Sheng Beiguang laughed, and told him about the use of the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, taking Guo Zibin away, and Commander Sun driving Feng Kequan away.

Han Xing, Sheng Beiguang, Guo Fangchen, Sun Hong, and Sha Yanxiao laughed.

Sun Hong also said: "I have met with Commander Li Qiukui and Director Wang Youping, the leaders of the Eighth Route Army, and they have asked for our opinions. One is the main third regiment of the Zhuxian Column, and the other is the second regiment of the advance column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. ”

What is the Zhuxian Column, that is, after Fan Zhuxian's sacrifice, according to the decision of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the 10th Detachment led by the Luxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China was reorganized into the Zhuxian Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column. The column was under the unified command of the advance column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

What is the advance column of the 129th Division, which is the unit sent by the 129th Division to Luxi to carry out work, the commander and political commissar of the column is Li Yukui, and the director of the political department is Wang Youping.

After discussion and study, the leaders of the five detachments decided to be assigned to the second regiment of the advance column of the Eighth Route Army.

When Han Xing heard the news, he was also very happy, he held Sheng Beiguang's hand and said, "Okay, congratulations, although we are not included in our 10 detachments, they are also brother troops, and we will fight side by side together in the future." ”

Sheng Beiguang also said warmly to Han Xing: "Thank you, Deputy Commander Han, you always give us a hand when we are in the most difficult time." ”

Han Xing hugged Sun Saihua again and said: "Commander Sun, congratulations, whether it is the advance column or the Zhuxian column, they are all the Eighth Route Army, and they are all troops led by ***." ”

Sun Saihua pointed to Han Xing's nose and said to Han Xing with a smile: "You Han Xing, I have been with you all my life!" When I was a bandit in Beigang, it was you who carried the banner of Fan Zhuxian and relied on your three-inch tongue to receive our Beipole under the banner of Fan Zhuxian. During the southern expedition, you led our five detachments to fight one big battle after another on the Yangtze River, and the little devils were so bad that they couldn't form an army. After Fan Zhuxian sacrificed, you fooled the old lady into a group, and received the flag of the Eighth Route Army. In my life, I have been deceived by you, and I admit it. In the next life, I am still willing to be deceived by you......"

Han Xing arched his hand at her and said, "Is there anything Han Xing did wrong, please bear with me?" ”

"Treat the fart!" Sun Saihua scolded with a smile, "Anyway, I've been deceived by you enough in my life." With a leader like you, I can't do anything about it, so I have to admit it......"

The headquarters of the fifth detachment immediately held a meeting of the cadres of the battalion, company, and platoon to convey the decision to reorganize the Eighth Route Army, and immediately issued the company armbands, and the comrades present jumped for joy.

The grassroots cadres immediately went back to convey the news of the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army to the soldiers, and the soldiers were even more happy and excited.

The political department of the column also notified that several hundred catties of firewood would be distributed every time they took a shower and changed their clothes. Tomorrow we will have a day off, and each person will have one pound of meat and two pounds of white noodles, and the officers and men will be even more happy.

In the evening, the art troupe of the column came to give a play and held a welcome meeting, and Director Wang Youping made a speech, and all the cadres and soldiers who participated in the meeting praised Wang Youping's speech after listening to it. Many comrades said that they had never heard such a good speech since they joined the army, and it really touched everyone's heart.

Since the reorganization of the five detachments into the Eighth Route Army, none of them have deserted. After wearing the armband of the Eighth Route Army, they all felt very glorious and great, and many soldiers wrote letters to their families saying that they had become the Eighth Route Army. It's just a pity that there were no cameras at that time, and if they did, they would have taken pictures and sent them home.

The common people of Luxi have only heard that the Eighth Route Army is a divine soldier, and they are resolute in fighting devils and love the common people, but they have never seen the real Eighth Route Army.

Since the Fifth Detachment changed into the clothes of the Eighth Route Army, it has become more consciously civilized and disciplined. Some soldiers cleaned the yards of the common people several times a day, and the water tanks of each landlord were full, buying and selling them publicly, talking kindly, and striving to do good things for the masses.

After the commander of the column saw the improvement of the Second Regiment, he smiled even more on his face and was happy in his heart.

After 20 companies of two regiments, four battalions, and 20 companies of the original five detachments joined the advance column, the column decided to transfer a company with a good foundation to the column as a guard company, and the first regiment was changed to one battalion, eight companies to four companies, two regiments to two battalions, and eight companies to four companies. The headquarters of the detachment was changed to the regimental headquarters of the Second Regiment, and the political department and the supply and health department of the detachment were all changed to the regimental headquarters. Sun Saihua continued to be the head of the regiment, Sheng Beiguang was the political commissar, and Sun Hong was the director of the political department.

Han Xing had already completed his task, and had not yet returned to the 10th detachment, and received a new task, that is, to go to Gejingzhuang at the junction of Chiping and Qihe to represent the 10th detachment and participate in the celebration meeting of the 31st detachment to be changed to the plain column of the Eighth Route Army.

To say that the establishment of the 31st detachment still took considerable pains.

In August 1938, Fan Zhuxian organized the Jinan Campaign and established the Forward Command. Fan Zhuxian personally served as the commander and extended the area of activity to the Changqing and Qihe areas in the east of Liaocheng. In order to cooperate with this military operation, the Ministry of Politics set up a front department, with Guan Datong concurrently serving as the director of the front department.

There were 30 or 40 cadres in the front political department, which formed a field work group and went to the Qihe and Changqing areas to carry out activities to publicize and mobilize the masses to resist Japan and establish anti-Japanese armed forces.

In this way, in the town of Pandian, west of the Yellow River in the Changqing Dynasty, a permanent office of the Ministry of Political Affairs was established in front.

In addition to the regular anti-Japanese propaganda, the tasks of the front political department are twofold: one is to train anti-Japanese revolutionary cadres, and the other is to build anti-Japanese armed forces.

In order to train cadres, Pandian Primary School was borrowed to set up an anti-Japanese revolutionary cadre study class, with Li Henggong as the captain, Bai Hua as the instructor, Wang Yipiao in charge of teaching affairs, and the comrades of the front political department sharing the tutorials. After short-term training, outstanding students are selected and recommended to study in Liaocheng Political Cadre School.

The study class was held in two sessions, with nearly 100 students, all of whom were local anti-Japanese patriotic young students.

In early October, Guan Datong conveyed the instructions of the Luxi Special Committee of the Communist Party of China. That is, to seize the time, establish anti-Japanese forces, form 31 detachments, and say that a report has been written to Commander Fan.

In order to strengthen the party's leadership, the front political department established a branch, with Guan Datong as secretary, Wu Yawu as the organization member, and Bai Hua as the propaganda committee. The political department also moved from Pandian to Gejingzhuang in the north and lived in the ancestral hall. Soon, he received an order from Fan Zhuxian approving the establishment of the 31st detachment and appointing Guan Datong as the commander.

Considering that Wang Jinxiang was a diehard against the establishment of the 31st detachment, the 31st detachment decided to take immediate action and quickly concentrate and reorganize the scattered armed forces that had been contacted.

The original plan was to pull out the second battalion of Wang Shantang's unit in the 29th detachment and reorganize it into a regiment of the 31st detachment, and this battalion commander Li Guangdou was the first member. The first battalion of the local self-defense regiment in the eighth district of Yucheng was pulled out and reorganized into the second regiment of the 31st detachment. Then Comrade He Qingyi, a party member, went to Boping County to organize the third regiment.

The result was that the first group was not pulled out, and the third group was not successfully organized, only Li Henggong understood the relationship between his two elder brothers and Gao Zhanyi's old friend, and after patient persuasion and many contacts, he accepted the adaptation.

The 31st detachment immediately sent him military uniforms, ammunition and a letter of appointment from the colonel's regimental commander and the regimental flag of the 2nd regiment of the 31st detachment.

At the end of October, all the personnel of Gao Zhanyi were pulled out of Li Huimin's self-defense regiment in the eighth district of Yucheng and arrived at Gejingzhuang of the 31st detachment.

During this period, a special service company and a cavalry company were actively formed at the same time. In this way, a mass meeting of the local nearby villages was held in Gejingzhuang, and Fan Zhuxian's order was announced, and the banner of the "31st Detachment of the Sixth Guerrilla Zone of Shandong Province" was raised. On the Luxi Plain, an anti-Japanese guerrilla force of 850 people under the direct leadership of *** was born.

After the formation of the troops, the main source of economic materials was supplied by the Fan Zhuxian Command, but the quantity was limited. Grain was supplied to the local people, apportioned by the grassroots political power in the township and village, and the funds were raised from the landlords and gentry to "resist Japan and save the country".

Comrade Wu Yawu's father was a patriotic gentry from Chiping County, and he not only took the lead in donating money himself, but also did a lot of work in raising military funds. Guan Datong's uncle opened Hengsheng Pharmacy in Jinan City, and often secretly funded medicines and purchased materials on his behalf.

In addition, there is another way, and that is "anti-smuggling". At that time, Shen Honglie, chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, a diehard Kuomintang faction, was active in the southwest of Shandong, and his subordinates often transported a batch of supplies from Jinan in the guise of merchants. These materials happen to be the target of anti-smuggling.

This temporary "peaceful" day was completely broken after the Liaocheng incident.

After the Liaodi Incident, the troops stationed in Chiping and Boping to the east of Liaocheng began to diverge. Some of them were originally diehards or bandit leaders, and they took refuge in Wang Jinxiang and Qi Zixiu of the Kuomintang diehards. The armed and political workers directly controlled by *** had to retreat quickly, and most of them went to the 31st detachment, or the 31st detachment went west to the area of Guanxian to join the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, the 31 detachment was rapidly expanded.

At the beginning of December 1938, in order to strengthen the party's unified leadership over the armed forces, Yuan Zhongxian led the two main companies of the independent battalion of the sixth detachment of the Eighth Route Army from the Dafeng Mountain area of Changqing to the 31st detachment of Gejingzhuang, and also brought a large number of cadres. At the same time, he announced the party's instructions to cancel the number of the 31st detachment and reorganize the 31st detachment into the plain column of the Eighth Route Army.

The column was commanded by Yuan Zhongxian, and Guan Datong was appointed deputy commander and director of the political department. At this time, the plain column was already more than 1,300 people, and everyone happily wore the armband of the Eighth Route Army. On the occasion of Fan Zhuxian's sacrifice and the panic of the people, the timely establishment of the Plain Column played a great role in stabilizing the anti-Japanese situation in the Changqing, Qihe, Chiping, and Boping areas and stabilizing the people's hearts.

Han Xing, on behalf of the 10 detachments, participated in the inaugural meeting of the plain column in Gejingzhuang, of course, he was also very excited, and there was another brother unit, and everyone collected firewood and flames, and worked together to fight Japan.

Yanggu County in the sixth district was originally a place where people were outstanding, and there was a hero named Wu Erlang, who fought hard against the tiger, and avenged his brother, killing the enemy Ximen Qing who killed his brother. Unexpectedly, an exiled governor of Shandong named Shen Honglie came, and his exiled provincial government was stationed in Zhangqiu Town, southeast of Yanggu County.

Since then, it has smeared Yanggu County with black.