Now that his battalion commander Hu Chuankui has begun to make money, the Beiyang Army has nothing to worry about. Although the intention of sending troops to the government this time is to "suppress the people", the Beiyang Army does not care about this matter at all. The big war is coming, who cares about whether the people are bad or not. The Beiyang Army that came to Caojiapu was a bandit who was recruited, and the battalion commander Hu Chuankui was originally from Xiangma, Shandong, and had more than 100 brothers under him. During the great expansion of the Beiyang Army, Hu Chuankui annexed several small horse regiments, and then defected to the Beiyang Army en masse.

The Beiyang Army is in dire need of manpower, even if it is a ringing horse, it is organized and disciplined, and it knows some guns and horses, so it does not refuse Hu Chuankui's gang. Hu Chuankui is good at dotting, even if he was born in Xiangma, he is not a rookie in the officialdom. So these brothers under his command were not broken up either. On the contrary, he sat firmly in the position of the battalion commander. However, since they have eaten the food of the Beiyang Army, the military judges have no mercy in killing people, and these former bandits have learned some rules under the cruel military discipline of the Beiyang Army. Before Hu Chuankui entered Cao Cuishan's house, he ordered them not to search for things at Cao's house without permission. The guys held back for the time being. Anyway, it is a matter of time before the money is distributed, and there are many opportunities to get things from the Cao family after the money is distributed.

Since the goal is clear and the goal is about to be realized, the discipline of these Beiyang troops will naturally be greatly relaxed. Even the Beiyang Army, which was stationed in the village, looked at the Cao family vigorously, for fear that it would be a step too late to send the money.

One of the characteristics of rural Hebei is that no one has built roads at all. Lu Xun said that there is no road in the world, and there is a road when people walk more. The reality of the countryside is that roads are not only made by human feet, but also collapse because people are constantly walking. And at this time, in order to take the road of leveling, the people will go to other people's farmland. Everyone wants to take other people's flat fields, but they don't want others to take their own fields, so many people start digging ditches outside their fields to prevent others from entering their fields, so every family is digging ditches to defend their own fields. The more ditches there are, the more inconvenient it is for everyone to walk, and the more inconvenient it is, the more people will be allowed to walk on fairly flat land, and the more people walk, the faster the road will be potholed. This vicious circle has made the otherwise flat land of Hebei Province present a terrible scene of deep ravines.

This situation also existed in Henan, but after the liberation of Henan, the People's Party implemented land reform, and at the same time, under the orders of the Party Central Committee headed by Chen Ke, attached great importance to the road issue. After more than two years of rectification, Henan's land is getting more and more flat, but Hebei, which is close at hand, is still the same as before.

Although the ditches made it extremely inconvenient for ordinary people to travel, for the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, these ditches greatly provided a way for concealed marches. Columns of small squads moved rapidly through the ditches. When the sharp knife troops led by them moved to a place less than 30 meters away from the entrance of Caojiapu Village, the sentries of the Beiyang Army at the entrance of the village did not even notice it.

The squad leader took out a small mirror, first looked at the angle of the sun, stuck the mirror on a small shelf he carried, and slowly poked the mirror out of the ditch, and saw clearly from the mirror that the four Beiyang Army soldiers were chatting in the shade of the tree, and there was no one else in the village from the sentry at the entrance of the village. As a sharp knife squad, the unit was naturally different, and the squad leader made a gesture and handed the mirror to the other fighters. After observing the position, the fighters watched in silence as the squad leader drew a sketch on the ground with a military dagger.

After delineating their respective goals, the warriors took out their steel-handed crossbows and applied medicine to the crossbow heads. This is a powerful anesthetic. Of course, if the shot is not well placed, the dose can also lead to death. However, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was not prepared to leave the other side without casualties. After the preparations were completed, some fighters continued to hold small mirrors to observe the enemy's situation, and the other fighters began to move forward.

When they arrived at a straight-line distance of no more than 20 meters, the soldiers waited for the squad leader's order, the squad leader took a few deep breaths, slowly stood up against the ditch, and when he waved his hand vigorously, he leaned out of the ditch completely. Every two people dealt with a Beiyang army, and the crossbow was fired in three bursts. Twenty-four bolts were fired in a matter of moments. The four sentries of the Beiyang Army fell to the ground before they even had time to scream. The fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had long been ready, and they saw that the sentries of Beiyang were defeated. Immediately someone rushed over and dragged them into the ditch. Several soldiers who had already put on Beiyang military uniforms took off the military caps of the Beiyang sentries and buckled them on their heads, and then picked up the Beiyang rifles and stood on the sentry position.

By killing the sentries in Beiyang, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army moved more quickly. The sentinels monitored the movement in the village, sending out signals with seemingly casual but actually agreed body movements. Groups of camouflage-clad warriors soon surrounded the village. It was a force of more than 600 troops, with mortar positions on three sides of the village and machine gun positions on the side of the road. The whole movement did not take more than 20 minutes, and even if the Beiyang Army rushed out of it at this time, it would be difficult to fly.

And the Beiyang Army did not find out the fact that it was surrounded at all, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not stupidly wait for the Beiyang to find out. Now that they had taken control of their positions, the troops began to shrink the encirclement even further. The original knife squad went into the village.

As the big landlord of Cao's shop, the Cao family has a large yard. The more than 500 people of the Beiyang Army stood in and out of the courtyard, but they were not too crowded. The negotiations have been going on for almost an hour, and Hu Chuankui has not called anyone in to "help enlighten" Cao Cuishan, so the negotiations are almost in progress depending on the time. At any time, there may be an order for people to start digging or dividing money. Therefore, the attention of the Beiyang Army is basically concentrated in the courtyard, and very little attention is paid to the peripheral affairs.

Although the Sharp Knife squad of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was not fully aware of this matter, this movement of the Beiyang Army made the Sharp Knife Platoon feel very advantageous. Since the soldiers had passed, the people in the village either fled or hid in their homes without saying a word, and even the dogs of each family were brought into the house by the people to prevent them from attracting the attention of the Beiyang Army because of their barking. The possibility of being disturbed by something that suddenly appears is minimized.

"Squad leader, what should I do?" The warrior asked in a low voice.

"Touch it, clean up if you can." The squad leader also replied in a low voice, afraid that the soldiers would not fully understand what they meant, and the squad leader admonished, "Don't show mercy. ”

The fighters pulled out daggers one after another, and the daggers were surface treated, at least also coated with ink. Several Beiyang troops on the periphery were happily discussing the matter of returning to the county seat to visit the kiln after taking the money. Suddenly, he was covered by a figure flashing from behind, and after stabbing the dagger at the vital point, he screamed for his life. And the fighters of the Sharp Knife Squad of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not stop, they dragged the corpse to a secluded place next to it, and continued to touch it.

This was a good opportunity to gather and annihilate, the Beiyang Army was completely concentrated in one place, and in order to give full play to the firepower superiority of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, it was very important to occupy a favorable terrain. And these fighters also noticed that the Beiyang Army could rely on the compound for defense. In such a situation, being able to get a little closer to the enemy can reduce the difficulty of a point of annihilation. The Beiyang Army also carried two heavy machine guns, and if they could destroy those two heavy machine guns before the attack, and then completely block the enemy into the compound, the battle would be completely a situation of catching a turtle in an urn. Even without risking death to attack, the mortars of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army alone could make the Beiyang Army incapacitated.

However, there is also a limit to the special attacks of such squads, and everyone kills people with knives and knives. That can only be done to those who are alone, and the fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army are also ordinary people, and it is impossible to rely on one person to quietly kill people in broad daylight and in front of dozens or hundreds of people.

Fortunately, the heavy machine guns of the Beiyang Army were placed in front of the Cao family's compound, which was more than deterrent and greatly reduced in practicality. The detachment was still fifty meters away from the machine-gun position, and there was really no way to get forward. The squad leader ordered the fighters to prepare for the bombing. He said to the three comrades: "You specialize in dealing with enemy machine guns. "These three people are all top pitchers in the knife class, and they have extremely high bomb delivery accuracy at a distance of more than 30 meters.

After the comrades were ready, the squad leader took the lead and rushed out from behind a private house. He took the lead in overdrawing grenades to the nearby Beiyang Army. The comrades in the back also rushed out to drop bombs. As soon as the bombing was over, the squad leader and the comrades who rushed out first flashed back to a hidden place.

Booming explosions rang out one after another, and the deputy squad leader counted the explosions. After making sure that the sound of the explosion matched the number of bombs dropped, he rushed out with three excellent bombardiers. rushed out more than ten meters in a puff of smoke, the deputy squad leader took the lead, and the four of them each threw two grenades in the direction of the machine gun in Beiyang. And then it was pulled back.

The squad leader also came out of hiding at this time, and he saw with his own eyes that the grenade exploded accurately near the two heavy machine guns. The swarthy heavy machine gun flew up in the blast of the explosion, twisting and deforming in mid-air. The attack was carried out quite smoothly.

"Flare fire!" The squad leader shouted to the fighters. As soon as the words fell, two red and one green signal flares were hit in the air, and the red smoke and green smoke were particularly eye-catching against the blue sky. It didn't take long for the sound of the charge to be heard. The troops of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which had already entered the attack position, stormed in the direction of the Cao family compound.

The Beiyang Army did not understand what was going on at all under the surprise attack, and a series of explosions produced many wounded, which only made the Beiyang Army confused. The people outside the yard subconsciously want to escape into the yard, and the people inside the yard want to come out to see what happened. As a result, a group of people gathered at the gate of the courtyard. It wasn't until the bullets of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army whistled and sprayed patches of blood in the chaotic crowd that the gang finally understood that something was really wrong and that someone had killed them.

There was no resistance, and everyone shouted and ran into the yard. Some of them were in a hurry to climb the wall and enter the yard. As a result, a guy with better vertical ability grabbed the wall, but became a good target. Many fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, as well as machine gunners with light machine guns, took a fancy to these men, and when a bullet passed, these people left large blood marks on the wall, and then fell from the wall like a pocket. However, these people did not directly hit the ground, and many corpses and injured people had piled up on the ground. Their corpses were only covered with another layer in front of the corpse-strewn Cao family's compound.