Chapter 20: The Battle on Land
Li Wei Village is close to the barracks of the "Public Security Army" and the garrison wing in Dongkan Town, and in this season, when the green gauze tent does not grow, the enemy's barracks can be clearly seen from here even in the dark, and it is said to be seven miles away from the enemy camp, but in fact, it is only four or five miles
Peng Xiong wanted to come to live in Li Wei Village, Dongkan Town, several times, because he couldn't figure out the enemy's situation, so he didn't dare to stay, in order to let the people in this town know about the secret service, beware of the special team, that night, they came to a large field in the southeast corner of Li Wei Village, where there were piles of grain, sorghum stacks, and other firewood and grass piled up everywhere
"Uncle, uncle, ......" Peng Xiong saw two elderly people sleeping in the room, hurriedly leaned under their ears and called softly, he patiently called one uncle after another, and the two spectators were like deaf people, and continued to snore him and sleep him
Peng Xiong gently pushed the old man on the left, who croaked his mouth a few times, turned over and fell asleep again; He stretched out his hand to push the old man on the right Also not awake Peng Xiong knew in his heart that these two people were awake They were just timid and afraid of things and did not dare to answer
So he lowered his voice, lowered his tone, and said more kindly: "Uncle, don't be afraid, we are the New Fourth Army, and we are the ones who fought the enemy here a few days ago, ......." At this time, although the snoring of the two old men watching the scene had subsided, they still did not answer
Four black shadows came out of the village, and they approached the big field step by step
Peng Xiong put aside the old man and got up to greet Tian Shouyao and a person who was not tall walked over This person is called Wang Zimin Yes, an underground party member He saw Peng Xiong He warmly shook his hand and said: "Chief, I haven't come here for a while, I'll let you go, the devils and spies here are what you knocked to death."
"yes, what's the reaction?"
"What reflects in one word: good"
Peng Xiong, Wang Zimin and Tian Shouyao walked to the front of the field house as they spoke, and the two old men watching the field heard Wang Zimin's words and got up early, and the old man who was sleeping on the left side said: "These comrades can scare our old brothers into wetting the bed."
The old man sleeping on the right touched the beard on the side of his mouth, "We thought it was the devil secret service, I was so scared that I didn't even dare to come out."
Peng Xiong burrowed his head into the hut and asked with a smile, "Are you still scared?"
"There are people here, of course, they are their own family, what are you afraid of, if you don't have him, you just break your lips, I'm afraid my old brothers and I won't squeak," the two old men said and moved towards the outside of the small house, and Peng Xiong hurriedly moved the door of the hut
Wang Zimin waited for the two old men to pull on their shoes, hurriedly leaned under their ears, and muttered a few words, one of them walked towards the village, and the other walked towards the edge of the village.
The two old men said one after another: "You don't have to worry about this, don't look at your age, you can't be confused to that point", "The ones you want to call are honest people who follow us with one heart."
It didn't take much time to see one black shadow after another from the village and from the nearby house where they were watching, and when they saw Peng Xiong, they were all sweet and happy in their hearts, some touched the guns of the team members, and some looked at the faces of the leaders, and they didn't squeak whether they touched or looked good, and they were all farmers who pulled hoes and planted the fields, but they seemed to be very disciplined people on this occasion, and everyone looked at them for a while, and they all silently took off their shoes and sat down on a cushion under their buttocks
At this time, the big field, which is not small, is densely packed with people
Peng Xiong looked at the local people and said, "Fellow villagers, I would like to ask Comrade Zhang Chimin, secretary of the branch, to tell you a few words."
Comrade Zhang Chimin stood up and said with a smile: "Fathers and fellow villagers, you have been hurt by the enemy, we have come to visit you on behalf of ** and the New Fourth Army, so good, no need to applaud The Japanese devil's special service team is not terrible, as long as everyone is united, ......."
It's almost dawn
The cadre team has moved to another big village, and they're eating in shifts
"Look at the enemy's signal," Peng Xiong looked at the sky to the west, and a bright fireball rose and pointed and said, As soon as his words fell, the sound of gunfire sounded like a wind in all corners of the village, and in the gunshots that could not be distinguished, there were a few small cannonballs, large and small, whistling in the air, in the streets, on the rooftops, and at the edge of the village, booming, exploding, and then a thick black column of smoke rose
At the same time, three enemy planes were no exception, circling in the sky above......
The cadres who were hunkering in the mezzanine walls of the brick bungalows looked straight ahead, and none of them raised their guns to return fire
There was a violent, long-lasting burst of gunfire, and then there was silence again, so silent that it was so unbreathless that my heart trembled
"From the encirclement of the enemy, it seems that we have been discovered; Judging from the fire reconnaissance just now, it seems that he doesn't know that we are here, and even if he knows, because we don't have the guns back, he doesn't know where we are." Peng Xiong crouched on the roof and judged the enemy's movements, and then said in a low voice, "Everyone, pay attention, the enemy will be silent for a while, and I am afraid that he will search for it."
Sure enough, Peng Xiong saw it right, three groups of three, five groups of five, and the enemy organized a small group of charges, from the east, south, and north, with rifles with bayonets on them, and ran briskly into the village
The cadres and members of the team hidden in the sandwich wall aimed their guns at the enemy who were converging in the center of the street, hoping that Captain Peng Xiong would give the order to shoot as soon as possible, but Captain Peng Xiong looked calmly as if he was waiting for something, and still looked around calmly, and did not speak
A devil with a big gun on his back, holding a small red and white flag in one hand, facing north, swinging up and down, left and right, Peng Xiong looked at this and shouted: "Please come up quickly with Comrade Nakaguchi of the Japanese Anti-War League, Secretary Wu, and that Japanese prisoner."
Officer Wu of the Anti-War League Branch and the Enemy Engineering Section climbed up to the roof of the room with the Japanese prisoner he had captured in the last battle
"Please tell the Japanese friend who knows the flag and let him see what the enemy means by waving the flag below."
As soon as Peng Xiong turned his gaze to the north, on the high embankment of the Yi River, an enemy appeared with two equally small flags
The Japanese soldier who knew the flag language spoke a string of Japanese words again, and Officer Wu turned the road in a photo; "The enemy on the embankment replied: the defense has been handed over to the garrison, and it will come to meet at once."
Peng Xiong looked at the north and thought to himself: "It seems that the rest of the enemy in the north is a puppet army......
A wing of devil soldiers walked into a three-way column, waving three sun flags, running proudly to the north entrance of the village, without standing on their feet, without stopping, until they walked into the village, the sound of big leather shoes smacking was bigger than the old cow's fart momentum, and the enemy was getting closer and closer to the effective fire of a company of machine gun shooters' crooked handles, and the more they couldn't hold it back, someone asked Peng Xiong in a low voice: "Chief, can you fight, this time you have to sweep a large area."