Seeing Han Yunhua coming over, several soldiers of the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment saluted at the same time and said loudly: "Hello detachment leader!" ”

Han Yunhua also returned a military salute and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"Report to the detachment leader, these are the people of the three battalions and one company of the Jinchaji Military Region, we contacted them on the outskirts of Guangling County, but after coming here, I saw that our soldiers were all wearing the military uniforms of devils, so they thought that we were pretending to be devils, and they refused to enter the valley alive or dead." A thick-eyed warrior replied.

Han Yunhua walked towards the person who was obviously an officer on the opposite side, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side saw that he was alone, so they didn't stop him and let Han Yunhua come over.

When he was still a meter away from the officer, Han Yunhua stopped and said to the officer: "Hehe, you think we are devils pretending to deceive you, and you can think of it, just a few of you are worth thousands of us to deceive, don't worry, we are really the Eighth Route Army like you." ”

The officer-like man said without arrogance: "Is it true, we can't be the master, even if you are really the Eighth Route Army now, we don't dare to take you into the base area, I have already sent someone to report to the superiors, I think it won't be long before someone will solve this problem." ”

Han Yunhua smiled and said, "It's okay, we also sent a telegram to the headquarters, and the head of the headquarters will contact the leaders of your military region." Don't stand, go, go inside, anyway, if we're going to do you badly, you people can't run, so you might as well go inside and see, what do you say? ”

The officer thought about what Han Yunhua said was also reasonable, when he first arrived here, he had already seen that the entire valley was full of "devils", and he was afraid that there were really thousands of people. These two dozen or so people are not enough. In that case, it is better to go to the valley and have a look. So he nodded, and agreed to Han Yunhua's opinion.

The further he went, the more frightened the officer of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region became, what kind of army was this, and where did they get so many supplies. There are hundreds of wagons ready to go, and that's not counting the piles of stuff scattered around. Looking at the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, it made this little officer salivate at the same time, basically one out of every five people in this unit has a machine gun in his hand, and the others have all the same big covers in their hands, and the Chinese formal rifle in his hand that he originally thought was good is like a burning stick compared to others. And that large herd of war horses, I'm afraid there are thousands, right? Even the small steel cannons, which have always been rare in the troops of the Eighth Route Army, have dozens of them in this unit. Is this really a unit of the Eighth Route Army, the little officer couldn't help but ask in his heart.

Han Yunhua originally thought that it would take three days for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to send people again at the earliest, after all, the headquarters of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was in Fuping County, central Hebei, and the Eighth Route Army's radio station was only equipped to the division and brigade level, and the troops below the detachment level were not equipped with radio stations. Of course, there are exceptions, Han Yunhua captured 13 radio stations this time, plus several previously captured, so each brigade of the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment has a radio station, and special departments, such as the intelligence department and the former enemy reconnaissance group, will also be equipped with a radio station.

And for things like this, you usually have to consult the head of the military region, this time and again, it takes two days to ride a horse at the earliest, plus the distance to come here, so Han Yunhua judged that they would have to stay here for three more days.

However, to Han Yunhua's surprise, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Han Yunhua received a telegram from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, saying that Nie Rongzhen, the commander of the Military Region, was rushing to this side, asking them to rush to Fengzhuang in Guangling, and the two armies would join forces in Fengzhuang.

After reading the telegram sent by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the officer saluted Han Yunhua and said: "Huang Baojia, commander of the third battalion and one company of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, reports to you, please forgive me." ”

Han Yunhua returned a military salute and said, "You are right, you are a thick and fine officer, lead the way ahead, let's go to Fengzhuang." ”

After finishing speaking, he turned to Shen Yuquan and said: "Old Shen, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, you go and talk to the soldiers, let all the people change into the military uniforms of our army, and immediately change all the military uniforms of the Yue army, if the new soldiers do not have military uniforms, let them put on the original [***] military uniforms and pseudo army uniforms, but remember not to bring that dung spoon." ”

Fengzhuang was some distance away from the valley where Han Yunhua was located, and there were too many things for the troops to bring, so the marching speed was very slow, and it took 2 hours to walk more than 30 miles.

When the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment arrived at Fengzhuang, Nie Rongzhen was already waiting for them there, and Han Yunhua from a distance saw more than a dozen generals of the Eighth Route Army standing at the entrance of Fengzhuang Village. As soon as he guessed, he knew that it must be Nie Rongzhen who had already arrived one step ahead of them, so he immediately called Shen Yuquan to rush through the marching team and quickly towards the entrance of the village.

When the horse ran to a distance of more than ten meters from the crowd that greeted them, Han Yunhua reined in the horse, turned over, stepped forward quickly, saluted, and said loudly: "Han Yunhua (political commissar Shen Yuquan), the head of the Mengji Anti-Japanese Detachment, reports to Commander Nie and asks the chief for instructions. ”

Nie Rongzhen laughed and said, "I don't dare to instruct you!" You are now a treasure in the eyes of the two bosses, and you are the benefactor of all the commanders and fighters of our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, go, this is the location of the headquarters of a team, let's go inside, right? As he spoke, he was going to drag Han Yunhua into the village.

Han Yunhua hurriedly said: "Commander Nie, please wait a moment, our detachment has a lot of personnel now, and we have brought a large number of supplies, so please ask Commander Nie to settle the troops first, okay?" ”

Nie Rongzhen patted Han Yunhua on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, the troops you brought will be arranged by Chief of Staff Tang Yanjie and Political Commissar Deng Hua of the first team, let's go to the headquarters of the first team to sit down first, and by the way, I will talk to you about something." ”

The headquarters of the first team was set up in the home of an ordinary family, and there were only three houses in the entire headquarters, and Han Yunhua and Shen Yuquan followed Nie Rongzhen into the big room in the middle, which looked like a conference room.

There was no decent furniture in the entire conference room, except for a large table in the middle and a dozen benches. After Nie Rongzhen beckoned Han Yunhua and Shen Yuquan to sit down, he also found a bench and sat opposite Han Yunhua.

Then Nie Rongzhen pointed to a thin Eighth Route Army general sitting under him and said, "This is Yang Chengwu, the leader of the detachment." Then there was an introduction in turn: "Zhao Erlu, the leader of the second detachment and political commissar, Chen Manyuan, the leader of the third detachment, Wang Ping, the political commissar, Zhou Jianping, the leader of the fourth detachment, and the political commissar of the fourth detachment stayed in Fuping to look after the family, and the political commissar of the first detachment Deng Hua and the chief of staff of the military region Tang Yanjie arranged the troops you brought outside. ”

Han Yunhua was a little flattered and said: "Commander Nie, isn't this specifically to scare us, so many military leaders came at once, it really made us a little flattered." ”

"Don't get me wrong, we didn't get together to greet you, we came here to see if we could give the devil's northern army a little ruthless, but unfortunately, the devil retreated very simply, and when we arrived here, they had already withdrawn to Datong, Zhulu, and Yingxian several military towns. I just received a telegram from the headquarters again, saying that you were near Guangling, so I came over together. Nie Rongzhen said with a smile.

Han Yunhua smiled and quipped: "I thought that the reason for this was to welcome us, but it turned out that it was my own old peacock who opened the screen and made himself amorous." He laughed.

When the others saw that he was amused, they couldn't help but laugh along. Just when everyone was out of breath with laughter, Tang Yanjie and Deng Hua walked in together, but the eyes of these two people looking at Han Yunhua were a little different, just like looking at monsters.

After everyone's expressions were relieved, Nie Rongzhen asked again: "Yunhua, I just saw the old elders in the queue of the queue you brought from a distance, I'm afraid there are thousands of people, right?" ”

Han Yunhua said: "Our department now has 8 reinforced brigades of 770 people, and each brigade has 6 reinforced squadrons, so we now have more than 6,200 people, not counting the troops left by our Daqingshan base." ”

"More than 6,000 people, that's too exaggerated, isn't it? The total number of troops in our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is only more than 4,500 people, and this is still counting the newly formed troops, and the number of troops that are truly effective is less than 3,000. Nie Rongzhen said in surprise.

As soon as Nie Rongzhen finished speaking, the political commissar of the detachment said, "Commander, you haven't opened the weapons and equipment of their troops yet?" It's, it's true, I can't find any words to describe it. ”

Tang Yanjie, the chief of staff on the side, added: "Luxury, luxury, and loser. ”

Deng Hua said excitedly: "Yes, yes, it's luxury." Commander, you don't know, each of their soldiers has a uniform three-eight big cover in their hands, one person for every five to six people has a machine gun, every thirty or forty people will have a grenadier, and even there are dozens of mortars, such a lineup is really surprising, and the equipment of the devils cannot be compared with them. ”

Nie Rongzhen looked at Han Yunhua in surprise, and didn't know what to say for a while. Han Yunhua smirked vigorously, scratching his head and not knowing what to say.

Seeing Han Yunhua's embarrassed appearance, Shen Yuquan shook his head in his heart and said secretly: "This detachment leader is a good hand at fighting, but no matter how he is, he is still a 22-year-old child. So he cleared his throat and said: "Commander Nie, the eight brigades we have brought now include five field brigades, a guard brigade, a cavalry brigade, and a machine gun and mortar brigade, each brigade is equipped with a complete machine gun squadron, and each squadron is equipped with a machine gun platoon and a grenadier squad, and now our eight brigades are equipped with a total of 997 light and heavy machine guns, 220 grenadiers, 145 mortars, and more than 3,000 38 large covers. ”