Chapter 17: The Passage of Soldiers (2)

Liu Yimin sat on the Taishi chair of the regimental headquarters of the security regiment, looked at the county magistrate of the channel, the secretary of the county party department, the head of the security regiment, the chief of the police chief, the director of the tax bureau, and the president of the chamber of commerce, who were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands and trembling, and said: "Aren't you discussing raising military salaries to resist the Red Army? We're here, why don't we speak. Keep it up, everybody! ”

Seeing that several guys didn't speak, Li Chengyi, the head of the guard squad, went up to the head of the security regiment and the chief of the police department with two rifle butts: "Dumb?" What about our regiment commander asking you, dare not answer our regiment commander's question, is it not a beating? ”

The head of the security regiment said tremblingly: "Report to the commander of the Red Army, we are discussing the salary, and as soon as we finished speaking, we are ready to eat, and you are here." Whatever the commander commands, we will do as it comes. ”

Liu Yimin asked: "What is the result of your discussion, and how much military salary are you going to raise?" ”

The head of the security regiment didn't know what to say, Liu Yimin shouted: "It's all a group of stubborn reactionaries, all of them were pulled out and killed!" ”

As soon as the soldiers of the guard squad swarmed up, one person was about to go out, and the secretary of the county party department shouted in fright: "Sir, I said, I said it all." ”

Liu Yimin said with a smile: "It's really not a coffin without shedding tears." Wouldn't it be over if you said it earlier? ”

After listening to the explanation of the secretary of the county party department, Liu Yimin was happy. It turned out that they had all received orders from the upper echelons to raise their vigilance and guard against the Red Army's attack on the passage. However, Shangfeng did not send more troops. They knew that the security corps alone would not be able to hold the county seat. Therefore, as soon as several people were summed up, they invited several leading figures in the name of the head of the security regiment to discuss the issue of raising salaries, and prepared to use the money to bribe Liu Jianxu and ask him to send troops to guard the passage. The result of the discussion was to first withhold and use the 300,000 oceans of tax that the tax bureau should relieve, the chamber of commerce apportioned 50,000 oceans, and the county government axe allocated 50,000 oceans from the treasury to make up 400,000 oceans. Liu Yimin thought to himself, this small passage county is worthy of being the main road of business and travel between the north and the south, and if it is so rich, I am afraid that the money of the security regiment and the police station will not be less. Why is there no record of the capture of the ocean after the occupation of the passage by the 1st Red Army in history? It is estimated that the Red Army fought all the way to alarm the enemy, and these guys hid property. While he was thinking about it, Cai Zhong, Liu Jianjian, Li Qing and several battalion commanders all came in, and as soon as Liu Yimin waved his hand, the soldiers of the guard squad took out a few guys from the county magistrate and the regiment commander.

Liu Jianli said that all the troops had entered the city, and several city gates, police stations, county government offices, post offices, and finance bureaus were all under control, and that troops should now be sent to occupy the hills around the county seat.

Liu Yimin replied that there was no need, the enemy would not have thought that our army would occupy the passage, and it would be safe to pass the county seat in a short time. Since the Long March, the troops have not had a good rest and recuperation, and they must make good use of this short opportunity. The radio immediately reported to the division headquarters and the corps headquarters that our army had occupied the passage, and the teaching team was responsible for guarding the city gates and maintaining order in the city, paying special attention not to violate the national policy. The recruit battalion was responsible for counting the weapons and ammunition captured by the enemy, and the chief of staff led the troops directly under the regiment to escort the captured enemy county magistrates, secretaries of the county party departments, heads of security regiments, police chiefs, tax bureau chiefs, and chamber of commerce presidents to conduct a thorough search of the tax bureau, the finance bureau, the security regiment, the police station, the county political axe, the county party headquarters, and the post office, seize the enemy's funds, and expand the results of the war. In particular, pay attention to digging deep into the private property of these guys, so that they can spit out all the corrupt people's fat and people's cream. The director of the Political Department is responsible for organizing forces to do a good job in propaganda and mobilization work, mainly publicizing the Red Army policy and the significance of going north to resist the war, and to put up slogans at night, and when the people go to the streets early tomorrow morning, they will see our slogans all over the streets. At the same time, it is necessary to expand the popularity as much as possible and mobilize young people to join the army. The commissars had to do a good job of the presidents of the chambers of commerce and businessmen, so that they could provide as much as possible with the supplies that the Red Army urgently needed. If possible, it is necessary to organize people to rush to make cotton uniforms overnight, and strive to ensure that all new comrades who join the army can have a set of Red Army uniforms. In addition to cooperating with the work of the political commissar, chief of staff, and director of the political department, the battalions seized the opportunity to arrange for the soldiers to have a good meal, take a bath, and get a good night's sleep. The regimental headquarters was set up at the security regimental headquarters, and the regimental commander would call back before deciding on the troop movements.

The soldiers of the Red Eighteenth Regiment felt that this night was like the New Year. No, happier than the New Year. The ready-made hot meals in the canteen of the regimental headquarters of the Security Corps satisfied the soldiers who had never eaten a normal meal since the Long March. The old squad leader of the cooking squad of the 18th Regiment led the cooking soldiers of each battalion directly into battle, and made it vigorously in the room of the security regiment, so that the soldiers could eat one by one. That's it, the old squad leader can still shout in his voice: "Is it enough? Not enough to add more. ”

After eating a full meal, the next step was to boil water and take a bath, and the soldiers took the company as a unit, put all the big cauldrons that could be used, and used all the household items such as the large wooden barrels that could be used for bathing, and the entire compound of the security regiment became a big bathhouse. The old Red Army and the new soldiers call each other, rubbing each other's backs, picking blisters on their feet, occasionally counting the number of wounds on each other's bodies, and exchanging beautiful scenery and interesting stories about their hometowns while taking a bath. At this point, the new and old soldiers who have been baptized by complaining about their grievances and talking about their hearts through the Western Extension Army can be regarded as truly integrated.

When Liu Jianjian, who was responsible for collecting the enemy's assets, returned to the regiment headquarters with the soldiers carrying a basket of silver dollars, the entire Red Eighteenth Regiment was boiling. So many silver dollars, so many picks, oh my God, what a lot of income. Since the Central Red Army seized 1 million silver dollars in Zhangzhou, it seems that this is the largest capture in the history of the Red Army. The Red Army fighters forgot about fatigue, and groups of fighters who participated in the seizure of property listened to them swing in battle.

A soldier spat and flew: "Hehe, you don't know, we took the tax director of the white dog, went to the tax bureau, opened the warehouse and looked, good guy, those silver dollars are wrapped in paper, one tube, neatly stacked, one count, it is really 300,000, no more than one piece, no less." Then we escorted the old boy to his house, and his wife cried and grabbed the ground, splashed and rolled, and we directly tied up the stinky woman, and this time it was honest. We searched his house and found 100 yuan and some jewelry, and the chief of staff said that this guy had been working in the tax bureau for a long time, and he would not just have this money, but must have hidden the money. We dug in the yard, and we dug out three large jars and a small iron box under the big camphor tree in the yard, each of which contained 200,000 silver dollars and gold bars. Good boys, 600,000 silver dollars, 50 gold bars! I said why are we so poor, and all the money has been hidden by these white dogs and corrupt officials. ”

In another circle, the Red Army soldiers listened to a soldier's story about the search of the police station and the police chief's house: "When we went to the police station, we saw that a group of policemen had been tied up by our soldiers, and they were like rice dumplings. Behind the police station was a prison, and we released all the people in it, and rescued a few comrades from the Red Sixth Legion. When the internal affairs of the police station were brought to the first trial, they found the money from the police station, not much, only a few thousand silver dollars. We thought, the police department specializes in doing bad things and bullying the people, there must be a lot of money, but where is the money? I had no choice but to interrogate the police chief, who knew that this old boy was pretending to be backbone at this time, but he didn't say it, and he was still crying poor. We had to search for it ourselves. The search was not tight, and it was found that the wall of the director's office was a sandwich wall. Open the wall, good guys, it's full of good things, gold bars, silver dollars, jewelry, everything, there are 300,000 silver dollars alone. The Kuomintang reactionaries really don't have a fucking good thing, and the police chief of a small county town has made so much money, and I don't know how many people he has killed. ”

A soldier who participated in the search of the house of the head of the security regiment rushed in and said: "What you did was not as wonderful as what we did. When we arrived at the house of the head of the security regiment, there were three people in the house of the head of the security regiment, and when we asked, we learned that one was an arms seller, one was a cigarette seller, and the other was a strong man who specialized in selling strong men. They are all passage people, and they cooperate with the head of the security regiment to do bad things. Fuck, none of the good things hit the muzzles of the old men, and the grass beat the rabbits, and we immediately divided three groups of people to piggyback and clean them up. The three guys alone found 300,000 silver dollars in their homes. The head of the security regiment actually dug a cellar under the bed at home, we lifted the bed board, and when we went into the cellar, it was full of money, silver dollars, gold bars, copper rounds, a lot of them, and they were counted, 500,000 silver dollars, 60 gold bars, and the copper plates were too lazy to count, and they were all picked back. The most ridiculous thing is that the little wife of this security regiment commander actually chased after our platoon commander and asked if he could let his husband continue to be the regiment commander in the Red Army unit. If you think about it, this woman still thinks this idea, maybe she thinks that the commander of our Red Army is the same as her husband! The fighters burst into laughter.

An old Red Army turned his head and said to a new soldier, "Look, you're selling your life, they're trying to get money." I said you're defending the bad guys, you still don't believe it, see for yourself. Only when the Red Army exterminates these guys will we poor people have the money. The new soldier held back a sentence for a long time: "Lose that mother, beat him up!" ”