Chapter Six Reorganization of the Anti-Japanese War
As Japanese imperialism gradually invaded North China, Zhang Xueliang, under the influence of the Red Army's anti-Japanese policy, responded to the call of the people across the country for resistance. In fact, he did not want to fight back to his hometown. For this reason, he personally flew to Yan'an by plane, and the two sides reached an agreement.
A peace treaty was signed and a non-aggression agreement was secretly signed.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who even dreamed of annihilating the Red Army, saw that the Northeast Army had no results and immediately came to Xi'an in person to prepare to supervise the battle, hoping to force Zhang Xueliang to continue to encircle and suppress the Red Army.
In the end, Zhang Xueliang, who wanted to end the civil war and return to fight against Japan, jointly launched a military revolt with Yang Hucheng of the Northwest Army, and they captured Chiang Kai-shek.
The Xi'an Incident created a complicated political situation in the country, and the Chinese revolution reached a new turning point. In order to unite the country in resisting Japan, the Xi'an Incident was finally resolved peacefully, and the civil war was finally stopped.
Su Yuan had already realized that the next step was to go to the anti-Japanese front line, so he did not relax the training of the troops during this relatively peaceful period. From spring to early summer, he led the entire battalion of soldiers to train hard in the mountains and fields.
The gunfire at Marco Polo Bridge finally rang out. According to the new anti-Japanese war agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. The reorganized units began to prepare for the anti-Japanese battlefield. At this moment, something unexpected happened around Su Yuan
.
One day in August, Su Yuan, who had become the company commander of the Sharp Knife Company of the 129th Division Vanguard Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, received new clothing in the company. This should be the clothing of the Jinsui Army. All the soldiers in the company were very excited to see the gray military uniforms.
, they haven’t had new military uniforms for a long time, so everyone rushed forward excitedly to get their own set.
Su Yuan was not happy about this. The words of the regiment leader had already prepared him in his heart. In the regiment meeting a few days ago, the regiment leader repeatedly stated that the clothes must be changed, otherwise he would be guarding the Yellow River Ferry.
The Kuomintang would not let its troops cross the river, so they would not be able to reach the anti-Japanese front line.
Commanders at all levels must take the lead. They must not only change their clothes, but also sew armbands, badges, badges, and cap badges, and they must also do a good job of explaining to the soldiers.
Finally, the soldiers started to make a commotion. The clothes, armbands and badges were easy to describe. When the soldiers found the Kuomintang cap emblem wrapped in their hats, the angry soldiers threw it to the ground.
"What are you doing? Pick them all up for me." Su Yuan shouted.
"Company Commander, we have been fighting against the Kuomintang who brought this thing. How many of our comrades have they killed!" Chen Zhenhai, the platoon leader, also couldn't figure it out.
"Don't I know this?" Su Yuan replied: "But now is the period of the Anti-Japanese War. The Kuomintang will not let us cross the Yellow River without this thing, and we will not be able to fight the Japanese. Put it on for me!"
The soldiers had no choice but to pick up the muddy cap badge from the ground. Everyone knows the truth. China's biggest enemy now is Japanese imperialism, and everything must be for the overall goal of resisting Japan.
"Company commander, Captain Zhou is here." The soldiers outside came to report.
"Okay, everyone is dressed up. After the swearing-in ceremony, we will rush to the front line." Su Yuan said. He told Chen Zhenhai to check on the soldiers.
Outside, Su Yuan's fiancée Zhou Lihua was already dressed in a neat new military uniform. "Why are you here?" Su Yuan asked.
"My superiors asked me to check whether you are ready." Lihua said.
"Ha, you're still worried about me." Su Yuan replied.
"Well, it's okay." Lihua replied.
"Hey, I wish you had listened to me." Looking at the heroic Lihua Su Yuan couldn't help but say.
"Didn't you join the Red Army because you didn't listen to me?" Lihua replied.
"I mean we should have gotten married first before joining the team." Su Yuan said, "It's good now. Originally, I was not far away from getting married. Now it's good. I have become a company commander again. When the 258th Regiment
I don’t know when.”
"Why are you so anxious, are you afraid that I will slip away?" Lihua said with a smile.
"How dare you? If it weren't for you, why would I have run away from home to join the Red Army?" Su Yuan said.
"Then you should still thank me. If it weren't for me, you would still be making firecrackers at home." Lihua said.
"I wonder how my family is doing?" Su Yuan said, "It's been five years."
"Don't worry. When I left, I asked my brother to go to your house to help. It'll be fine." Lihua comforted him.
"Your brother was just a kid, he just knew how to play." Su Yuan smiled when he thought about it, "He was the one who informed me that you were leaving. I didn't prepare anything, so I followed you out in a daze."
"He is also nineteen this year, and he is still a child." Lihua replied: "He is very strong. I just want him to know that the Anti-Japanese War has begun. Will he come to us?"
"Wait a minute, you said you asked him to come to my house to help, will he fall in love with my sister? If he is like us..." Su Yuan said in a panic.
"Why, isn't that great?" Lihua replied: "You abduct me and my brother abducts your sister. Then our two families will be even, and there will be no conflicts in the family."
"Pull him down, it's obvious that our Su family has been abducted by your Zhou family." Su Yuan seemed to have suffered a big loss.
After the swearing-in ceremony, Su Yuan's company set off first as the sharp knife company of the entire regiment. However, just after crossing the Yellow River, an accident occurred in the company and someone left the unit.
Su Yuan never expected that the one who left the team was platoon leader Chen Zhenhai, who also brought several soldiers with him. Su Yuan knew that Chen Zhenhai was a veteran of the Red Army, and his family members were all killed by the Kuomintang when they were evacuated from the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area. He
I will never become a deserter. It seems that I still haven't figured out that I should go back to the Dabie Mountains to find the troops left behind there.
Seeing that the battle was imminent, Su Yuan had no choice but to let him go. However, just when the sharp knife squad in front discovered the enemy's situation, Chen Zhenhai actually returned to the army. Not only did he bring back all the soldiers, he also brought back two young men who had joined the army.
Yuan never expected that Lihua's unintentional joke would come true, and it would be his sister Su Ying and Lihua's younger brother Sanbao who came.