Yang Ruping, deputy captain of the brigade, received a report that a convoy was coming from the north through Nanliang in the direction of Longcheng, and he took more than 30 people from the 5th Squadron to ambush on both sides of the road from Liangyou to Dadeng, preparing to ambush the enemy convoy. He had a few large rocks brought in and placed them in the middle of the road, and then in the direction where the car came, he planted some earthen mines, cleared the road, and waited for the enemy to "visit". The sun in the sky was also very "excited", as if it was necessary to add fire to enjoy it, and the sun was desperately shining on the soldiers, so hot that everyone was covered in sweat, and they all put their hats on their heads and did not dare to take them away.

"Why haven't you come yet? If we don't come, we'll almost be roast pigs. The soldiers began to lie on their stomachs, Yang Ruping looked at his watch, estimated the distance and time, and comforted: "Comrades, don't worry, it's almost there." As soon as he finished speaking, someone shouted, "Look! The signal tree is down. Yang Ruping hurriedly looked at the observation post set up on the hillside in front of him, and when he saw that the signal tree erected had been brought down, he said to the soldiers: "Comrades! Prepare for battle. "Everyone loaded their guns, unscrewed the caps of the grenades, held their breath, and waited for the enemy to approach. Cars in the distance drove in this direction, and ahead of the convoy was a jeep, followed by four military trucks. The convoy soon entered the ambush range, with Yang Ruping holding a shell gun in his right hand and raising his left hand high. "Boom, boom" two loud bangs, the jeep and the first truck hit a mine, the car was suddenly blown to a stop, the car behind it stopped, two of the five people sitting in the jeep were killed on the spot, an officer and two soldiers who did not die, jumped out of the car with guns, and more than ten soldiers on the truck behind also took guns and jumped out of the car.

"Hit!" Yang Ruping's left hand waved down hatefully. Suddenly, gunshots, grenade explosions, and shouts of killing came one after another, and more than a dozen enemies were knocked down five or six at once, and the guerrillas attacked from both sides of the road, but the poor remaining six or seven Kuomintang soldiers were not hiding left and right, and some wanted to run back to the cab to dodge, but before they could open the car door, they were shot and rolled down to the side of the road. Yang Ruping saw that the time was ripe, waved his hand, and shouted: "Comrades! Come on! ”

"Rush!" "Kill!" Shouts of killing rang out, and the guerrillas pounced on the enemy like tigers. After a while, all the remnants of the enemy were wiped out. Yang Ruping said to Gong Jinchu, the captain of the fifth squadron: "Captain Gong, hurry up and clean up the battlefield and see what is on the car?" A soldier climbed into the truck, cut open the bag, and shouted excitedly: "Deputy Captain Yang, come and see!" Yang Ruping hurriedly climbed into the car to see, the bag was filled with cotton clothes, and cut a few other bags, as well as summer military uniforms, which made him very happy, you must know the current guerrillas, don't listen to this corps and that brigade, from top to bottom, whether it is a cadre, or a soldier, whether it is an organ, or a grass-roots level, are short of clothes and guns, some troops have dozens of people, just a cotton coat, for sentries or wounded and sick to wear, the unified military uniform is not to mention, usually, it is what to wear, the weapon in the hand, Not to mention, the 38 big cover, the 79 rifle, the Hanyang made, plus a crooked machine gun, is very good, a lot of it is still ** earth cannons, big knives and shovels, sickles and sticks, plus some soil grenades, land mines, the troops are assembled, so at this point, it is purely a mass army. Well, so many military uniforms have been captured, and our brigade looks like a regular army when they wear them. Yang Ruping shouted happily: "Comrades! We're going to become a regular army, are you happy? The comrades cheered happily: "Good! All right! We're going to be regulars! Yang Ruping continued: "Since Chief Bai is so generous and sends us the 'regular army', we are welcome. As soon as I was happy, I adapted Liu Sanjie's song.

Thank you very much,

Thank you Lao Bai for sending clothes,

I don't have good tea and rice at home, ho ho,

Only bullets for you, for you

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The warriors sang along. In the fields leading to the base area, in the mountains and forests, a long procession, picking and carrying, with the joy of victory, sang loud songs, and wore the sunset, strode back, leaving far behind the blazing and billowing smoke on the highway.

On the playground, Su Cheng, the squad leader of the fourth squadron, was teaching the soldiers of the class to practice the basic martial arts skill "standing pile". After the warrior set up the horse step, Su Cheng shouted the password: "Two fists are closed at the waist, the heart of the fist is on the body, listen to the password, punch left, good!" Right punch, good! "The first class is in full swing. On the side, the second squad practiced assassination, back and forth a few actions, the soldiers felt very boring, and the training could not lift the spirit, the second squad leader Lin Yi was not convinced that Su Cheng had joined the guerrillas not long ago, so he became the squad leader of the first squad of the combat squad, why did he? The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became, and when I was resting, I saw the soldiers in the squad running to a class, and went to see Su Cheng demonstrate kung fu moves, and there was nowhere to fire in his heart, he thought, he Su Cheng is not tall, and he is not big, so he will have some fists and embroidered legs, deceive those who don't understand, and then look at himself, one meter seven or eight, how can it be regarded as a broad waist and a round waist, I don't believe I can't compare to him, thinking of this, he decided, let Su Cheng make a fool of himself, sweep his majesty, and build his own image in front of the soldiers. Lin Yi walked straight to Su Cheng and said, "Su Cheng, I heard that your kung fu is good, why don't we compete and let everyone open their eyes, how about it?" Su Cheng said embarrassedly: "Second squad leader, you are also an old comrade, how dare I compare with you?" Plus my kung fu is not good. Lin Yi patted his chest and said proudly: "Everyone, look, he's afraid, just my head can crush him." Su Cheng was also angry when he heard it, he originally wanted to give him a face, but he didn't want it, so I was welcome, so he said, "Okay!" So let's practice? As he spoke, Su Cheng rolled up his sleeves and put on a stand. At this time, not only the soldiers of the first and second classes came to watch, but even the people around came to watch the excitement. The soldiers of the first squad wanted to see the real kung fu of the squad leader, and the soldiers of the second squad and the people around them wanted to see how the big man pinned the small man, and everyone was very excited, applauding and shouting: "Come one, come one." This time, under the pressure of everyone, the two had no way to retreat, so they could only face each other in an all-round way. Lin Yi shook his shoulders, shook his neck, and made a move of "hungry tiger pounces", his palms turned into tiger claws, grabbed Su Cheng's shoulders, and suddenly buckled Su Cheng's shoulders, shouting "Hey!" Lifted Su Cheng into the air and threw it outward. The force of this throw was very strong, and everyone couldn't help but let out an "ah", expecting that Su Cheng would definitely be thrown far away, lying on the ground, and unable to get up. I saw that Su Cheng borrowed the power of rise, and at the moment when his body lost its center of gravity, his feet were retracted to his abdomen, his whole body rolled back, a backflip, and at the same time that his feet landed, his arms were quickly lifted up, and his two feet bounced forward and upward with the strength of his arms, and both feet kicked towards Lin Yi's chest at the same time. Lin Yi hurriedly crossed his hands to protect his chest, and with a "snap", Lin Yi was shocked to take a few steps backwards in a row, and when Lin Yi was not yet able to stand firm, Su Cheng stepped forward continuously, squatted and turned around, and swept Lin Yi to the ground with a sweeping leg. Immediately, the audience responded with warm applause.

"It's okay, is it?" Su Cheng stretched out his hand to Lin Yi, although Lin Yi was still a little unconvinced, but his kung fu was not as good as others, so he had to stretch out his hand, Su Cheng pulled Lin Yi up from the ground, Lin Yi patted the dust on his body, and gently beat Su Cheng's chest, and said, "Good kung fu!" I took it. Everyone gave appreciative applause.

"I'm not convinced! Come on, let's go through a few tricks. Everyone's eyes moved to the person who spoke, and this person was Su Jie, the correspondent of the brigade headquarters. Su Cheng smiled: "What are you kid doing here?" Su Jie said proudly, "Hmph! My hands are itchy, I just want to join in the fun, what's the matter? "After that, the two of you come and I fight against each other. These two people are too familiar, what your next move is, you basically don't have to think about it, you attack me and defend, and win bursts of applause.

"Good! All right! It's so exciting! "Another onlooker came, everyone saw this jumping and clapping, it was none other than Qin Xiangmei, the deputy captain of the art team, she came specifically to find Su Cheng, and when she saw so many people, she squeezed in to see the excitement, and saw that it was Su Cheng, but she was happy. Su Cheng also saw Qin Xiangmei, if I won Su Jie, Xiangmei would be so happy. So, he glanced at Su Jie frequently, Su Jie had already known that Dao Xiangmei was Su Cheng's cousin, he began to act, and after a few rounds, Su Cheng slapped Su Jie's chest, and the palm was still far away from Su Jie, Su Jie pretended to be hit, "Ah, ah, ah" covered his chest and slowly fell to the ground, causing everyone to laugh. Xiangmei saw that she had won, and she was applauding "well", and everyone laughed even more fiercely when they saw this scene.

Su Cheng and Xiangmei strolled towards the hill at the head of the village, and the figures of the two gradually faded out of people's sight. Xiangmei and Su Cheng walked side by side, their hands often touched, Xiangmei's hand gently held Su Cheng's hand, the two looked at each other and smiled, holding hands and running towards the hill in front. The breeze gently brushed the faces of the two of them, and the grass on the side of the road brushed the corners of their trousers with their bodies, saying, Hey! Little lover slow down, don't fall. Xiangmei chose the most beautiful small flowers on the hillside to pick, the smile on her face was like a mountain flower, Su Cheng specially picked up the black and red sticky fruit to pick, this black and red fruit is ripe, put it in the mouth to eat special sweet. He came to the top of the slope and sat down in a seat with a good view.

"Here, open your hands." Su Cheng picked a few of the largest and blackest sticky fruits and put them on the palm of Xiangmei's hand. Looking at the sticky fruit, I remembered that when I was a child, my cousin also held her hand like this, ran and laughed and came to the mountain, picked the sticky fruit to eat, and always chose the largest and blackest one to put on her palm. At that time, she was not as interested in flowers as she is now, and now, when she grows into a big girl, somehow, she thinks that flowers are a particularly beautiful thing. Xiangmei said, "Su Cheng, help me make a garland." ”

"Okay! No problem, it's a trifle. Su Cheng found a few rattans, wrapped them in several circles, filled them with flowers, and put them on Xiangmei's head, Xiangmei took a few red and yellow flowers, and said to Su Cheng: "Su Cheng, come, put these flowers on my braid." Su Cheng followed Xiangmei's instructions, and soon filled the thick and long braid with flowers, and asked, "Hey! Cousin, why do you put so many flowers? Xiangmei didn't answer him, but turned around, took the big braid full of flowers from behind her to her chest, and placed it on the plump Ru room that wanted to break through her clothes, lowered her head slightly, looked shy, looked at Su Cheng with eyes full of affection, and asked, "Is it good-looking?" Su Cheng replied casually: "Oh! Nice flowers. Xiangmei shook her body and said embarrassedly, "People are asking you how you are?" Su Cheng circled around her and said, "Not bad! There is no more beautiful woman in this world than my cousin. ”

"Really?" Xiangmei was very happy when she heard him say this. Su Cheng looked at her with a puzzled look and asked, "Hey! Cousin, you were so strange just now, why didn't you call me cousin, why did you call my name? I'm not used to it at all. Xiangmei said shyly, "I won't tell you." As he spoke, a flush flew on his face, the flowers were fresh and beautiful, and he was really good-looking. Su Cheng said: "Tomorrow, I will go to the Tanliang area with the deputy political commissar to carry out guerrilla activities, what about you? Xiangmei said: "According to the leader's arrangement, our art team will also go with the troops, and the main task is to mobilize the masses and propagate the masses. Su Cheng said: "Maybe you have the opportunity to go home and see your aunt and uncle." Xiangmei said with mixed feelings: "Maybe." The two were silent, Xiangmei leaned her head on Su Cheng's shoulder, and their eyes looked into the distance. In the village not far away, the smoke curls from the cooking, the shepherd boy drives the cows home, and the waterwheel at the edge of the village spins leisurely, spitting white jets of water. In the distance, the rice and wheat in summer and autumn hang their heads heavily, and under the light of the twilight, they are even more golden and brilliant. The surrounding verdant mountains and forests seem to have been smeared with ink by a painter. The sky is full of red clouds, colorful clouds are flying, and a goshawk in a xia robe is still soaring in the sky. It was quiet and quiet all around, the two couldn't help but indulge in the poetry and painting, and they didn't want to leave for a long time, Xiangmei looked forward to it, and said affectionately: "Su Cheng, when you are liberated, I will move here with you and keep this beautiful scenery for the rest of my life, okay?" Su Cheng nodded.

The next day, Zhao Qi, deputy political commissar, led about 30 people from the first and second squads of the No. 4 Squadron and the No. 6 Squadron and some members of the Art and Art Corps to carry out guerrilla activities near Tanliang Town. According to the unified deployment of the brigade, Zhao Qi led the team to first feint to attack the defenders of Tanliang Town, the Tanliang Self-Defense Force, creating the illusion of capturing Tanliang Town, forcing the enemy to hold on and wait for reinforcements, and not dare to act rashly. Then, mobilize the masses in this area, carry out an agrarian movement, crack down on the squire and bullies who oppress the people, uphold justice, and establish a good image of the Communist Party dedicated to serving the people.

Zhao Qi led the team to Deyang Village, on the outskirts of Tanliang Township, and got in touch with Qin Donghe, the underground party liaison officer of Tanliang Township who had arrived earlier, and listened to Qin Donghe's briefing on the deployment of the Kuomintang Self-Defense Forces in Tanliang Township. After that, he said to Li Fengjiang, the captain of the fourth squadron: "Captain Li, let's study the feint plan and see how this battle will be fought?" called a few squad leaders, as well as Qin Xiangmei, the deputy captain of the art team. After a while, Su Cheng, Lin Yi, Ma Zhengtao and Qin Xiangmei reported in successively, "Come on, come on, everyone come over here." Zhao Qi held a bowl containing a large bowl of tea, stood at the table, dipped his right index finger in the tea in the bowl, and drew on the table. He first drew a circle and said: "This is the town government, there are 20 or 30 self-defense forces stationed there, Lao Qin, your underground party is familiar with the local situation, so you are responsible for cutting the enemy's telephone lines, Su Cheng a squad, plus Qin Xiangmei's art team, launched a feint attack from the front gate, and Captain Li and I each led a squad to feint on both sides of you." Note that each group brings some firecrackers and horns to create momentum. After the last, listen to my military trumpet to withdraw here, remember! Attack as soon as it gets dark, is it clear to everyone? ”

"Clear!" Everyone prepared as requested.

As soon as it got dark, a dense burst of gunfire rang out around the town hall. The town government was like a frying pan, and there was a mess, and the pseudo township chief Lai Sheng looked for Wang Fu, the captain of the guard, and asked, "What's the matter?" Wang Fu hurriedly sent someone to check on the situation, and came back to report: "Oh no, the communist guerrillas are attacking our town government, the fire is very fierce, and you can hear a lot of machine guns, it seems that a large force of the guerrillas is attacking us." When Lai Sheng heard this, he was anxious, like an ant on a hot pot, he turned around, kept rubbing his hands, and muttered, "What should I do?" Wang Fu was even more panicked and shouted, "Hurry up! Put all the centaurs to my disposal and give me a ...... Resist. After speaking, he grabbed the phone again: "Hey! Feed! Feed! Nanliang County Self-Defense Corps,...... Self-defence...... Total...... The phone ...... no sound, so angry that he dropped the phone and said, "It's over, it's over, we're surrounded." After a while, when he calmed down, he personally took two people to check.

Su Cheng instructed the soldiers in the squad to put a burst of guns at the gate, and then asked the soldiers to put a burst of firecrackers in the iron bucket, and asked someone to blow the bullhorn. "Kill, kill!" After shouting, Su Cheng said to Qin Xiangmei: "Comrade Xiangmei, it's your turn to play." Xiangmei smiled, picked up the long trumpet, and shouted, "Brothers of the Self-Defense Forces! We are the Guiqian District People's Liberation Corps, you have been surrounded, we give preferential treatment to the prisoners, you should surrender quickly. Su Cheng ordered the soldiers to set off a burst of guns, and the bullets hit the gate and the surrounding walls, and sparks flew everywhere. Wang Fu heard it really in the courtyard, there were machine guns, there were horns, there were shouts, there were large army numbers, and the shouts of killing were everywhere, this was repaid, and then he didn't send someone to ask for help, sooner or later he would have to be a prisoner, and when he was about to send someone out of the back door to ask for help, he heard the sound of a military horn outside the door, and after a while, the gunfire gradually thinned, and then there was silence, and after a while, he dared to send someone to check, and there was no one outside the courtyard.

After Deputy Political Commissar Zhao Qi and other personnel withdrew to Deyang Village, the next step was to go to nearby villages to carry out the agrarian revolution and the struggle against hegemony and evil. The first stop of the agrarian revolution was Magangtun. Before leaving, Zhao Qi coordinated with the local underground party organization, closely monitored the enemy's movements in Tanliang Town, and communicated with the guerrillas in a timely manner to ensure the smooth progress of the guerrillas' work. After the arrangements were made, Zhao Qi led the team to a large family in Magangtun - Zhao's family. The Zhao family is a well-known local family, with a lot of good real estate, a prosperous family life, and many long-term workers. The head of the family, Zhao Dacheng, and his wife Wei Ping, have three sons and two daughters, the eldest Zhao Lai, the second Zhao Fu, the third Zhao Fen, the fourth Zhao Fang, and the fifth Zhao Qi. Among these children, the two elders hurt the most is this youngest son Zhao Qi, who can be said to be obedient to the requirements of the youngest son. Zhao Qi studied the most among his brothers and sisters, and after graduating from high school, he was sent to Longcheng District Normal School to study, and he was considered a very literate person in the local area. Later, he received propaganda and education from the Party organization in the school and participated in revolutionary work, but because the Party's liaison station was destroyed, he had to be transferred to work in the Tanliang guerrilla area.