My god, run!!!

Zhou Zheng and Li Shuangquan ate, drank, and chatted. Li Shuangquan said, "Their Red Army has now been reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as the 'Eighth Route Army'. His current position is the political commissar of a brigade under a division of the Eighth Route Army."

"Today, we have come to the Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment. First, on behalf of the former Red Army, now the Eighth Route Army, we would like to thank Comrade Zhou Zheng for his help to our Red Army Communist Party. If it weren't for your help twice, I might have died long ago, and our Red Army Communist Party would have lost many revolutionary comrades. The loss of our Red Army Communist Party is immeasurable."

"Secondly, our Eighth Route Army has received intelligence that the Japanese from Shanxi and Hebei will deploy two regiments totaling nearly 8000 troops to attack Shuang'er Mountain from both sides. They will attack the Shuang'er Mountain Independent Regiment. The Japanese want to capture the strategic location of Shuang'er Mountain in one fell swoop, so as to open up the strategic route from Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan through Shuang'er Mountain."

"Third, we came here to see and inspect your Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment. We want to see how you, Zhou Zheng, built such a team."

"Ever since you mentioned in Shanghai last time that you had assembled a team of over ten thousand people in Shuang'er Mountain, Shanxi, I went back and told our leader about it. This time we came here to see what kind of team you, Zhou Zheng, have assembled."

"As for the fourth one, well... well... I'm a little embarrassed to say it."

Li Shuangquan gritted his teeth and continued, "The fourth point is that we are here to seek your help, Zhou Zheng. You know our Red Army. Although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are now cooperating to fight against Japan, the Kuomintang has not given us a single bullet, a single gun, or a single cent of support to the Eighth Route Army, let alone other kinds of material support."

"More than half of our Eighth Route Army soldiers don't have guns now. They're all armed with broadswords, red tassel spears, and the like. Even for the soldiers in the main force who have guns, many of their guns are old, and the rifling of many guns is almost worn out. And our soldiers have less than five rounds of ammunition per person."

"Alas..." Li Shuangquan sighed, looking quite dejected. He then continued, "Didn't you say last time in Shanghai that if we had any difficulties, we would just come directly to the Shanxi Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment to find you, Zhou Zheng? So, today, my comrades and I have shamelessly come to the Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment to find you, Zhou Zheng, as if we were begging for alms from you, Zhou Zheng."

After listening to what Political Commissar Li Shuangquan had said, Zhou Zheng smiled and said to Li Shuangquan and his group, "Political Commissar Li knows that a few years ago, I was captured by the Kuomintang white dogs and forced to repair fortifications. I escaped and was chased to a cliff. Then I jumped from the cliff. I was lucky enough to survive and was saved by the Red Army Political Commissar Li and his men at that time."

"They say a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring, and this was a life-saving favor! So, Political Commissar Li said I helped the Red Army twice, and in fact, it was all deserved."

"Because you, the Red Army Communist Party, are the people's own army, the army of the poor. You have never bullied or abused us ordinary people. Instead, you, the Red Army Communist Party, have only attacked the landlords, bandits, bullies, and Kuomintang members who bullied and abused ordinary people."

"I am also an orphan. I have been bullied since I was a child and have suffered a lot. I agree with the ideas of your Red Army Communist Party. This is also the premise for my willingness to help you."

"All the soldiers in our Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment come from the same impoverished rural background. The food we're eating now is actually all chickens, ducks, fish, geese, pigs, and vegetables raised by the villagers living in Shuang'ershan. It's just that many of the villagers can't finish eating them, so our Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment has bought them all at market prices."

"Most of the folks who have settled down in Shuang'er Mountain are the families of the soldiers of our Shuang'er Mountain Independent Regiment. In our Shuang'er Mountain, whether it is our Shuang'er Mountain Independent Regiment or the folks who have settled down in Shuang'er Mountain."

"Everyone in Shuang'er Mountain is free and equal. There is no exploitation or oppression here. Trade is fair, and the villagers all live in harmony."

"The Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention are the military regulations of our Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment. Every officer and soldier has them memorized in their heads, hearts, and bones."

"Wait a minute, comrades, you just need to visit the various units of our Shuang'ershan Independent Regiment and then visit the villagers in the Shuang'ershan resettlement area and you will understand."

"Freedom, equality, harmony, and unity. This is the core spirit of our entire Shuang'er Mountain."

As soon as Zhou Zheng finished speaking, Li Shuangquan and his group all burst into warm applause. Zhou Zheng had completely hit the nail on the head. He had expressed their true feelings. Zhou Zheng's ideas and opinions were exactly the same as theirs. If they hadn't known Zhou Zheng's background in advance, they would have really thought that Zhou Zheng was their comrade!