Seeing Xu Dalong's attitude, the platoon leader thought he was being careless, so he took out a small book and said seriously: "State your name, unit and position."
Those waiting at the school gate saw that the time was up and the person they were waiting for had not yet arrived, so they all looked eagerly. Seeing the dispute, a leader walked over and asked, "What happened?"
The platoon leader saluted the visitor and said, "Comrade Chief, we were ordered to perform security duties. This comrade refused to listen to dissuasion and wanted to go inside the school. He also said that he was a guest invited by the school."
The middle-aged cadre looked at Xu Dalong for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, he heard the sound of rapid horse hooves. It turned out to be Staff Officer Gao galloping in on a fast horse. When he saw Xu Dalong, he reined in his horse. The horse neighed and the man stood up. Except for Xu Dalong, everyone else subconsciously took a step back.
Staff Officer Gao got off his horse and asked in surprise: "Captain Xu, the time has come, why are you still here?"
The middle-aged cadre knew Staff Officer Gao and was surprised when he heard what he said. He asked with some confusion: "Is this Comrade Xu Dalong?"
Staff Officer Gao said dissatisfied: "Director Liu, what did you do? You set up such a large formation at the school gate to welcome Captain Xu, but why did you stop people here?"
The middle-aged cadre is the director of the school's tactical teaching and research section, and he came specially to welcome Xu Dalong.
After hearing what Staff Officer Gao said, he was very embarrassed, and immediately smiled, stretched out his hands to hold Xu Dalong's hand, and said enthusiastically: "Oh, I never thought that you are the famous anti-Japanese hero, Captain Xu of the Mawushan guerrillas. Disrespect, disrespect."
Having said this, he stared at the platoon leader and sentry, and said seriously: "What did you do? Captain Xu is the guest our school is welcoming today. How could you keep him out?"
There was no one in the Eighth Route Army who had not heard of Xu Dalong. They just did not associate the young man in front of them with the famous Xu Dalong. After listening to Director Liu's words, the platoon leader and the sentry quickly stood at attention and saluted. The platoon leader said awkwardly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander, we didn't recognize you. Please forgive me."
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "You are very good. You are very serious when performing tasks. You deserve praise."
Director Liu pretended to be angry and pointed at the platoon leader with his finger, and said: "Comrade, you don't want to find out clearly. When you get back, you will write an inspection and give it to your company commander."
After saying that, he and Staff Officer Gao accompanied Xu Dalong towards the school gate. As he walked, he shouted: "Comrades, our anti-Japanese hero and captain of the Mawushan Guerrilla Brigade, Comrade Xu Dalong, has arrived. Please give us a warm welcome!"
The welcoming crowd at the door immediately burst into warm applause, the gongs and drums also sounded sonorously, and the atmosphere was very warm.
Looking at Xu Dalong's back, the sentry stuck out his tongue and said, "Oh my god, I didn't expect that he is the famous Captain Xu who made the enemy frightened. I have heard many stories about him, and I want to meet him. Who would have thought, oh, it’s true, why didn’t I recognize him?”
The platoon leader glared at him and said, "It's all your fault. Didn't our captain already report his name? Why are you still stopping him?"
The little soldier was reprimanded and did not dare to refute, but he was a little unconvinced and muttered in a low voice: "You are still talking about me. You always tell us stories about Captain Xu, don't you recognize him?"
The platoon leader said angrily: "You kid, I think your skin is itchy, don't you think I'll take care of you when I get back." After saying that, he stretched out his hand as if to beat him.
The little warrior shrank his neck and took a step back.
The platoon leader didn't really want to punish him corporally. He looked at Xu Dalong's back and said: "I heard that Captain Xu is young, but I didn't expect that he is so young. He looks no more than two years older than me. How can he be so capable? "
The school's auditorium, which can accommodate thousands of people, was filled with school leaders, faculty and staff and students. Because there were too many people in the school and there were not enough seats in the auditorium, many students moved to sit in the aisles. There are still many people who can't come and listen to the broadcast from the loudspeaker in the dormitory.
This situation has been very rare since the establishment of the school. Xu Dalong's reputation is so loud that everyone wants to see it. Even if there is no way to enter the auditorium, I still want to hear his legendary story.
When Xu Dalong, accompanied by the leaders, walked into the auditorium, the students, faculty and staff of the school all stood up and burst into warm applause to welcome this legendary hero.
Xu Dalong stepped onto the podium, and the school's deputy education director said into the microphone: "Comrades, please be quiet."
When the applause stopped, he said: "Let me introduce you. This is Comrade Xu Dalong, the legendary hero of our army and captain of the Mawushan Guerrilla Brigade."
Xu Dalong stood up and performed a standard military salute. The applause rang out warmly again.
People stretched their necks one after another, trying to see Xu Dalong's face clearly.
After Xu Dalong sat down, the deputy education director continued: "Comrade Xu Dalong was specially invited by our school to give tactical lessons to the students who are about to graduate and go to the anti-Japanese front line. In order to deepen our understanding of Comrade Xu Dalong, first of all, please ask Comrade Xu Dalong to do Report on the deeds of establishing the Mawushan Anti-Japanese Base Area."
The school's faculty and staff have all heard of Xu Dalong's deeds, but most of them are through various reports, which are very fragmented and one-sided. Everyone wants to know more about Xu Dalong in detail, so the report Xu Dalong is making now is the part that interests them the most. Everyone burst into warm applause again.
Xu Dalong's report began. According to the school's requirements, Xu Dalong also made preparations in advance. He talked in great detail. From the beginning when he took dozens of soldiers to the Mawu Mountain area and launched a arduous battle with the Japanese and puppet troops, after winning one victory after another, the guerrillas continued to grow and develop. When they were weak, they fought guerrillas in the mountains. When they became strong, they captured and occupied the county town for a long time. There were too many wonderful battles during this period. Although he only carefully selected some representative battles, he also Talked for a long time.
However, the audience listened with gusto. Not only did they not feel bored, they occasionally felt that Xu Dalong's lectures were not detailed enough, because the classic battle cases Xu Dalong talked about were not simply fighting the enemy, but using wisdom and superb skills. guerrilla tactics, the audience's blood boiled with excitement.
Xu Dalong and others started as a small guerrilla force, defeating many with less, and could annihilate hundreds or even thousands of enemies at a time. As the guerrillas continued to grow and develop, they could later defeat entire regiments, brigades, and even entire divisions. to eat the Japanese army.
Xu Dalong's description showed wonderful and magnificent war scenes in front of the audience. The audience was extremely excited and burst into warm applause from time to time.
When Xu Dalong said that the Eighth Route Army collected protection fees from the Japanese and puppet troops around the base area, and the Japanese and puppet troops rushed to hand it over, the audience burst into laughter, and they all felt very relieved.
In addition to battle stories, Xu Dalong also talked about the achievements in economic development in the Mawushan base area, such as establishing a special warfare school, a school for people-to-people and military cadres, opening coal mines, pharmaceutical factories, and sugar factories.
Today, the Mawushan base area includes 58 counties and 47 county towns, as well as medium-sized cities such as Yangquan. It has powerful cavalry units, tank units, artillery units, flying brigade and fully mechanized rapid mobile units. The Eighth Route Army, There are hundreds of thousands of armed forces such as county brigade and basic militia, and the Japanese and puppet troops dare not invade.
The audience was extremely excited and full of confidence in the prospect of victory in the war. Someone took the lead in shouting: "Long live the underground party and the Eighth Route Army! Down with the island imperialism! Our army will win, the enemy will lose, and the Japanese will be driven out of China." The atmosphere at the scene was very lively.
The audience noticed that Xu Dalong mentioned some of his own roles at the beginning of his report. He did not mention himself a word at the end, but talked about how the officers and soldiers fought bravely and concentrated their collective wisdom to create war miracles one after another.
Everyone knows the important role Xu Dalong played in it, and they have added a bit of respect for Xu Dalong's low-key and modesty.
The report lasted all morning, and when it was time for lunch, Xu Dalong ended the report hastily. However, the audience felt that it was not enough because there was a big difference between what they heard and what they learned.
This is not to say that Xu Dalong's report is watery, but because it says too little. Everyone has heard about Xu Dalong's wonderful deeds through various channels. Most of these deeds were caused by Xu Dalong leading a special team to leave the base to perform special tasks. Everyone wants to hear this part more.
Everyone felt very sorry to see Xu Dalong hastily ended his report.
At noon, Xu Dalong, accompanied by his leaders, had lunch in the school cafeteria. He took a break and prepared to give a tactical lesson at 2 p.m.
1:50. The deputy director of education came to Xu Dalong and said that the plan had changed. He asked Xu Dalong to talk about his experience of leading a special force to perform various tasks behind enemy lines, because after graduation, many students want to go to the front line or even behind enemy lines. Carry out guerrilla warfare. They want to know more about this experience. School cadres and students have made requests in this regard, so the deputy education director asked Xu Dalong to give another experience report on guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines this afternoon.
This request made Xu Dalong feel a little embarrassed, because many of his actions were completed with the Guo Army and even military reunification agents, as well as with the secret organizations of the underground party. These are all highly confidential, and some things are really inconvenient to tell the public.
Xu Dalong thought for a moment and then told the deputy director of education about the stakes.
The Chief of Education said: "Comrade Xu Dalong, I have some knowledge of the situation you are talking about, but you have participated in so many operations, so just select some of them, as long as they do not involve core secrets. Most of the students have no experience working behind enemy lines. , they especially need this knowledge.
Without revealing secrets, talk more and be more detailed to help students open their minds. Not only that, the majority of teachers in our schools also need to understand the experience of fighting behind enemy lines in order to improve their teaching standards. Comrade Xu Dalong, I believe you can make a good deal. "
Xu Dalong couldn't escape the words of the deputy education director, but he didn't feel too embarrassed because he had experienced so many incidents that he could talk about them for an entire afternoon. So he readily agreed.
In the afternoon, Xu Dalong continued to give a report. He has experienced too many battles. He casually talked about how he led a special force to sneak attack on the Japanese airport, flew the Japanese aircraft back and established a guerrilla flying brigade; how he snatched the Japanese tanks in Taiyuan City, Established a chariot brigade and other deeds. These stories are full of legend, and the audience's ears are pricked up, for fear of missing a word.
Xu Dalong also talked about how to perform tasks behind enemy lines, how to judge the enemy's situation, how to take advantage of the contradictions between the Japanese and puppet troops, and how to cooperate with underground party organizations. He went on to talk about some cooperation with the Kuomintang army, including the military command and even the puppet army, the British army, the American army, the Vietnamese guerrillas, etc., as well as the establishment of intelligence stations behind enemy lines, and the development of intelligence agents among the Japanese and puppets. He withheld specific names and places and gave a vivid explanation.
These stories were much more exciting than the reports in the morning. The audience listened with rapt attention and burst into warm applause from time to time.
Someone has counted that there were more than 60 applauses this morning, and more than 80 applauses during the afternoon report. This is also rare in the history of the military academy.
Xu Dalong's report was so exciting that it was dinner time in a blink of an eye. Everyone didn't hear enough and asked Xu Dalong to continue talking tomorrow.
Considering that there was already an extra half day in the original schedule, the school had to politely decline the audience's request, and Xu Dalong would officially start the tactics class tomorrow.
In the next ten days, Xu Dalong gave tactical lessons to the students based on his own battle experiences. His lecture materials are detailed and systematic. When explaining the application of guerrilla tactics, he combines them with specific combat examples, including: using original intelligence to conduct basic research and judgment on the enemy's situation, pre-war reconnaissance, formulating combat plans, and encountering emergencies during operations. All aspects of the emergency response plan, evacuation route, etc. were explained in great detail.
Xu Dalong emphasized that any tactic is not isolated and must comprehensively consider the current situation we are facing.
What he said was something that students could not hear in class, and even the teachers were deeply inspired. They took notes while listening to the lecture.
In two and a half days, Xu Dalong used the guerrilla tactics he had used to explain, which was easy to understand, vivid and detailed, and very exciting. The students all found it an eye-opener, and even the teachers were deeply inspired and felt that their teaching standards needed to be improved.
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