Winter nights always come very quickly, just after six o'clock in the evening, the sky has quickly darkened, and the muddy instructors and soldiers faintly see the town ahead, the distance is less than two kilometers, but suddenly receive an order to "stop advancing and prepare for battle". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Under the hill in front of the team, Zheng Yi and Li Zhao strode towards a young man who was tied back by the reconnaissance soldiers, and Xu Maofu, the commander of the spy company, hurriedly stepped forward to report:

"We squatted outside the town for more than three hours, sent four groups of men and horses to touch the foot of the hill on both sides, and repeatedly scouted the whole town, until twenty minutes ago, we got this guy who ran out of the town back."

"What's the question?"

Zheng Yi stared at the young captive in front of him, feeling that he seemed a little familiar.

Xu Maofu was very helpless: "He refused to say anything, he kept gritting his teeth and refusing to cooperate, and when he asked him a few more words, he struggled desperately to get mad, and his two blood-red eyes were as big as cow eggs!" ”

"However, based on the results of the investigation brought back by the four groups of detective brothers, as well as the description of the local armed force of about 100 people in the town, I speculate that this guy is probably a member of the local peasant association or the Red Guards, so I did not dare to torture him to extract a confession."

Zheng Yi thought for a while, stepped forward, and squatted down in front of the young captive: "Boy, this is your last chance, I hope you answer me truthfully, otherwise I would rather launch a strong attack and kill all the guys with knives and guns in the town, and I won't waste my tongue on you again!" ”

"Tell me, are you a local tyrant or a member of the Red Guards led by the local Communist Party?"

The young captive who was pressed to the ground by the two sharp soldiers seemed to be stunned, and the violent color on his face gradually turned into shock and doubt, and after a long while, he asked uncertainly, "You...... Is your surname Zheng? ”

The surrounding brothers were startled, and after Zheng Yi was stunned, he suddenly remembered who this person was: "I seem to remember that your surname is Zhang...... That's right! At the beginning, you couldn't stand my strict training, and in less than half a month, you pulled your fellow villagers and left my Changsha military station garrison regiment, right? ”

Before everyone could react, the young captive cried "wow": "Senior Commander Zheng, dozens of us were confused at the beginning, and we couldn't stand your kind of lifeless training, let alone know that you were our own people...... Later, when I saw the wanted notice in the Kuomintang newspaper, I learned that you led a division to participate in the Nanchang Uprising......"

"Senior Commander Zheng, I beg you, go and save our Secretary Tan, he is dying...... I came out to look for Langzhong, and you caught me...... Our Secretary Tan was shot in the stomach outside Chaling City, he hid it from us, and finally took us to break out of the siege and escape desperately to this place from the pursuit of the enemy, but he fell unconscious......"

"What!? The Secretary Tan you are talking about, is it Tan Ruimin who introduced you to me for training? Zheng Yi was shocked, he never thought that meeting again would be such a situation.

"It's him, it's him! We have only one secretary surnamed Tan in the Xiangdong Party Organization, please, Master Zheng, go and save him! ”

The young man was crying hoarsely, and his face was full of tears.

Xu Maofu immediately went up to untie the young man, and without Zheng Yi's order, he loudly ordered his two detachment leaders to prepare their horses, and after a while, he brought two ambulances, put the silent young man on horseback, and then led a dozen soldiers and two ambulances carrying medicine boxes to rush to the town.

Zheng Yi quickly gave the order: "The 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment will block the entire town as quickly as possible, and the rest will act together with the division headquarters!" Lao Li, you go and find Tan Ji, the military staff officer of the division headquarters, and we will go to visit Comrade Tan Ruimin together, and we must find a way to save him. ”

Li Zhao quickly found Tan Ruimin's nephew Tan Zhi and rode to the town with Zheng Yi.

Regrettably, before they could reach the town office where the remnants of the more than 100 Red Guards were located, Comrade Tan Ruimin, deputy secretary of the Xiangdong District Party Committee and deputy commander-in-chief of the peasant Red Guards in the three counties, was already breathless.

Tan Ruimin's sacrifice made Zheng Yi very sad and a little guilty, for more than a year, he almost forgot about Tan Ruimin, and suddenly reunited unexpectedly under the ghost envoy, who knew that he didn't even have a chance to say a word, it was already two worlds separated by people and ghosts.

Compared with Zheng Yi's sadness, Tan Ruimin's sacrifice brought not only great grief to the remaining 160 or so Xiangdong Red Guards, but also the collapse of the spiritual pillar was the most fatal.

The more than 100 Red Guards who followed Tan Ruimin to participate in the revolution, most of them were his nephews and villagers in his later life, and at this moment they were already crying and indignant, and Tan Ji, his nephew Tan Ji, who was handed over to Zheng Yi to cultivate a year ago, also knelt beside his uncle's body and cried to death.

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The town nestled in the mountains was under tight lockdown, and the few large landowners with guards had been confiscated and placed under centralized custody by the Red Guards who had arrived first, so there was no need to worry about how much trouble there was.

After enjoying a fragrant hot meal, the instructors and soldiers strictly followed the requirements of the marching camp to bathe their feet, change into clean and comfortable underwear and socks, and then put on dried military uniforms, sit around the bonfire, and bake and change clothes, pants, shoes and socks.

Under the care of the health soldiers, the brothers with a cold and flu took medicine in a timely manner or drank a bowl of hot ginger syrup, and the deputy posts of each battalion and company and political cadres shuttled between the officers and men to strictly conduct inspections.

The charcoal fire in the main hall of the village office was vigorous, and Zheng Yi, the instructor and division leader, Li Zhao, the political commissar, and Li Lianshan, the head of the first regiment, sat around with the four chief and deputy captains of the Red Guards.

After more than three hours of communication between them, the most important and unavoidable fate decision was placed in front of all the Red Guard cadres:

Do you join the instructor and become a regular army soldier who fights in all directions, or do you want to develop yourself after receiving the instructor's assistance with weapons and ammunition?

The Red Guard cadres had different opinions and great differences.

Zheng Yi quietly signaled Li Zhao not to intervene, and took his people to leave the main hall silently and went to the small courtyard on the east side of the courtyard to rest, and let the Red Guards decide their own fate.

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Just after two o'clock in the middle of the night, the Red Guards entrusted Tan Ji, who was accompanying them, to take a trip and invite Zheng Yi and Li Zhao, who were about to sleep, to the main hall of the town hall with bright fire, including Zhang Gongxi, a deserter at the Changsha Military Station, and the five Red Guards captains and deputy captains came to Zheng Yi and Li Zhao, bowed deeply, and said the results of their deliberations:

Sixty-three Red Guards hoped to join the instructors, while the remaining 70 Red Guards and more than 30 wounded chose to stay, take a short rest, and then go to find the Xiangdong Party organization and continue the revolution!

Zheng Yi and Li Zhao respected the choice of the Red Guards very much, and immediately agreed to allow the 63 Red Guards to join their troops, and carefully asked the five Red Guards responsible persons what they wanted. In addition to weapons, ammunition and some medicines, what kind of help is needed from the instructor?

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