The fourth morning of the escort mission.
The sky over the plains is still bright as summer enters.
There was still no trace of the dark clouds that the parched earth had been waiting for.
The student team attacked the gun towers and secretly passed through the Ping-Han Railway blockade.
The expedition team traveled eastward for nearly fifty miles in the middle of the night and finally stopped in a village.
The team entered the zoning base area and the inspection team went out early in the morning.
There was a division serving as peripheral security, and the escorted students from the Ninth Battalion merged with the soldiers from the Ninth Battalion. The energetic ones had already begun to help the people in the village.
Hu Yi slept until noon.
The Ninth Battalion started working alone. Luo Fugui delivered the lunch box directly to the eaves and whispered: "Secretary Su took Ma Liang and Da Gou and went to Hua County with the divisional armed work team."
Hu Yi nodded, broke the steamed bun into pieces and stuffed it into his mouth, then poured the porridge into his mouth three times.
After a while, Dirty Face ran into the courtyard happily and informed the student team to gather for study.
The study place is in the auditorium of a large family in the east of the village.
There is a small blackboard hanging on the wall of the dilapidated ancestral hall.
On the ground to the east, a dozen students from the Ninth Battalion were sparsely sitting on the ground, almost all of them gathered together.
Sitting on the west side were students from the division. More than thirty people sat directly in a square formation.
They are both in Eighth Route Army uniforms, but they are clearly distinct.
Most of the clothes of the students in the division are wearing this patch, and the colors are uniform. They must have been dyed uniformly recently.
There is a shortage of water in the plains, so forget about washing clothes with water.
The soldiers of the Ninth Battalion learned how to dry clean, covering their clothes with a layer of mud-free sand and exposing them to the sun.
Wang Liujin stood in front of the student team and introduced himself first.
The eyes of the students in the division were excited as they listened to the instructor from the division's special agent battalion talk about the content of "Eighth Route Army Soldiers' Must-Read" by the Anti-Japanese University.
This job was originally supposed to be done by Officer Lin. He had investigative tasks, so he was temporarily handed over to Wang Liujin to give the lecture.
The students in the division were very puzzled. The company commander of the division's special agent battalion was giving a lecture? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but the students from the fraternal troops next to me are actually out of shape.
This guy who is not as strong as a bear is still dozing off.
The instructor didn't seem to see it.
A student picked up a lump of dirt from the ground and prepared to teach the bear a lesson.
On the roof in the south of the village, Madman Yang and Liu Yuanqing were lying on the roof basking in the sun.
There was silence all around, both of them seemed to be thinking about something.
Liu Yuanqing suddenly asked: "Are you really planning to leave?"
Crazy Yang did not answer.
Liu Yuanqing knew Madman Yang's temperament and continued: "If I say that from now on the world will definitely be in a state of chaos, do you agree?"
Madman Yang was a little irritated. He sat up and stared at his good brother: "Why?"
When they said this, they looked into each other's eyes, their faces not far apart.
"I'm sorry, I know this makes you feel bad, but...it's the truth."
Crazy Yang shook his head: "I'm fine."
"I can understand the feeling of having your faith broken. In fact, as early as the day the leader died, our faith had already been broken."
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Liu Yuanqing looked at the desolate land in the south and said in a bleak tone: "Our officers will never take the initiative to enter the homes of ordinary people. They only have military spending and slogans in their eyes. They just want to marry more concubines."
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".I have never seen an official wearing a patched military uniform. Even if they occasionally eat a big pot meal with their brothers, they are just showing off and saying that officers and soldiers are equal, bah."
Crazy Yang finally spoke: "You are lost."
"No, I am very clear-headed. Think about it, our declarations and long speeches are all for the purpose of strong country and national independence, but in fact, who is really striving towards that goal? After the chairman of the Chongqing Committee returned from studying in Bird Country , first purged the dissidents internally, lost the three eastern provinces, then North China, East China, and Central China, and fled from Jinling to Chongqing. For four years, he did not even dare to declare war on the Japanese! Do you think they still Is there any help?”
Madman Yang was silent for a long time: "The Eighth Route Army is in the same line as the northern powers, and the Chongqing government is controlled by Britain and the United States. Things are not as simple as you think."
"I only understand one thing. The duty of a soldier is to protect the homeland and the country. If the Japanese invaders take over a large part of my land, kill my compatriots and humiliate my sisters, that's not okay."
"go on"
"After the Japanese launched the Pacific War, there were less than 400,000 Japanese in North China, but there were nearly 2 million puppet troops!" Liu Yuanqing gritted his teeth: "We can either stand on our own, or join the Eighth Route Army in fighting the Japanese."
"We have a special status and cannot pass the review." Madman Yang suddenly said.
Liu Yuanqing was not polite: "You have a prejudice against Hu Yi because of his status as a former Northeastern Army member!"
"You fart!"
Seeing that his good brother finally had a temper, Liu Yuanqing advised: "Even the puppet troops captured by the Eighth Route Army will adopt the principle of voluntarily staying or leaving, and there is also an anti-Japanese alliance in the Eighth Route Army. I feel that their ambition is not what those in the military commanders think." It's so narrow."
Madman Yang nodded: "I'm not stupid!"
Liu Yuanqing was generous and fierce: "The national army wants to replenish its troops and arrest soldiers everywhere. When the people see our soldiers, they run away. But what about the Eighth Route Army? The people take the initiative to add the pillars of their families to the ranks. Can't you see it?"
Liu Yuanqing opened the kettle and poured water into his mouth. After swallowing, he said, "I've been talking for a long time. Why don't you express your opinion? You don't need to care about my opinion. If you vote for me, I will vote for you. You want to build a stronghold." With just the two of us, we can grab a few small cottages and attract people without any problem."
"You have to remember that bandits will always be bandits. They will never get on the stage." Madman Yang suddenly said.
However, the words he finally said were somewhat ambiguous.
"I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that the Eighth Route Army was a bandit before? Or are you saying that we can't stand out as bandits?"
"The origin of that bandit Qi is not simple." Madman Yang suddenly said something irrelevant to the conversation between the two.
Liu Yuanqing was stunned for a moment: "My dear brother, can you please stop rambling?"
Madman Yang suddenly smiled: "Then vote"
"The Eighth Route Army is dedicated to the common people. What? You say you join the Eighth Route Army?"
Crazy Yang looked at the southern sky: "The situation is a bit complicated right now. The fighting power of the Eighth Route Army is really strong. We have to find a way to contact some old brothers."
Liu Yuanqing tilted his head and looked at Madman Yang's face: "I haven't seen you smile in seven years."
"It's too exaggerated." Crazy Yang explained: "You didn't see it when I laughed."
"I saw you smiled at Wang Yinzhi."
Madman Yang was stunned for a moment: "You fart?"
Liu Yuanqing saw that his elder brother was a little angry, but ignored him: "She is actually quite interesting to you, but you deliberately pretended not to see her, and then she left with that hairless staff officer."
Madman Yang didn't speak anymore, closed his eyes, covered his face with a military cap, and continued to feel the warmth of the sun on his body.
A skinny, half-grown boy who was obviously malnourished, quickly climbed to the roof of the house, took out two boiled eggs from his pocket, and forced them into the hands of Madman Yang and Liu Yuanqing: "Grandpa asked me to give them to you."
Liu Yuanqing was stunned for a moment: "Hey, boy, you'd better keep it for yourself."
The ragged young man's eyes fell on the eggs and he sniffed: "Grandpa said that if you two can't work, you must be injured. Let you recover well and fight the Japanese when you are well."
Liu Yuanqing's men stopped peeling the egg shells: "Then do you want to fight the Japanese?"
The young man raised his head and said proudly: "My father and my mother are both martyrs. I am now a member of the Children's League. Grandpa said that when I grow taller, I can join the Eighth Route Army."
Liu Yuanqing and Madman Yang looked at each other, and their noses couldn't help but feel a little sore.
Two egg yolks were forcefully stuffed into the boy's mouth. He cried and climbed over the courtyard wall and left.
When he returned, he found that there was an extra stack of banknotes in his pocket that could be used in enemy-occupied areas.
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The anti-college student team itself is similar to a special operations force.
Kangda University has always adopted this training method, and will select commanders with good scores among the students to enter the second round of learning.
Even the battalion and regiment level cadres from the previous phases of the Anti-Japanese War had to undergo actual combat training
There are many types of special operations forces established, and special operations are not necessarily all combat units. Common intelligence departments and staff departments include people in traffic destruction units and even food carrying teams.
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