Chapter 1 Returning to the main camp without any danger
Chapter 100: Returning to the camp without any danger
Next to the stream that meanders through the village, An Yi listened to the report from platoon leader Lu Xiong, and ordered Dong Yazi to bring a map and spread it out, and discussed with Huzi, several company officers, and instructors around the map.
Beard pointed at Shuangshan Mountain in the north and said: "If we set off at nine o'clock, we can climb the two mountain cols in the northeast before 1:30 noon. After completing this seven-kilometer mountain road, we can rest for an hour at the southern foot of Shuangshan Mountain before setting off.
After passing Shuangshan, you will find the main road, which is less than three kilometers away from the old town of Yanglousi. You can return to the main camp of our Second Division in an hour and a half.
According to the plan issued by the division headquarters before departure, the main force of our division should arrive at Yanglousi yesterday afternoon to rest and rest, but we don’t know where the division headquarters camp is located.”
"This is not a big problem. You sent two five-person investigation teams to rush to Yanglousi in advance. With the speed of a platoon of brothers, it only takes three hours to arrive with light equipment. Count on this time.
Seven hours should be enough. If we set off now, we can return to the southern foot of Shuangshan Mountain at noon to report the news to us.
What I'm worried about right now is that there may be a rout of troops along the way. According to the reconnaissance reports of Lu Xiong's several groups, there may be small groups of rout troops in no less than three areas along the way. It is estimated that these groups have endured several days and nights in the mountains.
The broken troops dare not attack our large group of troops, but we must be prepared. Brothers, please tell us, how to proceed is the most reasonable and safest way?" An Yi analyzed in detail and solicited everyone's opinions.
Everyone discussed for a while and decided that Huzi would lead the second company and the third platoon as the forward. After the second company deputy Cai Guangqing and instructor Mu Zhuiyi led the two platoons of the second company, An Yi led the second company's fourth platoon, the machine gun unit and the baggage train composed of newcomers.
Marching in the middle of the procession, other surrendered brothers were among them.
Seeing that An Yi was about to make a final decision, Huang Yingwu, the instructor of the first company, made a prompt suggestion: "Deputy Battalion Commander, everyone, I don't think there will be too many broken troops on the road ahead. It will most likely be a small mob of thirty or dozens of people gathered together.
, it is difficult for a large group of troops to be defeated like the 304 people of the 7th Mixed Brigade who arrived in the early morning. Moreover, most of these defeated troops are facing a desperate situation with no ammunition and food. Therefore, my subordinates have an idea. If they let their subordinates
Bringing a few veterans from the 6th and 7th Zhili Mixed Brigades and the 7th Hunan-Hubei Border Defense Regiment who surrendered in the past two days to walk in front, carrying a few big flags and shouting when they see any movement, maybe it can reduce a lot of trouble, those
When the desperate soldiers see their former brothers carrying banners and shouting, I am afraid there are not many who are unwilling to walk out of the mountains and join us, hehe!"
An Yi stood up happily: "What a good idea! Grandma's parrot, it's not in vain that Ji Nan introduced you to join the party and guaranteed that you would be promoted to warrant officer. You really have a good eye for people, haha! Brothers, listen, it doesn't matter whether this matter is successful or not.
No matter how effective it is, it is a very effective coping strategy at present. I will record it for the parrot first, and when I get back, I will write it in a special report and submit it to the division headquarters!"
Huang Yingwu was overjoyed and happily ran to select men and horses to prepare the flag as his brothers watched with envy.
Huzi said hello and went to arrange the reconnaissance mission. The other seven or eight company lieutenants, instructors and platoon leaders also returned to their respective units to prepare intensively.
An Yi came to the three hundred captive brothers who were well fed, drunk, and sleeping with their heads covered. He looked carefully and looked at the watch on his wrist, which was exactly seven o'clock. Then he signaled Dong Yazi and others to let these exhausted brothers sleep a little longer.
An Yi patrolled around and walked to the temporary cooking class at the bend of the stream. He saw Huang Yingwu holding a few flags and distressedly teaching a few new veteran ruffians:
"Look...look at it, it's in such a mess! These ten flags were all sewed stitch by stitch by dozens of villagers in Shuanggang Village yesterday morning. You grandsons are actually using them to wrap bacon.
?My God... I really admire you! You don’t have any political consciousness at all, how can I teach you... Do you understand the battle flag? The battle flag! Don’t you even have any sense of honor..."
An Yi held back his laughter and walked up to a group of veterans with their heads lowered: "Parrot, it doesn't matter if the flag is dirty. Let's hold it up first. Maybe others will see it and think our flag has been baptized by gunpowder smoke, haha! Time is limited.
, several brothers in the second platoon are waiting for you, quickly grab your men and set off, I asked Dong Yazi to prepare the flower machine gun for you, leave it to me here."
After hearing what An Yi said, Huang Yingwu had no choice but to leave quickly holding ten battle flags stained with oil and soot. He ran to the front and found bamboo poles with the seven or eight selected captive brothers and quickly propped them up. He looked up and saw in front of him.
The battle flag looked like it had been baptized by the flames of war. He smiled and was no longer angry. He shook his head and shouted to the brothers to walk to the front of the team.
At eight o'clock sharp, a sharp whistle sounded, and hundreds of brothers scrambled to their feet. Under the command of ten veteran acting platoon leaders selected from more than a dozen revolutionary army squad platoon leaders and prisoners, they walked down to the stream to wash up in an orderly manner.
, the cooking class of nearly a hundred people has prepared buckets of rice and pots of boiled diced pork.
Due to the severe shortage of bowls and chopsticks, the villagers had already cut down bamboo sections and split them in half to use as bowls. Thousands of thin bamboo branches were trimmed and turned into chopsticks. Although they were simple, they could ensure that six or seven hundred brothers could eat easily.
An Yi secretly gave the village elder ten oceans to buy salt as a small compensation for his brothers disturbing the villagers, which moved a group of simple and poor villagers deeply.
Hundreds of brothers had not finished breakfast when they saw a row of three sharp soldiers leading seventy or eighty beggar-like soldiers running in from the north entrance of the village.
An Yi quickly ordered the cooks to bring rice and meat quickly. He put down his rice bowl and led the temporary adjutant Dong Yazi and the new clerk Zeng Changgeng to stride towards them.
Unexpectedly, the defeated soldiers didn't even look at An Yi. They all surrounded the four or five cooking soldiers who were serving food. They took the wooden bucket and vegetable basin and put it on the ground, then grabbed it with their hands and stuffed it into their mouths. They didn't care about their own filth.
With their dirty hands and the scorching temperature of the food, everyone was scrambling around like hungry ghosts released from hell. They ignored the spilled meat and vegetables and even grabbed the meat and mud and stuffed it into their mouths. It was obvious to see
An Yi and hundreds of brothers were stunned and heartbroken.
After An Yi listened to the report of the three top soldiers, he waved them away, stopped the squad leaders who were about to teach them a lesson, and watched silently as seventy or eighty people wiped out four barrels of rice and two pots of meat.
Jing, after they gradually regained their senses, they stepped forward and asked:
"Brothers, can you talk to me first if you have something to eat? Don't worry, there is food, enough for you to eat, but we can't let you eat anymore, otherwise you will choke to death... Okay, if you want to join us
If you want to join our team, immediately put down your weapons and jump into the creek, wash your body and clothes, and then come back to assemble and report. If you don't want to join us, please leave immediately!"
Seventy or eighty brothers looked at each other for a moment, then they all dropped their guns and jumped into the waist-deep stream. They quickly washed their hair and took off their clothes and trousers. They didn't even care about being ashamed, and they all stripped naked.
An Yi nodded with satisfaction and called the acting platoon leader who was temporarily in charge of the cooking squad to whisper a few words. The veteran platoon leader from the 6th Mixed Brigade of the direct line nodded frequently and said that he would make arrangements immediately. Before leaving, he told An Yi: Be the first to jump in.
He knew the veteran in the stream. Like him, he was a fellow soldier of Tongbai and a member of the Sixth Mixed Brigade.
At 3:40 in the afternoon, the large group of people led by An Yi finally arrived at the southern foot of Shuangshan to camp, a full two and a half hours later than expected to arrive at 1 o'clock. The group of more than 800 people had increased to 1,300.
With more than 50 people, Huang Yingwu's action achieved brilliant results. He and seven or eight brothers kept shouting along the way. After hearing the sound, groups of hundreds of people and as few as five or six defeated soldiers ran out of the mountains and forests, causing the marching team to
It continued to expand, and it stopped again and again to appease and accept it, causing the marching speed to slow down greatly.
What excited An Yi and Huzi was that although the broken troops that had returned in half a day were no longer carrying as many light and heavy weapons as the three hundred broken troops who arrived in the early morning, they still had seven heavy machine guns and nine light machine guns.
The more than 500 defeated soldiers who joined one after another also retained more than 270 long and short guns. If all the defeated soldiers who surrendered were allowed to join their own troops, An Yi's engineer battalion could be upgraded to a super-organized light-duty weapon.
Infantry regiment.
Just when An Yi, Hu Hu and others were filled with joy, the reconnaissance team rushed to report: The two regiments of He Jian Division of the Eighth Army stationed at Shijiaqiao, two kilometers south of Yanglousi City, seemed to have discovered the whereabouts of our unit.
, is moving southward in a big way, and is currently less than 1.5 kilometers north of Shuangshan Village!
An Yi and Hu Hu were shocked. They immediately realized that the Eighth Army wanted to annex the group of defeated troops they had worked so hard to collect! Because at one o'clock at noon, five brothers led by Chen Kan, the deputy of the first company, successfully entered Yanglousi.
After finding the division headquarters camp, the two groups of brothers greeted the duty officer stationed in Shijiaqiao, He Jianshi, on the way back, and told him in more detail that their task force totaled about 900 people. He Jianshi
The changes in the two regiments at this time were definitely unsettling. They probably used the reason that they had not received any notification and the excuse of clearing out the remaining bandits to forcibly rob their own soldiers and the large number of weapons they had finally captured.
"Xiao Yi, you can't hesitate any longer. If it doesn't work, just retreat south temporarily. I will immediately send another group of brothers to the division headquarters to ask for help. The current situation is very critical. It is estimated that the spies sent by the other party have discovered the size and whereabouts of our team.
, they must have come prepared! Otherwise, how could there be two regiments dispatched at once?" Huzi suggested in a deep voice.
An Yi glanced at the Shuangshan Col, about 200 meters high to the north, and loudly ordered in an unquestionable and stern tone: "Brothers from the first and second companies, listen to me, take all the guys, and occupy the col of the mountain as quickly as possible."
The terrain, anyone who dares to rush up will be beaten hard by me!"
"yes!"
The brothers answered loudly and immediately took action. The brothers in the first and second platoons were the first to rush up the mountain road under the leadership of two stupid young platoon leaders, Lu Xiong and Qu Tongyuan.
An Yi turned to Beard: "Immediately lead your machine gun unit to carry all the light and heavy machine guns up, occupy the commanding heights and set them all up for me. Even if there are no bullets, I will scare these sons of bitches to death!"
"yes!"
Huzi ran towards the machine gun unit at the foot of the mountain. With a burst of shouting, dozens of brothers got up, loaded up twenty-four heavy machine guns and swarmed up.
An Yi rushed to a boulder and shouted to the thousands of panicked prisoners below: "Brothers, I worked so hard to bring you here from the mountains, and you can enter our camp just by climbing over this mountain."
, take a comfortable bath, put on clean clothes, eat a comfortable meal and sleep peacefully. I didn’t expect that someone wanted to round up more than a thousand of us and capture us again! Brothers, although I have only been with you for less than a day,
But I am confident that I can stand up to you and my own conscience! I will never let anyone bully my subordinates or capture my brothers. Whoever dares to take advantage of me will never come back! Now!
I would like to hear a word from my brothers, are you willing to follow me? Are you willing to share joys and sorrows with me? Are you willing to——"
"willing--"
"Okay! Brothers, you have put on the red belt. From now on, you are my brothers. We will show our blood in times of crisis. My brothers are definitely not cowards who can only run away! My brothers will survive in this troubled world.
Live an upright life here! Come with me—"
An Yi pulled out his pistol and fired three shots in a row. Thousands of brothers, who were so excited that they raised their red eyes and shouted in unison, rushed to the top of the mountain like locusts.
An Yi pointed his gun at Huang Yingwu: "Parrot, pick up our flag, follow behind me, and plant all the flags to the highest peak of Twin Mountains!"
"As commanded - brothers, pick up the battle flag and follow me -"
Huang Yingwu pulled out his shell gun, carried the big flag on the ground, and led nearly a hundred unarmed brothers to rush up the mountain col.
An Yi, who ran up the mountain col at an astonishing speed, quickly took a look at the brothers who had occupied nearly 200 meters of favorable terrain. He ran confidently towards Huzi between the two heavy machine guns, squatting next to him and observing attentively the thousands of officers and soldiers slowly approaching in the dark under the mountain.
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Hu Hu handed the binoculars to An Yi: "The number of attackers below is about 7,000, advancing in a fan shape without artillery. It seems they didn't expect us to have such a tough response. Look, it's about two o'clock to the right in front of us.
, there are a dozen officials standing on the bridge of Xiaoshi Bridge, observing us with telescopes, they seem to be arguing."
An Yi took the telescope and pointed it at the head of the stone bridge. He smiled and turned to the machine gun platoon leader Shi Junren beside him: "Old Shi, I want to warn those grandsons at the bottom of the mountain! Listen to me, you immediately order the brothers who have bullets to raise their heads.
The muzzle of the gun will be fired into the air at the first command, and it will not be allowed to stop until a bullet bag has been fired."
"As you command!"
The strong Shi Junren immediately stood up without hesitation and gave a loud order to the brothers who were manipulating more than 20 light and heavy machine guns on the left and right: "All the machine gun squadrons obey the order! Raise the muzzle 45 degrees... get ready... fire -
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"Da da da da..."
The dense fire of light and heavy machine guns shook the sky, and puffs of smoke rose from the mountain col that was more than 200 meters wide. The more than 7,000 officers and soldiers of He Jianshi who were approaching from the bottom of the mountain were so frightened that they immediately fell down. Officers from various departments only heard the intensive gunfire.
Not seeing the bullets flying, I immediately realized that this was a warning from the other side. Looking at the two mountains tilting at more than 40 degrees in front of me, I sighed helplessly, knowing that I could no longer climb up under such a dense blockade of light and heavy machine guns, but I didn't.
They were ordered not to retreat, so more than 7,000 people could only lie down on the pile of rocks at the foot of the mountain and wait anxiously.
The gunfire stopped and the smoke evaporated, everything returned to calm, and the two sides faced off silently for nearly ten minutes.
He Jian in Shiqiaotou heard a report from his subordinates: The Sixth Regiment of the Second Division stationed in the east of the city was fully armed and approaching quickly, followed by a large number of troops running to follow. The first six military trucks full of officers and soldiers had already crossed the checkpoint distance.
The headquarters is less than a kilometer away.
He Jian put down the telescope angrily, widened his eyes and ordered to retreat. He closed his thick lips tightly, adjusted the brim of his hat, led more than ten subordinates across the stone bridge, and met Liu She who had just jumped off the front of the truck.
He and Hu Shusen and others smiled apologetically:
"Oops! I misunderstood everything. Brother Jing Fu... It was really shocking to receive the information that a large group of enemy troops were attacking our army station. Brother, I immediately led two regiments under my command to come to fight. Who would have thought that if you take a closer look at the mountains,
After raising the flag, I realized that it was Brother Jingfu’s team. It was so surprising! Brother, I have already ordered a retreat, and our officers and soldiers are following the order. Fortunately, they clarified it in time and did not cause too much misunderstanding. Otherwise, brother, I would not be able to face Jingfu.
Brother and colleagues! Haha..."
Liu She also laughed: "What the hell! Don't blame those who don't know. Besides, everything Brother Yunqiao does is for the interests of the revolutionary army. Haha... It's also my fault that I didn't notify Brother Yunqiao in time, which led to this misunderstanding.
, please don’t mind, Brother Yunqiao!”
"Okay, in that case, let's ask Brother Jingfu to welcome back his team. From now on, our two armies need to communicate more, haha... I won't waste Brother Jingfu and everyone's time. The misunderstanding has been cleared, brothers.
I can go back and report to Commander Tang, so I’ll say goodbye for now!” He Jiangong cupped his hands and left with a smile.
Liu She and Hu Shusen also returned the gift cheerfully, watching He Jian and his subordinates riding away, turning to the 7,000 soldiers of the Eighth Army Corps who were retreating dejectedly. Liu She and others sighed helplessly.
Hui Dongsheng cursed angrily: "You're so damn bully. He thinks he's a local snake. He dares to bully our First Army. He also dares to shamelessly use the wrong intelligence to excuse us. If we hadn't heard that Shuangshan
Intensive gunfire came at full speed, and I don't know how He Jianpifu bullied An Yi's men."
"Forget it, you have been traveling north from Yueyang in the past few days. Haven't you learned enough about Tang Shengzhi's despicableness? Even the hundreds of remnant enemies in the encirclement of our second division were forcibly taken away by him on the pretext that they had surrendered to him in advance. Now,
The number of local armed and defecting troops collected has reached more than 35,000. This time, he saw that An Yi had gained so much. The prisoners were all veteran ruffians who had survived the catastrophe. Tang Shengzhi and his generals were salivating.
That’s weird! Fortunately, An Yi, the boy, was brave and knowledgeable. He took the lead to seize the favorable terrain and warned us and others with intensive gunfire, which made He Jian hit a big nail. However, he made excuses and we were helpless. At this time, everyone
At a time when we are seeking common ground while reserving differences and going all out for the Northern Expedition, even if we report it to the Commander-in-Chief, nothing will happen in the end. Just bear with it!" The rational Hu Shusen whispered to comfort the angry generals around him.
Liu She sighed, pointed to An Yi's troops in front of him who was descending the mountain, and said loudly: "Everyone, let's go and greet An Yi first. Unexpectedly, our small tentative decision was to let An Yi lead his two hundred engineers to lead us.
To achieve such a harvest, if I hadn’t heard the unusually dense gunshots, I really couldn’t believe that he could have brought back thousands of people and captured dozens of light and heavy machine guns. A lot of things must have happened in the past few days, and it was hard for him!”
Liu Zhi led a group of generals of the Second Division towards the foot of the mountain. From a distance, he saw the fiery red flag at the top. The flag with six dazzling characters "First Army, Second Division" was fluttering in the sunset...