Xiaohuang Mountain, Yixing.

The mountains and plains are covered with either green or verdant bamboo groves, lush and green, overlapping each other; they are straight and straight, soaring into the sky.

Li Yuan was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, so he meandered up the mountain road in the bamboo forest.

It was almost dark when we arrived at our destination, and we had already noticed that there was smoke from cooking stoves under the night sky on the mountain in front of us.

"Stop, what are you doing?" A sentry jumped out of the bamboo forest with a gun in his hand. There was a camouflage circle of bamboo branches on his hat, and an old sleeve in his hand.

"We came here to find Company Commander Qing Wulin, he was sent here by the organization."

This place is very secluded and ordinary people would not come here. After entering the mountainous area full of bamboo forests, Li Yuan and a middle-aged man had been walking for four hours, going around in circles.

"Okay, wait here." Mingshao had no doubts and ran deep into the bamboo forest. After a while, a small middle-aged man followed the sentry out and said enthusiastically: "Old Shen, you are here. This is Comrade Li Yuan, we have received the news a long time ago and you are finally here." The person who came with Li Yuan is Shen Xuejun, a traffic officer.

I haven't joined the team yet, comrade, so I muttered in my mind: "Hello". I took out the letter of introduction and handed it over.

"I am instructor Wu Xing. The company commander is inside, please."

"I won't go in. I still have a mission, so I have to go back first. I've brought the people here for you. Say hello to you and say something to Company Commander Qing later." He turned to Li Yuan and said, "Instructor Li, what's wrong with me?" I still have something to do, so I have to rush back overnight. If anything happens here, you can ask Lao Wu and they can contact me, so let’s leave first.”

"You have to eat your food."

"It's too late, so I'm leaving." He turned around and left.

I followed Instructor Wu to the company headquarters office, but Company Commander Ding was not there. Instructor Wu went out to ask the guards stationed at the entrance of the village. The Company Commander went to check the sentry, but we had just come from the sentry, so we were confused.

Company Commander Qing has been fighting guerrillas with the Kuomintang reactionaries in the south for four years. He came to this place from Hunan last year after organizationally cooperating with the Kuomintang to fight against Japan. I heard that the organization sent a Kuomintang to train the troops. It was a big fire, killing people. There are so many of us, are we cooperating now? When I heard the sentry say that people are coming, I felt angry and asked the instructor to go ahead. He has a high level of consciousness.

It wasn't until Li Yuan gave a fake cough that Wu Yuan remembered that there were new comrades here.

Wu Yuan probably knew what Company Commander Qing was thinking, this old Qing, but looking at Li Yuan's determined eyes at this moment, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly, quickly turned over the teapot on the table, and picked up the only hot water kettle in the company. , poured most of the tank of water: "Drink some water first, the company commander went out to check the sentry, and will be back in a while. Did the journey here go well this time?"

Li Yuan was a little stunned when he saw Wu Xing whose expression suddenly changed: He was quite enthusiastic just now, but now he seems to be feeling guilty. Didn't I do anything?

Wu Xing introduced the current situation of the company. There are four platoons in the company. Each platoon has three squads, one squad leader and one deputy squad leader. Now they are fully staffed with 12 people. A platoon plus the full staff of the platoon leader and deputy platoon leader is 38 people. The fourth platoon is composed of newly recruited recruits, plus the company commander, instructor, a correspondent, and a cooking team. As of today, there are a total of 158 people. This is because the comrades at the foot of the mountain are still sending new recruits to the team. .

After listening to instructor Wu's introduction, Li Yuan roughly knew what kind of place this was.

The company headquarters and the first platoon live in this settlement. This place is not even a village. There are only a few households of mountain residents. The mountain residents spend most of their time cutting bamboo to make bamboo baskets or collecting some bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots for delivery.

I went to the city below to sell some sweet potatoes and planted some sweet potatoes in the gaps in the bamboo forest in the mountains. This bamboo forest also belongs to several local squires at the foot of the mountain. They have to pay rent every year and have lived on this land for generations. Several others have

The platoons live in the empty houses of a few mountain people at the back. There are not enough houses. The guerrillas built a lot some time ago, so there is no problem in housing. Now the Japanese have come, and the landlords and squires have run away, and no one cares about them anyway.

, According to Wuxing’s experience in the south, the local tycoons should be targeted to allocate the land, but now that there are no local tycoons, they have all fled, and the land allocation cannot be done. We have to wait until the township government is established to let the political cadres do it. This bamboo forest

There is no regulation yet on how to divide the bamboos. There are only a few dozen households in such a huge mountain forest. Anyway, if you want to cut bamboos at will, there is no way to divide them.

Wu Xing introduced some special situations to Li Yuan: "Not long after the guerrillas arrived here, the construction of the base area was relatively difficult. There are still many local tyrants and gentry here, and mass work is not easy to do. There are not many people who actively signed up to join the guerrillas.

,For these new recruits, the training has just begun. The first platoon has been assigned a task, and now the second, third and fourth platoons are all here."

Li Yuan smiled and nodded. Of course he understood that training new recruits was not an easy task, and a bad move might affect the future recruitment of guerrillas.

"Let's go. I'll take you to your dormitory first, which is right next door."

The two entered the house next door. Li Yuan thought that the dormitory should be a big bungalow, but he didn't expect it to be a low thatched house. The walls should be made of bamboo, and the gaps were covered with mud. There was a door in the front and a window in the back.

There is a table made of bamboo and a bed made of bamboo. This is not to show any special care for Li Yuan. The company commander is not here now, and he is not sure how to arrange him. Li Yuan put down the heavy backpack. Wu Xing was a little surprised: it was so heavy on his back.

The things have traveled so far, so their physical strength is pretty good.

Knowing that Li Yuan probably hadn't eaten yet, he took Li Yuan to the station at the back. The cooking squad was in the hill behind, maybe about 300 meters away. The land here was a little flatter, and the company commander might be there too. Wu Xing knew

What does Captain Qing think of you: I can’t see the Kuomintang people.

Early the next morning, each platoon gathered one after another. First, they started running on the mountain road under the leadership of each platoon leader. After eating, they began to practice lunging.

Breakfast is delivered by the cooking team.

Li Yuan had been waiting at the company headquarters until almost ten o'clock.

Company Commander Qing was walking in front, while Instructor Wu was muttering behind him, and he looked like he was still doing political work.

Seeing the two of them arguing, Li Yuan stood up and saluted.

Wu Xing hurriedly said, "Sit down, let me introduce you. This is Instructor Li sent by the organization. This is Captain Qing Wulin of our independent company."

Li Yuan: "Hello, company commander."

Company Commander Qing said, "Where was Instructor Li before?" He didn't even reply to his greetings.

Li Yuan: "109th Division of the 49th Army".

"It must be your army that is encircling and suppressing the Red Army in Shaanxi."

"That's a thing of the past."

Company Commander Qing didn't even look at Li Yuan and said, "Instructor Li is coming from afar. The conditions here are difficult. Ah, I won't bother you with the first, second and third rows. You can train the recruits in the fourth row.

That’s it, if you have any questions, just ask them.”

Li Yuan didn't just come back to teach these new recruits. He was stunned when he heard the arrangement. He immediately understood what Captain Qing was thinking and said nothing more.

Qing Wulin called the correspondent, whose name was Zheng Xiaotian, and asked him to take Li Yuan to the fourth row. He didn't say where he lived. He lived next door and could watch at any time.

Li Yuan saluted and replied: "Yes."

Old Wu also came over and said, "I'll introduce you to the fourth platoon leader. Don't mind. Company Commander Qing is a nice person, but he just has opinions about the Kuomintang. Although we are cooperating now, he may still have a thorn in his heart. Don't go there."

Take it to heart."

The correspondent had already gone to notify the four platoon leaders to assemble.

It was already late when I came here yesterday, and the ground here is so uneven that I can't even practice formation. It seems that if you want to train, you have to go to the small square in front of the company headquarters, but you can only get it after the rehearsal of row two, row three, etc.

This is a new situation. It’s not like Northeast China, where you can just pull it out and fix it as you want.

The leader of the fourth platoon is called Wang Hu. He is an old guerrilla. He is a little curious about the new instructors and is a little wary. After Li Yuan and Wu Xing arrived at the fourth platoon, Li Yuan could tell from the way these soldiers stood and the way they looked at him.

The general situation of these soldiers is divided into bold, curious, nervous and calm.

Seeing Wu Xing and Li Yuan coming over, Wang Hu immediately said loudly: "Everyone is here, stand at attention!"

The recruits immediately stood at attention and were not in order.

Wang Hu said loudly again: "Take a break! Ask the instructor to speak."

The recruits all took a break again, waiting for Wu Xing to speak.

Wu Xing walked up to the four rows of recruits, glanced from left to right, then stood still and said: "Comrades."

The recruits immediately stood at attention.

Wu Xing saluted the soldiers in the fourth row and said, "Please rest a moment."

The recruits immediately returned the greeting and took a break.

Wu Xing said: "Let me introduce to you the new instructor: Instructor Li Yuanli." The guerrillas did not have instructors before. Anyway, the veterans led the new recruits, and the squad leader was the veteran."

Li Yuan walked up to the fourth row of recruits, said nothing, raised his right hand and saluted all the soldiers.

Li Yuan thought of the platoon he entered from the northeast. Nearly forty brothers were no longer alive. He felt sad, his face turned blue and white, and he couldn't help but shed tears in his eyes. After a while, this made the recruits in the fourth platoon

Monk Zhanger was confused.

Li Yuan took a deep breath, coughed, cleared his throat, and said: "Brothers..., comrades! My name is Li Yuan, and I have just arrived here. I am very honored to cooperate with the fourth platoon leader to train with everyone. You can call me

Instructor Li, I will train with you, live together, and teach you how to fight Japanese enemies!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the recruits let out an "Oh" and started talking among themselves, with a few sparse applauses.

These recruits are all from nearby villages. They used to live near the capital. The Japs killed so many people in Nanjing some time ago. Some of the relatives of these recruits were killed in the city, and they all wanted revenge.

I was thinking of joining the army, so I was naturally not convinced when I saw this instructor who was younger than the platoon leader.

Li Yuan looked at this mess of soldiers, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He saluted Platoon Leader Wang and said, "Should we chat for a while first, just have an exchange?"

At this time, Platoon Leader Wang was still looking at the ZC29 rifle behind Li Yuan, a little stunned. He seemed to have never seen this gun before.

He said smoothly: "You have never seen this gun before, can you take a look at it?"

The recruits burst into laughter, but looked at Li Yuan with envy.

No way, you’ve never seen this gun before?

Li Yuan took off his semi-automatic rifle and handed it over. This gun was expensive and I didn't dare to throw it away.
Chapter completed!