Globe Trekker

Chapter 79
Wu Ming smiled apologetically at the frightened middle-aged man, put the chair more than one meter in front of the firepit, and respectfully asked the old village chief to sit down first.

After a few words of pleasantries, Wu Ming took out a packet of cigarettes to respect the old village chief: "Excuse me, old man, I have something to explain to you. In order to ensure the safety of the flanks of our army's main force, from today onwards, we need to The people coming and going are inspected, and at the same time, a list of the villagers of the whole village is needed to check the people going in and out, and to prevent spies from the communist army from mixing in to disrupt the stable life of the local area.”

The old village head was surprised: "Many people in our village are relatives to the surrounding villages, and there are also many businessmen coming and going. It would be inconvenient if it was sealed off!"

"My uncle misunderstood, I didn't say to seal it off! It's just that people who come and go need to check and ask. We will never embarrass our parents, let alone do those extortion activities. I hope my uncle will support you!" Wu Ming explained patiently. stand up.

The old village chief could only nod his head: "Okay then, I have the household registration list of the whole village at home, so I'll bring it to the chief."

"Thank you, old man. We won't take away the household registration list. I'll let someone make a copy." Wu Ming signaled Zhang Dongning to call in the two staff officers outside the door.

The old village chief quickly brought the roster, and Zhang Dongning led two staff officers to meet him. After receiving the roster, he began to copy it on the low table beside him.

Wu Ming asked the old village chief to sit down, then turned to the middle-aged man who was sitting diagonally across the grass mound and asked, "What's the old man's name?"

The middle-aged man quickly stood up and replied respectfully: "My surname is also Zhou. I live in Tangyin Town in the south. I am Uncle Zhou's nephew."

Wu Ming asked him to sit down politely: "Tangyin Town is not easy to get here! The main force of the Red Army has been stationed in your place for a long time, right?"

The heart of the middle-aged man suddenly contracted: "I, I don't know! There is no Red Army in our poor place. They came here before and left soon."

"It's okay, sit down."

Wu Ming asked him to sit down with a half-smile, and turned to the old village chief who was already pale with fright: "Don't worry, old man, although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are at war, but it's about the soldiers, and it won't hurt the poor people. My troops will not embarrass the common people who have been in contact with the Red Army, the reason is very simple, my troops, including myself, are also from poor families, and I know that in this troubled world, all the common people, fathers and villagers have a difficult life."

The old village head quickly echoed: "Yes, yes! It's not easy!"

Wu Ming took out two packs of cigarettes and stuffed them into the hands of the old village chief, stood up and said goodbye kindly: "My nephew still has to go to the south to have a look, so I won't bother you old man, and my two staff officers will leave as soon as they finish copying the list." Go, I have to trouble you to always inform the folks about the card checks, making everyone panic, please forgive me for the inconvenience!"

The old village chief shivered with the two packs of cigarettes in his hands, and was about to return them when Wu Ming strode out of the door. The two guards standing at the door followed closely, blocking most of Wu Ming's figure in a blink of an eye.

The old village chief sighed helplessly, put the cigarette in his pocket, went back and sat down, picked up the pipe and lit it to smoke silently. After the two staff officers finished copying the roster and left, he pulled the middle-aged man into the back room and asked worriedly: "It looks like that Captain Wu suspected you just now, what should we do?"

The middle-aged man was even more flustered: "Uncle, if you say I'm leaving now, will he let me go?"

The old village chief was stunned for a long time: "It's hard to say! This young regiment leader Wu seems to be friendly, but in fact he is full of city power, spooky and frightening!"

The middle-aged man became even more nervous: "Uncle, no matter what, I'm going to bring the news back to the south immediately! This regiment commander Wu is amazing, and his officers and soldiers look very smart, they must be the elite troops of the Central Army Ah! If I don't pass the news back, what if the main force thinks it's the white dog guarding here before, and they come up to fight in a ignorant way? How many people will die?"

The old village head stomped anxiously: "You can't call! They have built new fortifications at all intersections, high and low, inside and outside, all with machine guns, and there are people watching on the few hills where there were no guards before. Yes, and I saw that many of them have binoculars, if six or seven hundred of you get in and get discovered, it won’t be enough for machine guns!”

"I know! I know! What I'm worried about now is how to get out of the village and go back! Uncle, you must help me no matter what!" The middle-aged man was really anxious.

The old village chief hurriedly motioned him to be quiet, turned around twice and made up his mind: "Forget it! I'll send you out, they have to give me some face."

The middle-aged man was overjoyed: "Or go west?"

"How about going to the west? You have to go around forty miles on the mountain road, can you make it in time?" the old village chief asked worriedly.

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth: "If you can't make it in time, you have to hurry! Didn't the head of the White Gouzi just say that he wants to go to the south to have a look? You can't go to the south, otherwise he will definitely make him suspicious, so go to the west!"

"Okay! Come with me, go through the back door!"

The old village head sent his distant nephew out of the west entrance of the village, and he didn't return at ease until he could no longer see the shadow. Who knew that the sudden change in the expressions of the two of them just now had aroused Wu Ming's suspicion, and he made arrangements for it.

The middle-aged man who successfully passed the west entrance of the village walked out of the three-mile road, and finally breathed out when he saw no one behind him. His mouth was dry and he couldn't care about looking ahead. He strode towards the spring below the mountain road and squatted beside the clear spring water. Stretching out his hands, he was shocked to see the clear reflection on the water.

"Don't move, I won't hurt you, drink it, and talk after you drink it." A cold voice sounded from the side.

The middle-aged man only felt his ears roaring and his scalp numb, and he didn't even bother to drink water, so he stood up suddenly, bit his cheek, stared at the heavily armed soldier in front of him and asked, "I know who you are, which Wu are you? The captain's bodyguard, right? What do you want to do?"

The tall Han Tiecheng smiled: "Don't be nervous, our team leader asked you to bring a message back, please don't come over with your team, and we won't take the initiative to attack, as long as everyone lives in peace."

"I don't understand what you said." The middle-aged man calmed down quickly.

Han Tiecheng laughed, and quickly sank his face: "Don't do this with me, I've seen you a lot, I really want you to tell the truth so easily! Okay, let's go, be careful all the way, it's easy to go south from here. You have to go to Liujiayuan in the west first. After passing Liujiayuan, you can go south along the small road in the east of the village. You have to cross the river three times along the way. There are nine bends and eighteen bends. I guess you won’t be able to reach Huangliankeng in the south tonight. ,Ha ha!"

The middle-aged man was completely dumbfounded. He never expected that this group, who had just been here for less than a day, would know so much about the surrounding mountain trails.

But the shock is the shock, the thing that should be done has to be done immediately, the middle-aged man has forgotten his thirst, and he left quickly under the gaze of the tall soldier, ran out of Wuli Mountain Road in one breath, and rushed to the small road beside the road as if he had collapsed. By the stream, I soaked my head in the stream and drank a few sips of water, turned over and lay on the wet stream and gasped loudly.

At ten o'clock the next morning, Zhou Dezhi, a middle-aged man covered in sweat and haggard, finally rushed to the north of Tangyin Town, where the Fourth Independent Division of the Red Army was located. Report to the division leaders who are urgently concentrated.

After listening to Zhou Dezhi's report, Guo Tianming, commander of the Fourth Independent Division of the Red Army who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, asked a few more key questions. Surrounding the map, the two staff officers quickly marked the situation of Wu Ming's regiment on the map.

After reading the fortifications marked in the three directions of Mao Pailing, Guo Tianming couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect Chen Cheng's reaction to be so fast, blocking all the passages for our flank attack, even the Baiguo Village along the Hebei The narrow mountain pass was also blocked, the defenders increased from a battalion to a regiment, and the patrols were scattered ten miles away, what a formidable enemy!"

"Did you find out the group number?" Xie Weijun asked for the second time.

Guo Tianming shook his head: "The secrecy measures of this regiment are quite good. According to Zhou Dezhi's report, the regiment leader's surname is Wu, with a Nanchang accent, and he is from Chen Cheng's former enemy headquarters. After careful speculation, it is likely to be a security guard. Another important piece of information is that this regiment does not carry artillery, but there are many light machine guns and machine guns, and the equipment is a typical security force.”

The 30-year-old regiment leader Deng Tinggan was very unconvinced. This veteran soldier from Shanghang, Fujian participated in the third anti-encirclement campaign and the previous battle against the 52nd Division. He looked down on the Kuomintang guards who escaped the fastest: "Light machine guns No matter how many people there are, they are useless and have no fighting power! You see, this regiment rushed to repair the fortifications as soon as they arrived at Mao Pailing. Except for the road leading to the south city from the east, all the other three directions were repaired. From this we can see that, The leader of this regiment is definitely a coward who does not seek merit but seeks faults!"

Guo Tianming asked kindly: "Then how to explain the fact that they saw through Zhou Dezhi's identity?"

"I guess they didn't recognize the identity of the platoon leader Zhou, but they were cheating, and they gave up when they saw that the deception didn't make any sense, otherwise, how could they let the platoon leader Zhou leave safely?" Political commissar Xie Weijun put forward his opinion, and was immediately received The support of the two leaders.

Guo Tianming, who was suspicious, pondered for a long time: "Do you think it is necessary to change the previous raid plan?"

The matter was of great importance, and the two regiment leaders shut their mouths knowingly.

Political commissar Xie Weijun considered for a long time and proposed a compromise plan: "Mao Pailing is located at the throat between Nancheng and Yihuang. The purpose is to confuse the enemy and make the enemy mistakenly think that in the high mountains between Yihuang and Nancheng, only a small number of our troops harass the troops. According to the latest information obtained, although the enemy stationed in Mao Pailing suddenly changed defenses, their strength increased to one regiment. But this regiment is not a full-staffed regular regiment, and it is not equipped with artillery and heavy machine guns. It can be regarded as two infantry battalions at most. From this, it can be seen that Mao Pailing has not yet attracted the attention of the enemy, and our army can implement it according to the original plan."

Deng Tingqian immediately echoed: "I agree with the political commissar's opinion! In three days, the main armies of our army will launch battles. As the right-wing vanguard of the Red First Army, our division is obliged to conquer Mao Pailing and ensure the rapid penetration of the main force. , with the rich experience and fighting spirit of our division's regiments, taking Mao Pailing is not a problem."

The prudent head of the second regiment also agreed with Xie Weijun and Deng Tinggan's opinion that the mission of the headquarters cannot be changed, otherwise the combat plan of the entire left-wing army of more than 2 soldiers will be greatly changed. This is by no means something that can be done in a short period of time. .

Guo Tianming finally let go of his worries and agreed with everyone's opinions, but finally said that he would immediately report the latest situation to the army commander Lin Biao.

　Tianzi's cold symptoms worsened, dizziness, brain swelling, coughing, stuffy nose and tears all together, it was extremely uncomfortable!I started writing this chapter in the afternoon, and struggled to write until eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. The pain can be imagined.After posting this chapter, the Son of Heaven will go to bed, and there will be no more updates in the early morning. Brothers and sisters, please take care of the emperor's sickness code, and continue to vote and reward after midnight. Thank you!
　　
　
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