Chapter 752: Lake Bandits (continued)

July 3, 1939 is the seventeenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. On this night, the moon and stars are scarce, and half of the town is hidden in the moon, which seems peaceful and quiet, and there is a lot of hard work to abandon the words as "the bright moon does not frighten the magpies, and the breeze chirps cicadas in the middle of the night." The fragrance of rice flowers says that the harvest year, listen to the sound of frogs".

Suddenly, the town was jubilant, and it turned out that in order to welcome the arrival of the Eighth Route Army, the residents invited the Honghu Fishing Drum Team to perform in the middle of the town.

The birthplace of this Honghu fishing drum is in Bancheng, the predecessor of the Taiping drum spread in the north, from the northern refugees to the Bancheng area, the earliest mainly used for begging rap accompaniment tools, later the local fishermen came to ask the gods to exorcise ghosts, celebrate the harvest. In the Kangxi period, the fishing drum became the accompaniment tool of the dancing god, and the drum surface was also covered with a red-carp, implying that the years were peaceful and more than every year. At this time, the Honghu fishing drum has been combined with the popular elbow drum, allegro rap and folk dance in Suzhou and Anhui, forming a rich and rich Hongze Lake local special fishing drum.

Before the performance began, Tang Xingying, director of the Women's Committee of the Shandong Bureau, made a brief speech on behalf of the head of the Eighth Route Army.

Under the bright moonlight, Tang Xingying stood on a table, wearing a gray Eighth Route Army uniform, with a small pistol pinned to her waist, her long hair combed into two long braids pressed under the military cap, her face was like a bright moon and her eyes were like stars, and the onlookers were silent.

Tang Xingying and Liu Yimin have lived for so long, and they have already learned standard Mandarin with Liu Yimin, and their voices are like natural sounds when they come out in this quiet night. I heard Tang Xingying say: "Folks in the Lake District: Our Eighth Route Army is the people's soldiers, and we came to Bancheng to fight Japanese devils. Why do we say that we are the people's soldiers? Because our cadres and fighters are all children of the common people, they are to protect the lives and property of the common people from damage, and to fight for the common people. In the words of the villagers, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are the sons of the common people, and the relationship between us and the common people is like the relationship between the fish and the water in Hongze Lake. Fish are inseparable from water, and the Eighth Route Army cannot do without the support and support of the common people. The Eighth Route Army can not only fight devils and fight Han jiān, but also help the villagers to farm and fish, live in the villagers' homes and help the villagers carry water and sweep the yard, we are a family. ”

The more Tang Xingying spoke, the more energetic she became, and finally waved her arms to lead the villagers to shout over and over again slogans such as "Fight Japanese imperialism", "Drive the little devils out of China", "Die if you don't resist Japan", "Defend the land and resist the war, everyone is responsible", "Those who have money pay, those who have powerful contributions, those who have guns can shoot", "Unite to resist Japan" and other slogans, which mobilized the emotions of the villagers at once.

After Tang Xingying finished speaking, Zhao Xiaoman led the medical staff of the field hospital to the stage and sang "My Home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China", "Ten to the Red Army", "The Eighth Route Army Pulls the Big Bolt", and "The Eighth Route Army Military Song", which pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a higher level again, and the fishing drum performance of the Honghu fishing drum team began.

After Tang Xingying finished speaking, she returned to Liu Yimin's side and sat down, her little face was still red and fluttering, and she looked extremely charming. Liu Yimin glanced at her distressedly, and just wanted to say a word of encouragement, when the muttering voice of Huang Wenhu, the instructor of the first battalion of guards, came from his ears: "If you want to know, sleep with the master." Director Tang's level of propaganda and agitation is about to catch up with the division commander. ”

Liu Yimin snorted coldly in his nose, turned around and whispered, "Huang Wenhu, return to your combat position." ”

Huang Wenhu stretched out his hand and slapped himself on the mouth, muttered again, "Tell you to talk too much, you can't see it", and got up and left quietly.

Seeing that Huang Wenhu was gone, Liu Yimin gathered to watch the fishing drum performance, and this look saw the way.

It turns out that the main props of this Honghu fishing drum are the shape of the round fishing drum, it looks like a pu fan, the frame is made of iron, the diameter is about 35 cm, a layer of sheepskin is covered along the round frame, there is a handle on the drum, the handle is about 20 cm long, there is a circular iron ring with a diameter of 15 cm at the end of the handle, there are four iron rings around the ring, each ring is then tied with two or three small iron rings, and the big red ribbon is tied on the ring at the end of the handle. The performers are all men dressed as NVs, and their costumes are colorful and gorgeous. During the performance, the actor holds the drum in his left hand and the key in his right hand, and the movements are basically dancing postures such as swimming back and forth, swaying left and right, simulating the fishing action of casting the net, lowering the drum, and rocking the boat, singing while jumping, or shaking the fishing drum, or beating the fishing drum rhythmically with bamboo keys, forming the sound effect of the drum dong dong and the ring sound of the bell.

After watching it for a while, Liu Yimin called Zhao Xiaoman and told her that this Honghu fishing drum could be improved artistically, and it was best to set up a professional troupe to perform for the villagers and the troops, and encourage unity in the War of Resistance and the development of production.

Zhao Xiaoman told Liu Yimin that she had asked the villagers in the past two days, the Honghu fishing drum is very popular in this area, and there are almost more than 1,000 people engaged in the performance. She is thinking about how to combine the Honghu fishing drum with the propaganda of the Anti-Japanese War!

Liu Yimin told her that not only Honghu Yugu, but also local theater troupes in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui should be mobilized, just like in Shandong, while staging traditional repertoire, they should also perform more anti-Japanese war programs, so as to truly mobilize the common people and support the anti-Japanese war.

Zhao Xiaoman agreed, and then continued to watch the performance.

The two of them were watching and chatting, and Luo Yan came over and whispered: "It's coming."

Liu Yimin nodded and continued to watch the fishing performance.

When the fishing drum performance came to an end, Zhao Xiaoman came to the stage with a guzheng in his hand and played "Ūn River Flower Moonlight Night" and "Ambush on All Sides", which made the villagers drunk. In the end, Zhao Xiaoman sang and sang with a beautiful song "Qingqing Luoma Lake", which pushed the fishing drum performance to a high level

After singing, Zhao Xiaoman said loudly: "Fellow villagers, the bandits on Hongze Lake colluded with the Japanese army to sneak attack half of the town tonight, don't be afraid when you go home, don't run, wait for the heroic Eighth Route Army to eliminate the Japanese puppet army, and return the villagers to a safe and peaceful Hongze Lake!" ”

Zhao Xiaoman said this, and the onlookers realized that the Eighth Route Army, which was sitting neatly and watching the fishing drum performance with them just now, didn't know when it was gone.

Lake bandits are often noisy in this area, and as soon as the villagers heard that the lake bandits were coming, they exploded at once.

This has to be put on hold when he first joined the army, and Zhao Xiaoman can't cry urgently. Maybe he was crying and shouting Liu Yimin again. Now it's different, Zhao Xiaoman can be regarded as a long-tested old Red Army and an old Eighth Road, and he was not shocked by the change, and hurriedly called the comrades from the field hospital who participated in the chorus just now to be responsible for maintaining order and escorting the villagers to retreat.

After all, the number of residents in the semi-town is not very large, and the chaos is only temporary, and the villagers, under the persuasion of the medical staff of the field hospital, slowly quieted down and began to go home.

At this time, the lake bandits outside half of the town attacked.

After Gao Zhujiu sent the signal, the lake bandits of Hongze Lake came to mobilize. In these years, it was not easy to be a lake bandit, and the common people were swept away by the Japanese army. The rich families either ran away or took refuge in the imperial army, and it was very difficult to find a sheep. How much oil and water can there be when robbing poor bāngzi all day long? When I heard that a big sheep had come to the middle of the town, the eyes of the lake bandits became green and gloomy, like hungry wolves.

The first to rush to Chengziwa were naturally the old three Wei Yousan of Lihewa and Sun Naixiang, the bandit leader of Anhewa, these two guys, there were hundreds of people under them, rowing steel plates and big boats, raising sails, looking imposing. Subsequently, Wang Naihan, Zhang Wenbo, Liu Sizi, Liu Qingyang and other troops also arrived one after another, and even Liu Wulianzi's gang also arrived. The entire reeds of Chengziwa were covered with warships, Japanese, national, and earth-made, and all kinds of weapons were available, and even earthen cannons, duck guns, broadswords, and harpoons that fought wild ducks were all in battle.

After the bandits gathered, good news came that the Japanese troops stationed in Xuyi County, Siyang County, and Huai'an County each transferred two squadrons, a total of six infantry squadrons and one artillery squadron, to participate in the battle, and would arrive at the battlefield on time.

At this time, Gao Zhujiu became arrogant, took out the good wine he had robbed, and held a banquet in the reeds of Chengziwa, adding delicious wine and lake freshness, so that the lake bandits had a good time.

Full of wine and food, the leaders of the lake bandits even held a military meeting, of course, they did not call it a military meeting, but a meeting.

Gao Zhujiu said with great interest: "Liu Wulian personally controls the wind, this Eighth Route Army is a transport force, the cars and carts are pulled with weapons and white rice and foreign noodles and silver dollars with white flowers, and there are hundreds of foreign students in the team who can sing and dance. As long as they attack half of the town at night, the old men will send it. Rice and noodles aside, the brothers moved as they pleased. Weapons and ammunition are divided equally according to the head, and silver dollars, Japanese yen, and fiat currency are divided according to the head. NV people, whoever grabs it, the brothers carry it home and toss it casually, and whoever is the baby will be treated first. How about it, my surname is high enough! It's all in the way, so what good can I forget about my brothers? ”

Gao Zhujiu, the dog thief, is a high-mouthed person in Chengziwa, who once served as a township chief, and is a standard local snake, a little resourceful. This guy turned out to be a gang figure, and he used his position in the Anqing gang to recruit apprentices and pull up the team. If it weren't for the Japanese army's two heavy sweeps, Gao Zhujiu would have been commissioned by Han Deqin as in history, not only in contact with Han Deqin's department, but also with the Japanese army, both as a bitch and as a memorial arch. Now, in order to deceive these lake bandits into killing half of the town with him, he actually said that the four beautiful NVs reported by Liu Wulianzi were hundreds of beautiful NVs, which immediately whetted the appetite of the lake bandit leaders.

As soon as Gao Zhujiu's words fell, the old third Wei Yousan jumped out, saying that his team was full of people and fought fiercely, so he should share a little more.

These lake bandits are not monolithic, and often fight for territory. Without waiting for Wei Yousan's words to land, Chen Peihua said yīnyīn: "What Wei Da Scoop said is not right, this is a war, not a meal. More people does not mean that the fighting power is strong. Lao Tzu's team turned out to be the Hongze Lake Marine Police Force of Jiangsu Province, a state-made weapon, as well as a three-nine-mile cone cannon and three light and heavy machine guns. The main force is a few hundred people, plus the brothers who have dinner with Lao Tzu, to say the least, there are more than 1,000 people. In terms of firepower, combat effectiveness, and military strength, which one is not better than your Wei Da scoop? Do you want more points, do the other brothers want to? ”

Liu Wulianzi couldn't sit still, seeing that all the lake bandits were gathered, his men and horses belonged to a small scale in the middle, and he couldn't catch any of the four Eighth Route Army after attacking half of the town. As soon as he heard that Wei Yousan was relying on the strength of the crowd to get more points, Liu Wulianzi's eyes were like cow eggs, and he shouted with his neck, saying that he was aiming at this business, and the big guys should thank him, and he should be the one who should get more points.

Sun Naixiang's name sounds very poetic, he turned out to be the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Bancheng, who once participated in our army in history, and served as the commander of the second company of the guard battalion of the Huaibei Special Administration, and later rebelled under the instigation of Gao Zhujiu, a puppet army. Now, history has changed, Sun Naixiang surrendered early under the heavy pressure of the Japanese army's heavy army group, and became a double cargo of the lake bandits and the puppet army, and he didn't even have the opportunity to join our army.

Attacking Bancheng was Gao Zhujiu's decision, Gao Zhujiu was the boss of the Anqing Gang in the west bank of Hongze Lake, Sun Naixiang's worshipper, and Wei Yousan was a habitual bandit who was used to robbing and killing people for a living, Sun Naixiang was very disdainful of this person. Seeing that Wei Yousan wanted more points, Sun Naixiang was not happy, and said in the ditch: "Wei Da is in charge and doesn't open his eyes to see, what time is it." Lao Tzu is now under the command of the imperial army, it is a regular army, don't just think about robbery, just think about drinking in a big bowl, eating a lot of money and dividing gold and silver. Lao Tzu is now a regular army, and the regular army must have the appearance of a regular army. Fighting half of the town was not to share the spoils, but to be loyal to the imperial army, defeat the Eighth Route Army, and ensure the passage from Lianghuai to northeast Anhui. Open your mouth and close your mouth to divide the spoils of war and NV people, the grade is too low. ”

Seeing what Sun Naixiang said, Wei Yousan was annoyed and scolded: "Which turtle grandson is idle fart?" Why do you have your head pinned to the waistband of your trousers? Isn't it just for money and NV people? There is a dick for talking about so many big truths, and Lao Tzu just wants to score more. There's a kind of you biting Lao Tzu's ball! ”

In this way, the discussion turned into a quarrel, and the lake bandits were divided into two factions, one was the habitual bandits, and the other was the local forces of the former national army that surrendered to the Japanese army. In the end, it was Gao Zhujiu who made the final decision, stipulating that all the brothers who rushed into the half-town would have a share in money, guns, and NV. There is nothing that is greedy for life and afraid of death, and there is nothing that does not move forward.

Big things must be done, and the rest of the things will be easy to say, such as how to put spies, how to divide the offensive line, etc., and it will be easily solved.

Although these lake bandits have not gone to a regular military school, they do all the bloody work all the year round, they are ruthless and cunning, and they are the best at robbing homes and houses. Tonight, the sheep they were going to slaughter was the Eighth Route Army, and Gao Zhujiu and the others knew that this was a difficult task, so they were extra cautious and kept contacting the eyeliner in the town to understand the dynamics of the Eighth Route Army.

When the fishing drum show in the town began, the Japanese army also arrived one after another in patrol boats and motorboats, and Gao Zhujiu's courage was completely strengthened, he knew that Han Deqin's troops were regular troops, but tens of thousands of people did not dare to resist the Japanese army, and moved everywhere. Now that so many imperial troops have come, Gao Zhujiu feels that there is no problem at all in taking half of the town. Therefore, after meeting with the Japanese wing attached to Yano, who was in charge of commanding the operation, Gao Zhujiu commanded the lake bandits to open the way in front, and the Japanese army followed up and killed half of the town.

The report of the eyeliner was also sent, and the Eighth Route Army held a Honghu fishing drum show in the town, and the soldiers lined up in a neat line and sat on the ground to watch the performance. There is indeed a supremely beautiful NV Balu, which looks like a lotus flower in the lake, and its voice is like a yellow bird.

Gao Zhujiu said that God will help me, so he ordered the lake bandits to run forward, and while the Eighth Route Army was watching the play, they killed them into the town in one fell swoop.

When there were still two miles away from the town, Gao Zhujiu heard the singing from the town, and his bones were crispy, and he felt that Liu Wulianzi didn't lie to him, and this trip was too damn worth it!

When the lake bandits fight, they also pay attention to sneak attacks. Gao Zhujiu and the bandit capitals are well versed in this, and they are familiar with the terrain of the half-town, and when they approach the town, Gao Zhujiu puts his finger in his mouth to whistle, and the lake bandits use the night-cover, divides into several roads, and sneaks towards the half-town.

How did Gao Zhujiu know that he had eyeliner, and the Eighth Route Army had even more eyeliner. From the moment he went ashore, the whereabouts of his team fell into the eyes of the reconnaissance heroes of the Eighth Route Army, and also fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. Including the Honghu fishing drum performance reported by his eyeliner in half the town, it was also intentional by Liu Yimin, the purpose was to make him fooled.

1000 meters, 800 meters, 500 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters, seeing that he can already launch a charge, the money, bullets, banknotes, and American NV of the Eighth Route Army in the half-town will become his trophies, Gao Zhujiu ordered the whole line to attack and rush into the half-town.

At this time, it seemed that the guard post of the Eighth Route Army had discovered the lake bandits, and the sound of shouting passwords and pulling bolts came one after another. Gao Zhujiu didn't dare to wait any longer, and ordered the law enforcement team to beat the fishing drum and order all troops to launch a full-line attack.

As the guns rang out at the guard posts of the Eighth Route Army, the lake bandits suddenly went berserk and rushed towards the half-town with shouts, just like the scene when the wolves on the grassland found their prey.

The lake bandits and the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese squadrons and the four infantry guns of the artillery squadrons that followed behind all opened fire, covering the lake bandits to attack half of the town.

Liu Yimin had already arrived at the position at this time, and was coldly watching the attack of the lake bandits.

The person in charge of commanding and guarding the semi-town was Zhang Linfeng, deputy director of the General Staff Office. At this moment, seeing that the lake bandits were divided into several ways and charged towards the half-town in a dense formation, Zhang Linfeng smiled slightly, said "stupid bī", and ordered the first battalion of guards and the third sniper squadron to carry out jīng accurate attacks, and the light and heavy machine guns were not fired for the time being, so as to attract the lake bandits and devils to further gather, so that our army could carry forward its firepower.

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