Chapter XXIV: Windfall

The deep ditches on both sides of the highway here can't be climbed hard during the day, so Peng Xiong decided to go to the Beicaiqiao stronghold, so he had a second time to mess around, and now he found a lot of cars parked near the Beicaiqiao stronghold, and immediately called out to Tian Shouyao: "We originally planned to use this suit to fool the enemy into breaking through the highway again, and now, even if we successfully break through the highway, the enemy will find out that we will get in a car and chase after it, and then the problem will be more serious, and we will make him do nothing, hurry up, and ......."

After hearing about Peng Xiong's new plan, Tian Shouyao was so happy that he couldn't wait to fly to Beicai Bridge at once, and he thought to himself: "Let's also burn the enemy camp for 700 miles like in "Three Kingdoms"."

When the general approached the stronghold, he found that two liaison flags were waving on the turret, and the Japanese prisoners who knew how to speak the flags waved the small flags in their hands, and the sentries on the turrets disappeared immediately

Tian Shouyao was no stranger to the terrain of the Beicaiqiao stronghold He walked in front of a dozen cars and walked straight to the point The drawbridge in the stronghold had already been flattened and waited Tian Shouyao led everyone to walk in casually as if they were walking into their own house

More than a dozen puppet soldiers lined up with guns to greet them; Dozens of car drivers' gunners also gathered together, cloaking their hands, some with their hands in their trouser pockets, and standing by to watch the excitement

Peng Xiong, who was dressed as a devil officer, asked on the horse: "All of your people have come over?"

"It's all here, Taijun, and the sentries standing guard on the turret have also come down to greet the imperial army," a short and fat man with a jujube core head and triangular eyes with his legs together, his eyes level, and reported cautiously

Peng Xiong pointed down the car driver and gunner with his finger: "You car drivers have gunners."

"Yes, we are driving and shooting"

"We just drive and shoot guns, but we don't shoot guns"

"No one has a gun," the driver and gunner replied in a word

The puppet soldiers and gunners in the turret were all driving cars and gunners, and Peng Xiong no longer had any worries about this, and he immediately ordered in Chinese: "You should surrender your guns." When the puppet soldiers were still confused, the weapons in their hands were immediately dismounted by Tian Shouyao and them

As soon as Peng Xiong said the order, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army were like tigers coming down the mountain, jumping and jumping to carry out the tasks assigned before, Zhang Chimin grabbed a car driver and ran out; Wu Ruiqing carried a roll of reed mats on his shoulders and drilled into the turret When the commander of a company caught a barrel of gasoline and poured it into the car like splashing water, the cannon tower had already asked Wu Ruiqing to light it......

"Deputy Company Commander Wang, hurry up and draw the fire" The first company commander poured gasoline and shouted; Deputy Company Commander Wang held torches in his hand and lit them one after another, shouting, "Look, I have to call them dragons."

The car caught fire and burned violently; When the fire met the strong wind, it burned more and more, and the cannonball on one side also exploded

Thirty-five Toyota trucks lined up in a zigzag shape turned into a fire in the blink of an eye......

On the third day, the cadres moved to camp east of Beicai Bridge, and this time the enemy knew about it again, and surrounded it again, but what was the use? But after another pounce, the cadres safely arrived at ** Zhuang on the edge of the Yellow River, and prepared to take a civilian boat to Zhewangkou, Ganyu County, Binhai District, and go ashore across Shandong to Yan'an

"Comrade Combat Staff Officer and Comrade Two Company Commanders, thank you for escorting, we are leaving, let's break up here," Peng Xiong looked at the combat staff officer and the two company commanders who were in a daze, and said, "Although our cadres need your cover, the party and the people here need you even more, so go back and say hello to the two chiefs, Kecheng and Aiping."

"No, we were ordered by the two leaders, Huang and Zhang, to specially escort you to Binhai Ganyu County, and we have no courage not to carry out the orders of the division commander," the operational staff officer squeezed up and said

Tian Shouyao saw that they were arguing, so he smiled and said: "The two of us write a note, you can go back and report to Huang and Zhang, everything here is all borne by the two of us, okay, lead the team to bring back all the spears here."

The "......" operations staff officer reluctantly took two companies back

Huang Kecheng and Zhang Aiping were very angry when they saw the note written by Peng Xiong and Tian Shouyao, Huang Kecheng slapped the table, blushed and said: "Play the piano indiscriminately, how do you act as a staff officer, you don't even listen to our orders, if something happens to their cadres, I will kill you."

Zhang Aiping saw that this scene was not good, so she looked at the aggrieved staff officer and interjected softly: "You quickly take two cavalry companies to speed up the horses and catch up, and after catching up, hand over the horses to the second company and bring them back, and you take a company to escort them quickly."

The two cavalry companies, when they did not catch up with the cadres, actually ran into the enemy and fought for a day and a night, and the combat staff officer was also killed in the battle, but they still did not catch up with the cadres

Although the cadres are not combat units, they are an indestructible force that has been tempered into steel

On the morning of 16 March, Lao Wang, the captain of the boat, came to him with a smile on his face and excitedly told Chief of Staff Peng and Brigade Commander Hetian, "The wind will definitely leave today." He pointed to the small pennant on the mast of the ship and showed them, "We are going to the northwest, how good is the southeast wind."

Brigade Commander Tian was a thoughtful and cautious man, and he estimated in detail all kinds of possible situations and asked the boss to solve them, and Lao Wang then said: "We can reach our destination, Zhewang (our base in the coastal area) tomorrow morning at the latest, and pass through the enemy blockade line in Lianyungang, and it will be fine, and we will not encounter the enemy, and if the enemy comes at night, they have a light on the ship, and they will see it from afar, and they will go around a bend, and if the wind changes, they will go back, and wait for a day before leaving."

Lao Ma, the instructor who led the work on the civilian boat, said: "Based on their experience of going several times, they will not reach the enemy."

Tian Shouyao said: "Yes, he often travels back and forth to do business in northern Jiangsu and Shandong, and he is very familiar with this road, and the ship's boss, Lao Wang, is 63 years old this year, and has spent more than 40 years at sea, so his rich experience at sea is a guarantee, and he is not taking the route designated by the enemy, and he will not be able to touch the enemy by opening another route and driving in the middle of the sea."

When Chief of Staff Peng heard this, he looked at the sky and said with determination: "Let's go."

"Okay," the boat boss Lao Wang was afraid that everyone would not be at ease, and said with a smile, "Yesterday the tide was low, and the boat stayed on the beach of the Yellow River, this is a large civilian ship with a load of nearly 8,000 tons, a draft of four feet deep, eight large cabins, and six masts more than three feet high, and it is safe at sea, as long as there is a good wind, and the big sail is pulled up, it will definitely be able to reach Zhewang at 11 o'clock tomorrow."

When the tide came in the afternoon, Chief of Staff Peng was the first to take off his clothes and jump into the yellow water, and everyone followed along, helping the boat boss to push the civilian boats, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces, and even the comrades of the coastal defense team who were standing on the bank of the Yellow River to see them off were so happy that they clapped their hands happily and shouted happily: "I wish you all good luck and peace."

The boat sailed slowly on the torrent of the Yellow River Chief of Staff Peng, Brigade Commander Tian, Director Zhang, Minister of Supply Wu Ruiqing, and Director Huang Guoshan, Director of Security of the Yanfu District Administration Bureau, who were sitting in the head cabin...... They all stood up, smiling, and waving to the send-offs, and told them to go back, How could they go back? More than a hundred people stood on the shore with attachment, like screens, watching the dear chief go away, almost forgetting that the tide was about to rise to their feet

After walking more than three miles, I saw the lighthouse at the mouth of the Yellow River The turbidity of the Yellow River disappeared into the boundless Yellow Sea The bow of the ship was dropped The sailors struggled to pull the tent Suddenly burst the sound of the firecracker: in the crisp sound of the crackling crack, it exploded with a "bang" This is the sound of heaven and earth Chief of Staff Peng ran from the head cabin to see that it was the sailor squad leader Xiao Wang who put it He said: "Look at Chief of Staff Peng, the wind is smooth, and I am not happy and happy when I see that we are about to reach Zhewang."

The boss of the ship, Lao Wang, sat at the back of the head cabin, like a battle-hardened general, holding the helm steadily, the four-inch-long white beard hanging down from his chest, fluttering in the east wind, the tent was full of the sea breeze, and the sea surface of the green fungus was rolled with bursts of snow-white waves, and the boat chased the waves, and sailed quickly into the vast sea, and this northbound ship was a large wooden ship captured by our New Fourth Army from pirates, and the horse instructor was in charge of the ship, and there were four boat bosses and more than 20 sailors

The night is like a vast and boundless net covering the roaring sea, and the ship moves very fast