"Yes, according to what we know, your father left Fuchang County with your whole family last winter and moved west to Xi'an, and you will know the details later." Director Luo looked at Liu Tianshu.

Liu Tianshu's talent in the training team attracted the attention of Master Lin, and Director Luo immediately investigated Liu Tianshu's family situation through the party organization, but this investigation surprised Director Luo.

It turned out that Liu Tianshu's father was a well-known and wealthy man in Fuchang County, and his family not only had a large amount of land in Yangshan Town, but also had two shops in the county.

That's not all, Liu Tianshu's father, Liu Mingxuan, also went to Shanghai more than ten years ago, during which he had a very secret relationship with a person surnamed Hu. That man is now the corps commander of the National Revolutionary Army, and his troops are now stationed in Guanzhong.

It's just that in the winter of 27 years, Liu Mingxuan returned to his hometown in Shandong and never left.

This time it was also because the Japanese devils attacked Shandong, for the safety of his family, he followed the persuasion of the general surnamed Hu, and moved to Xi'an with his family under the arrangement of Commander Hu.

Of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon, but the real inside story is that Liu Mingxuan joined the Communist Party as early as the Great Revolution, ******and when he launched a counter-revolutionary coup d'état, he was ordered to return to his hometown and lurk.

This time it was also an organizational arrangement, using his relationship with Commander Hu to carry out underground work in Xi'an.

It's just this, Director Luo will not reveal it to Liu Tianshu.

A sleeper of Liu Mingxuan's level, if Director Luo hadn't sent someone to investigate, he wouldn't have known about such a confidential matter.

It is also for this reason that Director Luo decided to personally be Liu Tianshu's introducer to join the party.

Seeing that Liu Tianshu was stunned there for a long time and didn't speak, Director Luo said with a smile: "Tianshu, knowing that your family has arrived in Xi'an, are you still willing to follow the troops to Shandong?" ”

When Liu Tianshu heard this, he looked up at Director Luo, and his eyes were clear.

"Director Luo, I am now a soldier, and a soldier should take obedience to orders as his duty. Besides, knowing that my family has arrived in Xi'an safely, I can relax and concentrate on fighting devils. When the national disaster is at the head, my generation should bravely kill the enemy and defend the country. Liu Tianshu said in a firm tone.

"Well, I read you right. Comrade Tianshu, your training team will end the training in three days. As for your next work, after the division has studied and decided, after the training, you will go to the third company of the second battalion of the new regiment to serve as a company commander. This time, the division sent an advance unit to the east to Shandong, which was called the Eighth Route Army's Anti-Japanese Eastward Advance Detachment, and the unit consisted of three companies of the second battalion of the new 1st Regiment plus a machine gun company. You'll know when the time comes, it's a military secret, you just need to know it. In the end, Director Luo's tone was very serious.

"Director Luo, I see." When Liu Tianshu heard this, his expression was solemn.

Next, Director Luo asked Liu Tianshu to talk about his thoughts on the next work arrangement, and asked him to let Shi Qiang and Hao Mengxuan follow him to Shandong, and Director Luo also nodded and agreed.

When he and Jiang Jinyong left Director Luo's place, Director Luo asked him to send the bookbox he had asked Tang Jiyuan to take away, but Director Luo said that the chief would take away the military books in the bookbox.

Liu Tianshu didn't expect that his books could get into the eyes of the chief, and he was very happy.

However, when Liu Tianshu took the initiative to hand over the fifty oceans in the bookcase as party dues, Director Luo refused with a smile. Director Luo said that they might encounter any difficulties on the way east, so let him bring these oceans with him, and they should respond to emergencies or something on the way.

Since Director Luo said so, Liu Tianshu didn't insist anymore.

At the graduation ceremony of the training team, Director Luo still came to attend. At the meeting, Director Luo, on behalf of the organization, highly praised the achievements of the training team in the past three months, during which he specifically mentioned the battle of the training team to exterminate the bandits in Jinyuling, saying that this battle played the prestige of the Eighth Route Army and increased the trust of the people in the Eighth Route Army.

After the ceremony, the members of the training team returned to their original units according to the arrangement, and of course, there were also eight team members who were reassigned to work by the organization.

For example, Liu Tianshu, after the graduation ceremony, carried his luggage and came to Liujiayu, which is fifty miles northeast of Song Village.

The second battalion and third company of the new 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army were stationed in this village.

Inquired all the way, and when he walked to the edge of the village, Liu Tianshu saw a soldier standing on a high broken wall at the head of the village, and his eyes began to narrow slightly.

After looking at it for a while, after discovering that there was only this one sentry at the entrance of the village, Liu Tianshu walked along the avenue towards the village.

The soldier saw a man in the uniform of the Eighth Route Army approaching, and his eyes only glanced at him, but he did not ask a question.

Liu Tianshu walked into the village, and from time to time saw soldiers wearing Eighth Route Army uniforms coming in and out, and after asking a young Eighth Route Army soldier about the location of the company headquarters, he walked straight to a small courtyard in the middle of the village.

There was a soldier standing guard at the gate of the small courtyard, and when he saw Liu Tianshu coming, he immediately stopped his hand and asked seriously: "Who are you, who are you looking for?" ”

"My name is Liu Tianshu, and I was ordered to report to the Third Company." Liu Tianshu glanced at him and handed over his letter of introduction.

It's a pity that the soldier is illiterate, he took the letter of introduction, glanced at Liu Tianshu with some doubts, said You are waiting here, and ran into the courtyard.

Yang Donghu, deputy company commander of the third company of the second battalion of the new first regiment, was sitting in the house with instructor Zhu Aiguo to talk about things, when he heard the soldiers come in to report that a man named Liu Tianshu had come to report with a letter of introduction, and the two immediately looked at each other.

Zhu Aiguo excitedly shouted to Yang Donghu while reading the letter: "Old Yang, the new company commander appointed by the organization has arrived, let's go, let's go to greet you."

When Yang Donghu heard this, a trace of loss flashed on his face, but he still walked out with Zhu Aiguo.

The two walked into the courtyard and saw Liu Tianshu carrying luggage and observing the scenery in the courtyard there, Zhu Aiguo immediately shouted loudly: "Company Commander Liu, we have finally looked forward to you, come on, let me introduce, this is Comrade Yang Donghu, the deputy company commander, my name is Zhu Aiguo, and I am the instructor of the company, and we will scoop up rice in a pot in the future." ”

Liu Tianshu saw Zhu Aiguo and Yang Donghu come out, and a smile appeared on his face, he stretched out his hand to shake the two of them, and said: "Instructor Zhu, Comrade Donghu, I have heard of your name a long time ago, today we met, we are comrades-in-arms, comrades, if there is anything wrong in the work in the future, please point it out." ”

Seeing that Liu Tianshu said very sincerely, Yang Donghu said in a rough voice: "Company Commander Liu, what you didn't say, as long as you are fighting devils, I will definitely listen to you." ”

After talking in the courtyard for a while, the three of them walked into the company headquarters under the guidance of Zhu Aiguo.

Zhu Aiguo enthusiastically helped Liu Tianshu put away his luggage, poured another bowl of boiling water and handed it to Liu Tianshu, and then introduced the situation of Sanlian on the side.

Although the new 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment were both regular units of the Eighth Route Army, they were not directly reorganized by the old Red Army after all, so they were far from the other main regiments in the division in terms of combat effectiveness and weaponry.

Take the third company as an example, there are a total of 98 people in the whole company, and the commander of the Wang company unfortunately died in the last battle, and the deputy company commander Yang Donghu has been acting as the company commander, Yang Donghu is an old Red Army from the Long March, and it is needless to say that he is brave in battle and loyal to the party, and Zhu Aiguo is a college student who participated in the Eighth Route Army after the Anti-Japanese War, and his knowledge level is very high.

As for the squad and platoon leaders below, only six of them were from the old Red Army.

After listening to Zhu Aiguo's introduction to the situation in the company, Liu Tianshu knew the whole company's family background.

The third company has three platoons, and the first platoon commander, Jin Zhenbiao, is an old Red Army, and the first platoon has three squads, each squad has ten people, and the whole platoon has 32 people. Hua Xiaohu, the commander of the second platoon, is also an old Red Army, and the second platoon has three squads, each squad is also ten people, and the whole platoon is thirty-two. Liu Sutang, the leader of the third platoon, a native of Wutai, Shanxi, is said to have practiced martial arts since childhood, and the third platoon also has three classes, but its nine classes have only five people, and the whole platoon has 27 people.

The company headquarters includes deputy company commander Yang Donghu, instructor Zhu Aiguo, correspondent Gu Yong, health worker Yan Jiahua, and cooks Ye Fugui, Xie Xiaoshi, and Guo Jinwang.

The whole company has a total of 62 spears, of which 38 are 39 large covers, and the rest are all made in Hanyang, and one of them is an old sleeve. There are five pistols, Zhu Aiguo and Yang Donghu are equipped with barge guns, and the three platoon commanders are equipped with the devil's Wang Ba box. Machine guns, but there was not one. Not to mention grenadiers, mortars and the like.

As for bullets, each gun averaged eight rounds.

After listening to Zhu Aiguo's introduction, Liu Tianshu's expression became more and more solemn, he didn't expect that a regular army like the Third Company would be so short of guns and ammunition, and thinking of those soldiers who could only participate in the battle with a big knife, Liu Tianshu's mood became even heavier.

"Company Commander Liu, the situation of the third company is like this, the task given to us by the superiors is to rest in Liujiayu. Now that you've arrived, do you call the squad leader and let everyone have a meeting to get to know each other? Zhu Aiguo looked at Liu Tianshu and asked.

Although he had some opinions about his superiors arranging a young man like Liu Tianshu to serve as a company commander in the Third Company, as an instructor, he was still strictly loyal to his duties.

"Okay, you can arrange this." Liu Tianshu nodded.

In the afternoon, more than 20 squad and platoon cadres of the whole company sat around the courtyard, and after listening to Instructor Zhu's briefing on the situation of the new company commander Liu Tianshu, these squad and platoon leaders all looked at Liu Tianshu with both eyes and applauded enthusiastically.

After everyone calmed down, Liu Tianshu's eyes swept over the cadres of the whole company, cleared his throat and said: "Comrades, from today on, I, Liu Tianshu, will live in a collective with everyone, fight in a collective, we will scoop up food in a pot, and in the future we will be comrades-in-arms and comrades, comrades and brothers." Here, I have no other requirements, only one point, that is, our third company must become the main company of the whole battalion, must become the sharp knife company of the whole regiment, must become a heroic company that makes the little devils tremble when they hear our name, in order to achieve this goal, in the next training, I will be very strict with everyone, it may be very tiring and bitter, I don't know everyone's confidence? ”

When these squad leaders heard this, their eyes immediately lit up, and they shouted loudly: "Yes! (To be continued.) )