In the tense and embarrassing atmosphere, Wu Zijian began to giggle and start a round - the former instructor and today's political commissar of the detachment were precisely because he opposed the second battalion of the Xu Brigade at that time and repeatedly took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, so he angrily left to report to the brigade headquarters. At this time, he had just returned and heard about the scuffle on the Nantongpu Railway, and of course he was not happy. Wu Zijian didn't want to clash with Liu Shu again because of grudges so soon, after all, Liu Shu's departure inadvertently brought back a big surprise to the second battalion of Xu Lu.

"Political commissar, about the joint operation between our department and the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, let's not talk about it today, I will find time to report to you in detail; Today is the first time that our Guanmenshan Dispatch Detachment has held a meeting of military commanders, and there are more important topics waiting for everyone to discuss. You're right? The new detachment leader said with great sincerity.

Liu Shu glanced at the obviously uneasy crowd, and then looked at Wu Zijian's meaningful smiling face, and also realized that now was not the right time to ask the teacher about this matter, so he nodded lightly and agreed.

"Okay, I'll introduce our army's deployment in Shanxi and the report on the enemy's situation here;" While speaking, Liu Shu reopened the notebook: "Next, convey to the comrades the instructions of the superior leader on the future tasks of my Guanmenshan dispatch detachment. ”

This time, the Xu Brigade Brigade Headquarters asked Liu Shu to bring back two written instructions, the first of which was the list of appointments to the military chief of the Guanmenshan Dispatch Detachment, which had been followed. The second is a clear indication of the future direction of the detachment.

The core point of this directive is to expand the land and troops.

Expanding the territory: The Guanmenshan base area should continue to expand outward, give full play to the gold-lettered signboard of the "Shanxi Provincial War Mobilization Committee," which Yan Xishan agrees with, and extensively establish "war mobilization committees" at all levels in nearby counties, towns, and villages under the direct leadership of the dispatched detachments to replace the grassroots political power of the national government.

Troop expansion: If we refer to the military commission of the national government for the establishment of the national army's troops, the "detachment" should be a structure equivalent to the brigade scale, so the future development direction of the Guanmenshan dispatch detachment is to form a troop size of two or three regiments under its jurisdiction. However, in view of the current shortage of troops, the detachment temporarily has three battalions under its jurisdiction, and the remaining huge space must be replenished in a short period of time.

"Good boy!" Li Tianlin, the chief of staff, who had caused trouble between his words just now, once again sighed unabashedly: "I thought that our Wu detachment commander was a regiment commander, but after making trouble for a long time, it turned out to be the brigade commander!" Isn't that equal to our current Brigade Commander Xu? ”

Lu Dajiang, the new commander of the third battalion, was startled, and asked Li Tianlin in disbelief: "Really?" Our detachment leader is now at the same level as Brigade Commander Xu? ”

Wu Zijian couldn't help but be angry and funny, and slapped the table and reprimanded the two: "Your head is made of elm? If the Eighth Route Army continues to expand its troops like this, can it still be just the establishment of one army? If I, Wu, become a brigade commander, can our Xu brigade commander still be his brigade commander?! ”

Except for Liu Shu, everyone at the venue burst into laughter. Wang Shuanglong smacked his lips and said to himself: If this continues, the nominal brigade of our Xu Brigade may have more troops than the first division of the Lin Division when it was just reorganized last year!

The political commissar duly tapped the enamel teapot in front of him with a pencil, signaled the venue to restore order, and then said with a solemn expression: "We are discussing the future direction of development, please be serious." The revolutionary contingent is not a place to be promoted to an official position and make a fortune, and the superiors have promoted us to our posts in order to better command the troops and fulfill the mission entrusted to us by history! ”

Sure enough, the room was quiet again.

After a while, Wu Zijian cleared his throat and added a discipline: According to the instructions of the brigade headquarters, the goal of expanding the Guanmenshan Dispatch Detachment into two or three regiments under its jurisdiction in the future is only allowed to be done and not publicized to the outside world.

More than 20 minutes later, the first meeting of military commanders after the establishment of the Guanmenshan Dispatch Detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division came to an end.

Wu Zijian, the leader of the detachment, and Liu Shu, the political commissar, stayed in the house and did not move, they still had important matters to discuss. Wu Zijian suddenly stopped Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company who was walking out with the others--at the meeting just now, Xia Lianshan's mood was not as high and excited as others, and the detachment leader naturally understood the reason.

"Lianshan, this reorganization of the army has wronged you," Wu Zijian's eyes glanced at Xia Lianshan and Liu Shu at the same time, revealing that what he said next also represented the meaning of the political commissar: "But don't worry, the expansion of the cavalry company into a cavalry battalion is the trend of the times, there are still so many puppet Mongolian cavalry in Fengdian County, turn around and bring their horses, our detachment will build a cavalry battalion just around the corner, and when the time comes, you will be the best candidate for the commander of the cavalry battalion." ”

After the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade was stationed in Guanmen Mountain, a cavalry company, an enemy engineering team, and an artillery platoon were set up one after another, and the Xu Brigade Brigade Headquarters did not know about this, so when it was decided to reorganize the 2nd Battalion as a whole into a detachment dispatched from Guanmen Mountain, the commanders of these three special units were not taken into account in the positions at the battalion level. Xia Lianshan was originally the deputy company commander of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion, and under normal circumstances, he could at least be promoted to deputy battalion commander after the reorganization, but now he can only continue to be the commander of his cavalry company.

Since the reorganization and appointment of the brigade headquarters had already been issued in writing, Wu Zijian also felt helpless about this, and according to Xia Lianshan's qualifications and military exploits, he should have been promoted to commander at the battalion level this time.

"Deputy battalion commander, uh no...... It's the detachment leader, and the political commissar," Xia Lianshan was indeed a little disappointed before, but when he heard Wu Zijian put his heart in his heart so much, he was quite moved and said: "My personal honor and disgrace is a trivial matter, as long as I can pull up the cavalry battalion of our detachment one day earlier, it will be nothing for me to become the company commander again!" ”

After sending off the cavalry company commander, Wu Zijian's butt had just re-seated, and Liu Shu on the opposite side split his head and asked, "Old Wu, what did you mean just now?" Do you want to bring the horses of the puppet Mongolian cavalry in Fengdian County? Are you talking casually to comfort Lian Commander Xia, or do you really have this idea? The cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army has a regiment, and the county town is also stationed with heavy troops of the Japanese Otsuka Wing. Their horses, do you say you can get them back? ”

Wu Zijian didn't expect Liu Shu to start an article with his words-of course, he didn't say it casually, but he had been fighting the idea of the pseudo-Mongolian cavalry, but he never had a mature plan.

"Political commissar, in fact, you also know that the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army is simply vulnerable, and our second battalion has made several moves with them, and it is not an opponent of the same level at all. However, these guys were supported by the cavalry group of the Kwantung Army, except for the horses, which were Mongolian horses, and the rest of the guns and knives were all guys used by the Japanese cavalry, and they were very well equipped. If we all bring it over, then our cavalry battalion will be beautiful from now on! ”

Patiently listening to Wu Zijian's tirade, Liu Shu asked irritably: "You still said that you took it!" How to take it? Are you still thinking about sending troops to fight Fengdian County? Also, as the military commander, you should adapt to your new role as soon as possible, we are now a detachment sent by Guanmen Mountain, don't move and always the second battalion and the second battalion! ”

The new detachment commander made up his mind not to collide with the political commissar today, so he immediately resigned himself to admitting his mistake, saying that he would pay attention in the future and no longer use the title of "second battalion."

"Don't avoid the important and answer my question about you going to 'take' the war horse of the pseudo-Mongolian army!" Political Commissar Liu Shu asked relentlessly, and he was now almost convinced that Wu Zijian was secretly preparing to fight against the cavalry regiment of the puppet Mongolian army. This is a serious matter of principle!

"You think too highly of me," Wu Zijian replied with a hippie smile: "We are now called the Guanmenshan Dispatch Detachment, but the number has been changed, but the strength has not increased much, and it is not much stronger than the original size of a battalion; Attacking Fengdian County, I really don't have the ability. ”

Feeling that the other party's words were reasonable, Liu Shu's nervous nerves relaxed, he picked up his enamel jar and drank a large sip of water, and replaced it with a kind expression: "Old Wu, to put it mildly, you and I will abandon our previous suspicions from now on, cooperate well, and let's work together to make the Guanmen Mountain base area prosperous, how good it would be!" Don't do that crooked brains again! ”

Wu Zijian originally planned to express his attitude by catering to the words of the political commissar, but in the end, when he heard the word "crooked brain", he couldn't help but refute:

"Political commissar, our Eighth Route Army is an anti-Japanese team, why did the idea of fighting the Japanese puppet army become a crooked brain? As you just reported at the meeting, the main force of the Xu Division of the Eighth Route Army had just ambushed the Japanese Army's Xiayuan Division in Shentouling, Changzhi County, and one guy killed more than 1,000 devils. Shouldn't we learn from Master Xu? ”

The new political commissar's face turned from sunny to gloomy again, and he impatiently said that the ambush of the main force of the Xu Division was ordered by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and that the ambush of the Lin Division at Pingxingguan last year was also a decision made by the division commander himself.

Unexpectedly, before the words fell, Wu Zijian burst out laughing, and while laughing, he picked up a very smooth branch on the table—it was used to point to the military map he had just obtained—and the tip of the branch pointed at Liu Shu tremblingly:

"Big political commissar, you are really bookish, and fighting a war has made you dogmatic! According to what you mean, if we don't get the order of the head of the headquarters or the division commander, we won't let go of a single shot from now on?! ”

In the detachment commander's somewhat unbridled laughter, Liu Shu became more and more annoyed, he knew that Wu Zijian had always regarded himself as the boss in the second battalion in the past, and he had a set of combat skills, and sometimes he didn't even take the battalion commander seriously, and he was even more disdainful of himself, an instructor who was born as a political work cadre. However, what is annoying is that if you really talk about military matters, you really can't have any upper hand in front of Wu Zijian.

The detachment leader laughed enough, threw the slender branch in his hand back on the map, and said with a straight face: "Political commissar, I agree with your idea of abandoning your previous suspicions, now that the two of us are working together in the military and government, we must think in one place and work hard in one place, and internal strife is the most consuming of combat effectiveness." But then again, the military and the government have a team, the army is the army, and the government is the government, and you can't just cross the line. As the commander of the detachment, I have absolute command and decision-making power over all operational matters involving the Guanmenshan detachment in the future, and even if Li Tianlin, chief of staff, feels that it is inappropriate, he can only make suggestions, and I must be the one who makes the final decision. Otherwise, everyone will be a chicken and a duck, and the army will not become a big car shop?! ”

These words were neither humble nor arrogant but loud, and Liu Shu, the political commissar who sat across the table, couldn't help but tremble with anger again.