Chapter Thirty-Six: Stripping the Cocoon (I)

Hong Yongnan had a very good impression of the "lame" Liu Laohan, and hurriedly took out the "Hongta Mountain" cigarette in his pocket, took out one and handed it over, and said with a smile: "Uncle Liu, please try my cigarettes!" ……”

"Oops...... It's still smoke as thick as two ends! ......" "lame" Liu Laohan smiled honestly, he spread his hands, it seemed that he was not embarrassed to take it, and he was a little reluctant to accept this "thick at two ends" good cigarette.

"Uncle Liu, you're welcome, old man! As the old saying goes, 'cigarettes and alcohol are not separated'. Hehe...... As soon as I saw you, I knew you were a man who had seen the world! ......" Hong Yongnan stood up very respectfully, sent the "Hongtashan" cigarette to the mouth of the "lame" Liu Laohan, and then lit it with a match.

"Huh...... Thanks! Thank you, comrade! ......" "lame" Liu Laohan took a puff of "Hongtashan" cigarette while politely, and said with a smile: "I said comrade, your cigarette is really fragrant, it's just a little stronger!" Hehe...... Just now this old brother said that I have seen the world, and that is praising me! I just went to the 'literacy class' in the army for a few days, and before the 'Huaihai Campaign', I drove the donkeys and carts of the land reform division, and some people in the village went to the 'front of the branch'. I drove the donkey cart to deliver food, ammunition, and the wounded, and I drove the donkey cart all the way into Shanghai. ……”

"Oops...... Uncle Liu, you are still an old revolutionary! ......" Hong Yongnan entered the play a little deeply, and he was a little in awe of the "lame" Liu Laohan.

"Not too old! Hehe...... Even Mr. Chen said that the 'Huaihai Campaign' was pushed out by our fathers and villagers in Shandong with a small car. At that time, there was a movie on the playground of our Houmakuo Village Primary School, called "Rolling Wheels", which tells the story of our "support front"...... "This "lame" Liu Laohan seems to be very willing to chat with the guests, especially when it comes to the "Huaihai Campaign". But when the guests praised him as an old revolutionary, he was embarrassed.

"Houma Village? ......" Hong Yongnan felt that the name of this village was very special, so he asked curiously.

"It's the back horse! There is an ancient temple in front of our village, called 'White Horse Temple', and the incense is very prosperous. Our village is surrounded by green mountains, so people call the village behind the temple of 'White Horse Temple', that is, the village behind our village, also called the White Horse Circle, and the village in front of the temple is called the Big Horse Circle. If you want to talk about the "Huaihai Campaign", ......" and "lame" Liu Laohan obviously has to continue to tell the story of the "support front" of the "Huaihai Campaign".

"Uncle Liu, your leg was injured in the 'Huaihai Campaign', right? ......" Hong Yongnan suddenly became interested in the lame leg of the "lame" Liu Laohan.

"Lame" Old Man Liu shook his head and said with a smile: "No! This leg of mine was in the year of Renwu before the anti-sweep of the Renziyue, and I met the ...... in the black stone ditch north of Shi Bo Kuo."

"Blackstone Gully? ......" who had been looking at Hong Yongnan and the "lame" Liu Laohan with a smile exclaimed, and even the chopsticks he was playing with fell off.

"Lame" Liu Laohan was stunned, and said to the "three surnamed slaves": "Yes! What's wrong, you've been? ……”

"Nope! ......" "The three surnamed slaves" smiled bitterly, and while denying it, they leaned over and picked up the chopsticks. However, the words of the "lame" Liu Laohan evoked his memories of the past. It was in Heishigou that the "Asai Squadron" to which he belonged was ambushed by the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Regiment of the Jiaodong Military Region. That battle made such an impression on him that many years later, it would wake him up in a nightmare. Those Eight Roads are simply a bunch of crazy demons, not afraid of death. The nine "crooked handles" turned the barrels of the guns red, and the eight roads were like being cut wheat, pouring stubble after stubble. However, those eight roads still didn't care about life and death, and desperately rushed upward. There is a saying that "one person is desperate, a hundred people are unstoppable, ten thousand people will die, and the world is rampant"! In this battle, the poorly equipped Eighth Road, which actually fought the well-trained "Asai Squadron", did not have the courage to parry at all. As a result, he was the only one who survived.

Perhaps, it is really the providence of the underworld; Perhaps, the old saying "Heaven can still be evil, but self-inflicted evil cannot live"; Perhaps, it was really the knowledge of the 179 unjust soul springs on the west Dagangzi of Zhouzhuang, and led the "three surnamed house slaves", the only remnant of the net, to the place where the "shallow well squadron" was destroyed, so that the "three family slaves" died in front of the "mass grave" on the west big gang of Zhouzhuang. If the "three domestic slaves" did not have breakfast at the market in front of the railway station in Taocun Town, it is very likely that he and Hong Yongnan will escape back alive; If the "three slaves" and Hong Yongnan leave after breakfast, and don't chat with the "lame" Liu Laohan, no one will touch the hidden pain in his heart; If Hong Yongnan hadn't asked about the leg injury of the "lame" Liu Laohan, the "lame" Liu Laohan would not have said Heishigou, so that when the "three surnamed house slaves" were agitated, his gaffe was noticed by the young man eating breakfast at the other table, and he was actually unaware; If it weren't for the fact that the "three family slaves" were touched by the pain, he would not have revisited the old place, and died in front of the "mass grave" in Dagangzi, Zhouzhuangxi, where he and the "Asai Squadron" to which he belonged had committed heinous crimes. It's a pity that there aren't always so many "ifs" in this world.

The young man who was eating breakfast at another table was named Wang Kebow, a native of Taocun and a scout of the reconnaissance section of the enemy engineering department of the Jinan Military Region. He was originally on the task of searching for the "three domestic slaves" and Hong Yongnan who were out of control at the Jinan Railway Station with his comrades-in-arms. However, a telegram suddenly came from the family, telling him that his old father was critically ill. Minister Gan of the Enemy Engineering Department of the Jinan Military Region, who was in a hurry, sympathized with his subordinates and resolutely gave Wang Kebow two days off and asked him to go home to visit his critically ill old father.

Coincidentally, the train Wang Kebow took was also the 1394th train from Jiamusi to Yantai. It's just that Wang Ke bowed to buy a standing ticket, while the "three surnamed slaves" and Hong Yongnan were soft sleepers. After getting off the train, Wang Kebow remembered that his old father liked to eat the meat buns sold by the "lame" Liu Laohan in the market in front of the train station, so he rushed over to buy a few for the old father. But as soon as he saw the yellow, orange and orange millet porridge sold by the "lame" old man Liu, his stomach "growled" and he couldn't move at all.

Wang Ke professionally glanced at the two strangers who were chatting with the "lame" Liu Laohan, and sat down. When he took a sip of the sweet millet porridge, the 36,000 sweat pores on his body were full of comfort, and it seemed that the fatigue of the night had disappeared. But at this moment, the slightly older stranger exclaimed, "Heishigou? ……”

Wang Ke instinctively glanced at the slightly older stranger from the corner of his eye, and his heart couldn't help but "poof": "This...... Isn't this the fucking target 'three family slaves' that he and his comrades tracked at Jinan Railway Station? The short man around thirty years old next to him must be his bodyguard Hong Yongnan! It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. Damn it, why didn't you recognize it when you observed the scene just now? Where is this vigilance? One was careless, and almost delayed the big event! ……”

Wang Kebow thought of this, he didn't dare to look around, lowered his head and drank millet porridge, while pricking up his ears to listen to the "three surnamed slaves" chatting with Hong Yongnan and the "lame" Liu Laohan. I only heard that Hong Yongnan seemed to be in awe of the "lame" Liu Laohan, and asked: "Uncle Liu, it turns out that you are still an injured old man?" ……”

"Lame" Liu Laohan took another sip of the two-end thick "Hongta Mountain", and said with a smile: "It's true that I have been injured!" It's not false that it was the old Eighth Road back then! In the Heishigou battle, I am a correspondent of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Regiment of the Jiaodong Military Region. The wound in the leg was before the charge, which caused a second devil to take a shot. ……”

Hong Yongnan asked curiously, "Two devils?" Is it a puppet army? ……”

"Puppet army? No! No! It wasn't the puppet army that shot me, it was the second devil. ......" "lame" Liu Laohan shook his head, threw away the cigarette butt, and reached out to take the "cigarette pouch pot" carried around his neck again.

Hong Yongnan hurriedly took out the "Hongta Mountain" again, this time the "lame" Liu Laohan shook his head and refused: "I said comrade, your two-end thick cigarette is good, but it is not as enjoyable as my dry tobacco!" ……”

After the "lame" Liu Laohan put the "cigarette bag pot" in place, Hong Yongnan struck a match again, and while lighting a cigarette for the "lame" Liu Laohan, he asked respectfully: "Uncle Liu, these two devils are not puppet soldiers, who are they?" ……”

Hong Yongnan didn't notice at all that the hungry wolf-like gaze of the "three family slaves" glanced at him fiercely. Hong Yongnan didn't notice it, but Wang Kebow did. Wang Kebow didn't know that the "three family slaves" were the heralds of the "Asai Squadron" at that time, and they were the real two devils as the "lame" Liu Laohan said. Wang Kebow is very strange, Hong Yongnan's words are normal, why do "three family slaves" care so much about this sentence?

"Lame" Liu Laohan took a deep puff of cigarette, and was very pleased that the young student in front of him was so willing to listen to his story. After he slowly spit out the cigarette, he squinted his eyes and said: "The two devils who injured my leg are not the peaceful founding army of the big traitor Wang Jingwei, nor is it the miscellaneous puppet army of our sneakers who have defected to the Japanese devils. ……”

Lieutenant Hong Yongnan also seemed to be a very curious person, and he asked, "Oh? I said, uncle, isn't this puppet army a puppet army, and there are so many kinds of puppet armies? ……”

It may also be that the "three family slaves" consider that they are not out of danger at the moment, and they still need the protection of this Hong Yongnan. can only swallow his anger and let Hong Yongnan and this "lame" old man Liu go on nonsense.

"Lame," Liu Laohan said with a smile: "That's!" Not to mention far away, let's just say that we are a miscellaneous puppet army, and these puppet armies have a great characteristic. Everyone is Chinese, and they are all native and homesick, not that rabbits don't eat grass next to the nest, these pseudo-armies generally don't do things absolutely. In fact, most of the puppet army is just trying to make ends meet, whether it is the Eighth Route or the Kuomintang guerrillas, as long as they are not watched by officials, they all turn a blind eye. In fact, many of the Kuomintang army, puppet army, and Eighth Route Army that are active in our group are still fellow villagers, and many of them are still related to their hometowns. Isn't there an old saying, it's called 'When a fellow sees a fellow, his eyes are full of tears.'" 'How can you pinch you to death as soon as you meet us?' Once, I went to the county town to deliver a letter, not wanting to be recognized by the puppet army standing guard. Hehe...... I almost peed my pants, and I thought to myself that this was the end of it! Which Cheng thinks, it's different from the one in the movie. As soon as the puppet soldier heard my accent, he asked me where I was from. I said back horses. The three puppet soldiers standing guard muttered a few words, and one of the puppet soldiers said to me, 'Our two homes are less than ten miles away. The big guys are all villagers, why do they do things so desperately. ......'Huh...... These puppet soldiers just tore up my letter and told me not to enter the county seat again in the future, if I let the officials see it, they won't save me. After that, let me go. ……”