On the other side, the county magistrate Shen, who returned to the county seat, finally put his mind at ease, sat at the table and drank cold water to keep himself calm enough, after a glass of water, he slapped his hand on the table angrily and scolded angrily:

"Grandma's! What is going on? ”

A company commander under his command suddenly ran in in a hurry, "County magistrate, it's not good, something happened!" ”

County Magistrate Shen said: "What's the matter!?" ”

The company commander hurriedly said: "It's the ammunition depot that has an accident!" ”

County Magistrate Shen chuckled in his heart and asked, "What's wrong!" ”

The company commander sweated on his forehead and said, "County magistrate, the warehouse has been emptied, and there is still a note!" ”

County Magistrate Shen stood up in shock, trembling all over, and his voice became trembling: "Yes, it was emptied, are you sure?" That's right, a whole warehouse of weapons and ammunition was emptied? ”

The company commander nodded: "Yes, after I came back, I will take someone to look at the warehouse, but the guards outside the warehouse are all knocked unconscious, tied to a tree, the warehouse is empty, and there is a piece of paper on the door, on which something is written." ”

"Where's the paper?" The company commander hurriedly handed the piece of paper to the county magistrate Shen, who opened the paper and looked at it, his eyes were dark, and he fell unconscious.

The content on the paper reads: Thank you to County Magistrate Shen for supporting the weapons and equipment of a regiment of our Red Army, and for making great contributions to the growth of our Red Army.

"It's over, it's all over."

Before the coma, the head of Shen County was full of thoughts of finishing, and now he really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it away, and the national army would definitely see this incident as evidence of his fornication with bandits, unless he died.

"The head of the regiment is mighty, the head of the regiment who plays the county master!"

"Regiment commander, we can go and rescue the Red Army comrades in West Hankou."

A shout of joy came from a forest.

Xia Yuan stood on the carriage and said with a smile: "This county magistrate Shen is wealthy, and there is a group of weapons and equipment in a warehouse, this is not an eye-wrenching person, such a piece of fragrant bait, let's not regret it, no, it doesn't cost a soldier to get the weapons and equipment of this regiment." ”

Li Qingming said happily: "Regiment leader, how did you manage to let us in all the way unimpeded, and the subordinates of County Magistrate Shen nodded when they saw it, so they knelt down and called us grandpa." ”

Yang Chenglin also said very happily: "No, I didn't expect that one day they would open the city gate and let us in." ”

Xia Yuan said with a smile: "It's simple, in their subconscious, the Red Army is just a group of guys who are similar to bandits, they are very downtrodden in food and clothing, but you look at our Red Army, the uniform attire makes us look like a regular army, plus it is dark, the enemy will misjudge us as the troops of the White Army for a while, just need a little guidance, the enemy is not obedient to let us in." ”

Tonight's plan was to outwit the county's ammunition depot and get the regiment's weapons and equipment without a single soldier.

After the battle, Xia Yuan has been thinking about how to rescue the Red Army in West Hankou, and to rescue the Red Army in West Hankou needs to have the strength to confront the White Army in West Hankou.

Just when he frowned, the prisoners captured there turned out to be the soldiers of the county magistrate Shen, and from the mouths of those soldiers, he learned that the county magistrate Shen had hoarded a regiment of weapons and equipment in a warehouse near the north gate of the county seat, and with the weapons and equipment of this regiment, it would be possible to solve the problem of the shortage of weapons faced by the Red Army at the moment, so a plan to plan the ammunition depot in the county town appeared in Xia Yuan's mind.

The first step is to lead the county magistrate out of the city, and the second step is to let the Red Army disguise itself as the White Army to take away the weapons and equipment of the ammunition depot, the whole process can be said to be thrilling, the only thing that surprised Xia Yuan is that the enemy's cooperation is beyond Xia Yuan's imagination, when they transport weapons and ammunition out of the city, the defenders at the gate will actually help them.

In fact, Xia Yuan asked them to use a very clumsy excuse, that is, a battalion of the Han battalion commander was annihilated by the communist bandits in Sanpingdu, and it was when the county town was empty, and the communist bandits would definitely not let go of this opportunity, and before the communist bandits attacked the county seat, they would transport away the weapons and equipment of a regiment in the county town by the moonlight, so as to prevent the communist bandits from capturing the county seat.

And led the county magistrate Shen out of the south gate, they entered through the north gate, and under the leadership of a captive, they quickly came to the warehouse, eliminated the guards of the warehouse, and quickly loaded the weapons and ammunition of the entire warehouse into a carriage and transported away in the shortest possible time.

The purpose of leaving that letter was also intentional, if the county magistrate Shen was okay in the future, then the weapons and ammunition in this warehouse would become an extremely fatal handle for the county magistrate Shen, and in comparison, it would be very advantageous for the Red Army to have such a county magistrate who could control it.

Not all the weapons and ammunition were returned to Nianping Village.

After the four battalions met outside the city, Xia Yuan immediately assigned the battle plan: "The 123rd Battalion will set off immediately after taking advantage of the moonlight with enough weapons and ammunition, and the 4th Battalion will follow behind the 3rd Battalion with the remaining weapons and ammunition as a reserve, and the action will be accelerated, and strive to arrive in the bamboo forest on the opposite bank of West Hankou at noon, and the enemy in the bamboo forest will be eaten!" ”

"Yes!"

The position north of West Hankou is a bamboo forest, according to the Han battalion commander, they stationed a company of troops in the bamboo forest, West Hankou is bordered by the river, the river is turbulent, it is difficult to cross the river without a large raft, and this bamboo forest is easy to defend and difficult to attack, only one company of troops is needed to firmly grasp this defense line.

Garrisoned in the northwest two directions, there were three battalions of troops under the first division of the regimental commander Sun, and the three battalions of the battalion commander Han were lost, and the strength of the regimental commander Sun was already empty, coupled with the long-term encirclement and suppression of the communist bandits, the fighters within the Sun regiment greatly decreased their will to fight, and the enthusiasm for encircling and suppressing the communist bandits also decreased a lot.

In the bamboo garden north of West Hankou, rows of wooden houses made of bamboo are lined up, all kinds of clothes are hung on the bamboo, and a group of thin soldiers are swimming among the bamboo forests, these are the soldiers of the third company of the first battalion of the Sun regiment, and the months of being stationed in the bamboo garden are not only a test of the will of the Red Army, but also a test of their will.

You must know that during the Central Plains War, all kinds of materials were given priority to the front line, and their lives in the rear were naturally tight, plus the Red Army in the mountains came out from time to time to harass them, how could there be a good life.

They gathered around the bonfire and complained all day about Cao Dan's days, but they didn't know that behind them there were already three battalions of the Red Army quietly approaching.

Near noon, a battalion, a company, a company, a company of sharp knives, and a company of honor took the lead in attacking the defenders in the bamboo forest, and when the attack was launched, these enemies were still having lunch, and when the guns were on their heads, many people did not even react, only a platoon of the enemy on the defensive line made stubborn resistance, but soon with the cooperation of the two companies, they quickly retreated, holding guns high and coming out of the trenches.

The whole process of the battle lasted only ten minutes.

At this time, in the mountains and forests of West Hankou, in a dense grass, a ragged and thin Red Army soldier came out, his eyes were sunken, his cheekbones were high and protruding, his cheeks were also sunken, the coarse cloth clothes on his body had turned into strips of cloth, wet and sticking to his body, his body was covered with dirty mud, and he was carrying a worn-out weapon in his hand, he stared at the bamboo forest on the other side of the river in the distance, and the long-term malnutrition made him almost fall to the ground when he stood up, and he stood firm in front of him with the gun in his hand.

After composing himself, he quickly ran towards a cave in a ravine, near which there were several Red Army soldiers like him.

"Who!"

"I, two fools."

Three ragged warriors emerged from the hidden grass, and one of them, a thin one, asked, "Erfuzi, why are you back?" ”

The second stunned man hurriedly asked, "What about the political commissar?" ”

The skinny warrior pointed to the cave in the ravine, "It's inside." ”

The second stunned man turned his head and left: "I'm going to find the political commissar, there are gunshots from the bamboo forest, I have to tell the political commissar about this." ”

The three warriors scratched their heads and continued to hide.

At the entrance of the cave, two dirty female comrades were taking care of the wounded Red Army comrades, the wound was rotting and emitting an unpleasant smell, going inside, more than ten Red Army soldiers were sitting on the ground covered with straw with guns, the cave was dark and damp, only a torch emitted a faint fire, a man wearing glasses and pulling tea with a beard was sitting on the ground, looking through a book, there were two soldiers waiting anxiously beside him, there were several small bowls in front of them, and there was green juice in the small bowls.

After the second stunned man came, he said: "Political commissar, there are gunshots from the bamboo forest, do you think it will be Brother Lei and they have already crossed the river?" ”

The political commissar put down the book in his hand and asked, "There are gunshots from the bamboo forest, how long has it lasted?" ”

The second stunned thought for a moment and said, "It lasted for about ten minutes." ”

The political commissar pondered: "Wang Lei and they started to cross the river last night, it stands to reason that they will not launch an attack on the enemy during such a daytime, the situation is very unfavorable to them during the day, and they should wait for the evening to try to break through, Wang Lei is also an old comrade, and he will not make such a mistake." ”

But he felt that something was not quite right: "We have been surrounded in the mountains for four or five months, and if it weren't for Wang Lei's attack on the white army on the other side of the bamboo forest, I really can't think of anyone else who would be able to attack the white army in the bamboo forest." ”

After a pause, he said, "Go and observe again and see the situation on the opposite position." ”

The second stunned man said: "Yes!" ”

In the observation pit, he continued to observe the situation on the other side of the river.

In the cave, the political commissar convened everyone for a brief meeting, and he said: "Wang Lei may have successfully crossed the river, whether he can get rid of the blockade of the White Army depends on himself, we must also persevere, comrades, hold on, the more difficult the moment, the more it will test us!" If Wang Lei can break through successfully, then our red spark will be retained, even if we die, but the spark will be retained, even if it is just a spark, but I believe that this spark will eventually burn more and more. ”

He added: "The only good news at the moment is that the White Army has blockaded us and has not entered the mountains to encircle us, which gives us a chance to breathe, rest and rest, and search for wild vegetables that can be eaten nearby."

At this time, Xia Yuan had already led the team to occupy the bamboo forest, but Xia Yuan did not let people start the rescue of the Red Army on the other side of the river in the bamboo forest, you must know that there are two whole regiments of the enemy in their two directions, and it is a very unwise choice to really choose to fight hard, which will only increase casualties.

Therefore, Xia Yuan chose to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, when attacking the bamboo forest, the real main force was interspersed in the south direction, once the enemy found that the bamboo forest on the north side was attacked, he would inevitably send troops to support, and at this time the south became a place they could not take care of, and the south was bordered by West Hankou, only need to capture the south, you can open the road to West Hankou, and the besieged Red Army will be rescued.

Yang Chenglin, the commander of the first battalion, led the soldiers of the first battalion to quickly find favorable terrain and build fortifications after attacking the bamboo forest, their purpose was to block the enemy, and they only needed to contain the enemy, and their task could be successfully completed, and there were four battalions behind the first battalion as reserves, which could support the first battalion at any time, and the second and third battalions were interspersed with the south, they only carried weapons and ammunition, and hurried lightly, so that they could penetrate to the south side before dark.

It was also approaching evening, the second and third battalions successfully interspersed to the south side with light equipment, forming an encirclement of the enemy on the south side, and on the south side, there was another regiment and a battalion of defenders, stationed in a town, the Red Army and the White Army were fighting, and the people here had long run out, leaving only one battalion of the White Army.

At this time, the bamboo forest, the battle has begun, a battalion of the Sun regiment came to support and another battalion of the white army came to support the bamboo forest to form an encirclement of the bamboo forest, Yang Chenglin knew that they wanted to drag the enemy to the regiment commander to buy them time, ordered the soldiers to occupy a favorable terrain to block the enemy, and swore to hold the position.

Both sides were caught in a bitter battle, both lacked lethal weapons, the Red Army, relying on favorable terrain, had the upper hand, and four battalions in the rear were in reserve, carrying a regiment of weapons and equipment to support the first battalion, and even a few mortars were pulled to the battlefield.

(End of chapter)