After Xiao Yazhi returned to Damiao Mountain, he immediately ordered Wu Bai, commander of the National Salvation Assault Force on the Hunan-Guizhou Border, and Liang Qingqiu, commander of the Joint Command of the Guizhou-Guizhou Border Region, to step up their activities and create incidents at the junction of Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Gang, a Taiwan spy from Hong Kong, was in the vicinity of Dayao Mountain in Jinxiu, and together with Zeng Fan, a Taiwan spy here, contacted bandits from all walks of life, marched in front and back, attacked in the east and disturbed in the west, and went north to Guilin, east to Guangdong, south to Nanning, and west to Laibin and Xiangxian.

At this point, around Dragon City, bandits are like "sparks", and they have gradually become "the trend of burning the prairies". Bai Chongxi's "guerrilla warfare" seems to have taken shape, and the Taiwan side seems to see hope for the restoration of the country, and the morale of the bandits from all walks of life has also been greatly boosted, and their activities have become even more rampant and have no scruples.

Under such circumstances, the situation in Beijiang County, which borders Guizhou and Hunan, has suddenly become tense. The bandits recklessly captured the district governments, killed government workers, and even plotted to attack Guping, the seat of the county government.

The situation is critical. The Frontline Command for the Suppression of Bandits temporarily decided to immediately shrink the Beijiang County Government and the dangerous district governments to the county seat of Nanliang County. Those who did not have time to evacuate should disperse on the spot and reorganize their ranks to fight guerrillas. For a time, over the Beijiang River, dark clouds were rolling, wind and rain were surging, ghosts were rampant, blood and fire were intertwined, and the killing of the land of Beijiang was staged one after another.

The military sub-district urgently ordered the Tiger Regiment to advance to Nam Liang County to garrison, and sent a guard company to assist the Bac Giang County Government in withdrawing to Gulai, an important town on the border between Nam Liang County and Bac Giang County. The Longcheng District Special Office also ordered Wei Shichang, deputy captain of the Nanliang County Brigade, to lead a unit to move to the Guping and Gulai areas, and cooperate with the Beijiang County Brigade to do a good job in the evacuation of the Beijiang County Government.

From Guping to Gulai, the land road is high and densely forested, the road is rugged, and the road is very difficult. The waterway is connected by a river called the Belle River. The Belle River, all the way down from Hunan Passage County to Beijiang, continues to the south through Nanliang County, and then flows through the Shahe River in Longcheng to the Pearl River in Guangdong. Although the terrain on both sides of the Belle River is steep and the terrain is complex, the waterway is close and fast, and it is much more convenient.

The comrades of the guard company were ordered to rush to the town of Guping and rendezvous with the Bac Giang county government. The county party committee entrusted the important task of escorting and transporting grain to the guard company. Company commander Wang Huade found Cui Honglin, the commander of the second platoon, and planned to hand over this arduous task to their platoon.

"The superiors have decided to hand over the task of feeding the grain to your platoon, and you have to give Lao Tzu a good bet!"

"Company commander, can you not let us go to charge food? We're a combat platoon, 'good steel should be used on the blade', don't you say? We can't do this kind of small work of holding grain, you can arrange logistics personnel to do it, our platoon is the main platoon to suppress bandits! If you don't fight the bandits, what kind of food will you take......" Cui Honglin was extremely aggrieved.

"What do you say? Is it a small job? Do you know how many comrades of the local government died for the sake of this grain? Just some time ago, a team of the government of Gulan District died heroically just to collect a little bit of food, including two seventeen or eighteen-year-old female comrades, who were brutally killed by bandits. What did they sacrifice for? What are the multitudes bleeding for? Isn't it for these grains? Do you know what food means to us? It means the stability of the political power, whether the army can continue to fight, and whether the work of suppressing bandits can continue. ”

Wang Huade said sternly that Honglin was drenched in sweat, his face was red, and he realized that he was wrong. Oh, yes! How is it a trivial matter to charge food? How many people died for food! Every grain of grain is exchanged for the lives of government workers, how can I say that "escorting food is a small job" such a bastard? I'm so sorry for those comrades who fought for their lives to collect food. He lowered his head in shame and said, "Company commander, I was wrong!" ”

When the company commander saw that he had realized his mistake, he continued: "As a platoon commander, it is not enough for you to realize the importance of escorting grain, only when everyone in the platoon realizes the importance of escorting grain, and everyone can unite as one and work together to successfully complete this task." Tell the comrades that this time it is not only me, the company commander, who wants to hand over this task to your platoon, but this is also an arduous task personally assigned to your platoon by the head of the military sub-division, which shows the trust of the commander of the military sub-division in you, and you must fulfill this task at all costs and without dishonoring your mission. ”

"Yes! Please rest assured that our platoon will never fail to live up to the trust of the higher-level leaders, never let down the revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives for food, and ensure that we will complete this grain collection task. Cui Honglin gave a military salute on behalf of the second platoon of the guard company and solemnly promised.

Cui Honglin returned to the platoon and immediately organized a meeting of the whole platoon to carry out pre-war mobilization. He took the idea that he could not figure out at the beginning, and regarded it as a problem of ideological understanding that existed in the troops, and used the whole set of original words that the company commander had taught him to use to educate and guide the comrades, and the results were good, and the comrades not only realized the importance of escorting food, but also expressed their determination to participate in the war. The enthusiasm of the comrades to participate in the war was unprecedentedly high.

The first thing they have to do is make a bamboo raft. They invited local fishermen, and with the guidance and help of the fishermen, they went to the mountains and rivers to cut bamboo, trimmed it, tied five or six calf-thick bamboos side by side with ropes, and then laid wooden planks on top of them so that the grain could be stacked. After a day's hard work, the ten bamboo rafts were finally made, and the long bamboo poles and oars for the boat were also prepared, waiting for the order to be issued, and the grain was loaded and escorted to Gulai Town.

Everything was ready, but Wang Huade couldn't be happy, he always felt that his heart was empty and bottomless. Therefore, Wang Huade decided to go to the Belle River with instructor Lu Yiwei, deputy company commander Xiao Wu, and second platoon commander Cui Honglin, and a local fisherman to check the terrain together. When several people came to the Belle River, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

Standing on a high place, looking from afar, the Belle River is like a green jade belt, in the treacherous and steep mountains, shuttling and entwining, zigzag forward, unable to distinguish the way to come and go, unable to figure out where the head and tail are, only the rolling river knows where they are going.

Walking into the riverside, the river water is clear and green, the depths are bottomless, and the calm water surface is occasionally whirlpooled. The fishermen told the comrades of the People's Liberation Army that the river seemed to be calm on the surface, but in fact it was like a silent monster, waiting for people to jump in and swallow the prey into their stomachs without saying a word. When it becomes ferocious, it resembles a demon that eats people and does not spit out bones, and even old fishermen like him, who are well versed in water and familiar with the situation in this area, are often devoured by it. The reason for this is that under the calm river surface, strange rocks and dark rivers are dense, and the water situation is extremely complicated, full of murderous opportunities, and once you are not careful, you will be in danger. Finally, the fishermen warned their comrades that they must be well prepared if they want to reach Kulai safely by water. Such as water-based training, self-protection measures, etc.

After returning to the station, the cadres made a serious analysis of the situation. They unanimously agreed that there are several unfavorable conditions in the army at present: First, most of the comrades in the army come from the north and do not know the nature of water, and even many comrades have never even seen a river in the real sense, let alone know how to use water; Second, how to manipulate and control bamboo rows can be said to be ignorant; Third, they are not familiar with the landform along the river, and they don't know how to deal with the situation? Finally, how can we protect ourselves, be foolproof, and successfully complete the task of transporting grain? Through analysis, we have thought of several good ways: 1. Strengthen swimming training in a relatively short period of time: 2. Carry out training in controlling and riding bamboo rafts: 3. Take some necessary life-saving measures. Time is pressing, and there is not much time for everyone to prepare, in any case, through these preparations, at least it can play the role of "sharpening the knife in battle, and it is not fast and light". Wang Huade asked Xiao Wu to personally supervise the preparations of the second platoon.