The next morning, after Liu Tianshu got up, with the help of Shi Qiang, he sorted out his backpack and other items, and then walked out of the small courtyard under the eyes of the soldiers of the guard squad.

As soon as he walked out of the door, he saw Tang Qing, Tang Jiyuan and Liu Siyuan standing not far away, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.

"Tianshu, you are about to leave Houshan Village, and a few of us will send you off." Tang Qing said with some emotion. Tang Jiyuan and Liu Siyuan had some red circles in their eyes, and nodded at Liu Tianshu.

When the group was about to walk to the entrance of the village, Liu Tianshu suddenly remembered Yu Xiaotian's matter, looked at Tang Qing and said, "By the way, Secretary Tang, there is something I want to report to you alone." ”

Hearing his words, Tang Qing followed Liu Tianshu to the side, while Tang Jiyuan and Liu Siyuan stayed where they were.

Listening to Liu Tianshu explain Yu Xiaotian's situation in detail, Tang Qing nodded solemnly and said, "I know about this matter, and I will arrange for someone to contact him one-way." ”

Yu Xiaotian is the inside line of Liu Tianshu's development, except for Liu Tianshu, no one in the entire independent brigade knows that he is going to leave the independent brigade to study in Song Village now, although he will come back in two months, but a lot can happen in two months, so Liu Tianshu still decided to report to Tang Qing about Yu Xiaotian.

As for the way to contact Yu Xiaotian, Liu Tianshu had already told Tang Qing that he believed that Tang Qing would handle this matter well.

As soon as the two finished talking, they saw Luo Zhengkuan, Xiao Yongjie, Li Shu, and Guogang coming over, and everyone naturally spoke enthusiastically, and finally, in the reluctance of everyone, Liu Tianshu and Geng Tianlong, who sent him to Yuling, left Houshan Village and walked towards Yuling.

According to the arrangement, after Liu Tianshu arrived at the Yuling detachment, he joined up with other personnel, and then rushed to Song Village together.

Although Liu Tianshu had heard of the name of the Yuling base for a long time, he had never been there, no, in order to let him reach Yuling smoothly, Tang Qing and Luo Zhengkuan discussed and decided to let Geng Tianlong send him to Yuling.

As a local, Geng Tianlong had been to Yuling, and this time he asked him to send Liu Tianshu over, and by the way, he sent Luo Zhengkuan's report on the recent situation of the Qingyan Independent Brigade to the detachment.

Watching the backs of Liu Tianshu and Geng Tianlong disappear at the entrance of Houshan Village, Shi Qiang and Hao Mengxuan hid in the high places of the village, their eyes were hazy.

Liu Tianshu and Geng Tianlong walked in the mountains for nearly eight hours, and finally arrived at Yuling Village, the headquarters of the Yuling base area.

After the sentry guarding the entrance of the village checked the road of the two, one of the sentries waved his hand and said: "Two comrades, the small courtyard in the north of the village is the headquarters of the detachment. ”

After thanking the sentry, the two walked towards the village, and along the way they saw many people wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army busy in the village, and they also saw many children building snowmen in the empty dam to fight in the snow, these children saw Liu Tianshu and Geng Tianlong, and there was no fear on their faces at all.

Seeing the whole village immersed in a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere, Liu Tianshu felt an indescribable love in his heart.

When they arrived at the detachment headquarters, Liu Tianshu introduced the identities of the two to the sentry standing outside the door, and at the same time handed the road slip opened by Tang Qing to a sentry.

The sentry took a closer look, then looked up at Liu Tianshu: "You are Comrade Liu Tianshu of the Qingyan Independent Brigade?" ”

"What? Am I not like it? Liu Tianshu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this.

"No, no, it's not, we've heard about your deeds for a long time, but we didn't expect you to look like a weak scholar." The sentry smiled embarrassedly, then waved his hand, said please come with me, and led the two into the courtyard.

"Report!" The warrior entered the courtyard, and instead of speaking to the people who were busy in the courtyard, he went directly to the door of a room and shouted a report inside.

"Come in." After a peaceful and majestic voice came out, the soldier walked into the house, and after a while, the soldier came out, looked at Liu Tianshu and said, "Comrade Liu Tianshu, Comrade Geng Tianlong, Commander Cheng, please go in." ”

Liu Tianshu and Geng Tianlong stood outside the door, shouted the report in a loud voice, and after getting permission, they strode into the house.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the burly Commander Cheng turned around from the map hanging on the wall, and saw Liu Tianshu and Geng Tianlong standing in front of him with his luggage on his back, a trace of kindness squeezed out of his majestic face.

"Comrade Tianshu, I am a meritorious worker, and I have worked hard all the way." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Liu Tianshu.

Liu Tianshu hurriedly stepped forward to hold it, and said in his mouth: "Commander Cheng, we don't work hard, we don't work hard." ”

Subsequently, Commander Cheng and Geng Tianlong also shook hands and greeted a few words by the way.

After Commander Cheng shook hands with the two, Political Commissar Qin, who was standing on the side, also shook hands with the two with a smile, and then beckoned the two to sit down.

After Geng Tianlong handed in the letter that Captain Luo asked him to bring, he said hello to Liu Tianshu, got up politely and left the headquarters, and followed a staff officer to the side to do errands.

"Comrade Tianshu, this time the organization has decided to send military backbones from various base areas to Songcun for training, and we have transferred a total of four comrades from our base areas, and you will represent the Qingyan Independent Brigade, what do you think about this?" Political Commissar Qin put a teacup filled with boiling water in front of Liu Tianshu, looked at him and asked kindly.

"Report to Political Commissar Qin, I resolutely obey the decision of the organization, I must seriously participate in the training, work hard to improve myself, and I will not embarrass Commander Cheng and Political Commissar Qin." Liu Tianshu stood up suddenly, looked at the two of them and said loudly.

"Sit down, sit down." Political Commissar Qin glanced at Liu Tianshu approvingly and motioned for him to sit down.

Liu Tianshu's situation, Commander Cheng and Political Commissar Qin are still clear, knowing that he is a college student from Yan University in Beiping, a highly educated person, and judging from his series of performances in Qingyan Town, he is still a talent with both wisdom and bravery.

When the organization considered the leadership of the Qingyan Independent Brigade, he also thought about making him the deputy captain, but later considered that he was not a party member after all, and many soldiers and company and platoon cadres of the Independent Brigade were old Red Army, and finally decided to let him serve as the chief of staff of the Independent Brigade.

In fact, according to the scale of the independent brigade, it is not enough to be qualified to have a chief of staff, and the Qingyan independent brigade can be regarded as breaking a precedent.

The reason why the organization decided to send backbone cadres from various localities for intensive training is to take into account that after the expansion of the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, some of the leaders are not from the old Red Army, and their military skills and political quality need to be improved.

Let people like Liu Tianshu go to the training team to systematically receive the party's education, which is also conducive to his faster growth.

After seeing that Liu Tianshu did not have any resistance to participating in the training camp, Commander Cheng and Political Commissar Qin were also relieved.

Subsequently, Commander Cheng also praised him for Liu Tianshu taking people to retrieve medicines from Wuyang County before the Chinese New Year.

In the afternoon, three other comrades from the Yuling base area who participated in the training also arrived at Yuling Village. In the evening, Political Commissar Qin specially prepared a table for the four comrades who were about to go to Song Village for training, and during the meal, he made requests to several comrades.

Among the other three comrades who participated in the training this time, a tall and thin man in his thirties named Rang Shi Jianchang, who was a squadron leader of the guerrillas in the past, and a strong man of 256 named Kuang Guosheng, told him that he was originally a good man who robbed the rich and helped the poor in the rich county, and when the devil occupied the rich county last year, he led the team to join the Eighth Route Army. This person spoke boldly and righteously, but when he looked at Liu Tianshu, he was a little contemptuous.

There is also a comrade who participated in the training, whose name is a bit strange, called Mu Yunhu, who is in his twenties, but born with broad shoulders and round arms, and is the deputy captain of the independent brigade under the base.

Political Commissar Qin introduced the four acquaintances, and everyone naturally greeted each other politely, and at the same time showed certain strict requirements, studied hard, and won glory for the Yuling base area.

Because Shi Jianchang was the eldest of the four, Political Commissar Qin asked him to serve as the temporary team leader, responsible for leading a few people through the devil-controlled area and rushing to Song Village, which was hundreds of kilometers away.

Because there is also a defense area through the devil, the four naturally can't wear military uniforms, and even backpacks and bedding can't be brought there, and in the end, Liu Tianshu still relied on the political commissar Qin to get a common person's dress.

Of course, the four of them are still carrying pistols for self-defense.

Early the next morning, the four of them left the Yuling base and walked north under the leadership of Shi Jianchang.

At noon, the four of them walked out of the Yuling base and saw a village in front of them, Shi Jianchang considered that everyone was hungry, so he entered the village, ready to find something to fill his stomach first.

When I entered the village, I saw that most of the houses were in tatters, and occasionally I saw a few people from the village, all of whom were also ragged and hungry.

Shi Jianchang said with emotion: "It's all made by devils, last winter, the devils swept the base area, passed by this village, ransacked the village, and killed many villagers. Alas, a little devil with a thousand cuts. ”

The four of them walked around the village, and finally found some water in a family's house, and solved the problem of hunger with dry food.

When eating dry food, Liu Tianshu saw the seven or eight-year-old girl of the master's family, looked at the dry food in his hand, felt sour, took out a few scones from his bag, and handed them over directly.

The little girl hesitated, took the scones, ran aside, and ate them in a big gulp.

Seeing this scene, the rest of the people also left some scones for the host's house, and then left this small mountain village with a heavy heart.

In the evening, the four of them came to the edge of a small town, but when they saw that the devil's turret was built on the edge of the town, and several imperial troops were checking the passers-by, they had to hide aside.

"The town in front is Shunshan Town, but I didn't expect the enemy to build a gun tower and set up a sentry post, which happened to block the road to the north, everyone said, what should we do next?" Shi Jianchang saw that the turret was built on the side of the avenue, and there were high mountains on both sides of the avenue, if he went over the mountain, he didn't know how far he would have to go around, so he looked at a few and said. (To be continued.) )