Chapter 823: The floating bridge built with shoulders
Pi County has been a battle site since ancient times. The most famous ones are naturally the battles between Cao Cao Group, Liu Bei Group and Lu Bu Group during the Three Kingdoms period. The situation is similar now. The Japanese occupied the county town, Longhai Road, and villages and towns along the highway.
A pseudo-rule was established, and the county government withdrew to the southwest of Longhai Road to fight guerrillas, and the Eighth Route Army bases were located in the north and south of the transportation line. In this way, there were three regimes in Pi County.
The people in the Eighth Route Army base have a better life. They don’t have to pay money except for paying public grain and supporting the front. The Eighth Route Army has good policies, and those who join the army will be treated preferentially. Those who are militia can participate in training and learn culture. Other fellow villagers can participate in the support.
Before, people could be regarded and respected for their contributions to the anti-Japanese war. Sometimes they could also be divided into the Eighth Route Army to seize the spoils of the Japanese army. If the troops lived in the homes of ordinary people, then the people in this family would be blessed. At least someone would sweep the yard and water.
The jar is always full and sometimes it can help with farm work.
There is no need to mention the common people in the Japanese and puppet-occupied areas. The Japanese and puppet troops also have to eat. They will come out to sweep the raids, grab grain, and grab money. Often, two Japanese soldiers carried guns to the village to look for the flower girl.
When they arrived, they shot and set fire to the house. Especially in the villages and towns where the Japanese and puppet army strongholds were stationed, the Japanese often called the maintenance president in the village and asked him to find flower girls for the imperial army and find food. Needless to say, chicken, duck, fish and meat
The Imperial Army is very fond of. Anyone who maintains the president will be called to the Japanese and puppet troops to the base for a lecture. At the very least, they will be scolded, and at the worst, they will be beaten up. The presidents will all
I complained, let alone the common people.
The people in the guerrilla base of the *** County Government are not having a good time. They have to pay grain and pay money. After all, whether it is government agencies, military or militia, they all have to eat.
The saddest thing is naturally the area occupied by the puppet army, where the intersection with the *** regime, the food is paid over and over again. The Japanese army collected it because of the puppet army, the *** army collected it because of the standing team, and the militia was collected. Anyway, everyone wants it.
If you give it, you won’t be able to give it, unless you don’t want to live anymore.
After lunch on August 15, Mrs. Zou Qi took out the mule, put it on the stone mill, covered the mule's eyes with an eye mask, and started shouting to grind the noodles with a livestock.
This stone mill was chiseled by Zou Qisao when she got married. She asked Wang Shimama in the village to engrave it. There were two millstones on top and bottom. There were three stone caves in the middle. The stone cave in the middle was a fixed function so that the millstone was allowed to be fixed.
Two round stones can rotate relative to each other. The other two holes are called grinding eyes. The grain is poured on the grinding wheel on the top and enters the stone mill through the grinding eyes. It is run-in through the grooves chiseled on the upper and lower grinding wheels. Wheat, corn
, sorghum turns into flour.
Zou Qisao shouted that the mule had started grinding the noodles and was not idle. She brought the big sash, put the rolling pin in the sash, and started using the sash noodles. Zou Qisao often did this job when she was a girl. Women in this area
There are two things all day long: grinding noodles and spreading pancakes.
At this time, there was no irrigated land in Pi County, and it was all dry land. The main grains were wheat, corn, sorghum, and sweet potatoes. Wheat was a cash crop and was mainly used for money exchange. Although sorghum yield was not high, it was not nutritious and was unpalatable, but it was difficult to eat.
It grows well, and it is already more than ten feet high at this time, like a green gauze tent. The most important thing is that the sorghum poles can still solve the problem of firewood burning among farmers after harvesting, so it is very common.
In the past, there were many bandits because there was no mountainous area to rely on. The bandits were hiding in the sorghum field. They could attack everywhere by building a shack, blocking the road and robbing, and doing everything. Of course, bandits based on the sorghum shack are also different from Shandong Xiangma.
, Northeast beards and Henan swordsmen, they seem not that strong and timid. They often commit crimes outside, and they have to pretend to be true when they return to the local area. They are very kind, just like what the people say is not eating grass by their nests.
The methods are basically limited to small-scale fights such as kidnapping and ransoms. Like the Shandong bandits who kidnap foreigners and go to war with regular troops, the bandits in this place don’t have the courage to do it.
After grinding the noodles, Zou Qisao unloaded the mule, took it to the livestock to feed it, and then went to scoo up water to wash her hands and started spreading pancakes. What she grinded today was wheat, snow-white white flour, which she usually couldn't bear to eat, but only during the Chinese New Year
I only had a little food. However, the district cadres informed that there were wounded soldiers in the Eighth Route Army, and they mobilized fellow villagers to spread pancakes and comforted the wounded comrades. Zou Qisao, the female militia captain, took the lead in baking white flour pancakes.
Zou Qisao's parents-in-law was killed by the Japanese army when the Japanese army launched the Xuzhou Battle. After the Eighth Route Army arrived in Shandong, Zou Qisao sent the man to be the Eighth Route Army without saying a word. She joined the army under Commander Hong of the Eighth Route Army in the Lunan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. She was the fifth.
The Reconnaissance Company of the Brigade and Tourism Department passed by the village on a mission two days ago, and went home. He sent back the surplus allowance and rewards after making meritorious contributions to supplement the family income.
When I think of the man, a hint of shyness appeared on my face. I have been married for seven or eight years. My children can add materials to the mule, and the men are also the Eighth Route Army. When I see myself, I still look like a young man, with furry hands and feet.
, I was anxious. In just a moment, the man coaxed the child out to play and carried himself to the bed to make out. Zou Qi's wife was so embarrassed that she was burning with her face. She gritted her teeth and did not dare to speak, for fear that someone would hear it.
dead.
The man left and took away Zou Qisao's soul. She thought that the Eighth Route Army was good and could train people. Her man turned out to be a honest knot, and three whips could not make a loud fart. This time, she became the Eighth Route Army, and she seemed to have changed.
It looks much better in military uniform, and he looks much better and more energetic. What makes Zou Qisao most satisfied is that the man actually reads, knows how to settle accounts, and speaks reasonably. Every time he goes home, he asks her to take good care of her
The child was a militia and participated in the anti-Japanese work. So, Zou Qisao not only became a female militia but also a female militia captain.
When Zou Qisao thought about the man, she was worried. She didn't know if the troops would fight recently and whether the men would be in danger. As she thought about it, her mind became confused and she couldn't do it anymore. So she simply got up and went to see it at the village entrance.
My son, who was checking the road with a red tassel gun, then went home and started to spread pancakes.
Zou Qisao first mixed the dough with water to make a batter, then took a bulge in the middle, drooping around, with three legs, and a pig iron casting glass with a diameter of about half a meter, and made a fire. When the glass gets hot, use
Scoop a spoonful of white batter on the spoon, pour it on the scallop, take out the "split", which is a pick made of bamboo. Swipe it gently on the scallop, spread the batter evenly. It only takes only one minute
In time, the pancakes on the glass will be cooked.
Mrs. Zou Qi took off the pancakes, then added firewood to heat them up with one hand, and scooped the batter with the other hand, spread the pancakes and lifted the pancakes. She was very skillful in the movements.
Before dinner, Zou Qisao finally finished baking pancakes, called her son to come back to have a meal, let the child sleep, and added fodder to the mule, so she went out to gather the female militia to prepare to deliver pancakes to the area.
A group of girls and wives gathered together. Although they were militias and had certain discipline, they were chattering and talking nonstop before the gathering.
There are two main reasons why Zou Qisao is able to be the female militia captain. One is that her man is the first to be an Eighth Route Army in the village, and the other is that her father was a hunter with good shooting skills. She can also shoot. It is said that she is very accurate.
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Zou Qisao asked the female militia to stand in line and began to count. There were 23 female militiamen in total, many of them. Everyone was carrying a pancake basket, some were carrying rifles on their backs, and some were holding red tassel guns.
Just as Zou Qisao was about to lead the sisters to set off, he saw the district team entering the village. When Lao Wu saw Zou Qisao, he shouted: "Zou Qisao, the task has changed, and the pancakes are not delivered to the village. Where is the village chief? Get ready quickly
, men build pontoon bridges, women organize stretchers, and the troops want to fight."
Mrs. Zou Qi asked, "Wu***, what should I do with this pancake?"
Lao Wu waved his hand: "Bring it with you and let the troops eat when they retreat!"
When Zou Qisao heard this, she turned around and shouted to her sister: "Did you hear it clearly? Go back and tell her family that the troops were going to fight. The men carried wooden boards, rafters, ropes, and went to build pontoon bridges. The women tied stretchers and followed the district team!
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After saying that, Zou Qisao led Lao Wu to find the village chief Dazhu.
It was not long before the whole village was mobilized. The men carried rafters and wooden boards, and the women took stretchers and pancakes, and then set off behind the district team.
As soon as she set out on the road, Zou Qisao discovered that there were so many people, just like singing a big show. People from all nearby villages came, and it turned out that they were going to fight a big battle.
Zou Qisao's surprise was still behind. After they walked about a meal, the sky became completely dark. Suddenly, like thunder, there was a violent sound of cannons, and the earth was trembling.
Mrs. Zou Qi couldn't help but murmured to himself: "God, when did the Eighth Route Army troops come here? Why is there no news at all?"
At this moment, an Eighth Route Army reinforcement unit rushed out of the slant. When he looked at the armband, he knew that it was Commander Hong's team and his men's team.
Mrs. Zou Qi hurried over, pulled a company commander and asked, "Did you see Zou Qi? He is my man."
When the company commander saw Zou Qisao, he smiled and said, "You are the famous female militia captain Zou Qisao? Zou Qi is no longer called Zou Qi, but Zou Xinsheng. He is from the reconnaissance company and must be carrying out missions. I saw him
Just tell him that his wife missed him and came to find him."
This made Zou Qi's face flushed when his sister-in-law said, and she quickly took out the pancakes from the pancake basket and stuffed them into the company commander's hand. The company commander smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, please take them first, and wait until I come back to fight the Japanese.
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Mrs. Zou Qi had to stand aside and make way for the troops and watch the soldiers running towards the firecrackers.
Suddenly, the team stopped in front. Zou Qisao led her female militia team and ran over, wanting to see what was going on.
When I went to the front, I found that this place was a river. The Eighth Route Army's carts transporting shells were passing on the floating bridge built by the troops. The troops had to stop and make way for the ammunition trucks.
The cannons in front were rumbling, and the Eighth Route Army soldiers were so anxious that they jumped straight.
As soon as Mrs. Zou Qi saw it, she told Lao Wu that the river was not deep, and it could reach her chest. She could build a floating bridge that could be walked through the troops quickly.
Lao Wu said that it is OK, but the key is that it is too late.
The Eighth Route Army next to him had sent people to the water, and it seemed that they wanted to test the hike and wade on foot.
Zou Qi's wife bit her teeth, put the pancake basket on the ground, and shouted loudly: "Sisters, don't let the soldiers charge in wet clothes, as they won't be able to run. We went into the water, lifted the wooden board with our shoulders, and built bridges for the troops!
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After saying that, he jumped into the water!
When Lao Wu saw this, he shouted "Sister Zou Qi, good," and ordered the district team and the militiamen of various villages to go into the water, lift the wooden boards, and use his shoulders to make a floating bridge to allow the troops to pass.
The rivers in northern Jiangsu are not wide, and the district squads and militia are standing in two rows in the river, carrying wooden boards on their shoulders, and building a manpower pontoon bridge.
Agile figures stepped onto the floating bridge, and the footsteps hit the hearts of the militiamen carrying wooden boards in the water, and also hit the hearts of the Eighth Route Army soldiers passing through the floating bridge. The Eighth Route Army soldiers were moved by tears,
He shouted "My fellow villagers, wait for news of victory", and rushed along the floating bridge and crossed the river toward the front line.
After all, Zou Qisao and the others are women. At first, they just felt that every time they stepped on their shoulders, their bodies would shake. Later, they felt the pain that became more and more painful, and the pain caused tears to burst into tears in their eyes. Zou Qisao kept on
Pleasing the sisters: "Hold on, it's almost over."
When an Eighth Route Army with more than 500 people in a battalion stepped on Zou Qisao and the others' shoulders and stepped onto the land on the other side, Zou Qisao and his wife swayed and fell into the water. Immediately afterwards, all the female militiamen poured into the water. Lao Wu and the others
He came to save the people quickly, carried Zou Qisao and the female militia ashore, let them lie on the stretcher and rest for a while, and slowly calmed down.
By the time Zou Qisao recovered, Lao Wu had already led the district team and other stretcher teams across the river to the front line. The district mayor was directing the man to build a floating bridge. It seemed that five floating bridges were being built at the same time, all of which were being constructed at the same time.
Mrs. Zou Qi looked at her sisters, and her bodies were wet and everyone seemed listless. As she looked at her, Mrs. Zou Qi smiled: "Sisters, we are like men, and we are going to the river to take a shower!"
After saying this, the female militia all lowered their heads and burst into laughter.
After laughing, Zou Qisao led her sisters out again. They were stretchers and had to go to the front line to carry the wounded. You know, a pair of stretchers might save one more life, but they were all men, so they were undecided.
There is also a passionate woman at home who is worried about her like herself!
Zou Qisao did not expect that her actions would later spread throughout the Eighth Route Army troops. Commander Liu Yimin and Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan personally presented her with medals, had cordial conversations with her, and took photos. In the days that followed, from the Yimeng Mountains to the North China Plain and the Su-An Plain
There have been many stories of human pontoon bridges. The people in the base area raised the passage of the people's army with their shoulders and used a wheelbarrow to launch the victory of the people's war.
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