There are more than 200 middle-level Eighth Route Army cadres gathered from various places, and their sources include the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Shanxi-Sui Military Region, Jinan Military Region, Shandong Base Area, New Fourth Army Base Area in Jiangnan and other major Eighth Route Army base areas in the north.
Most of these cadres are regiment-level cadres, regiment leaders, political commissars, deputy regiment leaders, deputy political commissars, chiefs of staff, and cadres in some military regions and military subdivisions in charge of logistics, production, and publicity.
The original intention of the boss was to organize a small-scale visit and study tour within the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region. Now that so many cadres have come, it is not that the boss specially organized people to visit and study Zhou Weihan's independent detachment, but for another reason.
In a large courtyard of the headquarters.
A group of people were sitting on the ground, and the deputy chief of staff stood in front and was talking about something.
"Comrades, among you are military cadres, political cadres, big housekeepers in charge of logistics, and some who fight the enemy with pens. You are all the elites of our Eighth Route Army. You are all in leadership positions. Some comrades under my command should say less.
He also commands thousands of soldiers!"
“There are officer cadets who graduated from regular military academies like Huangpu, there are top students who came back from studying abroad and drank foreign ink, and there are also old Red Army soldiers from the Jinggangshan period. However, the National Army, the Japanese Army, and even the miscellaneous armed forces in some places call our Eighth Route Army Tubal Road.
They say we are all idiots!"
"What others say is their business, but our Eighth Route Army has always paid attention to learning, and learning while fighting is our fine tradition. This time the headquarters called you from all over the place, and even asked you to separate from the front line, just to give everyone
This is a systematic learning opportunity, I hope you won’t feel any burden or emotion!”
"Now, please introduce yourselves!" said the deputy chief of staff, waving his hand.
As soon as he finished speaking, a burly man with thick eyebrows and big eyes stood up, first saluted a military salute, and then said loudly: "Hello, comrades, my name is Guo Shengli, from the Jiaodong Military Region, the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Shanzong Brigade.
long!"
"Li Weizhong, the fifth column of the Eighth Route Army is the political commissar of the first detachment!"
"Zhao Wenhua, captain of the first brigade of the New Fourth Army's guerrilla detachment in the Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu base areas!"
"Liu Yefang, deputy commander of the 23rd Regiment of the First Division of Hebei Province!"
"Zheng Dachu, deputy director of the Military Supplies Department of the Third District of Shanxi-Suiyuan!"
"Liu Tianming, commander of the 22nd Regiment of the Fighting to the Death Column!"
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The deputy chief of staff smiled and listened patiently to everyone's introductions, while several staff officers on the side wrote something in their notebooks from time to time.
"Okay, there are a lot of people. It doesn't matter if you can't remember it. We will be familiar with each other in the coming time!"
"Before entering the Anti-Japanese University to study, tomorrow the head of the headquarters will take everyone to visit and study the independent detachment in Tainan. Some comrades may have heard of the name of the independent detachment. I won't tell you more. You can go and see for yourself tomorrow.
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"Principal He will then send someone to take you to the main campus of Kangda University for three months of study!"
"By the way, the boss also asked me to give you a message. Anyone who enters the Kangda University must cherish their time and study hard. Those who fail the examination in each subject at the end of the semester will not graduate! When will they pass the exam and return to the base?
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As soon as the deputy chief of staff finished speaking, most of the people in the crowd looked embarrassed. They were all rough guys. Although they had briefly studied in the army, if they really talked about studying at the Anti-Japanese University...
The Eighth Route Army opened several base areas behind enemy lines, but due to the Japanese blockade, it was inconvenient to communicate with each base area.
The headquarters has jurisdiction over several large military regions, which have jurisdiction over several first-level military regions, and the first-level military regions have jurisdiction over military subdivisions.
It seems that the organization structure is strict, but in fact, except for the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, which is together with the headquarters, several other military regions generally operate independently, and the lowest military division was also divided into pieces by the Japanese army.
As a result, the headquarters is on one side, and the military regions below are self-contained. The Eighth Route Army can be said to be a mountain forest.
If this continues for a long time, it is inevitable that some comrades will have great power and their thoughts will shift, leading to a warlord style.
In order to avoid this bad phenomenon, the headquarters will regularly send some comrades to study at the Anti-Japanese University, and at the same time, through systematic learning, change some of the wild ways in the past.
Together with the headquarters is the sixth branch of Anti-Japanese University, also called Taihang Branch.
These Eighth Route Army commanders were going to the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese University, which was located in Jiangshuichuan, Xingtai.
In history, senior generals of the Eighth Route Army, such as Chen Geng of the Taiyue Military Region and Chen Zaidao of the Southern Hebei Military Region, went to Yanzhou to "study" for two years.
That afternoon.
When the headquarters' correspondents arrived at Yanwang Mountain, the deputy chief of staff asked Zhou Weihan to send a small force to Sanliyu in the northeast of Shexian County to respond.
When I heard that there were not only the heads of the headquarters and divisions, but also cadres from various places.
Zhou Weihan's head was so big that he couldn't help but think of the officer observation group organized by the Japanese army. This situation was so similar.
In order to ensure the safety of the Eighth Route Army observation group, Zhou Weihan immediately sent a telegram to Xu Dali's Second Regiment stationed in the southwest of Shexian County.
Xu Dali's second regiment was ordered to mobilize, except for the necessary people left behind, to escort the boss and his entourage safely to Yamawang Mountain.
night.
Li Yunshan also came to report to Zhou Weihan the results of the two days of platooning in the base area.
Wuyi and Wu'an are old base areas, where the independent detachment has the support of the people and has a deep foundation.
Shexian County is the seat of Tainan Prefecture and also enjoys strong support from the people.
Only Ci County, where the Fourth Regiment is located, had just driven away the stubborn troops not long ago, and was not yet familiar with the local people. The construction of grassroots political power was not yet complete, and the formation of villagers and soldiers had just begun.
"After this simple investigation, I found that the grassroots political power construction in Wuyi, Wu'an, and Shexian counties is very complete. At the same time, the joint defense based on each villager's army has built the base area like a steel connection, which cannot be splashed by oil or blown by the wind.
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"The local fellows are actively cooperating, and overall no problems have been found. Of course, the enemy's spies are hidden too deeply, and we need to work harder to protect Kodo in the future!"
"As for Ci County, relatively speaking, the problem is bigger. It was discovered that there were four plainclothes soldiers dispatched by the Japanese army in Ci County, and a Japanese special agent team. The most numerous were secret agents from the national army, including personnel from the New Fifth Army, the Forty Army, and
This shows that the Nationalist Government still covets our Tainan region." Li Yunshan said.
"The situation in Ci County is normal. Although the two parties signed an agreement, Chiang Kai-shek is very strict with us. How can we not make small moves in private? How can we live in peace? I am sure that there must be military commanders in the base area, and the central commander has arranged for us
Agents, maybe even in the army."
"Old Chiang Kai-shek made a good calculation. He placed two miscellaneous troops around Lin County. Since they serve as the first line of defense against our Eighth Route Army, they can also consume the two disobedient miscellaneous troops as cannon fodder. Pang Bingxun and
I'm afraid Sun Dianying also knows it well, but because of the name of Chiang Kai-shek's orthodoxy, there is nothing he can do about it!"
Unlike Sun Dianying, Pang Bingxun was a famous patriotic general who once joined hands with General Zhang Zizhong to fight the Japanese Itagaki Division in Taierzhuang.
Regarding this battle, Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, wrote in his memoirs: "The enemy troops fought repeatedly for several days and suffered numerous casualties, but they could not make a step further. At that time, Chinese and foreign reporters and military attachés from allied countries who were watching the battle in Xuzhou were accompanying the army.
There were no less than dozens of people, and no one could have imagined that one of the best 'imperial troops' would be defeated by a little-known Chinese 'miscellaneous' force. It was widely reported at home and abroad, and there was a lot of applause."
It was such a patriotic general who was forced to surrender to the Japanese army by Chiang Kai-shek's tactics.