After receiving the order, Ma Biao ordered a company of Lijiayao to protect the more than 50 disabled soldiers of the farm to take back the headquarters, inform the farm to send all the remaining to the hired people as part of the people's wages, and asked the people to send receipts to confirm receipts. Li Da was ordered to lead people to assist the arsenal in dismantling the anti-aircraft guns and fortifications, organize a company to transport finished ammunition, and require that the equipment and caves be cleaned and the materials placed neatly.

Although there are only more than 700 troops, the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and there are more than 180 people in the reconnaissance company alone, which shows that Peng Chengfu has made great contributions! There were still more than a dozen, and the scouts, including Tiezhu, did not have time to retreat, and the radio ordered them to retreat back to Shaanxi on their own if they could not retreat to the vicinity of Licheng County within ten days.

Three days later, all the Arsenal personnel shrank back to Headquarters. On the fourth day, more than 500 personnel near the headquarters were arranged to hold a solemn farewell ceremony at the martyrs' cemetery. In the state of sealing the camp, the little grandfather still brought more than a dozen cadres of the Eighth Route Army to ask to participate. glanced at the chief of staff and asked Ma Biao to arrange that they could only observe the ceremony and not participate in the ceremony. The Chief of Staff paid homage to the Heroic Soul and laid a wreath. promised to come here and take them home after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and swore that he would not dare to disturb the pursuit of the heroic spirits to the edge of the sky! Finally, I asked myself to tell you a few words.

I didn't have the experience of speaking in public, and under the sudden attack of the chief of staff, I had to chat in public. He coughed lightly into the microphone twice: "Brothers, most of you are from Shaanxi and Henan who fled to Shaanxi, and of course there are brothers from other places. Why do we come so far? And so many brothers' lives, legs and feet left here? Because the Japanese devils invaded China, they did all kinds of evil on our land! the Lushun Massacre, the Fushun Pingdingshan Massacre; the Zhenjiang Massacre, the Nanjing Massacre; Such cases are all over Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong...... Wait, you can see it almost everywhere on the land of China! ”

Breathing a sigh of relief, he looked at the quiet crowd and continued: "20 years ago, a young man shouted in Hunan, 'The world is ours; The Nation, our Country; Socialists, our society. We don't say, who does? If we don't do it, who will? 'The Japanese devils have invaded our homeland! Slaughter our fathers and villagers, insult our sisters! Say, brethren! If we don't kill devils, who will? We don't protect our homeland, who will? ”

Ma Biao took the lead and shouted: "Kill the devil!" Protect your homeland! More than 500 people shouted earth-shattering.

"Everyone has seen that the devil is very fierce and powerful! Fighting devils will inevitably be sacrificed! A Soviet writer wrote on the title page of his novel that the most precious thing of man is life, and that life belongs to man only once. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when he looks back, he will not regret that he wasted his time, nor will he be ashamed of his inaction. Thus, at the end of his life, he was able to say: "My whole life and all my energies have been devoted to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the emancipation of mankind." "The heroic spirits in front of us are dedicated their lives to the most magnificent cause in the world, and their sacrifice is heavier than Tarzan!

We are here today to say goodbye to the Heroic Spirits and return to Shaanxi. Some brothers will ask, "Why are you afraid of devils?" Are you going to be a deserter? Is there no confidence in fighting devils? So what I want to ask you is, do we have the confidence to fight devils? Where did the confidence come from? The young man I mentioned 20 years ago wrote a book to tell us that the book shelf recently organized everyone to study "On Protracted War"! This great leader told us that the confidence to fight devils comes from the people, that is, the ordinary people of China, and our fathers and fellow villagers!

I remember bringing you here to warn you to mingle with the common people, and let you help the local people master the skills of fighting devils, have you done it? Did you help the people dig tunnels? Have you done to help people improve their lives? Well done? Is it satisfactory for the common people? Then when I come again this time, I have the feeling of seeing people without a face; Why do people look at you so coldly? Or even hatred? Without the support of the people, how can you have the confidence to defeat the devils? Don't come into contact with the outside world until you leave, it's a military order.

The military order of the people said well, there are no devils here. We're getting out of here! We have eliminated more than 2,000 puppet troops here, and the record is good. We didn't hurt the people, we didn't hurt the friendly forces, we just didn't do it well enough, it doesn't matter. We people in Shaanxi have the courage to correct our mistakes, and we will go back to sum up our experience, correct our mistakes, regroup and fight devils again. Brethren, I ask you if you still have such backbone? Nor such confidence? ”

"Yes!"

"We are going to Shaanxi, the mountains and rivers are dangerous, the devils are obstructed, and we need to pay sweat, blood, and even huge sacrifices, and no one may collect our bodies when we sacrifice. In order to reduce unnecessary sacrifices, I must require all personnel to be able to do what is forbidden and what is ordered! Anyone who feels that he cannot obey the order, and who cannot or dare not make sacrifices, will withdraw from the application and submit it to your commander tonight, and arrange for them to leave the barracks en masse tomorrow morning, and remember that from 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, we will begin to carry out the military orders issued to us by the Political Department of the 18th Group Army, and also begin to enforce battlefield discipline! Leaving our small team will not affect you to be an anti-Japanese hero. Of course, everything you have to do with this squad has nothing to do with it.

There is a way for the martyrs to go ahead, and we will come behind. Persist in the War of Resistance, adhere to the united front, persist in protracted warfare, and victory will definitely belong to China! With these words of the great man, I encourage my brothers! ”

Regarding the little grandfather's request to meet, neither he nor the chief of staff were interested, and refused on the grounds that he was busy with official business! It's not a lie to be busy, first study how to write a telegram to my uncle, and strive for the support of the First War Zone or the 38th Army! It is also necessary to study the operational plan that the chief of staff has come up with. According to reconnaissance, the Changzhi Japanese garrison is a wing level, with more than 3,000 people plus more than 5,000 puppet troops, and the strength is strong. However, the area of defense is very large, including more than a dozen county seats, Lucheng is the key defense place of the devils, and a devil reinforcement squadron of more than 300 people and 500 puppet troops are arranged, as well as an infantry cannon.

Weizi Town on the east side of Lucheng is an outpost stronghold, with a squad plus a puppet army company of 100 people. In addition, the devil is good at building fortifications, and it is difficult to break through the defense without heavy weapons. The design of the scheme is very level, and it is chosen to attack the town of Weizi before evening, so that the devil plane has no chance to participate in the war; The attack strength allows the Lucheng devils to shrink the surrounding stronghold enemies, or support or retreat the enemies of Weizi Town; Later, whether it was support or not, they attacked Weizi Town and Lucheng at the same time, and at least one city was taken. The secret hand is that the reconnaissance company led part of the sappers to plant roadside bombs along the only way from Changzhi to Lucheng, and the chief of staff wanted to reproduce the scene in Shexian that year. If you bomb the Changzhi devil, you don't care if Lucheng is taken or not, and if you don't send reinforcements or can't bomb it, you will resolutely take Lucheng. There is no room for the chief of staff to put his beak in the plan himself, and it would be good to implement it.

The next morning, more than 60 people applied to withdraw, including more than a dozen technicians. Arrange Ma Biao to deal with it, the rules are clear to everyone, except for personal belongings, everything else will be left, and the process will not be shocked.

Coincidentally, in Shaanxi, Uncle Xiao telegraphed that the Kuomintang took advantage of the matter and publicized it in the newspapers. The anti-Japanese contingent behind enemy lines was squeezed out by the Communist Party! Wait a minute. How could the Kuomintang consider the question of whether to live or die for its own small team? It's just a matter of grabbing the handle and attacking others wantonly. The Northwest Army is also very concerned about this, and has also expressed its full assistance and called on relevant troops to provide support. After all, it is the number of the first war zone, and it appeared in the second war zone, so the first war zone did not speak.

It is said that breaking the house is worth 10,000 yuan, and there are a lot of materials collected, and the burden of the troops has to be adjusted round by round. I repeatedly told Ma Biao not to be reluctant to give up three or five millets, if there is a back on the road that you can't carry.