Lixian, General Headquarters of Jizhong Military Region. Chief of Staff Zhou waved a letter and said excitedly: "Commander, guess which unit came to serve this time?" ”

Zheng Weiguo glanced at it lightly and said with a smile: "Who is so old-fashioned and still writes letters?" Which boss of the Broadsword Club or the head of the Lianzhuang Club? It won't be Zhang Zhonghan, Qiao Mingli, and Fan Zixia! ”

Zhang Zhonghan, Qiao Mingli, and Fan Zixia were relatively large forces in central Hebei at that time. On the ground in Jizhong, in addition to the 97th Army, the Hebei Guerrilla Army, and the People's Self-Defense Army, they are the most powerful. The military region has very much wanted to integrate these troops, but has never succeeded, so so far they are still "floating" in Jizhong, and they have neither listened to propaganda nor tunes.

Zhang Zhonghan was the commander-in-chief of the Boye People's Army, subordinate to Zhang Yinwu's Hebei People's Army, with three regiments under his command, totaling more than 2,000 people. However, his real identity is the underground party, and he tried to pull this unit into the camp of the Eighth Route Army, and accepted the additional commission of the People's Self-Defense Army, and reorganized the unit into the Second Guerrilla Division of the People's Self-Defense Army.

However, this army was greatly influenced by Zhang Yinwu, and Zhang Zhonghan was forced by the pressure of his subordinates to restore the name of the Hebei People's Army soon after the reorganization.

Qiao Mingli's department is also a branch of the Hebei People's Army. Qiao himself was also the deputy commander-in-chief of the Hebei People's Army. They had been active in western Hebei before, and they were still neighbors of the 97th Army. A few months ago, Zheng Huzi suddenly used force to solve the Hou Ruyong army, which was also active in western Hebei, and Qiao Mingli was worried about being annexed, so he hurriedly retreated to Ludong.

I didn't expect this withdrawal to come and go. At that time, there was chaos in the east of the road, and Qiaobu was able to grow rapidly in the local area. It is said that there are now more than 7,000 troops directly under the command and on the periphery. At present, it is active in Gaocheng and Jinxian counties. It is a big force in the local area.

Fan Zixia's department was subordinate to Sun Dianying's Jicha Guerrilla Army, numbered as the Second Division of the Second Route Army of the Jicha District, with more than 3,000 people (only more than 1,000 people in the direct subordinate troops, and the remaining 2,000 people were peripheral forces), mainly operating in the areas of Wuji, Gaocheng and Zhengding. However, the commander of the guerrilla army, Sun Laodian, has now gone to northern Henan, and Fan Zixia's department is helpless in Hebei, so life is not very easy. Fortunately, this person is quite capable, and he has not collapsed for so long.

In addition to the relatively large forces of these three roads, there are some miscellaneous armed forces abandoned by the national government in the central Hebei region, but none of them have become a climate. Some went up to the mountains and became bandits. Some even surrendered to Japan and became puppet soldiers.

At the same time, Jizhong is also active in the Lianzhuang armed forces and the Huimen armed forces. These two kinds of potential forces are rare in other provinces and regions, and have very strong regional characteristics.

The Lianzhuang armed forces are a situation in which the local villages protect each other, and most of them are controlled by the landlords. There is an anti-Japanese force and a reactionary force within it. Various contradictions between the landlords and the peasants and landlords. Politically vacillating. According to the statistics of 14 counties in the central area. A total of 95,000 Lianzhuang armed men, of which 32,300 were out of work.

The Huimen armed forces were similar to the Boxers, with feudal superstition as their main feature. The more famous ones are the Big Knife Club and the Red Gun Club. Behind this kind of organization is often mixed with other hidden forces, including the Eighth Route Army, the National Army, and the Japanese puppet side, so the political situation is very complicated, with a total of about 40,000 people.

Since the first battle of Gaoyang, there have been more powerful people from all over Jizhong who have come to take refuge. There are bandits who come to ask for recruitment, there are puppet soldiers who secretly contact and plan to do it anyway, and there are also Lianzhuang Hui and Huidaomen who come to work, which can be described as an endless stream. However, it is mainly small characters like Libei Thirty-six Zhuang and Suning Tianmen Society, and big fish like Zhang, Qiao, and Fan have not taken the bait, and it is estimated that they are still waiting and watching or the internal controversy is too great.

Chief of Staff Zhou Ha Luha smiled, slapped the telegram in front of Zheng Weiguo, and said triumphantly: "Commander, you guessed wrong this time. It's exactly what you call the Fan Zixia Department. ”

Zheng Weiguo glanced at it in surprise, only to see that the telegram script was impressively written: "If you don't give up, Fan is willing to lead the 3,000 athletes of the Second Division of the Jicha Guerrilla Army to serve under Junzuo, and I hope to be favored."

Chief of Staff Zhou smiled: "What's the matter, you didn't expect it to be him!" ”

Zheng Weiguo smiled and said, "Master Fan is bent on resisting Japan, and sooner or later he will cooperate with us." I just didn't expect this day to come so soon! ”

Historically, Fan Zixia finally led his troops south and fought in Wu'an, Shexian, Cixian and other places. He was the first person to resist Japan resolutely, the second was left-leaning, and hated Lao Chiang, so he finally chose to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army, and later became the brigade commander of the New 10th Brigade of the 129th Division. It's a pity that he died during the anti-encirclement and suppression in 42, so that New China lost a founding lieutenant general, or even a general.

Chief of Staff Zhou nodded and said, "I didn't expect that I didn't pay attention to him when I heard that he was Sun Dianying's old department. I didn't expect that after a careful inspection, the origin was not small. ”

Fan Zixia's resume is indeed very complicated. He is a native of Jiangsu, but he was born in the Northeast Army and served as a regiment commander. After the 918 Incident, the Northeast Army entered the customs and was ordered to encircle and suppress the Red Army. Fan expressed his dissatisfaction and demanded to resist Japan, but the authorities replied that "those who say that those who resist Japan will not be pardoned." Fan resigned angrily, traveled to many places, and finally ran to Feng Yuxiang's anti-Japanese allies.

After the defeat of the Allied Army, he secretly broke into the puppet Mongolian army Li Shouxin's department and helped Jin Xianzhang to launch an uprising, which played an extremely important role in the "Bailing Temple Victory". Unexpectedly, the authorities actually put him in prison for "left-leaning ideology and other plans".

After the "77" incident, Fan Zixia was finally able to see the light of day. The full-scale invasion of the Japanese invaders made his blood boil, and he longed to "run to the front line immediately and fight the national enemy!"

For this reason, he went to Shanxi to participate in the Sacrifice League, and participated in the 29th Army in Hebei. After the defeat of the national army, he refused to retreat, and re-raised the volunteer army in Xingtang. At the inaugural meeting of the Volunteer Army, he generously addressed his subordinates: "I advance, you follow me; I stop, you push me; I'll stand back, and you'll shoot me!" Swear to exchange your head for the lost splendid rivers and mountains!

Zheng Weiguo looked through the information obtained by Chief of Staff Zhou, and he was also secretly amazed. He only knew that Lu Dao Fan Zixia became a brigade commander in the Eighth Route Army, but he didn't know that Lu Dao had so many heroic deeds before he became a brigade commander.

"What a good man! It is an honor for all our officers and men to come to our 97th Army with such a person! "Zheng Weiguo rarely praises people. This time, I couldn't help but give a very high evaluation.

Chief of Staff Zhou also claimed yes, and then asked, "Then, commander, what position do you plan to give to Division Commander Fan?" ”

Zheng Weiguo was stunned, he didn't think so much just now. Now that you think about it, it's a bit of a trick. He is now a division commander, and his position is obviously not suitable for a small position. Even if Fan Zixia himself doesn't mind, others will also have opinions, and it will not be easy to recruit heroes from all walks of life in the future.

None of the larger posts are now vacant. There are vacant positions, such as the commander of the 33rd Division. Of course you can give. But these positions have no real power. There is a suspicion of overhead.

Chief of Staff Zhou smiled and said, "It's a pity, if Division Commander Fan had come earlier, he would have given him the position of commander of the Third Army Division." So. Deputy Division Commander Duan doesn't have to be tied to the place. ”

Zheng Weiguo snorted. "The area south of Tianjin is still blank. I want to open another military division here. ”

Chief of Staff Zhou shook his head and said, "It's okay to open an army division, but it's not appropriate to arrange Division Commander Fan over." "South of Tianjin is a zone under the strong rule of the Japanese army, and the situation of the struggle is bound to be very dangerous. Leaving a newcomer in such a place, those who don't know how to do it think they are borrowing a knife to kill someone!

Zheng Weiguo touched his head and couldn't help but feel a little headache. Now that the military region has just been established, its affairs are quite complicated, and there is a serious shortage of manpower. Duan Shuanghu went to the Third Division, and Director Xiong was running a military academy, so they had to do a lot of things themselves, and they were so busy that they didn't even bother to eat lunch.

The pillar looked distressed and said, "Commander, Counselor, I'll go to the street and buy you some donkey meat to burn!" ”

Zheng Weiguo nodded and said, "Okay!" But don't put it on the accounts of the military department, just deduct it from my salary. ”

The pillar said, "I know the way! Rest assured, I won't take advantage of the public. As he spoke, he hurriedly ran out.

Coincidentally, Professor Yang happened to walk outside the hospital. He had just finished his work today, and he hurried over, intending to discuss with Zheng Weiguo the establishment of a county brigade and a district squadron. Who would have thought that as soon as he walked to the gate of the courtyard, a big man suddenly jumped out of the courtyard. Professor Yang's body is quite tough, but after all, he is an elderly person, where can he withstand this? One of them stumbled on the spot and fell backwards, almost falling to the ground.

He thought to himself that he would not be able to run away this time, but when he was about to fall to the ground, he was dragged up again. When he looked closely, it was none other than Ren Zhuzi, the head of the security section, who was dragging him. Of course, he was the one who hit people.

"Pillar, you don't even walk to see it? I can't stand your bump with this old bone! Professor Yang couldn't laugh and cry, and reprimanded him severely.

"I'm so sorry! Professor Yang, I don't know you're outside! The pillar blushed and hurriedly reached out to help him up.

Professor Yang snorted and said, "It's rough, and I don't know how your commander teaches you on weekdays. Then he asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?" ”

The pillar was so trained that his head drooped, and when he saw the professor asking, he hurriedly explained: "Commander, they are too busy to have lunch, so I'll go buy them some food." ”

Professor Yang waved his hand and said, "Well, that's pretty much it, go ahead!" ”

Zhu Zi smiled and said, "Hey, Professor Yang, don't tell the commander about what I just happened to you!" Otherwise, he will scold me again. ”

Professor Yang scolded with a smile: "You leather monkey, you don't have a proper shape for a day, and you deserve to be scolded." But this time you can rest assured, my old man is not so stingy! As he spoke, he turned and walked towards the courtyard.

In the living room, Zheng Weiguo and Chief of Staff Zhou were worrying about the personnel arrangement. Seeing that Professor Yang was coming, he hurriedly got up to welcome him. Zheng Weiguo's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that his old man was limping, as if he was still injured, he hurriedly asked, "Professor Yang, who are you?" ”

Professor Yang said embarrassedly: "Ahem, I almost fell at the gate of the hospital just now, but fortunately, there is no big problem." ”

Chief of Staff Zhou quipped: "Wrestling? It's only June, and it's a little early for you to want to celebrate the New Year! ”

Professor Yang was afraid that he would be punished for the pillar, so he didn't speak, but shook it with a wry smile, and then changed the topic and said, "Hey, didn't you just win the battle, why are you two sad?" ”

Zheng Weiguo smiled: "This can be regarded as a happy trouble!" Are you experienced, see what can be done? So I told him the news that Fan Zixia's department had come to serve.

After hearing this, Professor Yang smiled and said, "What's wrong with this?" You are truly in the midst of blessings and do not know blessings. If you want to rest on others, such a large army can't ask for it. ”

Zheng Weiguo and Chief of Staff Zhou hurriedly said: "How can you say this? ”

Professor Yang said: "The army is expanding! We have such a large base area now, how can we do it without expanding it? ”

Chief of Staff Zhou slapped his thigh and said, "That's right! I didn't think of that! ”

Zheng Weiguo disagreed, and said: "You have forgotten that our main force has just been expanded several times in a row, and if we expand the new troops without restriction in this way, the combat effectiveness will not be guaranteed." ”

Chief of Staff Zhou said: "It is better to prepare the recruits first than to expand before the war!" ”

When Zheng Weiguo heard it, he felt that it made sense. So he ordered the 33rd Brigade to be expanded into the First Division of the Jizhong Military Region. Zhao Yunxiang, the former commander of the 33rd Brigade, served as the division commander, the regiment commander Ma Biao, who had returned from injury, served as the deputy division commander, and Fan Zixia served as the commander of the first regiment as the chief of staff of the division. Huang Qixiang, the former deputy commander of the 33rd Brigade, was reappointed as the commander of the garrison of the six counties directly under the military region.

With Fan Zixia's ability level, being a regiment leader is definitely a condescending talent. However, he has just joined the 97th Army in the battle sequence, and he has not made an inch, so it is not appropriate to give too high a position for the time being.

As soon as Fan Zixia's troops were settled here, a few more guests quietly arrived at the county seat of Lixian. Who are they? Let's take a look at the next round. (To be continued......)