The female soldier Zhang Xiu suddenly left the battalion headquarters in a little panic, which suddenly made Liu Shu wake up from the trance just now, and the instructor realized that the subconscious action he made with the other party's towel accidentally revealed a trace of ambiguity. At this moment, he was the only one left in the camp headquarters, Liu Shu looked around, and wiped the tears on his face with Zhang Xiu's towel. Then the towel was folded and placed on the table.

He thought about it for a while, and decided to send the towel back to Zhang Xiu's health class (she lived with the female soldiers in the health class), first, to hide his thoughts, and secondly, this girl would also need to use it when she washed up tomorrow morning.

As a result, before he reached the barracks of the health class, the instructor noticed the unusual behavior of several company commanders under him in the darkness of the night.

Liu Shu first saw Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company. Wei Xin, who was tall and tall, was hurrying towards the north of this valley with a soldier, Liu Shu was stunned, according to the division of the camp planned today, the 7th Company was not in that direction. At this moment, Wang Shuanglong, the commander of the 6th Company, rushed over from the direction of the 6th Company's barracks to meet Wei Xin, and both of them followed behind the soldier and continued to walk north.

Liu Shu was suspicious: At the short meeting of the battalion headquarters just now, Wei Xin pushed back his decision to send troops to the Black Stone Cliff bandits' nest, and Wang Shuanglong's attitude towards this was obviously very hesitant. At this moment, what do these two company commanders want to do when they get together?

Liu Shu immediately left Zhang Xiu behind and followed him from afar.

Then the instructor was even more alarmed—as he was about to reach the northernmost point of the valley, he spotted a man carrying a lantern standing in front of a simple cabin, apparently greeting the other two company commanders. That's Lu Dajiang, the commander of the 8th Company!

Liu Shu's heartbeat was noticeably faster. In the middle of the night, the three company commanders left aside themselves as instructors and held a private party, and there was no doubt that they were going to do something unfavorable to themselves.

After those people entered the house, Liu Shu quietly stood by the wall of the cabin, eavesdropping on the sound inside the house-the small cabin leaking on all sides, and the discussions and decisions of the three company commanders were clearly transmitted. The more Liu Shu listened, the more angry he became, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and broke in!

From the overheard words and words of the three company commanders, Liu Shu felt their questioning and contempt for him as an instructor's military command and decision-making ability, and at the same time, he also felt their admiration and even worship for the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian in this regard-they actually wanted to hide from him and send someone to Hekou Village to invite Wu Zijian to return to Hongxingxia to preside over the military - this made the instructor's heart cold! Once upon a time, Liu Shu thought that after the battalion commander died, he could be expected to serve as the commander of the second battalion as a matter of course, but now it seems that the hope is so slim.

The three company commanders who were stunned by the instructor's sudden intrusion were shocked, and embarrassment, confusion, and guilt surged into their faces at the same time, and for a while, they couldn't even find a reason to cover up.

Liu Shu was not in a hurry to get angry at this moment, because he suddenly realized that there was a certain danger in facing these three company commanders who had military power in their hands and backbones in the back of their heads. He solemnly and coldly left a sentence:

"The three of you, all of you will come to the battalion headquarters for a meeting in a moment!" With that, the instructor slammed the door with his sleeves up.

Liu Shu hurriedly rushed back to the battalion headquarters and quickly gathered the soldiers of the communication squad who were preparing to go to bed. The battalion headquarters of the 2nd Battalion was directly under the jurisdiction of a communications squad and a sanitation squad (the enemy engineering team, artillery squad and heavy machine gun squad that Wu Zijian had pulled up in the 5th Company were also under the direct jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters). Among them, the 12 members of the communication squad include three division commanders, who follow the battalion commander, instructor and deputy battalion commander respectively, and in a sense, they also have a certain nature of guards (the battalion-level commander of the Eighth Route Army is not equipped with guards in principle). At this time, there were 12 people in the communications squad, four of whom were in Hekou Village with Wu Zijian, the deputy battalion commander, and eight of them were accompanied by Liu Shu, half of whom were equipped with machine guns.

At the same time as assembling the communication class, Liu Shu also sent someone to immediately find Instructor Tang from the 8th Company: Instructor Tang was picked up by Liu Shu in the second battalion, and he had great respect and trust in Liu Shu.

At this moment, what Liu Shu is most worried about is that the three company commanders disobey the order and do not come to the battalion headquarters for a meeting, in that case, relying on the small strength of the battalion headquarters, I am afraid it will be difficult to control the three company commanders with troops. However, Wang Shuanglong, Wei Xin, and Lu Dajiang came one by one in despair.

The short guns that the company commanders originally wore were taken away by the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian to support the enemy engineering team, and the pony pistols were reissued to them. Although the pony gun is shorter than the 38 big cover, it is a long gun after all, and it is far less convenient to carry than the barge gun; Therefore, in the absence of military intelligence, these company commanders did not carry their guns with them like shell guns. Liu Shu knows this; Therefore, when the three company commanders walked into the battalion headquarters with their bare hands, Liu Shu immediately began to reprimand them sharply, citing evidence one by one to criticize their erroneous views in the cabin just now.

The three company commanders had noticed that behind them and on the flanks were the soldiers of the battalion headquarters communications squad, a few flower machine guns in their hands—of course, the jet-black muzzle was still pointing at the ground at the moment—and on the table in front of Liu Shu lay his own pony gun, the bullets already loaded.

The three unarmed company commanders suddenly realized the seriousness of the situation. On the way from the cabin to the camp headquarters, they also felt that they had been caught by the instructor and were going to be beaten and punished, but they did not expect that the instructor who was one step ahead would actually use force.

In all fairness, in addition to the military command ability, these company commanders still have great respect and admiration for Liu Shu, but the gentle instructors on weekdays are very strange to them with emotions and mentality revealed at this time. When Lu Dajiang, the commander of the 8th company, saw his instructor standing beside the instructor, he frequently glanced at him, trying to persuade the instructor to persuade him; But the other party stood there with a serious face as if he had nothing in his eyes.

Liu Shu continued to gush angrily. The three company commanders were not good at speaking, not to mention that their actions tonight were indeed substantial, so they could only keep their heads down and keep quiet. Later, when the instructor questioned them about who was the initiator of the conspiracy tonight, the three men raised their heads and scrambled to say they were.

Liu Shu looked at them and let out a sneer: Okay, since you are all initiators, then I have to treat everyone equally-

"I now announce that Wang Shuanglong, the commander of the 6th Company, Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company, and Lu Dajiang, the commander of the 8th Company, are disorganized, seriously violate military discipline and party discipline, and gather and conspire without authorization to resist the order of the battalion commander, and they are now confined to be released, and the time for lifting the confinement is to be determined!" Speaking of this, Liu Shu turned to face the instructor of the 8th Company: "Instructor Tang, now it's up to you to carry out the confinement!" ”

The instructor of the 8th Company was as familiar with the situation in Hongxingxia, and he had already planned the location of the confinement under Liu Shu's instruction—one of the barracks on the east side of the canyon—however, Liu Shu suddenly changed his mind temporarily, and he asked Instructor Tang to take people to escort the three company commanders to the small cabin where they had just held a conspiracy. First, he felt that it was relatively hidden, and that it would not allow the matter to quickly spread among the commanders and fighters of the battalion; Second, he also felt that keeping them back there had a certain educational and reflective significance.

Although the soldiers of the communications squad were surprised and surprised by this sudden upheaval, as members of the battalion headquarters, they naturally had to carry out the instructor's orders to the letter.

In this way, the three companies of the newly defeated Second Battalion of the Lin Division had just joined forces, but the military commanders of the three companies were confined to a log cabin at the same time.

Liu Shu summoned the other commanders of the three companies, the deputy company commander of the 6th company (the company instructor died), the instructor of the 7th company (the deputy company commander died), and the deputy company commander of the 8th company. He began by informing about the decision to impose confinement on the three company commanders; They were then ordered to take charge of their respective companies from now on, and to obey unconditionally and resolutely to the supreme command from the battalion headquarters. For Instructor Tang, Liu Shu stayed by his side as an assistant.

After the briefing, the instructor immediately announced that he was now acting as the commander of the second battalion. As the acting battalion commander, the first battle order was that each company immediately began to organize part of its troops, planning to go to the Black Stone Cliff bandits' nest to pick up the wounded soldiers and comrades-in-arms left there by Wei Xinzhi, the commander of the 7th company; If the bandits resist, be prepared to solve it by force.

"When the Red Army was in northern Shaanxi, the garrisons in various places had the task of suppressing bandits, and now that we have arrived at Guanmen Mountain, we must eliminate the rampant banditry. What's more, this stubborn bandit once took the initiative to attack the 8th Company of the Second Battalion! Liu Shu said impassionedly.

This order of the acting battalion commander made the current commanders of the three companies feel a little heavy: they have not yet woken up from the radical changes that have just taken place, and they are about to face the situation of sending troops to suppress the bandits. Since ancient times, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and to be honest, the second battalion of the forest division that was driven into the mountains by the Japanese army is really not a strong dragon at the moment.

"Instructor, I suggest that when attacking the Black Stone Cliff bandits' lair, we can temporarily lift the confinement of Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company, and let him lead us to the Black Stone Cliff to have an interview with the female bandit leader. 8 Lian Tang instructor suggested.

Liu Shu didn't think about this, after all, the commander of the 7th company and the female bandit leader Liu Wumei formed a brother and sister, if the matter of the return of the wounded soldiers could be resolved peacefully, of course, it would be better. However, he has already detained the commander of the 7th Company, and if he is released to go to the Black Rock Cliff together, once the commander of the 7th Company defects and colludes with the bandits to fight back, the situation will become quite passive.

He was about to veto, but before he could open his mouth, the other deputy company commanders and instructors all agreed. Although Liu Shu was displeased, considering that he had just taken the position of acting battalion commander and had taken three company commanders by force, it was not appropriate to make too many enemies, so he nodded and agreed.

It was late at night when the meeting was dismissed, and the commanders in charge of each company began to return to their respective stations to arrange; The instructor's heart was hanging in the air, and then he gradually regained his calm. He looked back at the events of the night, checking if there were any omissions. At this time, he thought of Wu Zijian, remembered Li Tianlin's 5th Company who was still in Hekou Village, and his heart that had just calmed down fluctuated again: Do you want to send someone to report to Hekou Village as soon as possible, and transfer the 5th Company to Hongxing Gorge again? Wu Zijian, who has always been unruly, will he identify with and obey him, the acting battalion commander?!