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After Commander Ma received Chief of Staff Yang's departure order, he rode a big flower horse and led the first battalion and the second battalion to take a shortcut and march towards Xiaguan Town. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info they were attacked by guerrillas many times along the way.

In order to take Xiaguan Town as soon as possible, Regiment Commander Ma was eager to make meritorious contributions, and he did not allow the troops to entangle with the guerrillas. When they arrived at Xiaguan Town, except for a few reactionary old officials, merchants, and rich people in the town, they kept waving small flags in their hands and shouting slogans to welcome Commander Ma and his troops into Xiaguan Town.

The Captain rode happily through the streets of the town, and he noticed that there were no other pedestrians in the town except the group in front of him. The shops are closed.

He remembered the chief of staff's instructions at the meeting, you must not disturb the people, if you scare the people away, it will be useless for you to take Xiaguan Town. When he thought of this, Captain Ma suddenly felt very tired.

He reined in the reins of his horse and stopped his steps, and cried out loudly, "Thank you for your welcome." Welcome to the end of it, everyone go back and open the door!

The bosses listened to the chief's shout and dispersed.

Regimental Commander Ma instructed the two battalion commanders beside him: "First battalion commander, your battalion is deployed. Second battalion commander, you arrange for some people to arrange the regimental headquarters, and the rest of the people will go with me to meet the chief of staff. ”

Yang Kaixin led the third and fourth battalions to take the main road by car, and they were also attacked by the militia on the way, and they were not affected much.

The 3rd and 4th Battalions also arrived in Xiaguan Town more than two hours after the 1st and 2nd Battalions occupied the town. Regardless of fatigue, the head of the horse rode his horse to welcome Yang Kaixin to the outside of the town early.

When he saw Yang Kaixin coming, the head of the horse regiment rode up to greet him and said, "It's hard work." ”

"No, Captain Ma has worked hard. I'm going to give you credit. ”

"It's because the staff is in command, and Ma doesn't dare to be greedy. ”

"How many casualties?"

"Forty or fifty wounded, more than a dozen. Captain Ma said as little as possible.

"It's not a dozen people in exchange for a town. ”

Gu Xiaoli, who came in the same car with Yang Kaixin, interjected and said: "It is really Zhuge who is strategizing in the world to win a thousand miles. When I returned, I wrote an article on the heroic and good fighting of the wise commander and the commander of the horse regiment and published it in the "Central Daily". ”

"Reporter Gu is right, this victory depends on the commandery. I, Ma, am sticking to the light of the seat. Captain Ma hurriedly corrected.

Yang Kaixin ignored him, pointed to the pedestrians on the street and said, "Why are there so few pedestrians on the street?

"Senza, you can't blame us for this. ”

"Don't blame you, blame me?"

I think this is the result of the redness of the Communist Party. Captain Ma explained in a panic.

Gu Xiaoli did what she said, and her article touting the battle in Xia Guanzhen was published in the Central Daily. This article has received the attention of the top echelons of the Kuomintang, who are ready to use it as a signal to set off an upsurge in the fight against the communist army and to make some articles in this regard.

After the war, Sun Baichuan reported the results of the battle and the list of people who should be rewarded, but three days have passed and there is still no news. On the fourth day, when Sun Baichuan was grumbling in his office, Adjutant Zhang brought him a copy of the Central Daily.

Adjutant Zhang said to Sun Baichuan: "Division, the battle of Xiaguanzhen has appeared in the Central Daily. ”

Sun Baichuan took the newspaper and flipped through it, knowing that this was an article written by Gu Xiaoli.

He looked at it and said happily: "Reporter Gu is interesting enough, but it's a pity that you can't eat it in the newspaper." ”

After reading the newspaper, Sun Baichuan put the newspaper aside and got up to take a breath, when Adjutant Zhang came in again and said, "Shizuo telegram." ”

Sun Baichuan took the telegram with a somewhat impatient look, he was overjoyed, he didn't expect that what he wanted was coming, and what he didn't expect was also coming.

After reading the telegram, he happily said to Adjutant Zhang: "Please come to the chief of staff, I have something to discuss with him." ”

"Yes. Adjutant Zhang happily agreed and left.

After a while, Niu Jiaying came. Sun Baichuan saw Yang Kaixin coming, pointed to the table and said, "Look at the telegram!"

Niu Jiaying picked up the telegram from Sun Baichuan's desk and looked at it and said, "Okay! Okay! I'll go and prepare it right away." ”

Sun Baichuan asked puzzledly, "What are you preparing?"

"Preparing for the award ceremony!"

"Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff, you are simply a roundworm in my stomach, then you can go and prepare!"

Since the victory in the battle of Xia Guanzhen, Qian Hui regretted that he did not fight for this battle at the beginning, and he lost the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, allowing Sun Baichuan to get advantage and putting himself in an even more embarrassing and difficult situation.

While he was sulking there, Huang Sibao, the fat head of the 29th Regiment, came with a copy of the "Central Daily".

As soon as he entered the door, he said, "Deputy Master, look at it, you see that everyone is about to be blown into the sky." ”

When Qian Hui saw Huang Sibao coming, he calmed down and said, "I know!"

"Which bastard bastard is this?"

The girls also coaxed them along. I've long warned the deputy master not to underestimate this. Huang Sibao said with a mouth full of foaming stars, if Qian Hui hadn't raised his hand to stop it, he would have to talk endlessly!

"Okay! If you want to complain, blame ourselves, and if we have another chance in the future, we can't miss it!"

Huang Sibao nodded and said, "Yes, as long as you have the opportunity, you can take a look! I will never disgrace you." ”

Xu Qingyang, who has always attached importance to intelligence and does not care about what happened after the war, has now begun to pay attention to the results of the victory in the battle of Xia Guanzhen.

He is now in his office reading Gu Xiaoli's article published in the Central Daily. Before this, he had received information to reward Sun Baichuan, Yang Kaixin, and others.

This small battle was so important to Nanjing. He analyzed that although the battle in Xiaguanzhen was not large, it played a role in the fact that the Kuomintang wanted to completely break with the Communist Party in the local area and in the whole country, and no longer engage in any united front with the Communist Party and talk about peace and democracy, which was a signal that it wanted to fight a big war with the Communist Party.

It seems that Sun Baichuan will benefit a lot from Xia Guanzhen's record, and Qian Hui is a big fool, so such a good opportunity was lost.

Xu Qingyang was very angry at Qian Hui for stealing the piece of Cixi jade seal, but he couldn't do anything to Qian Hui, because the Cixi jade seal was still in his hands, and he had to get the Cixi jade seal from him.

Qian Hui still has the strength of a regiment in his hands, and he still has usable value. As a result, Xu Qingyang could only think about Qian Hui in the long run.

Niu Jiaying's work ability is very strong, and he organized a celebration award and card replacement ceremony in the afternoon of the same day. A rostrum was set up in the courtyard of the division headquarters building, and on the rostrum sat Sun Baichuan, Qian Hui, Yang Kaixin, and several guests such as Xu Qingyang, Gu Xiaoli, and others.

The meeting was presided over by Adjutant Zhang Chaobei, and there were more than 200 officers at and above the company level and more than 200 personnel of all organs in the audience.

After a burst of military music, Adjutant Zhang, who presided over the meeting, solemnly announced: "The celebration award and medal change ceremony is now open, and the first item of the conference is to ask Chief of Staff Yang Kaixin to preside over the unveiling ceremony." ”

Niu Jiaying walked to the middle of the stage and said, "Next, please ask Master Sun to unveil the plaque." Yang Kaixin took Sun Baichuan's hand and walked to the sign covered with red silk and pulled the red silk down. A sign with black letters on a white background was exposed, and the words "Lanxi City Bandit Suppression Headquarters" were written on it.

After a round of applause, Adjutant Zhang said, "The second item of the conference is to ask Senior Commander Sun to announce the order of the peak. ”

In the midst of applause, Sun Baichuan walked to the middle of the stage and said: "Everyone has seen it! We are here at the Lanxi City Bandit Suppression Headquarters! Lao Tzu has been promoted to major general commander, deputy commander is Qian Hui, chief of staff is Yang Kaixin, and the others remain unchanged. Another round of applause.

Adjutant Zhang said: "The third item of the conference is to ask Deputy Commander Qian to preside over the award. ”

Qian Hui felt very uncomfortable when he heard that he was asked to preside over the award, and he had to pretend to be full of smiles, and came to the middle of the stage to read out the materials prepared for him.

Qian Hui looked at the materials and announced: "Please ask Commander Sun to confer the rank of lieutenant colonel on Yang Kaixin, and award 5,000 oceans." ”

Yang Kaixin stood on the stage and accepted Sun Baichuan to add a beanie to his shoulder.

Qian Hui then announced: "Please ask Commander Sun to award the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal to the head of the Ma Niansheng regiment, and award a thousand oceans." Other people's rewards are given by the group. ”

Qian Hui saw this long list of rewards, and none of them were his own people. After reading the list with anger, he returned to his seat on the rostrum in a daze, and he didn't listen to the rest of the story, and he didn't come to his senses until the end of the conference.

After the award meeting, Niu Jiaying began to consider the problem of Xia Guanzhen. Xiaguanzhen was originally under the jurisdiction of the Communist Party, and in order to support the needs of Niu Jiaying's work, the independent regiment took the initiative to withdraw from Xiaguanzhen in combination with the needs of the situation.

Niu Jiaying was always a little unwilling to hand over Xiaguanzhen to the enemy, so he wanted to organize a battalion controlled by the Communists to be stationed in Xiaguanzhen, and then pull this force over when the time was ripe.

After Niu Jiaying made up her mind, she sent a secret letter to Shu Huai for instructions, and soon replied. Niu Jiaying received the secret letter, and after deciphering it, he agreed with the director of his idea.

The letter proposed that Hu Dawei, deputy of the 2nd Battalion of the 28th Regiment, be appointed commander of the battalion. The arrangement and recruitment of other personnel can be entrusted to this person.

After Niu Jiaying burned the secret letter, he immediately began to write the report of the new battalion of the addendum.

The next day, the first thing Niu Jiaying did when he came to the headquarters was to hand over the report of the new battalion to Sun Baichuan.

Niu Jiaying came to Sun Baichuan and said, "Commander, I couldn't sleep last night, I always wondered if we should take the opportunity to expand the number of soldiers in our division." The strength of our city cannot be reduced any longer, and another battalion should be stationed in Xiaguan Town, so that the strength of our troops outside the city can be justified. I wonder what the commander thinks?"

Sun Baichuan listened to Yang Kaixin's words and felt that it was very reasonable.

As soon as Yang Kaixin's words were finished, Sun Baichuan said without hesitation and satisfaction: "Yes! The territory is big, of course the number of soldiers will increase, so let's do as you say!"

Niu Jiaying took it and said, "Then you can approve this report! As he spoke, he handed the report to Sun Baichuan's hand.

Sun Baichuan said with some surprise: "If you really have what you say, you will do it vigorously, I like to deal with such people." ”

He didn't look at it carefully, signed it, and handed it back to Yang Kaixin.

Niu Jiaying took the report and gave the commander a military salute and said, "I'll do it." ”

After speaking, he walked out of Sun Baichuan's office.

Before the battle of Xiaguanzhen, there were many frictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party throughout the country, and at first the Kuomintang was still shy and secretive.

After the Battle of Xiaguanzhen, Chiang's one-party authoritarian policies no longer needed fig leafs and masks. They openly attacked Yan'an, the capital of the Communist Party.

These criminal acts of the Kuomintang were also resolutely opposed by the broad masses of the people in the enemy-occupied areas and progressive people from all walks of life, and many progressive youths consciously took action to march, give speeches, and scatter leaflets to expose the crimes of the Kuomintang reactionaries.

The reactionary army, police, and secret agents wantonly arrested and brutally massacred the Communists and the progressive masses. Lanxi City is no exception.