However, at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the mountain pass in front of me: "Stop it."

On the hillside, more than a thousand officers and soldiers in the regiment turned their heads together and saw Xu Shijiu and Gao Shenxing was coming quickly.

Li Zihan raised his right hand and did not fall down. Instead, he turned around to face Xu Shijiu and asked, "Captain, why are you here?"

"If I don't come, wouldn't you kill two good soldiers in vain?" Xu Shijiu strided to the small slope and glared at him. The two gun-carrying guards quickly put away their rifles.

"Captain, you are..." Li Zihan frowned in an instant.

Xu Shijiu ignored him and turned his eyes to the two deserters who were forcibly pressed to kneel on the ground.

"Commander, we are not deserters, we are really not deserters..." Seeing Xu Shijiu, the two soldiers slapped and burst into tears at the same time.

"No crying, no crying, man, a real man, would rather shed blood than cry." Xu Shijiu groaned, signaling the four guards to let go, and then helped the two deserters up.

"Commander, we really didn't want to be deserters, we just wanted to go home to save people."

"Commander, as long as my baby is rescued, I will come back immediately and fight against you as a little Japanese."

"Commander, if we have a lie, we will thunder and let us die."

"Commander, we went down the mountain without saying hello. We are wrong. We are sorry to you."

The two deserters swear, wishing to cut off their hearts. Xu Shijiu was full of shame and said sincerely: "I know, I know, you are all good. Even if everyone in the world is a deserter, you will never be a deserter. The person who really wants to say sorry is me, Xu Shijiu, and not you."

Speaking of this, Xu Shijiu turned his gaze to the opposite slope and shouted to more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the L regiment: "Brothers, I want to say sorry to you. It is my dereliction of duty to inflict your relatives being threatened by the little Japanese. I now solemnly announce that as long as there are relatives in the occupied areas, you can go home."

On the large slope opposite, more than a thousand officers and soldiers immediately started to whisper.

Li Zihan was even more anxious. At least half of the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the L regiment were natives from Longkou, and most of these people had family members. Moreover, all of these families were in the occupied areas without exception. If they were released, only half of them would be left in the blink of an eye. The regiment commander also became the battalion commander.

"Captain, is your decision a bit hasty?" Li Zihan dared not challenge Xu Shijiu's authority in public, so he could only lower his voice to express his dissatisfaction, "What if everyone left?"

Xu Shijiu ignored Li Zihan, but Gao Shenxing, who came with him, said coldly: "You can keep everyone with iron fist, but can you keep people? If you keep people, can you keep your heart? The people's hearts are dispersed, can the troops still have combat effectiveness? Zihan, it's not me that I'm talking about you, if you go to the battlefield in the future, be careful that your subordinates will attack you with black guns."

Li Zihan was speechless. Although he felt uncomfortable inside, he had to admit that what Gao Shenxing said made sense.

"Brothers, you can leave, but your weapons must be left." Xu Shijiu then said to the entire regiment of officers and soldiers, "As for the future, I only hope that you will remember one sentence: If the Chinese don't hit the Chinese, you will never point your gun at your fellow brothers. I, Xu Shijiu, begged you me, and kneel down for you."

After saying that, Xu Shijiu fell to his knees on the small slope.

On the large slope, more than a thousand officers and soldiers were in an uproar.

(Split Line)

Laolonggou, the 19th Detachment's headquarters.

Niu Sigen was paced back and forth in the barracks, smoking one by one, and the ground was covered with cigarette butts.

Battalion Commander Wang Fusheng and 3rd Battalion Commander Niu Yutang opened the wood door from outside. He was shocked by the gushing smoke. He thought the regiment headquarters had gone fire and almost called for someone to put out the fire.

"Tongzhao, why do you smoke so much?" Wang Fusheng quickly opened the window to ventilate.

Niu Yutang also opened the back door, and soon the smoke in the hut was dimmed by the mountain wind.

Wang Fusheng and Niu Yutang returned to the crude low table and sat down. Wang Fusheng asked again: "Tuanzhao, have you heard of it?"

"What did you hear?" Niu Sigen put out the already hot cigarette butts on the soles of his feet, and then took one from the cigarette box. Niu Yutang quickly lit a match and lit the cigarette for Niu Sigen.

Wang Fusheng said: "I heard that Xu Shijiu went to Heilongjiang this morning and disbanded the L group."

"What did you say? Xu Shijiu disbanded the L group?" Niu Sigenyan didn't care about smoking and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

"I don't know exactly what's going on. Also, it may be a bit exaggerated to say that the l regiment was disbanded, but it is a fact that he let go of officers and soldiers with his family members in the occupied areas. Now the l regiment has only more than 400 people left, and only one battalion of troops. I heard that Li Zihan was so angry."

Niu Sigen's expression frightened and said, "There is still this?"

Niu Yutang is Niu Sigen's cousin and said, "Brother, do you think Xu Shijiu will disband our group?"

Wang Fusheng also said: "The rank of the group, the 1 regiment and a battalion brought by Li Zihan from the Third War Zone are old. The brothers in our regiment are all natives from Longkou, and most of the brothers' families are in the occupied areas. If Xu Shijiu really wants to let these brothers go, then there will be few people left in our regiment. You may have to be the company commander at the regiment."

Niu Sigen's eyes became gloomy and he stared at the window without saying a word for a long time.

Niu Yutang whispered: "Brother, we have to think of a way quickly, we can't let Xu Shijiu do whatever he wants."

Wang Fusheng muttered: "What can I do? The first level of official position is to kill someone, Xu Shijiu is the commander."

Niu Yutang said: "How about you, brother, you cross Xu Shijiu and send a telegram to the chief department of the Third War Zone?"

Wang Fusheng said: "Nonsense, Xu Shijiu doesn't care about Gu Zhutong at all. Is it useless to ask for help from the Third War Zone?"

While the two were arguing, a guard's report suddenly sounded outside the regiment headquarters: "The regiment seat, the commander is here, there are still five miles away."

"What, Xu Shijiu is here now?" Wang Fusheng looked at the sky outside the window and found that it was almost dark. He muttered, "In fact, Xu Shijiu should come back tomorrow. He can't wait to come here now. Could it be that he discovered that we were in contact with Yan Sanquan's people in private?"

"No way?" Niu Yutang said, "The people from Yan Sanquan come to the evening and leave before dawn. Except for the three of us, there is no fourth person to know. How could Xu Shijiu know?"

"That's not sure, the Communist Party has developed a lot of spies in the league."

"If this is true, Xu Shijiu must have been asking for punishment. What should I do?"

"It's time to this point. Yu Qiang doesn't do it, and he can't stop. Yu Shijiu can get rid of Xu Shijiu."

"Okay, shut up." Niu Sigen was furious and shouted, "Let me follow my eyes later."

At that moment, Niu Sigen took Niu Yutang and Wang Fusheng came out of the station. Not long after waiting at the mountain pass, he saw Xu Shijiu coming from afar. There was not even a guard behind him. Niu Sigen turned around in surprise. Niu Yutang and Wang Fusheng also breathed a sigh of relief. Xu Shijiu came alone and would definitely not have come to seek punishment. It seems that the matter of contacting Yan Sanquan in private has not yet been revealed.

"Commander." When Xu Shijiu arrived, Niu Sigen quickly brought the two battalion commanders to the scene and salute.

Xu Shijiu replied, saying, "Old Niu, I want to talk to you alone."
Chapter completed!