When Chu Yun'er heard from Chu Yunfei that Xu Dalong would return to the Mawushan base area in the future, she immediately returned to the headquarters of the Mawushan Military Division with her liaison team.
The Japanese troops in Shanxi have also been paying attention to Xu Dalong's movements. Yoshio Shinozuka felt very lucky to hear that Xu Dalong had left Shanxi and entered Shandong.
He said: "Xu Dalong, the scourge, has finally left Shanxi. He can go wherever he likes to cause scourge, as long as he doesn't cause scourge to us."
Come and try it quickly. 】
He informed the Japanese 12th Army in Shandong direction of the news that Xu Dalong was heading to northwest Shandong.
Gumi Takazo, the commander of the 12th Japanese Army Garrison, was not familiar with Xu Dalong and had never suffered under his hands. Therefore, even though Yoshio Shinozuka kindly reminded him to pay attention to Xu Dalong, he still did not take it seriously.
In order to restore the situation in northwest Shandong, Gumi Gaozang issued an order to the 39th Division stationed in Guangning, asking him to send troops to sweep the anti-Japanese base areas in the northwest Shandong Army Division, without giving him a special reminder.
Before the Japanese and puppet troops launched a new large-scale attack, Xu Dalong and others seized the time to train their troops. The special operations brigade and the cavalry regiment went out almost every day to attack the Japanese and puppet troops on the edge of the base area to expand the base area.
Every time they go out, they will take part of the newly expanded troops with them to train the troops through actual combat, enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops, and accelerate the growth of the newly formed troops.
That morning, a company of the cavalry regiment escorted an infantry battalion of the second regiment of the military division, captured a town near the base area, and annihilated a company of pseudo-security forces inside. The battle went very smoothly, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was high. I am high-spirited, so I want to strike while the iron is hot and fight another battle.
After discussion, they went to attack a Japanese and puppet army stronghold more than 20 kilometers away from this town.
Since a large amount of supplies were seized in the town and many prisoners of the puppet army were captured, they planned to return the supplies and prisoners to the base area. They left a squad of cavalry and a reinforced platoon of infantry to escort the prisoners and supplies back to the base area. .
When they were about to enter the base area and passed through a mountain ridge, they were suddenly attacked by an armed group of bandits. The platoon leader responsible for transporting supplies immediately organized the soldiers to fight back.
There were thousands of bandits who came to besiege them. Their weapons and equipment were very backward and they could be said to be of all kinds. Some even carried spears and broadswords, but after all, they were large in number and some of them still had fighting ability. A tough and habitual gangster.
The officers and soldiers of the underground party were outnumbered. Except for a few cavalry who escaped, the rest of the officers and soldiers died and all supplies were robbed. As for the captured puppet soldiers, they were also coerced by the bandits to join the bandit armed forces.
This place was very close to the base area, so the escaping cavalry did not go looking for the original troops. Instead, they returned directly to the base area and reported the situation to their superiors.
After receiving the report, Sun Desheng immediately led five cavalry companies and pursued the bandits in the direction of retreat.
He led the cavalry troops to run wildly and finally caught up with the bandits. But by then they were close to the bandits' lair, and thousands of bandits attacked them.
They eliminated some of the bandits, but there were too many bandits. Sun Desheng could only leave a small number of cavalry to monitor the bandits' movements. He led the main force back to the base area.
After Xu Dalong arrived in northwest Shandong, he had already learned about bandit armed forces in this area, but they rarely appeared in the base areas they opened, so he did not pay much attention to this matter.
These bandits belong to the local armed company. The so-called company is a militia group funded by local tycoons and squires. In order to protect themselves, many towns and villages have formed alliances and acted in unison when encountering foreign invasion.
The composition of the company association is very complex. In order to safeguard local interests, they fight against the anti-Japanese armed forces of the Japanese army, puppet army, fruit army and underground party.
In accordance with the requirements of the United Front, the local underground party organizations are also actively doing their work to win them to join the anti-Japanese team. These militia organizations were too complex, and many of them had secretly defected to the Japanese invaders. The underground party's efforts were very ineffective. Some underground party members who were sent to do their work were detained or even killed by them.
Like this time, they actually directly attacked the ranks of the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces, killing dozens of underground party officers and soldiers.
Xu Dalong decided to use the company's weapons to attack these places.
When he proposed this idea, a person in charge of the local underground party organization raised objections. They believed that this was not in line with the superior organization's policy on the united front. They hoped that by doing the work of the local gentry, they could join the anti-Japanese movement. Team.
Regarding how to deal with these bandit militia groups that are separated between the anti-Japanese troops and the Japanese and puppet troops, Xu Dalong believes that Li Yunlong's method is correct.
In Bright Sword, Kong Jie wanted to win over the bandits from Heiyun Village to join the New Second Regiment, but the bandits killed Monk Wei. Li Yunlong directly sent troops to wipe out the bandits, so he was dismissed again for investigation.
Xu Dalong's view is the same as Li Yunlong's. It is necessary to expand the ranks of the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces, including the children of poor farmers with good backgrounds.
Those turtles and bastards who are contaminated with all kinds of bad habits are of no use at all. There is no need to waste words with these rabble for the sake of the banner of the united front.
Xu Dalong made a prompt decision and directly dispatched the main cavalry regiment, the first and second regiments of the military division, and an artillery battalion to besiege the company assembly meeting.
After two days of fighting, more than 100 villages and towns were swept across, more than 8,000 members of the Company's Association were eliminated and captured, and more than 20 of the key members were shot on the spot.
Because the local squire bullies usually relied on the power of the company's uniforms to oppress the people, Xu Dalong's move was supported by the masses.
However, this matter was, after all, different from the ideas of the local underground party organization. They reported the matter to the superiors of the Shandong Underground Party and demanded that Xu Dalong be held accountable.
The underground party in Shandong reported to their superiors and organized an investigation team to investigate in the Northwestern Shandong Military Division.
After Xu Dalong's last incident with Wang Qiming, he knew that dealing with internal affairs was sometimes more complicated than fighting the Japanese and puppets.
He is now in Shandong, unfamiliar with his place of origin, and the local underground party organization does not know him well enough. In order to avoid the recurrence of the last time he was punished because of Wang Qiming, Xu Dalong took the initiative to tell the whole story of the incident. Reported to the commander of the Taiyue Military Region and the former head of the underground party in the Chongqing office.
After receiving the report, the commander of the Taiyue Military Region was very dissatisfied and immediately reported the situation to his superiors. At the same time, he sent a telegram to Xu Dalong, saying that he firmly believed in Xu Dalong and supported the actions he took.
After the former head of the Chongqing office heard the news, he was also very angry. He reported to his superiors and firmly supported Xu Dalong. At the same time, he directly sent a telegram to the Shandong underground party organization, clearly expressing his support for Xu Dalong and demanding that the Shandong underground party organization immediately Withdraw the investigation team sent to the Northwestern Shandong Military Division!
The superiors also sent a telegram to the Shandong underground party organization, saying that the organization believed in Xu Dalong and firmly supported his actions to suppress the company association.
After Li Yunlong heard about this incident, he was very angry. He immediately followed Zhao Gang to the Taiyue Military Region Headquarters and asked the commander to transfer Xu Dalong back to the Mawushan base area.
After this incident, the commander of the Taiyue Military Region believed that it was not necessary for Xu Dalong to stay in the northwest region of Shandong, so he asked his superiors to ask Xu Dalong to hand over the affairs of the northwest Shandong Military Region to the local underground party organization and take him with him. The main force of the Mawushan guerrillas returned to the Taiyue Military Region.
After this incident, the local underground party organization in northwest Shandong believed that their ideas were different from Xu Dalong's, so they agreed to the request of their superiors and sent troops to take over the northwest Shandong military division.
Xu Dalong, Sun Desheng and others led the troops from the original Mawushan Military Division and returned to the Mawushan base area.
Xu Dalong and others left, leaving behind more than 10,000 underground party anti-Japanese armed forces and a large base area in the Northwest Shandong Military Region. In any case, he completed the tasks assigned by his superiors and made due contributions to expand the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces and base areas. contribution.
Shortly after Xu Dalong and others left, the Japanese 39th Division launched an attack on the base area of the Northwest Shandong Army Division.
Without the support of the main force of the Mawushan guerrillas, although the newly formed troops in the Northwestern Shandong Military Division had a large number of people and good weapons and equipment, they lacked experience and could not withstand the massive attack of the Japanese and puppet troops. In the end, most of the base areas were lost and the main force was lost. They also suffered heavy losses, and only about 3,000 of them were integrated into the troops in other districts.
After the superiors got the news, they severely criticized the Northwestern Shandong Military Division.
Xu Dalong and others returned to the base area, and Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao and others hosted a banquet to welcome them.
Li Yunlong said: "Brother Dalong, from now on you will stay in our base and never go anywhere. Our brothers live a happy life together and there is no need to go out and suffer."
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "Captain, I will listen to you."
Having said that, Xu Dalong actually knew very well that a lot of things would happen in the future, and his superiors would definitely send him to perform new tasks.
In the next few months, the superiors did have the idea of sending Xu Dalong to complete the mission, but they were blocked by the commander of the Taiyue Military Region.
His excuse was that Xu Dalong was leading his troops on a mission to expand the base area and could not leave in a short time.
The commander did not feel sorry for Xu Dalong in vain. In the past few months, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others led the troops of the Mawushan Military Division to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese and puppet troops, expanding the Mawushan base area to 24 counties. In the vast area, the total military strength has grown to nearly 100,000.
Not only that, Xu Dalong also made a major contribution, that is, the development of penicillin, which has been officially put into production.
As an antibiotic, penicillin can effectively prevent symptoms such as sepsis and tuberculosis. It saved the lives of countless wounded soldiers during World War II. It is also known as a life-saving drug. It is hard to find and is worth as much as gold.
The large quantities of penicillin produced by the pharmaceutical factory in the Mawushan Military Division can not only meet the needs of the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces, but can also be released in large quantities on the market, continuously bringing large amounts of funds to the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces.
With this money tree, Zhang Wanhe's pockets are always bulging, and he has become much more generous.
He still likes to run to the Mawu Mountain base area so much, but now he is not asking Xu Dalong and Li Yunlong for money, but to visit the money tree.
Every time he came, he would personally inspect the pharmaceutical factory. Looking at the injections produced, it was like seeing piles of gold bars, and he smiled from ear to ear.
Winter turned to spring, and in the blink of an eye it was the summer of 1942.
On this day, Xu Dalong received another telegram from his superiors and reported to the Taiyue Military Region Headquarters.
This time the task was proposed by the Guofu government, and the underground party sent Xu Dalong to Chongqing to assist the military in implementing it.
After meeting Xu Dalong, the commander informed Xu Dalong of the whole story.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States urgently needed support from the domestic battlefield. In order to strengthen cooperation with Guofu, the U.S. military sent an observation team to Chongqing.
The observation mission formed several observation groups and went to various war zones to inspect the combat effectiveness of Guofu, and then determine whether to provide military assistance to Guofu.
This matter is of vital importance to Guofu. In order to prevent the US military observation group from being in danger, they have closely protected the US military observation group.
But something unexpected happened. A military transport plane carrying a three-person observation team of the US Army was intercepted by a Japanese fighter jet. Although the emergency landing was successful, the three-person observation team still fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
The Guofu government immediately organized personnel to carry out rescue operations. Since there was no main force of the Guo army operating in the local war zone, the military command had to send an action team to rescue them.
As a result, not only was the US military observation team unable to be rescued, but even the rescue team sent was completely destroyed.
The military commander had no choice but to organize another rescue and dispatched two more action teams. The result was the same as the first action team, none of the personnel dispatched survived.
In order to rescue this observation group, the US military put pressure on the Guofu, and the Guofu put pressure on the military commanders.
The military commander had no choice but to ask Xu Dalong to complete the rescue mission of the American observation group after You Yukun's suggestion.
The commander was very concerned about Xu Dalong's safety and did not want him to take risks.
After introducing the situation, he said with concern: "Xu Dalong, are you sure you can guarantee your safety on this mission? If not, you can refuse to perform this mission, and I will make a request to my superiors."
