march to victory

"What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking, Uncle Peng's Mr. Wednesday should be a hero who robs the rich and helps the poor. It is said that such a person should easily become ours. He must have been persuaded by the Central Red Army at the beginning, but why didn't he join the Red Army? gone?"

Hu Yingze pondered for a while, and said with a wry smile: "It's useless to think about it now. If you find him and ask him, won't everything be clear? Well, the team has assembled, and I'm waiting for you to issue orders."

Protruding out of the forest is not suitable for large-scale combat, so Zhang Qingshan rushed over directly with the assault company, and Hu Yingze led the rest of the hunting team to form a company as a unit to hold the formation behind.

The assault company shuttled through the forest according to a row of contact information left on the trunk, and it was already more than two hours later when they came to the periphery of the incident site.

Originally thought that Wang Wu brought a row of people just to observe and would not intervene, but what Zhang Qingshan and others never expected was that Wang Wu did not take the initiative to intervene, he was forced to intervene, because Lord Zhou sent someone to contact he.

When I joined a row, I saw Wang Wu sitting under a big tree with a young man who looked only 25 or [-] years old, drinking and chatting.Judging by the appearance of the two of them, they were very happy chatting.

"Reporting to the company commander, this is Zhou Bingcheng, the captain of the local guerrilla brigade...Third Lord, this is the company commander Zhang Qingshan of our vanguard company." Seeing Zhang Qingshan coming, Wang Wu hurriedly got up and introduced, Lord Wednesday He also stood up and looked at Zhang Qingshan, but he laughed and waved his hands and said, "Brother Wang, don't make fun of me. In front of my family, I would never dare to be called the word 'father'...My surname is Zhou. Ranked third, you can call me Wednesday or Adhering, I have told you several times."

Whether it's his words or his smile, it makes people feel that this person must be very forthright.

Then he stretched out his hands to Zhang Qingshan: "Hi Lianchang Zhang, I am Zhou Bingcheng."

Zhang Qingshan was also sizing up Lord Wednesday, but what really puzzled him was: Isn’t Lord Wednesday a big local bandit—although his robbing targets are mainly government officials and evil gentry and bullies.But how did he become the captain of the local guerrilla brigade in the blink of an eye?

"Hello, Comrade Cheng Cheng." When shaking hands, Zhang Qingshan noticed that although Master Zhou looks fair and clean this week, his hands are not only thick, but also rough, with calluses in many places, especially the calluses on the tiger's mouth .Obviously, Master Zhou is not only a good player with guns, but also a master with knives and sticks. Otherwise, ordinary people would have such thick calluses.

After the two parties exchanged polite greetings, Zhang Qingshan unceremoniously asked what happened.

Ordinary people think that Lord Wednesday and Big Beard, the two bandits from the south and the north of the county, have never violated the river water and have no hatred. In the prison, the bearded man is the main supporting role—without the help of those friends in the world with a bearded beard, how could the opium smuggled by Lord Zhou be robbed? Then, where did his elder brother get the direct evidence to accuse Lord Zhou of colluding with bandits and preparing for a bloodbath? The Zhou Family Courtyard?

And after Lord Zhou developed, he also responded with an eye for an eye, using almost the same method, and got the bearded and precious son into the prison in the neighboring county.When the bearded man spent a lot of money and countless favors to get his precious son out of prison, the tragedy was really horrible, which can be imagined from his son's nickname of "Rabbit Master" since then.

This time, the two are regarded as a deadly feud.But because the Central Red Army happened to arrive here at that time, they had no choice but to endure it temporarily before they had time to fight.

After the Central Red Army left, the bearded man's strength was greatly damaged, so he colluded with the county magistrate and became the head of the county's security corps. However, Lord Zhou had enmity with most of the big households in the county and could not rely on The power of the government came to destroy the bearded man.But because Lord Wednesday was much stronger than Big Beard at that time, and Big Beard was backed by the government, and he stayed in the county town all day long, so although the two made several tentative moves secretly, they still did not agree. decisive battle.

The bearded man's luck is considered to be back in time. After he finally developed his strength slowly, the Red Second and Sixth Army came again.

He knew how powerful the Red Army was, and he knew that he had committed a lot of crimes, and being caught by the Red Army would only lead to death, so he took his elite and ran away with the county magistrate.

Everyone thought that they must have gone to other places, at least in the provincial capital to avoid the Red Army, but no one thought that they actually played the black under the lights for everyone-not because they refused to run out, but because the Red Army came too suddenly , just happened to be attacked from three sides again, unless they wanted to climb the snow mountain, otherwise, they basically had no way to go.

The bearded man has been a bandit for so many years, and he certainly has no fewer enemies than Lord Zhou, but he has still been able to enjoy himself in this county for so many years, and he has his own extraordinary skills.At least, the three caves of the cunning rabbit are solid.Therefore, when he couldn't go out for the time being, he simply took everyone to hide in one of the reserved escape routes, that is, in an inconspicuous cave not far from where everyone is now.Thinking of waiting for the wind to subside, or jumping out after the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps leave... This hand is really sophisticated in playing black games under the lights, and it has definitely fulfilled the saying in the Art of War that the more dangerous the place is, the safer it is-- Lord Zhou wants to break It never occurred to his head that the big enemy would actually hide in his own territory.

It's just that the bearded man's luck is very bad, or in other words, he treats the people below rather harshly.

From grain, bacon to opium, he has already stocked up.Originally hiding well, the problem lies in Opium.He also has a lot of opium ghosts under his command, but there is not enough opium reserves in this place-he only reserves enough for himself and a few confidants to enjoy, and naturally it is not enough for all the opium ghosts.So he sent his confidants out of the cave to the county town to explore the wind and buy some opium along the way.

However, this is Lord Zhou's territory, and the people in his territory are good to the people, so naturally there are countless eyeliners.In addition, the few people sent out took the benefits and commissions from the opium ghosts and came back in a hurry to do business, which left traces.

As soon as Master Zhou heard that he had found the whereabouts of Big Beard's confidant, he mobilized manpower and sent people to follow them carefully, and he found it here smoothly——If Big Beard is willing, let his opium ghosts smoke the opium first. , After this period of time has passed, and the rumors have subsided, I will buy it again. When I come back, I don’t have to be so anxious, and the possibility of being discovered will be relatively much smaller.

Immediately, Master Zhou made a desperate attack, and Big Beard resisted desperately. After a great battle, seven No. 80 of Big Beard's subordinates were killed and more than half of them were injured.In the end, Big Beard was shot dead by Lord Zhou's second boss in the scuffle, and his subordinates had to surrender... That is, before Big Beard was killed, Wang Wu rushed here with a platoon.Master Zhou Zhou, who was sitting outside the cave, didn't want to see Wang Wu immediately, but he heard that Wang Wu and others had excellent weapons, so he thought that this group of people could help him, so he sent someone to invite Wang Wu over...

After listening to this simple narration, Zhang Qingshan glanced at Wang Wu, pondered for a while, and asked: "Comrade Cheng, I have a question that I shouldn't ask, I don't know..."

"Everyone is their own comrade, you just ask."

"When the Central Red Army left Lihua, why didn't you follow?" This question is very normal: you can't just say that you are the captain of the local guerrilla brigade, and we will believe it.And Master Zhou Zhou also expected that he would ask this question, and smiled wryly: "It's not that I didn't want to, but the leader at that time asked me to continue to fight guerrillas in this area, and at the same time prevent the Kuomintang reactionaries from chasing the snow-capped mountains..."

Looking at his wry smile, Zhang Qingshan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell, it was just a feeling.

On the contrary, Master Zhou Zhou took out a large piece of paper from his underwear pocket and handed it to Zhang Qingshan while talking, and said with a smile: "This is my letter of appointment. On the back is the certificate specially issued to me when the main force left. He also specifically asked me: wait for the revolution Victory, I can take it to prove my identity."

Zhang Qingshan looked at it, it started with a letter of appointment, and on the back it did say to prove Zhou Bingcheng's identity, as well as the official seal, the signature of a certain division commander and a certain leader of the General Political Department, and a private seal.

"Adhering to comrades, this matter is of great importance. We have to ask our superiors to send someone to check it. Therefore, please keep this piece of paper."

Lord Wednesday took it over solemnly, nodded and said: "I know its weight. It is not only a proof for me, but also a proof of identity for the hundreds of people who follow me. Otherwise, I wouldn't keep it close to me all the time. , I never left my sight while taking a shower."

"By the way, you just said that the bearded man cared about the county magistrate, but have you caught him?"

Master Zhou Zhou shook his head and said, "I didn't find it immediately, brothers are searching, hoping to find..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw a big bald man with a box cannon in his waist running over quickly, excited He roared: "Brother, this time it can be regarded as a big fortune. There are a lot of money and food hidden in the cave, there are six women, and..."

The bald man hadn't finished speaking when he saw Master Zhou glaring at him fiercely. He was also clever, shut up immediately, and looked at Zhang Qingshan and Wang Wu suspiciously, then stood beside Master Zhou and stopped talking.

"Zhang Lianchang, only a few people around me know my identity. In order to cover up my identity, I have to...everyone is used to shouting, and I can't change it for a while, ha! Ha! Excuse me." First, he leaned over and whispered in Zhang Qingshan's ear After explaining a sentence, seeing Zhang Qingshan smiling and nodding his head to express his understanding, he straightened up and asked the bald man: "Second brother, have you found the county magistrate?"

"According to what you told me, I personally went through the corpses one by one, even the corpses of our own brothers, but I didn't find any... When I came, I saw that the third child was interrogating the prisoners, but I guess there are probably nine out of ten. .”

"Leave one third as a reward for the brothers and the expenses of maintaining the cottage, and the rest will be handed over to these Red Army comrades."

"Brother, what about the people in the territory? Don't divide them?"

"Is this something you can consider? Don't forget your true identity."

"Oh!" The big bald head replied in frustration, but then he turned around and asked excitedly, "By the way, big brother, what about those women?"

Master Zhou Zhou felt very regretful: the second child is simple and straightforward, if the clever third child came, there would not be so many troubles...