"What did you say?!"

Liu Shu almost screamed, his face instantly turned pale, and his eyes were fixed on Wu Zijian's eyes across the table: "You sent someone to recover Xiping Village?" Where did you get so many people? There are thousands of devils in Xiping Village, what do you do to recover that village!? ”

Wu Zijian was also frightened by the instructor's sudden change in expression for a while, and he froze his mind, and then figured out the reason why the other party was so unbelievable. He smiled and shook his head, and the smile evolved into a grin.

The instructor obviously misunderstood the meaning of the smile of the deputy battalion commander of the second battalion, so he shouted angrily: "Wu Zijian, you are too much!" Do you know how many comrades we sacrificed in this bloody battle with the devils in Xiping Village? It was there that the battalion commander died! Now that their bones are not cold, you dare to make fun of this! Believe it or not, I'm going to arrest you right now! ”

Liu Shu, who was furious, roared, and picked up the box gun on the table, due to excessive anger, the movements in his hand were deformed, and it took a few twists and turns to open the gun box, and then pulled out the Mauser M1932 shell gun that Wu Zijian admired, he stepped on the stool with one foot, and used all his strength to restrain himself, and finally did not aim the muzzle of the gun at his deputy battalion commander.

At this moment, there were only two of them in the battalion headquarters, and for a while, a tense atmosphere filled the entire house.

The smile on Wu Zijian's face disappeared, but he still sat in place and did not move, he just looked at the series of movements of the instructor who was close at hand, and his eyes revealed a trace of desolation.

"Instructor, please put away the gun," Finally, Wu Zijian opened his mouth first, and his voice was unexpectedly hoarse: "I, Wu Zijian, am a member of the squadron and the deputy commander of the second battalion of the Lin Division, and I will never joke with my comrades-in-arms whose bones are not cold." ”

Hearing Wu Zijian say this calmly, Liu Shu, who was panting heavily, felt that his head was about to burst, and he couldn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of this tricky deputy battalion commander.

"You listen carefully," Wu Zijian slowly stood up from the table: "Xiping Village, it has indeed been recovered by me by sending people, Zhang Simiao, the instructor of the 5th Company, and Chen Ping, the deputy company commander, are leading two squads of troops to sit in Xiping Village and clean up the mess." There are no thousands of devils you mentioned there, according to the villagers of Xiping Village, on the night of the fierce battle, the Japanese army drove you into the Guanmen Mountain Pass, and quickly withdrew. However, before leaving, they carried out brutal burning, killing, and looting of the entire village. ”

Liu Shu's head was buzzing, only to feel that the sky was spinning, the earth was turning, and his body couldn't help but fall down, and at the critical moment, he suddenly gritted his teeth, put the barrel of the barge gun in his hand downward, and pressed it the table, so as to support his body.

The instructor knew very well that everything that Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian had just said must be true and credible. For a moment, he felt a surge of heat in his body, but cold sweat flowed down his temples.

- The devil withdrew from Xiping Village so quickly!

- Thousands of elite devils, armed with heavy weapons, desperately attacked Bansu in Xiping Village, but after finally taking the village, they hurriedly withdrew!

- This is not Wu Zijian joking, but fate is playing a cruel joke with the second battalion of the Lin Division, the sacrificial battalion commander, and him, the instructor!

Liu Shu was completely defeated. The shell gun in his right hand slammed down on the table, and before his left foot was retracted from the position of stepping on the stool, the whole person sat down in a daze.

Wu Zijian, who was standing, looked at the instructor sitting down with sympathetic eyes, he didn't expect the other party's emotional reaction to be so violent. After a long time, he seemed to feel a little awkward in the atmosphere, so he cleared his throat and carefully explained:

"That's right, instructor, it was later found out that the Japanese puppet army that attacked our Hekou Village at night came from Fengdian County; When the morning was about to dawn, because the 391st Regiment of the Central Army learned the information that our department was attacked, it launched a feint attack on Fengdian, and this enemy army should have been worried about the loss of the county, so it hastily withdrew its troops at the last moment; Therefore, I took the 5th company and finally held the Guanmen Mountain Pass. ”

Hearing Wu Zijian mention the unfamiliar 391st Regiment of the Central Army launching a feint, Liu Shu raised his eyelids a little strangely, but his mind was not in this area at all, so he didn't ask. Wu Zijian continued:

"As soon as the battle on my side was over, I immediately sent comrades from the enemy engineering team to Xiping Village to inquire about your news, and it turned out that the fighting there had long been over, and the Japanese army had also hastily withdrawn after destroying the village. I divided a part of my troops to help the villagers restore their homes, and at the same time served as a guard and a vigilance. ”

Scales fall from one's eyes!

But after suddenly realizing it, instructor Liu Shu's heart was like being gnawed by hundreds of ants, and he felt unspeakably uncomfortable and regretful. He recalled the final scene of the night battle in Xiping Village, when the battalion commander Feng Changzhi had been shot and fell unconscious, and the 6th and 7th companies were completely defeated from the defense line on the east bank of the Qinglong River; They rushed into the pass of Guanmen Mountain behind them, and retreated all the way to the deep mountains. At that time, no one would have expected that this elite of ferocious devils, who even chased into the mountain pass for a time, did not occupy Xiping Village behind it, but played a "hurry"!

Liu Shu's intestines were already repentant - he knew that this was the case, why did he rush like a lost dog, and took the remnants of the whole battalion across a Guanmen Mountain and ran to the current Hongxing Gorge? Xiping Village! Xiping Village has now been recovered by Wu Zijian, and this so-called recovery is almost effortless!

Thinking of this, Liu Shu laughed, and the more he laughed, the more wild he became, and he laughed out of tears. He laughed as he looked at the deputy battalion commander with a shocked expression, and he laughed more and more.

"Old Wu, Wu Zijian, Deputy Battalion Commander Wu," finally restrained Liu Shu, who was laughing, tears were still flowing on his face, he raised a finger, pointed at the other party and said, "I am convinced, I am truly convinced!" The battalion commander and I worked hard in Xiping for a long time, and finally pulled out a prosperous base Xintiandi, but it was destroyed by the devils overnight! What about you, in Hekou Village, thinking about how to do it with the devil all day long, and provoked the devil in the end. The end result? The battalion commander died, and I fled into the deep mountains and old forests like a deserter, and you, effortlessly, easily recovered Xiping Village! Awesome, my deputy battalion commander, you're amazing! ”

Wu Zijian's heart couldn't help but feel a little hairy, he had never seen the instructor speak to himself in such a tone and with such emotions: sadness, desolation, loneliness, bitterness, despair, and the indescribable mixed tastes were all highlighted. For a moment, the deputy commander of the second battalion even had the illusion that this person sitting in front of the rough table chattering was not the instructor himself at all.

"Report!"

Suddenly there was a voice outside the door of the battalion headquarters. It was the female soldier Zhang Xiu. She deliberately stood outside the door and asked for instructions.

"Instructor, deputy battalion commander, lunch is coming! Do you want to start dinner now? ”

Wu Zijian's mood suddenly became nervous, and at this moment, he was very worried that outsiders would see Liu Shu's appearance. Unexpectedly, Liu Shu was very calm, he raised his hands to cover his cheeks, wiped them twice, and when he took his hands away again, the instructor's expression had returned to the same as before:

"Bring it in, Xiao Zhang, I'm already hungry, let's eat!"

After lunch, a military meeting of the company-platoon-level commanders of the 2nd Battalion of the Lin Division was held as scheduled.

However, before the meeting began, Liu Shu first took the initiative to interview Wu Zijian alone, and unexpectedly put forward three opinions that he had just formulated: First, in view of the fact that Wu Zijian had already come to the Hongxingxia battalion headquarters, Liu Shu himself gave up his original position as acting battalion commander, and Wu Zijian, deputy battalion commander, was to preside over the military of the whole battalion from now on; Second, Liu Shu himself will leave the second battalion of the Lin Division in the near future and report to the higher-level regimental headquarters; Third, the main force of the battalion is currently shrinking in Hongxing Gorge, and whether the two villages of Hekou and Xiping at the foot of Guanmen Mountain still have to be defended is up to Wu Zijian to decide independently.

The deputy commander of the second battalion was rightly taken aback.

He couldn't understand why the instructor suddenly took the initiative to give up the position of acting battalion commander that had been announced to the public, and he couldn't understand why he had to leave the second battalion at the most difficult and dangerous moment to find the regimental headquarters at his superiors.

"I think," Liu Shu explained, under Wu Zijian's repeated questioning: "The Second Battalion has experienced great joys and sorrows, and the situation is far more complicated than we expected before we set off from Wutai, so it is necessary to report the situation here to the regiment headquarters and even the Xu Brigade Brigade Headquarters clearly." What's more, Comrade Feng Changzhi sacrificed, and the candidate for the new battalion commander must also be appointed by the higher authorities as soon as possible. ”

Wu Zijian looked at each other with a complicated mood and didn't speak for a long time.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, after I leave, the work of the Guanmenshan Base Area will be handed over to you, I hope you can always keep a calm and sober mind, save your strength, and take care of the overall situation." Liu Shu said with a summary nature.

"Instructor, where are you going to find our regimental headquarters and Xu Brigade headquarters? We did not have a radio station, and before the departure of the fifth station, the head of the regiment explained that he would send someone to Guanmenshan to contact us in the future. It's not unclear to you that when our second battalion set off, several other battalions were also preparing to pull out, but the destinations were different - breaking up into pieces and advancing in all directions was the general policy given by Yan'an and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Liu Shu's gaze looked very resolute, he didn't look at Wu Zijian, but looked towards the north: "Although the troops of the Eighth Route Army are advancing in all directions, the direction of our Xu Brigade and our regiment is basically established along the Zhengtai Railway, roughly from Yuci in the west to Niangziguan in the east, which was planned from the beginning. I'll look for it along Zhengtai Road. ”

Wu Zijian fell silent again. Indeed, when he was in Wutai, he also heard that the commander of the two brigades of the Lin Division personally led the Chen Brigade as a whole and went south along the Tongpu Road, planning to rely on the Luliang Mountains in the southwest of Shanxi; Xu Brigade drove separately, in the direction of Zhengtai Road, planning to rely on the Taihang Mountains in eastern Jindong. It seems that the instructor has made up his mind and is mentally prepared.

Just when Wu Zijian didn't know how to reply to Liu Shu, the other party threw out another statement, which made Wu Zijian's heart move.

Liu Shu said that during the night attack of the Japanese army in Xiping Village, a Japanese detachment, apparently specially formed before the war, infiltrated Xiping Village before its offensive brigade and met Zhang Xiu, the secretary of the battalion headquarters and deputy director of the Xiping Village Field Mobilization Committee.

Of course, Wu Zijian knew that the identities of the captured Japanese cavalry were all from the cavalry wing of the Sena Division, but he did not expect that the Japanese army was still looking for these cavalry, and accurately tracked them to Xiping Village. There must be some extraordinary inside story in this!

"So, I'm going to take these cavalry prisoners and set off to find the regimental headquarters and brigade headquarters, perhaps, the Japanese cavalry has a value that we don't grasp!"

Liu Shu said in a solemn tone. Wu Zijian noticed that the box cannon that came from the Black Stone Cliff was already on the instructor's shoulder at this moment.