What kind of chaos is there for the little devil, Xiao Siming has no way of knowing.

Xiao Siming originally thought that as soon as the little devils learned that Shouyang was captured, they would flock to it, so he strictly ordered the second company, the third company and the three platoons led by Yuan Gang to quickly withdraw to the county seat after the ambush of the small army, join him, withdraw from the county seat together, and go south to join the first company.

Originally, Xiao Siming still wanted to wait for the devil to catch up, and then give the little devil a bad note, and then lead the little devil to Yuci to go around the territory of Yuci, completely stun the devil, and try not to let the little devil sweep to Xiao He's southern base. But after waiting for a whole day at Sheepshead Cliff, I saw the Japanese planes in the sky frantically reconnoitring and searching and bombing, and I didn't see any big moves by the Japanese troops on the ground, and I immediately felt funny, knowing that the little devil was afraid of being beaten, and became cautious, and the large troops were not mobilized in place, and they did not dare to attack Shouyang City.

If the devil does not divide his troops and advance in many ways, Xiao Siming will have no chance!

In this case, Xiao Siming was not in the mood to fight with the little devil mushroom anymore, and rushed directly to Shiguai Town with his troops.

On the night of March 3, when the Japanese army captured Shouyang City again, Xiao Siming rushed to Shiguai Town and joined Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng, who had already arrived.

As soon as they met, there was no time to greet and catch up, Wang Lushui pulled Xiao Siming to his residence and told him three shocking news: one was that Zhang Shaodong, the head of the 687 Regiment, and Lan Guoqing, the chief of staff, defected and took a small number of cadres with them; the second is that Zhou Kun, chief of staff of the 115th Division, left the team with money and his whereabouts are unknown; The third thing is that Master Lin was seriously injured yesterday!

These three things are all major events in the history of the Eighth Route Army, and Xiao Siming, who has crossed the soul, is naturally clear. It's just that he never thought that how could Senior Commander Lin be injured like he did in history? You must know that history has changed due to the destruction of the Japanese airfield in Taiyuan by the independent battalion and the capture of Shouyang, why hasn't Division Commander Lin been able to escape this catastrophe?

During the war years, secrecy discipline was extremely strict. After the defection of Zhang Shaodong and Lan Guoqing, no one told Xiao Siming when the fifth detachment and the 688th and 689th regiments went to Shouyang to rush to transport supplies, and only now did Wang Lushui officially tell him.

Chief of Staff Zhou Kun of the 115th Division left the team with money, Wang Lushui said that it was also very strange, Chief of Staff Zhou went to the headquarters for a meeting, and led the army by the way, a total of 60,000 yuan in legal currency, he took 30,000 yuan himself, put the remaining 30,000 yuan in a leather bag, said it was an important document, and asked the guards to take it back to the division headquarters and hand it over to Wang Bingzhang, the chief of the operations section, and also wrote a note explaining that he took 30,000 yuan. 、

Zhou Kun was an old man in the Autumn Harvest Uprising, served as the commander of the Red Eighth Army, and was a senior general of the Eighth Route Army. His departure from the team can be imagined as a shock to the Eighth Route Army system!

Xiao Siming knew in his heart that Zhou Kun was not greedy for the 30,000 yuan fiat currency, but when he went to Luoyang to participate in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he saw those **** chiefs of staff who couldn't fight, eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and they were doing everything, working chic and free, and there was injustice in his heart, plus he couldn't see the future, and his will to fight was declining, so he left the team!

Wang Lushui told Xiao Siming that after Chief of Staff Zhou left the team, Division Commander Lin, who was usually silent, basically rarely spoke, and always walked silently alone. Only after receiving a telegram from the independent battalion will the whole person appear to be in good spirits.

Xiao Siming is not interested in the defection of Zhang Shaodong and Lan Guoqing and Zhou Kun's departure, people are unwilling to do it, and they can't keep it! Besides, even if you stay, something may happen sooner or later, so it's too early to leave!

What Xiao Siming is most concerned about is how the commander of the 115th Division Lin was injured!

What made Xiao Siming indignant was that, exactly like in history, Division Commander Lin was accidentally injured by Yan Xishan's sentry.

It turned out that while the 20th Division of the Japanese Army was storming Hanxinling, it went south to the southwest of Shanxi Province to outflank it, captured Xi County on February 26, and invaded the army to cross and pass in the west on the 27th, directly threatening the defense of the Yellow River in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area. Therefore, on the 28th, Yan'an urgently ordered Division Commander Lin, who was fighting west of Lingshi and Xiaoyi, to lead the 343rd Brigade into Xi County to control the strategic hub and ensure the crossing point. On March 2, Yan'an once again sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, judging that the Japanese army would attack Tongguan in the south and northern Shaanxi in the north, and ordered the 120th Division to control the northern section of the river defense and ensure the retreat; The 344th Brigade of the 115th Division was ordered to quickly contact the 343rd Brigade to assist in eliminating the enemy who had invaded Xi County, consolidating the river defense in the middle section, and covering the transfer of friendly troops. The 129th Division was located east of Tongpu Road, blocking the enemy's attack on Tongguan and responding to the 115th and 120th Divisions.

Because of the fear that the Japanese army would really cross the river to capture Suide, after receiving the order, the 115th Division led the 343rd Brigade into Xi County on March 2.

Because when our party negotiated with Yan Xishan, Yan Xishan only agreed that the Eighth Route Army would operate in 21 counties in Shanxi, and at least some of these 21 counties allowed the Eighth Route Army to operate, and most of the counties in Shanxi did not allow the Eighth Route Army to enter, and Xi County was the county where the Eighth Route Army was not allowed to enter.

When the 115th Division entered Qianjiazhuang north of Xi County, it heard the sound of artillery in front of it, and Division Commander Lin immediately ordered Wang Bingzhang, chief of the operations section, to take people to reconnoitre, and sent people to contact the vigilance troops of the 19th Army of the Jin Sui Army stationed here. Wang Bingzhang came back and reported that there was no situation, and Division Commander Lin hurried to Wucheng to check the terrain, and immediately led a cavalry communication squad to leave first. It's a pity that the Jin Suijun who connected the relationship notified the squad sentry, but the squad sentry did not notify the company sentry.

The tragedy happened like this, when Division Commander Lin rode a captured ocean horse and walked in front of the sentry position of the Jinsui Army Company with the cavalry communication squad, this sharpshooter who had just seen the Japanese brigade passing and did not dare to shoot, saw that a small army was coming, all riding on big horses, and there was a person in the middle wearing the Japanese army's Yellow Army coat, and immediately opened fire and shot at the person wearing the gray Eighth Route Army cadre coat who walked in the front.

Division Commander Lin fell down in response to the sound and fell off his horse!

Xiao Siming was angry after hearing this, and scolded viciously: "! ”

Wang Lushui told Xiao Siming that the division headquarters had reported that Yan'an had taken two doctors to rush to Xi County to treat Division Commander Lin's injuries, ordered to send someone to escort Division Commander Lin back to Yan'an for treatment, and designated Director Luo of the Political Department of the 115th Division to act as the division commander, but the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army had already telegraphed Jiang Jieshi, Yan Xishan, and Wei Lihuang a few hours before the call from Yan'an, reporting the injury of Division Commander Lin, and proposed that Brigade Commander Chen Guang of the 343rd Brigade should act as the commander of the 115th Division, and Li Tianyou, commander of the 686th Regiment, would act as the commander of the 343rd Brigade. The head of the 686th Regiment was represented by Deputy Regiment Commander Yang Yong. After receiving the electricity, the offering was approved. Therefore, now the acting commander of the 115th Division is Chen Guang, and Director Luo's position has not changed.

Xiao Siming couldn't understand why the 20th Division of the Japanese Army still killed the southwest of Jin regardless of the fact that the independent battalion attacked and occupied Shouyang, and the 19th Army of the Jin Sui Army stationed in Xi County could watch the Japanese army go south and not block it, what kind of broken battle was this!

Fighting devils is rare, but when he fights friendly generals, he becomes a sharpshooter, and he hits one by one! This thing; Whom to reason!

Xiao Siming didn't feel sleepy at all, took out a cigarette, sat on the stool and smoked it, thinking about his thoughts while smoking.

Division Commander Lin's injury, the happiest thing is naturally the little devils, they have one less strategic opponent, and they don't know how many fewer people can die every year!

Next, the work of the 115th Division should be actually presided over by Director Luo, and Division Commander Chen is only the military chief, and the status of Division Commander Lin cannot be the same. Although Wang Lushui didn't say this, Xiao Siming knew it clearly.

Thinking of this, Xiao Siming felt that the bosses of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters had handled this matter extremely inappropriately and politically naïve. Division Commander Lin was injured, and the personnel of the 115th Division was going to be greatly adjusted, such a big matter, without first asking Yan'an for instructions and asking Yan'an to decide, but directly sending a telegram to ******, Yan Xishan, and Wei Lihuang to report, it was simply dizzy! Can Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan, and Wei Lihuang decide who will be the commander and commander of the 115th Division, which was reorganized from the Red First Army and the Red 25th Army Corps?

It doesn't matter if the head of the headquarters is dizzy, it directly leads to the fact that Director Luo, who is actually in charge of the work of the 115th Division, is not rightly named, and it is definitely a big political failure!

Xiao Siming then thought that Director Luo was the future marshal of our army's political work, and his character and ability were recognized by the whole party and the whole army, but he was not a military expert. As for Division Commander Chen, he fought bravely and has been tested in battle for a long time, but he has a fiery temper and a flawed personality, and his military command ability and political vision are incomparable with Division Commander Lin. After this eastward expansion, it is impossible to ask for instructions and report everything, and you have to rely entirely on your own independent planning!

This is also good, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, because Division Commander Lin healed, the troops of the 115th Division no longer need to concentrate on fighting big battles, and then after repelling the Japanese army's attack on the Yellow River River defense, the division headquarters will definitely follow the instructions of Yan'an, completely divide the troops, advance eastward in batches, and let go of development, and the units of the 115th Division will enter a period of rapid development!

As for the devils, it seems that they still have to continue to fight peacefully, but because of their fight in Shouyang, they stunned the little devils and bought time for the transfer of the central army and the Jin Sui army in southern and western Jin, and it is impossible for the little devils to achieve the same results in history!

However, this time, the little devil must have mobilized a large enough force to fight for Shouyang, trying to encircle and annihilate the independent battalion in Shouyang. Now that the little devil is in the air in Shouyang, the little devil will definitely sweep on a large scale in Shouyang next, and maybe he will come to attack Shiguai Town!

After thinking about it again, I don't think it is necessarily, because the Japanese 10th Division will soon go south to attack Tengxian and Taierzhuang, and the Japanese 5th Division will also send troops to attack Linyi, and the tragic Linyi Defense Battle and Taierzhuang Battle will soon kick off.

From this point of view, the little devil's revenge and sweeping action in Shouyang cannot last!

The night of Taihang Mountain is silent and ethereal.

Xiao Siming, the 18-year-old captain of the eastward advance brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, sat on a stool, smoking, thinking, and calculating, with a lot of things on his mind.

Don't talk about others, even the political commissar Wang Lushui, who is sitting on the side, can't guess what he is thinking!

After thinking for a while, Xiao Siming asked Wang Lushui: "Where is the Second Theater Command now?" ”

Wang Lushui said that it was Commander Yan and that he had withdrawn from the Yellow River to Qiulin in Shaanxi.

Xiao Siming opened his mouth and said again, "!" ”

Wang Lushui's brows furrowed involuntarily, and he blamed: "It's only been a long time since you saw you, why are you talking foul when you open and close your mouth?" Who did you learn from? ”

may feel that he is particularly close to Xiao Siming, and there is a sense of big brother blaming the little brother in Wang Lushui's words!

Yan Xishan really fled to Qiulin as he did in history, and it seems that the impact on the battle situation is still very limited by destroying Taiyuan Airport and capturing Shouyang alone!

Xiao Siming smiled: "I think that this Commander Yan is running fast, the little devils are still in Xi County, and he has gone to the Qiulin on the other side of the Yellow River!" Alas, the dignified commander of the second theater of operations and the giant of the Republic of China is nothing more than that! ”

Wang Lushui also smiled, saying that Yan Laoxi is good, much stronger than Han Fuqu, Song Zheyuan, and Liu Zhi!

Xiao Siming asked again: "Has our mission changed?" ”

Wang Lushui replied that there was no change!

Xiao Siming immediately said: "That's good! Sleep first! Tomorrow morning, after dinner, the Military and Political Committee will be convened to study the expansion of the troops and the eastward advance. The troops conducted a five-day training in Shiguai Town to fully mobilize their ideology. On March 9th, we drove eastward, advanced into the plains, and carried out the eastward mission! (To be continued.) )