Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 703 Infighting
The New Eighth Army occupied Fan County and Chaocheng. However, due to the fear of being bombed by Japanese aircraft, the military headquarters was not located in the two counties. Instead, it was located in Guyun Town at the junction of the two counties, and was stationed in Guyun Town along with the military headquarters. There is only one guard group with a number of people in the early thousand.

On that day, the weather was particularly gloomy, the temperature dropped sharply, and the cold wind was mixed with drizzle and slapped randomly.

At the entrance of Guyun Town, several soldiers of the New Eighth Army stood curled up in the cold wind.

"Cheer up, the military seat will pass by us in a while, and it's time for us to perform!" The leading officer shouted.

Several soldiers straightened up cursing after hearing the words. In the past, in this kind of weather, this group of soldiers in charge of security would have gone to a place with a leeward to warm up.

Not long after, a group of people came out of a compound in the town. The leader, Gao Shuxun, was wearing an old military uniform. The only thing that stood out was a woolen overcoat specially designed for Japanese military officers.

"Shupei, I will go to Heze this time. It will take at least two days or at least three to five days. I will be able to return. I will leave the affairs of the military department to you to handle the affairs of the military department. If you are in doubt, you can contact us The radio station contacted me, and must not take the initiative to have a dispute with the Eighth Route Army!"

"There are many public opinions in the rear, but after all, it is in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan area. The general trend is not our New Eighth Army. In short, a word of patience!" Gao Shuxun said.

"My subordinates understand, please rest assured, the military seat!" Shang Shupei, as a councilor of the New Eighth Army, of course understood Gao Shuxun's thoughts.

When everyone walked to the entrance of the town, they saw a few soldiers standing upright and full of energy.

Upon seeing this, Gao Shuxun nodded approvingly, and immediately pointed to the officer and asked, "Why don't the soldiers on guard have military coats?"

"Reporting to the military seat, my subordinates think that although the weather is cold, it can effectively increase alertness. We don't need military coats to keep warm!" The officer said loudly.

"Nonsense, it's really not easy for us soldiers to fight against the Japanese invaders behind the enemy lines. Besides, our parents, who are physically and skin-affected, can't be abused at will. Go to the military supply department immediately and get some military coats!"

"Yes!"

"Shupei, there's no need to give it away anymore, just wait for the good news!" Gao Shuxun cupped his hands after finishing speaking, then took the reins handed over by the guard at the side, and got on his horse.

"What's your order?" Gao Shuxun pointed at the officer who had just asked with his whip.

"Report to the military seat, Fang Jiusheng, commander of the first battalion and third company of the guard regiment!"

"Okay, Fang Jiusheng, I remember you!"

It wasn't until Gao Shuxun and the guards disappeared into the cold wind that Shang Shupei withdrew his eyes. His eyes flickered for a moment, and he turned to Fang Jiusheng and said, "Company Commander Fang, the future is boundless!"

"Report sir, this subordinate is just doing his due duty!"

Shang Shupei smiled, turned around and entered the town, Fang Jiusheng looked at Shang Shupei's background, his heart skipped a beat.

"Company Commander, if you fall into this person's eyes, you will make a fortune in the future!" A soldier gloated.

"Damn it, I'd rather be a small company commander than"

Eager to meet Zhou Weihan, Gao Shuxun rushed to Heze that night. To show his sincerity, Zhou Weihan went to the city gate to greet him in person.

"Brother Gao, sit down!" Zhou Weihan enthusiastically pressed Gao Shuxun on the chair, and then said to the monk, "Monk, I have no eyesight at all, pour tea, use what's in my cupboard!"

The monk didn't know how to make tea, so he squeezed two tea leaves from Zhou Weihan's private tea pot, and seeing that the amount was a little small, he squeezed two more tea leaves and put them into the tea bowl.

"Brother Gao, please!" Zhou Weihan picked up the tea bowl and made a gesture: "This is the new Taihang Longjing produced last year, which has a special flavor!"

Gao Shuxun held the tea bowl in his left hand, lifted the tea lid slightly with his right hand, and saw that the tea bowl was filled with soaked tea leaves: "Well, the food I ate recently is indeed a bit salty, drinking this will just defeat the fire!"

Hearing the words, Zhou Weihan couldn't help but stare at the monk who was stupidly aside, and thought to himself, why is the monk so honest.

"Brother Zhou, what do you think of the current situation?" Gao Shuxun put down his tea bowl and brought up the topic.

"Brother Gao is too general. What kind of situation is he referring to? Hebei, Shandong and Henan, or North China, or the whole of China?" Zhou Weihan laughed.

"Hey, little devil, it's Wang Xiaoer's new year now, and every year is not as good as every year. This time, our New Eighth Army has recovered the Liangpu area. Whether it is the puppet troops stationed or the Japanese army, the will to fight is generally weak, so that our New Eighth Army Occupy the Liangpu area without any effort!" Gao Shuxun said.

Zhou Weihan said: "That's right, Brother Gao chose an appropriate time!"

"Huh, where is the right time for me to choose? I was forced to make a choice. To be honest, I am already old. Since my New Eighth Army entered Fan County and Chaocheng, I have been in a stable state. Once you get used to it, you won’t have the ambitions you had before!”

"Whether it's a warlord or a patriotic general who knows the righteousness of the nation, it's just a name. I don't care about it, but your Eighth Route Army is moving so fast that even my blunt knife has been killed. Push it to the front of the stage, brother Zhou, who do you think I should reason with!"

Gao Shuxun's straight-to-the-point attitude caught Zhou Weihan a little off guard, and he held back the words he had prepared.

"Brother Gao, from your tone of voice, why does it sound like you can't help yourself!" Zhou Weihan laughed and offered a cigarette.

Gao Shuxun took a sip of the cigarette, his eyes were a little dazed in the smog, and he laughed at himself: "In the National Government, many people say that I, Gao Shuxun, stand up behind the enemy and respect myself like a local emperor, but outsiders don't know the taste and risks of it !"

"Let's just say that in Heze City, in the headquarters of your brother Zhou, it is safer than the headquarters of my New Eighth Army!"

"We Chinese are imprinted in our bones. We are good at internal fighting. It's okay to be surrounded by strong enemies. We can barely stick to one heart and fight against the enemy together. But if there are no strong enemies who are watching from outside, then the good show will start!"

"Since your Eighth Route Army regained Heze, my New Eighth Army has also picked up a bargain and got a garrison, but some people are restless. Your Eighth Route Army wants to carry out united front work within my New Eighth Army. I personally support it. But there are always people watching!"

"During that time, my life was not easy, you man. Comrade Wang Zenan was still saving face, but he was only developing military support associations in the villages in the defense zone. The bastards in the military command relied on someone to back them up, and wanted to buy off the middle of my New Eighth Army. The senior military officer secretly instigated troubles, intentionally created troubles, and in the end, the blame still rests on me, someone Gao?"

The New Eighth Army, as an armed national army behind enemy lines, does not have a director of the political training department at this moment, because the person who was the director of the political training department of the New Eighth Army happened to disappear during the Eighth Route Army's anti-stubborn campaign.

Subsequently, the Nationalist Government sent personnel to serve in the New Eighth Army many times, but Gao Shuxun declined all of them. Afterwards, the Nationalist Government sent Shang Shupei to serve in the New Eighth Army in the name of counselors.

On the face of it, Shang Shupei is an official sent by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, but in secret he is a pawn inserted into the army by the military command. The direct descendants of the Central Army do not give Dai Chunfeng face, and the military command can only make a fuss about miscellaneous troops.

After Shang Shupei arrived in Hebei, Shandong and Henan, as Gao Shuxun said, he secretly bought middle and high-level officers so much that Gao Shuxun could not fully control the New Eighth Army.

Ma Runchang, the commander of the New 6th Division, as Gao Shuxun's confidant, pointed out the problems of Wang Zenan and others in front of Gao Shuxun many times, and there was no lack of intention to test Gao Shuxun for Shang Shupei.

Even Gao Shuxun's personal adjutant had frequent contacts with Shang Shupei, life and death were almost in the hands of others, how could Gao Shuxun's heart be kept from trembling.

"Then what does Brother Gao mean now?" Zhou Weihan asked.

"What do you mean? I originally planned to have the New 6th Division send troops to support your army after the New Eighth Army regained the Liangpu area and the New 6th Division withdrew from Puyang. The forces within the Eighth Army, who knew that the battle between your Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army would end so quickly that it disrupted my plan!" When Gao Shuxun spoke, the expression on his face was extremely complicated.

Zhou Weihan thought for a while, and then said after a long time: "Don't look at the momentum you and I have created, but we definitely can't fight. Once there is a fight, no matter who wins or loses, I don't care. It's very likely It’s a trip to study, which can be regarded as protection in disguise, but Brother Gao, you must be used by someone Jiang as an excuse to dismiss your military post and be an idler in the rear!”

Gao Shuxun said: "Yes, how can I not understand the truth of this, is it possible to learn from Sun Liangcheng and take the initiative to seek refuge with the little devil? That's why I used the meeting as an excuse to come to Heze in person!"

"After thinking about it, the power to break the situation must come from the outside. Now that the little devil is gone, we can only rely on your Eighth Route Army. I just don't know if Brother Zhou is willing to be wronged and take some responsibility!"

Zhou Weihan heard the words, glanced at the time, guessed that the Teaching Seventh Brigade had almost entered the territory of Fan County at this time, and then said: "How to say?"

"After today's talks are over, I will stay in Heze City, and at the same time, I will order the New Sixth Division to disperse and break through. He, Shang Shupei, has the confidence to challenge me only because of the New Sixth Division and Ma Runchang. The new 6th division is broken up, and I can relieve Ma Runchang from the army after the war!"

"As for the excuse, I've already found an excuse for you. The deputy head of the security regiment of our military department was recruited by Shang Shupei. I will send a telegram to the head of the security regiment to secretly arrest Comrade Wang Zenan and others from the military's valet. Well."

That's all Gao Shuxun said, Zhou Weihan couldn't help scolding the old fox secretly when he heard the solution Gao Shuxun came up with.

Seeing that Zhou Weihan didn't answer, Gao Shuxun continued: "You brother Zhou is not an easy person to get along with. If I didn't come to the meeting with sincerity today, brother Zhou would sit back and watch my New Eighth Army occupy Liangpu. Don't say anything. Don't get up, it's okay to deceive children with these words, but a dozen or so regiments of your Eighth Route Army have surrounded the Liangpu area, is that just for show?"

"For you now, it's nothing more than a matter of going with the flow. I can guarantee that in the future, I will never mess with the Liangpu area. If you are worried that our troops stationed in Fan County will pose danger to Pu County, our New Eighth Army can take the initiative to let it go." Leave Fan County and retreat to Chaocheng area!"

"Of course, I will clear the obstacles in the Liangpu area for your Eighth Route Army. As compensation, I will take some food, which is not too much!" Gao Shuxun finally said.

Zhou Weihan said: "Brother Gao, what you said is not a trivial matter. You will destroy the national united front, but you will be beheaded. Let me think about it!"

After Gao Shuxun left, the deputy chief of staff came out from behind the screen, and sighed: "We calculated and calculated, but in the end, none of this Commander Gao understood. Everyone is watching!"

"The words of being old and mature are just right to describe him!" Zhou Weihan scratched his head. Now that the little devil is gone, our Eighth Route Army has become a good knife for him to suppress internal dissident forces!"

"However, after all, the final result depends on who has thicker arms. No matter how scheming Gao Shuxun is, he can still turn out the palm of our Eighth Route Army? It's just that if we fight according to Gao Shuxun's intention, even if there is a legitimate excuse, But don't forget, the national government has just made Gao Shuxun a national hero for regaining the lost land, then you will have a hard time!" said the deputy chief of staff.

Zhou Weihan said: "It doesn't matter. You and I are going to study in Yanzhou. It's just a matter of leisure time. Besides, don't you have the chief of staff to share the responsibility with me? Don't even think about running away, Tan Lin!"

"You, you, good things don't think about me!" The deputy chief of staff pointed Zhou Weihan a few times.

Occupying the Liangpu area is the general policy of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and other armed forces will never be allowed to separate several base areas, so Zhou Weihan quickly reached an agreement with Gao Shuxun.

On the same day, the Seventh Teaching Brigade, which was about to attack Fan County, received a telegram and suspended operations. After receiving the telegram, Brigadier Han was a little puzzled, but he could only let the troops hide on the spot.

Then Gao Shuxun drafted the content of the telegram in front of Zhou Weihan, secretly telegraphed Yuan Xuegang, head of the military guard regiment to his confidant, and ordered the arrest of Wang Zenan and others in the attendant.

At the headquarters of the New Eighth Army, with the sound of whistles, more than [-] people in the barracks quickly assembled, except for the soldiers on guard at the town's entrance.

"Tuan Zuo, what's the matter? Why do you have to assemble the troops?" Niu Hanyuan, the deputy head of the guard regiment, looked at the assembled soldiers and asked in puzzlement.

Yuan Xuegang took a cold look at Niu Hanyuan: "Commander Niu, here is the telegram from the military seat. I am following orders, and you also need to cooperate!"

"Guard, give me his gun, and he will be detained temporarily!"

A few guards who were ready to attack captured Niu Hanyuan, who was still in the dark, in one fell swoop.

"I want to see the military seat, I want to see the military seat!"

"When the military seat comes back, I will naturally meet you, take it away!"

After clearing up the internal affairs of the guard regiment, Yuan Xuegang immediately ordered that the guard regiment be divided into two groups, one route went straight to the attendants, surrounded but not attacked, and the other route was led by him personally to surround Shang Shupei's residence.

(End of this chapter)