Chapter 24 The county scuffle
Zhang Baoshan couldn't help but be a little overjoyed when he saw that Qin Ruiming was in prison and wanted to completely hand over the Qin family's secret recipe to the Zhang family for safekeeping, but to be honest, Zhang Baoshan also knew that Qin Ruiming had too many ghost ideas, so he couldn't believe what to do.
Zhang Baoshan said to Qin Ruiming that he was going back to discuss with his brother, so he also came out of the cell. As soon as Zhang Baoshan left, the jailer came back and said to Qin Ruiming: "Mr. Qin really dragged Zhang Baoshan here for an hour. β
Saying that, the jailer Meng Haichang took out a booklet, and Qin Ruimin saw that it was indeed "The Record of the Green Capsule", Qin Ruiming was a little puzzled and said:
"Boy, how do you know that this book is in the Zhang family, not the Qin family?"
The jailer said, "Actually, the book is in Inoue's place, but Zhang Baoshan's place is heavily guarded against Inoue's office, so I need you to lure this kid out, so I invaded Inoue's study and stole it from the safe."
Qin Ruiming couldn't help but sigh secretly, a mountain is free and a mountain is high, this military commander spy must have his own ability. However, the more ingenious part of the two's strategy is that the book is really in the well house, and under the protection of Zhang Baoshan, it is almost impossible to be stolen, but the possibility of self-theft by the guards is extremely great, so the Japanese really can't bear it anymore and arrest Zhang Baoshan for interrogation.
Zhang Baoshan did not understand to the death why the Japanese wanted to find such an unreasonable "reason" as "theft of the original side" to punish their crimes, and he was only annoyed in his heart, and scolded the people who unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, crossed the river and demolished the bridge.
At the time of Zhang Baoshan's execution, the Imperial Allied Army needed a new brigade commander, and Suzuki also agreed to Inoue's promotion of Kenyì in order of seniority, so he was ready to announce the newly appointed brigade commander tomorrow.
But that night, Qiu Hengshui led a large army from the Ludong base area to the rest of the Hedong Village mountain range to hide, and only waited for it to suddenly launch an attack on the county seat when it was dark, and then cooperated with the comrades in the county town who had infiltrated the county during the day. Inflict heavy losses on the puppet army.
And the intelligence officers in the city also sent news during the day, saying that the Japanese army had executed Zhang Baoshan, Qiu Hengshui didn't expect that he really had the help of heaven and escaped with his life. To attack the county seat, the enemy did not have a commander. Qiu Hengshui was also unambiguous, and immediately launched an attack on the head of Ludong.
The battle began in the early hours of the morning, and the comrades in the city quickly seized the northern gate, which was weakly defended, and then let the comrades outside inside. Under the leadership of intelligence officers, in one go. Storm the prison and quickly clear the defenders. Because only Zhang Baoshan's team was stationed in the city, Zhang Baoshan was executed, and his soldiers were panicked for a while, and the Eighth Route Army came over, and they were no longer willing to work for the Japanese, and had no intention of resisting.
Qin Ruiming didn't expect that there would be gunshots in the middle of the night. After a while, I heard footsteps in the cell, about dozens of people, and the footsteps were hurried, and they searched quickly inside and out, but they didn't know what they were looking for.
But when a man shouted at the door, "Here, my brother is here!" β
When Qin Ruiming heard it, he also heard Qiu Hengshui's voice, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, it turned out that he had survived the battle that day. A guerrilla holds the door to unlock. The two hugged each other.
At this time, the two of them had a thousand words to say, but the situation was urgent, and they could only retreat quickly. But Qin Rui told Qiu Hengshui that his secret recipe had already been told to an outsider. Qiu Hengshui was shocked, Qin Ruiming didn't have time to explain, and hurriedly searched the entire prison, but did not find the jailer, at this time Qin Ruiming did not know that this jailer was Qiu Hengshui's "quasi-son-in-law", nor did he know that he was Jiao Meng Haichang. I didn't know that Qiu Hengshui would know him.
Because Zhang Baoshan was taken to Boshui by the Japanese and directly executed, the resistance of the entire county was very weak, far weaker than the Eighth Route Army imagined, and it was easy for all the troops to break out of the county from the north gate, and then detour south into the mountains.
When he arrived in the deep mountains, Qin Ruiming immediately took Qiu Hengshui alone to the secret cave that he had visited at night when he handed over the secret recipe to Qiu Hengshui that day, but as expected, he had been brought in, Qiu Hengshui was even more puzzled, and asked Qin Ruiming how someone knew the secret recipe was such a secret hiding place. So Qin Ruiming held himself determined to die, and finally cleverly killed Zhang Baoshan by the hands of the Japanese, and then secretly told the internal party a military commander agent.
But as soon as he heard that the military commander spy was still a local, Qiu Hengshui immediately understood that it was his quasi-son-in-law who did it. He has been a guerrilla leader for so many years, and the identities of the people around him are also clear, so Qiu Hengshui has already found out the identity of Meng Haichang, but he will not expose him face-to-face. But now, Qiu Hengshui immediately took Qin Ruiming and a team of people to Dongyu Village.
When he arrived at Meng Haichang's house, Qiu Hengshui asked Meng Haichang's parents and was told that Meng Haichang came home late last night and took Qiu Xuejiao early this morning and didn't know where to go.
Qiu Hengshui hammered his fist fiercely, and said in annoyance: "This kid must have run away with Fang Zi and my daughter." β
Qin Ruiming didn't feel disappointed, but said: "This kid doesn't seem to be a mediocre person, I think, since everyone is gone, let them go, he and we are both their own masters, and there is nothing to blame." β
Qiu Hengshui sighed and said, "I know, I didn't mean to blame him, I just think that your Qin family's secret recipe is no longer unique to the Qin family, and it is a very unpleasant thing."
But Qin Ruiming still pulled Qiu Hengshui away, and persuaded him on the way that it was good to have such a son-in-law. Talking about jokes, Qin Ruiming still said to Qiu Hengshui:
"Brother Hengshui, I think we have to take people back quickly, it is estimated that the devil will come to search the mountain immediately, and if we don't evacuate in time, we will be attacked on our backs."
Qiu Hengshui said with a smile: "This brother, you are wrong, if he dares to enter the mountain with a Suzuki, if he relies on the troops he has just finished fighting and has not repaired, he will definitely not be able to go back, unless the Japanese army in JN Mansion comes out, I will give them this face to some extent." β
Only then did Qin Ruiming understand that the large army in the Ludong base area still attached great importance to him and Qiu Hengshui, and Qin Ruiming was also very grateful for this, but Qiu Hengshui said:
"Brother Ruiming, I have an idea, I don't know if you want to hear it."
Qin Ruiming also thought of it, but he was a flat-headed commoner, so it was inconvenient for him to speak, so he pretended not to know: "What do you think, you say." β
Qiu Hengshui said with a smile: "I see that you can't go back now, and when we robbed the prison, we didn't kill anyone, but drove all the puppet soldiers away, so your disappearance, the Japanese can't determine whether they escaped or were killed, so why don't you join our guerrillas, and when the time comes, we will also fight devils together, and by the way, inquire about the whereabouts of this kid Meng Haichang." And if you don't go to your family, you won't be persecuted by devils, if you go back, not only will you not be able to save your family, but you will also take yourself, what do you think? β
Qin Ruiming laughed and said: "Brother Hengshui, what you mean is exactly what I think, yes, I am also fed up with the grievances of the people in this enemy-occupied area being oppressed, I have decided, follow you to the deep mountains and fight devils in the base area." β
Qiu Hengshui was overjoyed when he saw that Qin Ruiming, who could not only cure diseases and save people, but also give advice, and hurriedly pulled him to introduce him to the head of the Ludong Military Region, and the chief also knew that the head of the troops had to cooperate tacitly, so he directly asked Qin Ruiming and Qiu Hengshui to be responsible for the guerrilla warfare work in the Boshui Mountain area.
Since then, Qin Ruiming and Qiu Hengshui have never inquired about Meng Haichang's whereabouts, but the strange thing is that Qin Ruiming has not heard of any Seven Spirit Scatter or other healing elixirs coming out, which can't help but make Qin Ruiming both happy and puzzled. He felt that if Meng Haichang swallowed the prescription alone, he would definitely use it to make a fortune, and not to mention that the famous Chinese medicine experts in the north knew it themselves, but they had never heard the news of the appearance of the Seven Spirit Flowers in Meng Haichang's hands; Then if Meng Haichang dedicates the secret recipe to the national government, then it will also be rumored. But neither of these situations happened, and Meng Haichang was nowhere to be found, Qin Ruiming couldn't help but think of a possibility, that is, Meng Haichang and Qiu Xuejiao had already died in this war.
Qiu Hengshui actually estimated this result, but he didn't know how to tell Qin Ruiming, because after all, no matter what the result was, it would be difficult to speak, if Meng Haichang was still alive, then he would return the Qin family's prescription if he didn't hand it over, but he didn't see anyone; But if Meng Haichang and Qiu Xuejiao are dead, but they are their own daughters and sons-in-law, they don't want this result to happen. Therefore, whether it is Qiu Hengshui or Qin Ruiming, they rarely talk about this matter.
Later, Qin Ruiming died at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, and when Qiu Hengshui returned to Hedong Village to visit his family after the victory of the Revolution, the Qin family had been defeated. But Qin Ruiming's son, Qin Yuhan, is indeed a strong and studious person, and has mastered the Qin family's Seven Spirits Flower Scatter and the essence of medicine. When he heard that his father did not die in the gendarmerie of Zhang Baoshan's Imperial Army, but died on the battlefield of Ludong's resistance against Japan, not only was he not sad, but he was very proud, after all, one way to die was to die by the persecution of slaves in the country, and the other way to die was the wind and water, and it was difficult to sacrifice his life to die!
In fact, after the sneak attack on the county seat, the Qin and Zhang families were in a slump, and they were silent in the face of the Japanese devils, but the contradictions between the two families were much less. Zhang Baoxing knew that his younger brother's death was deserved, and Qin Ruiming also died in this war, so he didn't care too much about the previous grievances. What's more, the Zhang family, including Zhang Baoxing, thought that Qin Ruiming was dead, and Fang Zi was also in the hands of the Japanese, so the Qin family had nothing to covet, but took care of the Qin family very much, including Zhang Guanghui's widow Jiang and daughter Zhang Suzhen, who died due to the anti-Japanese resistance. (To be continued.) )