In a village north of Baita Town, in a farmhouse's adobe-walled house, the lanterns hanging on the beams flickered brightly, illuminating the room, and from time to time there were fierce gunfire outside. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Chang Ge sat on a bench, leaning against a small table, and listened to several cadres report that so far, no signs of movement of the enemy on either flank of Baita Town have been found.

Hearing that Chen Mosong didn't ask whether Hu Tengxiao was alive or dead, Chang Ge was relieved and nodded easily.

At this time, the young staff officer Ren Qi walked in with a telegram and reported immediately: "Division commander, I just received a telegram from Hu Tengxiao in clear code, and the person surnamed Hu asked our army to stop attacking. He said that he had been deceived by bad people and had the misfortune to go down the wrong path. He is now willing to change his ways and return to the ranks of the people. He also said that he was willing to hand over several bad people who had deceived him to the people's government for disposal. ”

Chang Ge took the telegram, threw it on the table without even looking at it, and said contemptuously: "Liar! If Hu Tengxiao is like that Lun Chaoyang, if he gets along with us and disperses, he can consider accepting his surrender now. However, this bastard caught Mr. Jin and gave it to the Kuomintang as a meeting gift, and now he still wants to come back. Before attacking Baita Town this time, Commander Gu had already spoken, and he did not accept the surrender of Hu Tengxiao himself, but only the surrender of the officers and soldiers below. replied to Hu Tengxiao like this. ”

In Baita Town, Feng Tao led the soldiers to fight and rush, and soon rushed into a courtyard, knocked down several enemy soldiers in the courtyard in a row, and then rushed into the hall.

"Don't shoot, we'll shoot, we'll shoot." A pseudo-officer hurriedly dropped the shell gun in his hand, and more than a dozen other people also hurriedly dropped the gun on the ground. By the flickering candlelight, the guys were pale and trembling.

Feng Tao grabbed the officer's collar and pressed a shell gun against his temple, "Say, where is Hu Tengxiao?" ”

The officer hurriedly said, "Yes, at the back of the district office, only thirty meters from here." ”

Feng Tao let go of the guy and waved the shell gun, "Xiao Liang, you take these people away, and the others come with me!" ”

Feng Tao and his soldiers quickly rushed to the district office, which was a set of brick and wood courtyards, and at the gate of the courtyard wall, more than a dozen puppet soldiers were lying behind a makeshift pile of sandbag bunkers, operating three Japanese-style Type 92 heavy machine guns and five Taisho-11 type light machine guns (commonly known as crooked handles in Chinese) to open fire. Because it was dark, Feng Tao and the others hid in the dark, and the puppet soldiers who didn't find the target just fired indiscriminately.

Feng Tao waved his hand, and Xiao Mao, Xiao Jiang and others picked up their guns and fired at the same time. Bang bang bang, with a series of fiery snakes scurrying through the bunker, the puppet soldiers fell one after another, and the machine gun that was breathing fire suddenly became dumb.

Feng Tao and the soldiers took the opportunity to rush to the bunker, turned the muzzle of the machine gun, and fired fiercely into the courtyard together. Dense fire snakes suddenly blocked the entire courtyard.

After a while, a stick with a white cloth hanging from the entrance of the hall was protruding. Feng Tao waved his hand, and the fighters immediately stopped shooting.

There was silence for a moment, and someone in the hall said tremblingly, "Don't fight, don't fight, Commander Hu and a few brothers were killed by you just now, let's surrender our guns and surrender." ”

A minute later, a pistol was thrown out and thrown into the open space outside the door, making a clattering sound. Then, more than two dozen long and short spears and several oriental knives were thrown out one after another, and they were thrown into the open space with a crackling noise. Then, a thin monkey walked out tremblingly with his hands raised, appeared at the gate, and when he saw that the PLA had not fired, he trembled across the threshold, walked down the three stone steps, and walked to the open space in the courtyard. Then the rest of the fellows also came out one by one, with their hands raised, and came into the courtyard, and there were twenty-five in all.

At the headquarters of Longtou Town, Ishikawa and Gu Yu were reading the telegram brought by Wei Yi, "After a night of fighting, a total of 8,000 Hu rebels were annihilated, including 6,000 prisoners, and the traitor Hu Tengxiao was killed. A Russian letter was found during the inventory of the loot, which has been sent to headquarters. What will happen next, please instruct, Chang Ge. ”

Ishikawa was stunned after reading the telegram, "Hu Tengxiao has 20,000 people, how can he eliminate such a little?" ”

Xiao Wei smiled, "When Hu Tengxiao defected, we intercepted more than a thousand people. After the rebels were driven to the front line of the civil war by the Kuomintang, the officers and soldiers did not want to be cannon fodder and fled a lot. When our army attacked, the rebels broke up quite a bit, so that's all that remained. ”

Luo Zhiping squinted his eyes and wondered a little, "How can Hu Tengxiao have a Russian letter there?" ”

Ishikawa's mouth pursed, "Oh, Hu Tengxiao studied at the Kiev Military Academy in the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1927 and can speak Russian. Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows, "Don't ask, this eight-faced and delicate Hu Tengxiao must want to take advantage of his old relationship with studying in the Soviet Union in the past and want to seek refuge with the Soviets, and this Russian letter must be a contact letter between him and the Soviets." ”

Gu Yu stood up, handed the telegram to Wei Yi, and said to Ishikawa: "Hu Tengxiao wants to play the trick of the cunning rabbit three holes, but unfortunately he miscalculated, and now he has been killed, and there is one less key protagonist in the matter of defecting to the Soviets, so naturally there will be no drama." Now that Hu Tengxiao has been eliminated and the enemy has not taken the bait, it is no longer necessary for the first division to go deep behind enemy lines, and the first division should be notified to withdraw to the liberated area as soon as possible. ”

Ishikawa nodded, thought about it and said, "This Chen Mosong, since the Battle of Hewei, is very vicious on the surface, but in fact he is very cautious, we have failed to lure him in the bait twice, which is not good for us in the future." In order to fight the next battle well, I think the two of us should convene a joint meeting as soon as possible in order to draw up a thorough battle plan. ”

Gu Yu nodded, rubbed his temples, stretched his arms, and felt that he was happy to have ventilation at this time, although we did not achieve the expected goal in these two battles, but our army blocked the enemy's main attack and eliminated the traitor Hu Tengxiao, which is still useful for stabilizing people's hearts, and the political significance is still great. Thinking of this, he felt even more comfortable.

At this time, Su Hong, a young staff officer with a white face, walked into the house and immediately reported: "It has just been ascertained that the two groups of enemies assembled in the area of Taizimiao in the southwest of our army are the 26th Army and the First Rapid Column. ”

Gu Yu looked down at the map and thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "Staff Officer Su, you are responsible for organizing a capable reconnaissance team to continue to reconnoiter the enemy in the Taizimiao and find out their old background, especially the details of the enemy's tanks. ”

"Yes!" Staff Officer Su saluted, turned around and went out.

Gu Yu walked to the window, opened the curtains, and the bright sunlight shone in, and the room suddenly brightened. He was illuminated by the bright light, instinctively closed his eyes, and after a while, opened his eyes, "Oh! After a busy night, it's dawn! ”

Jinyan, Chen Mosong's office, he had just come out of the lounge in pajamas and sat on the sofa, Lin Xi walked in with a telegram, and said listlessly: "Commander Li reports that 7,000 people from the first and third divisions of Hu Tengxiao's remaining division fled to the 25th Army Defense Area. According to Hu Tengxiao's officers who escaped from danger, before the battle in Baita Town began yesterday, Hu Tengxiao's headquarters and the Second and Fourth Divisions were stationed in the vicinity of Baita Town, and the first and third divisions were stationed 30 miles west of Baita Town. At night, the communist army suddenly surrounded the area around Baita Town, and Hu Tengxiao asked the 1st and 3rd Divisions to go to Baita Town for rescue through the radio. The commanders of these two divisions knew that the communist army's sneak attack must be to settle accounts with Hu Tengxiao, and they were afraid that the moths would throw themselves into the fire if the rescue would fail, so they hurriedly led the troops to transfer urgently. Now, what should Commander Li do with these people? ”

Chen Mosong sneered, "Everyone betrays their relatives and leaves!" The surnamed Hu probably didn't expect that at the critical moment, even his subordinates wouldn't ask him whether he was alive or dead. Then, he yawned and stretched, "Wow, all disarmed and sent to Yintang for training." ”

Seeing that Lin Xi was depressed, he got up from the sofa, walked up to him, patted Lin Xi on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Lin Gaoshen, don't be emotional, this kind of capricious villain is not worthy of pity." In fact, we should be grateful to the Communist Party for eliminating this hot potato for us. Since he has come, you have to take care of him eating and drinking, and if he turns back one day, won't we make the mistake of spending money to buy our enemies like the Communist Party? ”

Lin Xi's heart moved, his face became cheerful, and he asked tentatively: "Sir, do you think the Communist Party will do stupid things to spend money to buy enemies in the future?" ”

"Well, it's hard to say, God knows?" Chen Mosong took a few steps back and forth with his hands behind his back, rolled his eyes, and a mysterious smile appeared on his face.