The sorrow and resentment of the female bandit leader Liu Wumei are all for a reason.

In her early years, she traveled all over the world, in addition to Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Suiyuan, Chahar have been involved, and she belongs to a woman who is unwilling to be lonely; Being the king of grass in barren mountains and mountains like the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain is far from her interest pursuit.

But the nearly 200 people in charge of the cottage are not something that can be left alone, most of the bandits are stubborn and tired, and the slightest negligence may lead to disintegration. In this way, Liu Wumei, who did not dare to travel far, took the opportunity to go out of the mountain to Wencheng once a month to relax, and took it very seriously.

Bai Baoyuan, the shopkeeper of Wencheng Baoyuan Restaurant, could only be regarded as a small boss in the Black Rock Cliff Cottage, relying on the good way of running the restaurant, he was promoted by Liu Wumei to become the second leader, ranking before the black donkey. Among them, in addition to the above-ground and underground income of Baoyuan Restaurant has gradually become an important pillar of cottage expenses, there are also reasons why Liu Wumei secretly likes this place. The female bandit leader was irritable and bored in the Black Rock Cliff, and every month she could have such a comfortable nest to go down the mountain into the city and drink and have fun for her to relax, which could somewhat resolve her depression.

However, this unexpected friction with the Eighth Route Army set up a big obstacle for Liu Wumei's future descent from the mountain. According to the female bandit leader's own words, she had already "shown her face" in front of the Eighth Route Army, and she would never dare to enter and exit Guanmen Mountain easily from there when she knew that there was a large force of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Hekou Village; And if you go to Wencheng from the mountain pass in Xiping Village, you will have to walk more than ten miles on the rugged mountain road in Guanmen Mountain, which of course will make Liu Wumei angry.

But cousin Xiaoju also came to block Liu Wumei.

Xiaoju is a female student, after studying in the countryside for many years, her parents sent her to the only middle school in Wencheng, if it weren't for the accidental death of her parents and became an orphan, she would not have been taken into the Black Rock Cliff bandit's nest by her cousin Liu Wumei. To a certain extent, Xiaoju's yearning for the world outside the mountains is much stronger than Liu Wumei. Therefore, almost every time Liu Wumei goes out of the mountain (except for the action of robbing the house), she has to take her cousin with her.

On this recent trip, in view of the fact that the Japanese army had captured Wencheng and the Eighth Route Army appeared in Guanmen Mountain, Liu Wumei, who was mainly engaged in exploring the wind, did not take Xiaoju out of the mountain together, and as a result, her cousin cried several times. The female bandit leader, who was originally upset, became more and more angry.

Liu Wumei released more than a dozen minions in one go, respectively going to the mountains to search for the camp of the Eighth Route Army, going to Hekou Village to observe the next move of the Eighth Route Army, and going to the mountain pass in Xiping Village to listen to the wind. She already had a faint bad premonition: since the Eighth Route Army had built a nest in Guanmen Mountain and camped in the area of the mountain pass in Hekou Village, then they might not not be involved in the mountain pass in Xiping Village.

The female bandit leader's hunch was accurate. Now in Xiping Village, at the foot of Guanmen Mountain, the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army Forestry Division has not only set up camp, but also shown a momentum of getting bigger and bigger.

However, Liu Shu, the instructor of the second battalion, was as worried as Liu Wumei at the moment: the situation he was most worried about had indeed appeared, as an outpost of the Guanmen Mountain base area, there was an exchange of fire between Hekou Village and the nearby enemy troops, and the future situation was difficult to estimate.

And before that, Liu Shu's mood was so comfortable that it couldn't be more comfortable-

This big village called Xiping, backed by Guanmen Mountain, winds for five or six miles, the Qinglong River meanders through the village, by the mountains and rivers, advancing and retreating freely, it is the ideal base. Moreover, this base area was so easily accomplished, and under the banner of Yan Xishan's "General Mobilization Committee for the Battlefield," the Second Battalion rightly replaced the administrative function of the Xiping Village Office. The people and villagers welcomed the arrival of the Eighth Route Army so much, and the whole village of more than 2,000 people, except for a few large landlords, all supported the rent and interest reduction policy of the moving committee.

The plan to establish a company of recruits has taken shape, but out of prudence and prudence, the more than 200 young and middle-aged men recruited in the village still appear under the title of Xiping Village Self-Defense Force (the Self-Defense Force, the Sewing and Washing Team, etc., are all legal organizations at the village level led by the Yan Xishan government-led Field Mobilization Committee); Liu Shu discussed with the battalion commander Feng Changzhi and organized the village self-defense force into six detachments, each with thirty or forty people, which was actually secretly organized according to the six platoons of a company, and when the conditions were ripe, a fully staffed recruit company of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army could come into being! Liu Shu has even considered that he will personally serve as the commander of the recruit company as a battalion instructor: in the work friction with the high-flying deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian, Liu Shu felt the shortness of breath without soldiers in his hands, if he can personally control the strength of a company, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance his prestige and right to speak.

Of course, what made the instructor Liu Shu feel good was the female soldier Zhang Xiu. This beautiful battalion clerk used to have more respect than closeness to himself; Since she was appointed as the deputy director of the Xiping Village Movement Committee, Zhang Xiu has not only been enthusiastic about her work, leading the women's sewing and washing team in the village every day, but also enthusiastic about him as an instructor. The office of the village moving committee is located in the original village office, and he and Zhang Xiu, a director and a deputy director, get along with each other day and night, and cooperate like water; Through unprecedented intensive contact, Zhang Xiu also became much closer to herself. This makes the instructor with glasses and a clear face feel very happy and sweet.

However, like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, a battle alarm came from Hekou Village, more than ten miles away. Although the battalion commander who went to the aid soon came back and said: It was only a small group of puppet Mongolian troops that came to attack, not the main force of the Japanese army. However, Liu Shu's heart was still tightened - Wu Zijian's guy, he has always been uneasy, it seems that it was a huge mistake to keep him and the 5th Company in the outpost closest to the Japanese army in Fengdian!

It is still impossible to estimate the consequences of this mistake. After Feng Changzhi returned to Xiping, Liu Shu repeatedly asked about the scale of the battle of Hekou Village, and Feng Changzhi's answer made him very uneasy—the battalion commander seemed to be deliberately hiding something, describing this unexpected battle as insignificant.

But look at the loot brought back, the forty Mongol horses captured (nearly twice as many as the Japanese cavalry captured in the ambush at Dawangyu!) The batch of pony guns, the crooked Japanese-style machine guns as many as three, they even captured an officer of the puppet Mongolian cavalry, Feng Changzhi said about this detail, admitting that the officer was the deputy commander of a cavalry battalion.

Deputy battalion commander!

That is, the enemy forces that came to attack the village of Kawaguchi were at least the size of a cavalry battalion. Although Liu Shu did not understand the situation of the so-called Mongolian Xinjiang Army, he could roughly guess the size of a cavalry battalion.

"Battalion commander, please tell me the truth!" The instructor was almost angry: "As the supreme leader of the party group of the second battalion of the forest division, I ask you that you must truthfully report the true situation of the battle in Hekou Village!" ”

Seeing this, Feng Changzhi no longer concealed it, and he admitted to Liu Shu: After his joint interrogation with Wu Zijian, the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion of the puppet Mongolian army who was captured gave an account of the cavalry battalion's search and eradication mission in the area of Guanmen Mountain from Fengdian under the leadership of the regiment commander, and said that this was a task assigned by the Japanese.

"The Japanese he was talking about were the Otsuka Wing stationed in Fengdian County," Feng Changzhi explained: "Fengdian County was attacked by Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army not long ago, and the Japanese are retaliating against it. ”

Liu Shu was full of suspicions: "Battalion commander, did Deputy Battalion Commander Wu really not take the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Fengdian?" Did this cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army really touch Hekou Village by accident? ”

"That's right, they did come by a blind cat who killed a mouse and stumbled into it by mistake."

Feng Changzhi was worried about the resumption of friction between Liu Shu and Wu Zijian, of course, it was impossible to say that Wu Zijian had tried to use troops against Fengdian, and he also concealed the fact that Wu Zijian transferred mortars and heavy machine guns from Hongxingxia. But he had to tell the instructor that Lu Dajiang's 8th Company had exchanged fire with a group of bandits in Guanmen Mountain.

Liu Shu was not worried about the bandits, but he still kept asking about the battle of Hekou Village, and Feng Changzhi had no choice but to change the topic in the name of urgently arranging for the new cavalry company to be stationed for training.

After discussion with the instructor, the cavalry company of the second battalion was formally established, and Xia Lianshan, the former deputy commander of the 5th company, served as the commander of the cavalry company; In addition to the cavalry platoon brought by Xia Lianshan from Hekou Village, which had begun to take shape, the number of the cavalry company was drawn from the 7th company, and the number of cavalry companies was temporarily matched with the strength of the cavalry company according to the number of 60 military horses. At the same time, a platoon of the 6th Company was sent to Hekou Village to join the 5th Company (the rifles of this platoon had been reserved in advance by the commander of the 5th Company) to supplement the formation of the 5th Company. The formation of the 6th company will be supplemented after the establishment of the recruit company.

The cavalry company, like the 6th company, is under the personal command of the battalion commander Feng Changzhi, and the current cavalry company is mainly based on training and is not assigned other tasks for the time being. In view of the fact that the deputy battalion commander of the captured puppet Mongolian army was more cooperative, Feng Changzhi decided to hand over the deputy battalion commander and the captured puppet Mongolian soldiers to the Xia Lianshan Cavalry Company for care.

After sending off the battalion commander and Xia Lianshan's cavalry company, Wu Zijian ordered Li Tianlin to immediately redeploy the defense area, send sentries to the original point and strengthen it; At the same time, the fortifications of Hekou Village were strengthened. This battle with the puppet Mongolian army tested the reliability of the fortifications around the mountain pass, but also exposed the weakness of Hekou Village: the entire village had no formal fortifications, and could only rely on houses, courtyard walls and even firewood stacks to fight; It is very vulnerable under the heavy attack of the enemy.

Wu Zijian placed the four platoons of the 5th Company in Hekou Village, in fact, out of helplessness, there are hidden machine gun fortifications on the gentle slope of the mountain pass as a barrier, and it is safer and more active to put the main force there, but there are not many houses in the area of the gentle slope, and it is difficult to quickly build barracks in the cold and snowy ground at present; Therefore, although there is no danger to defend Hekou Village, considering that there are many vacant and vacant houses in the village that can be stationed, this is the only option.

"It's not too late to make amends," the deputy battalion commander dropped his bookbag to the commander of the 5th company: "Sum up this battle well, let the soldiers who participated in the defense of the village at that time take the lead, carefully recall the details of the battle, find out the weak points on the defensive line, and immediately start building fortifications to consolidate the whole village." ”

After the explanation, Wu Zijian returned to his room and analyzed the gains and losses of the battle with Xiao Junping, a staff officer of the Jin army who lived in the same room.

Wu Zijian said to Xiao Junping half-jokingly and half-seriously, counting the first battle of Dawangyu, the staff officers of the Jin Army had already fought twice with the second battalion, and it was time to consider officially joining the Eighth Route Army. After Xiao Junping heard this, he smiled but did not answer.

"Chief Wu, I think the first thing you have to worry about now is the possibility of the enemy coming back to retaliate." After a pause, Xiao Junping rubbed the great power of Browning in his hand, and said with a pun: "You see this control gun, it was given to me by a brigade commander of the 73rd Division when I was in the communication battalion of the 33rd Army of Commander Sun Chu. I'm carrying an empty gun, what's the use of staying here? ”

The deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army couldn't hear the sharp words of the staff officer of the Jin Army, and he happily patted the edge of the kang on the fire: "Staff Officer Xiao, you don't have to worry about this!" Your gun is very expensive, it is a rare object, and I can't find a bullet here now, which doesn't mean that I won't be able to find it in the future. Just like you, Staff Officer Xiao himself, although he is still only a friendly staff officer recovering from his wounds, as long as you are willing to stay and participate in the Eighth Road, with your military talents, your future position will definitely be above me! ”

Xiao Junping smiled and shook his head, no longer speaking. Wu Zijian rolled his eyes and continued to persuade: "In the battle of Hekou Village, the commanders and fighters of the 5th Company, all who saw you commanding in battle, not a single one did not give a thumbs up, and they all praised you for their good view of the overall situation on the battlefield. Deputy Company Commander Xia was promoted to commander of the cavalry company and moved to Xiping, before leaving, he repeatedly begged me to keep you, saying that you are a rare general! ”

"When Commander Xia resigned to me, he also thanked me for helping him command the battle in the village," Xiao Junping said: "Actually, where I am in command, I am just standing in a favorable position to remind your army." ”

Wu Zijian waved his hand to interrupt the other party: "Staff Officer Xiao, don't be modest, the officers and soldiers of my 5th Company are all experienced in a hundred battles, and they are the elite of the second battalion of the entire forest division, they are not praised by everyone!" Company Commander Xia also said that this time he led the cavalry company to Xiping for training, and he could see Xiao Zhang at the battalion headquarters, and he wanted to tell Xiao Zhang about your fearless deeds on the battlefield, so that she could also be happy for her college students! ”

Xiao Junping's half-lying body straightened up instantly, and subconsciously inserted Browning into the holster, and unconsciously took it out. This action did not hide Wu Zijian's sharp eyes.

"You know what? Xiao Zhang Xiu is terrible now," Wu Zijian said with a fluttering eyebrow: "From an ordinary clerk, he became the deputy director of the Field Mobilization Committee in Xiping Village, and he has dozens of people under his hands!" If you want to say, it has to be you college students, who are educated, have a level, and grow up very fast! The director of the movement committee of Xiping Village is Instructor Liu of our second battalion, and Zhang Xiu is the deputy director, that is, under one person, above thousands of people! ”

Xiao Junping, who had been listening attentively, originally had an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth, but when he heard the words "Instructor Liu", the smile of the staff officer of the Jin Army suddenly froze.