions and telegrams, discuss the situation on the battlefield in Shanxi, and decide that the troops of the 115th Division to remain in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei and the 120th Division to remain in the northwest of Shanxi, persist in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines on the spot, mobilize the masses freely, expand the base area, and prepare to counterattack the Japanese siege. The 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division was transferred from the southeast of Shanxi to the Luliang Mountains to create a base area in the southwest of Shanxi, and the 115th Division of the 344th Brigade and the 129th Division were deployed between the Taihang Mountains and the Taiyue Mountains to create the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan border base area.

Subsequently, on November 13 and 14, 1937, the 129th Division held a meeting of the cadres of the whole division in Shiguai to mobilize and quickly break it into parts.

That is, after the "Shiguai Conference", the Eighth Route Army embarked on the road of creating anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines and insisting on independent guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

At this time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was in Hongdong County near Linfen, the 115th Division advanced into the Luliang Mountains and was resisted by Yan Xishan, the division headquarters led the 343rd Brigade in Hongdong County, and the 129th Division expanded rapidly after the deployment in the Taihang Mountains and Taiyue Mountains. At this time, those who remained in Shiguai were anti-Japanese rescue groups such as the Jinzhong Special Committee and the Jindongnan Sacrifice League Association, as well as the first column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, which was jointly organized by Qin Jiwei and Lai Jifa, also known as the 129th Division Independent Detachment, referred to as the Qinlai Detachment.

Shiguai was not far from Mafang, and that night, the receiving troops of the Qin Lai detachment arrived at Mafang to receive weapons, ammunition and supplies handed over by the independent battalion.

The 129th Division's troops developed too rapidly, like the Qinlai Detachment, which was originally formed by the combination of two guerrillas of several hundred people each, and now there are several thousand of them, and the degree of lack of weapons and ammunition can be imagined. Therefore, when the independent battalion handed over to them more than 400 Jin-made rifles, 10 Czech machine guns, and 100,000 rounds of ammunition seized from Jueshan Temple in Lingqiu County, the leader of the detachment ordered the weapons and ammunition to be distributed directly to the troops.

The Qin Lai detachment has a huge team, and the number of more than 400 rifles and 10 Czech light machine guns is not small, but it is still not enough in the hands of the Qin Lai detachment, and the difference is too far and too far. However, the order of the headquarters made it clear that the rest of the weapons and ammunition should be transported to the Taiyue Mountains and handed over to the 115th Division to receive the troops, and the cadres and soldiers of the Qinlai detachment did not think much about it. What's more, in addition to the Gaoping dual-purpose guns, Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns, and six infantry guns, the guns themselves were not much, mainly ammunition.

A cart, a pack, a pick-up of weapons, ammunition, rice, and white flour were all handed over to the Qin Lai detachment and the former migrant workers who came with them.

Wang Lushui is also saying goodbye to the independent battalion!

Wang Lushui is an old man of the Red Fifth Regiment of the Second Red Division of the Central Red Army, and he began to serve as a special commissioner of the Red Fifth Regiment in 1933, and at the beginning of last year, that is, at the beginning of 1937, he served as the political commissar of the Red Fifth Regiment. When the Red Army was reorganized, Wang Lushui first served as an instructor of the second battalion of the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, and was immediately promoted to the first deputy director of the Political Training Office of the 685th Regiment.

Seriously, whether it is the original red ghost Xiao Siming or Xiao Siming who has crossed the soul, Wang Lushui is his old superior and leader, and now he is a comrade-in-arms who shares life and death.

Xiao Siming already knew in his heart that Wang Lushui was definitely going to be transferred! But when it was time to separate, Xiao Siming felt extremely uncomfortable and reluctant!

Before handing over the ammunition supply to the Qinlai detachment, Wang Lushui proposed to take a radio station with him when he left, because the Qinlai detachment did not have a radio station, and it was impossible to contact the division headquarters, the headquarters, and the leaders of the 129th Division when they encountered a situation on the road. Moreover, although the supplementary regiment is the old foundation of the Central Red Army, after all, it is a new unit, and there is definitely no radio station, so it is very inconvenient to work.

didn't say anything, Xiao Siming agreed!

Not only that, for fear of encountering risks on the Wanglu waterway, Xiao Siming also ordered the deputy battalion commander Zheng Xiuchuan to take a platoon drawn from the first company, the heavy machine gun team, and the artillery team to form a guard company to escort him, and explained very clearly that the political commissar must be safely sent to the 115th Division troops who came to meet him, and handed over to Director Luo Ronghuan, so that he was allowed to return to the construction with the Qin Lai detachment!

Not only that, Xiao Siming also asked the cadres to hand in five telescopes and prepare a few first-aid kits, and asked Wang Lushui to bring them, saying that weapons and ammunition could not be the master, so they had to be distributed by the headquarters and divisions. A few binoculars and a little medicine, which were given to the supplementary regiment by the independent battalion, were equivalent to giving the commissar to take office!

After all, the independent battalion is a unit created by Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming, and Wang Lushui is reluctant to leave by himself!

After receiving the telegram order from the headquarters and division headquarters, Wang Lushui knew that he was leaving. Therefore, after the troops arrived at Mafang and camped, Wang Lushui did not rest for a whole day, and took turns to talk with the cadres of each company and platoon, encouraging everyone to resist Japan and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!

Before leaving, Wang Lushui couldn't rest assured that Xiao Siming would be afraid that he would be young and hot-headed in the face of love, so he specially talked to Xiao Siming, reiterated the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, reiterated the regulations of the "258th Regiment" in Yan'an, and asked Xiao Siming not to make mistakes in this. When the independent battalion has grown and Xiao Siming has taken up a leading post at the regimental level, the division political department and the brigade political department will consider Xiao Siming's actual situation. As long as Xiao Siming really likes Mei Ying and Mei Ying also likes him, the two of them really love each other, and the organization will approve it!

The original words of Wang Lushui are that the bun is not eaten in the basket, what is yours is yours! Don't be hot-headed, emotionally impulsive, or violate discipline, as you will be severely punished!

In other words, before Xiao Siming became the head of the regiment, he should not chase after Mei Ying, the impact is not good, and he also violates discipline!

That night, the originally clear sky suddenly became cloudy and snowflakes fell.

The troops who came to meet the Qin Lai detachment left Mafang with the weapons, ammunition and supplies they received, and took the villagers in front of the branch, and drove in the direction of Shiguai.

Xiao Siming, with the cadres and soldiers of the independent battalion, sent Wang Lushui out of ten miles in the cold wind.

When they were separated, Wang Lushui told Xiao Siming that he must be cautious next, and he had to keep his eyes open when he slept, so as to prevent the little devil from sneaking up on him when he heard the wind and came to attack and retaliate!

Xiao Siming's face was very depressed all the way, and he just said "um" when he heard the words.

Seeing that Xiao Siming was in a bad mood, Wang Lushui was also a little emotional, his eyes were wet, but he had to go, and the military order could not be disobeyed!

Wang Lushui adjusted his mood and joked with Xiao Siming, asking him if he felt sorry for those cannons and was unwilling to hand them in?

Xiao Siming said sullenly: "What am I doing with those cannons? The formation of the Yan'an Air Defense Force and the artillery battalion of the Yellow River Defense Force is more important than anything else! I still don't understand this? There are a lot of artillery pieces there for the little devils, howitzers, cannons, self-propelled guns, field artillery, mountain artillery, anti-aircraft guns, there are a lot of them, I'll just ask them to get them! Maybe in the future we will have to form our own howitzer regiment, cannon regiment, self-propelled running regiment, field artillery regiment, and mountain artillery regiment! ”

Wang Lushui's eyes lit up at once, and he said that if there was really a mountain artillery regiment or a field artillery regiment, when there would be another war, the little devil would not be crazy! Hurry up, the idea is to clean up the artillery unit of the little devil and get more cannons and shells back!

Xiao Siming was more emotionally infected than Wang Lushui, and he was finally in a better mood, so he saluted Wang Lushui, broke up, and watched the guard troops led by Wang Lushui and Zheng Xiuchuan disappear into the night, and then returned to Mafang with the independent battalion.