Xie Pengnian said to the second uncle: "Second uncle, what are you doing here, we are an anti-Japanese army, and the family does not fight the family." ”

The second uncle gave him a look and didn't speak. Xie Pengnian knew that this was the second uncle facing his nephew, so he understood, nodded silently, and didn't talk nonsense first.

The landlord Liu Laosan snorted loudly: "What the fucking anti-Japanese team, it is clearly bandits, why grab my gun, if you don't hand over my gun, I will kill you tonight." ”

Hong Tao said patiently to him: "We are all Chinese, and in order to resist Japan, our policy is to pay for those who have money, and those who have guns to make powerful contributions." Didn't we just borrow a few of your guns, and when we got them, we would return them immediately. ”

"No! No way! Wang Laosi also shouted loudly, "Is this called borrowing a gun, this is snatching a gun, oh, taking advantage of our people's absence, they forced us with guns, confiscated our guns, and then walked away, what is the difference between this and bandits?" Fuck, if you don't get the gun back, don't say anything, we'll attack with force. ”

Xie Pengnian's second uncle said: "Our militia here is very rude, if we don't return the guns, in case of misunderstanding, we can't stop it." ”

Hong Tao reconciled Peng Nian and several people to discuss, and in the current situation, in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and sacrifices, they could only return their guns. So, Hong Tao said to Liu Laosan and Wang Laosi: "Okay, we agreed, return your guns to you." ”

I gave them back a few better guns. Liu Laosan and Wang Laosi put their guns on their backs, and they still had to inch in, Liu Laosan continued to demand: "You can't stay here anymore, let's hurry back to Liaocheng!" ”

Xie Pengnian was reluctant and said: "Why, this is my home, why don't you let me live in my hometown?" What right do you have to keep us from living? ”

Wang Lao Si roared loudly: "Why, it's just because you kid is easy to rob." You snatched the gun today, and you don't know what to rob tomorrow, you are here, we are not at ease. ”

Xie Pengnian's second uncle said: "Xiao Nian, I think you should go, you still don't know the situation in your hometown, whoever has the most power is the boss, and if you have a gun, you are the king of grass." With just a few of you, it's good that these broken guns can save your life! As the saying goes, stay in Qingshan, don't be afraid of no firewood, why can't you see this little thing! ”

Xie Pengnian heard that there was something in the second uncle's words, and Hong Tao also heard the sound outside the strings, and several people discussed it again, in the current situation, it is good to take a step back, and when you are ready, it is not too late to come back. Hong Tao said to Liu Laosan and Wang Laosi: "It's okay for us to go, but you have to ensure our safety!" You can't go tonight, you have to wait until tomorrow. ”

Hong Tao was afraid of being attacked by the militia at night, and no one could guarantee his safety at night in this chaotic situation. The militia group is a local and is very familiar with the terrain, while the 10 detachments are outsiders, and if they are attacked, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Liu Laosan, Wang Laosi and Peng Nian's second uncle discussed it and nodded in agreement.

The next morning, after the ten detachments had sorted out their ranks, they prepared to withdraw to Liaocheng. The militia of more than 1,000 people continued to block the road, leaving only a small space for two people to walk, which was said to be protection, but in fact it was a demonstration. I was so angry that the members of the ten detachments were all puffing up in their hearts, and they really came to Tangyi Phoenix to take advantage of the excitement and return with a disappointment, and their feelings were extremely low.

Out of the Phoenix Collection, Hong Tao encouraged everyone and said: "It's nothing, isn't it just that you have encountered some difficulties!" There is no difficulty in doing the revolution. Before the Long March, there were more than 100,000 people, but after the Long March, only 10,000 remained. ”

When Hong Tao said this, everyone's confidence rose again, and they began to talk and laugh.

The villages through which the 10 detachments passed were filled with militia members armed with rifles and red tassel guns. This is the landlord's armed forces in collusion, wolf bèi for the treacherous, closely monitoring the ten detachments.

Xie Pengnian scolded: "What are you angry about, we will fight back sooner or later." ”

Hong Tao said: "Why do the militia groups dare to bully us like this, this shows that our strength is not strong enough." On the other hand, what does it mean? In other words, the struggle is very complicated, and we must properly grasp the party's united front policy and carry out our work well. ”

When the 10th team retreated to the Dajue Temple, they were suddenly attacked by hundreds of armed militias, who shouted and rushed towards the 10th detachment with rifles. Hong Tao commanded the ten detachments to quickly retreat to the Dajue Temple, closed the gate, and the two squads went to the room, condescendingly occupying the favorable terrain.

The militia shouted loudly and rushed over, and Hong Tao ordered: "Shoot into the sky first, don't hit people." ”

A volley of guns shot into the air. The militia stopped attacking, and the charging ranks stopped.

Hong Tao shouted at the militia group: "The Chinese do not fight the Chinese, the anti-Japanese army does not fight the anti-Japanese army, brothers of the militia group, we are ten detachments." Looking for your officials to talk, we are passing through, and we are returning to Liaocheng from here. ”

A militia leader came over and shouted: "If you really go back to Liaocheng, we won't fight, and if you don't go back to Liaocheng and stay here, we will never allow it." ”

Hong Tao shouted to him, "Who did you listen to, we are going to live here." ”

The leader of the militia shouted: "Anyway, some people say, no one says, what are we beating you for?" ”

"Then please disperse, let's go back to our Liaocheng, you shouldn't stop it."

The militia dispersed, and the ten detachments bypassed this militia group, and there was no danger along the way, and finally withdrew to Liaocheng. After returning to Liaocheng, he was stationed in Liaocheng Normal School, where he conducted military training and political studies.

The Luxi Special Committee also sent a letter saying that Wang Jinxiang intended to cancel the number of the 10 th detachment, disarm the 10 th detachment, and dismiss the personnel under the pretext of forcibly extorting civilian guns from the 10 detachment and clashing with local militia groups. Everyone was very angry when they heard this, and they all said that they must not hand over these hard-won guns, let alone disperse this team, so they are studying countermeasures one after another.

A few days later, Wang Jinxiang informed the 10 detachments to listen to his lecture. It is estimated that Wang Jinxiang may disarm the 10 detachments in the name of a lecture. Therefore, Hong Tao arranged for everyone to have a gun full of bullets, and those without a gun to take a grenade with a wooden handle, hide it in the sleeve, and open the cover, if he gave the order to surrender the gun, he must resolutely fight back.

On the morning of the day when they listened to the lecture, the 10 detachments entered a designated courtyard on time, and in the middle of the courtyard, they stood in line facing north and waited for Wang Jinxiang to come and speak. Xie Pengnian had a grenade in his sleeve, and he stood up for a while, looking around from time to time. He saw two guards with short guns walking slowly in the corridors of the east and west wings, and a few people with guns on their backs coming and going in from time to time on the front porch of the hall.

After a while, Wang Jinxiang came out, followed by more than a dozen guards with short guns in their hands, and everyone's mood was even more nervous. If there is a real fight, the short guns will be taken out and shot, but the long guns are more troublesome, and these dozens of broken guns of the ten detachments may not be able to take advantage of anything. But everyone's determination has already been made, even if they die, they must fight to the death, and they must not be tied up.

Wang Jinxiang looked at everyone, and he didn't know what tricks were hidden in his dark eyes, he coughed twice, and then said in a strange manner: "Brothers, everyone has come here from Tangyi, and it is said that it is not easy. But there are some things that I have to talk about, and if I don't talk about them, I'm afraid you won't be able to figure out what's going on. Now, all the complaints of the militia groups in Tangyi have come to me, which makes me very embarrassed? You're grabbing guns and clashing with local militias, what are you trying to do? This is to disrupt the great anti-Japanese situation in the six districts!

Now the Central Committee has put forward a political party, a leader, a doctrine, and an army, and since the Central Committee has put it forward, we must resolutely obey it; a political party is the Kuomintang, a leader is Chairman Chiang, a doctrine is the three righteousness, and an army is the Kuomintang army. But it's such a shallow truth, why don't you understand! You are still some young students, you are still some waiters, and you are all from the state, why don't you act according to the advice of the leaders? ”

Xie Pengnian's heart was full of anger, what a political party, a leader, a doctrine, and an army, it is clear that this is **, this is the destruction of the anti-Japanese united front, and even Chiang Kai-shek does not dare to publicly admit it, you Wang Jinxiang has explained, what kind of trick are you! originally wanted to go to the stage to debate with Wang Jinxiang, but Hong Tao gave Xie Pengnian a look, that is, now is not the time to debate, and the preservation of vitality is the most important thing, so Xie Pengnian did not go to the stage to fight Wang Jinxiang face-to-face.

Wang Jinxiang continued: "Fortunately, you are all knowledgeable people, and I will stop at some words. Let me say something, I'll tell you a joke, in the past court, there were always southerners and northerners, fighting over and fighting the past, northerners always can't fight southerners, why? Because the northerners are good at fighting for power with each other, they tear each other down for power, and in the end, they tear down other people's platforms, and they are finished. As for the southerners, a few people pooled money to buy an official first, and then shared the money together, and then took advantage of the characteristics of the northerners to tear each other down, squeezed the northerners out and replaced them with their people.

Alright, I'm done, let's go back and rest! ”

Because the expected thing did not happen, everyone was very happy, sang the anti-Japanese salvation song, and returned to the Liaocheng Normal Station. After returning to the station, everyone immediately started to discuss. Xie Pengnian asked Hong Tao: "Tell me Captain Hong, why didn't Wang Jinxiang hand over our guns?" ”

Hong Tao thought for a while and said, "He may have sensed that we were preparing to resist, and if we really fought and caused bloodshed, it would be difficult to explain to General Fan." ”

Zhou Leting asked: "What does he mean by telling this joke?" ”

Xie Pengnian pouted and said: "Then don't you need to say it, this is Wang Jinxiang's insinuation of the Red Army cadres and ***, because most of the Red Army cadres and *** are southerners." ”

Although Wang Jinxiang was not disarmed in Liaocheng, the Luxi Special Committee considered that it was very unsafe to live in the city, the Kuomintang was too strong, and they might have to use other methods to clean up the ten detachments, and most importantly, in Liaocheng City, it was difficult to expand the team.

Zhang Weihan asked Fan Zhu to build a yì first, and asked the ten detachments to go to the field to practice, preferably to Yanggu. Before leaving the city, the Shandong Provincial Party Committee transferred Hong Tao to the central Luzhong area and sent Liao Yunshan to take over as the captain of the 10th detachment.

When the 10th detachment arrived in Yanggu County, they were like birds out of the cage and gained freedom of movement. In particular, the county magistrate of Yanggu County is Xu Maoli, who was very happy that the 10 detachments had come to strengthen the work of Yanggu County, and immediately allocated a place in the city for the 10 detachments to be stationed and provided them with convenient food and lodging.

The 10 detachments finally found a place of their own, where they conducted intense military training and political study. At that time, there was a bandit harassing and looting near the county seat, and Yan zhòng interfered with the anti-Japanese work in Yanggu County, and the local people insisted that the bandits be driven away.