August 4th. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info on the Songhua River, Bayan County River section.

Xiaolu, Zhao Shangzhi and Wang Santai were in a boat, and they took a short break for a few hours and began to discuss the next step of the trip. The conference room is the gunboat's cabin, the cabin is not large, and the three people are very crowded. They were ready to disembark at Jiamusi upstream and enter the Shanxingshan fortress by land, while the gunboats entered the Heilongjiang River from the Songhua River and docked at Foshan County as a means of transportation from the base to the Soviet Union.

Wang Santai suddenly raised his hand to stop Zhao Shangzhi's speech, and said, "Who is outside?" He slammed the hatch open. Outside the cabin was the progressive young man, Hou Xiaowen.

Wang Santai said: "What are you doing here?" ”

Hou Xiaowen said: "The soldier standing guard fell, and I saw that there were oil stains on the deck, so I wiped it." Look, okay. "Took a piece of cotton yarn and left.

Wang Santai glanced at Xiaolu. Xiaolu nodded.

At night, Xiaolu sent a telegram to Xue Rui, asking her to check Hou Xiaogu's information. Soon, the information came.

Hou Xiaogu, born in 1913, was formerly known as Hou Junshi, also known as Hou Mingfu. A native of Haicheng County, Liaoning Province. In early 1933, he joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in Jilin. Came to Harbin in May. In the spring of 1934, he became acquainted with Jin Jianxiao, an underground party member, and began to work in the Tianma Advertising Agency opened by Jin, and later worked as a clerk in the Tax Bureau.

During this period, Hou Xiaogu published many progressive poems. On April 1, 1935, he participated in the Harbin Harmonica Club founded by Yuan Yacheng, and later served as the captain of the harmonica team to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda. On April 15, 1937, the Japanese puppet authorities carried out a major crackdown, and 11 people, including him and other students, were arrested and inaugurated on September 23, 1937.

After receiving the telegram, Xiaolu asked Zhao Shangzhi and Wang Santai to have a meeting.

Zhao Shangzhi entered the cabin, and one of Wang Santai's subordinates stood guard outside the door. The two read the telegram, and Wang Santai said, "Do you suspect Hou Xiaowen?"

Xiaolu said: "Several groups of progressive youths from other places have come to Harbin, everyone has a letter of introduction, and the underground workers of the advance team have already passed the list, and the advance army can conduct a preliminary verification against the list according to the letter of introduction, and all those who have passed the verification have been sent away." Not to mention the Harbin locals. This is one of the doubts. Approaching us quickly is the second suspicion. During the day he was eavesdropping on our meetings, which is the third suspicion. ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "Hou Xiaowen also has a letter of introduction, and the introducer is from the Harbin Special Commission, who has just died recently. If you check it again, you won't be able to check it anymore. I didn't have a chance to look it up. ”

Wang Santai said: "He took the initiative to approach the commander, on the surface he was not very purposeful, but he did it just right, either he had no scheming, it was a coincidence, or he was very powerful." ”

Xiaolu said: "Judging from his name, Hou Xiaogu's original name is Hou Junshi, also known as Hou Mingfu, Hou Xiaogu is just a pseudonym, why does my younger brother call Hou Xiaowen too?" ”

Zhao Shangzhi: "Arrest it?" ”

Xiaolu said: "It's a pity not to do the business that was sent to the door." I had a plan, and its emergence prompted this plan to take shape one step earlier. ”

After listening to him finish talking about the plan, Wang Santai felt that the commander was risky, and resolutely disagreed, so he immediately notified his subordinates and arrested him. Zhao Shangzhi also disagreed, on the grounds that even if Xiaolu's plan was successful, the devil would still act how he acted.

Xiao Lu remembered the process of his acquaintance with Wang Santai, and knew that his temper was up again, so he had to carefully analyze the situation and his own plans for him. Wang Santai reluctantly agreed, but he had to take several measures, the first was to do tricks, if he had a gun, he would unload his bullets and warheads.

Xiaolu said: "You may startle the snake, that will ruin my plan." ”

Wang Santai: "I have an excuse that every revolutionary comrade who enters Yichun must train in military skills. When the boat docks tomorrow, I will bring in two progressive youths, and I will arrange this matter. Your two security guards will listen to me. On this trip, the command of these ships belongs to me. ”

At night, because it was not possible to sail at night, the fleet stopped in a river.

August 5th. On the Songhua River, near Tonghe County.

In the morning, the flotilla braved the rain and tried to move downstream. In the morning, Wang Santai asked the flotilla to stop on the north shore. One of Wang Santai's soldiers got off the boat, and after half an hour, the soldier led a dozen militiamen and two student-like people, taking away a box and a few bags of grain. The students stayed and took a boat to Yichun.

The newcomers got on the boat, and Wang Santai arranged the two of them and Hou Xiaowen on the gunboat that transported grain. A few bags of grain had just been removed, and there was just a cabin to rest.

In the afternoon, when the rain stopped, Wang Santai jumped into the grain boat and said: "Three, you are progressive youths, our fleet is walking in the river in order to avoid the big ships of the Japanese, too slow, and there is time. Is there any way you can pass the time? ”

A young man who was newly on the boat said: "We are here to resist Japan, our blood is burning, I don't want to wait for a minute, I want to gain skills as soon as possible and go to the battlefield to kill devils." You're an officer, please call me some combat skills. ”

Another youth also responded positively. Hou Xiaowen was also very positive and praised the idea as good.

Wang Santai: "I train you? Can you stand it? "It's okay for three people to shout together.

Wang Santai: "Okay." Then practice, don't admit it. I'm going to train you on this little gunboat. Don't give up halfway. The three of them shouted together that they couldn't.

A young man said, "Do you want to train to shoot guns first?" ”

Wang Santai: "Shooting? You have to pass the basic skills to sharpen the gun. In the first step, do fifty push-ups. "There was little space on the boat, just right for push-ups. Wang Santai trained them according to Xiaolu's special combat team training syllabus, and they were captured.

The three of them trained separately, and Hou Xiaowen muttered in his heart: How many should I do? Let's not do too much. When you reach thirty, you start to say that you can't do it.

Hou Xiaowen really did twenty-nine, lay down directly, and said, "I'm bored." "He was tired, but he was okay and didn't sweat much. Looking back at the two young men, they had already fallen down, sweating profusely, and secretly regretted in their hearts: thirty was too much.

Wang Santai said: "Rest for ten minutes, and do the second training after ten minutes." ”

In the evening, three people who were on the grain bag, the soldier who drove the boat said: "Wipe your sweat, otherwise the sweat will soak the grain bag, and after eating the food made of this grain, we will not eat pickles." ”

At night, Hou Xiaowen lay down to sleep, and the other two people were already sleeping like dead dogs. I touched a food pocket, and the thing was still there. He felt that he had performed too well and that he would perform even worse tomorrow. After thinking about it for a while, I didn't feel very sleepy, and quickly fell asleep.

August 6. On the Songhua River, near Yilan County.

In the afternoon, the flotilla stayed in a river for several hours to avoid Japanese patrol boats on the river.

Training continues. Wang Santai asked them to tie ropes to them and swim in the river. After swimming for half an hour, a young man's thigh cramped, and Wang Santai had to pull the three of them to the command boat on the trail to rest.

After resting for a while, Zhao Shangzhi suddenly ordered that someone was standing still, the machine was stopped, and the lights were extinguished. As you know, this is to evade enemy searches.

And so the night passed

Early the next morning, the fleet passed through Yilan County in the morning fog. After driving for two hours, I anchored in a river.

In fact, when they were not in the cabin, another delicate soldier searched for Hou Xiaowen's things, because he was swimming, and his things were left on the boat. The soldier found the pistol in a grain bag that Hou Xiaowen used as a bed. The warrior took care of the trail and removed all the bullets from his gun. The warhead was unloaded, and most of the gunpowder was poured out before the bullet was plugged in. The material of the stuffed bullet is the cotton yarn of the ship's wiping machine.

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1. On April 18, 1937, Hou Xiaogu, a member of the Harbin Harmonica Society, was arrested by the Special Service Section of the Harbin Police Department, and was inaugurated on September 26 of the same year.