Chapter 184: Surprise Attack, Pre-War Mutiny

Lin'an County. Linhe Township.

Yang Shushan led more than 30 fully armed and energetic soldiers to walk neatly on the straight and wide streets from north to south, striding towards the Fangjia compound and the headquarters of the special column.

"Stand! Stop it! "When the team reached the intersection and was about to turn north, Li Mantun, who was walking beside Yang Shushan, shouted, and more than 30 soldiers stopped, and Yang Shushan looked at Li Mantun suspiciously. Political Commissar Yang, I'm afraid it's not okay for more than 30 of us to enter the headquarters directly with a fully armed formation, right? If you clash with the guards, it won't end well. If we really make a move, it will be difficult for even Commander Wang to deal with the more than 30 of us, let alone the guard company. They are all anti-Japanese comrades-in-arms who live and die together, and it's not good to hurt anyone. Commissar Yang, what do you say? ”

"Well, you have a point, that's true. Xiao Li, do you mean to cancel the operation? No way! Absolutely not! At this time, the arrow has to be fired. ”

"Commissar Yang, I don't mean to cancel the operation. I wonder if there is a safer way, preferably without conflict, without people being injured and bleeding, and still being able to solve it smoothly. ”

"Hmm. Xiao Li, do you have any good ideas? ”

"I couldn't think of anything good to do for a while. Political Commissar Yang, if this is not the case, I will first go to the headquarters to reconnoiter and see if the guard company is particularly prepared? However, there should be a plausible reason to enter the headquarters to meet Commander Wang smoothly. ”

"Yes. Your suggestion is good. In this way, Xiao Li, you and Xiao Zhu go to the headquarters together, find Commander Wang directly, and say that we will apply for two more boxes of grenades. We're waiting for you here, go, go and get back. ”

"Yes!" Li Mantun and Xiao Zhu handed over the rifles in their respective hands to the soldiers next to them, and then untied the bullet belts, grenade belts, bayonets, and armed belts around their waists and handed them to the other two soldiers. After disarming all of them, Li Mantun and Xiao Zhu turned around the intersection and walked briskly towards the headquarters of the special column.

The Fangjia compound and the headquarters of the special column are located on the north side of a main street in the north of the middle of Linhe Township. Next to two one-man tall granite lions stood two soldiers of the Guard Company with submachine guns in their hands. In the gatehouse on the five steps, the burly and tall squad leader on duty stood at the door with two open doors with two shell guns on his body.

Li Mantun and Xiao Zhu walked quickly to the entrance of the headquarters, explained their intentions to the two soldiers and the squad leader on duty, and smoothly walked into the headquarters, bypassing the shadow wall and walking to the main room in the front yard.

Front yard main house living room. Fang Jiren was sitting on the sofa with Deputy Commander Meng Dakui and whispering a conversation.

Li Mantun and Xiao Zhu walked into the living room, walked to Fang Jiren and Meng Dakui and stood side by side across the coffee table, and the two stood up and saluted at the same time.

Fang Jiren looked up at Li Mantun, who looked anxious, and asked in a calm tone:

"Xiao Li, Xiao Zhu, why don't you two sleep? Did you come to the headquarters to find me? What's the matter? ”

Li Mantun quietly took a small half step forward, staggered back and forth with Xiao Zhu, and then put his hands in front of him who turned slightly sideways, so that Xiao Zhu could not see the movement of his hands. Said:

"Commander Wang, Deputy Commander Meng, all the soldiers of our company have slept and rested, recuperating for tonight's operation. However, our company is still short of two boxes of grenades, and Political Commissar Yang ordered me and Xiao Zhu to come to the headquarters to apply to Commander Wang, can you send us two more boxes of grenades? While Li Mantun was speaking to Fang Jiren and Meng Dakui, he put up an emergency alarm sign language with both hands: Yang Shushan led more than 30 heavily armed soldiers to come to the headquarters to arrest you and lead the team back to Shuihe Village.

In the past, Li Mantun often went to the Sixth Company to communicate with his fellow villagers, learn individual combat tactics, hand-to-hand combat techniques, and learned several sign languages at the same time. I didn't expect to use it today.

Seeing Li Mantun's sign language, Fang Jiren and Meng Dakui glanced at each other and smiled at the same time. Francis, calmly, quietly, and pun-in said:

"Okay, okay, we got it, no problem. It's all ready for you. ”

Hearing Fang Jiren say this, Li Mantun was completely relieved, he knew that Fang Jiren was ready to deal with all sudden changes.

Francis picked up the pencil on the coffee table and wrote a line on a piece of paper and said:

"Xiao Li, take my approval slip for receiving two boxes of grenades, you two should go to the ammunition depot to get them now. Then hurry back and take a break. ”

"Yes!" Li Mantun stepped forward to take the approval slip from Fang Jiren's hand, stood up and saluted, then turned around and left the living room with Xiao Zhu and strode out of the headquarters.

Fang Jiren and Meng Dakui looked at each other and smiled. Fang Jiren shook his head and sighed and said:

"Alas! After all, what should come is still coming, and you can't hide it. This poplar mountain, why do you want to do something at this time? ”

"Commander Wang, this poplar mountain is too disagreeable, you should teach him a lesson. Ever since I came to the Special Column, I have found that he is always at odds with you, disagreeing with you in everything, and looking for trouble from time to time. It's better to let him go, the sooner the better, the sooner the better......"

"Huh? What is the lesson? They are all our comrades and comrades-in-arms who live and die together. Anyway, Dakui, let's prepare according to the method I told you in advance. One thing you have to remember is that you don't shoot too hard and don't hurt anyone. If this matter is not handled well, it will affect morale and will also affect the operation at night. Got it? ”

"I understand, I also understand the truth of mercy not to be in charge of soldiers. Young master, you are too kind-hearted, and there will be more trouble in the future if you continue like this......"

"Stop talking nonsense, go get ready."

"Yes!" Meng Dakui stood up and turned around and left through the back door of the living room with a grunt.

Fang Jiren leaned forward, looked down at the map on the coffee table carefully, and thought.

Yang Shushan rushed into the living room with a dozen soldiers and raised their guns at Fang Jiren together. The two fighters who were standing guard at the entrance of the headquarters and the squad leader on duty were disarmed and brought into the living room.

Fang Jiren straightened up and looked up at Yang Shushan, then looked at the row of more than a dozen rifles aimed at him in front of him, smiled slightly, and asked in a calm tone:

"Political Commissar Yang, what are you doing here? Military exercises? ”

Yang Shushan stood in front of Fang Jiren with a majestic attitude, and said in a resolute and solemn tone:

"Commander Wang, no, Francis, this is not a military exercise, but a special operation, mainly against you alone ......"

"Commander Wang, Political Commissar Yang suddenly came to the headquarters with more than thirty soldiers, and I asked them what they were going to do? Without saying a word, Commissar Yang ordered several soldiers to seize the guns of me and the two sentries at the same time. Commander Wang, Political Commissar Yang, they are suddenly attacking and committing a mutiny. ”

"Huh? Surprise attack to commit mutiny? Commissar Yang, is that so? Francis asked.

"You can say that, even if it's okay." Poplar Hill does not deny it.

"Why? Political Commissar Yang, Comrade Yang Shushan. ”

"The reason is simple. Francis, I do not agree with your insistence on going your own way, hasty and blindly deploying the risky military operation tonight without the approval of the supplementary mission. In this so-called special column with complex composition, you always act arbitrarily and dictately in everything, and this is not allowed by the ranks of our Eighth Route Army and must be corrected. Yang Shushan said solemnly.

"Oh, that's it? There's no need for such a big formation. We can sit down and discuss everything big and small. Political Commissar Yang, come and sit down, let's talk from the bottom of our hearts. ”

"No need, there's no need to talk about it anymore......"

Two warriors with rifles and nervous expressions walked quickly to Poplar Hill and reported:

"Political Commissar Yang, we have carefully searched all the houses in the headquarters, and there is no one except Commander Wang."

"Huh? How so? Francis, where have all the people in the headquarters gone? ”

"Political Commissar Yang, aren't you knowingly asking? For the military operation at night, the people in the headquarters slept in the dormitory. ”

"Hmph. Francis, it seems that you are prepared. It didn't work, now you're completely under my control. ”

"Ready? Control me? It seems that too. Commissar Yang, I'm ready to deal with all sudden changes, but that's to the enemy. Okay, let's get down to business. Commissar Yang, you say, you control what do I want to do with me? ”