Starting after lunch, the two horizontal and two vertical streets of the old county town were full of revolutionary officers and soldiers. These officers and soldiers, who strictly observed military discipline and had kind faces, led by their respective commanders to clean the streets, remove obstacles and remove silt. More than 18,000 soldiers
As the people watched in amazement, they began the "Model Camp" always adhered to the activities of "loving and caring for the people wherever they go".
On the left side of the county government gate, a platoon of more than thirty engineers, under the command of Captain Huang Yingwu, the instructor of the first battalion, successfully erected three eight-meter-high straight cypress flagpoles neatly. After filling the foundation piles with mud and rocks and compacting them, they
Two broad military flags and a huge party flag were tied tightly to the hemp ropes on the flagpole, and the three flags were slowly raised to the top of the flagpole amid the solemn salutes of the officers and soldiers.
The raising of the flag means that this place has become a stronghold of the party and army, and it has a solemnity and majesty that is different from the past.
As soon as the flag was raised, two small policemen came to the notice board on the right side of the county government gate and skillfully pasted a large seal with the seal of the National Revolutionary Army's Second Division's Supplementary Regiment and signed An Yi's name.
After seeing the notice, Huang Yingwu took his adjutant and took a closer look. The content on the "pardon notice" made him laugh with joy. He muttered, "The boss is really going to be promoted to court!" He ordered his brothers who had finished the work to return to the camp in the west of the city, and he took it with him.
Adjutant Lehaha walked into the county government office and prepared to cooperate with An Yi in the trial.
When the residents saw the notice posted, they slowly rushed forward. One of the policemen stood on the stone pier in the corner of the notice and read the content of the notice loudly, "Pardon all political prisoners, criminals under five years old, and lenient trials for those over five years."
The news of "criminal" immediately took wings and flew to the streets and alleys of the old county town, and then spread to all the towns and villages.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, there were groups of revolutionary officers and soldiers with guns and ammunition standing inside and outside the lobby of the county government, as well as hundreds of curious people and relatives and friends of the prisoner. People walked into the four open government doors cautiously, under the vigilant gaze of the officers and soldiers on guard.
, walked nervously through the large courtyard, gathered at the steps in front of the lobby and looked up at the large and solemn lobby, not daring to take a step forward again.
After a while, a kind and gentle-looking officer wearing black-rimmed myopic glasses came to the high platform and loudly announced that the village elders, representatives of the people and people of insight could come in and sit and listen.
The people at the foot of the steps were suddenly surprised and chattering, and the noise was loud. The two courageous elementary school teachers and a few elderly people immediately climbed up the steps, politely greeted the officer who announced the news, and were immediately ushered into the lobby.
On the high platform, An Yi casually put down a file, complaining in his heart. Although these hundreds of files were simple cases carefully selected by Chao Guoqing, An Yi still felt a headache. He and Yin Jinan and Hu Hu, who were sitting on both sides, did not know what to say.
He said something that made the two of them grin. Yin Jinan put down the file in his hand and whispered a few words. An Yi and Hu Hu nodded frequently, seeming to have made up their minds.
On the lower right side of the dais, Police Chief Chao Guoqing and Gu Laoer were sitting behind a large table chatting in low voices. Behind the large table on the lower left side of the dais were Quartermaster Shi Lejun, who was in charge of recording, and Communications Company Commander Zhan Huanqi, both of whom were also chatting in low voices.
.There are two rows of chairs on the left and rear sides of the middle of the lobby for the gentry, celebrities, and people's representatives to sit. Behind the two rows of chairs stood neatly the brothers of the two squads of security companies. Although these brothers who have been through war and killed without blinking an eye, they have relaxed expressions and keep their mouths shut.
He didn't say anything, but the murderous aura faintly exuded from his body filled the entire tall and wide hall with a solemn and murderous atmosphere.
As the herald Huang Yingwu shouted, the inside and outside of Datong suddenly became quiet. Yin Jinan stood up and said a few words on the court, and then read out more than fifty names in succession. The police and security company officers who had been prepared were working in pairs.
, the prisoners were brought into the lobby one by one from the passage on the left side of the lobby. Yin Jinan asked Ming the name of the prisoner in the audience. After Chao Guoqing verified that it was correct, he immediately announced his innocence and acquittal.
In less than half an hour, fifty-seven prisoners bowed with tears of gratitude and left shouting "Master Qingtian". Some of them even knelt down and kowtowed before wiping away tears and leaving. All of them were in ragged clothes and withered.
Weakly ran out of the door to call for relatives and friends, hugged his wife, children and children and cried loudly, which made An Yi and Hu Zi on the stage sigh.
After the fifty-seven people who were unjustly accused or who were exploited and framed for just making small mistakes left, the difficult case fell into An Yi's hands. Since Yin Jinan repeatedly stated that out of caution, the chief officer must announce the release, An Yi
I had to pick up the list and loudly ordered "bring it up." Eleven Communist Party members and people from the Peasants' Association and the Women's Association were politely introduced into the lobby.
These eleven people were completely different from the group just now. They all held their heads high and were fearless. They silently walked to the center of the lobby and lined up in two rows. They raised their heads and looked quietly at An Yi, Yin Jinan and Hu Hu above them.
An Yi stood up and motioned to the young policeman standing aside to take a sack in front of the eleven people and put it down. He turned to the people in the audience and said kindly:
"Everyone has suffered! Files retrieved from the county government controlled by the warlords show that none of you are from this county. Almost all of you are comrades from the Communist Party and peasant associations in counties in western Jiangxi and eastern Hunan. They were transferred and imprisoned here.
It's a coincidence. Go back and take these records and files with you. There are your items that were confiscated in the sack, as well as some money given by the headquarters. It's not respectful."
The eleven people in the audience looked at each other in surprise for a moment. A middle-aged man in his mid-thirties standing in the middle of the back row took two steps forward and asked excitedly:
"What's your surname, comrade? Which army do you belong to?"
"My name is An Yi, National Revolutionary Army..."
"Chief An! Chief An of the Model Camp...don't you remember me? I am Lao Fang from the Liuyang County Farmers' Association! Xiao Yin, do you still know me?" the middle-aged man shouted excitedly.
An Yi was shocked. He quickly walked down the platform and came to the middle-aged man to look at him carefully. After a while, he smiled apologetically and said: "I'm sorry, Brother Fang. On the day when I entered Jiangxi and passed the dock of Liuyang County, my younger brother did not get off the ship due to injury.
Several company commanders from the battalion went down to thank you, so I couldn’t recognize you for a moment, please forgive me...Jinan?"
Yin Jinan, who had already arrived at An Yi's side, shook hands with Lao Fang warmly: "We know each other, of course we do! Oh... Brother Fang is so disheveled and black-faced that I didn't notice it for a moment. I didn't expect to meet here. What a surprise!"
Captain Huang Yingwu——"
"arrive!"
Huang Yingwu strode over.
Yin Jinan warned: "This is Comrade Fang, the old commander of the Red Guard Brigade of Liuyang County. We passed through Liuyang a few months ago, and you came ashore with me. Didn't you forget? There are more than 300 brothers from Liuyang County in the Fourth Regiment of our division.
I joined the army at that time and was very brave in several battles. Many brothers died. We are sorry to the folks! Go quickly and take Lao Fang and the comrades to the backyard to wash and rest. Let the cooking team prepare a table of meals immediately, and then tell Lao Fang
He is often asked to go out and buy some clothes, shoes and hats for the comrades to put on when he comes back...Brother Fang, everyone, please go down and rest for a while, and then we can have a good chat with you after we have released all those who have been wronged."
"Thank you Xiao Yin, thank you Captain An! On behalf of the Xiangdong Party Committee, Liuyang Party Branch and fellow villagers, thank you!" Lao Fang thanked you gratefully and led his comrades to follow Huang Yingwu to the backyard.
An Yi secretly sighed and returned to the high platform with Yin Jinan.
An Yi, who was worried, handed over the following 30 cases of injuries and injuries caused by fights over mountain and forest boundaries to Yin Jinan. He was not in the mood to pay attention to the representatives and village elders who were listening in the auditorium. He turned to Huzi and whispered.
Huzi nodded repeatedly, but his eyes were fixed on the two teachers who left their seats in the hall. After a second thought, he realized that these two people were here specifically for Lao Fang and his group.
The more than 30 prisoners in the hall were strictly ordered by Yin Jinan to pay compensation to the injured. He also warned everyone that the party committee of his headquarters would go to inspect within five days. If they did not pay compensation, they would be severely punished. Then the more than 30 people were released in the hall, and the judgment was strict and fair.
It won bursts of cheers and applause from the people inside and outside the lobby.
Police Chief Chao Guoqing saw the opportunity and stood up, saluted Yin Jinan, turned to everyone and announced loudly: "This ends the trial today. The trial will continue at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon!"
Hundreds of people, more than ten village elders and representatives from all walks of life returned satisfied with the gifts given by An Yi and others. When they returned to the compound, An Yi and Chao Guoqing discussed a few words in a low voice, and Chao Guoqing nodded and turned to leave.
Huzi didn't want to deal with the local people, so he led a few adjutants and guards to leave on the pretext of inspecting the military affairs of each battalion. Gu Laoer said that he was going to the military camp behind to meet the dozens of captured officers, and also led his men to leave. An
Yi smiled and shook his head, and walked to the backyard with Yin Jinan and Huang Yingwu, where the eleven distinguished guests gathered together for dinner after taking a bath and dressing up and changing into new clothes.
At the end of the banquet, An Yi, who was smiling, put down his chopsticks and asked in confusion:
"Brother Fang, the record in the case is that you were charged with gathering a crowd to rebel and so on. This is nothing, but there is a vague but very fatal charge that makes me confused. How could you break into Deng Ruzhuo's headquarters with a gun?
Where is the strategic military location of Yang Chisheng’s brigade?”
Lao Fang shook his head sadly, put down his chopsticks and sighed: "We are both revolutionary troops, and we don't hide this from you. It's infuriating to say it!"
Twenty-five days ago, diarrhea broke out in more than a dozen towns and villages in the two counties south of Liuyang. More than 30 weak old people, young women, and children died within a few days. He even personally led the medical team from Changsha to inspect and provide disaster relief.
Three provincial party committee members also fell ill one after another. The comrades in Guangdong finally obtained two boxes of quinine, which were urgently shipped together with a batch of supplies to support our counties in eastern Hunan. Along the way, the comrades in various provinces and counties paid close attention to
Under the protection, this batch of materials traveled from Guangdong to Guidong, Hunan without incident for eight days. Unexpectedly, when we reached You County and entered our own territory, something went wrong. A lone thief set a series of traps in You County.
There was a sudden attack on the small stone bridge more than ten miles north of the county. They let go of the three carts of foreign cloth and other materials walking in front, silently knocked out the thirteen escort members of our rear team, and robbed the huge amount of aid sent by Guangdong.
funds and a box of quinine.
By the time we found him, he had already escaped half a mile away. I happened to lead a team of men and horses from the north to meet him. I was frightened and immediately chased eastward. Unexpectedly, this man had very good legs and feet and could carry a weight of more than sixty.
A pound of money bag and a box of quinine were still walking quickly. There were also a few masters among us who had practiced martial arts since childhood. We had been chasing this person for three consecutive days. Comrades from various places along the way also came out one after another after receiving urgent notices from their superiors.
He was intercepted, and thousands of people blocked him in the mountains several times and almost caught him, but they still allowed this cunning beast with high martial arts skills to escape, and instead he injured more than a dozen of the masters in succession under the attack of this man's vicious hidden weapon."
"God... what kind of giant thief is this?" An Yi was shocked.
Lao Fang sighed: "Based on my twenty-three years of martial arts experience, this person is definitely a master of the inner martial arts. Otherwise, he would not be able to carry something weighing nearly a hundred kilograms with such strength. I still have not seen his face until now. It was only analyzed that this person was a lone thief named Chen Xiang who was famous all over the country.
However, when we passed through the defensive areas of the Second Army of the Revolutionary Army stationed in Yongfeng and Le'an during our pursuit, Zhang Huizan refused to help no matter how much we begged him. We watched the giant thieves flee from the joints of his Fourth Division and Sixth Division into the enemy's occupation. In the Zhangshu area, he still made various excuses and remained indifferent.
We were given death orders, so we could only grit our teeth and chase. Unexpectedly, when we chased to the Maling Temple in the south of Fengcheng, we suddenly encountered a battalion of the enemy Yang Chisheng's tribe. The giant thief dropped everything and ran up the big tree. , moving quickly like a ghost among the dense canopy of trees, but he did many evil things and hit the right one. No matter how skilled he was, he could not escape the gunfire. Three light machine guns and dozens of rifles chased him. After several rounds, He just fell down a big tree, and we don't know whether he died or lived in the end.
There were too many of us to escape, and four comrades were sacrificed. The rest were all imprisoned in Fengcheng Prison. Later, the revolutionary army attacked Fengcheng, and we were transferred to Old Nanchang. After being held in jail for a few days, you arrived."
An Yi, Yin Jinan and Huang Yingwu looked at each other, feeling like they were listening to a story. If it weren't for the fact that all the guests at the table put down their chopsticks with frustrated faces, An Yi would not have believed that such a master existed.
After comforting the guests, An Yi left for a while and returned again. He brought two seized shell guns made in Hanyang, two small bags of bullets and one hundred oceans and handed them to Lao Fang:
"Brother Fang, please accept these two guns and some traveling expenses. You will need them on the road. I wanted to keep you all to rest for a few days. I just heard you said you were leaving overnight. I guess you are anxious too, so I won't keep you. Return. If I see Uncle Yang, the chairman of the Gugang Town Farmers' Association, in Liuyang, say hello to him for me and give him this gun...
Don’t worry, this was captured by my younger brother who led his troops to attack Jiang Zhenchen’s troops the night before yesterday. I remember that when we left Changsha and disembarked at the Gugang Town pier a few months ago, Uncle Yang kept staring at the shell guns we were carrying. At that time, my younger brother was too poor to give them away. Now, A little bit of capture is also a bit generous. If I hadn’t still had more than 4,000 prisoners who needed to be transformed into a revolutionary army and had to request equipment supplies from my superiors, Ji Nan and I would have given each of you a gun."
Lao Fang stood up excitedly, not knowing how to express his gratitude. Others also stood up and thanked him in unison. At the same time, they were also deeply shocked by An Yi's command of capturing more than 4,000 enemies.
Lao Fang handed two guns and one hundred oceans to his companions, took the shell gun entrusted by An Yi to Lao Yang and inserted it into his waist. He stretched out his hands to hold An Yi's hand tightly:
"Xiao An, we have kept such a deep friendship in our hearts! Now, both the revolutionary army and local revolutionary teams, they all know about your model battalion with great achievements and the heroic and capable Battalion Commander An Yi. I really hope that we can fight side by side in the future. , if one day you pass through Liuyang and go through various places in eastern Hunan, don't forget to send us a message. If the army needs soldiers, just ask, there is not a single one of us from Hunan who is unwilling to join your model camp."
"Thank you, Brother Fang! Thank you all! Come, sit down and have a cup of tea...Jinan, please take care of the eldest sister beside you. The eldest sister can follow Brother Fang and his gang to chase us here. She is definitely not a mortal. She probably sees us.
She is just too embarrassed to speak to the big man at the table. If you say a few nice words to the eldest sister, maybe the eldest sister will be happy and help you find a beautiful wife right away after returning home."
Everyone laughed. Yin Jinan smiled sincerely at the flushed and heroic eldest sister. Together with An Yi, he warmly greeted the guests to sit down and chat. Huang Yingwu had already picked up the teapot and served everyone tea with a smile.