On the newly built Wangjiang Tower in Gancheng, western Hunan, cups and cups were intertwined and laughter was loud. More than 20 military and political officials from western Hunan, headed by Zhang Hongluan, all attended the grand reception banquet. The eleven members of the visiting delegation led by An Yi were pulled separately Around the five large tables, even Lin Yaodong, the captain of An Yi's bodyguard, was pulled to the wine table by Liu Qingrong, his old brother from the Intelligence Section of the Independent Division and now the Major General Director of the 44th Military Aircraft Division, and they were drunk on him endlessly.
An Yi and Gu Changfeng beside him were also drunk and confused. At nine o'clock in the morning, they flew to Qiancheng Airport. Zhang Hongluan led more than a hundred civil and military formations to greet them. After reviewing the training regiment of the security force and the officers and men of the Second Air Regiment of the aviation force stationed at the airport, they arrived directly. He was dragged to Wangjiang Tower by Sanjiangkou, where he drank until three o'clock in the afternoon. The hosts still had no intention of leaving. An Yi begged for mercy twice, but Zhang Hongluan and his chief of staff Zeng Yaokun pretended not to hear them.
When An Yi was begging for mercy for the third time, the new confidential adjutant Liang Ziyan arrived quietly and whispered in An Yi's ear. After hearing this, An Yi, who was in a daze, suddenly darkened his face:
"Ziyan, ask Dai Zhengliang for me if your grandson is a member of the special forces of our Anjia Army."
The tall and handsome Liang Ziyan was stunned for a moment: "Commander, is that what you're asking?"
"Just ask, don't change a word. Dai Zhengliang is not a scholar, so why is he so elegant?" An Yi waved his hand and ignored it.
"yes!"
The young newly promoted captain turned and left.
Gu Changfeng frowned and looked at An Yi. Zhang Hongluan and others knew that it must not be a trivial matter, otherwise An Yi's confidential lieutenant would not come up to disturb him at this time, and An Yi, who had experienced great storms, would not be so downcast, his eyes There was still a hint of anger flashing in it.
Under Zhang Hongluan's concerned inquiry, An Yi did not hide anything and told the general meaning of Dai Zhengliang's content. Afterwards, he was quite annoyed:
"The British are not good people. In recent years, they have been inciting indigenous rebels in Sichuan and Tibet to subvert our local government. A McMahon Line has been drawn from our southern Tibet to southern Yunnan, drawing out a large area of China. Not to mention, they have repeatedly provoked troubles at the border in the past few years, destroyed a large number of boundary markers erected in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and forced our border residents to retreat. During this time, they seem to be getting more and more arrogant. The leased Southern Yunnan Reclamation Zone was not spared either. The officers of the British army stationed in Lashio led the indigenous troops of the Burmese puppet government to cross the border many times and beat and killed our border residents. It was probably because the British saw the little Japanese occupying the Northeast. After that, everything was fine, but they want to follow the same pattern from the other side and invade our country. I can't spare them this time, and I don't want to slap him in the face. I'm afraid he won't have a long memory."
Zeng Yaokun, Zhang Hongluan's chief of staff, asked worriedly: "Brother An, do you want to discuss this matter with Yi Gong (Zhu Peide) first? Diplomacy is no small matter. If you don't get it right, it may cause trouble in Nanjing."
An Yi replied with some embarrassment: "Southern Yunnan does not belong to Uncle De now. It is rented by the juniors who paid for it. It is too late to hide it after being beaten by outsiders. How can you have the nerve to cry to Uncle De?"
Everyone heard what was interesting and burst into laughter. After Zhang Hongluan laughed, he said to Zeng Yaokun next to him:
"Third brother, don't worry. The Japanese haven't been able to get any benefits from Nephew An Xian, let alone the British, who are in decline. Let's just wait and see the good show. Brother Yu is still eager to make things bigger. , it’s also a good idea to let the young people under our command go to southern Yunnan to practice. If we don’t fight for a long time, the soldiers will not see blood, and we will not be able to guarantee the combat effectiveness of the army!"
Gu Changfeng grinned brightly and gave Zhang Hongluan a thumbs up: "Uncle Luan, my nephew is impressed by you!"
Everyone couldn't help but smile. Zhang Hongluan raised his glass and shouted to drink. When An Yi heard this, he couldn't help but frowned again and begged for mercy: "Why are you still drinking..."
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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the second regiment commander took a telegram and hurried into the lobby of the Menglian Xuanfu Division. He handed it to the commander Dai Zhengliang, who was having tea and discussing with a group of gang leaders. He stood aside and did not dare to move. Party representative Ma Yuanjiang told him to sit down.
He didn't dare either. He behaved himself and had an extremely serious expression on his face.
Dai Zhengliang turned to Ma Yuanjiang: "Yuanjiang, you are highly educated, what do you mean by this, Commander? Are you angry with us?"
Ma Yuanjiang quickly took the message and was shocked when he saw the message that only said "Dai Zhengliang, your grandson is from our Anjia Army special forces". He had received messages from An Yi several times, but not once
It was so vulgar and straightforward. After thinking about it carefully, I immediately understood what An Yi meant. He approached the worried Dai Zhengliang and explained in a low voice:
"Yes, it seems that the commander is really angry this time. He probably blames us for not launching tit-for-tat retaliation. Think about it, sir, when has our Anjia army suffered such hidden losses since it started in the model camp? Especially especially
Have our special forces, from the beginning of the independent division to the present, ever suffered from such cowardice?"
"Yes, yes! If I had known this, we should have written our revenge plan directly at the end of the telegram." Dai Zhengliang was filled with regret.
Ma Yuanjiang quickly comforted: "Don't worry, sir. The commander must have seen what we meant, otherwise he wouldn't have said a word. And here... I asked you if you are a special forces soldier. It is obvious that he told us to use special operations.
To retaliate against the British, if I understand correctly, there is another meaning in the commander's words, which is to do it quietly."
Dai Zhengliang patted Ma Yuanjiang's shoulder with admiration, laughed and stood up immediately: "Yuanjiang, you have been looking after the house these two days! I'll go there in person. Yan Zilin's grandsons are complaining every day that they are going to be bad. This time I'm in trouble.
Let’s see how capable they are.”
"Old man, as long as you dare to go, I will immediately send a telegram to the Political Department and the General, and also forward it to the Military Justice Department. You know the temper of Director Cheng Mingze."
After Ma Yuanjiang finished speaking, he stood up, turned to the surprised leaders, showed a friendly smile, and regardless of Dai Zhengliang's reaction, the enemies said sincerely:
"Seniors, let's talk about this for now. Anyway, the matter of organizing the self-defense forces of each village cannot be rushed for a while. You seniors also need time to go back and discuss it with the villagers in the clan... I think he is seriously injured.
The brothers should stay with us for treatment slowly. Please take the dead brothers back and bury them properly. Our army will step up patrols in the past few days, and we will dispatch two medical teams from Simao to each village to have a look.
If you have any questions, you can tell us at any time. If any village has negotiated, it will send brothers who are willing to carry guns to protect their fathers and fellow villagers. We will definitely teach these brave brothers how to use guns within a month.
After a month, we will send several guns and bullets to every village that sends people here for training."
The leaders immediately stood up, clasped their hands to express their gratitude, and respectfully thanked Ma Yuanjiang and other officers one by one. After exchanging pleasantries for a long time, they left the hall, leaving the wives, children, and family members of the injured to take care of them. They called for their young men, lifted up the dead, and gathered in groups.
The team members returned to their respective villages and had to walk dozens of meters before they dared to cry loudly, which made Dai Zhengliang, Ma Yuanjiang and the soldiers seeing them off extremely sad.
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At two o'clock in the morning, sixty-five elite members of the first detachment of the special brigade of the security force under the Simao Reclamation Area Office, led by brigade captain Yan Zilin, arrived quickly.
At three o'clock in the morning, two seven-man reconnaissance teams carried heavy individual radios and auxiliary batteries weighing 12 kilograms on their backs, quietly left the silent town, and headed respectively to the border town of Laogao Village in the south and Zhongzhong in the west.
The small port on the Burmese Tea Horse Road is called Meng A Mo.
Just after 7 o'clock in the morning, a reinforced platoon of more than 50 officers and soldiers from the Myanmar government army, under the command of two British officers, appeared again in Kapok Ridge, south of Laogao Village.
The short, dark-skinned Burmese army wearing crisp yellow uniforms, led by two Burmese army leaders, divided into two small groups and entered Laogao Village aggressively along the west bank of the Nanlei River.
After a while, the sound of chickens and dogs jumping and the cries of women could be heard in the village. The only four cows and 11 inferior draft horses in the Laogao Village of more than 60 Dai families were quickly taken away.
In the Laogao Village of more than 400 people, no villager dared to resist except for the mournful wails.
The two British commanders on Kapok Ridge raised their telescopes and examined them carefully. They talked loudly to each other from time to time and laughed with satisfaction.
In the dense forest on the east bank of the Nanlei River, the seven brothers of the reconnaissance team saw everything clearly through their own telescopes. The team leader and the sniper never left their telescopes.
Two British officers with pistols.
"Wei Tou, look, what are the military ranks of those two foreign devils?"
The sniper wearing a special camouflage uniform turned his head and asked in a low voice.
"I don't know for sure, but judging from the fact that there is only one battalion of British troops in Lashio, I guess the rank of these two foreign devils is not as high as mine, and they are only lieutenants at most."
Team leader Wei Changhui continued to observe without moving, but his words were full of pride and confidence.
It’s no wonder that in the entire South Yunnan Special Forces Brigade, only one of the veteran squad leaders is a major, and most of the others are lieutenants. If he hadn’t made several mistakes in his life style and was regarded as a model of severe punishment by the Military Justice Department, I am afraid that this Wei Changhui
He is already the lieutenant colonel and deputy captain of a special special brigade of a division of the 24th Army.
The young signal soldier with a camouflage face quietly moved behind Wei Changhui, looked at the two British officers more than 400 meters away on the other side, and asked in a low voice:
"Tou Wei, do you want to send a report for instructions? Or we can do it alone. The total number of enemies is only fifty-seven."
Wei Changhui put away his telescope and retreated into the dense grass: "Don't worry, let's follow these beasts from a distance later to see if they return to the Mengbao military camp or go to Mare Town in the west. It's not easy for us to go out.
, the target of cattle and horses is too big to take back, but at least we have to take back these more than fifty guns and more than fifty heads, otherwise the acting commander will have to twist off our heads.
"One more thing, we can't guarantee that gunfire won't sound if we do it alone, and several teams are following us. There is also a second team that went out with us to conduct reconnaissance to the west. If we do it alone, none of us can think about safety when we return.
One day, the brothers were so angry that they started to take revenge, and we didn’t even know when the seven members of our team would end up in the field hospital.”
The signal soldier couldn't help but stick out his tongue. He thought of Dai Zhengliang's murderous eyes before setting off and the fierce competition among the brothers in the brigade. He couldn't help but feel chills running down his spine and his hair standing on end. Dai Zhengliang and his Miao doctor who played with poisonous spiders, snakes and scorpions all day long.
Just like my wife, he is a cold-blooded devil that no one in the entire Anjia Army special forces dares to offend.
After a barbaric robbery, the Burmese army and the British who returned home with their loads never imagined that their every move would be watched closely by pairs of cold eyes. They were all happily discussing the fatness and size of the robbed cattle and horses, without caring at all.
After taking away these cattle and horses, the entire Dai town also lost its most important means of production. In order to survive, every woman, child, and child had to use their shoulders to pull rough ropes, pull iron plows, and carry bundles of cattle.