On the way back to Hongxingxia, Liu Shu was looking for Wu Zijian's figure, trying to teach him a lesson on the way; At the same time, the instructor also wanted to know very much how Wu Zijian, who was far away in Hekou Village, knew everything that happened in Hongxing Gorge and rushed to the Black Stone Cliff. But the deputy battalion commander had already arranged the three platoons of the 8th Company in echelons: except for the platoon that broke off near the bandits' nest, he asked Liu Shu to take a platoon to follow behind the team of the 7th Company; The other platoon he himself led had been behind Liu Shu's platoon and maintained a distance of about a mile, which annoyed the instructor. The first thing he did when he returned to Hongxingxia, Liu Shu sent someone to find Zhang Xiu, the secretary of the battalion headquarters.

"Meeting, meeting right away!"

Walking into the newly built house of the battalion headquarters, the instructor finally shouted angrily. In the past, when the battalion commander was still alive, the meetings of the battalion headquarters, whether held in the name of the battalion party group or in the name of the battalion commander, were held in the name of the battalion headquarters, and they were all in a three-plus-one mode: Liu Shu, Feng Changzhi, Wu Zijian, plus Zhang Xiu, the clerk in charge of recording.

At this moment, the instructor was considering whether to summon Instructor Tang of the 8th Company - before setting off to suppress the bandits, Liu Shu had already ordered Instructor Tang, who was the most loyal to him, to take full command of the troops left behind in Hongxingxia.

However, Liu Shu, who walked into the battalion headquarters, did not see the figure of Instructor Tang, and he was wondering about asking, but Wang Shuanglong, the commander of the 6th company, crashed in. The two looked at each other sharply, and each was taken aback.

"Instructor!"

Wang Shuanglong was the first to react, and stood up and saluted Liu Shu.

"Why are you here? 8. What about the Tang instructors? ”

Facing the aggressive Liu Shu, the commander of the 6th company looked embarrassed, and said hesitantly that it was Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian who asked him to temporarily sit in the battalion headquarters. The implication is that Instructor Tang has been relieved of his temporary appointment.

Liu Shu's heart swelled with anger again, and his face became iron-blue: "Okay, good! Company Commander Wang, I ordered your confinement, but Deputy Battalion Commander Wu let you out to command here, okay! Very good! ”

At this moment, where did Wang Shuanglong dare to speak, he could only stand upright in place, looking dazed and helpless.

"What are you doing here like a wooden stake!" Liu Shu, who was furious, slapped the table: "Go and find your deputy battalion commander Wu immediately!" ”

Wang Shuanglong rushed out of the gate of the camp as if he had been granted amnesty.

At this time, Wu Zijian was inspecting the deployment of the defense of Hongxing Gorge.

The people of the 8th Company, under the leadership of Lu Dajiang, then rushed back to Hongxing Gorge, because he was most familiar with the terrain of this canyon and the newly built buildings, so Wu Zijian grabbed him to lead the way, and carefully turned this spacious canyon boy. At the same time, he also called Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company, over to inspect together, so that he could ask him about the intersection with the Black Stone Cliff bandits. When the entire Red Star Gorge was completed, Wu Zijian basically clarified Wei Xin's situation.

Halfway through, Wang Shuanglong rushed over and reported that the instructor was furious at the camp headquarters and asked Wu Zijian to go to the camp headquarters for a meeting as soon as possible. The deputy commander of the second battalion looked at the 6th company commander who was confused and uneasy, and suddenly realized that the three company commanders around him at this time were precisely all the "main masters" who had ordered the confinement to be locked up by the instructor.

Wu Zijian laughed, and the more he laughed, the harder he became, laughing until he squatted on the ground holding his stomach.

The three company commanders, each with their own confidants, looked at the deputy battalion commander with a sad face and smiled, looking at each other at a loss.

Wu Zijian laughed enough, rubbed his stomach and straightened his body, and rubbed his face again, as if he intended to rub off all the laugh lines just now:

"The three of you, holding a small meeting behind the back of the instructor, plotting a coup d'état, trying to get me back from Hekou Village to replace the instructor, the acting battalion commander who had just appointed himself, and deprive him of military command, tell me for yourselves, what kind of incident is this?"

Wu Zijian said this with a serious face, and couldn't help laughing again.

This time, Wang Shuanglong finally couldn't help it, he stomped his feet and whispered without complaint: "Deputy battalion commander, your heart is really big enough, you can still laugh at this juncture!" The instructor wasn't joking, he was really anxious, you should think about what to do when you have a meeting for a while! ”

Wei Xin also hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, deputy battalion commander, the instructor is so angry this time that he can't listen to any explanation at all." When I was in Blackstone Cliff, he had people put a gun to my chest and called me a traitor. ”

Wu Zijian glanced at the other party's broad chest, and nodded thoughtfully: "Well, Company Commander Wei, on the way back from the Black Stone Cliff, I thought about it seriously, I think you should still take your shell gun and take the initiative to give it to the instructor to wear." ”

The commander of the 7th company never expected that the deputy battalion commander would finish the previous words in a serious manner, but finally put the topic on this innocuous conclusion. He looked at the deputy battalion commander who was a head shorter than him in amazement, and for a moment even suspected that he had misheard.

Wu Zijian had already made a move, grabbed the strap of the box cannon that Wei Xin was hanging loosely on his right shoulder, and took the gun into his hand.

"This ...... That's not the crux of the matter, is it? Wei Xin's face was swollen, and he stumbled to argue, and his eyes looked at the other two worried colleagues in distress.

"What's wrong? Reluctantly? Wu Zijian also opened the top cover of the gun box as the instructor did when he was at the Black Rock Cliff, pulled out the oily Mauser M1932, and held it in his hand in a virtual shooting posture: "What a good gun!" Did you know? The Mauser pistol had just been improved in the first few years, and this one was an improved model. The shell guns used by our Red Army during the period, including the ones I asked the enemy engineer team to take away from you company commanders and instructors, are all old models from 20 years ago, and there is no comparison with this one! ”

Wu Zijian is a well-known firearms expert in Lin Shi, every time he sees a good gun, it is like an old cat seeing a salted fish, and his eyes are shining outward.

"Deputy battalion commander, why don't you carry this gun;" Wang Shuanglong took a sentence, and then quickly turned the topic to the right thing: "But now you have to think of a way to calm the instructor's anger first." He's locked us up, and you've lifted them all again, so I'm afraid the instructor won't give up on that. ”

"So, I'll ask Big Man Wei to give this barge gun to the instructor!" Wu Zijian continued to hold the gun and gesture with the shooting action vividly: "He was already very annoyed that I forcibly confiscated the short gun of the whole battalion and handed it over to the enemy engineering team, but now that he has taken a fancy to this gun again, then you can give it to him, make him happy, and things will be easy to do!" ”

The three company commanders were stunned for a moment, savoring the half-joking, half-serious idea of the deputy battalion commander.

"What? Really reluctant? Wu Zijian stared at the 7th Company Commander who did not express his position with blazing eyes: "Then I have to ask, are you reluctant to send a gun, or are you reluctant to send a gun?" I've seen that female bandit leader Liu Wumei, with a foxy face, she really has a bit of a posture! ”

Wei Xin's face turned even redder, and he swore angrily on the spot: "Deputy battalion commander, I just recognized a godsister with her, you know, they are popular in the rivers and lakes." If I have the slightest idea of uncleanliness, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky! ”

Wang Shuanglong and Lu Dajiang laughed together, and the two of them now knew that the matter of recognizing their brother and sister with the female bandit leader had become the heart of the 7th company commander.

"Then it's decided," Wu Zijian and the other two subordinates finished laughing, inserted the shell gun back into the gun box, and said with a thin cowhide strap: "You guys are ready, have lunch, and go to the camp headquarters together." I plan to convene a battalion-wide military meeting of company and platoon commanders to review the gains and losses of the anti-Japanese night raids in the Xiping Village and Hekou Village base areas, and at the same time, to plan a course of action for the future. ”

It was not until this moment that the company commanders finally understood why Wu Zijian had always been confident, talking and laughing - it turned out that the deputy battalion commander was going to preside over such a military meeting! Compared with this important meeting, which was crucial to the future of the Second Battalion of the Forest Division, some grievances and contradictions involving individuals would naturally be put aside.

"Yes!" The three company commanders raised their hands to salute Wu Zijian in unison, and their faces were irrepressibly excited smiles.

Since the lightly and seriously wounded of the 7th Company took the lead in returning to Hongxingxia, the female soldier Zhang Xiu has been busy with the people in the health squad, helping to diagnose and treat the injuries on the one hand, and helping to place the seriously wounded on the other hand, running around non-stop. Therefore, it took a long time for the people sent by the instructor to find the female clerk of the battalion headquarters whose hands were covered with blood.

By the time Zhang Xiu, who had washed his hands, finally appeared at the battalion headquarters, Liu Shu's waiting and patience were close to the limit. If he had a temper in the past, the instructor would definitely criticize the other party harshly, but Liu Shu had suffered too much "betrayal" and distrust in the past few days, and after seeing Zhang Xiu's pretty face, his anger disappeared all at once-

Xiao Zhang, who should be regarded as his cronies, used to be in the battalion headquarters, but later when he came to Xiping Village to preside over the work of the General Mobilization Committee of the Battlefield, he became even closer. At present, there are not many such cronies around him, and he is about to face a struggle with Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian, so it is not appropriate to reprimand too many people around him who can be trusted. Thinking of this, Liu Shu sighed and said to Zhang Xiu, who brought in a cold air from outside the door:

"How's the wounded going? Are you dressed enough? Don't freeze. ”

Zhang Xiu walked straight to the opposite side of Liu Shu's desk with a smile, and took out a notebook and a pen from the briefcase he carried: "The seriously injured are all settled, I'm fine, not cold." Instructor, what's going on today? ”

Liu Shu looked at the beautiful female soldier in front of him meaningfully, and said slowly: "This meeting is extraordinary, and it is related to the future and destiny of the second battalion of the forest division. ”

When Zhang Xiu heard this, he immediately put away his smile, and couldn't help but feel a sense of anxiety in his heart: Before setting out to suppress the bandits, the instructor had locked up the three company commanders of the 6th, 7th, and 8th companies, for unknown reasons. According to Instructor Tang of the 8th Company, who was ordered to stay behind and sit in command, he quietly revealed to her that it seemed that the three company commanders did not obey the action orders of the instructor, who was also the acting battalion commander.

However, Zhang Xiu also knew that the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian came to Hongxingxia in the middle of the night, and announced on the spot that the confinement of the 6th company commander and the 8th company commander had been lifted, and the 6th company commander was changed to sit at the battalion headquarters, and he himself took the 8th company commander to the Black Stone Cliff bandit battlefield. Now, everyone seems to have returned safely, but under the apparent calm, there is an undercurrent surging in the entire Red Star Gorge, and the soldiers who know some of the situation are panicking and talking. At this moment, the instructor foretold the nature of the upcoming meeting in a heavy tone.

Oh my God, is there going to be something going to happen? Although this beautiful female soldier who had not participated in the Red Army's Long March, but had heard of the brutal internal rebellion, her heart was pounding.