Throughout the morning, the three responsible persons of the local party organizations were in a state of anxiety and living like a year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After waiting for more than 100 truckloads of grain, cloth and other supplies to be transported to the south bank and loaded onto the wagon, Zheng Yi suddenly announced that it was time for lunch.

The instructors immediately buried their pots and cooked rice, and also sent two companies of officers and soldiers back to the north shore to invite the chefs of several time-honored taverns in the city to cook a few local dishes, on the grounds that there was too much fresh meat purchased in the morning, unlike preserved fish and bacon that could be safely taken around to march and fight, and they would not be bad for a month.

It was not until one o'clock in the afternoon that there was a drizzle in the sky, and Zheng Yi, who had eaten and drunk, ordered to advance towards Chaling, and the three local leaders and the more than 100 Red Guards who had been gathered back one after another were so angry that their faces turned blue, but they had no choice but to endure anxiety and anger, and follow the chaotic procession of three kilometers to Chaling.

What was even more unbelievable to the comrades of the local party organization was that Zheng Yi specially sent a company to escort nearly 100 officials, large and small, including the head of the Kuomintang Party of Youxian County, the director of the party department, the chief of the police department, and the head of the door-to-door regiment, and forced these people to push the wagon away with the more than 300 captive house-to-house regiments.

Just like this, he stopped and moved forward slowly, and did not walk for fifteen kilometers until nightfall, and Zheng Yi's order was issued again: "After entering the town in front, stop advancing and camp in place!" ”

The responsible person of the local party organization and more than 100 Red Guards who could not bear it anymore no longer cared about what kind of sven or face, and immediately scolded Zheng Yi, what warlord, what fool with a false name, etc., as ugly as it sounds.

Just as the three responsible persons of the local party organizations were about to lead the team to leave, Li Zhao, the political commissar of the instructor, hurriedly came to report: "The enemy of Chaling has set up an ambush in the valley north of Huangshaping, 12 kilometers ahead, and all units of our division are ready for battle. ”

"What!?"

The three local responsible persons were stunned for a moment, and Li Shun'an, the military commissar who had only fled from Chaling to Youxian in the early hours of this morning, hurriedly asked: "The enemy in Chaling has two main regiments, plus the local security regiment, as well as the Qingxiang regiment and the door-to-door regiment formed by the local tyrants and inferior gentry, there are almost 5,000 men and horses!" ”

"You ...... You just went over like this, can you beat them? ”

Li Zhao replied solemnly: "No matter whether the enemy is 5,000 or 10,000, we will fight this battle, and we must fight!" ”

"According to the information we have received, the inhumane enemy cut off more than 400 heads of Communists in Chaling, all of them were hung on the city wall, and also carried out bloody abuse and killing of the families of our local comrades.

"For this reason, after discussion and decision by the Party Committee of my instructor, we will never forgive the first and second regiments of the newly formed First Division of the Eighth Army of the Kuomintang whose hands are stained with the blood of communists!"

"Division Commander Zheng has ordered that no prisoners will be left in this battle!"

The three local leaders were moved to tears, and they all stepped forward to grab Li Zhao's hand and thanked him, and while wiping his tears, he followed Li Zhao to the Gao family ancestral hall in the west of Huju Town.

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A roaring bonfire illuminates the expansive front yard of the ancestral hall.

As soon as Zheng Yi returned from bidding farewell to Shangguan Yong and his party from the riverside ferry, he immediately issued an order to Li Lianshan, who had been waiting for a long time: "In addition to the twenty load-bearing wagons selected to transport weapons and ammunition, all the wagons filled with food and other materials should be enclosed in a large circle, and then all the captives and Kuomintang officials should be driven into the circle, whether it was dismantling the wagons or burning supplies, letting them cook by themselves, and lighting more than 30 bonfires in the big circle." ”

"Yes! I'll do it myself! Li Lianshan turned and left.

Zheng Yi looked up at the dark sky, pulled Zhao Jingting over, walked into the gate of the ancestral hall together, and asked as he walked, "Are you ready here?" ”

Zhao Jingting smiled confidently: "It has been prepared for a long time, more than nine hundred and fifty brothers are almost assigned a horse for every two people, and the four mortars of the assault detachment, the light and heavy machine guns of our regiment, and the ammunition of the three bases have all been tied to the horse, and they are ready to set off at any time." ”

Zheng Yi nodded slightly: "Since you are ready, let's go, it is estimated that it will not rain tonight, but there is no starlight and moonlight in the sky, and it will be extremely difficult to march in the rugged and winding mountains, so I would rather walk slower and ensure safety." ”

"Don't worry, although the road is difficult to walk, after all, you only need to walk thirty-three kilometers, and there are road signs left by the reconnaissance detachment along the way, and you will definitely be able to sneak in place before noon tomorrow. As long as the two regiments of the enemy ambushed on the front line of Huangshaping can't rush back to Chaling in time, I can defeat Chaling City! ”

After Zhao Jingting finished speaking, he took a step back, gave a solemn military salute to Zheng Yi, and then nodded vigorously, and strode out of the ancestral hall gate with the guards.

Zheng Yi watched Zhao Jingting go away, bowed slightly, and then walked to the corridor on the east side, stood there and rubbed his frozen hands repeatedly, and when he heard the sound of hurried footsteps from behind, he immediately turned around to meet him:

"It's all here, haha! I'm sorry, I didn't requisition the main hall of the Gao family to worship my ancestors, so I could only grieve the comrades and squeeze in the small room in the west...... The Gao family sent a few pots of charcoal and a few bags of good green gang charcoal, and the room was quite warm. ”

Everyone politely followed up the hut and sat down one after another, the guard Pan Yan quickly sent everyone a cup of hot tea, and Yang Yuchuan, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Youxian County, held the teacup and sincerely apologized:

"I'm sorry, Master Zheng, we misunderstood you, please forgive me!"

"We don't know anything about the military, I don't know if you don't tell us the truth because there are too many people around you, and we are worried about leaking secrets, and we don't know that on the evening of the day you captured Youxian, the deputy director of the Kuomintang Party Department in Youxian County fled to Chaling to report the news."

Lu Yizhou, a member of the Xiangdong District Party Committee on the side, also stood up and said solemnly: "Senior Commander Zheng, I also want to apologize to you, I have a stinky mouth, and I scolded my mother under misunderstanding, please don't take it to heart!" ”

Zheng Yi laughed: "Sit down, this kind of thing is not worth mentioning at all, and I didn't scold my mother when I was angry, haha!" ”

"Here, I would like to express my special thanks to Comrade Li Shun'an, if it weren't for you and another comrade who rushed to Youxian in the middle of the night and provided us with valuable information, I am afraid that we still do not know the exact number and strength of the enemy, and we would not have urgently sent a reconnaissance team to investigate carefully."

The three of them smiled sheepishly.

Yang Yuchuan asked with concern: "Senior Commander Zheng, I heard that your department was going to rush to Huangshaping, did there be any major changes?" ”

Zheng Yi truthfully reported: "According to the results of our reconnaissance, the enemy dispatched at least four battalions of troops and drove to the front line of Huangshaping one step ahead. ”

"As we all know, Huangshaping is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing water on one side, it is a good place for ambushes, it is easy to enter and difficult to get out, even if we see through the enemy's ambush trap and withdraw from the valley to set up a position, we will not be able to defeat the enemy who occupies the superior terrain and has far more troops than our army."

"From the analysis of the enemy's courage to take the initiative to drive 10 kilometers outside the city to set up an ambush under such bad weather conditions, this group of enemies is not only extremely cruel, but also well-equipped and well-trained, so we must adjust our battle plan."

"Senior Commander Zheng, our current position is only more than twenty miles away from the enemy, if the enemy touches it overnight......" Li Shunan reminded with concern.

Zheng Yi explained with a smile: "We are not worried about the enemy touching us now, but we are worried that the enemy will not come!" ”

"If my guess is correct, the enemy already knows where we are, how many people, how many wagons, what the wagons are loaded on, and even how much ocean and how much smoke and soil we have looted from Youxian County."

"Now that such a big piece of fat is being delivered to the enemy's mouth, do you think they will let it go?"

The three local leaders were stunned, Li Shunan was still worried, took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "Senior Zheng, what are you going to do next?" ”

Zheng Yi replied kindly: "Wait! Wait for the enemy to come. ”

"What if the enemy doesn't come?" Li Shunan asked again.

Zheng Yi laughed: "If the enemy doesn't take the initiative to fight tomorrow morning, we will fight over and see what the enemy does!" ”

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