"No matter what the other task is, the Malingshan Mountains, as the basic maneuver area of our troops, persist in the struggle in this area, this task is definitely down, right? Lao Fang, is that right? ”

"That's right, old company commander. The task of our troops has been decided, and I will be the person who often comes and goes in our company from now on. We must fight together, win together, overcome all hardships and hardships together, and even more so together! ”

"Good!"

Fang Xiao became excited, lit a cigarette, and continued to express his emotion: "It is not easy for us as scouts to collect a valuable piece of information, let alone wind and snow, cold rain, and mountains and rivers." As the saying goes: if you don't enter the tiger's hole, you can't catch the tiger's son. When we entered the Tiger Cave, we were doing it with our heads tied around our waists. However, often we catch the tiger son and get very important information from the enemy, but we don't have the means of communication to send it out, what should we do? ”

"yes, what should I do?"

"Only rely on our feet to report? The soles of the shoes ran away, and the footboards were blistered, but the enemy situation had already undergone new changes, and the fighters that had already arrived flew away again. ”

"That's what happened!"

"However, with the telephone as a means of communication, the situation is different, and through the telephone, the enemy situation can be promptly and quickly sent to the ears of the chief and to the command organ at a higher level, so that the troops can seize the fighter plane and win the battle, and our reconnaissance work will have achievements, and we will have a price for shedding blood and sweat in the wind and rain, and this is how happy our reconnaissance personnel are!"

"The phone is good!"

"Your communications company telephone station is the eyes and ears of the command organ, and we who are scouts are also the eyes and ears of the command organ. By combining the work of the scouts with the communications company, our work can be relied on and guaranteed. If the enemy compares us to a tiger, we rely on each other, and the tiger grows wings! ”

"Yes, old man," said the communications company commander, "we must work together to be the eyes and ears of our own command organs, and with your reconnaissance work, we will also destroy the eyes and ears of the enemy's command organs!" Lao side, the work of our communications company and your reconnaissance work have similarities and differences. ”

"Yes!"

"The big difference is that we can't be as agile as you are, we always have to work on the line and the machine. You are traceable, we are traceable. ”

"We must be strict with ourselves and ensure that we complete the task!"

"Good! In this case, the enemy traitors are always looking for our traces. They want to hunt us down, they want to give us gifts to the Japanese devils. The Japanese devils are foreigners, they are unfamiliar with life, they are deaf and blind. Without the local traitors and villains as leads, they can't move an inch, and where can they find any trace of our telephone station? This time, the enemy has only stopped here for a few days, and we must pay special attention to the spies who are in ambush by the enemy. Lao Fang, you're here, it's even better. You are a military scout, but also a political scout. ”

"Are there any signs, clues?"

"Investigation is underway. There are some things worth pondering. For example, the enemy seized the Maling Mountains for a few days this time, and they didn't go anywhere, but went to a valley? Still searching over there? Just now there was news that they killed a few of us there......" The company commander said this, turned around and asked everyone: "Did the people of the old fourth regiment go to Malingshan to understand the situation and come back?" We should also send someone there to see what we need to do some research!"

The secretary general, who was brewing leek flowers on the side, replied, "They have come back, and they are reporting to Commander Chen."

When the secretary said this, Scout Xiao Zhang had quietly walked into the courtyard. Seeing that the communications company commander had woken up, he took a step forward and said loudly as he walked: "I didn't come in on tiptoe this time!" ”

The company commander introduced Xiao Zhang to Fang Xiao and said, "Old Fang, can you recognize who he is?" ”

Fang Xiao looked at the person in front of him: he saw that this person was decent, wearing a purple cloth trouser gown, a red round face, a high nose bridge, a sickle in his hand, and a box gun on his shoulder. The person who came couldn't stop looking at Fang Xiao, who was looking at him.

Fang Xiao smiled silently, pointed to his face, and motioned for someone to recognize him first.

Xiao Zhang walked back and forth in front of Fang Xiao twice, and then said seriously: "He doesn't recognize me, I can recognize him." He is Lao Fang, the deputy chief of the reconnaissance section of the reconnaissance military region, and I have read the report on the deeds of him, Lao Gu and others in Qingdao, how can I forget him? The last time we met, he was wearing a top hat and a robe, and the political commissar of Tonggu Mu was going out from the headquarters.

After saying that, there was a burst of laughter on the side of the telephone.

"Hey, Platoon Commander Zhang," Fang Xiao said, "we haven't seen each other for a long time." The last time I asked you to be a guide, I remember you said that there is no road in this Maling Mountain that you are not familiar with. This time I'm here again, and I have the opportunity to ask for your help to familiarize myself with the roads in Maling Mountain. ”

"Do you want to get acquainted with the road of this Maling Mountain in half a day?" Xiao Zhang pointed to the hill and said, "A primary school student has only been studying for half a day, and he wants to graduate." Let's be honest, when I was a child, I dug for medicinal herbs in the mountains for many years, and there are some mountain paths that I have never set foot on for miles. ”

Fang Xiao looked at Malingshan in the morning mist and said: "Anyway, you are a local, the mountain roads are always more familiar than us, I learn from you, I am a primary school student this year, and I will still be a primary school student next year!" ”

"Platoon Commander Zhang is a local," said the company commander, "not only familiar with the mountain roads here, but also familiar with the local people and local affairs." In terms of reconnoitring the enemy's situation, we can see not only the enemy on the surface, but also the hidden enemy more thoroughly than we do. The enemy occupied Maling Mountain this time, and he went to understand the situation early in the morning. The enemy has occupied Maling Mountain for a few days, and we must be careful that the enemy poisons them, and we must be careful that the enemy secretly ambushes their eyes and ears. Speaking of this, he said to Xiao Zhang:

"Is there something new about Da Whistle, Vinegar Da Zhuang, and Xiao Dun?"

Platoon Commander Zhang recounted what he had seen and heard in Dashao, Vinegar Dazhuang, and Xiaodun, and talked about the explosion of mines and snow and the casualties of the enemy. In particular, he talked about the fact that the enemy occupied Maling Mountain for several days, and did not go to all the large and small ravines, but instead cleared a valley, set fire there, searched the mountains, and killed people.

"I was supposed to rush there immediately, but I happened to meet someone from the Patrol District who said that the enemy had wounded our people in that valley, and that she and a few militiamen had rushed there to deal with it." Platoon Commander Zhang frowned and said, "She sent a letter asking us to take care of Aunt Li, so I rushed back." Where is Aunt Li? I heard that Aunt Li brought dry food and three old ladies up the mountain to hide, and I heard that she also wanted to observe the enemy and help us get some information, but now she is back? ”

The secretary took the question from Platoon Commander Zhang and said, "I haven't come back, the team has been to see it a few times, and I have prepared everything for her to eat and drink, just waiting for her to come back." —The group was in a hurry, and after not seeing the group for a while, he probably went to the mountains to look for her again. ”

The communications company commander said solemnly: "Aunt Li didn't come back so late, we can't just rely on the group to find her, we should send a few soldiers and militia to find her." Zhang Pai Zhang, you came just in time, you should immediately take your platoon of soldiers and militia to find her!"

Platoon Commander Zhang agreed again and again, and was about to take people out to climb the mountain. The observation post on the hillside behind him ran down to report that Da Li, the district commissioner, was walking here with the four stretchers. Hearing that Da Li was back, Platoon Commander Zhang hurriedly climbed the back slope to observe.

In the distance, on the high and low hill slope, Da Li, a member of the patrol district committee, was walking.

This position, known as the district committee member of the patrol district, was a personnel establishment unique to the management of mountain areas during the war. The mountainous areas are empty, sparsely populated, and the villages are scattered, and for the convenience of management, the grass-roots government agencies divide a number of cadres into a certain piece of mountain area to manage a certain piece of mountainous area, and the cadres who manage a certain piece of mountainous area in this division of labor are called district committee members.

Da Li is the district committee member who divides labor to manage the mountainous area of Vinegar Dazhuang. She was one of the first young women to come to her senses in the Taiyi Mengshan Mountains. She is the daughter of Aunt Li. The family lives next door to the Primorsky Naval District Command.

During the occupation of Maling Mountain by the Japanese invading army, Da Li was busy supervising and inspecting the clear of the fortified walls in this mountainous area, armed mobilization, and various anti-Japanese and national salvation work, including women's work. In order not to drag down her daughter and let her devote all her energy to revolutionary work, her widowed mother cooperated with several mothers in her neighborhood to carry out activities.

This widowed mother, before the Eighth Route Army entered the mountainous area to establish a base area, she used to work as a day laborer for the landlord's old exploiter. Got to know the character of his family's jackals. Ten years ago, her eldest son Li Da died at the hands of the old exploiting little lover Sour Cabbage. Although a blood debt is recorded in the account of sour cabbage, it also accounts for the exploitation of the landlords.

Everyone knows that sour cabbage does not have the old exploitation as a backer, does she dare to commit evil? Without the protection and support of the old exploiters, would she have been able to escape the Northeast? Although the anti-Japanese national united front policy unified the old exploiters, everyone worked together to resist Japan and save the country. However, the old exploiter has a ghost in his heart, a wolf heart does not die, and he pretends to entertain, so he must be vigilant.

With a high degree of revolutionary vigilance, my mother watched the old exploiters sneak into the valley when the enemy invaded the place. Subsequently, she and the three old ladies also entered the valley......

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )