Zhou Yougen added: "When Sister Xiuzhi handed it to me, she vomited blood and cried. I know that all these are to be left for you."

Li Qinglin knew that his relationship with Jiang Xiuzhi was no longer a secret in Xiaolizhuang, so it was normal for Zhou Yougen to say this. Li Qinglin held Jiang Xiuzhi's relics in his hand and thought of others when he saw them. He couldn't help but burst into tears.

Seeing that Li Qinglin was immersed in sadness, Liu Zhenghong quietly pulled Zhou Yougen, and everyone left Xiao Liuzi's squadron headquarters, leaving only Li Qinglin in the house.

I don’t know how long it took, but Li Qinglin finally left the house. He had put the small mirror into his pocket, holding the twenty-shot one in his hand.

Li Qinglin handed the twenty sounds to Zhou Yougen and said, "Yougen, Xiuzhi is your sister-in-law and your comrade-in-arms. I will give you this gun. I hope you will use it to fight more Japanese in the future."

Then he said to Xiao Liuzi: "Get some bullets to Brother Yougen, there are only two bullets in this gun."

Xiao Liuzi quickly took out several magazines from his body and stuffed them to Zhou Yougen. Liu Zhenghong said a little embarrassedly: "How embarrassed is this, how can you take your bullets in vain?"

Li Qinglin said: "You fight the Japanese and we fight the Japanese too. This is not only avenging Xiuzhi, but also avenging thousands of Chinese who died unjustly. You took the bullet and killed the Japanese. It is the same purpose as our bullet killing the Japanese and achieved the same effect. This is nothing great."

Everyone returned to the squadron headquarters. There was a rifle and a pair of bullet bags brought by Zhou Yougen. Li Qinglin picked up the rifle and looked at the muzzle, then pulled the bolt and looked at it, touched the bullet bag, and said, "The gun is well maintained, even if the rifle is almost flattened, the bullet is almost gone."

Li Qinglin then said to Xiao Liuzi again: "Fill the bullet bag and add four grenades to him."

Now Liu Zhenghong felt even more embarrassed and kept saying, "How is this good? How is this good?"

Li Qinglin said: "You are a teacher. Your teacher said, 'If you have something to do, your disciple will obey your efforts'. This is also a little care from the students. Don't be so polite."

Before leaving, Li Qinglin took out some money from his pocket and handed it to Liu Zhenghong, saying, "I know that your Eighth Route Army is not well funded, so this little money is a little bit of the student's wish."

Then he said to Xiao Liuzi: "Political Commissar Liu is my teacher. Now the team he brings is our friendly army. If you can help in the future, try to help."

Liu Zhenghong was very moved and said, "Qinglin, my mission this time is to contact friendly troops. I didn't expect that I would bring so many food and drinks. These are really important to our Eighth Route Army. Thank you so much." After saying that, he saluted Li Qinglin and Xiao Liuzi solemnly.

Li Qinglin and Xiao Liuzi quickly returned the military salute, and Li Qinglin said: "Don't be too polite. They are all army of the same country, and they are all fighting Japanese soldiers. These are nothing."

After sending off Liu Zhenghong and Zhou Yougen, Li Qinglin said to Xiaoliuzi: "The Eighth Route Army is by your side. You have a powerful friendly army and will distract some of the Japanese. This will be beneficial to you. When you can help them in the future, you must help, but be more concealed. Liang Xixian and Pan Kewei are not all people who eat hard, their eyes are poisonous."

Xiao Liuzi smiled and said, "Don't bother with this. I'm definitely sure what I do, and I guarantee they won't be able to catch the handle."

Because the large towns and strongholds were occupied by the Japanese and puppets, the Kuomintang occupied the territory with slightly better conditions, and the remaining areas with extremely poor natural and economic conditions. Just southwest of Niuwangzhai, there is a Nanping Township. Although it is called "Nanping", the actual situation is that the terrain is not even at all.

Nanping Township is full of depressions, small rivers, and a small lake. As long as it rains a little, there may be a swamp here. The only land is mostly saline-alkali land, so the people here are very poor. As the saying goes, "The poor mountains and rivers are bad for the people." The people here are strong, and they have become an area that all parties are unwilling to enter, and a blank area. Liu Zhenghong and his team's destination this time is this Nanping Township.

When Li Qinglin returned to Qinghe, Xiao Liuzi still contacted Liu Zhenghong and the others, but he was very smart and he only had contacts with Zhou Yougen. In order to be open and honest, he even invited the political liaison officer stationed in the first brigade to meet Zhou Yougen and asked him to accompany the guests. Xiao Liuzi introduced to the political liaison officer that Zhou Yougen was his fellow villager and neighbor, and came here just to fight for the autumn wind and get some delicious food.

After the Xi'an Incident, the armed forces led by the Communist Party had already belonged to the National Army. The Eighth Route Army was already a friendly army, but the Kuomintang was still vigilant and guarded against the Eighth Route Army. Liang Xixian's subordinates were also members of the Central Commission for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Zhou Yougen is now the squad leader of the Eighth Route Army. However, the political liaison officer not only did not object to Zhou Yougen's arrival, but was also very enthusiastic, because he wanted to learn about some of the situations of the Eighth Route Army from Zhou Yougen's mouth.

Liu Zhenghong also knew the mystery of this, so Zhou Yougen was not sent to him many times, and there was a soldier accompanying him when he came. According to Liu Zhenghong's request, Zhou Yougen and the soldier seemed very honest and honest. They answered whatever the political liaison officer asked, but of course these two people would not tell the truth. The political liaison officer got some plausible situations.

Zhou Yougen comes in a very limited number of times. He usually only comes when he has to get help from Li Qinglin. They mainly need help in ammunition.

The advance battalion led by Liu Zhenghong originally had two fully organized companies. After fierce battles, more than half of its personnel had been lost and the ammunition was extremely scarce. Zhou Yougen and his men took some bullets and grenades every time they left. Just like the first time, Xiao Liuzi quietly filled all the bullet bags of Zhou Yougen and his men and gave him several grenades.

In order to attract the attention of other people, especially the political liaison officers, Zhou Yougen and the others were carrying a big bag when they left. Before leaving the military camp, Zhou Yougen would open it to inspect the sentry. The food inside was filled with Xiao Liuzi's gift, and there was nothing else.

The mission of the Eighth Route Army's advance battalion was to open up new bases in northern Henan. According to Zhou Yougen, they are currently "progressing very quickly and the situation is very good." Li Qinglin also sent someone to take a look quietly and found that after Liu Zhenghong and others came, they have indeed established a firm foothold. However, Nanping Township is too barren, and the lives of Liu Zhenghong and his officers and soldiers are very hard.

The pace of spring is getting closer and closer, the wind is getting softer day by day, the temperature is rising day by day, and the earth has begun to slowly turn green.

Liang Xixian seems to be very busy during this period. Since Li Qinglin agreed to Jin Xiaoai and Liang Xixian to open a grain and oil mountain store in Shuizhi, Liang Xixian has asked people to borrow money to open a store everywhere, and then sent people to Shuizhi to find a store, organize supplies, choose suitable candidates, etc., and are very busy all day long.

Liang Xixian looks very busy on the surface, but he seems to have done nothing in other aspects recently, but neither Li Qinglin nor Pan Kewei relaxed his vigilance, especially Pan Kewei was particularly careful. He knew that when he was careless, the more likely he was to find something by the other party, or the other party secretly did something incredible with this illusion.

One evening in early spring, Pan Kewei hurried to Sangyu Town, and he brought a message that made everyone deeply uneasy. According to the Military Affairs Commission personnel, the First War Zone had made a decision based on the requirements of relevant parties, and a commander was sent to the Ninth Detachment after a while. However, the candidate for the new commander has not been finalized. It is said that the candidate for this department has selected several people. When the final decision is made, the new commander will be asked to bring the follow-up troops and radio stations to Qinghe.

This is a new situation and it is directly related to Li Qinglin. If the new commander is in place, Li Qinglin, the acting commander, will hand over the command of the Ninth Detachment, which will affect all personnel of the original third brigade.

The next morning, all the officers of the former third brigade were gathered at the Zhang Ergou Squadron headquarters in Sangyu Town, and Li Qinglin held an emergency meeting on the matter. Because the matter was serious, Pan Kewei, who had been unwilling to publicly combine with Li Qinglin's forces, also attended the meeting. Pan Kewei judged that this matter must be related to Liang Xixian, because this matter had seriously endangered the interests of Pan Kewei and the Military Control Commission.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Qinglin conveyed the news brought by Pan Ke to his confidants. When Li Qinglin finished speaking, the venue was immediately infuriated: "Damn it, the old guys fought from the south of the Yellow River to this place where there was no egg. How much support did the First War Zone give us? How many brothers have we sacrificed and how much effort have we worked to capture this small piece of land. They can't grab it at once, and now we are starting to come for the second time?"

"Yes, yes, I didn't get it the first time, now I'm going to grab it tomorrow."

"We have blood and sweat to capture this territory. We have no credit, but we have to work hard, right? Especially the boss, who is still in the rank of major, why are all the people brought by Liang Xixian promoted to the next level, and we are still standing there?"

"**, if you rebel, if you rebel, if you rebel, why should we suffer such a coward?"

"We should pull the poles and stand the hills by ourselves, and see how the dog officials in their war zone can do us."

When these emotional speeches were over, Li Qinglin stood up and pressed his palms down. Everyone in the audience stopped their voices and waited for Li Qinglin to speak.

Li Qinglin looked around at everyone at the meeting. These people were all old subordinates whom he brought from Mount Tai from Yu. After such a long time of test, Li Qinglin absolutely believed that they were all loyal to him at present. However, people are emotional animals, and there is nothing absolutely unchanging in the world. If everyone is not united closely, the people brought by Li Qinglin would probably eat them. After staying in the national army for so long, Li Qinglin knew very well what the final outcome of a team without backbone, without background and backing was, that was to become someone else's cannon fodder...
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