Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (56)

After the reconnaissance team was released, Sun Cheng of the wild boar cave was a little uneasy, always feeling that something would happen, and told the reconnaissance company commander Hu about this uneasy mood, and was laughed at by the company commander Hu. The two captains on the side also believed that Vice President Sun Lian was unfamiliar with his mind because he had just taken on the big job, so he was suspicious and suspicious.

It wasn't until the second half of the night last night that the last team found the stronghold of the Wild Boar Cave Mountain Temple, and they were so tired that they licked the ashes one by one, and completely lost their combat effectiveness. Early this morning, Company Commander Hu asked five groups that had lost their combat effectiveness to stay in the wild boar cave for a short period of recuperation, and the other 19 groups went to Sanhe, Shengqiao, Lujiang, and other places to learn about the situation.

As soon as the reconnaissance group set off, several local villagers came to the mountain temple where the reconnaissance company was located.

Yesterday, when the first group of the reconnaissance company arrived at the Wild Boar Cave, it fell into the eyes of the local villagers. The emergence of this situation immediately attracted the attention of the local villagers. Dozens of sturdy men, no weapons, no tools, only simple luggage, if not bandits, but those who can't speak clearly.

Early in the morning, people left the mountain temple in twos and threes, counted, a total of more than fifty people left the mountain temple, the villagers estimated that there would not be too many people in the mountain temple, so they were bold, gathered thirty or twenty people, came to the front of the mountain temple, a middle-aged man knocked on the door of the mountain temple.

The knock on the door startled the people inside, Sun Cheng immediately put the * in his pants in his hand, and one of the two captains walked to the mountain temple and opened the door, and couldn't help but be shocked. In front of him is clearly the scene when it was popular a few years ago, and the crop men are holding flat hoes, one by one, they are full of murderous energy, as if they are facing a great enemy.

There was no need to ask for help, the villagers swarmed into the mountain temple, and when they saw the * in Sun Cheng's hand, the two men rushed forward without fear of death, and the hoe in his hand was against Sun Cheng's head, asking him to put away the gun in his hand.

"Honestly, who are you?" The middle-aged man in the lead shouted.

"We are the reconnaissance company of the 138th Division of the National Revolutionary Army." Sun Cheng was also honest and answered correctly.

"Didn't your 138th Division leave Lujiang? What do you do again? The middle-aged man asked. I heard that it was from the 138th Division, and the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, although the 138th Division had poor discipline and grabbed food and money, it did not kill people indiscriminately, which was better than the bandit water tyrant.

"Lujiang is China's Lujiang, our 138th Division is China's army, we will leave when the country needs us, and we will come when we need to come." Company Commander Hu's answer was also very angry: "Who are you?" ”

"It doesn't matter who we are." The middle-aged man said: "Don't say anything about the 138th Division is the Chinese army, you are a group of scourges, which have harmed our Lujiang for half a year, and we don't welcome you." Don't look at how many pistols you have in your hands, I'm not afraid, there are a lot of us, it's a big deal. ”

"And what do you want to do?" In the face of the other party's badness, Lian Commander Hu was a little stunned, and first softened, to be honest, it is not his style to play prestige with the people.

"Since you are the national army, we will not harm you, as long as you leave Lujiang." The middle-aged man said.

"No problem, as soon as our people come back, they will leave Lujiang." Sun Cheng knew that the hero would not suffer immediate losses, so he would leave here first, and as for continuing to reconnoitre, he would just find another place to be a stronghold. I don't know what the previous 138th Division did to make the Lujiang people so annoyed.

Someone took a basket and asked Sun Cheng and the others to put the weapons in their hands, including the transmitter. The men of the reconnaissance company were gathered in the courtyard of the mountain temple, and the villagers gathered in a circle with their hoes, apparently taking them as prisoners. Sun Cheng was a little angry, he fought for a year, and he fought smoothly in the 176th Division, but he became a prisoner as soon as he arrived in the 138th Division, which was really unfavorable. I don't know who these people are in front of me, if the villagers arrive, if they have something to do with Wang Zhanlin's garrison, send them to Lujiang to invite rewards, it will be a real shame.

Wait until noon, the villagers made some steamed porridge, and also gave Sun Cheng a portion of each, with food, Sun Cheng's hearts are not settled, it seems that these are really some real villagers, not Wang Zhanlin's militia organizations in various places.

"Company commander, I really didn't expect that the boat would capsize in the gutter and be planted in the hands of the villagers." Sun Cheng said to Company Commander Hu with a wry smile. Sitting in the courtyard, the sun is hot all around. Yesterday, the company led by Sun Cheng and Company Commander Hu arrived at the earliest, and they took advantage of the two-day journey, and walked to Diaoyutai the night before yesterday, and rented a mule cart at Diaoyutai early yesterday morning, and arrived at the foot of Yefu Mountain Mountain at two o'clock in the afternoon. Compared to the few groups that arrived in the middle of the night, it was much more relaxed.

"I have fought against Japan in the Mingguang area for several years, and I have been to the Red District and the Japanese-occupied area, and it is the first time I have encountered such villagers, and the bad attitude towards the people is rare." Lian Chang Hu also shook his head.

The operational staff officer who was transferred by the General Staff Office to assist in the work interjected: "In recent years, Lujiang has been seriously influenced by the puppet Wang government in Nanjing, and has been deeply poisoned. ”

Hu Lianchang cracked his mouth, obviously not interested in this kind of high-profile, in his opinion, the most important thing at present is how to get out, and at worst, he can't be handed over to Wang Zhanlin as a prisoner by these villagers. He was a person who couldn't hide his words in his heart, so he immediately asked Sun Cheng the question.

Sun Cheng shook his head and said: "I don't think so, it's only ten miles from here to Lujiang, two hours of walking, if there is a carriage or horseback, the speed will be faster, if you want to report to the Lujiang garrison, someone has already come, and you won't wait until now." Again, although the other party hates us, but the attitude is not bad, no beating or scolding, just now I asked to pee, and I politely agreed. I estimate that there are two possibilities, one is to wait for the people we went out to carry out the mission to come back and catch them all, and the other is to wait for the people we went out to come back and drive them away together, I think the latter is more likely. ”

When Lian Chang Hu thought that this was really the case, he put his mind at ease.

Sun Cheng's estimate is good, whether it is to catch them all or drive them away together, the first thing is to wait for all the people and the nineteen groups to come back.

A little after three o'clock in the afternoon, the first group returned.

What made Sun Cheng and Lian Chang Hu dumbfounded was that the three people in the first group turned out to be carried back by the villagers.

Throwing people in front of Sun Cheng, the middle-aged man asked, is it your people? Lian Commander Hu nodded vigorously. Someone brought a basin of water, fed a bowl to each person, and then used a towel to wipe off the blood and mud on the head that was bruised and swollen.

With a crying voice, one sentence in the east and one sentence in the west, it was not easy to explain what happened clearly.

"The three of us, on the way to Lujiang, picked up a few broken bowls, and happened to see a few bamboo sticks, which were just right, so we pretended to be beggars." Crying in the telling.

As soon as he heard this, Sun Cheng knew the tragedy. The three in front of him, although they are not tall and big, but they are also considered to be strong and round, this kind of strong man pretending to be a beggar, you can know that it is fake at a glance.

"When we entered the city, we first went to inquire about the market, and the market was easy to find, and we found it by asking." The cry continued.

Sun Cheng nodded, yes, this is what he said, inquiring about news in the city, the best is a few places, one is a teahouse, the second is a tavern, and the third is a trading market.

"We were in the market and saw a horse-drawn cart, and two soldiers of the National Founding Army were loading the cart with the vegetables they had bought, so they followed the carriage out of the market and went to the barracks in the east of the city." Keep crying.

That's a good idea! Sun Cheng nodded secretly, he was able to find the location of the military camp along the vine, and he had the vision of a scout.

"We were there for two hours at a time, trying to see what rank the officers were coming in and out." The crying is getting clearer and clearer, and the crying is much less.

"Not bad, not bad!" Sun Cheng praised loudly. I thought to myself, I learned a trick, the peaceful founding army, the battalion commander is generally a major, the regiment commander is mostly a lieutenant colonel, and some old qualifications may be colonels, but there are not many. Once the number of officers in the barracks is determined, the number and rank of the barracks can be estimated.

"Don't say it's good, it's really wrong!" The crying suddenly became louder when he spoke.

How could it be wrong? Several people questioned at the same time.

"Seven or eight people rushed out of the barracks, three against one of us, and without saying a word, it was a dozen dozen people. Ouch, it hurts! There was a palpable fear in the story.

Sun Cheng hurriedly asked, "What is wrong with you?" ”

"When the fight is over, throw us aside, we will know." "We have stayed too long, how can we, as beggars, stay for two hours at the gate of a military place where no one has given alms." ”

Isn't! Sun Cheng understood. It's just a beating, and they didn't arrest them or even collapsed, it's their fate!

"Fortunately, the weather is good today, the sun is shining, and there is a big tree at the entrance of the barracks, so we leaned on the tree to bask in the sun, and we pretended to catch fleas while basking in the sun. The people of the founding army recognized us as the real sons, so they spared us and let us live. Speaking of this, his voice was still trembling: "We crawled to the pestle ridge with a rolling belt, and we could no longer walk, and the people passing by sent us to the wild boar cave and handed it to them, and they carried us back." ”

The first group had just finished telling, and the second group also returned to the mountain temple, this time not the villagers were carrying it, but two people carrying one person, and the one who was carrying it was pale, with more breath and less breath.

After the officer entered the courtyard, they waited outside the courtyard, planning to wait for the officer to come out, beat him with a stuffy stick, and then go back to the wild boar recess, and if he wanted to know what news, he would interrogate directly.

After waiting for two hours, after noon, the door opened, and the officer stepped out of the threshold with a drunken face and fluttering feet. As soon as the three of them waited for the side door to close, they immediately moved, and one swept the hall over, and the officer flew two feet away, fell to the ground, and screamed like a pig. The two of them were one on each side, and they were ready to leave, but they didn't expect the side door of the * courtyard to open again, and a few people rushed out from inside, holding a stick with eyebrows in their hands, and without saying a word, they smashed it head-on.

The three of them threw away the officer with a bloody face and straight eyes, and fought with the nursing home of the * hospital, but the other party had a stick, and he was empty-handed and couldn't resist it. Fortunately, the opponent's purpose was to save the officer, not to kill them all, which gave the three of them a chance to live, and after the opponent dragged the officer into the side door, the three found that one of them had his left leg broken off, revealing a raw leg bone, and the blood was not stopping. After a random bandage, the two took turns to carry the wounded back to the boar dent.

It wasn't until the sun set in the west and night fell that all the 19 people returned to the boar cave. After counting the number of people, Sun Cheng ordered to leave here without saying a word. The middle-aged man looked at their injuries, tired, and tired, and in a somewhat pitiful tone, he proposed to let them stay for one night and leave tomorrow, Sun Cheng shook his head and insisted on leaving. The middle-aged man knows that if he leaves, Liang Zi will be settled, and he will come back next time, but he is afraid that it will no longer be seventy or eighty people, but a battalion and a battalion, and then settle accounts with himself after the autumn, and it will be too late for him to regret it. On the grounds that there were wounded, he insisted on not letting Sun Cheng leave overnight and returned the firearms radio. Invited a doctor from Yeshan, treated the wounded, let the villagers get a sumptuous dinner, a large barrel of local wine, and also sent the grass to let everyone sleep well, and kept saying that even if you go, you can only leave tomorrow, and it is not the character of the Lujiang people to drive people to walk at night in the middle of the night. The attitude is very different from the morning.

Company Commander Hu saw the thoughts of the villagers, and was happy to let them express that he was even happier to stay here for a night. Do a good job of vigilance, let the other groups report their reconnaissance results, and the combat staff will summarize them and telegraph them to the division headquarters.

As soon as I listened to the situation reports of each group, I realized that as a scout, how layman he was, acting naïvely, without rules, not knowing how to take precautions, and being in danger, fifty-one people went out, and all of them were able to come back alive, although eight of them were injured, which was already a blessing to invite heaven.