Meng Qingshan, who was deep in thought, didn't hear Chen Hu's voice next to him: "Commander, the commander-in-chief has arrived." Only then did Meng Qingshan wake up from his contemplation.

I watched a middle-aged man who was tall and looked very old due to the deterioration of the situation. In later generations, he saw the photo of this famous anti-Japanese joint general on the Internet, and Meng Qingshan knew that this middle-aged man was the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army that he had been famous for a long time in later generations.

Meng Qingshan asked Xiaohuzi to let go of himself and slowly walked forward a few steps, walked in front of Commander-in-Chief Zhou, and respectfully saluted a military salute and said, "Good commander-in-chief." ”

While Meng Qingshan was looking at the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief was also looking at the young man in front of him, which made people a little unbelievable, thinking that Meng Qingshan was about 3 or 40 years old, but he didn't expect to be so young. Seeing Meng Qingshan saluting himself, he hurriedly replied, "Hello Commander Meng." ”

Hearing that the commander-in-chief actually called himself Commander Meng, Meng Qingshan hurriedly said: "Commander-in-chief, don't say that." In front of you, I am just a pawn, and I dare not say anything about commanding or not commanding. You can call me Comrade Xiao Meng or Comrade Qingshan. ”

"Comrade Qingshan is really better than seeing it, after learning that you led a team of less than 30 people to the current situation, I am proud of you, at our most critical juncture, you did not give up your faith and betrayed the party, which shows that you are an excellent ** member." Zhou Baozhong said with emotion.

You must know that Meng Qingshan's troops of Xie Wendong's Eighth Army of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, most of them are composed of peasants and bandits and mountain and forest teams, and the discipline is very poor, although it has changed from the anti-Japanese volunteer army to the command of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, but although his troops are under the banner of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, they still do their own tricks, and at the same time, they are also very xenophobic and refuse the political workers sent by the commander-in-chief, and less than ten people in the whole army are party members, and in order to expand the team, Xie Wendong used some titles of platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander to recruit bandits and mountain forest teams. Therefore, the whole army sounds like an anti-Japanese team, but in fact it is a den of bandits, and those who are in charge are still able to suppress these ruffians. If the official dies in battle, it will be a monkey and a monkey.

When Xie Wendong had just formed the Eighth Army, the headquarters specially sent some veterans and political workers, but most of the political workers were used different excuses to get back and only kept the veterans, and Li Youde, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese Union sent by the headquarters to help train soldiers for the Eighth Army, was finally sent by Xie Wendong to the Sixth Division of the Eighth Army as an ordinary soldier, so their troops gathered in victory, and scattered when they were defeated. This is also one of Zhou Baozhong's fancies for Meng Qingshan.

Meeting this anti-Japanese joint general for the first time made Meng Qingshan a little excited, although Li Yanping is also a general, but obviously not as good as Zhou Baozhong, a god-level person. And Shen Qingshan, who had been settling laborers over there and rushed over after hearing the news, was extremely excited when he saw the legendary commander-in-chief. After shouting the three words of commander-in-chief, he burst into tears with excitement, and he couldn't say anything anymore, he didn't expect that he would be able to see the commander-in-chief in his lifetime.

"Comrade Qingshan, who are you?" Zhou Baozhong asked.

"Commander-in-chief, I originally took these recruits out for training, but I didn't expect to meet the little devils and exchange fire with them, so I took them by the way, and beat the rabbit to solve them." Meng Qingshan said with a smile.

"How's the harvest?" Cui Shiyuan, who was next to the commander-in-chief, asked.

"Some of the weapons, ammunition and food, and about a few thousand laborers."

When Commander-in-Chief Zhou heard this, he laughed and said: "Comrade Qingshan deserves to be the lucky general of our Anti-Japanese Federation. ”

"What's the matter, it's a blessing to drag you old, this is a greeting gift for the little devil transport team to see the commander-in-chief coming." Meng Qingshan said with a smile.

"I didn't expect Comrade Qingshan to be a good hand in the war, and his ability to make sycophants is not bad." Cui Shiyuan, who was next to the commander-in-chief, said.

"Comrade Qingshan, let me introduce this Comrade Cui Shiyuan, chief of staff of our Second Route Army, Comrade Chai Shijun, commander of the Seventh Army on his left, and Comrade Hu Ren, director of our Political Department, on his right." The commander-in-chief said.

"Hello."

Meng Qingshan smiled and said: "Commander-in-chief, let's leave here first, in case the Japanese reconnaissance plane finds out, let's go back to the fortress first, you see?" ”

"It's fine." Zhou Baozhong said.

After that, Meng Qingshan asked Shen Qingshan, who had already been settled, to order the troops to set off, while he personally led the way in front, and several generals of the Anti-Japanese Federation around General Zhou carefully observed Meng Qingshan's troops behind Meng Qingshan and said: "Lao Chai, look at the pace of this unit, it's really good-looking." ”

"Lao Cui, I saw it, this pair must have been rigorously trained, if you look at their momentum, their momentum is different, and their weapons are awesome."

"Lao Chai, look at it, look at what is pulling behind you?"

Chai Shirong looked back and found that the artillery battalion was using a carriage to pull the Type 92 70mm infantry gun forward, and said in surprise: "I'm obedient!" There are all the cannons, and with this cannon, isn't it easy for us to fight the pioneer groups and group tribes of the little devils? In this unit, I am a company commander, and I admit it. ”

"Lao Chai, don't think about it, you are over the age, didn't you find that the troops under Deputy Meng's command are all forty-one?"

"Where am I old, Huang Zhong, a veteran of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period in ancient times, cut Xiahou Yuan at the age of seventy! I'm only a little old, I'm still in the prime of life. ”

"You are still in the prime of life, but when you are the company commander, you have to go and tell Deputy Commander Meng to see if he wants you."

"I'll go and say in a moment, and I'll kill you when the time comes."

When Meng Qingshan walked out of the 5-mile road with the commander-in-chief and the troops, Meng Qingshan suddenly fell to his knees and fainted, Commander-in-Chief Zhou and the generals of the Anti-Japanese Federation behind him hurriedly ran over to greet Meng Qingshan, Commander-in-Chief Zhou saw that Meng Qingshan's face was pale, and he hurriedly touched the top of his head with his hand, found that it was hot, and quickly turned around and called his wife over.

Commander-in-Chief Zhou's wife is also a lady, studied abroad to study medicine, after returning to China to marry Commander-in-Chief Zhou, the Japanese army invaded the Northeast, Commander-in-Chief Zhou rashly gave up the life of the eldest young master to lead the family to join the revolution against Japan, and his wife also gave up the life of fine clothes and food to follow him to the north and south over the mountains and mountains.

Commander-in-Chief Zhou's wife rolled Meng Qingshan's eyelids with her hand, and checked it again, Zhou Baozhong hurriedly asked, "How is it?" ”

"He had malaria and happened to have some medicine from their hospital when he left the Soviet Union."

"That's great."

"Also, his health is not very good, some weakness and overuse of the brain caused this disease."

Seeing that Meng Qingshan's face was pale and trembling at this time, Commander-in-Chief Zhou said: "It's really bitter Comrade Qingshan. ”