Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (20)

The progress of the war in southern Anhui was almost unexpected by everyone, and both the Central Committee of the Red Party in northern Shaanxi and the Nationalist Government in Chongqing basically had the same view before the war in southern Anhui began, and the guns were just a formality, and the next step was negotiations. In China, it is often not possible to achieve the goal by firing the gun, and the real goal is achieved through negotiation. The Central Committee of Chongqing hoped to eliminate all the forces of the Red Army in the south of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop through negotiations and to restore a simple environment in the three war zones, and the Central Committee of the Red Party in northern Shaanxi also hoped to give its soldiers and civilians in the Yangtze River valley a piece of land to recuperate through negotiations. However, neither side took into account one person, that is, Ye Ting, the commander of the newly formed Fourth Army, Ye Xiyi, whose personality of preferring to be broken to be broken has played a great role in the progress of the incident, and has also completely deviated from the previous expectation of the development of the situation, 9,000 people burst out of the strength of the Iron Army, and even fought a tie with Shangguan Yunxiang's 70,000 army, this fight is seven days and seven nights. The fierce fighting, the huge casualties on both sides, made everyone start to fidget.

"Ye Xiyi is a trapped beast and fights to hit stones with eggs, Shangguan Yunxiang is going to kill them all!" Jin Tongxuan looked at the telegrams that had been piled up thickly, and said to Mo Di: "After the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Army's move to eliminate dissidents often occurs, but this is the first time that this kind of killing is the first time, and the short peace between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party before is only afraid that it will come to an end." ”

"The development speed of the new Fourth Army is too fast, and it has far exceeded the expectations of the Central Military Commission." Luo Wei said: "Our 48th Army has two divisions, and there are only about 15,000 people. The Jiangnan column of the newly formed Fourth Army is almost 10,000, plus the Jiangbei column of Chen Yi and Zhang Yunyi, as well as the troops of Xu Haidong, Luo Binghui, Li Xiannian, Peng Xuefeng, etc., far more than 50,000. ”

Mo Di nodded and said: "The siege of the newly formed Fourth Army in the Third War Zone is not as simple as it seems on the surface, I heard from the classmates in the You Gan Class that in the Third War Zone, after the German advisers left, a lot of Soviet and Russian advisers came. It is impossible for the Soviet Russian advisers not to know about such a large-scale offensive, and the Soviet Russian advisers knew, which meant that the Comintern knew that, according to convention, the Comintern would not allow the new Fourth Army to be attacked, but why, on the contrary, would the Comintern sacrifice nearly 10,000 Red Army? Or maybe it's to maintain some kind of balance. ”

"What's the balance?" Jin Tongxuan was shocked by Mo Invincible's statement, and the balance maintained by sacrificing nearly 10,000 people, what is that, and asked curiously.

"I don't know, I can only predict from the combat situation in Jiangnan, and next, in Jiangbei, there will definitely be a huge operation to drive away the red. The Guotai Youth Department of Dabie Mountain is afraid that it will no longer be able to settle here. Mo Di said.

Mo Di said so, and Qin Guosheng in Guo Taiqing's department did just that. The Jiangnan War lasted for seven days, and he waited for seven days in Guo Taiqing's department, first, Guo Taiqing didn't let him go, because as soon as he left, he would take the radio station away, and Guo Taiqing couldn't receive any news about the Jiangnan War, and second, Qin Guosheng didn't want to leave, and he also wanted to find a proper way to settle Guo Taiqing's department. It wasn't until the news that Ye Ting was detained by Shangguan Yunxiang for the negotiation alone, and it wasn't until the return of the people who transported melon baskets and other local products to Anqing that Qin Guosheng told Guo Taiqing about his worries. Guo Taiqing didn't think there was anything wrong with Qin Guosheng saying this, but he was very grateful that he could still think about himself at this time, and asked Qin Guosheng very sincerely, if he couldn't settle down in Dabie Mountain, where else could he go. Qin Guosheng proposed that instead of waiting to be attacked, it was better to leave the south of the Yellow River before this kind of offensive began, take advantage of the lack of water in the Yellow River in winter, cross the Yellow Flood area in the Bengbu area, and enter the area of Lingbi Si County, the fourth prefecture in northern Anhui, which can be regarded as following the express order of the Military Committee to the north of the Yellow River.

The winter of Dabie Mountain is cold, but the place where Guo Taiqing is stationed is very good, this is a valley, the north is a mountain, the south is a valley, the north wind is blocked by the lofty mountains, see the snow on the mountain not far away, but the valley is as warm as spring, a small river flows out of the north mountain, slowly flows through the valley, with a faint mist. Guo Taiqing and Qin Guosheng walked along the river, and after a few days, they became friends who talked about everything.

Guo Taiqing knew that being able to go to the fourth prefecture was his best choice, this area, as early as a year ago, the Red Party, Henan, Anhui, and the Soviet Union trilateral prefecture was established, and the most important thing is that this area basically has no army directly under the central government, and there is no large army of the Japanese army, only some local forces, the military pressure is not great, and it is relatively easy to survive. After the last time I joined forces with Shi Chongbu to rob, plus this time I did a lot of business, the cost of moving north is not a problem, but from Qianshan to Bengbu, the road is not close, there are not only Japanese troops on the road, but also a large number of Gui troops and Anhui Provincial Security Forces, one by one to clear the customs, how difficult.

How can I get to this area, Guo Taiqing has one head and two big.

"You know Xu Ping, right?" Qin Guosheng asked: "It's the commander of the Northern Anhui Advance Army." ”

"Yes." Guo Taiqing replied: "He has a great influence in Mingguang Bengbu, and in the past six months, he has had a good relationship with Commander Xu Haidong, and the development of Commander Xu Haidong's Northern Anhui Column in the Fifth Prefecture has a great deal to do with him. ”

"He is from Guangxi, and he came out of Pingle in Guangxi with our head of the regiment, an absolute good buddy." Qin Guosheng said: "The 21 st Group Army in Anhui knows that our field supplement regiment has a huge supernumerary organization, with more than 2,000 people, and it is this baggage brigade, which usually does business in Anhui Province, from Anqing to Lu'an, from Lu'an to Zhengyangguan, from Chuzhou to Bengbu, and no one has ever dared to make things difficult, because behind them, there is not only our field supplement regiment, but also Xu Ping's advance army, if they are embarrassed, they will face not only our guns, but also Xu Ping's bayonets. Once, in Shou County, a local bully looked for trouble and grabbed supplies, but in less than midnight, the vole arrived with people, and a poison gas bomb was thrown directly into the yard. Since then, the surrounding bandits and robbers have known that other people's things can be remembered, that is, they should not remember the baggage troops of the 176th Division's Mo Enemy Regiment, others hang up knives to defend themselves, and these people are defending themselves with poison gas bombs. ”

Guo Taiqing understood that Qin Guosheng wanted to give them a number, that is, a certain unit of the baggage brigade of the field supplement regiment, under this banner, in Anhui, everyone would give three points of face, not to mention the nature of the baggage team, it is more convenient to cover themselves, they have all kinds of luggage and backpacks, with this name, it is really convenient. But soon Guo Taiqing rejected this suggestion and accepted Gui Jun's name, which was a political act, and it was not nice to say, or it was co-opted, or it was surrendered, and once it reached the ears of the Political Department, he could not explain it. For the sake of temporary convenience, he can't do it to leave himself with an indelible shadow.

Thanks to Qin Guosheng for his kindness, Guo Taiqing expressed his concerns. After listening to Guo Taiqing's words, Qin Guosheng could only sigh deeply, as the director of the Political Department, he was far from understanding politics, and Guo Taiqing's political consciousness was far above himself.

On the 17th of January, Qin Guosheng took Mr. Zhou's "Strange injustices through the ages, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River, fighting in the same room, why should you fry each other?" He summoned his main figures to hold a meeting, and decided to take advantage of the lax defense of the Gui army during the Chinese New Year, and rushed to Bengbu in 20 days. Each man was asked to bring twenty days' worth of dry rations, disperse the supplies among them, and begin the long march early tomorrow morning.

Qin Guosheng marked the defense points of the Gui army along the way on the map one by one, and tried to minimize the conflict between this northward moving force and the local garrison, he could only do this step. Guo Taiqing also knew that Qin Guosheng had done his best, and expressed his heartfelt thanks to Qin Guosheng, saying: The mountain does not turn around, and the water will be repaid in the future!

Seeing Guo Taiqing's troops leave far away, Qin Guosheng sent a telegram to the Political Department of the 176th Division, and after military and political struggles, the 176th Division's field supplement regiment successfully expelled the Red Army Guo Taiqing's troops entrenched in Dabie Mountain.

"Brother Fu, have you seen this Guo Taiqing later?" At dusk in Hong Kong, the winter sun is warm, on the recliner, Mo Di is covered with a thin felt, and on the small table on one side, there is a thick manuscript paper, Mrs. Zhou holds a fountain pen in her hand, and after writing the last word, she stretches out her sour hand and asks.

Mo Di nodded: "I've seen it, almost ten years later." ”

"Ten years from now?" Mrs. Zhou was surprised: "Isn't that the last moment!" "At the last moment, it was the special name of the old man of the Gui family who lived in Hong Kong and Kowloon at the end of the 38th year of the Republic of China; that was in 1949, when Beiping had been changed to Beijing, and the hope of ruling across the river had been dashed, and only a limited number of places in the entire Chinese mainland, such as Guangxi, still had gunfire.

"Yes, he was one of the last people I saw on the mainland, when I was in the fort, preparing for a protracted battle in the mountains, waiting for the White Commander's counterattack." When Mo Di said this, a smile slipped across his face, and he said: "Fortunately, I didn't wait to die, Lao Jiang shouted ten years of counterattack on the mainland, and he didn't send a single soldier to the past, not only became an empty word, but also became a joke, if I died in the fort, I am afraid that the bones would have been able to play the drum a long time ago!" ”

Mrs. Zhou also smiled, at that time, the army was defeated, Mo Dou sent himself and his mother and brother to Hong Kong early, presumably did not have much hope for victory, and later when he was sent to Hong Kong, he went to the Luohu border to pick him up, and he was extremely down, like a beggar, if it was not for a familiar suitcase in his hand, he would not easily recognize this as his husband.

Mo Di has forgotten his glorious image at that time, but he has always been haunted by what happened that winter. After the loss of Guilin, the Guilin army was gone, and its demise was imminent, Guilin's defender Zhou Zuhuang surrendered, but Mo Di refused to surrender because of the victory over the Red Army at Qingshuping, fearing that he would not be tolerated by the Red Army due to his blood debt, and led the remnants to retreat to the mountainous area of Baoli in Yongfu County to fight guerrillas. The invincible superb combat skills gave Li Tianyou, the general of the Red Army, a headache, and he returned from several attacks in vain. Li Tianyou retreated and asked Zhou Zuhuang to write a letter to Mo Di to persuade him to surrender, and it was Guo Taiqing who was sent to contact Mo Di.

Guo Taiqing said to Mo Di, no one knows, only that he guarantees with his life that Mo Di will be able to leave safely and will not be suppressed. Under his persuasion, on 22 December 1949, General Modi led his troops to surrender. In January 1950, Li Tianyou sent an infantry company as an escort to send Mo to the border of Hong Kong. Mo Di only shadowed the single suitcase, disappearing into the faint Luohu mist.