Batang, formerly known as Ba'an before liberation, is located in the west of Ganzi, east of Xiangcheng and Litang, south of Derong, west of Jinsha River and Tibet Province. After the liberation, Bashu was relisted as an administrative establishment, and Ba'an was renamed Batang.

The whole county town of Batang is very small, and the population is not large, and the small county is full of some low and dilapidated houses, and the number of registered people is less than 15,000. Under the jurisdiction of the Xikang Special Administrative Region for a short period of time, the grassroots political axe of the Republic of China was in vain, and because the land boundaries were not peaceful, they could only be managed by the Tibetans themselves by default.

During the period in the southwest, because there was no time to be distracted from dealing with the intricate ethnic issues, the autonomous political axe of the southwest adopted a tacit approach to such problems left over from history, and it was not until the founding of New China that Xikang was completely abolished from the administrative establishment, and the plan to re-establish the grassroots political organs of the new political axe in Batang was linked to the troops entering Tibet. The practice of the troops entering Tibet is to carry along the way the administrative personnel appointed by the Sichuan Provincial Government, and to place such administrative organs in a strong manner along the way.

At nightfall, most Tibetans and a very small number of Han people in Batang ate some chaff and wild vegetables early, filled their stomachs and went to bed. However, under the cover of night, the secret room upstairs of the house of the largest Bayi lord in Batang, the old man Da Dele, was still burning with a stove. Two lamas, a middle-aged Tibetan, and a young Tibetan dressed as a young escort were eating meat and drinking wine around the fire.

"Master Da Dele, the vanguard of the central army, we will be able to walk to Batang later tomorrow, we must not forget the instructions of the Living Buddha." A lama dressed in a typical Tibetan Buddhist robe grabs a roasted leg of lamb that is slightly browned.

"Master Yixi, the army in the center is marching fast. I thought that we had destroyed the road, and they would not be able to get to Batang until next month, but I didn't know they would go so fast. I'm afraid the instructions of the living Buddha are a little difficult to do. Although Da Delek is used to being arrogant, and he is also a powerful and blessed lord of Bayi in the Batang territory, when he thinks of following the instructions of the Living Buddha and opposing the central army, he beats the drum in his heart. It is said that the central army can fight well, and even said that he himself was defeated, and even if he was a little Bayi, even if he was unwilling, could he still fight an army with guns and cannons?

Some time ago, when these two lamas came to the door with a few people and found him with a letter from a living Buddha he knew, he wanted to politely refuse to cooperate, but unfortunately, in the face of the threats of the two lamas and the conditions offered by the living Buddha himself, he was shaken.

"It's all this time, does Lord Dadelek still have to hesitate? Cattle and sheep are reluctant to leave the grassland where they grow, are you willing to be caught by the central government? Would you like all of this property to be confiscated? Are you willing to let your wife, son, and daughter be bullied? The Living Buddha is right, the sky in Tibetan Province belongs to us Tibetans, and Lord Dadelek must see the situation clearly. The Living Buddha still has some kindness to you. The lama, known as Guru Yeshe, put down the leg of mutton in his hand and gestured to the Great Delek.

Hearing him say this, Da Dele really changed color slightly, and he was used to being powerful, who would want to go to prison, or even eat guns. It's better to fight, even if Batang can't stay anymore, you can go somewhere else, even India, or the United Kingdom.

"Since the Living Buddha values me so much, then I will listen to you, but my family should be transferred in advance, and it is best to leave tonight." Da Dele finally made up his mind to follow the people of the Living Buddha.

"It's really worthy of the mighty Batang Dabayi master, rejoice, I will let my people and your people escort them to Lhasa. When the matter is settled, you will be able to go with them to the British Empire to enjoy the blessings. Lama Yexi laughed presumptuously, while the lama next to him was silent, but he didn't eat the leg of mutton, and his hands were always hidden in his sleeves, and he didn't know what was hidden. Now that the matter has been decided, let's move on both sides overnight. ”

Enter the Tibetan army station.

The troops had already set up camp on this plain, and as far as the eye could see, there was a military tent hidden in the darkness under the stars, and the entire vanguard of the Tibetan army was stationed here, except for the company on duty. Having simply eaten dry food, plus some boiled compressed vegetables, the troops began to rest.

Zhuge Sheng led the vanguard and stationed this place known as the Falling Thunder Plain. Tie Sanqian followed the main force behind, and there were still too many troops of tens of thousands of people, and it was a long stretch along the way.

Looking at the starry sky overhead, Zhuge Sheng secretly said that the weather would be good in the next few days.

"Counselor Wang."

"Commander!"

An officer who was walking towards Zhuge Sheng saluted when he heard this, but he was a combat staff officer beside Zhuge Sheng.

"Is there any news from the reconnaissance company?"

"I just received an intelligence and was about to report it to the commander. According to several Han Chinese contacted by the reconnaissance company, in recent days, a group of people who had come to Batang were ostensibly engaged in the business of medicinal materials, but the two Han people were ready to ask them to buy medicinal materials, but they were rejected under the pretext that the goods were ordered. The reconnaissance company immediately dispatched capable personnel to conduct follow-up and investigation, and found that a local Dabayi was very close to this group. And just as the reconnaissance company was about to return from the power generation, it was found that the bayi was transferring his family overnight, but he himself stayed. ”

Staff Officer Wang briefly explained the situation.

Zhuge Sheng nodded, these clowns who jumped off the beam thought they were doing it seamlessly, but they didn't know that these little tricks were not even as good as singing in front of an army, and they would never have dreamed that their every move was under the surveillance of the scouts.

From beginning to end, Zhuge Sheng never worried about a large-scale military resistance from the Tibetans, after all, the gap between the modern army that has been in battle for a long time and the intriguing people on the other side is as big as the gap between civilized people and primitive people. What these people can do is some sabotage operations, such as when they were near Batang, they found that many dangerous mountain roads were completely destroyed, and they had to send sappers to repair them urgently.

After thinking for a long time, Zhuge Sheng ordered: "Order the 3rd Regiment of the 26th Division to enter Batang at dawn, control the county seat, maintain order in the county seat, and resolutely suppress it if it encounters resistance." In addition, the situation in Batang is more complicated, and we are not worried about fighting, but we have to watch out for some sabotage. ”

"Yes, Captain."

At dawn, Yang Huai, the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 26th Division, who had received the order, personally went into battle and led his troops into Batang at dawn.

After dawn, when many Tibetans walked out of their homes, they found that the whole Batang had changed.

The entire county town has been plastered with Anmin notices, the original county government axe has been taken over, the Batang County people's political axe sign has been hung at the door, and the Chinese People's Army troops stationed in Tibet Province have also been hung together. Next to them stood two rows of KPA guards in neat uniforms with rifles with bayonets on them.

"What's going on?"

"yes, what are these people doing?"

"Uncle Gesang, what's written on this?"

…… More and more Tibetans gathered around, and at this time, there were already literate Tibetans who began to read the words on the notice of Anmin, "...... After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the central government was concerned about the ethnic minority areas and was willing to promote the political and economic reform of the Tibetan provinces by means of ethnic unity and common development......"

As a result, after half a day, the people of the whole Batang understood.

Batang was completely 'liberated' by the central government, and the troops stationed there were to defend the newly established county government axe, and a number of political axe departments, including the police department, were formed.

There are also Tibetans who are bold enough to think that the words of the past few years have changed, how can the Han people enter the city overnight, and they will set up a new county government.

Slight resistance began to emerge, and some Tibetans began to hide in the shadows and throw stones at the KPA soldiers, some even brandishing knives from a distance...... The result was very simple, the heavily armed KPA did not flinch at all, rushed forward with guns and arrested the people, and at this time, both the provocative Tibetans and the onlookers were stunned. Where did they think that these soldiers, who were originally like wood, indifferent to the Tibetans' fingers and fingers, and even took the initiative to help the Tibetans, actually started the fire so quickly and so heavily.

At present, the efficiency of information dissemination is already very poor, not to mention that in this Sichuan-Tibet border area where information dissemination is extremely backward, there is no need for the People's Army to bow down to some provocations.

Several people who threw stones were arrested on the spot, and those who used knives to demonstrate did not run away, and the former Tibetan county magistrate announced their crimes on the spot, and these small number of people will become lawbreakers who undermine social stability and will be temporarily detained.

However, just in the afternoon, Yang Huai got a bad news.

"Commander, someone poisoned the well in the city!!"

Second Lieutenant Wei Renmin, the military doctor in the regiment, hurriedly found the regiment commander Yang Huai and reported the bad news to him. After the troops entered the city, Wei Renmin organized the military doctors and logistics officers and men of the regiment to test the water that the troops had to drink, but the results were shocking to find that the samples taken from several wells were contaminated to varying degrees.

"Poisoned? What kind of poison? "Yang Huai was shocked, and when he entered the city, the military staff informed him that someone wanted to sabotage the 'liberation' of Batang, and although the leaders of the current group of people were under the surveillance of scouts, some small minions might look out of sight and engage in some sabotage activities.

Wei Renmin pushed the glasses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle on the bridge of his nose and said, "Arsenic trioxide, which is what we often call arsenic." After poisoning, it is easy to have nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and other conditions. In severe cases, the limbs may have pain cramps, oliguria or anuria, coma, convulsions, and even death due to respiratory paralysis. According to our tests, the concentrations in several major wells were too high to cause death, but they were able to poison people and cause uncomfortable symptoms, which caused widespread panic. Trace amounts of the toxin were also found in a river outside the city, but the poisoners did not succeed due to the rapid flow of the water. ”

"Someone comes, immediately send someone to block the well, issue a notice, and arrest the saboteurs throughout the city." Yang Huai quickly gave an order, thinking that drinking water was still a problem, and he instructed again, "Report the situation to the military department and ask for instructions." The other two companies lined up to find more buckets and go to some safe water levels in the upper reaches of the small river outside the city to carry water for the troops and residents. ”

"The Han people don't let us drink water, which is cutting off our way of life."

When the army took over the well and sealed it, the Tibetans in the city quickly gathered around several places, especially the No. 3 well in the center of the city, the largest number of onlookers, a platoon of soldiers, bayonets and guns around the well, let the county government axe a Han staff member who understands Tibetan and a local Tibetan old man, together to explain to the onlookers, saying that the water is poisonous and cannot be drunk, if everyone needs water, they can go to the outside of the city to line up and wait for the army's water team to come back.

However, it is often the case that good intentions are not reciprocated, and at the instigation of certain extremists, some Tibetans, especially those in their twenties and thirties, have begun to be instigated.

"Everyone is quiet, quiet, the people's political axe is naturally the people's own political axe, the well has indeed been poisoned, and it is related to everyone's drinking water safety and cannot take water......"

The staff of the county political axe and the Tibetan elders explained over and over again, but under the encouragement of well-intentioned people, the crowd still began to squeeze forward, not afraid of the guns in the hands of the soldiers at all, of course, the soldiers were not afraid, the majesty of the central political axe could not be violated, and the bayonets were forward, if they were really deliberately disrupting and dared to rush over, the result could be imagined. To put it mildly, this is an ordinary task of maintaining order, and to put it mildly, it is to carry out repression.

"Fart, we have been drinking this well for decades, how can it be poisonous, it is clear that the political axe deliberately manipulates our Tibetan ......"

At the instigation of several leading elements, the crowd began to squeeze towards the soldiers, trying to fetch water, and did not listen to the explanation of the staff at all, thinking that the platoon commander Wu Qiang saw this, and the secret way was indeed the case, and sometimes, the reason does not make sense, just by reasoning, there are many things in this world that can make people alive and dead. You reason with him, he messes with you, you reason with him again, think like this, think like that, back down like this, back down like that, unite like that, unite like that, okay, people will use knives.

Therefore, when the troops entered Tibet, they received an order that when things were extremely unavoidable, they must maintain stability by iron-blooded means.

At the moment, Wu Qiang took out the 26-year-old officer's pistol on his waist, this 26-year-old Bashu-style pistol, the surname can be excellent, equipped with eight bullets, the shooting surname can be very good, and the comprehensive surname can reach the world-class level.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang......"

Wu Qiang didn't say a word, took out his pistol, and shot eight shots in a row towards the sky, and the soldiers on alert also pulled the safe, and the muzzle of the gun was slightly lowered, facing the direction of the chaotic people.

A pistol fired into the air from a few meters away, where have ordinary Tibetans encountered such a scene? Frightened on the spot, no matter how bad this thing is, it is more powerful than a shotgun, the crowd was instantly shocked, even those instigators, seeing the soldier pulling the gun safe, also realized that the play was almost done, and was ready to burrow into the crowd and retreat.

"Arrest these leaders for me, and ask them clearly!"

How could Wu Qiang let them go, with a wave of his hand, several tiger-like soldiers suppressed their anger for a long time, instantly reached the top, rushed out, and arrested several leading instigators in two or three clicks.

The other Tibetans began to retreat far away, looking at this side with complicated expressions, wanting to come up to help, but they didn't dare, who would dare to take their lives to fight with the army without the leader.

Looking at the few people who were tied up in front of him, Wu Qiang also said more, and directly asked the translator to say, "Tell them and those masses that since these people said that there is no poison in the well, it is good to say that our political axe is deliberately rectifying the Tibetan people." Open the well, bring a bucket of water, and let them drink. ”

"Ah......h

After hearing the words of the interpreter, the voices of several saboteurs, who were still loudly advocating incitement, suddenly stopped and began to struggle, but by this time, the water had already hit.

"Give it all to Lao Tzu!"

With a wave of Wu Qiang's hand, the soldiers filled several jugs of water with kettles, making a gesture to irrigate the few leaders.

"No, don't, don't let us drink...... We are forced, and we are willing to report it...... It was Master Dadelek and Master Yeshe who made us do this......"

Finally, before the well water reached the nose, as if they could already smell some strange smell, several frightened saboteurs wailed and cried, so frightened that their urine flowed, and they did everything for a while.

After all, he only knew that he had poisoned the well, but he did not know that the concentration of the poison would poison people at most, not kill them. The fear of death finally made them reveal their prototypes.

"The deputy squad leader of the first shift, immediately take two people to run and report to the regiment headquarters." Wu Qiang showed a real smile this time, in full view of everyone, the true faces of these people were finally seen by the ordinary Tibetan masses, and the next thing to do was to arrest people.

The next day, the saboteurs in Batang were taken to the end of the nest, and the Great Dele and Yeshi Lama were arrested one after another, and the two of them gave an account of everything under the threat of rifle pointing and firing at any time.

Far away in Lhasa, there was indeed a living Buddha named Sanchi, who instructed these people on their sabotage actions.

Although the two were unable to provide more information, it made the KPA more prepared for some of the next sabotage operations.

Five days later, after building a bridge across the Jinsha River, the main force of the Tibetan army left a battalion stationed in Batang to defend the newly formed county government axe and the soon-to-be-formed township political axe, and the main force began to cross the river into the real Tibetan area.

They will go straight to Lhasa after gathering the 9th Panchen Lama, who had returned to Tibet from Yushu, in Qamdo. With the follower of this living Panchen, the march of the troops will be much smoother, at least not like Batang, where there will be some small sabotage, and the real showdown may take place between this Panchen and the [***] who is far away in Lhasa.

There, the troops entering Tibet will face the 'warm welcome' of the main forces in the Tibetan areas, and once the handling is smooth, the Tibetan province will be completely settled. After all, the light infantry corps composed of three infantry divisions was enough to deter the Indians and the British and completely defend the peace of Qinghai-Tibet.

However, looking at the two major military operations in the west, the arrival time of the Tibetan army in Lhasa was lagging behind that of the Xinjiang army. Compared with some minor problems encountered by the troops entering Tibet, there are also many problems encountered by the troops entering Xinjiang, which need to be dealt with by Zhang Zizhong and Wang Zheng.

It was also when the Tibetan army arrived in Qamdo and saw the Ninth Panchen Lama who was sitting in a sedan chair that the Northwest Corps had already passed the Liuyuan in Gansu and was about to enter Xinjiang and march to Hami -

(To be continued)