Wu Zijian hesitated slightly, and the battalion commander had already chased him out of the battalion headquarters.

The headquarters of the 2nd Battalion is located in the Land Temple in Xiping Village, which is located in the westernmost part of the village; As soon as Wu Zijian saw Zhao Yejiao and others, as well as the two mortars and two grenadiers and shells that were set up on the ground for an exhibition, the anger in his heart rose more and more, and as soon as he turned around, grabbed the arm of the battalion commander who had caught up, pointed to the artillery squad and equipment, and shouted:

"Lao Feng, have you seen it? This is the trophy that I took with 5 companies and fought with the devils, good mortars and grenadiers, not placed in the front to fight the devils, they are all left in the rear to be used for cubs!? ”

Throughout the afternoon, Zhao Yejiao and others had been showing and explaining the new equipment of the artillery to batch after batch of comrades-in-arms in Xiping, and then they had been waiting here stupidly; From the soldiers who were closer to the Land Temple, they vaguely learned that the battalion commander, the deputy battalion commander, and the instructor were arguing at the meeting inside, and they were arguing non-stop and fiercely. Zhao Yejiao was incorporated from the Central Army, and he didn't quite understand the identity and status of the instructor, he just admired the deputy battalion commander with all his heart, and felt that the deputy battalion commander was a real soldier who dared to fight with the Japanese with real swords.

"Deputy battalion commander, shall we go back?" Seeing Wu Zijian rushing out of the door, from his angry words, Zhao Yejiao felt that something was wrong, so he had the courage to ask.

"Where? You've all been detained by the battalion commander and instructors! Wu Zijian glared at Zhao Yejiao and continued to vent: "These cannons and small cannons in your hands are all left here, and they will be polished every day in the future, waiting to hold the cubs!" ”

Feng Changzhi was angry and funny, he didn't want to expose the contradictions between the commanders in front of the soldiers, so he hurriedly changed the topic:

"Squad Leader Zhao, where is Captain Xiao of the enemy engineering team who came with you?"

"Captain Xiao...... Oh yes, Captain Xiao was picked up by Company Commander Xia and said to go to see the cavalry training. ”

The Xia company commander mentioned by Zhao Yejiao is the new cavalry company commander Xia Lianshan.

"What's the matter? Do you and Instructor Liu still want to detain the enemy team and the captain together? ”

When Wu Zijian said this, a fierce light appeared in his eyes. Feng Changzhi hurriedly explained that this was not what he meant.

"After Captain Xiao took office, the instructor and I haven't seen him yet, even according to the procedure, he has to report to the battalion headquarters, right?"

"I think it's better to be free!" Wu Zijian was angry, and said casually: "Captain Xiao is the most annoying of our big instructor, what you can't see, it's not of much use!" ”

Unexpectedly, Liu Shu had just come out of the land temple at this moment, and happened to hear Wu Zijian's last sentence, his face suddenly darkened again, and he said coldly: "Okay, in the end, he came from the Kuomintang army, of course he wants to annoy me, a Communist Party cadre!" ”

Wu Zijian was taken aback, he didn't expect the instructor to come out, and his words were obviously implicated in Xiao Junping, he had the heart to explain, but he had just quarreled with Liu Shu so much that his face was red and his neck was thick, and he really didn't want to speak.

"What nonsense!" Feng Changzhi hurriedly glanced at the deputy battalion commander on the side: "Captain Xiao is focused on grasping intelligence, how can he disrespect the instructor like you said!" ”

Wu Zijian also got off the donkey and said: "Yes, Captain Xiao doesn't have so many eyes, and his mind is all on the devil." Seeing that Liu Shu still looked angry, Wu Zijian suddenly remembered something, so he stretched out his right hand towards Feng Changzhi: "Battalion commander, please hand over your matching gun!" ”

Feng Changzhi was stunned for a moment, Wu Zijian didn't give the other party a chance to react, and continued: "Not only you, but also the instructors, as well as the commanders of the 6th and 7th companies, and the cavalry companies, as well as all those who wear short guns, must be handed over." ”

The battalion commander now understood that the last time Wu Zijian came to Xiping to report, he proposed to collect all the short guns of the battalion and hand them over to the enemy engineering team for use. He agreed in principle at the time.

"What's the matter, I and the instructor have to hand over our guns?"

"That's right! Delivered! "In the original plan, Wu Zijian was originally going to let himself, the battalion commander, and the instructor keep the guns, and the other short guns were all retracted; But at this moment, he was angry, and his own shell gun had indeed been handed over to Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team, so at this time, his face turned up: "All the short guns will be handed in, and there are currently twenty-two people in the enemy engineering team, only Captain Xiao has a Browning of his own, even if he collects all the short guns of the whole battalion, it may not be enough!" ”

"Why should Captain Shaw have a Browning?" Liu Shu was very angry by Wu Zijian's words just now, so he aimed his edge at Xiao Junping regardless of it.

Wu Zijian saw that Liu Shu's words showed flaws, and of course he refused to give up this opportunity to fight back: "Instructor, please don't dwell on personal grievances!" Due to the special need of intelligence work to penetrate deep behind enemy lines, members of the enemy engineering team must be issued with short guns, and Xiao Junping is the captain of the enemy engineering team, so of course he has the right to use short guns. Why don't you even have this common sense when your instructor is full of great truths when he teaches others? Say such unqualified words? ”

Liu Shu was given a big red face, and he had a heart attack, but he couldn't find the words to fight back.

Wu Zijian was unforgiving, so he simply took the shell gun from the battalion commander's shoulder; Feng Changzhi smiled bitterly and shook his head, but he did not refuse. Seeing this, Liu Shu had to take off his shell gun with hatred.

"Find your own pony pistol, that thing is shorter than a normal rifle, and it can be considered a short gun." Wu Zijian said as he held back a smug smile - he finally let out a bad breath for himself this afternoon.

Xiao Junping, who was repeatedly mentioned by the three commanders, did not watch the training of the cavalry company at this moment, but talked happily with Zhang Xiu, the female clerk of the battalion headquarters, on the ice of the Qinglong River.

Because not long after the two trailers appeared in Xiping, Wu Zijian was hurriedly asked by the battalion commander to hold a meeting, so Xiao Junping was not arranged for anything at the first time, he stood aside and looked at the commanders and fighters of the second battalion who came to visit the mortars and grenadiers with great interest, and looked at everyone's words and deeds in amazement and joy, and once again felt the outdated weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army. And it didn't take long for Xia Lianshan, who learned the news, to come to visit on a flying horse, and the cavalry company commander did not see the deputy battalion commander, so he carried the new enemy engineer captain on horseback and galloped to the end of the village, where the cavalry company was training intensively.

Xia Lianshan received a lot of guidance from Xiao Junping when he was in the 5th Company, and he admired this Jin Army intelligence staff officer very much. This time, while introducing his cavalry company at the end of the village, he made great efforts to explore the situation in Fengdian County, including the details of Wu Zijian's attack on Fengdian with his troops.

Of course, Xiao Junping was very aware of the cavalry company commander's concern for Fengdian, and although he was unable to go to Fengdian with the team to participate in the battle due to his injuries, he still repeated as much as possible what the deputy battalion commander, the 5th company commander, and the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team told him. Knowing that Fengdian may have been recovered by the national army, Xia Lianshan's mood improved a lot, and he told Xiao Junping the name of his sister and the situation of the family he married to Fengdian, hoping that when the enemy captain sent someone to Fengdian again, he could inquire about the situation on his behalf. Xiao Junping wrote it down carefully and was full of promises.

The training of the cavalry was very orderly, thanks to the dozen or so puppet Mongolian officers and soldiers who were captured anyway, they can be called superb riding skills, and the background of receiving the regular cavalry drill of the Japanese Kwantung Army Cavalry Group, so that the cavalry company of the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division, which was established out of thin air, made rapid progress under their guidance.

And when Xiao Junping finally mentioned Zhang Xiu in a roundabout way, Xia Lianshan couldn't help but secretly scream ashamed: he patronized the Fengdian where his sister was located and displayed the cavalry company, but he forgot about it! When he was still in Hekou Village, he heard Li Tianlin, the commander of the 5th company, say (of course, the commander of the 5th company also learned from the deputy battalion commander) that the staff officers of the Jin army were very concerned about the female clerks of the battalion headquarters, and the deputy battalion commander Wu was even ready to match two single men and women from college students.

So, Xia Lianshan found a horse for the captain of the enemy workers, personally took him, and went around half a circle in the huge Xiping, and found Zhang Xiu, who was mobilizing women to join the sewing and washing team in the village.

The beautiful female clerk of the battalion headquarters had already received the news that Xiao Junping had joined the Eighth Route Army and directly served as the captain of the enemy engineering team. Now the handsome and majestic Xiao Junping actually fell from the sky, which naturally made Zhang Xiu overjoyed, dropped the matter at hand, and accompanied the other party to talk while pacing to the frozen Qinglong River.

Xiping Village is dozens of times larger than the small Hekou Village, and the Qinglong River, which flows from Hekou Village, has become the village river in Xiping, and the river divides the village into two halves. Zhang Xiu, who was born as a female student, likes the river that winds through the center of the village very much, although in the middle of winter, the river is frozen hard and covered with residual snow, but it still does not reduce the interest of the student soldier Zhang Xiu, and she has to walk a few times back and forth on the glacier every day.

So, after talking with Xiao Junping after the reunion, Zhang Xiu involuntarily led the limping other party to the riverside of the Qinglong River.

Xiao Junping first answered Zhang Xiu's curious questions in detail and explained the nature and composition of the enemy engineering team. Knowing that the deputy battalion commander was going to collect all the short guns of the battalion and hand them over to the enemy engineering team, the beautiful female clerk (who herself was not equipped with a gun) was both excited and admired, and in her short years in the army, she saw that the short guns, whether they were shell guns or smaller pistols, had always been the signature weapons worn by the chiefs, and now they were all under the command of the new captain of the enemy engineering team.

Of course, the captain of the enemy engineer team also became interested in Zhang Xiu's new position, but from Zhang Xiu's account, the former staff officer of the Jin army was secretly taken aback: all this that the Eighth Route Army did under the banner of the General Mobilization Committee seemed to have deviated from the original intention of Chief Yan and the Shanxi Provincial Government to establish the mobilization committee, and there was a faint posture to seize local power.

Is this a separate act of the 2nd Battalion of the Lin Division, or is it a move that the Eighth Route Army has begun to take in the whole of Shanxi?!

Listening to and watching the lively narration of Zhang Xiu, the beautiful deputy director of the motion committee, Xiao Junping's mind was a little confused, but he couldn't and didn't dare to exchange his true thoughts with his young sweetheart. So far, there is still a shadow in his heart, that is, Liu Shu, the instructor of the second battalion and the director of the mobilization committee, who has a close relationship with Zhang Xiu's work.