In 1941, the Sino-Japanese War entered a phase of stalemate, and the Chinese and Japanese armies fought on the battlefield for four years, and there were dozens of large and small battles.

In North China, which is behind enemy lines, the situation is extremely grim. Although the Japanese army only occupied the towns along the railway line and seemed to have the upper hand strategically, the living forces of the Chinese army were not destroyed, and only most of the Hebei and Shanxi provinces remained under the control of the Chinese army, and the Kuomintang Central Army, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army, and the Eighth Route Army each opened up their own base areas. This was very gratifying to Chairman Chiang, who was sitting in Chongqing, and he believed that his strategic idea of exchanging space for time had been verified to a certain extent, and that no matter how big Shekou was, it would not be able to swallow an elephant.

Chairman Chiang soon lost his optimism. After the Battle of the 100 Regiments of the Eighth Route Army in North China in 1940, Chairman Chiang suddenly discovered that in the past two years, the Eighth Route Army had become 400,000 people, and the regular army alone had mobilized 105 regiments. The chairman only remembered that in the troop formation table of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, the Eighth Route Army was only a unit with tens of thousands of troops under the jurisdiction of three divisions and six brigades. Mother Xipi, who gave them the power to expand? As soon as the chairman is not happy, the problem becomes somewhat complicated.

As a result, internal frictions and battles broke out in the Chinese army, the old army and the new army of the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan fought each other, and the Eighth Route Army of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region and Zhu Huaibing of the Kuomintang Army fought inextricably in the Taihang Mountain, which made the Japanese army look at it as a joke. By 1941, the friction and warfare within the Chinese army had calmed down, and it was the turn of the Japanese army to have a hard time. The Eighth Route Army, which had long since been separated from the frontal battlefield, no longer planned to organize one or two regular battles, but instead disappeared into the vast plains and continuous lofty mountains, and the Japanese Army, which advocated the decisive battle of the main force, lost its opponent and was constantly surrounded by its opponents, and the power of guerrilla warfare, which had always been looked down upon by the regular army, was gradually revealed. The Japanese North China Dispatch Army could not withstand the attrition of the long-term war, and devoted its forces to the "May 1" sweep.

Li Yunlong's independent regiment also dispersed as a company. During this time, he was not very happy, because there was no decent battle to fight, either a turret was pulled out in the east, or a few railroad tracks were picked up in the west, which was like the main army? It's no different from the guerrillas.

Li Yunlong is a good drinker, and when it comes to the amount of alcohol, even he himself can't understand how big it is, anyway, it is related to his mood. When you are in a bad mood, you will get drunk in twos and threes; When you are in a good mood, you can still make a flower out of the ghost head knife after drinking a catty.

Political commissar Zhao Gang didn't drink at all, but later he couldn't stand Li Yunlong's entanglement and was also pulled into the water. Li Yunlong's words are too extreme: "People who don't drink are unreliable." "Also, if the intellectuals want to combine with the masses of workers and peasants, what should they do? He, Li Yunlong, really couldn't think of anything else besides wine. Zhao Gang pondered that it was better to drink these crooked theories than to argue about them, and it was not a matter of principle. After going back and forth, Zhao Gang actually practiced some drinking.

Li Yunlong is still an old problem, and when he is in a bad mood, he always has to find someone to vent to. The staff officers and miscellaneous personnel of the regiment headquarters all knew that he had this problem, and they avoided it from afar as they saw that something was wrong. Only Zhao Gang didn't know each other, and he was always dangling in front of Li Yunlong's eyes. Therefore, every time the head of the regiment is the first to make trouble, the political commissar's mouth is not forgiving, and they quarrel when they come and go, and after a few words, they feel that the impact is not very good, so the two of them knock out the door of the irrelevant people around them, and as soon as the door is closed, they open and scold, scolding each other. After scolding, Li Yunlong took out the wine again and persuaded Zhao Gang to drink together. The two of them forgot what they had scolded just now, and they drank emotionally, and called them brothers and sisters with red faces and tears, hooked shoulders and backs, and were affectionate like a mother.

Zhao Gang always said to Li Yunlong hatefully: "Originally, my mouth was quite clean, but since I became a partner with you, now I have learned to swear with a mouth, and I scold my mother with one mouth, I am embarrassed to think about myself, what is this called the combination of his mother and workers and peasants?" I didn't learn it at all, but I learned to scold and drink. ”

Li Yunlong said happily: "That's right, can you be a good soldier if you don't know how to scold?" My heart is not happy, a fire is always holding there, what should I do? In a word: fuck it...... The gas went out. What do you cultural people say? ”

Zhao Gang said: "Returning to the intestines. ”

"Yes, that's what it means. What should you do if you can't make up your mind and are embarrassed for a long time? Fuck it, so be it. The decision was made. Can you command the troops in the sour words of your literati? You ordered a battalion to take down the hill and said, 'Commander of the battalion, please organize your troops to attack that hill, and if you can't take it, I will punish you.' This kind of soft words will affect the combat effectiveness of the troops. You have to say something like: 'Yiying, take down that hill for Lao Tzu, grandma's, if you can't take it down, I'll chop you up for a dog day.' 'Listen, that's a boost. As soon as the troops heard this, they immediately screamed. Brother, my brother has eaten salty salt for two more years than you, listen to me, if you want to command the troops, you have to learn to scold. ”

Recently, Zhao Gang has been a little worried in his heart, in the past, when a large army moved, there were division commanders and brigade commanders on it, and Li Yunlong didn't dare to go out of the circle too much. Well, now the troops of the 129th Division alone are divided into many places, and there are troops everywhere in Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, all of which have played their own turf and are in an independent state, Li Yunlong has no one to take care of above, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, he can do whatever he wants, and no one will urinate. Zhao Gang thought that this unruly guy would cause something big sooner or later.

Wei Dayong, the second platoon commander of the first company, was a veteran who enlisted in the army in 1938, a native of Dengfeng, Henan, and a monk in Shaolin Temple. Because he repeatedly violated the rules of the temple by repeatedly fighting outside the temple, he was kicked out of the mountain gate by the abbot monk. One of his elder brothers was a company commander in the Kuomintang army, and he really had nowhere to go, so he planned to find his brother to be a soldier so that he could have a future. As a result, he ran into Li Yunlong's independent regiment, and the Eighth Route Army in 1938 still wore a blue sky and white sun cockade, and Wei Dayong thought that this was a regular "national army" and left.

In 1939, the Independent Regiment ambushed the Japanese Oda squadron in Qingfengdian, northern Hebei, and the two sides fought bayonets. Wei Dayong was surrounded by five devils in the middle, and his comrades-in-arms desperately approached him when they saw that he was in danger. "The comrades-in-arms witnessed a high-level assassination performance. The master's stabbing is really exciting, there are almost no superfluous movements, and the knife is bloody. When the bayonet was about to pierce into the right rib, his right rib was retracted into a piece, and the bayonet grazed the flesh, and the devil was stabbed through by the bayonet he was waiting for. His next action was even more absolute, flying up with a kick and pulling out the bayonet, the impaled devil flew out a foot away, and a devil behind him was smashed by his ** head, and it took only one action to pull out the bayonet and smash the opponent's head. And within two minutes, five devils with strict assassination training fell under his bayonet. After the battle, Wei Dayong was exceptionally promoted to platoon commander, when he had just turned 18. Since then, the great name of the Wei monk has been famous in the independent regiment.

After the troops were divided, Li Yunlong said to the monk: "Don't be your platoon commander, be a guard for Lao Tzu." ”

The monk, who was even demoted to three levels at once, didn't have any opinion at all, and said happily: "In the middle, the head of the regiment can afford me, give me face, I can't help but carry it." ”

These two bold guys got together, which made Zhao Gang's heart tremble, and he didn't know what they would cause trouble.

One day in October, there were two guests sitting in the elegant seat on the second floor of the Xianghe Teahouse on the central street of Heyuan County in northern Shanxi Province.

The Japanese military police who walked in line on the street downstairs would not have thought that sitting in the teahouse were Chu Yunfei, colonel of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army in the Second War Zone of the Kuomintang Army, and Captain Sun Ming, commander of his guard company. Colonel Chu Yunfei graduated from the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and was one of the few Jin Army officers from Huangpu under General Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second War Zone. This man is bold and accurate, and he is a typical professional soldier. Chu Yunfei's troops occupied a large area in the Hengshan area, adjacent to Li Yunlong's guerrilla zone. After a long time, Chu and Li both became famous in the northwest of Shanxi. Since ancient times, the common people of China have admired heroes and chivalrous warriors, so some folk oral literature has described the two of them as chivalrous men who can fly on the wall, use guns with both hands, and wear Yang in a hundred steps, so that the price of the Japanese bounty for the heads of these two people has risen to 50,000 oceans.

Chu Yunfei and Li Yunlong had dealt with each other before, and during the Battle of Xinkou, the two had cooperated in battle, but they did not have a deep relationship. Colonel Chu Yunfei had the same view as Chairman Chiang, and he had some prejudices about the Eighth Route Army, believing that the Eighth Route Army did not obey the orders of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, broke away from the frontal battlefield without authorization, and preserved its strength in the name of advancing behind enemy lines to conduct guerrilla warfare. He has heard a lot of legends about Li Yunlong, and he always feels that there is an apocryphal color, a mud leg who has never entered a military school, even if he has experienced a hundred battles, he is just a martial artist, he does not believe that Li Yunlong has any superiority in tactics.

A few days ago, Chu Yunfei brought a letter to Li Yunlong, saying that he wanted to meet and talk. Choosing a date location can be extremely challenging. Heyuan County is only a few dozen kilometers away from Datong, and it is a county town heavily defended by the Japanese army.

Hearing the footsteps of the stairs, Li Yunlong took the monk upstairs. The two of them were dressed very exquisitely, with a one-color Hangzhou spinning silk gown, a top hat, a mille-feuille bottom, dresses and cloth shoes, snow-white socks, and bulging pockets around their waists, without concealing it at all. Chu Yunfei secretly thought that this person was indeed bold, daring to dress up as a Japanese pseudo-plainclothes team, and brazenly swaggering into the Japanese lair with a gun in his waist to come to the appointment, and the more timid people trembled when they thought about it.

Chu Yunfei clenched his fists with both hands: "Brother Yunlong, don't come to harm?" ”

Li Yunlong returned the salute with his fist: "Boss Chu, Wishing you prosperity!" ”

Chu Yunfei said: "Replace wine with tea, Brother Yunlong made this cup first......"

Li Yunlong smiled: "Thanks to Boss Chu's love, but I don't dare to obey my brother's fate, this freshly brewed tea can burn my brother's throat." ”

Chu Yunfei had something to say: "In the battle of Xinkou, the contemptible people cooperated well with Brother Yunlong, but somehow, Brother Yunlong disappeared after the war. Contemptible and unheard, has Brother Yunlong been transferred out of the battle sequence of the second war zone? With Brother Yunlong's courage, he will never leave the battlefield without permission, right? ”

Li Yunlong snorted: "Boss Chu, don't be happy with your brothers, as the saying goes, people deserve to die compared to people, and goods should be thrown away." Boss Chu is a student of the chairman, and Chief Yan's high feet are stained with light on either side. There are more than 5,000 people in a regiment, and the losses are as much as they are replenished, and the guns, ammunition, and food are sufficient. Some people say that the Central Army was raised by an aunt, the Jin Suijun was raised by a young mother, and the Eighth Route Army was raised by a stepmother. Boss Chu is an aunt and a little aunt are spoiled, I can't compare with my brother, at first the stepmother also gave food to eat, although there was less gun, ammunition and food, but there was still a good thing, although the stepmother said that she was not close, but she also had the status of a mother, and then even the stepmother didn't recognize us, we became a motherless child, and we had to go out to ask for food. Boss Chu has face, and he took the time to talk to our mother, don't care about your parents, they are all mother's children, you don't eat meat, but brother, can I drink soup? ”

Chu Yunfei was speechless for a while, thinking that this was a fact, the chairman of the committee was on the neck of the Eighth Route Army on the supply side.

"Brother Yunlong, the national crisis is at the head, you and I are both soldiers, and we should serve the country, Chu does not want to intervene in the partisan dispute, only wants the independence and freedom of the nation, as long as Brother Yunlong fights devils, he is Chu's friend. I can't control the above matters, but if Brother Yunlong has any difficulties, just open his mouth, and I will solve the guns, ammunition, and food. Chu Yunfei said sincerely.

Li Yunlong didn't fight anymore, he clasped his fists with both hands and said: "Brother Chu's good intentions, my brother understands it, the Eighth Route Army can survive without relying on government assistance, it is better to ask for heaven and earth than to ask for yourself, I will snatch it from the devil without guns and ammunition and food, and I will have what the devil has." ”

Chu Yunfei gave a thumbs up: "The big husband stands up to the sky, Chu admires." Brother Yunlong, I heard that the chef in Juxian Building has good skills, and Chu has prepared a little water and wine, so the brother must appreciate it. ”

Li Yunlong said with a smile: "Brother Chu borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, I heard that today is the birthday of Ichiro Hirata, the captain of the Japanese military police, and he has wrapped up the Juxian Building, could it be that Brother Chu is reluctant to pay for a treat?" ”

"The Japanese don't eat for nothing, Brother Yunlong's intelligence is very accurate."

"Each other, each other, it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, can you not eat the meat that comes to your mouth?" Li Yunlong stood up.

Ichiro Hirata, the captain of the Japanese military police, is a relatively hospitable person, and for today's birthday, he chartered Juxian Tower two days in advance, and celebrities with heads and faces in the city, Japanese officers, and officers of the Imperial Allied Army all received invitations.

There was a table at the entrance of the restaurant, and the guests did not come empty-handed since they had come to celebrate their birthdays, and the gifts were piled up on a table, and a steward wrote the name of the giver on a piece of red paper with a brush.

Chu Yunfei and Sun Ming also bought some gifts, left their names according to the rules, and the two of them found a table against the corner of the wall to sit down, and the puppet army officers at the same table also did not know each other, and when they saw them sitting down, they all nodded and said hello.

Li Yunlong also wanted to buy some gifts to fool around, but he suddenly found that he didn't have a penny except for a few border tickets. He discussed with the monk, and both of them said, damn it, Lao Tzu ate his meal to give him the face of the dog, what kind of gift to bring? The two entered the door, and the steward greeted them and prepared to receive the gifts, and they were a little unhappy when they saw the two empty-handed, and said that these two people were so shameless, and they came to eat and drink in vain, and saw that they were in long shirts and hats, and carried a box cannon in their waists, so they decided that they were plainclothes and prepared to complain to Hirata Ichiro for a while.

The table was full of cold meat appetizers, and the hot dishes had not yet been served. Hirata Ichiro stood up to say a few words, he could not speak Chinese at all, and could only translate it into Chinese through the translator, which roughly meant polite words such as welcome and Sino-Japanese friendship, and everyone craned their necks to listen, waiting for him to finish before eating. But Ichiro Hirata soon stopped talking, his eyes fixed on the two men sitting at the table in the corner: how did these two men gobble up? And the appearance of eating is extremely ugly, and the mouth also makes a "smacking" sound. Not educated at all.

Li Yunlong usually likes to eat fried peanuts, he is using chopsticks to pick up peanuts and quickly put them in his mouth, it just so happens that the monk also likes to eat this thing, and also stretched out the chopsticks, Li Yunlong very selfishly moved the plate to himself, so that it was more convenient to eat. As soon as the monk saw that the peanuts were almost gone, he was a little unhappy, as soon as he reached out and snatched the plate back, he simply took the plate and poured it into his mouth, Li Yunlong grabbed it slowly, and the peanuts all went into the monk's stomach. Li Yunlong couldn't help but teach him a few words: "Look at your appearance, this is a banquet, everyone is a decent person, and you are not afraid of being embarrassed?" ”

The monk was not convinced, and said, "Your food is not much better than mine." As he spoke, he broke off the thigh of a roast chicken and gnawed it.

Li Yunlong was afraid that the monk would eat that thigh again, so he hurriedly stood up and broke off the other thigh, muttering: "! How do you just mind yourself? ”

The monk ate very quickly, and a chicken leg was thrown into his mouth and turned into a bone and spit out in the blink of an eye. He chewed quickly in his mouth, and as if no one was there, he walked to the adjacent table, reached out and tore off the two chicken thighs, and then picked up a plate of fried peanuts and turned his head to leave. At this time, the room became quiet, and all the Japanese officers and puppet army officers felt inexplicable, such a greedy and uneducated person was really rare. A young Japanese second lieutenant was a little angry, he glared at the monk angrily, and squeezed out a sentence viciously from between his teeth: "Baga! ”

Although the monk didn't understand Japanese, he knew that it was a curse. He was originally a rural child, he didn't have any polite education, he was brave and ruthless since he was a child, he could only take advantage of the fight and not suffer losses, and he usually wanted to rise up three feet of waves without wind, not to mention that someone scolded him, so the monk opened his mouth and scolded back: "Fuck your mother, who are you scolding on a dog day?" ”

None of the Japanese soldiers present knew Chinese, and they were at a loss to understand the monk's rude scolding, and the puppet army officers present were stunned and unable to react for a while.

Li Yunlong said with a wicked smile: "Xiao Wei, it's not right to scold, you see, how ugly it is, if you open your mouth, your father will your mother, it's not right for him to scold, lack of discipline, then you can't learn from him." ”

At this time, Chu Yunfei and Sun Ming, who were sitting at the table in the corner of the wall, couldn't help but laugh, and the two of them laughed back and forth. In fact, the nose of their shell guns had already been opened.

Hirata Ichiro couldn't hold back any longer, he walked to Li Yunlong's table and muttered to the translator, who said, "Taijun asked you which part you are?" What is your name? Who invited you here? ”

Li Yunlong had already finished eating, and was lifting a corner of the tablecloth to wipe his mouth. He said casually, "Oh, you're Ichiro Hirata, right?" Where are your 50,000 oceans? Lao Tzu is Li Yunlong of the Eighth Route Army, and sitting there is Chu Yunfei, the head of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, our two heads should be worth 100,000 oceans, right? ”

Chu Yunfei kicked over the table, and Sun Ming pulled out their guns in their hands, shouting: "Chu Yunfei is here, no one moves, Hirata Ichiro, where is my 50,000 oceans?" ”

Although Ichiro Hirata did not understand Chinese, he also knew that the comer was not good, and with a movement of his right hand, he grabbed the handle of the pistol at his waist, and his reaction was surprisingly fast. Hearing only a muffled sound of "bang", the monk hit Ichiro Hirata in the chest with a palm, and Ichiro Hirata flew out flat. The monk's iron sand palm killed Ichiro Hirata in an instant, his sternum and ribs were shattered, and the blood in his mouth spurted more than a foot high.

Li Yunlong smiled and said to Chu Yunfei, "Brother Chu, do you want to be captured?" Brother, I'll send you a favor, how about handing over this room of devils and traitors to you to ask for credit? ”

Chu Yunfei replied: "Thank you, Brother Yunlong, I can't afford this favor, what's the use of Chu asking for these turtle bastards?" Before the words fell, the shell gun in his hand rang out again and again, and Li Yunlong and the monk standing in the other corner of the room also opened fire, and the crossfire composed of four shell guns swept down all the devils and traitors like an iron broom.

The Japanese suffered a big loss this time, almost all the officers of the Japanese army and the puppet army garrisoning the county town were killed in this attack, and the army without officers was scattered, and the puppet army at the gate of the city heard the gunshots in the city, but they did not know what happened. Li Yunlong, Chu Yunfei and the other four defeated the puppet army without much trouble and successfully got out of the city.

When they broke up, Chu Yunfei took out a delicate Browning pistol and gave it to Li Yunlong: "Brother Yunlong, let's keep a souvenir, we will have a date later." ”

Li Yunlong put away his pistol and said, "You and I brothers, I hope we don't see each other on the battlefield in the future." ”

Chu Yunfei said: "Each is his master, there is really no way to do it at that time, take care of ...... more"

Li Yunlong took the monk to the county seat to make an appointment, and did not greet anyone when he left. The head of the regiment disappeared for a day, Zhao Gang was anxious and angry, and said in his heart that being a partner with this stunned young head was eight lifetimes of bad luck, and there was no day when he was not worried.

Li Yunlong didn't come back until dark, he was in a good mood today, he was full of food and drink, not to mention, he also had a good time, and used a shell gun to name the devil and traitor, there is nothing more pleasant in the world. As soon as he entered the door, he found that Zhao Gang ignored him with a black face, and knew that Zhao Gang should be in trouble this time, so he held back enough energy to quarrel with him. He didn't care much, and said in his heart that he was stunned by reading books on this dog day, and he loved to admit death. When he is in a good mood, he is not as knowledgeable as Xiucai.

Li Yunlong accosted him without words: "Lao Zhao, why haven't you slept yet?" ”

Zhao Gang said with a tiger face: "Nonsense, what time do you go to bed?" Besides, the head of the regiment is missing, do I dare to sleep? ”

Li Yunlong said: "Huh? Monk, this kid didn't tell you? Damn, this kid is getting more and more disagreeable, before I come out, I specially asked the monk to greet you, this kid must have forgotten, I will criticize him fiercely for a while, and dare to forget the good things, this is too much to take our political commissar seriously......"

Zhao Gang interrupted him unceremoniously: "Don't gossip, where have you been?" ”

Li Yunlong smiled and said: "I have been in this ghost place for a long time, and my muscles and bones are weak, so I went out to move my muscles and bones, and I walked to the county seat without paying attention." We countrymen have never entered the city, and once we enter, we can't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, and we don't have a watch, and we don't know the time. You can't blame me, you can only criticize you if you want to criticize, who made you so stingy and didn't lend me a watch to wear? Li Yunlong hit a rake, he had long been thinking about Zhao Gang's Roman watch, and said several times that he wanted to borrow Dai Dai, Zhao Gang said, go and go, and I'll give it to you when you meet each other. In this regard, Li Yunlong has always been obsessed.

Zhao Gang was angry: "You are such a scoundrel, I haven't said you yet, you will be beaten up." Forget it, I won't talk about you anymore, as the saying goes, it's as light as water three times. I've said the same thing more than three times, and I feel poor, and I'll say it one last time, comrade regiment commander, you should be with your troops at all times, and you should not act alone, this is called disorganization and undisciplined ......"

Li Yunlong took out the roast chicken that was missing two thighs. When he was shooting, he didn't forget to take the roast chicken into his arms. At this time, he hurriedly blocked Zhao Gang's mouth with roast chicken: "Don't say it, I can memorize the following words, brother, you see that my brother thinks about you a lot, get a roast chicken and leave half of it for you." ”

Zhao Gang was still angry, and pulled it with his hand: "Don't come to this set, you want to use this thing to gag my mouth?" I'm still going to say ......."

Li Yunlong was a little annoyed: "I know, I'll go out again in the future, first fucking run hundreds of miles to the division headquarters to find the division commander to ask for leave, okay?" Exercise! Kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs, if you love to eat it or not, Lao Tzu will not give it back. He turned around and walked away.

"Stop, put down the roast chicken, Lao Tzu has been worried for a day, you should give me some spiritual compensation on your dog day." Zhao Gang also scolded rudely.

Li Yunlong turned back with a smile: "That's right, come on, let's have a few drinks." He turned his head and yelled outside the house, "Monk, take out the wine you are carrying, Lao Tzu saw you stealing two bottles of Fenjiu, take them out!" Why do you still want to eat alone? You flower monk. ”

A few days later, information came from the inside: Li Yunlong, head of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and Chu Yunfei, head of the 358th Regiment of the Kuomintang Army, joined forces to make trouble in the county seat, and all officers above the rank of squad leader of the Japanese garrison squadron, gendarmerie, imperial cooperation army brigade, and plainclothes squad were killed, and none of them were spared. Tada Jun, commander of Japan's North China Dispatch Army, was deeply shocked, and at the same time announced a new reward amount, Li Yunlong's head, 100,000 yuan, Chu Yunfei's head, 100,000 yuan, and 50,000 yuan. Zhao Gang was also stunned.