Chapter 159: Night Talk in the Cave (Eighth Update!) Ask for a subscription! ）

Cave caves are an ancient form of dwelling on the Loess Plateau in northwest China, and the history of this "cave-dwelling" dwelling dates back more than 4,000 years. But whether it is in the past life or in the present life, Ma Zheng is the first time to see this kind of magical architecture.

The chairman's cave is very ordinary, without ornate decoration, only an earthen kang, a table and an oil lamp.

Lunch is eaten in this cave, very simple, only a pot of millet porridge and a few steamed buns mixed with coarse grain noodles, a little special may be the plate of pickles.

Before I came, I had heard Li Lanqing say that life in Yan'an was very hard, but Ma Zheng didn't expect it to be so hard, even the chairman's food was so simple, it was not as simple as the food of ordinary soldiers of the Seventh Division, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ma Zheng wouldn't have believed it.

After lunch, Mr. Zhu and Vice Chairman Zhou and others came! A dilapidated table of eight immortals, each of the four people makes one head. The chairman is the master, so he sits at the top D, while Vice Chairman Zhou and Mr. Zhu sit on the left and right sides of the chairman, and Ma Zheng sits opposite the chairman.

At this time, everyone had recovered from the shock of the military exercise, and they had regained their former calmness.

Taking a puff of dry tobacco in his hand, the chairman said with emotion: "During the Eastern Expedition the year before last, your kid was seriously injured and his brain was damaged. I didn't expect that your kid is a donkey temper, he doesn't want to go to the front line, and he said that even if he is a company commander and battalion commander, he will give you a battalion commander. ”

"At the end of last year, I heard that the first battalion of your teaching regiment was made dumplings by the Japanese, and your boy's life and death are unknown. Enlai and I blame ourselves. I didn't expect your kid to take root in Chanan and make a big move, okay! There is no such nickname as a blind horse madman! ”

Ma Zheng sighed and said, "Chairman, this matter is really hard to explain!" Everything was like a dream, when I followed Master He and they went to the anti-Japanese front line with all my heart, I was ready to fight the devils on the front line. I was arrogant. I think that we have even broken through the encirclement and interception of millions of Kuomintang troops, and even if the little devils are powerful, there are only tens of thousands of people, what are you afraid of! At that time, I was afraid that if I walked slowly, the little devils would be killed by others! ”

Speaking of this, Ma Zheng let out a sigh of relief and said: "I didn't expect to see the real Japanese army before I arrived at the real front line, and I realized that I was just a toad in a well before, and I had been sitting in the sky all the time, and I didn't know how big this world was!" Our battalion was the main force of the teaching regiment, but as a result, a brigade of devils fought hard and was defeated by the devils in less than an hour. Only 100 of the 500 men of a battalion remained, my deputy battalion commander and instructor were all killed in battle, and only two of the eight chief and deputy company commanders remained, and one of them was wounded. ”

"At that time, I was stunned by the little devils, and those remnants fled everywhere with me, a wounded man, like a lost dog, and they fled by mistake to the vicinity of Hades Mountain in the south of Chahar. At that time, there were less than 100 guns for more than 100 of us, and there were only a dozen rounds of ammunition per person. There is less food, not enough to eat a meal. And many of the fighters were still wearing single clothes. It's freezing cold, and it's almost in a desperate situation! ”

It was the first time that the chairman and others had heard about the loss of contact with the first battalion of the teaching regiment, but they didn't expect that their situation at that time would be so dangerous and bad! I really don't know how they persevered at that time and how they developed.

"It's hard for you, but the combat effectiveness of the little devil is far beyond our expectations, and besides, you are still a battalion against a brigade. It's already a commendable thing that hasn't been wiped out! The chairman said.

"Yes! Not only you, the 129th Division and the 115th Division suffered a big loss when they fought the little devil for the first time, and the loss was not small! Mr. Zhu sighed and said.

"Ma Zheng, how did you survive then?" Vice Chairman Zhou asked.

Ma Zheng immediately said: "When I arrived in the Saibei area, it was already October, and in December, in addition to the cold wind and heavy snow. There wasn't even a leaf on the tree, let alone something to feed on. In addition, the devils have occupied the nearby towns of Xinghe, Fengzhen, and Jining, and we are basically trapped in the defense area by the Japanese army, and we may be found by the Japanese army at any time and then annihilated. ”

"But we can't sit still, there are no guns and no cannons, the enemy will make it for us. We don't have the resources in our hands, but the enemy has them, and if we want to survive first, we must destroy the devils. However, it is definitely not possible to fight the devil directly, the gap between the two sides is too big, so I aimed at the bandit forces on Hades Mountain. It just so happened that on the day of our attack, Wu Xiuda, the third leader of the bandits, and Xu Xiaolin, the fourth leader, were preparing to start an incident because the big boss wanted to defect to the Japanese, and as a result, they would overthrow all the bandits in the cottage in the name of marriage, but in the end they cheapened us. ”

"Hahaha, this is called the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind!" Mr. Zhu said with a smile.

"These two bandits are bloody men, because the big bosses are ready to start up when they take refuge in the Japanese, and they can separate the national hatred from the family hatred, which is good!" The Chairman said.

"By the way, how do these two names sound so familiar?" Mr. Zhu said suddenly.

"Hehe, one of the two of them is my intelligence officer, and the other is the deputy brigade commander of the 7th Independent Brigade, and they have to participate in almost all major wars, and that guy is indispensable in the war report, of course you are familiar with it!" Ma Zheng said with a smile.

"It's him, I think I've heard it somewhere!" Mr. Zhu said with a smile.

"Don't look at them as bandits, and they don't have much culture, but they have their own set of mixed ranks all their lives and leading troops to fight. In addition, after joining the Eighth Route Army, I have conducted systematic training for all of them, and in addition to making a lot of progress in ideological understanding, I have also made great progress in cultural knowledge. In the next step, I plan to rotate their officers from different backgrounds back to Yan'an Kang University to study for a period of time, so that their thoughts and consciousness can be baptized and educated again. Ma Zheng said.

"Well, you're a good idea! It's necessary! What we need is not only a person with military skills, but also a person who can keep up with his ideological consciousness, especially the generals who command the army. If you look at the other divisions and brigades of our Eighth Route Army, the military commander is not a famous general who has been baptized by the Long March, only the officers of your Dubu Division are messy, there are bandits, Kuomintang officers, and even those who have been puppet soldiers, we are very worried! Vice Chairman Zhou said in a deep voice.

"Leaders, please rest assured, since I dare to put them in that position, in addition to the objective environment, more importantly, I think they can still accept transformation and become our comrades. Therefore, in addition to military training, the study of the culture and ideology of the troops in many cases is also extremely important in the Suicha base area. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "But after all, the Suicha base area is a start-up, and many times it is a little out of touch with the spirit of the central government, so we still need the support of Yan'an, and if necessary, we can give us a base in the number of students of Kang Da." In addition, Kang Da graduates can also assign some to us! ”

"No problem, this matter is in charge of En, let him add all the people you mentioned on the next study list." The chairman clapped his hands and said.

Ma Zheng was secretly happy in his heart, just have the chairman's words. It doesn't matter if you have a bad background, as long as you are willing to study and can be recognized by these bigwigs in Yan'an, then no matter how fierce the various turmoil is in the future, Wu Xiuda and others will not be affected.

Of course, this is not an absolute thing, even Ma Zheng himself may not be absolutely safe, so he only needs to do his own thing and wake up, who can judge the future things so accurately, just let it be.

In short, so far, the central authorities still have no other ideas about those officers and soldiers who are not from very good backgrounds, and as long as they continue to increase their presence in front of these bigwigs, then even if something really happens, the result will not be too bad. (To be continued.) )