The commander looked at the old man, and felt that what the old man said was wrong, but he didn't know how to convince him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The old man walked up to Cao Sihu and said, "Three dogs, do you know it's wrong? ”

Cao Sihu glared at the old man angrily and scolded: "Old and immortal dog! Boss, don't listen to him, this old Wang Ba turned out to be the landlord's uncle, Lao Tzu occupied the landlord's ancestral house, he wanted to use me to establish his authority so that he could be his outsider again! Lao Tzu, I would rather die under the gun of the fourth master than die under the stick of this old dog! ”

The commanders and fighters looked at the old man who was trembling with anger, and understood in their hearts that although the Qing Dynasty had been destroyed for 30 years, there were still many old people in the rural villages who thought about the former Qing Dynasty, and these old people hoped to return to the time when the landlords and squires said nothing in the countryside, and these old people often tried their best to stand in the village in order to deter the rural people. This Cao family brother was originally the guard of the original Cao family landlord, and the old man just wanted to take the opportunity to be another Cao family landlord.

The commander and fighter pulled Cao Sihu behind him and said, "This is not good, the people I am talking about are not only our Caojiazhuang's, but all the people who have been hurt by him, he is going to go to the Northwest Township Government compound to accept the public trial, if you have any grievances at that time, you can say it here first, and then we will settle accounts together!" ”

All the villagers looked at each other, but still did not speak.

Cao Sihu laughed and said, "You say, say it quickly, I see that after you say it, how will I clean you up when my third brother comes back?" ”

The New Fourth Army next to him heard that Cao Sihu was still arrogant, and kicked him to the ground, and the commanders and fighters hurriedly grabbed the soldiers, looked at the surrounding villagers, and knew that there should be no results today, so they said, "Okay, everyone, let's wait for us to kill them all before settling the score!" ”

Cao Sanhu on the other side ran all the way to Fence Dou Mountain, and there was also a group of mountain bandits entrenched on Fence Bucket Mountain, they saw that it was Cao Sanhu, and Wan Jiasheng, who took the lead, greeted him with a smile and said, "Brother Cao, what's wrong today?" What about the fourth brother and the brothers? ”

Cao Sanhu gasped and said, "Brother Wanjia, our brother is on the road, and he was surrounded and beaten in the village by the New Fourth Army, so I escaped, please help Brother Wanjia for the sake of Brother Lulin, and help me rescue my fourth brother." ”

Wan Jiasheng listened and touched his chin and said, "The soldiers of the New Fourth Army are strong and strong, the Japanese can't beat them and run away, let's provoke the old birthday star, don't you eat arsenic and find death?" ”

Cao Sanhu also knew that it was not possible to not bleed, so he said, "Some time ago, I robbed the convoy of the New Fourth Army, as long as ten thousand things help me, I will share half of that thing, which is tens of thousands of oceans." ”

Wan Jiasheng's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he smiled, "Okay!" Happy, I'll send someone to investigate immediately, and we'll snatch the fourth brother out when the time comes! ”

The two had tea at the cottage on the mountain, and Cao Sanhu asked people to gather their subordinates, and when it got dark, a bandit ran and said, "Big brother, it's been found out, our people saw that the group of yellow skins escorted the fourth master to the northwest town, saying that they were going to be tried and shot." ”

Cao Sanhu was anxious when he heard this, stood up and bowed to Wan Jiasheng and said, "I also hope that the Wan family brothers can help the younger brother." ”

Wan Jiasheng nodded and said, "Okay, then we will fight tonight without further ado, if it is late, the New Fourth Army will come to reinforcements." ”

After that, the two of them rushed to the Northwest Town with nearly two or three hundred bandits and bandits, and when they arrived at the Northwest Town, they saw that there were only a few scattered patrols of the New Fourth Army on the earthen wall.

"Tong" "Tong" "Tong"

Suddenly, I don't know where a few searchlights came, hitting the place where Cao Sanhu, Wan Jiasheng and others were staying as if it was daytime, Cao Sanhu raised his hand to cover his eyes, and before he could react, he heard the sound of a machine gun "dong dong dong".

It turned out that since knowing that Cao Sanhu had fled, the New Fourth Army guessed that this group of bandits would definitely come to the rescue, and had been waiting for a long time near the northwest town, and this time it was the main force of the New Fourth Army that came to suppress the bandits, not only light and heavy machine guns, but even anti-aircraft machine guns, only to see more than 20 machine guns of all kinds in the city, in the grass, on the mound against the bandits gathered together, these bandits are all robbers, where do you know the way of fighting, plus the mortar exploded, immediately frightened to run around, The whole battle ended in less than a quarter of an hour under the charge of the New Fourth Army.

- The next day

The villagers in the vicinity of Northwest Town all heard the news that shocked them incomparably: The Cao brothers and Wan Jiasheng and a group of people who had been committing crimes in the vicinity for more than 10 years had been arrested by the New Fourth Army, and Cao Sanhu was even killed on the spot during yesterday's encirclement and suppression.

The square outside the Northwest Town Government has been erected at this time, nearly 100 people knelt on the ground and pressed a piece of black pressure, many of them were still covered in blood, several soldiers of the New Fourth Army took turns to say the origin of these people, let people go up to identify, these people have been doing evil for many years, I don't know how many people have been bullied, first one or two cowardly went up to identify, and slowly people began to flow endlessly, except for a very small number of bandits who were not pointed out to have done anything bad, most of the people committed crimes were enough for them to kill several heads.

It was noon, and when the commanders and fighters at the head saw that it was almost time, they began to pronounce the verdict, lined up all the bandits who had been identified, and shot them in public.

After the gunshots, there were bursts of cheers. Seeing that the New Fourth Army actually dragged these bandits to the gate of the township government and shot them after the public trial, all the common people had a light in their eyes, they didn't know how long they hadn't encountered such a thing, whether it was the former Qing Dynasty or Yuan Dashuai, or the chairman of the committee and the Japanese, they were all around these bandits, and even if they were attacked, they were often killed after receiving gold and silver, especially when they heard that the officer of the New Fourth Army said that they would sweep away all the bandits, they were even more excited and couldn't help themselves.

Who would want to live in a place where they don't even dare to go out at night, and who would want their hard-earned money to be robbed by this group of killers?

A person stood up excitedly and said, "I want to report!" I'm going to report that there are bandits over there in the thirty-two! They even robbed me of my money! ”

"I'm going to report it too, I know where the black bastards are hiding."

"Me! And me!! ”

When the crowd was excited outside, in the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yancheng, Jiang Cheng was sitting in his position and talking to Chen Yi and others about the three evils of northern Jiangsu.

"This time the incident is very typical, Cao Sanhu and Cao Sihu are standard habitual bandits, and that old man Cao is a representative of the clan, although they don't want the bandits to become bigger, but they want to use them to protect themselves and plunder others. At the same time, we raided their bandits' den on Fendou Mountain, and found that this Wanjiasheng was also related to the cult, hehe, it is really inextricably linked, 203, you now know why I said that we can't immediately move the set in Yan'an and Shanxi, this is really every place has its own situation. Liu Dake couldn't help but shake his head as he spoke, he originally wanted to quickly open up the situation of large-scale production in the base area, but if he didn't solve these problems, he couldn't build as much construction as Shanxi and Yan'an.

Jiang Cheng nodded and asked, "What is the opinion of the common people after we suppress the bandits?" There must be quite a few bandits who are willing to cooperate with us, right? ”

Chen Yi nodded and said, "Yes, of course there is, I analyzed it, these bandits can be said to be divided into three kinds, one is because of poverty or because of the oppression of local tyrants and inferior gentry and has to become bandits, one is political bandits for the purpose of promotion and wealth, and the other is habitual bandits for the purpose of pursuing pleasure, we believe that for the first type, we must use people's livelihood means to put an end to it, and the second and third ones must be severely cracked down!" We are ready to salute first and then soldiers, and use political means to persuade them to cooperate with us, and eliminate all those who do not repent! ”

Liu Dake said approvingly, "Yes, this time we exterminated the Cao family brothers and Wan Jiasheng and a group, and some people in Caojiazhuang said that we did not issue a notice first to suppress the bandits this time, and we did not prove the evidence, which is completely illegal." This is mainly because many of the Cao family brothers and bandits are from Caojiazhuang, and some of their relatives are unhappy for them, I think we need evidence, the bandits brutalized the people, killed the soldiers of the New Fourth Army and the wounded and sick, this is the evidence. Speaking of legality, it is legal for us to protect the people and ask the bandits for blood debts. It is said that the suppression of bandits has not issued a proclamation, does not prove evidence, and is not legal, and it will never be the real masses. ”

After that, Liu Dake took out a document and said, "And I think we need to quickly promulgate some laws in our base areas, especially in terms of bandits, I have written some ideas overnight, everyone take a look at them together, if there is no problem, we will publish them." ”

Chen Yi took it, looked at it with Jiang Cheng and others, and only saw that this was a document that made the "Interim Regulations on the Punishment of Bandits in the Anti-Japanese Northern Jiangsu Region", which not only stated that the death penalty or fixed-term imprisonment would be imposed under any circumstances, but also that the bandits were allowed to surrender themselves according to the actual situation, and even after being arrested, they could be commuted because of their confession or good behavior.

Jiang Cheng smiled, "I think this is very good, and since there are many people who become bandits because they can't live a good life, why not give them a chance, as long as they turn themselves in with weapons, even if they are anyway, we can set up surrender points in all counties and towns, let them surrender nearby, and we can also give them rewards, such as bringing a person to surrender as a reward for some production tools or money." ”

Chen Yi said with a smile: "203 is a good suggestion, I think it is necessary to pull, hit and stroke, and multi-pronged approach to be effective." ”

Seeing that the New Fourth Army was really determined to eliminate the bandits, and the anti-Japanese governments in various places were also vigorously organizing production, those annoying landlords and squires also reined in a lot because of the New Fourth Army, and even were suppressed or fled in fear. Within a month, the New Fourth Army successively swept away Gu Baocen, Zuo Xiangwu, Zuo Yaodong, Ji Jianwu, Song Yiliang, Peng Kuanfu, Wang Hechen and many other bandit forces, and the bandits in the base areas in northern Jiangsu were cleared up more than ninety percent, and only a few bandits did not surrender, but under the strong armament of the New Fourth Army, they were only broken by each one.

Jiang Cheng didn't care about the fate of these bandits, he took Liu Dake and others to his warehouse at this time.

"These are books, these are machinery and equipment, these are hoes and farm tools, over there are cloth medicines, and in the innermost part are weapons and ammunition and some military supplies."

Jiang Cheng said as he walked, Liu Dake and the others' eyes felt dazzled, Chen Yi rubbed his hands and asked, "How much does this cost?" ”

Li Qian also felt distressed when she looked at it, and she didn't know what to say when she looked at Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng said hehehe, "Of course, these are all money, there is no free lunch in the world, but it doesn't matter, after the development of our base area in northern Jiangsu, these things are nothing." ”

Liu Dake shook Jiang Cheng's hand and said, "Thank you Comrade 203, our New Fourth Army will definitely develop the base area." ”

Several people looked at the things in one warehouse after another, thinking about the future, Jiang Cheng saw a guard walk in and handed Li Qian a piece of paper, Li Qian glanced at it, walked quickly to Jiang Cheng's side and said, "Host, a telegram from Germany." ”

Jiang Cheng nodded apologetically to Liu Dake and the others, walked to the side and looked at it, only looked at it a few times, and then frowned.

Seeing Jiang Cheng like this, Liu Dake couldn't help but ask with concern, "203, is something wrong?" ”

Jiang Cheng sighed and said, "This is news from Germany, yesterday Hitler and the Japanese ambassador had a secret talk for one night, this morning, several German military factories got the news that they want to provide some military technology to Japan, it seems that Germany and Japan have reached an agreement." ”

Although Liu Dake, Chen Yi and others are in China, they are all very concerned about the international situation, Chen Yi asked, "Germany and Britain and France have been at war for several months, and there has been no war, what does it mean to be friendly with Japan now?" 203 You have been abroad for a long time, give us an analysis? ”

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "If I guess correctly, Germany has made up its mind to change from a sit-down war to a hot war with Britain and France, and Germany is not confident that it can quickly end the Anglo-French coalition, so they are very worried that the Soviet Union behind them will stab them, they are now holding the Soviet Union with a large number of trade orders, while secretly befriending Japan, in case the Soviet Union and Germany go to war, they can use Japan to contain the Soviet Union.... If I am not mistaken, Germany must have failed in its diplomatic attempts with Britain and France. ”

Liu Dake asked, "Diplomatic attempts?" Did Hitler still want peace talks? ”

Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "I don't know whether Hitler really wants peace talks or just diplomatic blackmail, but judging from the fact that Germany only dares to secretly order German military factories to cooperate with Japan, Germany still doesn't want the Soviet Union to know, which means that there should be some time before the war, and I think if it doesn't break out before October, it will wait until next year." ”

Liu Dake shook his head and said, "Europe is too far away, let's do our own thing first." ”

(To be continued.) )