No one thought that the reorganization of various local armed forces in southern Hebei and western Luxi first started from Julu.

Julu is next to Nangong, is the place where Tang Yao Chan took Yu Shun, and is also one of the 36 counties canonized by Qin Shi Huang, and the famous Chu and Han "Julu Battle" took place here. Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and Wei Zheng, the famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, were both Julu people.

At this time, Julu, due to the distance from the railway, the army had not yet arrived, and Julu was controlled by the two forces of the county security regiment and the bandit Liu Motou.

At this time, the county security regiment and Liu Motou were fighting for territory.

Liu Motou's name Liu Guodong is a habitual bandit. In 1917, Liu Motou proclaimed himself commander, and in Renxian, Pingxiang, Nanhe, Julu, Longping, Yaoshan and other areas, he kidnapped, burned, killed and looted, and did all the work done by bandits. After the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Liu Motou felt that the opportunity had come, and turned into a self-proclaimed "anti-Japanese guerrilla force in southern Hebei" to contain [***] stragglers, and obtained some arms from the equipment depot left in Yaoshan after the Kuomintang fled south, and the team suddenly expanded. Although the signboard was changed, he still did the old business, and only in Bianjiazhuang, Tiankou, Xingjiawan, Xindian, Nanhe and other places in Ren County, he robbed 153,000 catties of wheat, 70 head of livestock, 3,500 barrels of kerosene, and killed 47 people. As for the resistance, Liu Motou didn't even think about it.

By the end of August 1937, the old police chief of Pingxiang County, Shi Runan, led the remnants of 300 people from Pingxiang Township to partner with Liu Motou, and Liu Motou renamed his "Southern Hebei Anti-Japanese Guerrillas" as "Southern Hebei Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" and set up a headquarters in Tiankou. Shi Runan was the commander, Liu Motou was the deputy commander, and there were 16 brigades, 10 teaching teams, and 1 special team. The total strength was about six or seven thousand men.

said that Shi Runan was the commander, Liu Motou was the deputy commander, but in fact, it was Liu Motou who was in charge. The reason is very simple, there are more people and more guns.

It's almost the New Year, and Liu Motou is thinking about how to get another vote. His gaze was naturally fixed on Julu City. There are two reasons, one is that although the county magistrate of this giant deer city ran away, most of the merchants and residents did not run, and they still have food, grass and money. The second is that the county security regiment stationed in Julu City once beat Liu Motou, and this strength is strong, so it is natural to find an old enemy to settle accounts.

So, Liu Motou and Shi Runan summed up, and asked Qiu Qingfu, Wang Ziyao and other friends on the road to be helpers, shouting the slogan of "Conquer Julu City and go to Julu City to spend a fat year", and rushed to Julu County.

The reason why Wang Wenzhen, the head of the Julu County Security Regiment, Zhen Fuxi, the police chief, and Liu Jiansan, the secretary of the county political axe, did not give up the retreat of Julu with the county magistrate and the main force of [***] was because they had secretly connected with the Yue army, accepted the appointment of the Yue Kou, and were preparing to organize a maintenance meeting.

Seeing that Liu Motou was attacking the county seat with great momentum, Wang Wenzhen discussed with Zhen Fuxi and Liu Jiansan, and decided to defend the city. They all know that if Liu Motou is allowed to enter Julu City, not to mention what will happen to other ordinary people, they are afraid that their family will die very miserably. Besides, although the security regiment has less than 1,000 soldiers, it has many veterans, good equipment, and strong combat effectiveness, plus it is under the banner of fighting to defend Julu, and the people in the city support it, and they are not afraid of Liu Motou's gang of bandits.

As soon as the two sides started fighting, it was really similar to Wang Wenzhen's estimate, although Liu Motou had a lot of troops, but it was far from a gun per person, and it was a strong attack, so on the first day of the war, there was no way to take the security regiment, so he had to set up camp in the county seat for more than ten miles, and prepared to clean up slowly.

This situation was immediately reported by Julu's underground party to the newly established Southern Hebei Military Region. Chen Dayong was overjoyed when he heard the news, and as soon as the division commander decided to deploy troops in southern Hebei, resolutely eliminate the bandit forces, and reorganize all kinds of local armed forces, the deal came to the door. As soon as he remembered that the division commander handed over the strength of several brigades to the command of the Southern Hebei Military Region in order to lay a solid foundation in the southern Hebei base area, Chen Dayong's heart was hot, and he was eager to fight a few beautiful battles immediately and completely open up the situation in southern Hebei.

Chen Dayong immediately reported to Liu Yimin and asked the Seventh Brigade to be responsible for solving the Julu problem.

Liu Yimin heard it, isn't this the Julu incident in history? At that time, Chen Zaidao led five companies of the eastward column, seized the favorable opportunity when Liu Motou and the security regiment could not find out the truth of our army and were afraid that our army would unite with the opponent, and adopted the method of outwitting, incorporated the security regiment, and persuaded Liu Motou away. Later, Liu Motou also accepted the adaptation of our army, but the surname of the bandit was difficult to change, and he shot and killed the cadres and soldiers of our army, and was finally exterminated by our army. Unfortunately, Liu Motou himself escaped, became a Han anniversary, and was caught and shot after liberation. This incident has achieved Chen Zaidao's prestige in southern Hebei, and the common people say that there is a pockmarked commander of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, which is really powerful, and with just one move, the bandit commanders were taken down.

Thinking of this, Liu Yimin laughed in his heart, since Chen Zaidao is now the deputy commander of the Southern Hebei Military Region, why not let him make a name for himself like he did in the original history?

Liu Yimin told Chen Dayong that the principle of letting Chen Zaidao and Li Jingyu command the eastward advance column and the main force of the Seventh Brigade to solve the Julu problem was to incorporate the Julu Security Regiment and Liu Mo's head, and bring all the leaders of the security regiment and Liu Mo's head back to Nangong to find out whether there were any facts of collaborating with the enemy and the facts of harming the masses, and deal with them separately. He and Liu Yi coordinated the actions of several other brigades that remained in southern Hebei to coordinate the operation, and stepped up efforts to improve the organizational structure of the Southern Hebei Military Region, the Southern Hebei Executive Bureau, and the Southern Hebei Party Committee.

Chen Dayong immediately conveyed Liu Yimin's order to Chen Zaidao and Li Jingyu, and in the name of the Southern Hebei Military Region, he ordered the establishment of the Julu Front Command Headquarters, with Chen Zaidao as the commander and Li Jingyu as the political commissar, commanding the main force of the brigade and the eastward column to solve the Julu problem.

Chen Zaidao is an old Red Army commander from Dabie Mountain. Since joining forces with the Central Red Army, he has listened to a lot of Liu Yimin's legendary stories, and when he was studying at the Red Army University in Xi'an, he listened to Liu Yimin's lectures many times, and he admired Liu Yimin very much. However, he never dreamed that Liu Yimin would let him command the elite Seventh Brigade to fight, you must know that his eastward advance column only has 5 companies and 500 people, and the Seventh Brigade is a large army of tens of thousands of people!

Chen Zaidao, who knew that the military situation was in full swing, didn't have time to think about it, and soon led the staff office to formulate a battle plan and lead the troops west to Julu.

After arriving in Julu, Chen Zaidao drove the troops to the vicinity of the area where the two sides exchanged fire, besieged Liu Motou, and sent Yu Wenfeng, the political commissar of the 19th Regiment, to negotiate with Liu Motou on behalf of the Eighth Route Army, telling Liu Motou and Shi Runan that the enemy is currently fighting a civil war is the Han Annihilation, and the Eighth Route Army will suppress the Han Annihilation, hoping that the "Southern Hebei Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" will be a model of resistance and not a Han Annihilation in the civil war. At the same time, he sent someone to send a letter to the security group of Julu City, asking them to understand the righteousness and not do things that hurt their relatives and make their enemies happy.

Liu Motou scoffed at the argument that fighting a civil war was a Han annihilation, but he did not dare to take it lightly against the army besieged on all sides, especially the high cannon muzzle of the Eighth Route Army and the galloping cavalry, which made him particularly frightened. Liu Motou knew that this army was not something he could afford to provoke, so he had no choice but to tell Yu Wenfeng, the representative of the Eighth Route Army, that he could cease fire and withdraw to Renxian.

Unexpectedly, Yu Wenfeng went so far as to say that the Southern Hebei Administrative Office and the Eighth Route Army's Southern Hebei Military Region had been established, and that the Southern Hebei Military Region had been ordered by Lieutenant General Liu Yimin, the instructor and division commander of the Eighth Route Army, to unify and reorganize the armed forces of all roads in southern Hebei and unite to resist the war. Commander Liu is requested to obey the order, hand over his weapons, obey the reorganization, and accept the leadership of [***] and the Eighth Route Army.

He took out the shell gun from his waist, turned on the nose, pressed against Yu Wenfeng's head, and roared viciously: "Grandma is a bear, if you don't know how to read, you can touch the signboard, and you don't ask you what Grandpa Liu does, so you dare to let Lao Tzu surrender the gun." Lao Tzu tells you, what eight roads, nine roads, if you provoke Lao Tzu, anyone will fight! Go back and tell your commander, if you know each other, withdraw the troops, otherwise, Lao Tzu knows you, and Lao Tzu's bullets don't know you! ”

Liu Motou's attack, the situation immediately became tense, and the soldiers of the guard squad who came with Yu Wenfeng aimed all the muzzles of the Bayi automatic rifles at Liu Motou and Shi Runan and others. Liu Motou's subordinates also raised the old sleeve in their hands and aimed it at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

Yu Wenfeng smiled, pushed away Liu Motou's pistol, sat on the Taishi chair, picked up the water bowl on the table and took a sip, before he smiled and said to Liu Motou: "Commander Liu, don't get angry, listen to me!" Our division commander Liu said that after you surrender your guns and accept the reorganization, you will become a unit of the Eighth Route Army, and all the cadres will go to Nangong to participate in study classes and learn advanced tactics. After the end of the study, they will be assigned work in a unified manner, and they can work in various units of the Eighth Route Army, and even go to work in the rear of Xi'an. Isn't it better to be a regiment commander or brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army than to be a commander who no one cares about and no one hurts? The Eighth Route Army does not need any of the existing weapons and equipment of your troops, and all of them are used to arm the militia of each village. ”

Saying this, Liu Motou's heart began to turn, not to mention anything else, it would be great if this weapon and equipment could be replaced. With good weapons, it doesn't matter if you are the Eighth Route Army or the Ninth Route Army, Lao Tzu will not pee on any of them. If you are in a hurry, Lao Tzu will pull the team to go to the devil, maybe you can also be like Qi Kuiyuan, get a commander of the security army, and you can also get the commander of the security army in southern Hebei, when the time comes, eat and drink spicy, and sleep with whom's girl if you want to, maybe Taijun will be happy, and reward himself with a few Oriental girls to play, which is much better than being a bandit!

Thinking in his heart, Liu Motou was not ambiguous, and continued to roar: "Don't fucking nonsense, let Lao Tzu surrender the gun, there is no door!" Your Eighth Route Army is powerful, and Lao Tzu is not a vegetarian! You went to the ground in southern Hebei to inquire, who was Lao Tzu afraid of? There is a kind of let's open the posture and compare and compare, and see if you can fight in the eight ways, or Lao Tzu's brothers are stubborn! ”

Yu Wenfeng smiled and said, "Commander Liu, it's not me who scares you, fight with us, you are not an opponent." I can tell you that our instructor specially eliminated the elite troops of the Yue Army, and it was we who eliminated the 21 Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Yue Army and the 40,000 troops of the Chahar Corps in Taiyuan, and we were the ones who captured Tianjin. Let me tell you one more thing, that is, our army has always been completely annihilated in battle, and no one of the devils has escaped from us. If you dare to shoot a shot, I can guarantee that in half an hour, not one of you will be alive. ”

The shadow of the famous tree, although Liu Motou is a bandit and extremely cruel, he is not a fool, and he naturally knows the achievements of the tutor. Hearing Yu Wenfeng say this, Liu Motou knew that today's things were not easy to do. If you don't agree to their request for reorganization, I'm afraid that you will be wiped out by them as this kid said.

When the bandit leader is generally a quick-witted and ruthless master, Liu Motou is no exception, as soon as he saw that he was surrounded by a mentor who couldn't even help the army, Liu Motou immediately realized that he was under the roof and couldn't help but bow his head, it seems that he can only accept the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army first, and then find an opportunity to pull the team away.

The idea is certain, Liu Motou is no longer arrogant, and immediately changed his face, asked the guards to serve wine and food, took out cigarettes, and began to entertain Yu Wenfeng and his party, and he and Shi Runan, Qiu Qingfu, and Wang Ziyao made a total. In the end, Liu Motou put forward a condition to Yu Wenfeng, that is, his troops should be organized into a brigade, and they would still be stationed in Renxian and Julu, and officers at all levels could go to study, but they must return to the team after studying.

This condition was not too much in the environment at that time, but Yu Wenfeng knew Liu Yimin's thoughts, that is, to thoroughly digest this team that was essentially bandits, where would he promise him? It is only said that after the reorganization of the troops, they will be distributed in a unified manner, and it is impossible to organize the brigades alone, and they must be integrated with the main force. As for Liu Motou and others, after graduating from the study class, the instructor will properly arrange their work, and there is no problem if they want to be regiment commanders and brigade commanders to lead troops to fight; If you want to work in the political axe department, you can also be a county magistrate or a leader of various agencies in the administrative department. In short, as long as they sincerely resisted, the Eighth Route Army would never treat them badly.

Liu Motou saw that Yu Wenfeng didn't even agree to the conditions for them to form a brigade, so he felt that the Eighth Route Army was indeed not good, and he was determined to swallow himself. If it is really adapted by them, without the troops, what will you be mixed with? Even if he takes refuge in himself, his family will not value him. In a word, without a team, you are not bullshit, do you want those so-called equipment and official positions to be used? No, you have to think of a way, first coax the Eighth Route Army, so that they can't destroy themselves now, and when they withdraw from the siege, Lao Tzu will immediately run away with his brothers, and the big deal is to go directly to Shunde Mansion to find himself.

Liu Motou, who changed his mind, his eyes became cold, and his tone became cold: "Representative Yuwen, our conditions have been said, but you are not righteous enough, Lao Tzu has so many people, and it is a loss to form a brigade." But you won't even give you a brigade! This is your unrighteousness, not Lao Tzu's injustice. You are resistant, and Lao Tzu is also a volunteer army in southern Hebei. For the sake of being a negotiator, Lao Tzu does not break the rules and does not tear your votes. You go back and tell your commander that you agree that we will be organized into a brigade, and we will accept the reorganization. If you do not agree, you will withdraw the siege, and we will go our own way. If you bully others and dare to beat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not be ambiguous, and there will be a big scar on his head, and there is nothing remarkable. ”

Yu Wenfeng knew that this bandit leader was not easy to mess with, but he didn't expect this guy to come to this at a critical time. After thinking about it, Yu Wenfeng felt that he still had to talk about some strategy, as long as Liu Motou surrendered his gun and accepted the adaptation, then it would be easy to do next. So, Yu Wenfeng followed Liu Motou's words and said: "It is not impossible for you to reorganize into a brigade, but military commanders at all levels must go through study class training, and our army must send political cadres to brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies to reorganize the troops in accordance with our army's system. This is our bottom line, if you don't accept it, then I'm sorry, our army will definitely destroy you in the shortest possible time. ”

Although Liu Motou did not know the means of teaching the instructor to transform the prisoners and reorganize the troops, as soon as he heard that it could be reorganized into a brigade, he laughed in his heart, knowing that the representatives of the Eighth Route had been deceived, as long as he worked harder, he could make the Eighth Route Army believe that he really accepted the reorganization and no longer surrounded him, then it was done. He immediately picked up a bowl of wine, touched it with Yuwenfeng, drank it all, smashed the bowl, and shouted: "Representative Yuwen, Lao Tzu has accepted the reorganization, and I am also the Eighth Route Army, [***]." Go back and tell the chiefs to shoot the boys! But after that, it must be a full set of equipment! Lao Tzu is going to beat them with the machine gun and cannon of the devil until he beats them back to his grandmother's house! ”

Although Shi Runan didn't know the specific thoughts in Liu Motou's heart, he knew Liu Motou's heart surname and wanted Liu Motou to accept the [***] adaptation, unless the sun came out from the west. Shi Runan knew that Liu Motou was acting, and immediately began to cooperate. He was born as a policeman, and he had heard of the rules of recruitment and incorporation, so he stopped Yu Wenfeng and Liu Motou, and asked the master to draft an adaptation agreement, listing the conditions of both parties, and asking Liu Motou and Yu Wenfeng to sign.

Yu Wenfeng took a look, mainly for land defense, military salaries, weapons, and the use of officers, etc., although it was a bit of a lion's mouth, but in general it was agreed to surrender the gun and reorganize, so he said: "I initialed it today, and after the reorganization, Commander Liu will go to Nangong and officially sign the seal with Commander Chen Dayong of the Southern Hebei Military Region." After saying that, he solemnly signed his name.

After Liu Motou, Shi Runan, Qiu Qingfu, and Wang Ziyao all signed, Yu Wenfeng tightly held the hands of Liu Motou and said: "Comrades, you are welcome to join the Eighth Route Army, we will be comrades-in-arms in the future, unite to resist the enemy, kill the enemy side by side, and fight to defeat the invaders!" ”

Liu Motou thought that his plan had succeeded at this time, his face trembled with a smile, and he took Yu Wenfeng's hand and was about to follow him to meet the head of the Eighth Route Army.

Yu Wenfeng was surprised in his heart, according to common sense, this Liu Motou was born as a habitual bandit, and he should be extremely cunning, why does he look like he can't wait to be a devil in the Eighth Route Army now? This guy isn't trying to play some tricks, right?

Yu Wenfeng, who had raised his vigilance, naturally agreed to Liu Motou's request to visit the head of the Eighth Route Army immediately, and the group left Liu Motou's temporary headquarters and rushed to Chen Zaidao's front-line headquarters.

(To be continued)