On the night of the 30th day of January, when Liu Yimin broke through the Cangshi Road and decided to divide his troops to recover Jizhong, the 23rd and 24th Divisions of the Yue Army withdrew their troops from the Deshi Line and Cangshi Road overnight in accordance with the orders of General Shouichi Terauchi, and hurried to Baoda Road to deploy defenses. On the land of central Hebei, the lights of the marching troops were flashing everywhere, and the trains transporting troops on the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line did not stop overnight.

When the army is gone, those Han annihilation puppet troops will naturally follow. However, because the army was worried that the Eighth Route Army would go north overnight and quickly break through the Baoda Road, it withdrew too quickly and too quickly, and many Han annihilators and the puppet army that had just surrendered were still in the dark without being notified.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, in the division headquarters of Gao Shuncheng in Hejian County, Gao Shuncheng, who was completely unaware of the great changes in the situation in central Hebei, took off his military uniform, changed into a robe and horse coat, and was dealing with his subordinates and squires who greeted the New Year.

Gao Shuncheng is a native of Yangdian, Changqiu, and he is also from a bitter background, working as a hired laborer and surviving nitrate. Because it was illegal to sell nitrate, Gao Shuncheng often organized salt sellers to confront the military and police, and before the Lugou Bridge Incident, it had developed into an armed force of more than 100 people.

This Gao Shuncheng surname is rude, with both hands and guns, and he misses every shot, but he believes in the precept that rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest, and rarely does evil in the local area, and the local people do not have much evil for him.

At that time, because the central Hebei region bordered Pingjin, the resistance of the masses was very high. It is difficult for the team that does not resist to survive here. Therefore, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Gao Shuncheng, who was like a good person, also raised the banner of resistance, recruited troops, and pulled up the first guerrilla division. Later, Meng Qingshan and Gao Shun became the commander of the First Guerrilla Division of the Hebei Guerrilla Army, so that not only those green forest figures, unemployed vagrants, and landlord armed forces actively joined the gang, but many intellectuals and peasants who were bent on resisting the war also joined Gao Shuncheng's ranks. The ranks swelled rapidly, and there were nearly 10,000 people before the encirclement and suppression of the army, and it was the largest armed force in the Renqiu and Hejian areas.

It's a pity that this Gao Shuncheng fought the banner of resistance just to recruit troops and strengthen his strength. Therefore, as soon as the large army arrived, Gao Shuncheng saw that if he did not surrender, he might be wiped out by the army, so he immediately negotiated with the army and joined the puppet security army. Seeing that the momentum was not right, the [***] people working in the high department hurriedly and quietly withdrew from the high department with a small number of armed forces controlled by our party.

After Gao Shuncheng surrendered to the enemy, because the main force of the army was busy pursuing our army in Jizhong, he only sent a part of the instructors of the army to him, and asked him to take the team from Renqiu to Hejian to garrison and train in Hejian.

Liu Yimin had already learned about Gao Shuncheng's defection to the enemy from Meng Qingshan's report, and taught the 1st Brigade to go north to Hejian, in addition to recovering Hejian and monitoring the movements of the Baoda Road Army, another very important task was to eliminate Gao Shuncheng's troops. However, Liu Yimin confessed to the plateau that Gao Shuncheng's troops had just surrendered to the enemy, and most of them were still hesitating, and the purpose of solving Gao's troops was to arrest the first evil, and to integrate and transform his large army.

Gao Shuncheng never dreamed that the fast-moving Jiao Yi Brigade would be in the river on the first day of the New Year. At this time, he was full of spring breeze, and his subordinates and squires exchanged New Year's greetings with each other.

Gao Guangrong, the head of the Fifth Regiment, that is, the nephew of Gao Shuncheng, who was nicknamed Gao Ningzi, changed the surname of the big bandit, followed behind his uncle, kept lighting cigarettes and tea, and led the guests to the backyard, where a sixteen tables of banquets had been set up, and in addition to wine and food, there were also rewards given to the officers and local ceremonies given back to the squires.

Those squires were looking for senior officers of Gao Shuncheng's department to talk and build relationships while greeting the New Year, and no one even listened carefully to the singing of the Xihe drum in the courtyard. A pot boss stuffed red envelopes into Gao Ningzi's clothes pocket and asked: "Commander Gao, this Gao division commander has been promoted to the commander of the group army of the North China Public Security Army, should you also be promoted to brigade commander and division commander?" ”

Gao Ningzi unconsciously straightened his chest, and said with a smile: "Where, as long as my uncle is promoted, I can be the regiment commander or the brigade commander or the division commander, doesn't it depend on whether my uncle can afford me?" ”

As soon as the boss of the pot heard this, he knew that Gao Ningzi was afraid that he had already become a brigade commander and division commander, so he immediately took a step forward and said to Gao Ningzi in a low voice: "The Guangming Theater on Hongpailou Street came from Tianjin a while ago, and when the imperial army swept away, everyone hid. There is a master Hua Dan in it, with a long flower and moon appearance, and it is said that the burning hand is good smoke bubbles, and the hand is good tea. When I have time in a while, I will take Brigadier Gao to meet her, and ask Brigadier Gao to appreciate the light. ”

As soon as Gao Ningzi heard this, the appearance of a soldier who had been pretending to be for a long time just now was suddenly gone, his eyes rolled around, he pinched the hand of the pot boss, nodded, and went to greet other guests.

Seeing that the time was almost up, and the people who should have come were basically finished, Gao Shuncheng ordered the guard platoon to stand guard, leaving Gao Ningzi to wait for the guests, and turned around and walked to the backyard.

Gao Ningzi's mind at this time had already run to the Guangming Theater on Hongpailou Street, and he was thinking over and over again how beautiful the master Hua Dan was, and when he heard that Gao Shuncheng asked him to stay and wait for the guests, he was reluctant to do so. But this guy knows that letting him stay and wait for the guests is because his uncle trusts him, and ordinary regiment leaders can't enjoy this kind of treatment!

When Gao Ningzi thought about it like this, he felt that his whole body was full of Tai, as if the fragrance of smoke bubbles was blown into his sweat pores, and his whole body was fluttering.

When he was in the United States, he heard the sound of the sentry at the gate and the sound of pulling the bolt, and hurriedly looked back and saw a group of soldiers wearing armbands of the Eighth Route Army pouring into the courtyard.

Gao Ningzi thought that he was dazzled, he encountered a ghost in broad daylight, Lu Zhengying's People's Self-Defense Army and Meng Qingshan's Hebei Guerrilla Army had long been wiped out by the imperial army, where did this team of such neatly dressed and regular Eighth Route Army come from?

Rubbing his eyes, Gao Ningzi looked around again, and saw that the walls of the courtyard were already full of the Eighth Route Army, and the machine gun muzzle of the black hole hole blocked all the courtyard of the headquarters, and the flower machine of the Eighth Route Army who walked in was aimed at him. One by one, the soldiers of my uncle's guard platoon were pressed to the ground by the Eighth Route Army and were being tied with ropes. Gao Ningzi screamed "Mom", and he didn't care about pulling out his gun, so he was about to run to the backyard as soon as he lowered his head.

I heard a voice shouting: "Stop, if you dare to run, you will be beaten into a hornet's nest!" ”

Gao Ningzi didn't dare to run, and after turning around and standing still, he asked tremblingly, "Comrade, which part of you are?" ”

The stocky and heroic Eighth Route Army cadres who were the leaders did not answer, and walked in front of Gao Ningzi in three steps and two steps, looked at Gao Ningzi with a smile and said, "Commander Gao, Happy New Year!" The Eighth Route Army is here to greet you! ”

Gao Ningzi's heart jumped, these Eighth Route Army even figured out who they were, and I am afraid that today's affairs will not be good. However, although he was born as a bandit, he was able to follow Gao Shuncheng to the point where he is today, so he is naturally not a brave and ruthless person, so he immediately bowed his head: "Happy New Year, Chief!" Please go to the backyard to sit down, the wine and food are vulgar, please bear with me! Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and we don't know if the comrades are here. After saying that, he kept clasping his fists.

The two warriors walked to Gao Ningzi's side, one left and one right, searched for the two guns on it, and touched it from top to bottom, and found two small masturbators and a dagger in Gao Ningzi's leggings.

Only then did the cadres of the Eighth Route Army say to Gao Ningzi: "Commander Gao, please!" Take me to visit Master Gao, the Eighth Route Army wants to give him a New Year's greeting. By the way, I also let me try the famous donkey meat roasted in Hejian Province. I'm hungry too, so I'm bothered! ”

Gao Ningzi knew that something was wrong when the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army searched for his guns, and these Eighth Route Army did not know where they came from, and they seemed to have known about their surrender to the army, otherwise, with their original identity as the commander of the Fifth Regiment of the First Guerrilla Division, they would definitely not have surrendered their guns.

Knowing is knowing, but people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads. Gao Ningzi could only take one step at a time, and led the cadres of the Eighth Route Army into the backyard very shamefully.

The banquet in the backyard was almost full, and Captain Yamada, the chief military instructor, was giving a speech. On Yamada's left stood Gao Shuncheng, who was dressed in a robe and coat, and on his right stood an interpreter. In front of them, on the four tables in the first row, sat military instructors dressed in neat military uniforms.

I only heard Yamada say: "In the beautiful book, people have long had the habit of the Lunar New Year, which also starts from the 23rd day of the lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, cleaning the house, preparing New Year's goods, offering sacrifices to the gods, visiting relatives and friends, eating Soba noodles for the New Year, and the customs are similar to those in China." This custom was not changed until the early years of the Meiji Restoration, and we are now, like developed Europeans, except for the New Year's Day. ”

After the interpreter translated, Captain Yamada continued: "There is an old Chinese saying that you think of your relatives during the festive season. At this moment, I miss my mother very much, a kind and kind mother. I was supposed to stay with my mother to help her with household chores and earn money to support her, but in order to liberate the suffering Chinese, a letter from the army brought me from my mother to Jizhong in China to fight for goodwill between China and China. I am very fortunate to have met my most precious friend in my life, Commander Gao, and the two of us will fight side by side and work hard to turn Jizhong into a paradise where people live and work in peace and contentment! ”

Yamada was about to continue, when he heard Gao Shuncheng beside him let out an exclamation, and when he looked up, he saw Gao Ningzi walking into the courtyard with a group of Eighth Route Army.

Yamada thought that Gao Ningzi had rebelled, shouted Baga, and reached out to draw the command knife. When those military instructors saw that the situation had changed, they also drew their guns and knives, and they still shouted Baga in their mouths.

The cadres of the Eighth Route Army who followed Gao Ningzi in didn't look at Yue himself, waved his hand gently, and heard a burst of gunshots, and the group of instructors of the Yue Army fell crookedly on the table, and even Yamada bounced in his eyebrows, and lay on his back on the chief behind him, making a mess of the first-class seats at the table.

Gao Shuncheng has been working hard in blood and fire all these years, and he is used to seeing the scenes of fighting, and when he saw the Eighth Route Army's ruthless and decisive shot, he knew that his life was about to end today, so he took out his robe with his left hand and took out a gun with his right hand. I only heard two thuds, and both wrists were shot and hung down limply.

The cadres of the Eighth Route Army led by him swept his eyes around and said in a deep voice: "The Eighth Route Army is here to punish the devil Han Annihilation." Gao Shuncheng's matter is his own business, and it has nothing to do with anyone else. If anyone doesn't open their eyes, don't blame Lao Tzu's bullets for not recognizing people. ”

After speaking, the cadre walked up to Gao Shuncheng, looked up and down around Gao Shuncheng, left and right, and then said: "Gao Shuncheng, Gao Shuncheng, I don't understand, if you don't do a good guerrilla division commander, you just want to be a Han Jian, do you let the donkey kick the ball in your head?" ”

Gao Shuncheng's two wrists were bleeding, his face was pale, he closed his eyes and thought for a while before he said: "This brother, if I don't surrender, I will be wiped out by myself, and I will die both horizontally and vertically!" Without further ado, can you tell me which part of you are? ”

When the Eighth Route Army cadre saw Gao Shuncheng ask this, he said, "Have you heard of the Eighth Route Army instructor?"

Gao Shuncheng nodded.

The cadre of the Eighth Route Army replied with a straight face: "You listen to me, I am Wang Dahu, the head of the First Brigade and the First Regiment under the command of Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army." Okay, don't pretend to be in pain, isn't the bullet just two holes in your hand? Hurry up and get your cook to serve, I'm hungry and it's time to start the meal. ”

After speaking, he ignored Gao Shuncheng anymore, sat down directly at a table, and began to pour wine and vegetables, taking a sip of wine and a mouthful of food, and eating non-stop. While eating, he shouted: "Gao Ningzi, come and pour wine for Lao Tzu!" Gao Shuncheng, hurry up and call the donkey meat to be burned! Lao Tzu hasn't eaten since last night, this dish is really good, it's delicious! ”

The officers and squires who had already panicked were stunned, and it was not until the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army came up and searched all the weapons of Gao Shuncheng and the officers that these people realized that they had been captured by the Eighth Route Army.

When Gao Yuan, the commander of the 1st Brigade, walked into Gao Shuncheng's headquarters compound, the courtyard had already been cleaned up, and the soldiers of Wang Dahu and the battalion and company he brought were also full of food and drink, leaving only Gao Shuncheng and Gao Ningzi, who were tied up like zongzi, squatting in the corner and shivering, and those officers and squires were gathered by Wang Dahu for propaganda and education.

Some of Gao Shuncheng's troops were Gao Shuncheng's brothers in the green forest, and some were armed by small landlords in Renqiu, Dacheng, and Hejian, and the largest number were the local people and intellectuals who resisted the war. As for those hardcore Han Annihilators who followed Gao Shuncheng, the First Brigade had a way to deal with them. In fact, in the original history, when our army in central Hebei reorganized Gao Shuncheng, that is, only Gao Shuncheng and Gao Ningzi were killed, except for the escape is a part, the remaining main force of 5,000 people were all organized into three regiments, and later came to Jinchaji to reorganize into a special service regiment of the military region.

(To be continued)