Ye Wei didn't expect Zhao Ziming to make this decision. was stunned, saw that he had a serious face, knew that he was not joking, bit his lip and said, "Actually, you don't have to be like this...... The discipline of the Eighth Route Army is too strict, and you are used to not coming. ”

This sentence made Zhao Ziming's heart warm, if Ye Wei's face was pleasantly surprised and said that you are welcome to join, it means that she is nothing in her heart, since she can think about herself, it means that Ye Wei has taken herself seriously, which is a good sign.

The leader of the detachment also welcomed and affirmed Zhao Ziming's joining, Wu Changqing suggested that he be given the position of deputy detachment leader, Ye Xuefeng agreed, but Zhao Ziming resolutely disagreed, he said that I only have more than 30 brothers under my hands, how can I be qualified to be a deputy detachment leader, just be a platoon leader.

Wu Changqing said that the commander of the Seventh Route of the Jiangbei Anti-Japanese Salvation Coalition Army threw himself into our Eighth Route Army, how could he condescend to the position of platoon commander, and it was not allowed to say that our Eighth Route did not have a stomach, so that Zhao Ziming just did not agree, and in the end, Ye Xuefeng came up with an idea, each of them made a concession, and organized Zhao Ziming's department into the special agent squadron of the Daqingshan Detachment, and gave him the title of squadron leader.

Zhao Ziming took off his leather coat, put on a pomegranate skin dyed two and a half feet, put on an eight-way hat, and put on leggings, but he also looked like a revolutionary soldier, and the soldiers of the special service squadron also changed their military uniforms, and changed from the Kuomintang guerrillas to the regular army.

On the first day of morning exercises, all the special squadrons were late, and other squadrons were pulled out and slipped around, so they lazily walked onto the playground, wearing crooked hats and hanging bullet belts, not tying leggings, and yawning.

At noon, there was another trouble, the spy squadron followed Zhao Ziming's habit of eating and drinking spicy food, and when he entered the ravine, he could only eat the nest head, how could he not complain, a soldier threw the nest head away, saying that Lao Tzu was gone, and he gathered a few people to go down the mountain, and was arrested by the guard company.

When Zhao Ziming heard the news, he couldn't help but be furious, since ancient times, desertion has been a serious crime and has to be killed, but seeing that the brother who was born and died with him was shot, he couldn't pass this hurdle.

More than 30 members of the special service squadron all came, still armed with guns, and the guard company was also dispatched, and the fire seemed to be about to break out.

The leaders of the detachment were all present, their faces were extremely serious, Wu Changqing was just about to speak, Ye Xuefeng said: "Old Wu, I am a political cadre, I will come." ”

Wu Changqing nodded, he believed in Ye Xuefeng's ability.

Ye Xuefeng said: "Our Eighth Route Army is strictly disciplined, and it is said that deserters must be punished, not only to punish crimes, but also to investigate the responsibility of relevant leaders." ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Ziming's brows stood up.

Ye Xuefeng said again: "But you have just arrived, you are not used to it, and you can't use the standards of revolutionary soldiers to demand you, since you are not willing to be the eighth road, we will not be reluctant, you can leave if you want, and you will be given the travel fee." ”

The deserters looked at Ye Xuefeng in shock, they couldn't believe their ears, and the hands of the people in the special agent squadron who pressed the handle of the guns gradually lowered.

Ye Xuefeng continued: "Before leaving, I want to invite you to take a tour, come with me. ”

His tone was not serious, but it was majestic, and the deserters involuntarily followed him to a makeshift hut where a family of young and old lived eating, and the bowl was filled with wild vegetables.

"The devil sweeps, our hardships are hard, even the nest head is saved from the mouths of the common people, they say, the soldiers can't kill the devil hungry, the food is supplied to the troops, and they only eat wild vegetables, so they can't eat enough......" Ye Xuefeng took off his glasses and wiped the mist.

The deserters bowed their heads in shame.

A crisis was resolved invisibly, and the next day out of the exercise, the spy squadron was the first to assemble, but the good times did not last long, and they continued to relax after a few days, Wu Changqing and Ye Xuefeng didn't care, and slowly integrated.

A few days later, trouble came again, on the eve of the Spring Festival, when the detachment held a meeting above the squadron leader, Zhao Ziming was absent, some people suspected that he was a deserter, Wu Changqing didn't believe it at all, and in the evening Zhao Ziming came back with half a wild boar and a few pheasants, saying that he went into the mountains to hunt and get some wild things for everyone to celebrate the New Year.

Wu Changqing criticized Zhao Ziming's unauthorized actions, saying that if he wanted to do anything in the future, he would say hello to the leader, not for anything else, and it would be better to rescue if something happened.

Zhao Ziming didn't care: "Isn't there nothing wrong?" ”

Afterwards, Wu Changqing and Ye Xuefeng discussed how to educate Zhao Ziming, and Ye Xuefeng suggested that he and the spy squadron be pulled out to be used as an independent force.

"Zhao Ziming is a talent, let him follow orders and act restricts his subjective initiative, it is better to let him go out and practice alone, what tasks are handed over to him directly, but there is no need to stipulate how to implement them, Lao Wu, what do you think?"

Wu Changqing nodded: "I'll see it." ”

The detachment commander and the political commissar had a conversation with Zhao Ziming, and Wu Changqing said Xiao Zhao, you should fly solo with the team, and if you can expand the number of people, you will be the independent battalion commander, and if you can expand the number of people, you will be the independent regiment commander.

Zhao Ziming said that if I pulled up a team of 3,000 people.

Wu Changqing slapped the table: "Then I'll do it with you." ”

"Okay, that's it." Zhao Ziming is high-spirited and full of confidence.

Before setting off with the team, he picked a large bouquet of camellia and sent it to the health team, Ye Wei didn't say anything, just three words: "Waiting for you." ”

……

The camellia bloomed, it was already the early spring of 1940, the devil's winter operation achieved major results, Chen Shou's troops suffered serious losses, had to withdraw to the depths of Daqing Mountain, and Gailongquan joined forces, wandering everywhere, the Eighth Route Army was the same, lost the base in the plain area, and could only operate in the mountainous areas.

The devils forcibly conscripted the people to build roads and artillery towers, with railways as pillars, highways as chains, artillery towers as locks, and battalions step by step, squeezing the living space of the anti-Japanese armed forces, setting up maintenance committees in townships, and setting up armor protection in villages, and all the people in the occupied areas must apply for good citizen certificates.

At the end of March, the puppet Nationalist Government was established in Nanjing, Wang Jingwei became the chairman of the Nationalist Government and the premier of the Executive Yuan, and the national flag adopted the same blue sky and white sun and red as Chongqing, in order to show orthodoxy, but a triangular ribbon was added above the flagpole, on which was written "Peaceful Anti-Communist Founding of the People's Republic of China", and the national flag with a tail was unheard of in the world, and it was a joke for a while.

The Wang government has been formed, the original Nanjing Restoration government has been abolished, the Beiping Provisional Government has been changed to the North China Political Affairs Committee, which is under the direct control of the Japanese military, China has been divided into several large parts, Manchukuo, Wang's government, Chongqing government, and some local authorities under the control of the Japanese, while Xinjiang is controlled by the Soviet Union, which took advantage of the fire and looting, and the land of China is divided and full of smoke.

Jiangdong Province is under the jurisdiction of the Wang government, Liu Youjin was only ordered in danger, in order to protect the people to fill a false position, now just go into the field, the provincial chairman to the Wang faction, at the same time Beitai Mayor Xiao Lang also resigned, he was the mayor of Hetian Lu Chaoyi's gentleman's agreement, now that Major General Tian Lu is dead, the agreement is naturally invalid.

When Xiao Lang left his post, he had nothing but a box of books, and even the Japanese commanders admired his integrity and talent, and ordered the subordinates not to embarrass him.

In the cold season of spring, Xiao Lang left Beitai in a mule cart and walked on the avenue outside the city, where willow trees on both sides were quietly sprouting, and small branches and leaves grew in large fields, which did not look like wheat seedlings.

"What's in the ground?" Xiao Lang asked the driver.

The coachman shook his whip and said, "It's dirt." ”

"Dirt?"

"It's a big smoke, in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, we planted tens of thousands of acres of tobacco seedlings in Jiangbei, but in that season, then the handsome ban on smoking was shoveled, but I didn't expect it to be planted again, this thing is harmful." The coachman sighed, reluctant to talk more.

The mule cart walked ten miles, stopped at a roadside carriage and horse shop, the coachman fed the mules, Xiao Lang entered the store to rest, only to see a person sitting in the store, wearing a bare sheepskin jacket, wearing a felt hat, tall, a beard, it was Chen Zikun who had not been seen for a long time.

"Mayor Xiao, it's been a long time." Chan smiled.

Xiao Lang smiled: "You are bold enough, less than five hundred meters away from here, it is the devil's turret." ”

Chen Zikun said: "This is called darkness under the lamp. ”

The shop was empty, there were no idle people, thinking that this was a contact point for the guerrillas, Xiao Lang put his mind at ease and said, "In the past few months, I have suffered you a lot. ”

Chen Zikun said: "But isn't it, I went to the theater headquarters to hold a meeting when the enemy launched a sweep, and when I came back, I couldn't return to the sky, the team suffered a lot of losses, there are coal and iron resources in Jiangbei, and there are ironworks, and the enemy has sent heavy troops, and it is too difficult to open up the situation." ”

Saying that, he sighed and picked up the teacup, in fact, there was something other unpleasant in his heart, Zhao Ziming, who was regarded as a nephew, actually voted for the eight roads, although it was a united front, but it also made people feel a little pimple, he had talked to Zhao Ziming, this kid has a tendon, admits death, and the eight horses don't come back, for the sake of his dead father's face, it's not easy to care, let him go.

Xiao Lang's heart was gloomy for a while, in his impression, Chen Zikun never seemed to sigh, and now he actually sighed, thinking that the prospects of the Anti-Japanese War were quite bad.

He thought for a while and said: "The situation in the European battlefield is unclear, Britain and France still meet with the German sword soldiers after all, and the army and navy of Britain who want to come to France are still unparalleled in the world, and after they solve Germany, it will be Japan's turn." ”

Chen Zikun smiled bitterly: "I have been to Berlin once, the brainwashing ability of the German Socialist Workers' Party is very unusual, and the Germans are all demonic, I am afraid that this time Germany will stew Britain and France." ”

Xiao Lang pondered for a moment and said, "At the end of the day, there is also the United States." ”

Chen Zikun said: "The Americans are not stupid, even if they participate in the war, they will not take advantage of it until the world is broken, hey, why is it going to go farther and farther, I originally wanted to pick you up and wash the dust, after stepping down as mayor, what are you going to do?" ”

Xiao Lang said: "I plan to go into the mountains to join the guerrillas, I don't know if you welcome it." ”

Chen Zikun laughed: "Of course welcome, Mayor Xiao brought a bookcase, is this going into the mountains to study hard?" ”

Xiao Lang said: "This is not an idle book, it is a reference book." ”

Chen Zikun's curiosity came up, so he walked over and took down the bookcase and opened it, and there were all foreign language books, mostly metallurgical and chemical books.

Xiao Lang said: "You need hot-blooded men, but you need knowledge even more, I went into the mountains this time, and I plan to help you build a real military factory." ”