Xu Shijiu got up early in the morning and personally led more than 60 bandits from the 3rd Brigade to start running and drilling.

As long as the national army does not have a combat mission, it must run and drill before breakfast, which is as close as 5 kilometers and as far as 20 kilometers, depending on the training situation of the troops; if it is a new recruit, the intensity of training should be smaller, and if it is a veteran, the intensity will be much greater; within the national army, in fact, there is no situation in which veterans can live a good life.

Naturally, the bandits can't compare with the regular army, and they start to drop the chain one by one after running down two kilometers, either this diarrhea or that foot, after all, this is just a group of wild and untamed! Bandits, Xu Jiujiu didn't dare to practice too hard, so he had to temporarily reduce the amount of training and pull the team back to Panshi Village.

Panshi Village is in the last Qinglongzhai bandits ambush small Japan site, although the steep is not as good as Qinglongping, Heilonggang, but it is the only passage for Longkou County and Lijia Town to enter Erlong Mountain, do not go from here, then you have to walk hundreds of miles, from the north of Nanling County to detour, or directly through the dense deep mountains and old forests, but this is not the ordinary army can compete.

Due to the rush of time, Panshizhai temporarily only built a row of thatched houses, and then set up a playground in the valley.

After eating breakfast in a hurry, more than 60 bandits began to be led by Lu Jianbang to train and fight stabbing, Lu Jianbang stood in front of the queue with a good bayonet to explain, the bandits below were chatting with each other, some picked out their ears and picked their noses, and some held the 38 big cover and watched Lu Jianbang in a daze, and few were listening carefully.

If Xu Shijiu hadn't specially told him, Lu Jianbang was afraid that he would have a seizure on the spot.

Seeing that Lu Jiangang had no way to deal with the bandits, Gao Shenxing shook his head and said: "These bandits and grass cowards have obviously developed a lazy vice, I am afraid that it is not good to swallow water training, if you want to follow my meaning, you should give them ruthless, reward them for completing the task, punish them severely if they fail to complete the task, and those who dare to blow up the thorn will be killed."

"It's not time yet." Xu Jiujiu shook his head.

These bandits are wild and untamed, and if they practice ruthlessly, they are very likely to explode.

Although Xu Shijiu and the others may not be afraid of dozens of bandits in this area, it was not easy to gain a firm foothold in Erlong Mountain, and Xu Shijiu didn't want to ruin the good situation like this.

Therefore, everything has to be considered in the long term.

Xu Shijiu said: "These bandits are unreliable, we still have to have our own talents." ”

Gao Shen said: "Calculate the time, Li Mu should also come back, but I don't know what news I can bring back." ”

Ten days ago, Xu Shijiu arranged for Li Mu to go out to investigate the various armed forces operating in Longkou County and Nanling County, as long as there were two purposes, one was to have an understanding of the various armed forces in the north and south counties of Erlongshan, and the other was that Xu Shijiu hoped to find a few routes of the national army's rout, and then absorb these national army routs into Erlong Mountain.

Only the national army can become the cornerstone of the 19th Independent Detachment of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui

Although the bandits of Qinglongzhai and Heilongzhai have nominally become the men and horses of the Nineteenth Brigade, this is just an illusion, there is still a long way to go before Leng Er and Scar Er can really obey him, these bandits can be cunning, if you don't give them enough benefits, or don't show enough strength to deter them, they will never obediently obey orders.

At the beginning, Chairman Chiang suppressed and co-opted, divided, and disintegrated various local warlords, and there was also the support of the Whampoa Student Army, and if the 19th Detachment did not have descendant troops, it would be tantamount to a fool's dream to integrate the various armed forces in Longkou and Nanling counties.

Xu Shijiu said: "I dare not say how much Li Mu can gain this time, but he will not gain anything." ”

In the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Wuhan, which ended just at the end of last year, dozens or hundreds of divisions of the Nationalist army were defeated by small Japan, and some of these troops withdrew to the rear and entered the shelter, while others remained behind enemy lines because of blocked roads and poor news, like the Sichuan Army, and some of them remained behind enemy lines.

Therefore, Li Mu will not gain nothing no matter what.

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Li Mu really has a harvest, and it is a big harvest.

Ten days ago, Li Mu left Panshi Village and began to move forward aimlessly, Longkou County belongs to the mountainous area of southern Anhui, the territory is full of lofty mountains and mountains, what carp mountain, Pingding Mountain, mouse mountain, Ma'an Mountain, lotus tip, large and small dozens of mountains, almost every mountain is entrenched in bandit arms, there are also the rout of the national army, but Li Mu has no choice but to give up after contact, because these national army rout has been completely abolished, and has become no fighting spirit.

Until he arrived at Lion Rock, which was more than 100 miles away from Erlong Mountain, Li Mu encountered another national army rout.

Li Mu relied on the skills taught by Gao Shenxing when he was idle, and effortlessly touched up from the cliff behind the mountain, ready to grab a live mouth to interrogate the details of this rout, but he actually lost his hand, although the guard post he was targeting was small, but he was extremely flexible behind him, Li Mu failed to succeed in a blow and had no chance, and was captured alive.

Li Mu could only sigh to himself that he was unlucky, but he met an acquaintance in the mountains

This acquaintance is none other than Li Shuanggun, the platoon commander of the Sichuan Army, who once received the help of the 19th Brigade at the foot of Longshou Mountain.

It was not until later that Li Mu learned that after Li Shuanggun left the 19th Brigade with more than a dozen brothers, he embarked on a journey to catch up with the large army of the Sichuan Army, but when they finally caught up with the large army and were about to find the army commander Pan Wenhua to avenge the grievances of the division commander Rao, they knew that Pan Wenhua had asked Chairman Jiang to remove him.

What especially made Li Shuanggun angry was that Liu Ruzhai, the culprit who killed General Rao Guohua, turned out to be the brigade commander of their brigade, Li Shuanggun couldn't accept such a cruel fact, and took a dozen brothers to angrily leave the army and then wandered to Longkou County.

Because there was nowhere to go, Li Shuanggun simply settled in Lion Rock, and then Li Shuanggun successively contained more than 100 routs, including the officers and soldiers of Yang Sendi's army, Guo Xunqi's 50th army, and even the rout of the Central Army.

When he learned that Xu Shijiu had settled in Erlong Mountain, Li Shuanggun immediately said that he wanted to come and defect.

Li Shuanggun didn't have much contact with Xu 19, but Xu 19's ability he had seen in the battle of Niushou Mountain, it was definitely a rare senior commander, and even the overall defense plan of Niushou Mountain was formulated by him, if Xu 19 was asked to command the defense of Nanjing, it would never be as miserable as it was later.

Again, Xu 19 still has a life-saving grace for Li Shuanggun and more than a dozen old brothers, Xu 19 has pulled up the banner of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in Southern Anhui in Erlong Mountain, and he should come to defect because of reason, public and private.

The next day, Li Shuanggun packed up and took the more than 100 brothers on the road.

At this time, Li Shuanggun's team had already arrived outside Lijia Town, which was where Xu Shijiu and the others had settled.

After all, it is a Japanese-occupied area, if you want not to alarm the spies of Little Japan, if you want not to attract the blow of Little Japan, then you can only march at night, it is the middle of the night, but the lights are still on in Lijia Town, and there is a faint sound of dogs barking, and the discerning person knows at a glance that there must be strangers in Lijia Town, and there are many people

"It seems to be Li Sanxing's family." Li Mu came to Lijia Town once, and he still had an impression of this family, when Lu Jianbang wanted to kill him, but Xu Shijiu stopped him, Li Mu also had a good impression of this family, thinking that although he was the maintenance chairman of Little Japan, he was not necessarily a traitor.

Li Shuanggun also felt strange, and frowned: "In the middle of the night, who will run to the door without anything?" ”

"Could it be that the captain is coming?" Li Mu suddenly thought of a possibility, although the remnants of the Nineteenth Brigade temporarily settled in Panshi Valley and also recruited a group of bandits from Heilongzhai, but the supplies were in short supply, so it was also possible for Xu Nineteen and them to come to Lijia Town to borrow some food from Li San Province while it was dark.

"What are you talking about, Captain Xu?" Li Shuanggun said, "Then let's hurry over too." ”

At that moment, Li Shuanggun followed Li Muxing with more than 100 defeated soldiers and hurriedly came to the Li family's mansion, but when he was still a few hundred meters away from the Li family's mansion, Li Mu found that something was wrong, because there were several trucks parked on the playground at the entrance of the village, and six or seven Japanese soldiers were sitting around the fire, drinking and laughing at the same time, and there was a chicken barbecue on the fire.

At the edge of the playground, there was also a Japanese soldier holding a 38 cover to sentry.