march to victory

"Report! The red head below sent someone up."

Zhao Shanhe wasn't surprised by this at all: the opponent put on such a posture, but didn't attack the mountain, the intention was already very obvious: either to persuade them to surrender, or to make excuses.Sending people up is naturally to negotiate.

"How many people are here?"

"Just two. The leader claims to be the leader of the battalion below, and his name is Zhang Qingshan."

Hearing this, Zhao Shanhe was stunned, and then his eyes turned cold: The team below looked like a battalion, and as the battalion commander, the other party dared to go up the mountain to negotiate in person.Although this meant sincerity, on the other hand, it was not only a kind of self-confidence, but also a threat and a humiliation to him as the company commander.

"Bring it up!"

After a little hesitation, he stopped the soldiers who were about to turn around and said, "Take them to the meeting room."

Immediately, he deliberately added another sentence: "Be polite."

After entering the door, there is only one person in this small room, looking at him coldly—two soldiers with live ammunition standing beside the small door, although you can ignore them, but you can’t underestimate them. Existence: In order to be able to deal with Zhang Qingshan, but also to testify for this meeting when necessary.Of course, this has nothing to do with Zhang Qingshan, and he doesn't bother to think about their identities or the meaning of being here.

In order not to be underestimated by the enemy in terms of momentum, Zhang Qingshan turned his head and winked at Wang Wu behind him.After Wang Wu went out to wait, Zhang Qingshan came to Zhao Shanhe, and he was not in a hurry to say hello, but while Zhao Shanhe observed him, he also observed him quietly.

Neither of the two spoke, but stared at each other's eyes, and their gazes clashed like swords—at this moment, whoever showed timidity first or avoided first would definitely make the other party look down upon him, and be timid before fighting. In the negotiations that come down, they will inevitably be suppressed and beaten by the other party.Therefore, this seemingly silent stare at each other is actually the beginning of a contest between the two.

After a while, seeing a slight smile on Zhao Shanhe's face, Zhang Qingshan saluted him and introduced himself: "Zhang Qingshan, commander of the Pioneer Battalion directly under the Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army."

After all, you are a guest, so introduce yourself first, which is a necessary etiquette.

"Zhao Shanhe, company commander of the Wujiabao garrison." Zhao Shanhe smiled slightly, glanced meaningfully at Zhang Qingshan, and formally returned a military salute—this is also a courtesy.Then stretched out his right hand: "Hello."

The two shook hands... This seemingly simple but due etiquette has a profound meaning. You must know that at this time, the two camps can be regarded as life and death enemies, especially on the KMT side. Anyone who dares to contact the Communist Party in private will be jailed , severe cases beheaded. 'I'd rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go! 'This is not just talking, it is not just Lao Jiang's method to deal with the Communist Party, but also a declaration to deal with his own family.That's why Zhao Shanhe looked at Zhang Qingshan meaningfully before returning the gift, and stretched out his hand, which is both polite and a kind of oath: This is my territory, you kid, take it easy, you pissed me off. My life is over.

Ask Zhang Qingshan to sit down and serve tea to his subordinates. After Zhao Shanhe held up his teacup and respected Zhang Qingshan, he took a symbolic sip of tea, put down his teacup and asked, "Battlemaster Zhang, although you and I belong to different camps, But we are both soldiers. Soldiers should have the straightforwardness and sincerity of soldiers. If you want to talk, let’s get straight to the point...Brother, I’m a rough man, so I’ll be blunt.”

Don't underestimate the verbosity of Zhao Shanhe's words. In fact, his intention is to seize the initiative in the negotiation.

"Please say."

"Your army wants to pass through Wujiabao, which is exactly the opposite of the order I received. I don't know if Battalion Commander Zhang is here this time to persuade him to surrender or to make excuses?" When he said this, he paused deliberately, picked up the Teacup for tea.Originally, he wanted to wait for Zhang Qingshan to answer, so that he could continue to take the initiative, and use this to test Zhang Qingshan's purpose.But Zhang Qingshan just lit a cigarette, smoked it slowly, did not answer, he could only put down his teacup, and continued: "If it is to persuade you to surrender, then you can go back. If it is an excuse, it depends on your army's ability How much do you owe me and my brethren?"

After finishing speaking, he leaned forward slightly, staring closely at Zhang Qingshan's eyes, giving people a feeling of oppression, and added: "In other words, you can pay as much as you want to keep quiet."

Zhang Qingshan was completely unaffected by him, put the cigarette in the ashtray with a smile, and said: "Company Commander Zhao, I think you have misunderstood. This time I came here on behalf of the Red Army. ..."

You can't help but fight back, right?Therefore, while Zhang Qingshan and Zhao Shanhe were talking, there was obviously a trace of doubt in Zhao Shanhe's eyes. He also held the other party's appetite, picked up the teacup, and drank tea slowly.The intention was to wait for Zhao Shanhe to ask questions so that he could take the initiative, but Zhao Shanhe was also an old bird. Excellent, but my army of [-] workers and peasants can't take down a small Wujiabao? In my eyes, this is very troublesome, and it is more enjoyable to fight with real swords and guns. It's just that our chief thinks that you are a good person. , I couldn’t bear to commit crimes, so when I came here, I was repeatedly told to be polite first and then soldiers, otherwise, hey! Hey! Company Commander Zhao, let me tell you the truth, in my eyes, let alone my army of [-] workers and peasants, it is our vanguard battalion , is also enough to take down Wujiabao, after all, Wujiabao only has about a hundred people, a few shots are enough!"

Zhao Shanhe's face darkened, and he asked in a cold voice, "What do you mean by that?"

"It doesn't mean anything else. I came here this time to inform you: From now on, within three days, although the Wu Family Fort still exists, it's just that the road below the mountain is temporarily taken over by our Red Army. Don't worry, After three days, I promise to return it to you intact."

"Presumptuous!" Zhao Shanhe slapped the table angrily, stood up and pointed at Zhang Qingshan and shouted: "It's too much to deceive people, it's really too much to deceive others..."

"Oh!"

But before he finished shouting, Zhang Qingshan also slapped the table, stood up and waved Zhao Shanhe's hand away, pointed at Zhao Shanhe and said, "What's wrong with bullying you? Could it be that I have an army of [-] people, bullying you with hundreds of thousands of people?" Ten or so people, shouldn’t it be?”

"You..." Zhao Shanhe burst into anger immediately, his thoughts were like lightning, and when he was about to ask someone to arrest Zhang Qingshan as a hostage, Zhang Qingshan turned around and left without stopping, shouting in his mouth: "Company Commander Zhao, come with me!" Come on, let me take you to a show first, before you think about whether what I just said was presumptuous?"

Zhao Shanhe had no choice but to swallow back the words that came to his lips, and followed them out with a little curiosity and a sense of crisis.So far, the initiative of the negotiation has been completely controlled by Zhang Qingshan.

Zhao Shanhe was angry, even grief-stricken, but Zhang Qingshan, who was walking in front, felt depressed and distressed, and muttered to himself: Damn, I didn't expect Zhao Shanhe to be so difficult to deal with. It seems that these three shells must be fired. That's all money, not to mention that it's hard to buy even if you have money-although the artillery shells at that time did not have the later saying of "one shell eight taels of gold", they were extremely precious to the Red Army.But you can't fight without fighting, otherwise, the expected effect will not be achieved at all, and even the opponent will see through the trick and do bad things.

After coming outside the door, he looked up at the surrounding terrain. After confirming the location, Zhang Qingshan led Wang Wu, Zhao Shanhe and others to the city wall, and walked directly to the far right.On the way, he pulled out a few torches stuck on the city wall.

Zhao Shanhe's subordinates wanted to step forward to stop him, but Zhao Shanhe stopped him: he also wanted to see what tricks Zhang Qingshan was playing.

When he came to the rightmost corner of the city wall, he asked Wang Wu to pull out and extinguish all the torches around him, but he himself tied several burning torches together, and then inserted them obliquely on the wall.Then, let everyone retreat to a place 30 meters away.Then he took out a whistle from his chest, and after blowing it, he rushed to Wang Wu's side.

Er Lengzi rubbed his hands excitedly for being able to play with guns again.But without an order, he didn't dare to fire, so he could only sit aside and wipe the shells with a cloth to stabilize his mind.

Suddenly, he heard someone shouting excitedly, "Look, the torches on the mountain have begun to decrease." The fool stood up holding a cannonball and looked carefully. The torch on the side facing his direction was being extinguished intentionally.He became excited, and while holding the shells in his arms, he ran towards the nine small steel cannons that had been set up a few meters away, and yelled at people to quickly move the shell boxes.

Then, he personally adjusted the coordinates of the three small steel cannons, and after confirming that they were correct, he waited.

"Shh~!"

Hearing the sound of a whistle, Er Lengzi looked startled and shouted: "No. [-] gunner, get ready, let go!"

"Hey~!"

As a veteran who has been on the battlefield and fought head-to-head with devils, Zhao Shanhe is naturally very familiar with the piercing sound produced by the shells piercing the air when they flew towards them.He wanted to hide subconsciously, but seeing Zhang Qingshan and Wang Wu standing there stiffly and not moving at all, he restrained him forcefully and stood with him: "If you lose the battle, you don't lose. You are not afraid of death. You are not afraid of death. The gunner has confidence, is it that I am afraid of dying?

However, the group of people under him did not have his courage and backbone.Hearing the sound of shells flying, I don’t know who shouted "Bombardment, lie down!" In an instant, I was extremely flustered. Although I couldn't see the situation in the distance because of the darkness, the terrified screams from the instant were enough to make me cry. Imagine what these people are doing.As for the few people around him, except for a guy behind him who insisted on standing with him, the rest either immediately fell down with their heads in their hands, or turned around and ran away screaming in panic.

Zhao Shanhe was really angry, he clenched his fists, his teeth were clenching, and his whole body was trembling slightly.Especially his complexion, under the faint light of the torch, one can clearly see the blackness of his complexion: Shame!I can't live up to it... I didn't find anything before, but now I compare it, it's incomparable at all.At this moment, Zhao Shanhe even felt ashamed to hide his face and walk away, and had the urge to walk away, no matter what happened to him.

He sneaked a glance at Zhang Qingshan who was beside him. Fortunately, this guy also clenched his fists tightly, staring at the huge torch, and turned a blind eye to the surrounding situation.On the other hand, Wang Wu beside him, felt Zhao Shanhe's gaze, turned his head to look over, and then glanced at the person lying next to him, with a slight upturn of his mouth, smiled at Zhao Shanhe, and looked at the torch again.

This smile, in Zhao Shanhe's eyes, was regarded as a blatant ridicule, which made Zhao Shanhe wish he could find a hole to go in: How can there be such a big gap between people?Even his subordinates were like this, and looking at his own subordinates, alas... it's better not to think about it, lest I will be pissed off alive.

"boom!"

Before he could recklessly teach these humiliated subordinates a lesson, the shells fell and exploded... Zhao Shanhe thought it was just a way to cover up the bad embarrassment caused by his subordinates in the past, but he didn't know that this was just the beginning...