Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

In a private house in Nanwangzhuang, southwest of Anping.

Li Yunlong was playing chess with Luo Hui, commander of the Seventh District.

Commander Lu of the Jin-Cha-Ji Fourth District kept complaining.

At the same time, all the group leaders gathered around a few people, watching Li Yunlong and Luo Hui fighting each other.

"Old Li, can you do this? If not, let me do it!"

When Li Yunlong heard this, he immediately became unhappy.

"Hey, Lao Lu, this game is between me and Lao Luo, why are you so anxious? The actors are not anxious, but the audience is."

Li Yunlong's face was a little tense, and he said with his eyes wide open.

Just as Li Yunlong finished speaking, suddenly, Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the 100th Regiment, walked in.

Looking at the people in the room, Zhang Dabiao interrupted Li Yunlong.

"Commander, there's a telegram from the military district."

Li Yunlong, who was slumped in the chair, turned his head and looked at Zhang Dabiao when he heard what Zhang Dabiao said.

Then he took the telegram from Zhang Dabiao and started reading it.

After reading it, Li Yunlong grinned and handed the telegram to the other two people.

"The commander has a bigger appetite than me."

"Old Li is only interested in the troops under Zhang Yinwu, but the division commander wants Commander Lu to help us organize our own troops."

After listening to Li Yunlong's words, Luo Hui, who had finished reading the telegram, was thoughtful.

"The commander is sure Lu Zhonglin will be defeated."

After hearing the conversation between the two, Commander Lu looked at the telegram with a puzzled look on his face.

I thought I had missed something, so I read it again carefully.

"Hey, Lao Li, Lao Luo, what do you mean?

Didn't it just say that we should let Zhang Yinwu's troops go, withdraw, and then wait for Lu Zhonglin to come back and discuss cooperation with him? How did it become helping us form an army? "

Hearing this, Li Yunlong immediately chuckled.

"Hey, Old Lu, isn't this obvious? Didn't the division commander say that we're active in the surrounding areas, and that this county town in Jizhong is Commander Lu's territory?"

Just when Commander Lu was still thinking about Li Yunlong's words, he suddenly saw Li Yunlong and Luo Hui arguing with each other.

"Old Li, we can secretly deal with this soldier, but what about the lower-level officers?"

"No problem. Replace them. I'll go back to the division commander and get a bunch of certificates from officers of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army."

"What about the original officer?"

"Either cooperate with us or leave!"

"What if you don't leave?"

"Find out where he lives and ask his family to go and persuade him!"

"You won't eat anything?"

"Then squeeze out!"

"Weapons and equipment?"

"Their people were exchanged for the Japs', and our people took theirs!"

Hearing the conversation between the two, Commander Lu was stunned.

These two people are so wild.

Suddenly, Commander Lu understood why the two men had asked Lu Zhonglin to help them form an army.

"Hey, you two, wait a minute!"

Commander Lu interrupted their conversation.

"If Commander Zeng finds out about what you two did, won't he punish you two?"

Hearing this, Li Yunlong and Luo Hui immediately laughed at each other.

"Old Lu, from now on we'll all eat from the same pot in this area, so learn from me!"

Then, Li Yunlong said with a smile.

"If Lao Luo and I really help Lu Zhonglin set up a new unit, within a month, Lao Luo and I will have to go to the military district to take the blame."

After hearing Li Yunlong's words, Commander Lu immediately reacted.

I used to think that Commander Zeng and his men were really trying to unite the North China Anti-Japanese War front, but after seeing Li Yunlong and Luo Hui’s ideas, I couldn’t help but understand Commander Zeng’s ideas.

Then, when he thought of the fact that Li Yunlong had followed Commander Zeng from the very beginning, a strange look suddenly appeared on his face.

He immediately shook his head and threw the thought out of his mind.

As they discussed it one by one, they soon came up with a solution.

Afterwards, several people ordered the troops outside Anping City to begin evacuating.

Zhang Yinwu, who was sitting on the city wall with fear in his heart, gradually felt relieved when he saw the Eighth Route Army outside the city begin to evacuate.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Yinwu guessed that Commander Lu should have reached an agreement with the Eighth Route Army.

On the other hand, after Lu Zhonglin returned to Ji Zhong, he immediately sent a secret letter to the person in the south.

In the telegram, Lu Zhonglin talked about the current predicament of the Hebei-Chahar War Zone in facing the Eighth Route Army, and pointed out that Pang Bingxun, Shi Yousan, Zhu Huaibing and others were indecisive and could not be trusted.

It is also recommended that these troops be gradually disbanded over the next year and new troops be reorganized.

At the end of the telegram, Lu Zhonglin secretly said that this was the opinion given by Zeng Jiwen after he met him, saying that Zeng Jiwen thought these people would surrender to the man named Wang.

After receiving Lu Zhonglin's telegram, the old man initially scoffed at Lu Zhonglin's words, thinking that Lu Zhonglin might have his own little thoughts.

However, the last words in Lu Zhonglin's telegram immediately made him change his mind.

So he signaled Lu Zhonglin to act according to his discretion, and the Ministry of Military Affairs would allocate an army's worth of equipment, supplies and military funds in the next year for him to purse the troops in the Hebei-Central region.

At the same time, in order to prevent Lu Zhonglin from having other ideas, the old man told Lu Zhonglin not to disband other troops, but to directly reorganize the Hebei militia and put it under Lu Zhonglin's command.

After receiving the reply, Lu Zhonglin immediately understood that the South was still wary of him.

So he made up his mind and began to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army in the Hebei area to form a militia and a unit directly under his own command.

On the 3rd, outside Pingshun City.

Zeng Jiwen led a guard company and walked outside the city with Zhou Shi, Huang Hanjia, Wang Zhuo and others.

At the same time, each horse was loaded with two huge boxes.

"Old Zhou, I'm afraid I won't be back until May or June this time. I'll just have to let you guys take care of the base."

Hearing Zeng Jiwen's words, Zhou Shi waved his hand.

"Don't worry, Liu Ming, Deng Xie and I are watching over the place, so nothing will go wrong."

"Old Huang and his men are also in the army."

Zeng Jiwen nodded, then turned to look at Huang Hanjia and said.

"Old Huang, I'm not worried about this little devil. Let Hu Di pay more attention to southwest Shanxi."

"Also, regarding the military factory, I estimate that the Japanese air force will start hovering over our heads in May or June. I'm going back this time to see if I can get some sponsorship. However, the anti-aircraft machine guns produced by the military factory still need to be deployed in important locations."

"Don't worry, I will pay attention to it." Huang Hanjia nodded.

Then, Huang Hanjia continued.

"Commander, take it easy this time when you go back. Don't let them break down your defenses."

After hearing Huang Hanjia's words, Zhou Shi and Wang Zhuo nodded.

"Don't worry. I won't have time to argue with them this time. If the North didn't insist on seeing me, I would have just telegraphed Xilan and told her what to do."

Zeng Jiwen said somewhat helplessly.