This afternoon, in the courtyard of an ordinary farmhouse in Shiguai Town, deep in the Taihang Mountains, Xiao Siming talked eloquently and told the cadres about the short and brilliant development process and achievements of the independent battalion!

The cadres of the former independent battalion naturally listened with relish, and the cadres of the cadre team listened more devotedly! Because that's a legend in itself!

The reason why he tirelessly talked about the battle of Yuxian all the way to the destruction of Taiyuan Airport and the capture of Shouyang was that Xiao Siming had only one purpose, that is, to establish the self-confidence of the cadres in overcoming difficulties and defeating strong enemies, and to strengthen the cadres' sense of belonging to the troops!

There is no way, this force has a complex composition from the very beginning, and it is standard from all over the world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt is especially important to improve the centripetal force and cohesion of the troops!

For the anti-Japanese soldiers with their heads pinned to their trouser belts, the most straightforward way to make them feel a sense of belonging to the army is that this unit can win the battle!

Defeated, scattered, can't even save his life, what kind of sense of belonging or not!

To win a battle, only by constantly winning battles can we smelt the troops with complex compositions into a copper pea that cannot be crushed, smashed, or scattered!

After talking about the achievements and development process of the independent battalion, Xiao Siming changed his words and began to talk about the eastward advance.

I heard Xiao Siming say: "Just now, Political Commissar Wang has already talked about the great significance of our eastward expansion, and what should be emphasized has also been emphasized, so I will no longer be verbose, and only say three sentences: the first sentence is why we want to go east, the second sentence is what to do in the east, and the third sentence is how to go east!" ”

is also mobilization, Xiao Siming is much more practical than Wang Lushui, and it is much more simple.

Why eastward?

Xiao Siming said that the eastward advance was forced out, that is, by the Japanese army, by the policy of the national * army, and by the survival needs of the Eighth Route Army!

Why do you say this, Xiao Siming said that the little devil's current policy is to quickly destroy China and let the Chinese become slaves of the country! Little devil, this is wishful thinking! They want Lao Tzu to be a slave to the country, to be beaten, killed, and enslaved, and Lao Tzu still wants to go down to the head of the Japanese emperor, but what about the urinal! I also want the princess of the Japanese emperor to be a maid for Lao Tzu!

Since he doesn't want to be a slave to the country, Xiao Siming said, then there is no way, there is only one way to go, get up and fight with the little devil!

But now the situation is that the little devils are powerful, there are planes in the sky, warships in the water, and tanks and artillery on the ground. Set up a position to fight, China's best-equipped Central Army and Jin Sui Army are not opponents, let alone the Eighth Route Army, which lacks guns and ammunition? Therefore, you can't fight the little devil face to face, you have to go around the back of the devil's ass, beat the little devil's cheek, and kick him in the mouth and chew the mud! At present, the little devil soldiers in North China are divided into two routes, one way to launch a pacification operation in the Shanxi battlefield, and the other is about to attack Xuzhou in the Shandong battlefield, and the North China Plain and Shandong have become enemy-occupied areas and behind enemy lines, that is, the back of the Japanese army. At this time, when we marched eastward, we wanted to go around the back of the Japanese army, beat him in the gut, beat him in the mouth, chew the mud, and beat him all over the ground to find his teeth!

The cadres listened to it and laughed again!

This is the first meaning, that is, the eastward advance was forced by the Japanese army, in order to better fight the Japanese army.

The second meaning, Xiao Siming said that the eastward expansion was forced by the Kuomintang and Yan Xishan!

Xiao Siming said that Jiang Jieshi and Yan Xishan were both instigating. Only the establishment of the three B divisions of the Eighth Route Army was given, and only 500,000 yuan per month was given to the military expenses, which averaged to each officer of the Eighth Route Army, that is, 10 yuan in banknotes. This amount of money is not enough before eating! Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek demarcated the operational area of the Eighth Route Army, which belonged to the Second Theater and could only resist Japan in Shanxi. As for Yan Xishan, even more absolutely, only the Eighth Route Army is allowed to operate in 21 counties, and other places in Shanxi are not allowed to go to the Eighth Route Army! Isn't that? When the little devils came, the national army was defeated again and again, and I don't know how many counties were lost, even Beiping, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Jinan, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing were lost, and a large area of the country was occupied by the little devils, but Jiang Jieshi and Yan Xishan only allowed the Eighth Route Army to operate in 21 counties. What is the rationale for this? However, at present, it is a period of national unity and resistance against Japanese aggression, and we cannot explain the reason with Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan, and we cannot but obey orders, so we can only go behind enemy lines and to the places occupied by the Japanese army. Shanxi has the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army, and the activities of the Eighth Route Army are still restricted, so we have no choice but to go to the Japanese occupied areas where there is no Central Army and the Jin Sui Army, and go behind enemy lines. Hebei and Shandong have all or most of them fallen, the troops of the Central Army, the 29th Army, and Han Fuqu have long fled and have lost sight of their shadows, and the local power of the Kuomintang has basically collapsed. First, they can conduct guerrilla attacks behind enemy lines to contain the Japanese army, so that they cannot go south with all their strength to continue to occupy Xuzhou, Wuhan, and Kaifeng; Second, there is no longer Jiang Jieshi and Yan Xishan to restrict us!

The third meaning, Xiao Siming said, the Eighth Route Army not only has to resist the war, but also has to eat and dress, and it also has to survive. The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area is small in area, crops are all cropped once a year, the land is barren, and the output is limited. Back then, Li Zicheng was a native of Mizhi in northern Shaanxi, and it was because he couldn't survive that he unveiled the uprising, and the responders gathered. In other words, it is impossible for our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region to supply the main forces of the Eighth Route Army that went north to resist Japan. On the contrary, they are still looking forward to the fact that the troops can win more battles and capture more battles, and can provide some funds and equipment to the border areas! Shanxi, known as the roof of North China, has many mountains and ravines and little arable land, so it is not self-sufficient in grain. Coupled with the invasion of the little devils, the Central Army, the Northwest Army, the Eighth Route Army, and the Jin Sui Army were all fighting in Shanxi. Moreover, the population of Shanxi is limited, this is the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, recruiting soldiers is easy to do, with the Japanese army sweeping, burning, killing and looting the base area, to the later, the Eighth Route Army not only can not eat, when the troops suffer heavy casualties, they can't recruit soldiers! If we don't need devils to beat us, we won't be able to survive on our own!

When he said this, Xiao Siming paused, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a few puffs, pondered for a while, and then continued: "The entire Eighth Route Army system is difficult, and our 115th Division is especially difficult!" Now, the 120th Division has been deployed in the northwest of Shanxi Province to create a base area in the northwest of Shanxi Province; Political Commissar Nie led an independent regiment to launch in Jinchaji and created the Jinchaji base area; The operational area of the 129th Division was also basically demarcated, that is, the area east of Tongpu Road and south of Zhengtai Road, relying on Taihang Mountain to create a base area in the southeast of Shanxi. Only the main force of our 115th Division is still in the guerrilla stage. Originally, we were going to go to western Jin to rely on Luliang Mountain to create a base area, but unfortunately Yan Xishan did not agree. That's not going to be easy! We must have a place to eat and a place to sleep, right? Can't it always be like this, with all the possessions on horseback and on the shoulders of the warriors? You can't always rely on capture to solve the problem of feeding and ammunition supply for the troops, right? ”

After three questions in a row, Xiao Siming paused for a while, I don't know if he was emotional, or deliberately left a time for the cadres to think, anyway, it wasn't until a cigarette was smoked and the cigarette butt was extinguished that Xiao Siming raised his head again and said, "And what about the Hebei Plain and Shandong land we are going to?" It is a well-known and good place in the whole country, with a large granary, a large number of people and food, and a large number of guns among the people, which is the most suitable for the development of troops. When you get there, eating is not a problem, expanding the army is not a problem, and the survival of the troops is not a problem, there is only one thing left, that is, fighting devils and killing the enemy to make meritorious contributions! Everyone said, are we going to resolutely move eastward! ”

Xiao Siming has never said nonsense, it was a mouthful of spit and a nail, and everything he said was fulfilled!

The emotions of the cadres were completely mobilized, and under the leadership of Huo Cheng, they stood up in unison, raised their arms and shouted "Go east!" Go East! Go East! "Down with Japanese imperialism!"

Xiao Siming then said the second sentence, what will you do after going east!

Xiao Siming said that the purpose of the eastward advance was to create an anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines, to unleash the masses, to expand the anti-Japanese ranks, and to accumulate strength for defeating the Japanese aggressors. In layman's terms, it is to find a nest for yourself, a nest where you can farm, eat, and sleep, and sit your ass firmly! To go further and more directly, it is to establish party organizations at all levels, establish an anti-Japanese democratic regime, and pull the ranks. The North China Plain is good, when the rain is sufficient, if you plant a wicker in the ground, you can survive and grow into a big willow tree hugged by several people. Such a place is the most suitable for the development of the Eighth Route Army! When we have established the political power and can collect grain and taxes, the worries about the development of the army and the war will be relieved. We can set up an arsenal in our base area, make guns, artillery, and ammunition; It can also run cadre schools to train various cadres; Our field hospitals can be stationed for a long time to treat the seriously wounded and seriously ill. When the time comes, when the troops are fighting, there are children's regiments to guard posts, there are local armed forces to cooperate, and there are militias to support the front, and when the troops are moving, they can directly unload their backpacks, put them on the side of the road, and move forward lightly, without worrying that no one will contain them. As long as you can bury your head in development for one or two years, the current advance brigade will develop into a detachment, column, or even a field corps! The existing battalion commanders and instructors must be brigade commanders, political commissars, commanders and political commissars of military divisions, company commanders and instructors must be regiment commanders and regimental political commissars, platoon commanders must also be battalion commanders and instructors, and they may also be local ********, county magistrates, county captains, secretaries of district party committees and district heads, and assume more important responsibilities!

Needless to say, the cadres have already heard it clearly and deeply understood! To advance eastward is to expand the troops, solve the problem of food and clothing, and fight a big battle and win a big battle!

The cadres heard more clearly how to move eastward in the third sentence of Xiao Siming's speech, that is, they went all the way, fought all the way, demolished the devil's railway, blew up the highway bridges, and ended the strongholds.

Wang Lushui said so many truths about such a simple matter, and the cadres did not understand it deeply. What the cadres really got into their minds and hearts was Xiao Siming's three sentences! (To be continued.) )