"Let's go! We call it a day! Seeing the enemy flee in a hurry, Yang Ruping smiled with satisfaction and returned to Mawei Village with the fifth squadron.

Mawei Village is full of singing and laughing, and it is very lively. Hou Liang called the correspondent Su Jie and two other soldiers, handed a letter to Su Jie, and said solemnly: "Su Jie! This letter is important! You're going to deliver it to Commander Mo with your own hands, understand? ”

"Yes!" Su Jie stood up and replied solemnly.

"Comrades! The three of you must deliver the letter to the head of the corps at all costs and without any delay, and this is related to the victory of the entire anti-encirclement and suppression struggle, understand? ”

"Understood! Please rest assured that we will complete the task! The three of them straightened, turned around and left, and immediately went to the Leyuan Guerrilla Corps headquarters.

Hou Liang called Yang Ruping, whispered in his ear for a while, Yang Ruping heard the word "good", and then left. Zhao Qi smiled on the side: "Old Hou! What is the good thing that God is mysterious? Hou Liang smiled, whispered in Zhao Qi's ear for a while, and Zhao Qi nodded his head while listening.

Yang Ruping found some soldiers and militiamen and told them to cooperate with him in a play. When a group of people came to the outside of the house where the prisoners were being held, Yang Ruping said to them in a loud voice: "Fellow villagers from all villages, militia and peasant association backbones: I am Yang Ruping, deputy commander of the guerrilla brigade, and I am entrusted by the Tanliang guerrilla brigade. ”

"Good!" Everyone applauded vigorously.

"That's it! Let's go back first, everyone! We'll meet early tomorrow morning in Liangyou Town. Yang Ruping waved his hand to the crowd, and a group of people left.

Everything outside the house was seen and heard clearly by the officer who was among the captives in the house, through the broken window, who continued to observe and think.

On this side, Hou Liang and Zhao Qi gathered the villagers of each village, thanked them for their support, told them that the battle was over and they could go home and sleep well, and led the villagers to walk towards the entrance of the village in front of the house where the prisoners were held.

The captured officers, seeing that so many villagers were gone, finally determined that tomorrow a large number of guerrillas and civilians would encircle and annihilate the national army, and it was very easy to look at the broken walls of the house and find an opportunity to escape. When everything was quiet, the two guerrillas guarding the prisoners' room, one at the back of the house, went to the main entrance and said to the other: "I've been fighting all night, I'm sleepy, I can't stand it, you can stand it here, I'll go back and sleep for a while, these prisoners, they can't run away from the cold!" With that, he staggered away yawning, and the sentry guarding the main gate also found a corner and dozed off. When the officer saw that the guerrillas were indeed tired and that the opportunity had come, he commanded the other prisoners to get out of the crack in the wall of the back door, sneak out of the village, and ran desperately in the direction of Liangyou.

Fu Gui and the others ran all the way to Liangyou Town before they dared to stop. After explaining the heavy defense of each department, he discussed with Meng Chao, Mo Tong, and Ruan Shaoxiong what to do next. Mo Tong said, "Let's withdraw!" This is not a place to stay for long. Meng Chao also said: "Now, we are losing our troops, we are running out of ammunition and food, and retreat is the best policy!" "Fu Gui is still unwilling, thinking that my regular army, so well-equipped, but defeated in the hands of the "Turkish Communist Party", how to face the peak when I go back? How to face my colleagues in the regular army, this humiliation can be great, why should this hatred rest? Thinking of this, Fu Gui was restless, pacing back and forth, hesitating.

"Report!" The soldier came to report, "The commander of the third company has returned with a few people!" Before the words fell, the commander of the third company ran over with a few people, and said breathlessly: "Battalion...... Battalion commander, we're back. Fu Gui looked at a few people who were disheveled and discouraged, and they didn't even have a gun on their bodies, and scolded: "You are all prisoners, say it quickly!" What do you want to do when you come back? If you don't tell the truth, Lao Tzu will kill you! The commander of the third company said with a sad face: "We are prisoners, but we escaped at the risk of death!" ”

"Since you are a prisoner, you have lost the prestige of the party and the state, come on! Pull out the slang and kill it! ”

"Battalion commander! Other...... Don't ......," the commander of the third company gritted his teeth, "We are risking our lives to come back to report an important piece of information, which is related to the life and death of everyone." ”

"Say it! What intelligence? ”

"Battalion commander, you have to promise not to pursue us, we will say."

"! Tell Lao Tzu about the conditions, okay! Lao Tzu promised not to kill you, say it quickly! ”

"After dawn, the guerrillas must organize all their forces, including many militiamen and civilians, to encircle and annihilate us, and it is estimated that some of them are already on the way, battalion commander! If we don't leave, we're all done. The words of the third company commander were like thunder, shaking the faces of the people present.

"Is that true?" Fu Gui asked.

The commander of the third company looked at the brothers who had returned with him with a pleading eye.

"Yes! This is what we all saw and overheard. The soldiers said.

Looking at the sky in the distance, it began to glow red, and the sky began to brighten, and if you don't leave, I'm afraid it's too late. Fu Gui had no choice but to order the entire line to withdraw from Liangyou Town and retreat in the direction of Longcheng. At this point, the enemy's encirclement and suppression operation on the southern front was declared a failure! (To be continued......)