Political Commissar Liu Shu revealed the defection of Zhang Shaodong, the head of the 687th Regiment, at the meeting, which made the mood of the entire venue fluctuate.

Zhang Shaodong was a veteran commander of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region of the Red Army, and after arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as the commander of the 15th Division of the 73rd Army of the Red Army; After accepting the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army by the Nationalist Government, Zhang Shaodong served as the commander of the 687th Regiment of the Xu Brigade of the Lin Division. No one would have thought that this brigade commander Xu's most important subordinate would betray and flee.

The new detachment leader Wu Zijian was obviously stunned by this news, Zhang Shaodong, as the head of the brother group, Wu Zijian had met with him more than once, he really knew people and didn't know his heart!

Perhaps they were all deeply immersed in this explosive news and couldn't extricate themselves, and none of the participants noticed that Political Commissar Liu looked at Wu Zijian several times when summarizing the matter.

"Why did you defect? Is there a Japanese puppet force lurking around him to rebel? The one who asked was Li Tianlin, who had just been promoted to chief of staff of the detachment.

This also represents the question in everyone's mind, and everyone's eyes are on the political commissar Liu Shu, but Liu Shu shook his head helplessly.

The incident occurred in late February this year, and because Zhang Shaodong's whereabouts after fleeing were unknown, the entire Xu Brigade strictly blocked the news, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which heard the news, also sent special personnel to urgently investigate, but there was no result. Half a month ago, Xu Lucai conveyed the matter internally in Wuxiang County, and launched a special rectification to make up for the loss of sheep and prevent future troubles.

However, although he did not know the inside story, Liu Shu had already made a plan on the way back to Guanmen Mountain with his team, and he wanted to take advantage of Zhang Shaodong's escape incident to rectify military discipline in the newly reorganized and upgraded Guanmen Mountain Dispatch Detachment, focusing on the party spirit and principles of senior commanders; Of course, the spearhead is aimed at Wu Zijian, the chief official who has always regarded himself as the boss of militarism. When he returned to the Guanmenshan base this time, he learned that on the day he left, Wu Zijian actually led his team to take the initiative to attack, and he joined forces with the Kuomintang army to attack the Nantongpu railway line heavily guarded by the Japanese army, resulting in serious casualties among the troops. This is something he resolutely cannot tolerate! At the meeting today, he first threw out Zhang Shaodong's news, which was to lay the foundation for the next step of rectification.

Next, Liu Shu changed the topic and began to brief the participants on the progress of the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi in the past two months.

At present, the main force of the He Division (120th Division) is left alone to support the situation in the northwest of Shanxi, and the main force of the Xu Division (129th Division) is advancing to occupy the central and southern parts of the Taihang Mountains; The forces of these two divisions were relatively concentrated. The layout of the Lin Division (115th Division) was more scattered, and the 343 Chen Brigade was far away in the southwest of Jin and had close contact with Yan Xishan's Jin army; The 344 Xu Brigade followed the Xu Division and stationed in the middle of Taihang Mountain. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is located at the junction of the Xu Division and the Xu Brigade of the Lin Division.

After explaining his military layout, political commissar Liu Shu began to introduce the enemy's situation again, and he took out a notebook, which recorded the distribution of the enemy's situation conveyed to him by the staff officers of the Xu Brigade Headquarters.

"At present, our main enemies are as follows." Among the equipment that Liu Shu received in Liao County this time, there were two military maps of Shanxi Province, which could be called treasures, and now he unfolded one of them, pointed and said:

"The harem division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the main force is located along the Pingsui Road in the north of Shanxi, focusing on the He Division of our Eighth Route Army; The Shangang Division of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front Army, the main force is located in the central part of Shanxi with Taiyuan as the core, and they attacked the He Division of our Eighth Route Army with one part, and the other attacked the southwest of Shanxi Province, aiming at the Chen Brigade of the Forest Division of our Eighth Route Army. ”

The heads of the participants were crammed to the center of the table, and their eyes were focused on this high-scale professional military map that had never been seen before, and they examined it greedily.

Seeing that he had finally become the focus of attention, Political Commissar Liu Shu felt a burst of self-satisfaction in his heart, and his gestures became more and more exaggerated as he swiped around the map, while continuing to talk eloquently:

"The Sena Division of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front Army, its troops were divided into three along the Nantongpu railway line, and one part was stationed in Wencheng, which was the rear base camp of the division; One was near Linfen and attacked our Lin Division Chen Brigade and Yan Xishan's Jin Army; The main force of its division was located in Yuncheng, focusing on attacking the Kuomintang Central Army Wei Lihuang Division. ”

Because of the mention of the Japanese army in Wencheng, the military commanders of the detachment who were crowded around the table couldn't help but start talking in a whisper. Seeing this, Liu Shu deliberately coughed twice to attract everyone's attention back before continuing to speak:

"There is also a Japanese army that attacked from Hebei Province and entered the southern part of Shanxi, and its number is the Xiayuan Division of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front, but it is not the main force of the division, but a detachment sent by it."

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned: send a detachment!? Isn't that the same number we just got?

Wu Zijian, the new head of the Guanmenshan Dispatch Detachment, laughed, and tapped his fingers on the heads of Li Tianlin, Wei Xin and others who were puzzled, and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, is it difficult to achieve our family dispatch detachment in the world?" The detachment of the Japanese army is not fixed, which I have heard from Captain Xiao before. ”

Wu Zijian said that Captain Xiao naturally refers to Xiao Junping, who was the captain of the enemy engineering team at the time. And the moment he heard this title, a gloom appeared imperceptibly on the face of political commissar Liu Shu, he had already heard that Xiao Junping had led people to infiltrate Wencheng to establish an underground intelligence station a few days ago.

It was at this moment that another name crossed Liu Shu's heart: female soldier Zhang Xiu!

This time, he and Zhang Xiu only met once or twice, and felt that this former female clerk of the battalion was more and more moving; Originally, he planned to let Zhang Xiu also attend today's meeting, but when he learned that the latter was busy in his capacity as deputy director of the "Xiping Village Field Mobilization Committee," he had no choice but to give up. Fortunately, he has returned, and the next step is to try to transfer this Nizi to his side - the battalion headquarters does not exist, and the detachment headquarters still needs paperwork. What's more, he also serves as the director of the "Xiping Village Field Mobilization Committee".

While Liu Shu's mind was slipping, Wu Zijian was telling his subordinates about the composition of the Japanese army's detachment.

"The so-called detachment is a temporary formation of troops by the Japanese army in order to achieve a certain strategic or tactical goal, and once the task is completed, the troops are disbanded and rebuilt; Wu Zijian straightened his body lying on the table just now, and also began to talk eloquently: "But you must not think that the Japanese detachment is similar in nature to our newly established detachment!" As long as the Japanese army is organized into a detachment, the infantry is at least a wing or even more, and at the same time, artillery, cavalry, engineers, baggage troops, and even chariot units must be strengthened. The total strength of the army should be more than five or six thousand, and the combat effectiveness should be very strong. ”

"Isn't that the equivalent of an independent mixed brigade?" Wang Shuanglong, the new commander of the first battalion of the detachment, interjected in surprise. In the past, when he was stationed in Xiping Village, he had a lot of contact with Xiao Junping, and he also benefited a lot from it.

Wu Zijian nodded approvingly at him: "Well said, in terms of the size of the force and the composition of the troops, a temporary detachment of the Japanese army is indeed on par with an independent mixed brigade. It's just that the independent mixed brigade is a combat unit with a fixed number. ”

Liu Shu's idea of desertion turned back at this time, and seeing that the center of gravity of the venue had fallen to Wu Zijian, he immediately grabbed the conversation:

"Let's focus on the dispatch detachment of the Xiayuan Division of the First Army of the Japanese Army - after the Spring Festival this year, the detachment set out from Handan, Hebei, attacked Shanxi along the highway, occupied Licheng and Lucheng all the way, and went straight to Changzhi; This opened a channel of communication between the Japanese army in Shanxi and the Japanese army in Hebei, and tried to make the Japanese North China Front directly supply the main force of its First Army's Sena Division in Linfen along this channel in the future. ”

Liu Shu dictated according to the notebook, and at the same time used the pencil in his hand to virtually sketch on the military map, and everyone noticed that from Changzhi County to the west, there is a long highway to Linfen, an important town on the Tongpu railway line!

"Now I want to tell you an exciting good news, just half a month ago, in order to cut off the passage just opened by the Japanese army's Xiayuan Division detachment, the main force of our Eighth Route Army's Xu Division was ordered to secretly go out from Xiangyuan County to carry out a large-scale siege plan for reinforcements, and finally achieved a great victory in the area of Shentouling in Changzhi County, and severely damaged a detachment sent by the Japanese Xiayuan Division!"

There was a burst of cheers and exclamations at the venue, and everyone eagerly urged the political commissar to narrate. Liu Shu paused intentionally, and then said unhurriedly:

"The so-called siege and reinforcement, the attack is Licheng, and the 385th Brigade of the Xu Division attacked and attacked the Licheng Pass, so as to attract the main force of the Japanese army stationed in Changzhi to come to help; The 386th Brigade of the Xu Division ambushed in Shentouling between the two places in advance, and after the reinforcements of the Changzhi Japanese army entered the ambush circle, they were surrounded and annihilated in one fell swoop! ”

Hearing this, Wu Zijian slapped the table and cheered loudly, and then asked: "Political commissar, how many troops are there in the Japanese reinforcements dispatched by Changzhi?" ”

Looking at the notebook spread out in his hand, Liu Shu replied: An infantry brigade, plus a cavalry squadron, a machine gun squadron, and an artillery squadron, the total number of people is about 1,500 people, and almost all of them were wiped out in this battle.

There was another uproar - good fellows, fifteen hundred! This should have caught up with the number of enemies destroyed by the main force of the Lin Division in the Pingxingguangou victory last year. Xu Shi is really good!

"Commissar, it's a good thing you came back in time, otherwise we wouldn't have known about such a big victory here!" Wei Xin, the new commander of the second battalion, sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"Our Lin Division Xu Brigade is not bad," Chief of Staff Li Tianlin shouted a little unconvinced while being happy for his brother troops: "Xu Division is attacking the city in Shentouling to send reinforcements, and our second battalion has just joined forces with the 391st Regiment of the Central Army to besiege the city on the Tongpu Railway. Political commissar, do you know that the Japanese puppet army reinforcements we faced this time were almost more than 1,000 people! ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, Liu Shu snapped and closed the notebook in his hand, looked directly at Chief of Staff Li seriously, and said coldly: "Who approved your siege and reinforcements!?" ”

Suddenly, the warm atmosphere at the venue came to an abrupt end, and everyone looked at the new political commissar of the detachment whose expressions had changed greatly, looked at each other, and couldn't say a word.