Chapter 6: Fighting (5)

Shi Huazhai saw Huang Xinnong's helplessness, guessed that there was nothing to be done, put down the hem of the robe wrapped around his waist, sorted out the wrinkles on the pendulum casually, and walked to Gong Qingyuan in square steps, like a scholar and a literate gentleman, with a smile on his face, and said in a tone more similar to Sichuanese: "Your surname is this chief? "Hand over a Hardman cigarette. Gong Qingyuan took the cigarette, lit the match in Shi Huazhai's hand, and replied: "My surname is Gong, thank you Mr. Shi for your fortune." ”

When Huang Xinong and Liu Qinglong were talking before, Shi Huazhai had already asked his subordinates to set up a small table in the open space, and put two small horses next to it, and asked people to boil water to make a pot of hot tea, pulled Gong Qingyuan to sit down next to the small table, poured a cup of hot tea, and said: "I don't think I like to say this, but I still want to hear what Chief Gong says." ”

"Please." Gong Qingyuan was born as a scholar, and he is a good boxer who doesn't hit a smiling face, but in the face of Shi Huazhai, he really can't raise his voice.

"On December 18 last year, this evil Japanese devil arrived in Chuzhou." Shi Huazhai was going to have a long story, he knew that if it wasn't for the emotion and reason, the officer in front of him would definitely not change their original intentions, he saw that Gong Qingyuan had a kind face and a gentle demeanor, he should be a reasonable person, so he said very sincerely: "Chief Hu Zongnan fought with the enemy in Chuzhou for ten days, killed a lot of Japanese criminals, and also gave the Chuzhou people enough time to pack up and leave. Most of the people of Chuzhou fled to the mountains in the west, thinking that if we hid in the mountains for three days or five days, the national army would be able to repel the Japanese and we would be able to return to Chuzhou to live. Who knows, there is no news about the departure of the national army, and Chuzhou has become the world of the Japanese. The mountains were cold and hungry, fat and thin, thin and dead, and many old people starved to death on the mountains, and they really couldn't stay any longer. Fortunately, the county magistrate Huang stepped forward, bargained with the Japanese, and finally gave everyone a chance to live, let people go to various places to greet everyone back, and let the Japanese get seven greenhouses, and make porridge and rice every day, and finally had a bleak New Year. ”

Gong Qingyuan nodded frequently, the so-called prosperity, the people suffer, die, the people suffer, no matter the rise or fall, the most bitter is always the people.

Seeing Gong Qingyuan accept his opinion, Shi Huazhai saw hope and said: "We also know that the Japanese are animals and devils, not sons of men, and making a living with them is no different from seeking the skin of a tiger." Fighting devils is something that every Chinese should do, and we also hope to be able to beat the Japanese out quickly, but we are unarmed ordinary people, we can only become the target of Japanese killing, we can do nothing. Our army is not enough for others to fight, our national government is fighting in the scorched earth, our soldiers are dying day by day, our land is being lost day by day, the place where we live is becoming a Japanese-occupied area little by little, and we are becoming slaves of the country. We all understand these truths, and we don't want to, but we must not be soldiers, we are civilians, and we are ordinary people. We are willing to support you in resisting Japan, and we must be able to do it, at least let us leave a life first. Speaking of this, Shi Huazhai couldn't cry.

Gong Qingyuan sighed, he had a hundred reasons to refute the other party, but he couldn't say it, after a while, Shi Huazhai also came back to his senses from the excitement, Gong Qingyuan said: "Mr. Shi, we will not not enter Chuzhou, but we will take into account the proportions of entry, try to maintain a certain bottom line, and not let the Japanese army go crazy for this." ”

Shi Huazhai nodded vigorously and said: "Thank you, thank you, the chief can do this, it is a blessing for Chuzhou." I dare to open up and say, you need food, we will give it in the autumn, you need medicine, we will help with procurement, you need military supplies, we will also help you, or cover you, but you must not kill Japanese people casually in Chuzhou City, especially those unarmed Japanese businessmen and women. In this way, they will have no reason to slaughter our common people, and we will still be able to live. As long as we are alive, we will surely see the day when the Japanese will be defeated, and we will have hope. ”

Shi Huazhai beckoned, and a tough young man walked out from behind him, Shi Huazhai said: "This is my cousin, graduated from Nanjing Surveying and Mapping School, these days he has drawn a map of the Japanese army's garrison in Chuzhou, and this time he specially sent it to the commander to show his heart." Shi Mou put his words here, as long as you need something, the people of Chuzhou will fully cooperate. ”

Gong Qingyuan took a hand-drawn map, opened it and glanced at it, sure enough, it was made by professional surveyors, quite accurate, all kinds of roads, bridges, high-rise buildings, clear. Gong Qingyuan is engaged in intelligence, and knows that with such a thing, Chuzhou has become an area for him that can be accessed at any time, and it can even be exaggerated to say that as long as it is well raised, Chuzhou will become an inexhaustible source of water for his small army. Gong Qingyuan stood up and thanked Shi Huazhai very seriously.

Huang Xinnong breathed a sigh of relief at this time, it was already very difficult for him to deal with the Japanese, not to mention that he had to curry favor with both sides, and the most feared thing was that neither side could please him. He was appointed by the Japanese as the county magistrate, and for this reason he also became a traitor on the list, but who knows the bitterness in his heart. Two county magistrates of Chu County, the county magistrate appointed by the government has long disappeared, as a parent official, he threw away his post, his people, and his responsibilities, only he picked it all up, maybe in the end he couldn't end up with anything good, he would only end up with a ruined reputation, and now he can't take care of it.

He led the people to stop the national army and prevent them from attacking the Japanese army in Chuxian, taking a dangerous move, maybe the national army did not accept the block, his men and horses would directly clash with the national army, and there would even be bloodshed, but in this way, he would definitely be stinking for 10,000 years. Even if the Nationalist Army accepted the stop and stopped the pace of attacking Chuzhou, the result was to further confirm its notoriety as a traitor. He looked at Gong Qingyuan's men and horses, five or six hundred people, five or six hundred people armed to the teeth, it was easy to attack Chuzhou, which was defended by only one squadron, and it was easy to eradicate all the Japanese logistics personnel in Chuzhou, but in this way, the Japanese army would definitely retaliate, and the first to retaliate must be the people of Chuzhou.

Today, Huang Xinnong led the people to stop the actions of the national army, which will definitely reach the ears of the Japanese army, and perhaps the Japanese army will look down on themselves and the people of Chuzhou because of this. Thinking of this, Huang Xinong felt a trace of bitterness in his heart, and his reputation as a traitor could not be washed away in three lifetimes! A traitor is a traitor, it is better than a wisp of soul on the West Mountain, and it is better than adding a wisp of unjust soul on the West Mountain, this kind of thing must be done by someone.

Gong Qingyuan put away the map and accepted the raw pig meat sent by Shi Huazhai, but rejected the plate of silver dollars, and said emotionally that as a Chinese soldier, he was very ashamed to not be able to bring benefits to the elders of Chuxian County, and he was not able to accept it. He said that he would definitely use strategic means to make the Japanese realize the importance of the people of Chuxian County, so that the people would become noble in the eyes of the Japanese army, instead of those deer and dolphins who wanted to kill and rob whenever they wanted.

Shi Huazhai also stood up, bowed deeply, and returned to Chuzhou with the people.

Liu Qinglong led the team back to the side of the mountain, found a geographical location that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and let the troops rest and have lunch. Gong Qingyuan used the walkie-talkie to relay the situation to Xu Ping, who was at the Centipede Mountain base, and his words revealed deep helplessness, and he was not in a hurry to lament the misfortune of the people in the Japanese-occupied areas, but he was even more deeply sympathetic. He was even more dissatisfied with the inability of the national army to resist and put his father and old man under the iron heel of the Japanese. In his voice, he expressed his sincere admiration and appreciation for the traitor Huang Xinnong who can put the people first. Xu Ping also felt that in the face of this situation, he had no other good way than to withdraw from the army, and told Gong Qingyuan to be calm and not be bored, and wait for him to ask Boss Mo for instructions before making a decision.

Xu Ping immediately sent a telegram to Mo Di to explain the situation. After a while, Mo Di's call back arrived, and there were only two words: railway.

When breaking up with Mo Di, Mo Di once said three words to Xu Ping again and again, one is vision, one is courage, and the other is patience, everything must be analyzed and understood from these three aspects. Xu Ping took Mo Di's telegram, followed Mo Di's instructions, thought for a long time, and finally straightened out his thoughts and made up his mind to get the railway first, even if he couldn't move the materials, cut off the railway first. If you break the railway, the enemy will mess up, but the other party will not mess up, there will be no chance, and only by messing up the rhythm of the other party can you win in chaos.

Let Gong Qingyuan stay on standby, and Xu Ping personally rushed to Shahe with the engineer team and the special team.

When I came to Shahe, I saw that in the railway station, there were Japanese soldiers patrolling and guarding, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance detachment monitoring group who had been staying here told Xu Ping that the Japanese army had put a detachment at each small station. A detachment of the Japanese army was equivalent to a squad of the Nationalist Army, with 13 people per detachment, including the detachment leader, 4 machine gun shooters and 8 riflemen. It is equipped with a light machine gun and four people (team leader, shooter, and two deputy shooters with ammunition), these four people are equipped with 14 self-defense pistols in the south, eight riflemen, each with a 38 rifle, in addition, the reinforced squad will be equipped with a grenadier group carried by two people. The Japanese detachment at Shahe Station was a standard detachment, there was no grenadier group, they set up machine gun positions next to the railway station, and the four Japanese troops were divided into two groups and never left their posts. The other eight infantry men were also divided into two groups and patrolled the 10-kilometer stretch between Shahe Station and Zhangbaling Station, but they did not have hand-cranked rail cars and could only patrol on foot.

"Such a sparse patrol density is just to deceive yourself and comfort yourself." Xu Ping said contemptuously. It takes half a day to walk 10 kilometers back and forth, that is to say, only the few minutes of patrol in a location for half a day are safe and effective, and the rest of the time is a blank spot. It seems that if you want to do something on the railway, there is a great opportunity.

At this time, under the guidance of the reconnaissance team, Xu Ping looked into the distance, and an ironclad car with a similar appearance to a car drove along the railroad tracks, and the reconnaissance team said that this thing was an ironclad car, with an iron sheet and a machine gun all over its body. The ironclad car is getting closer and closer, Xu Ping took a closer look, this thing is very interesting, it should be transformed from a Nissan rabbit car, one wheel on the front side, two wheels on the back side, but the tires are no longer rubber wheels, but they have become iron wheels slightly larger than the hand-cranked rail car, the front of the car and the cab are covered with thick iron sheets, and the front of the driver's seat is also sealed with iron sheets, leaving only two small observation holes. Like a tank, it had a flawed lid on top of it a Type 92 heavy machine gun that could fire in all directions.

The stupid and abnormal appearance made Xu Ping laugh dumbly. Huang Guilin, the captain of the engineer team who came out with Xu Ping, said that by looking at the fenders on the front wheels, you can judge that this thing must have been temporarily modified by the Japanese with a car, and it could be blown up into the west with an infantry gun. Artillery captain Liang Yisheng nodded yes, although this thing is clumsy, the protection is good, the thick iron plate on the whole body, except for the infantry gun, other ordinary guns, it is estimated that it will not hurt it.

The ironclad car is not loud, because it uses the same engine as the Nissan Rabbit 80, driving on the railway, the slope is small, the friction is small, and the three-gear idle can maintain enough power. When passing in front of Xu Ping, the Japanese soldier in the co-pilot also opened the car door, urinated outside the car, finished urinating, quivered, retracted into the cab, and saw from the open cab door that the car actually did not have a steering wheel. The car uses a hand accelerator, which can be completely unmanned, and it walks very smoothly, and it should be much more comfortable to sit on than to walk on the road.

The ironclad car passed, about two kilometers behind, and a twenty-two train full of supplies roared past in front of it, and the loaded train emitted black smoke and spewed out puffs of steam, which seemed very laborious.

After the train passed, Xu Ping wanted to stand up, but was pulled by the scout: "Don't worry, the military seat, and there is an ironclad car behind the palace." Xu Ping hurriedly lowered his head, and saw an ironclad car that was exactly the same as the one in front of him, and was noisy by the previous train, and he couldn't hear the engine sound of the ironclad car.

"Okay, that's all, one day, just one car. Usually in the afternoon, when it is almost dark, the train will pass through here again on the way back. The scout said: "From now until the break of darkness, the Japanese on patrol will relax a little." ”

Sure enough, the Japanese soldiers at the machine gun post also began to leave the gun position, peeing and peeing, looking for food.

Okay, they're relaxed, that's a good thing, it's our turn to do it. Xu Ping said. The soldiers all laughed, their boss, fighting is like playing a game, and he never plays cards according to the rules, and he doesn't know which enemy army is unlucky this time.