The temporary headquarters of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Lanxian County

On February 22, 1938, when the main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army was ordered to cooperate with the Kuomintang Army to "counterattack Taiyuan", and when fighting with the northern section of Pulu, the main force of the 26th Division of the Yue Army stationed in the Datong area was more than 8,000 people and more than 3,000 people of the puppet army Li Shouxin's department. With the cooperation of the enemy's 109th Division, which was attacking west along the Fenli Highway on the southern front, it was dispatched from Shuoxian, Pinglu, and other places to launch an attack on the northwest of Shanxi.

In order to strike at the Yue army and completely smash the siege of the Yue army, the 120 th Division of the Eighth Route Army, except for a small number of troops left to contain the Yue army in the Shuoxian, Pinglu, and Qingshui River areas, the main force returned to the division at night and quickly concentrated on the front line of Lan County to assemble and recuperate, preparing to find fighters to meet the Yue army, several commanders of the 120 th Division are studying countermeasures to meet the enemy, more than 10,000 enemy troops are menacing, and the slightest carelessness may bury the 120 Division into the mouth of the enemy, so several commanders of the 120 Division have to carefully and carefully formulate a battle plan.

"Division commander, the message just arrived from the headquarters" A young confidential officer quickly stepped into the command center, he held a telegram he had just received in his hand, and the whole person was lying on the map He Longtou did not lift it, but just waved his hand to signal the confidential officer to read the content of the message directly, and the deputy division commander Xiao Ke saw this and took the telegram and asked the confidential officer to go down first, just looked at it roughly, Xiao Ke happily flicked the message with his fingers and laughed, "Good news, division commander, good news, the headquarters said that it will support us in the near future with a batch of weapons and ammunition"

", those guys like Yan Laoxi will take the initiative to replenish our weapons and ammunition." Xiao Ke's words led He Long to stand up straight from the map, and asked in disbelief, in He Long's memory, it would be good if those guys at the headquarters didn't reach out to ask for things from the 120th Division, when would they take the initiative to issue weapons and ammunition, and the sun really came out in the west.

It's not been a day or two with He Long, and he is naturally very familiar with He Long's temper, Xiao Ke didn't answer his rhetorical question, just smiled and slapped the telegram in his hand in front of He Long, "Look for yourself, see if I lied to you" and didn't care if He Long read the telegram, Xiao Ke was satisfied with his big teapot and drank boiling water, although there were only about 500 rifles and only 50,000 rounds of ammunition, which was a drop in the bucket for the 120th Division, but Xiao Ke valued the small unit mentioned in the telegram.

The telegram specifically mentioned that this small unit is not a ** unit, it is a hired hostage unit, the commander is a returned overseas Chinese named Zhao Zhi, others may not know why the headquarters message has this kind of content, but Xiao Ke knows the true intention of the headquarters this telegram, the headquarters is to envelop this small unit as much as possible in the 120th Division, even if it can't be a friend, at least it can't be an enemy, Xiao Ke doesn't know why the headquarters values this little-known small unit so much, Maybe all the answers will be revealed when that army arrives in Lan County.

"Ha, it's really the sun coming out of the west, 500 38 rifles, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, the headquarters is really bleeding this time" He Long couldn't stop slapping the message in his hand, a mouth has long been happy to close, the 120th Division is a main division in the Eighth Route Army, but they have just transformed from the Red Army for only a year, both personnel and weapons are still very lacking, many soldiers still use the old sleeves of the Red Army era and Hanyang made, although the repeated exchanges with the army have also captured some firearms, But it was still far from the level that He Long expected.

This time, it is a full 500 38 rifles, plus the captured firearms, He Long can be equipped with an integrated main force regiment, which will be the fist unit of the 120th Division, the main force of the main force, Xiao Ke, who was standing on the side drinking water, looked at He Long's appearance and wanted to laugh, "There is still something down here, you continue to look down" Xiao Ke pointed to the part of the message about the small army, and laughed and teased He Long.

"What does this mean, you can hire people to fight when you fight." Sure enough, as Xiao Ke thought, He Long, who had read the telegram, was a little confused, and the chief of staff, Zhou Shidi, was also confused, looking at He Long's scrutinizing gaze, Xiao Ke spread his hands and said that he didn't know, "Don't worry, when the small army mentioned in the telegram comes, won't we know, this batch of weapons and ammunition from the headquarters was escorted by them."

In the winter of 1925, Xiao Ke, who was only 18 years old, graduated from the Jiahe County A Simple Normal School in Hunan Province, and went to Guangzhou alone, at the beginning of 1926, he was admitted to the Military Police Training Institute of the National Political Axe Military Committee (the training institute was later merged with the Whampoa Military Academy), during this period, Xiao Ke in order to increase his knowledge and livelihood, he met some progressive students and foreigners, and knew some things about mercenaries from them and books, but Xiao Ke only heard about it, He hadn't seen the so-called mercenaries with his own eyes, so he had doubts in his heart.

"It doesn't matter what kind of mercenary he is, as long as he fights devils, since the headquarters dares to let them help transport weapons and ammunition, then they can't be our enemies" Chief of Staff Zhou Shidi was very disapproving, just like the division commander He Long just said, the headquarters is full of scheming guys who never make a loss-making business, and it is more difficult to take advantage of them than to ascend to the sky, and this small army of more than 100 people who is about to come is not afraid at all.

"Call back to the headquarters, I already know, our department will send troops to answer" He Long walked on the spot for a while with his hands behind his back, and called the confidential officer waiting at the door in, He Long is also an old revolutionary, how can he not know the small abacus of the headquarters, no matter what, the matter of sending weapons and ammunition still has to be acknowledged, the main force of the 120th Division is gathered around Lanxian, and it is also very convenient to send troops to respond, the hostile forces in the northwest of Shanxi are complicated, He Long doesn't want to have problems with the batch of weapons and ammunition he is about to get his hands on, besides, Isn't this also a response to the intentions of headquarters?

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