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The cavalry company only rested for an hour, and then set off again with the rubber-tyred carts that transported the troops, and each soldier rode one horse and led two horses, and returned to Dacaozhuang to meet Wang Lushui and them.

As soon as the cavalry company left, Xiao Siming temporarily set up his headquarters in the courtyard of the county government occupied by the puppet county magistrate Zhang Borong, hung a map on the wall of the old-fashioned county yazheng hall, moved a rattan chair, and sat in front of the map to examine it.

Occupy Ningjin City, and the advance brigade will have a foothold in the east to the Jilu border!

Xiao Siming is familiar with the history of the Anti-Japanese War and knows that the Japanese army is extremely arrogant at this time, declaring that it will not take Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government as its negotiating opponent, and will overthrow Chiang's Nationalist Government by force! Therefore, their strategy at this time is to capture China's major strategic hub cities, gather the main force of the national army, and force the Chiang Kai-shek government to surrender!

In order to achieve this strategic goal, the Japanese army carried out the pacification operation in Shanxi, with the aim of destroying the main force of the Chinese army in Shanxi, or driving the main force of the Chinese army across the Yellow River. Immediately after that, the Japanese army attacked the first line of Taierzhuang and Linyi in Shandong, with the aim of capturing Xuzhou, opening up the Jinpu Road to the south, capturing the key points east of Zhengzhou on the Longhai Road to the west, and then moving south along the Pinghan Line to capture Wuhan.

The little devils are not strong enough to swallow elephants, and they actually dream of ending the war of aggression against China by annihilating the main force of the Chinese army and forcing the Nationalist Government to surrender, and completely turn Shenzhou into their colony!

Because the little devil is in the posture of swallowing the moon and swallowing the moon, he will not be able to take care of consolidating the occupied areas for the time being, and the Eighth Route Army can create base areas behind enemy lines in Shanxi, Shandong, and the North China Plain, and vigorously develop its troops.

This stage will not last long, that is, this year, after the Japanese army has concluded the battles of Xuzhou, Lanfeng, and Wuhan, and realizes that the strategic goal of encircling and annihilating the main force of the Chinese army has not been achieved, and that it is impossible to win a quick victory in the war of aggression against China, it will turn around and concentrate all its efforts on consolidating the occupied areas, and the base areas behind the enemy lines will soon usher in a brutal anti-sweeping operation. Therefore, seizing this precious time period of 1938 is of utmost importance to the Eighth Route Army!

Xiao Siming is a soul traverser, and he began his anti-Japanese journey from the first shot fired by the enemy at the Tibetan Mountain Temple. Naturally, he will not waste time, waste time, and miss the precious opportunity for great development!

Now, though, is different from history. Xiao Siming knew very well in his heart, from the attack on Yu County to the Lianzhen Railway Station on Jinpu Road, he led the troops to beat the little devil too hard. Once the Japanese army knew that the advance brigade was the Eighth Route Army unit that attacked and occupied Yuxian County, killed Ishida Jinzang, and destroyed Taiyuan Airport, and this unit arrived at the Jilu border, I am afraid that it would immediately mobilize heavy troops to besiege the Jilu border.

When our army first arrived at the Jilu border, there was no mass base, and there were puppet armies and miscellaneous armed forces everywhere, in case there were Japanese puppet puppets who slipped through the net, or if some miscellaneous armed forces who openly resisted Japan and secretly colluded with the Japanese army reported to the Japanese army, our army's intention to advance to the Jilu border would also be exposed.

This is an endless plain, suitable for the rapid movement of the devil's mechanized troops, and the vast sea with a dead end to the east, once the advance brigade is stuck by the small devil's army, the joke will be big!

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and it is impossible to hide the number, strength, and achievements of the advance brigade forever!

The most urgent task at the moment is to quickly unfold on the Jilu border, sweep through the Jilu border with a thunderous force, eliminate the Japanese puppet army and puppet regime on the Jilu border, reorganize the miscellaneous armed forces, establish an anti-Japanese regime, propagate and mobilize the masses, and make preparations for the heavy siege of the anti-Japanese army!

I know what to do, but it's hard to do, and it takes a long process. And the Japanese army, it is impossible to give our army such time!

Xiao Siming looked at the map, and his heart turned over like a river and a sea!

In any case, on the Shandong battlefield, the Japanese army on the front line of Taierzhuang was about to be defeated; On the Shanxi battlefield, the Japanese army was about to launch a nine-way siege of the southeastern base area of Jin. Strategically speaking, the Japanese army's attention is not on the border of Hebei, central Hebei, and southern Hebei. As long as the method is correct and the illusion is created, it can still delay the heavy siege of the Japanese army on the Jilu border.

That is to say, after the advance brigade is deployed on the Jilu side, it is best to make a fortune in a muffled voice, and the later it is discovered by the Japanese army, the better!

The advantage of this is that it can confuse the Japanese army and delay the Japanese army's siege of our army. But the bad thing is more prominent, that is, it is not easy to quickly open up the situation and form the core of the anti-Japanese war leadership in the Jilu border area, which will affect the overall situation!

The lesser of two evils!

Xiao Siming thought about it, and finally made a decision, that is, to play the banner of the eastward advance brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, sweep the Hebei and Shandong borders with a thunderous momentum, set up the leading organs of the party and government in the Hebei and Shandong provinces, mobilize the masses on a large scale, and build the Hebei and Shandong borders into an impregnable anti-Japanese base area.

As for the siege of the little devils, Xiao Siming laughed when he thought about it, he always had to come, and if the devils didn't come, they had to go to them, I was afraid that he would be a bird!

Xiao Siming thought that sweeping the border of Hebei and Shandong had to talk about policy and strategy.

At this time, the Jilu border no longer had the Kuomintang * * party and government power and the regular army of the national * army, and the only one who had anything to do with the national * army was Liu Jingliang, who now occupied Huimin and other counties, and accepted the appointment of Qin Qirong, the commander-in-chief of the North China guerrillas, and became the commander of the first road of the North China guerrillas and the North China supervisor of the Fuxing Society. Other miscellaneous armed forces are all sorts of things, and they are basically grabbing territory under the banner of resisting Japan. When the Japanese army launched a sweep, these miscellaneous armed forces either collapsed, surrendered as a puppet army, or became a stubborn army specializing in fighting the Eighth Route Army.

This won't last long. Han Fuqu, the former chairman of Shandong Province and commander of the Third Army, had already been sentenced to death on January 24 on charges of "disobeying orders and retreating without authorization." Shen Honglie, the new chairman of Shandong Province and commander of Shandong Provincial Security, has taken office. When the Battle of Xuzhou is over, Shen Honglie will go to southwest Shandong to prepare for the establishment of a provincial government and fight guerrillas, and then he will go to northern Shandong to develop. The Jilu border will soon form a melee situation in which the Eighth Route Army, the National * Army, and the Japanese puppet army are intertwined.

Thinking of this, the corners of Xiao Siming's mouth involuntarily smiled, lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and said in his heart, whether it is a little devil, a puppet army, or a national * army, they are all behind him. I arrived before them, and when they came over, this Jilu border was already a solid base of the Eighth Route Army, and there was no room for them to intervene. When the time comes, no matter how ferocious the little devil is, how about the Eighth Route Army that can be integrated with the common people?

When Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng rushed to Ningjin City with the brigade and the stars and the moon, Xiao Siming was still sitting in front of the map, smoking a cigarette, with a smile on his face, staring at the map and imagining!

Ma Zhenhua and Di Yudong, responsible persons of the Jilu Border Work Committee in Leling County, and Xing Renfu, commander of the 31st Detachment, also rushed to meet the advance brigade, joined Wang Lushui and Huang Hua outside Ningjin City, and entered Ningjin City together and arrived at the county government compound.

Yu Wenbin, secretary of the Jilu Border Working Committee, died in early March because of a misfire in a pistol and a head injury, and Ma Zhenhua was in charge of the work of the working committee.

Ma Zhenhua and Di Yudong were both famous martyrs of the Jilu Border War of Resistance and were also one of the earliest organizers and initiators of our party's establishment of the Hebei-Shandong Border Base Area.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, our party dispatched a number of Red Army cadres to Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong to assist local party organizations in carrying out their work and preparing to organize guerrilla units. Among them, 8 people were sent to Shandong, including Hong Tao, Liao Rongbiao, Han Mingzhu, Zhao Jie, Cheng Xurun, Zhou Kaidong, Guo Shengyun, and Liao Yunshan.

The military cadres of the Red Army assigned to the Jilu border were Zhou Kaidong and Guo Shengyun. These two people played a key role in the military backbone when the Hebei and Shandong border party organizations organized the establishment of the North China People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. Now, Guo Shengyun is the deputy commander of the first road of the 31st team, and Zhou Kaidong is the deputy commander of the third road.

Ma Zhenhua, Di Yudong and Xing Renfu are all cadres born and raised in the Hebei and Shandong borders, and none of them are familiar with Wang Lushui. Including the two Red Army military cadres Zhou Kaidong and Guo Shengyun sent to the Jilu border, one was a cadre who returned after the failure of the Red Fifth Army Corps' western expedition, and the other was a cadre of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and they were not familiar with Wang Lushui.

Originally, Ma Zhenhua and the others should have asked Zhou Kaidong and Guo Shengyun to also come to greet the advance brigade, after all, they were the Red Army from the same line, but for some reason, those two people did not come, and it was Xing Renfu, the commander of the 31st team, who came.

On the way into the city, Ma Zhenhua, Di Yudong and Xing Renfu had already learned from Wang Lushui's introduction that the captain of the advance brigade was named Xiao Siming, and that he had led the troops to capture Ningjin City and capture the puppet county magistrate Zhang Borong and others alive. Therefore, in the imagination of Ma Zhenhua, Di Yudong and Xing Renfu, Xiao Siming must be an old Red Army cadre who has been in battle for a long time, resourceful, and brave, but he didn't expect to find out when they met that Xiao Siming was just a young doll captain!

Under the light of the flickering candle, Xiao Siming sat in front of the map, holding a cigarette in his right hand, with a smile on his face, looking at the map in a daze, he didn't even notice that Wang Lushui had arrived!

Seeing that Xiao Siming was so distracted and knew him very well Wang Lushui, he knew that he was thinking about his next move, and he couldn't bear to interrupt him, so he led a few leaders to stand quietly outside the door of the county yazheng hall, waiting for it to open!

It wasn't until the cigarette butts burned out and his hot hands hurt that Xiao Siming came back to his senses and noticed that there were people outside the door, and when he turned his head, he saw Wang Lushui and others.

Xiao Siming grinned, looked apologetic, stood up and said, "Political commissar, you have arrived?" Why don't you call me? ”

Wang Lushui said: "Don't talk nonsense, there are still guests!" Comrade Zhenhua, Commander Xing, and Comrade Yudong, come, let me introduce to you, this is Comrade Xiao Siming, the captain of our 115th Division's eastward advance brigade! ”

Before Ma Zhenhua, Xing Renfu and Di Yudong could say hello, Xiao Siming had already snatched it up, reached out and grabbed Ma Zhenhua's hand, and said cordially: "Comrade Zhenhua, you have worked hard!" ”

With a "hard work", Ma Zhenhua, a steel man who built an organization and pulled a team on the Jilu border, burst into tears, choked up and said: "Captain Xiao, I can look forward to you!" ”

(To be continued.) )