Chapter 44: Burning with Anger

After that, they were beaten several times a day, and the eight warriors did not eat a bite of food or drink a sip of water for six days and six nights in Mussels. At night, I slept with my hands tied behind my back, and used a wooden stick to pass through everyone's flanks, connecting eight people together, and everyone could only sleep on half of their bodies, and no one dared to move, and everyone would have pain when they moved.

Machine gun squad leader Yuan Feiyou, soldiers Meng Zhaoge, Sun Yukun, Li Huiyuan, Ma Peizhen, Sun Hongtai, He Beisheng, Zhang Xiuge, a total of eight warriors were transported by the enemy in a car from Qingkou to Xinpu. Everyone was covered with wounds, their faces were vegetable yellow, their cheekbones were exposed, their clothes were tattered and there were dark blood clots, but everyone's hearts still belonged to the revolution, the Eighth Route Army, **.

The interrogation has begun again!

"Are you the 115th Division teaching the 2nd Brigade or the 2nd Mountain Column? What is your battalion commander's name? What is the company commander called? What is the name of the regimental leader? What is the unit number? The devil grunted for a moment, and the interpreter asked.

No one agreed, and after a while, the machine gun squad leader suddenly spoke: "Your mother X, kill if you want to, don't want to ask half a sentence!" ”

The soldier Ma Peizhen also spoke: "The battalion commander is called to fuck your ancestors for three generations!" ”

The devil asked the translator what he said, the translator didn't dare to say, the devil got angry and asked him to translate it literally, and the translation palace translated what they scolded, and the devil jumped up in anger, and a devil ran to Ma Peizhen's side and kicked him in the face with leather shoes, kicking Ma Peizhen's nose off, and blood sprayed out.

The devil asked a few more words, but the answer was still scolding, but the devil couldn't, so he tied them to their knees on the ground, and poured buckets of cold water on the warriors, and everyone shivered coldly, and their teeth made a "knocking" sound.

After pouring the cold water, a pot of blazing fire was brought, and the devil forced them to eat the red-hot scum, put it on their hands, and burned it until it bubbled, and asked, "Is it cold?" ”

"It's better to say it, so as not to suffer the crime," the traitor interpreter advised.

"You are a dog traitor, a Chinese without conscience!"

The devil had no choice, so he had to take them up, interrogate them every day, ask another question, and be punished every day, bitten them with vicious dogs, beaten with iron hammers, beaten with bamboo poles and iron rods, but only conquered their **, did not conquer their hearts, some scolded, some talked nonsense, but never told the secret.

The devil kept the eight warriors in a small iron cage, and only four people could stand, and four people could sit. After six days and six nights of pain, everyone looked forward to dying early.

On the seventh day, the devils escorted them to Chengnan Pass and tied them to a courtyard that burned countless patriots and countless revolutionary soldiers. In the courtyard, four warriors were tied to two wooden pillars more than a foot thick, ready to be burned to death the next day.

The night soothed the pure revolutionary hearts of the warriors, and the stars in the sky twinkled as if they were moved by such a heroic story. For the liberation of the nation, for the liberation of mankind, for the revolution, it is worthwhile and glorious to die, everyone thinks the same way.

Comrade Meng Zhaoge was doing his actions. His hands were tied behind his back, and he struggled to break free from the iron rope that was tied up, and although the skin was torn, he broke free, and then he untied the iron rope from the pillar, and it took a great deal of effort to free his whole body.

Immediately he untied the three warriors who had been tied to him, and the iron ropes were tightly tied, and one more was untied, but it was already midnight.

There was a sound of leather shoes, and the devil sentry entered. "It's bad, it's terrible!" Thinking so, they ran to the post and bowed their heads. The sentry stood at the door and looked out again, and everyone began to move again, and untied two more, and the chicken had already crowed twice, and it was almost dawn.

However, there were four comrades tied to another pillar, but they couldn't take care of it. For this reason, under the persuasion of the comrades, when the sentry went to call the sentry, they ran south across the railway together.

"Ping! Ping! "The guns rang out from the north, probably because the sentry came back and saw a few guns that had just been fired.

They ran more than a mile, and there was a ditch in front of them. They analyzed it and thought it wouldn't be too deep, so they all went down. When they all went down, they found that they were more than a foot deep, and they could drown all four of them. They climbed for a long time, and Sun Yukun and Li Huiyuan climbed up easily, so they had to run south together. However, the last machine gun squad leader and Meng Zhaoge also climbed up, only ran for more than a mile, and the machine gun squad leader couldn't run, so he had to lie on the ground panting. The place where his foot was bitten by the dog was very swollen, and the place where his toe was kicked by his leather shoes was also rotten, and Comrade Meng Zhaoge helped him not far away, so he had no strength to run again.

So, the machine gun squad leader said weakly: "You go back!" Comrade Meng! You go back alone, I can't walk. ”

Meng Zhaoge said with tears in his eyes: "Squad leader! You ......"

In fact, Comrade Meng Zhaoge could only go alone, he wiped the tears of the revolution and ran forward alone......

Comrade Meng Zhaoge did not dare to go into Zhuangzi to find food because he was afraid of the search of devils and traitors, so when he was hungry, he would find a mouth of cold water to drink, and when he was tired, he would find a sheltered nest on the ground to sleep for a while, and then go forward when he woke up from the cold.

One day, Meng Zhaoge walked across the railway to the vicinity of Haizhou, and heard from the common people that there were 2308 Route troops stationed in Zhuangzi in the west. The garrison chiefs warmly welcomed him, and because he was too tired, they sent him to the hospital to recuperate for a while.

After the machine gun squad leader Yuan Youfei left Meng Zhaoge, he stubbornly and slowly climbed to a place that was only more than two miles away from Qingkou, and met our local work comrades who carried him back, because he was too injured to die on the second day of the hospital......

"You must take revenge! Old Sixth Regiment, you wipe out all those guys at the head of the sea, give me no land! Zeng Guohua, the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, saw this tragic scene and gave an order with red eyes.

At 10 o'clock in the evening of November 7.

The team was arranged around the head of the sea, the main force of the first battalion of the old sixth regiment was in the southwest, the second squad was in the northwest to make a feint, and one company bypassed the south gate to the southeast, ready to block the fleeing enemy. To the east is the sea, and it is estimated that the tide is coming up, so the "youth team" (the traitor team formed by the Japanese devils in the seaside) will take a sea bath.

Before the moon came out, a squad of us in the southwest climbed into the ground thirty meters away from the enemy sentry and stopped, and set up machine guns under the ridge.

"Password!" A puppet army standing under a tree. As soon as he saw the sound of a machine gun, he hurriedly pulled the bolt and asked for the password.

There was no answer.

"Are there sentinels outside?" A black shadow came out of the enclosure, which was asked by the puppet army at the checkpoint.

"Nope!" The sentry replied.

"Don't rob, catch them alive! Catch it alive! The little leader of the traitors who checked the sentry said and ran in, brought more than thirty people, and ran in our direction. It was only about twenty meters away. "Boom!" The first grenade knocked out five or six enemies. Immediately after that, "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ...... "The remaining ** puppet army ran into the fence quickly, and we took advantage of the victory to chase it through the gap in the wall.

"Both! All! All! …… Rumble! …… All! All! All! …… Rumble! "All sides are fighting.

More than 40 puppet soldiers in the southwest corner room surrendered their guns under the power of our grenades.

"Hit more, play more, base more! ...... "The southwest opened the rice trumpet, which is a sign of our victory, and then the trumpets sounded on all sides. In less than ten minutes, all the ministries came in.

Zhang Xingsan, the head of the puppet youth team who became a traitor, got up from the bed, his shoes were not yet worn, he raced barefoot with the scattered puppet army, ran to the seaside, and hurriedly jumped on a sailboat, rocking the oars to open the boat, and the scattered puppet army also got on two boats, climbed up with great strength, and most of the people who couldn't climb were drowned in the sea under the pursuit of machine guns.

However, because the latter two boats were carrying too many people, one of them had just gone not far and its hull overturned, and more than 30 "youth teams" went to see the "Sea Dragon King" overnight. The battle was over, the team assembled in the empty field of the south gate, and the brigade headquarters ordered the old sixth regiment to take advantage of the victory to capture Xingzhuang.

It was almost twelve o'clock, and the moon on the missing side emitted a silver light, and the soldiers quickly moved south along the road to Zhao Shazi, where a platoon of the puppet Li Donghai Division was also beaten away by three grenades of the Old Sixth Regiment.

The team continued to march south, and arrived in front of Li Xiangzi (one mile north of Xingzhuang).

"Dada Dada ......" a burst of machine guns fired at the old Sixth Regiment, and the front was full of open land, so the first battalion of the old sixth regiment detoured to the southwest, and the enemy found that the Eighth Route Army was on their flank, and slipped out of Li Alley and ran to the small bunker north of Xingzhuang.

In front of the small land fort was another flat land, the enemy's light and heavy machine guns roared desperately, the old sixth regiment could not advance, suddenly the weather changed greatly, the moon was gone, and it was very foggy: no one could be seen ten meters away, so the team took this opportunity to advance, entered the front of Xingzhuang, and surrounded Zhuangzi.

Xingzhuang is inhabited by devils, puppet army cadres, artillery, grenadiers, five heavy machine guns, more than ten light machine guns, cross-fire, but none of our team retreated, just a heroic charge.

After five charges did not rush in, the devil reinforcements of the five cars of Qingkou arrived, and the sky was almost dawning, and the old sixth regiment withdrew safely.

The enemy of Xingzhuang spent four days in a panic, and on the evening of the fifth day, our old sixth regiment regained Xingzhuang.

The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army's coastal main force taught the Second Brigade to begin an attack on the enemy's puppet strongholds along the coast of Qingkou on 19 March of the same year, and fought viciously for six days, planning to conquer the enemy's puppet strongholds of Haitou, Xingzhuang, Zhudu, Zhangchengzi, Lichengzi, Danangou, Menliukou, and Henggou, and once attacked Qingkou and Xiakou, killing more than 800 Japanese soldiers, capturing nearly 1,000 people below the captain of the puppet brigade, and capturing more than 800 long and short guns and countless bullets.

The Battle of Mussel dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders, eliminating the third regiment of the puppet "suppressing the communist army" and inflicting heavy losses on the first and second regiments. Under the deterrence of our army, the enemy retreated to three strongholds of Qingkou, the county seat, and the Dasha River. The 115th Division of our Eighth Route Army took advantage of the victory to march to southern Jiangxi and the East China Sea, and most of the area north of the Longhai Railway was controlled by our army. All plans for the Battle of Mussel were successfully completed.

After the victory of the Battle of Qingkou, our Eighth Route Army correctly implemented the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, warmly received the families of the puppet soldiers who came to visit, and released the puppet soldiers who did not want to stay after a short period of education. My policy of educating and releasing prisoners had a tremendous impact on the thinking of the puppet army and laid the foundation for the work of winning over the puppet army in the future.

The victory in the Battle of Qingkou has boosted the confidence of the vast number of soldiers and civilians in the base areas in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Rallies were held in various localities to congratulate our army one after another. Since then, the coastal anti-Japanese base area has entered a stage of vigorous development. The building of the party organization in Ganyu County, the building of the anti-Japanese regime, and the development of the mass movement at the east gate of the coastal area have also entered a new historical period.