The instructor, who was wearing glasses, suddenly pulled out his shell gun and loaded it on fire, startling the two battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders in the room. Feng Changzhi was far away from Liu Shu, and seeing him show his weapon with a sword, he had the heart to step forward to stop but was unable to reach the whip, and Wu Zijian, who was close to Liu Shu, was stunned, but coldly ridiculed:

"What? The instructor who has always been full of great truths is also going to be rude? Who are you trying to shoot with your gun? ”

Liu Shu's face turned from pale to red, and his shell gun was held in his hand awkwardly, but the muzzle of the gun was pointed diagonally at the ceiling: "Shut up!" I ask you, who did you just say you were going to shoot?! ”

The room was silent for a moment, and the wheezing of the three people was very clear.

"When the national crisis is at the head, the Japanese occupy our mountains and rivers, as a soldier, I don't fight the devils in front of me, shouldn't I go to a military court?" After a while, Wu Zijian took the lead in breaking the silence.

"Whose court-martial?! The military tribunal of the Kuomintang reactionary Chiang Kai-shek?! Liu Shu's voice bordered on hysteria.

Feng Changzhi seized the opportunity to take two steps forward, grabbed the wrist of the instructor's gun, and then quickly dropped the opponent's shell gun.

"If you have something to say, it's good to say! How can comrades move knives and guns casually! Lao Wu doesn't mean that you should go to a court-martial. After dropping Liu Shu's gun, the battalion commander let out a sigh of relief and said reproachfully.

"Meeting! Hold a party group meeting immediately! The instructor's wrist was pinched by Feng Changzhi, and he angered the battalion commander and roared sharply: "The commander of the second battalion has seriously deviated from the discipline of our party and is sliding into the abyss of betrayal of the party!" ”

According to the original plan, the battalion commander, instructor, and deputy battalion commander were to first convene a meeting of the commanders of the second battalion, and then Zhang Xiu was called to convene a party group meeting, but the instructor's anger made him anxious to convene a party group meeting, because only at that meeting was he the absolute authority.

"Don't button the big hat indiscriminately," Wu Zijian saw the battalion commander get off the instructor's gun, and he was full of confidence, and he even showed a smile: "There are three commanders in our second battalion, according to you, the battalion commander and I have betrayed the party?" ”

"Old Wu!" Feng Changzhi is angry, and his biggest headache is that the deputy battalion commander has always been disrespectful to the instructor: "Don't pull me together, it's you who make mistakes now!" If you have not made a collective decision by the business department, you have mobilized troops to carry out military operations without authorization, and you should be locked up in confinement for this article! ”

"That's not the main problem!" Liu Shu pointed at the two people with trembling fingers: "In our second battalion, there is no party leadership now, we have lost the party's position, and we have completely fallen into the quagmire of militarism first!"

"Then I would like to ask Comrade Instructor, what is the party's position?" Wu Zijian's anger was also arched, and his eyes widened and he shouted: "Does the United Nations army attack the Japanese army mean that it has lost its party position?" Which side is our party's position on? Is it on the side of the Japanese? ”

Liu Shu was asked, and he was speechless for a while.

Since last year, as a member of the Red Army, he took the initiative to accept the reorganization of the Nationalist Government into the Eighth Route Army in northern Shaanxi, and there have been several emotions among the commanders and fighters. Some people are deeply proud of it, thinking that from now on they will take off the bandit name and become an upright national army; Others were deeply ashamed, feeling that they had fought against Chiang Kai-shek for more than ten years, but were finally surrendered by Zhao'an; And between these two groups of people, they are at a loss and fall into deep confusion.

Now the three chief officers of the second battalion of the forest division are precisely the representatives of the three emotions.

Wu Zijian, the deputy battalion commander, was born in the Whampoa Military Academy and had the concept of an orthodox soldier in his mind, so he raised his hands in favor of the Red Army becoming a legal National Revolutionary Army; The instructor Liu Shu was persecuted by the Nationalist Government after the failure of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation that year, and he was full of hatred for the Chiang Kai-shek government in his bones, even if he put on the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, he continued to call himself a Red Army; On the one hand, the battalion commander Feng Changzhi resolutely obeyed the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, but on the other hand, he could not understand the deep-seated reasons.

On the issue of dealing with the anti-Japanese resistance, Wu Zijian felt that the purpose of accepting the reorganization and crossing the Yellow River into Shanxi was to resist Japan and seek a war against the Japanese army. Feng Changzhi agreed with his deputy on this point, but he was very confused by the repeated instructions from his superiors to avoid the Japanese army in front of him; Only Liu Shu gradually realized the truth in this regard, but this kind of truth often cannot be openly stated to the lower-level commanders and fighters.

After the gratifying situation in the Guanmenshan base area was opened, Liu Shu once thought that he could unify the understanding and views of the battalion commanders, especially the battalion commander Feng Changzhi, who became more and more supportive of the construction of the base area that could not only have a foothold, but also expand the troops and horses; But the annoying deputy battalion commander is still bent on stirring up the situation, the last time the incident of fighting with the puppet Mongolian cavalry in Hekou Village has not passed, this time he even hid himself and the battalion commander, and led the troops to attack the Japanese army in Fengdian.

The instructor already had an ominous premonition: the Japanese puppet army in the Fengdian area had suffered two big losses in succession, and it was very likely that they would mobilize heavy troops in the future and come to the base area to retaliate. Therefore, at this moment in the battalion headquarters, his departure anger is inevitable.

The three of them fought for more than half an hour. Feng Changzhi did not immediately agree to convene a party group meeting, because he did not want to further aggravate the situation, especially since the party group meeting still needed to find Zhang Xiu, and at this time, he needed to control the contradictions within the three chief officials.

When the quarrel was also tired, when the anger gradually weakened, instructor Liu Shu began to make a statement: "Again, we are not not not not resisting Japan, we are not passively avoiding war, but we must first maintain the capital of resisting Japan, that is, the base areas and troops. Can an army that does not even have a fixed foothold fight with peace of mind? The soldiers in his hands are all exhausted, what do you talk about anti-Japanese? Therefore, everything the Second Battalion is doing at Guanmen Mountain at the moment is to keep quiet and prepare for a decisive battle against Japan in the future. This is not the meaning of my instructor personally, but the meaning of the superiors and the meaning of Yan'an, the Party Central Committee. ”

Feng Changzhi didn't say anything.

Wu Zijian reluctantly replied: "Prepare for the future decisive battle against Japan?" And what about now? The Japanese are occupying our towns and villages and bullying our compatriots, so we are watching and nesting here to live in obscurity? ”

This time, Liu Shu simply no longer avoided it, but said affirmatively: "Yes! There is no way to do this, there are gains and losses. But this account must also be counted on the head of Chiang Kai-shek, who pretended to resist Japan and was true*, forcing the Red Army to develop its own strength; For the losses caused by our Japanese battles, Chairman Chiang will not give us a single shot, a single bullet, a single soldier, and if we continue to fight like this, the Red Army will be exhausted before the Japanese are driven out of China! ”

Wu Zijian was a little annoyed again: "What do you call this?" How is it not replenished with a shot at a bullet? Before the battle of Pingxingguan began, the officers and men of our second battalion were each issued 100 rounds of ammunition and 3 bullets*, and since I joined the Red Army, I have never received so much ammunition, and you forgot so quickly? That wasn't from the World War Zone? ”

Liu Shu sneered: "It's also a shame that you remember!" Then let me ask Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, have you seen anything else since that time? ”

"Why haven't you seen it?" Wu Zijian was more serious: "When the battle of Xinkou was almost over, Wei Lihuang's military headquarters gave us five mortars for the Lin Division, one of which was in our second battalion!" Now it's out there! ”

"Okay, okay, you two don't count these old accounts of old sesame seeds and rotten grains," Feng Changzhi saw the heat - it was time for him to come out and play a round again - "There is nothing wrong with burying your head in the construction of the base area, looking at the changes in our second battalion after they arrived in Xiping, there is no need to argue." The Japanese army also has to fight, but it must be tactical, not hard-fought and brutal. In particular, unauthorized actions must be prohibited in the future! ”

Seeing this, Liu Shu immediately announced the decision of the party group: In view of the fact that Comrade Wu Zijian did not discuss collectively in the management department and appointed the leader of the enemy labor team without authorization, it was decided to give the party a warning.

Wu Zijian was stunned, he didn't attach much importance to the so-called intra-party punishment, not to mention that before coming to Xiping, the deputy battalion commander was also mentally prepared to accept a certain punishment. But the instructor's announcement at this juncture made him feel unhappy. Feng Changzhi on the side saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly raised a hand and slapped it heavily on the shoulder of his partner: "Old Wu, giving you this punishment is something that I and the instructor have thought about carefully; You have to learn a lesson! We are collective leaders and are not allowed to assert ourselves! ”

Wu Zijian felt that Feng Changzhi was quietly squeezing his shoulder, and then looked at his meaningful gaze, understanding that this was an old comrade-in-arms hinting that he was calm.

He sighed and closed his mouth.

Unexpectedly, Liu Shu's tone was raised: "This punishment is aimed at your last mistake, and does not include your unauthorized mobilization of troops to fight this time, I demand that a party group meeting be convened immediately to continue to criticize Comrade Wu Zijian's serious problems, and make a more severe punishment." ”

The two of them suddenly quarreled again, and their voices were even more passionate than just now, and several soldiers outside the door of the barracks were so frightened that they looked at each other and did not dare to come out.

In the end, it was the battalion commander who mediated left and right, on the one hand, he severely criticized Wu Zijian's ultra viress behavior, and on the other hand, he put forward the results of the battle outside Fengdian City; This round of more heated quarrels gradually subsided.

"In a word, the county seat of Fengdian is very close to Hekou Village," Feng Changzhi said with a summary effect: "Now the situation of being occupied by the national army is much more favorable to us than being occupied by the Japanese army, and the threat to the base area has been greatly reduced, which can be regarded as the result of this sortie; After all, without the 5th Company facing the Japanese attack from behind, the 391st Regiment of the National Army might not be able to successfully capture the county seat. ”

It was getting late, and the three battalion commanders who were tired of the noise all felt dry and stupid. So, with the attitude of taking a step back, this long meeting finally came to an end reluctantly.

The battalion headquarters severely criticized Wu Zijian's unauthorized mobilization of troops to attack Fengdian, and the next is not an example; The party will not pursue responsibility for the time being, in order to see the after-effects.

At the same time, the artillery squad and heavy machine gun squad established by the 5th Company on the basis of the original equipment and the captured Japanese equipment were all under the direct jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters; In view of the fact that the three heavy machine guns, two Type 92 and one Makqin, had been deployed by Wu Zijian in the fortifications around Hekou Village, they were temporarily left in the 5th Company under the command of Wu Zijian. The artillery squad happened to come to Xiping with all the equipment to display it, so it stayed at the battalion headquarters in Xiping and joined the two artillerymen from the second battalion previously assigned to the Lin Division headquarters to conduct training in the operation of mortars and grenadiers.

Wu Zijian's intestines almost regretted it!

I knew that the battalion commander and instructor would detain the artillery squad and equipment, and I would not bring them if I said anything. Thinking of the treatment that the newly established cavalry company also received after defeating the puppet Mongolian army and capturing the war horse, Wu Zijian became more and more resentful.

He angrily said that he would rush back to Hekou Village for dinner, and set off, and then slammed the door and left.

"Old Wu, isn't the new Captain Xiao of the enemy engineering team also here?" Feng Changzhi chased out of the door and shouted, "You have to let him report to the battalion headquarters!" ”

Wu Zijian then remembered that he only cared about quarreling with the instructor this afternoon, and completely forgot about Xiao Junping, who was traveling with him. But the deputy battalion commander was shocked again:

They won't leave the enemy engineer team and captain under the direct jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters in Xiping, right!?