march to victory

Li Jing, from Lijia Village, Sanqiao County, is 28 years old.

The young man lost his father, and the mother and son depended on each other for life. They were extremely filial and learned to be a carpenter.

At the age of 20, he went to other villages to work as a carpenter.His mother went to the town to sell eggs, and encountered tax soldiers collecting taxes.Because the mother's eggs were not sold and she had no money to pay the tax, the tax soldier wanted to take away her small box of eggs, and a dispute arose.

His mother has been in poor health and was hit on the head by a tax soldier with a gun butt and died.

Li Jing was very sad and angry when he learned about it. After burying his mother, he took an ax and waited alone in the town for two days. Finally, at noon on the third day, he hacked the two tax soldiers to death in the street.

From then on, he lived a life of being wanted as a fugitive, wandering in the rivers and lakes.

Two years later, thinking that the news had passed, he couldn't bear the pain of thinking, worried about the safety of his parents' graves, so he secretly returned to his hometown.

Unexpectedly, the families of the two tax soldiers who were hacked to death by him would report to the police after learning that he had returned.Fortunately, one of his relatives worked in the security regiment and secretly notified him to let him escape.

Desperate, and he didn't want to live a wandering life anymore, in a rage, he fell into the grass and took refuge in a group of bandits in Baige Mountain next to Qinglong Mountain.

Clever, rich experience in the world, and good skills, he soon became a small boss... It was during this period that he met Luo Yingjie through the introduction of his cousin Li Hua.The two hit it off and soon became brothers.

Two years later, he killed the boss with the pretense of raping and looting, being a disaster for a bandit, and took the position of the boss himself...Luo Yingjie generously admitted that he also participated in it at the time, with the purpose of It is to wait for Li Jing to get the position of the head of the family, and to draw this team into the revolutionary team.

In the next few years, Li Jing not only saved Luo Yingjie's life twice, but also personally led people to rescue the surrounded guerrillas once.It is conceivable how good the relationship between the two parties is.

Later, with the help of Luo Yingjie, Li Jing wiped out several small groups of bandits in the surrounding area, and took control of the north side of the previous smuggling trail (the south side was controlled by the bandits from Jigongzhai), which greatly increased Li Jing's strength.

And Li Jing is also a man who does not forget to dig wells. His Baige Village can almost be said to be the permanent point of the guerrillas, and the two teams have joined forces many times to fight against the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army.

And in these days of mutual contact, Li Jing really wanted to join the guerrilla brigade, but Luo Yingjie didn't want to incorporate them.

For one thing, Li Jing's team has the way of bandits fighting: when they fight with the wind, everyone scrambles to snatch it like a tiger chasing a sheep; but when things go wrong, they run faster than rabbits.This kind of bandit fighting characteristic has penetrated deep into the bone marrow of this team. Li Jing himself corrected it many times, but in the end he returned without success.

Secondly, what was even more terrible was that the ethos of this bandit team was free and unrestrained. It was like this from top to bottom, and Li Jing alone could change it.Even Luo Yingjie tried to recruit them at the beginning, but the bandits resisted from bottom to top. Not only did Luo Yingjie show signs of turning their backs, but they almost led the guerrillas down.In addition, Luo Yingjie ran around with the guerrillas, so there was no time to put in a lot of effort to train them and correct this unhealthy trend. Therefore, we could only use cooperation between the two parties, not a joint compilation... This is also the case between Luo Yingjie and The safest compromise method adopted by Li Jing's two troops after many contacts was also discussed by the two: the two agreed that this place would be a temporary station for the guerrillas, and wait for the guerrillas to grow stronger, or wait for the Red Army. After the main force arrives, everyone will discuss the matter of Li Jing's team joining the Red Army according to the situation.

After listening to Luo Yingjie's introduction to this person's family history, Zhang Qingshan had a vague feeling: Even if this Li Jing was so eager to join the guerrillas and tried his best to help the guerrillas, his purpose might not be as simple as Luo Yingjie said. At least, judging from what Luo Yingjie said, there is at least the factor of "leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade" in his actions.

The reason is simple: Li Jing had a deadly feud with the Kuomintang government, and it was a difficult hurdle to overcome just because his mother was beaten to death by the Kuomintang tax soldiers in the street.But the Kuomintang is powerful, and if he wants to be his king of the mountain for a long time, he must find a relatively strong ally, and he has taken a fancy to the Communist guerrillas.Because, in his view, although the Communist Party has only one guerrilla brigade here, the Communist Party also has troops, so turning to the Communist Party is the way to survive.

Otherwise, would he really have saved Luo Yingjie and the others so many times for Li Hua's sake?There is no such reason.

Besides, while he was verbally actively joining the guerrillas, his subordinates opposed it. This is a typical double-decker: while thinking about the future and wanting to maintain a certain relationship with the guerrillas, but thinking about his own interests, he secretly encouraged his subordinates People strongly oppose it, so that he can come forward to be a good person, or in order to win more personal interests in the future.Otherwise, he really didn't even have this bit of control over his subordinates, and he might have been overthrown by his subordinates long ago.

Anyway, after analyzing a series of factors, Zhang Qingshan felt that this Li Jing might be a difficult guy to deal with, and he had to be careful when dealing with him.

But now, looking at Luo Yingjie's praise of Li Jing, it was obvious that Luo Yingjie had been coaxed into dizziness by Li Jing.However, Luo Yingjie is now relying on Luo Yingjie's help in many aspects. Zhang Qingshan feels that it is better not to break the relationship between the two of them for the time being, and talk about it later, otherwise, Luo Yingjie will be left with the impression of a villain, which is not conducive to unity. It is even more unfavorable for future work.

Besides, in case I was wrong, Li Jing actually wanted to join the guerrillas sincerely. Then, what I said now would actually be a villain and make people laugh. This is not the calmness that a regiment leader should have. Hecheng Mansion... Zhang Qingshan can think of so many things, and he can rationally restrain his inner impulse, which shows that he has indeed matured a lot, and he looks a bit like the head of the regiment.

"What did you two say? You said it so happily. Come, tell me too."

Hu Yingze probably had a good time talking with the group of guerrillas, and had been communicating with them along the way. No, even if he walked over now, it was obvious that he walked briskly.

"It's nothing, it's just that Lao Luo said that he wanted to join us as a sworn brother, but the people under him strongly opposed it... Lao Luo, tell Lao nonsense about your brother's situation."

"it is good!"

Immediately, Luo Yingjie told the story again.

After Hu Yingjie finished listening, he nodded with a smile and said, "Lao Luo, from what you said, this Li Jing is still very good. Find time to get in touch with him, to see what he thinks, and to see how his brothers are doing. Why are you so resistant to incorporation... We are the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party, not our current allies, and we can be confident and confident. Therefore, this kind of thing cannot be forcibly incorporated, let alone reckless. We must explain the truth to them and do it well. For their political and ideological work, let them join the revolutionary ranks sincerely. Lao Zhang, Lao Luo, do you two think this is the truth?"

Based on Zhang Qingshan's understanding of Hu Yingze, Hu Yingze used to speak very incisively, even if he was wordy, he was not so wordy.But he is still so verbose now, so it can only explain one problem: Lao Hu also heard that although both parties are using each other to achieve a win-win effect, this Li Jing is probably not as active as he appears on the surface. , but has his own little abacus.In this way, Hu Yingjie was naturally disgusted with this kind of duplicitous person, so he only briefly commented on him, and instead talked a lot of nonsense.

Luo Yingjie didn't know if he understood. Anyway, Luo Yingjie nodded his head in agreement at this time.

Zhang Qingshan also nodded with a smile, but looked straight at Hu Yingze.

Sure enough, taking advantage of Luo Yingjie's opportunity to lower his head to wash his handkerchief, Hu Yingze blinked at Zhang Qingshan, pursed his lips, and then left after saying a few more words to the two.

As an old partner, Zhang Qingshan naturally understood the meaning of Hu Yingze's eyes.

After talking to Luo Yingjie for a while, he found an excuse to leave and went to find Hu Yingze.

Sitting not far from the shore, Hu Yingjie saw the soldiers frolicking barefoot in the creek, enjoying this rare happy time, and his expression could not help revealing the joy from the bottom of his heart.

Zhang Qingshan sat down next to him, followed his gaze, touched Hu Yingjie with his hand, and asked with a smile: "Old Hu, what are you looking at? You are smiling so happily."

"Old Zhang, tell me, if there is no aggression, no war, no oppression, and the soldiers enjoy the beauty of peace, what kind of situation would it be like?"

"Yes! Peace and freedom without oppression, what kind of happy life is it?" After Zhang Qingshan lamented along Hu Yingze's semantics, the next sentence changed the subject: "However, we are doing revolution for the sake of the working people in the world. Do you all live such a happy life?"

Hu Yingze nodded with a smile, and looked at the cheerful and frolicking soldiers.

Zhang Qingshan also looked at it in the same way.

For a while, the two lost interest in talking, and just watched quietly, enjoying the happy time that belonged to everyone.

However, they are soldiers after all. For soldiers, such happy time is extremely precious, but it is easy to wear down their will.

No, after watching for a while, Zhang Qingshan came to his senses first.

Touching Hu Yingze, he asked in a low voice, "Old Hu, what do you think of the Li Jing that Lao Luo just mentioned?"

"Although I haven't come into contact with this Li Jing yet, from Lao Luo's mouth, I feel that this Li Jing is a fox, and a fox who likes to play tricks. Old Zhang, do you think so?"

Zhang Qingshan chuckled, but didn't speak.But as an old partner, Hu Yingze naturally understood his smile, obviously agreeing with his own opinion.

"However, Old Hu, no matter what kind of fox he is, anyway, I just lead troops to fight, and it's your responsibility to fight wits and courage with him."

Hu Yingze didn't argue, but after giving Zhang Qingshan a blank look, he said with a smile: "I don't have the heart to play with him. Anyway, we communists are best at melting such people. As long as he joins in, it won't take long. It’s going to turn him around.”

"That's a good deal. When the time comes, I'll just watch the show."

The two looked at each other and smiled, understanding each other.

Half an hour later, the troops continued to set off.

When the sun was about to set, the assault group finally arrived at the destination—Qinglong Village under Qinglong Mountain.

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