Five days later, Liu Hanying's 700 men and horses converged at Shuhuo Port on the north side of Bump Mountain. Some came from the waterway, some came from the mountain road, and dozens of people had been captured by the Japanese army, and on the way to be pulled out and buried alive, they were ambushed by Yang Tinghui's troops, and these dozens of people also escaped.

Shuhuobu is an important town in the southwest of Luo'an Prefecture, surrounded by peaks and mountains, valleys and streams converge, primeval forests are all over, and the leaves accumulated over the years are rotten into mud, like a swamp, gloomy and almost isolated from the outside world, it is indeed a natural wonderful place for the remnants of the defeated army to rest and recuperate. The commander's department gave a special explanation to Liu Hanying, and since the Chinese army launched the Battle of Pingxingguan, the Japanese army has been eager for revenge, and its flames are blazing. The prefect's department asked Liu Hanying to pay attention to preserving his strength, avoiding the enemy's edge, and not fighting for the time being. The hornet's nest stabbed by the Eighth Route Army was let the Eighth Route Army deal with it. It is advisable for the national army to gain a firm foothold in the Bump Mountain and expand its ranks. Liu Hanying's immediate boss, division commander Fang Fuyang, even asserted that as long as there were 3,000 troops on Bump Mountain, the Japanese army did not have tens of thousands of troops, so they would not dare to attack rashly, and they could only take a detour to advance forward.

At this time, Liu Hanying was no longer the commander of the 246th Regiment of the National Army, and after stabilizing the camp in Shuhuobu, he became the commander of the National Revolutionary Army's Anti-Japanese Independent Brigade and the commissioner of the Special Administrative Office of the National Revolutionary Army. Liu Hanying sent more than a dozen people to the surrounding counties to collect stragglers, and contacted the former government officials of each county to establish districts and townships to protect the armor and collect taxes. In less than a month, another 2,000 soldiers were replenished, and an accelerated school was built to the east of Ziyunguan in Shuhuobu. In order to show the importance of education, Liu Hanying is also the principal, and selects outstanding boys and girls from nearly 100 market towns in the Bump Mountain area to come to study, and provides free board and lodging. This is naturally because the wool comes out of the sheep, and if you levy more taxes on the people, you will have everything.

Thirty miles west of Shuhobu, there is an oolongji, which is the western edge of the Shuhobu area from a topographical point of view. There are several big houses with gray walls and gray tiles at the south end of Wulongji, which was originally the ancestral hall of a large family, because of the fear of the approaching Japanese army, the patriarch relied on the money, and had already fled to the southwest. The clansmen also have a lot of rules, the ancestral hall is basically idle, and the 79th Brigade of the one-eyed officers under Liu Hanying is stationed here.

A few days later, Chen Mohan learned from the veteran's mouth that this 79th Brigade was not Liu Hanying's troops, but was incorporated after being defeated by Jiang Wenzhao's troops in the Tojo Mountain Incident not long ago. The deputy regiment commander is named Moganshan, and he is the personal guard of Wu Peimei, the chief general of the Tojo Mountain Incident and the former commander of the 79th Army.

In the so-called Tojo Mountain Incident, due to the large-scale encirclement and suppression of Jiang Wenzhao and other troops, Wu Peimei and more than 70 senior generals were killed in battle, and more than 10,000 troops collapsed into quicksand. In order to take care of the overall situation of the anti-Japanese resistance and the lives of more than 1,000 brothers, Shi Yunbiao, Mo Ganshan and others finally laid down their weapons, and Jiang Wenzhao ordered his division commander Fang Fuyang to be responsible for the purge. Later, because the Japanese army was advancing to the rear of East China, the war was tight, and Fang Fuyang incorporated the remnants of Shi Yunbiao into Liu Hanying's regiment and demoted them to a brigade, Shi Yunbiao was demoted to the captain, and Mo Ganshan became the deputy captain. The rest of the battalion commanders such as Zhao Wuxian, Li Sanyuan, and Pan Zhongxing were all demoted to squadron leaders.

Regarding the experience of the 79th Brigade and the grievances and grievances between Shi Yunbiao, Mo Ganshan and others and Jiang Wenzhao, Fang Fuyang, Liu Hanying and others, Chen Mohan, who is a newcomer to Rongma, naturally does not know much, and he does not see the slightest clue and the slightest dissatisfaction and grievance from the expressions of Shi Yunbiao and others. Their faces were monolithic, and they were secretive about their experiences. What Chen Mohan learned from them was the training of the body and the will.

It's noon. The sun was like a burning fireball, mercilessly scorching the mountains, and countless sharp and hot steel needles pierced the cloudless sky, piercing into the skin of the student soldier Chen Mohan without hindrance, and squeezing out the moisture from the depths of the skin little by little, accumulating around the pores. Large beads of sweat fell on the red sand in front of me.

In this situation, Chen Mohan, who has always despised rudeness and cherishes face very much, can hardly protect the etiquette of a scholar, and often scolds his mother with hatred in his heart. It's really not a damn taste, it's really Sven sweeping the floor.

The captain is here.

The one-eyed captain took one step at a time, his steps were calm and powerful, and he was aggressive. The rumbling sound of heavy leather shoes on the ground seeped from one place to another through the ground, and then from the soles of the feet to Chen Mohan's heart and lungs.

Chen Mohan was afraid of this rhythmic footsteps, and he especially hated the short-legged white-haired wolf dog that followed the captain. The dog spat out its scarlet tongue, and was obviously distraught by the heat, and its little round eyes looked around thiefly, and from time to time it lowered its head, sniffing and snorting to and fro, and snorting and panting.

The dog's frizziness contrasts sharply with the captain's majesty. Even on dog days when the sun was blazing, the one-eyed captain was dressed in a thick military uniform, meticulous in his discipline buttons, and stood there with a pair of genuine riding boots, even though his sweat soaked his whole body. As long as there is one soldier on the training ground, the team leader will not leave the training ground.

Chen Mohan heard the veterans say that the captain Shi Yunbiao is a northerner, born in a military family, once studied in Cixian Jiangwutang, and later studied at the Baoding Army School. This prince gets along with people without smiling, adheres to the spirit of punctuality, trustworthiness and hard work, advocates the wisdom of Kongming, the loyalty of Yunchang, the courage of Zilong, and the fierceness of wings. A few years ago, the all-out war of resistance had not yet begun, the Japanese advance spy agency sent the ronin to infiltrate the hinterland of North China to create an incident, a ronin gang and a battalion of the 79th Army fought, Shi Yunbiao was the company commander at the time, because the defensive position was broken by the enemy, led the remnants to start a white-knives fight with the Japanese invaders, the left eye was pierced by the tip of the Japanese invaders, and after the war, he plucked his eyeballs in the hospital.

Without the left eye, the remaining right eye is extremely shrewd, and the cold eyeballs can often see the little tricks of the student soldier Chen Mohan from a few feet away—such as the slightly bent knees in the fat military trousers.

Just as intimidating as the one-eyed captain was the ghostly white dog that followed behind Shi Yunbiao. Originally, there was a cold and deep one-eyed captain, which had already made the students' hearts tremble, and the one-eyed was unguardable, plus the two dog eyes, the students would never dare to be lazy. The dog seemed to have been specially trained, and could not only read the joy and anger of its master, but also spy on the privacy of the apprentices, and if anyone cheated and slipped during training, or turned in the wrong direction after turning to the right, or took the wrong step in the middle of the walk, it would bark and pounce.

It's really a dog fight. It doesn't bite, it just screams at you, the more you worry, the more fierce it screams, until Shi Yunbiao adjusts his one-eye and stares at your wrong leg and foot, it will smuggle its mouth, wagging its tail proudly, rubbing its master's leg, looking triumphantly asking for credit.

The results can be imagined.

There were a few cadets who had secretly tried to get this hateful dog into the pot, but the conspiracy was aborted before it could be carried out - no one dared to roll the eyelids of the one-eyed captain.

This dog is not an ordinary dog, it has a lot of origins. The veteran who knew about it said that it was originally the pet of Mrs. Wu Peimei, the commander of the 79th Army, and that in the Tojo Mountain Incident, General Wu Peimei once tied a secret letter around its neck, and it rushed out of the encirclement in the rain of bullets and bullets, and sent the secret letter to Shu Dushan, and through the hands of Shi Yunbiao, it was presented to General Chen, one of the founders of the 79th Army, thus making a great contribution to the preservation of the remnants of the 79th Army. As for how this dog returned to the 79th Brigade and became one of Shi Yunbiao's main assistants, no one can say clearly. Obviously, this dog was one of the important heroes of the 79th Army. Since General Wu Peimei is dead, it will remain by Shi Yunbiao's side as a symbol. In a sense, it is a history, a soul, an indomitable spirit.

With such an extraordinary history, who would dare to start?

In Chen Mohan's impression, Shi Yunbiao's face was always gloomy, and this gloomy face seemed to be forever shaking on the training ground of the 79th Brigade. And only in between classes, when Shi Yunbiao is alone with the dog, will his gloomy face relax a little, and a trace of warmth will pass. The captain of that brief moment, as if he was a tired old man, would stretch out his hard arm and caress the dog next to him lovingly. As for the dog, at this time, it was also extremely obedient, lying quietly on its side, tilting its head, and its eyes were full of sweet satisfaction.

Whenever this happens, Chen Mohan suddenly trembles again. He vaguely felt that the seemingly fierce captain was actually very pitiful, even including the dog who was often vicious.