A group of traitors chased them to the courtyard of the neighboring house and caught Xiao Xiaoqin. The devil soldiers also broke into the encircler elementary school Qin, and the muzzle of a devil's gun was pressed against the elementary school Qin's heart and asked loudly: "Where is the dirt eight roads, what do you say?" ”

At this time, a burly tall traitor walked in, with a thin white knife carved face, a high nose, a square mouth, a pinch of Japanese-style mustache, two fierce dog eyes, sneering and revealing three golden teeth, this is the famous traitor Qi Taihe.

He is a native of East Country. Since he was in his twenties, he has been the captain of the Kuomintang District 1, and the devil entered Ganyu to first persecute Song Jiliu, and then became a traitor, specifically against the anti-Japanese people. He has already joined the Japanese nationality, so he looks down on the Chinese very much, helps the devils, and treats the villagers very viciously.

At this time, Qi Taihe sneered and raised his leather whip to beat Xiao Xiaoqin headless and facelessly, while shouting loudly and asking: "We saw a Tubalu running into this door, where did you hide Tubalu?" Speak up! ”

Xiao Xiaoqin gritted her teeth and endured the whipping, so she couldn't help it, so she pointed and scolded: "Phew, shameless!" A traitor who has lost his conscience! ”

Qi Taihe sneered and said, "What kind of traitor and traitor, you scold me for nothing." I'm not Chinese, I'm a Japanese citizen, and I'm a citizen of Greater Japan! Qi Xueqin, who was only twelve years old, pointed to Qi's nose and asked, "Do you have an ancestor?" Are your parents Chinese? Is it really Japanese? Qi Taihe was annoyed and angry by Qi Xueqin's question, and shouted loudly: "Okay, you dare to contradict me!" I see how hard you are! ”

Qi Taihe bared his big yellow teeth and was about to pull out his war knife and stab Xiao Xiaoqin, when Qi Taihe's little brother Qi Xiaoer ran in from outside with dozens of people.

At this time, Aunt Qi squeezed to the front and shouted: "Captain Qi, the villagers, why are you beating the children." She cried and ran desperately, protecting Xiao Xiaoqin and never letting go, letting the whip hit her, and the enemy could not pull away.

Junior Brother Qi swayed angrily, walked quickly to Taihe, went to grab his whip, and said tremblingly: "Big brother, you are crazy, how can you treat the villagers like this, if you want to beat you, beat me, I can't tell you to do this." ”

Qi Taihe sneered and scolded: "If you beat you, you will beat you, and you will be killed!" ”

Scolding and holding his head is a whip, knocking Little Brother Qi to the ground. The crowd gathered around in a chaotic manner, crying and shouting, and it was impossible to tell how many people were talking.

Zheng Xiaomei listened in the dark room, the chaotic footsteps were getting closer and closer, the enemy came to this courtyard again, and she couldn't help but turn around, and her sister-in-law was busy holding her down, listening with bated breath. I only heard a group of people begging: "Big brother! …… Captain Qi! Raise your hand! …… There are no eight-way ...... here."

The traitor Qi Taihe said coldly and loudly: "You were the ones who asked the county government to shoot me a few days ago, right?!" No, this is a rat's nest on the dirt road, search for me! Also, bring the common people here, search out the eight roads and settle accounts with them! ”

Then, the sound of the butt of the gun smashing against the wall was heard from time to time. Inside the mill shed, at the entrance of the black house, the firewood and grass were also churned loudly.

"Captain!" Suddenly, a traitor shouted loudly, "Look, this is like a black room, open it, there is no one in it and there are good things hidden, we will get rich!" ”

"Come on! Come! Dig it open and find out who came to shoot them! Zheng Xiaomei and Qi Wanhong held guns at the place where the window was barred. Sister-in-law Nakaguchi also held her breath and forced the entrance of the black room with a pistol, and there was a burst of blood rolling in the black room, nervously waiting for the final duel.

Suddenly, there were a few bangs in the winter ground, and the walls of the roof fell with a clatter, and the villains used their pickaxes to pick at the walls of the black house.

Zheng Xiaomei felt an abnormal thirst and swallowed hard. Sister-in-law Zhongkou ordered in a low voice: "Prepare the grenade, Comrade Wang will lead the rush to the north of the village, and our team will cover." ”

Everyone whispered. Then there were several loud bangs in the winter ground, and a clod of earth fell from a man-high wall. Qi Wanhong cleverly took it in his hand and put it on the ground. A ray of sunlight the size of a wine cup shone through the hole in the wall, and immediately saw the dust filling it. People choked and coughed with their sleeves over their mouths, nervously clasped their guns, and held grenades ready. The pickaxe continued to gouge into the wall, and the dirt fell straight down with a clatter. After planing for a while, it actually stopped.

At this moment, an urgent whistle was heard in the sound of the commotion, followed by the sound of rifles and machine guns outside the village. So, the traitor Qi Taihe shouted fiercely: "I found a gang of Tubalu in the woods, give it to Lao Tzu and I to chase it!" Kill a dirt eight road and reward ten pieces of the ocean! ”

"Captain, what is going on here?"

"Burn! Burn them! Burn this eight-way rat nest, quick, quick! ”

A torrential hail of gunfire, cries, and chaotic footsteps.

The enemy drove the people into the north house, lit a fire, and the flames rose into the air. People were shouting in the house, smashing windows and doors, choking on smoke and coughing, and the sister-in-law was in the dark room, and they were rushing out in a hurry, and the mill was also on fire, and the billowing smoke was mixed with sparks from the ceiling into the black room. There was a pop, and the roof collapsed into a large lump of dirt. Qi Wanhong led a few people to hurriedly dig a dirt pit with their hands and bayonets and bury the grenade.

The fire, as the rafters and the fence fell, the clothes of three or four men burned, and they beat each other, and the smoke and fire rolled up the dust and smoked the tears. Sister-in-law Nakaguchi hurriedly ordered: "Quick! Look at what's going on outside! ”

Qi Wanhong stepped on the shoulders of the team members, grabbed the hole in the planed wall and looked out, struggled to knock down a section of adobe, jumped down, Zheng Xiaomei, who knew how to do martial arts, added two more feet and kicked the adobe down. As soon as people poured out, they looked back and saw that the dark room was full of fire.

Nakaguchi's sister-in-law called a member of the team to act as a guard to watch the situation outside, and then ordered everyone to brave the fire to break into the north house and rescue people outside. Burnt windows and doors were smashed. People rushed out in droves, shouting, rolling and fluttering in the yard. Many people were burned and clothed, and their hair was scattered, and they were screaming and wailing. Sister-in-law Zhongkou and Zheng Xiaomei were dripping with sweat and tears, and they broke into the fire again, shouting anxiously: "Xueqin!" Elementary school celery! Ma'am! ”

"I came out a long time ago, I see you two are confused!" The eldest lady shouted at the door of the house, and Qi Xueqin went in again to pull them out.

After a period of desperate and tense fighting, the fire was extinguished. The yard was littered with blood, mud, burnt charcoal, and smashed furniture.

Everything about the eldest mother and Xiaoxiao Qin was burned to the ground. Sister-in-law Zhongkou, Zheng Xiaomei, Xiaoxiao Qin and Auntie sat on the ground tiredly watching. The roof had collapsed, and the beams were hanging upside down, smoking and steaming. Qi Wanhong is leading the team members to hide in the mud and water.

"Hurry up, the enemy is coming again!" There was screaming outside. The people were running out in a frenzy.

In the middle of the night, in the dark wilderness, the sound of the wind sounded. The surrounding villages were inhabited by enemies again. There were devils everywhere in the village and in the woods, like devils flashing green, revealing their white teeth and countless steel helmets and thorns.

Nakaguchi's sister-in-law led the people out of the village and hid in a wheat field in the center of the new silt depression. It was flooded last year, and when the pulp was turned over in the spring, there was another spring rain, and the wheat grew a foot deep. Two or three people lay together, their heads touching their heads, and they lay silently in fear. Sometimes there was a whisper of chirping, and sometimes it was so quiet that only the rustle of wheat leaves could be heard in the wind. They were weary and cowered in the cool breeze.

Speaking of which, you must ask why the big man Xu Yunduo didn't appear on the battlefield? It turns out to be like this:

When the enemy attacked the villages of Zhengyuan, Luwang and Sangou in the south of Qingkou, Xu Yunduo, the deputy captain and the second squad leader, was leading the team members to operate in the vicinity of Dashahe Town. As soon as they came out that day, they were discovered by the detectives and immediately reported to Yang Jinbo, the traitor captain of the Dasha River. Yang Jinbo transferred thousands of Japanese puppet troops and besieged 26 people from the second squad of the Ganyu Martial Arts Brigade in the center. They fought hard for most of the day, suffered most of the casualties, and the rest were captured because they were outnumbered.

After Yang Jinbo caught Xu Yunduo, after being tortured many times, he said with a smile: "My subordinates have always dreamed of saying: 'Whoever learns from the bad guy will meet Xu Yunduo when he goes out.'" Who fed his conscience to the dog and went out to meet Song Jiliu! "I see that you Xu Yun has fallen into the hands of my Yang someone, how big can you be!" I'll give you one night now, and if you can escape in this night, you'll be my boss, and I'll never catch you again!" ”

Yang Jinbo laughed out loud after speaking, and proudly walked out of the second floor of the turret where Xu Yunduo and other team members were imprisoned.

Late at night, the big man Xu had big fingers in both hands, and asked the traitors to buckle together with fine hemp rope, sweating profusely in pain. After a while, he became numb, and the big man grinded against the corner of the wall on the windowsill, and the skin of his right thumb was frayed, and blood flowed out, and the flesh was grinded out, and the bones were grinded out, and the rope was finally broken.

The big man took care of a bag of bleeding hands and hurriedly helped the team members who were arrested at the same time to loosen the ties. When they all untied the ropes, they worked together to knock down the sentry and rush out of the house, and at the same time fled over the wall and dispersed. Xu Yunduo fled to Sangou Village overnight to find Captain Song to avenge them.

In this year, in order to establish an east-west blockade line from Ganyu to Tancheng and cut off the north-south connection between China, the enemy of Haizhou tried his best to encroach on the Hailing area (including the southwest of Ganyu County in the coastal area).

The puppet army of the enemy of Jiangxi also actively cooperated with the enemy's encroachment plan of Haizhou, and extended to Ganyu City as the center. In March, Li Yafan's headquarters was officially reorganized into the 71st Brigade of the 36th Division of the puppet Peace Construction Army, which was directly under the leadership of the puppet central government in Nanjing, and the strength of the army increased to more than 1,400 people. The strength of the puppet garrison has increased to more than 1,000 troops, and it has jointly carried out this "law and order strengthening campaign" to further carry out its so-called "total force warfare" that combines military strikes, political deception, economic sabotage, cultural narcotics, and spy rule.

Since the enemy's previous "campaign to strengthen public order" had failed, this time it was particularly vicious and did everything in its power to burn, kill, and loot. For example, on one day in March, the traitor Zhou Shaochen secretly reported to the Japanese that the peasants in Zhengyuan and Sangou in the south of Qingkou had organized a big knife meeting, secretly communicated with the Eighth Route Army, and the enemy mobilized more than 1,500 Japanese puppet troops, and at dawn on one day, surrounded the villages in the area of Zhengyuan and Sangou, arrested 39 innocent peasants, and shot them to death with machine guns in the cemetery outside the east gate of Qingkou.

In addition, more than ten people in Sangou, including Sun Laohan, Qi Laohan and Sun Damiang, were stabbed and hacked to death by devils.

In order to continue to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders who were carrying out the "strengthening of public order," on 20 April of the same year, Luo Ronghuan and other commanders of the 115th Division instructed the troops to take the task of consolidating the anti-Japanese roots as an urgent task that could not be delayed. He also pointed out that the elite army is not simply downsizing, but mainly aimed at improving the combat effectiveness of the troops. Our army's combat effectiveness has been further strengthened by streamlining the administration of the army.

While striking at the enemy with arms, our army and people have also paid attention to strengthening the work of dividing and disintegrating the enemy army, especially the puppet army. Our army implements a leniency policy towards the enemy's puppet army, and through the puppet army's family and released prisoners, it publicizes the leniency policy of our party and our army, and welcomes the puppet army to return anyway.

As a result, all those who returned to surrender were welcomed by us, and sometimes a welcome meeting was held, and souvenirs and letters of condolence were presented. According to incomplete statistics, from March to May of this year, more than 500 people in the puppet army surrendered to the puppet army.

Among them, Mu Fangxu, the battalion commander of the Shahe puppet army, and Jin Hong, the deputy battalion commander, led more than 120 people to surrender to our Eighth Route Army, and according to the opinions of the personnel anyway, they were organized into the second battalion of Haijiang, Mu Fangxu served as the battalion commander, and the sixth regiment sent Lu Benzhi as an instructor. Zhao Jinshan (nicknamed Zhao Dabeard), the leader of the pseudo-salt police squadron, led his troops anyway and taught the Second Brigade to be awarded the number of "** Brigade", which was under the jurisdiction of the old Sixth Regiment and was stationed in the villages west of the city.

The puppet army's continuous surrender has intensified the suspicion and contradictions between the enemy and the puppet army. There were constant fires and incidents between the enemy and the puppet. One day in May 1942, the Japanese army exerted pressure on Li Yafan in order to rectify the salt business, and the enemy adviser in charge of this matter, Man Siwei, went to the city to negotiate with Li.

Under our military attack and political offensive, the enemy's "campaign to strengthen public order" ended in failure.

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )