Chapter 3 three

The propaganda team acted, sang, carried stretchers, and managed prisoners on the front line. They entered the Yimeng Mountains from northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong, and it took seven or eight months in a hurry.Dafutian set up another battlefield in the hinterland of Yimeng Mountain, encircling the enemy's 149th division on Zhaxing Gu.Behind the encircling troops, the sniper troops formed another circular front to block the reinforcements from all directions.The nearest distance between the two fronts is no more than ten li.The shells of the enemy's reinforcements fell on the heads of the 149th Division, and they could be heard scolding each other's ancestors on the radio.

The propaganda team was divided into small groups to work on the Zhaixinggu battlefield.On the third night of the battle, Dunin was called to the regiment command post to accept a special task. A brigade commander in the enemy's forward position had originally agreed to revolt on this day, but changed his mind temporarily.A councilor surnamed Yu was sent to contact, saying that he wanted to increase the conditions of preferential treatment.The superior told him to send him to the headquarters.There was a war going on, and the regiment couldn't find any suitable people, so they handed over the task to Du Ning.

Du Ning accompanied Senator Yu on the road between the two battlefields, walked seven or eight miles, and met two staff officers who greeted them.They walked together to the entrance of a ruined temple where correspondents kept coming in and out. One of the staff officers led Yu Shen into the temple gate, and the other led Du Ning around the ruined temple and down a section of stone steps more than ten feet away.The staff officer answered the sentinel's password and walked along the rushing mountain stream.After turning a few turns, we came to a wide place, and saw two caves, one big and one small.A portable gas lamp hung in the large stone cave.There are maps on the wall.Under the lamp is a square table made of briefcases, covered with a white cloth.On either side of the table were two red-lacquered chairs out of proportion to the surroundings.At one end of the cave, a bed is propped up with a door panel, and a military mosquito net is hung on the bed.A burly man with a little hair loss, wearing only a white cloth shirt and flower glasses, stood reading a book under the lamp.He held the book in one hand, and mechanically shook a broken cattail fan with the other to blast the mosquitoes.The sound of Du Ning and the others kicking stones startled him.He turned his head and looked out of the hole over the top edge of his glasses.The staff officer immediately shouted: "Report, Captain Du is here."

"Come here!" The man put down the book, took off his glasses, and shouted, "Xiao Yang, bring some boiling water!" Du Ning caught a glimpse of the three large Chinese characters written in ink on the cover of the book: "Theory of Contradiction". Du Ning recognized Commander Chen Yi, stood down in surprise, and raised his hands in salute. The staff officer left.Chen Yi led Du Ning to a small piece of lawn in front of the cave and said, "Sit down, it's cooler here, and there are fewer mosquitoes. The cave is in a bad shape, dripping water, and the mosquitoes attack in groups!" After speaking, he listened to Du Ning's report first. In the case of the Senate.Then I inquired about the propaganda team's work on the front line for more than half a year; what kind of combat work have they participated in?What program did you do?How did you perform on the line of fire?How is everyone doing?Are there any inconveniences for lesbians in the trenches?While fanning himself, he squinted his eyes, happily listening to Duning's various descriptions.And keep asking and commenting.When he mentioned that a member of the publicity team sacrificed heroically, he stood up solemnly.

"I remember this comrade. He played the violin at a gala and played a serenade. After the performance, I criticized him for playing such a soft thing on the front line, and he blushed." "He noted it in his diary," Durning said. "Afterwards, I felt that the criticism was too impatient and rash. He is a musician! I planned to find another opportunity to talk to him, but I didn't expect to say goodbye forever." "He said in his diary that he was very grateful for the criticism of the army commander and thought he was greatly inspired." "I'm still too impatient! People carry violins from Shanghai to the trenches of the New Fourth Army to play. This step is very precious! As for what to play, as long as it is not reactionary, it is too late to improve. Take a look at Chairman Mao How to deal with people! Some people make serious mistakes, but he still treats them patiently! That time at the airport, I scolded Zhang Debiao a little too fiercely. I always thought that the old comrades should be more strict and don’t have to circle around in the way. In fact, this is wrong! The older you are, the more you should respect them!"

Du Ning didn't want to see the boss blame himself in front of him, although he was very moved by Boss Chen's strict self-discipline.He deliberately changed the subject and asked, "How is Zhang Debiao now? We haven't seen him all this time." "He is very good." Chen Yi said: "He fought bravely and corrected a lot of old problems. He joined the party last month and was promoted to battalion commander this morning. It's just that he is in a very difficult situation right now." Chen Yi walked up to the map inside the cave, pointed to a hilltop marked with the word "Hutaoyu" and said, "He is here to shoot. He was quite sure. Yesterday, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly brought in a reorganization division by air, and all of them were devoted to this line." Yes. Yesterday, a gap was torn in the position adjacent to the east of Hutaoyu. In order to block this gap, more than half of Hutaoyu's troops were withdrawn. Now he is facing two regiments of enemies in one battalion. The troops are going to reinforce him, his place is the current point. The enemy wants to take away our chess piece, so take out the dead chess piece of Xing Xingu."

Chen Yi walked to the table, lit a cigarette, took a few puffs and said, "I just want to go to his place tomorrow!" "The commander will go in person?" "Let's see if we can find a piece of steel, so that Lao Jiang can't return [note]." Chen Yi said with a smile: "At least share a little pressure for the comrades there!" Du Ning said: "The commander himself will be a great encouragement to the comrades! But..." "I underestimated Chiang Kai-shek's desperation and hooliganism. I missed two in the layout. I am duty-bound." Chen Yi looked at Du Ning and said, "Would you like to accompany me to Hutao Valley? I want to attack the troops. You have a good grasp of the situation. Let’s experience it on the sniper front, so you can write works in the future. In addition, maybe I can use you to help.”

"That's good, but I'm afraid I can't do much to help the commander." "We'll see when the time comes. When we go there, we need to share the fate with everyone, and we can't tie the hands and feet of the commanders. I'm afraid we need to find a suitable way. I'm struggling with this." Then he asked Du Ning and said: "Are you sleepy?" Du Ning said that he slept a lot during the day in the air-raid shelter, and now he is not sleepy. "Then let's play a game of chess! I'm waiting to deal with a few things, I can't sleep, and I'm free right now."

Chen Yi called Xiao Yang to fetch the chess pieces and put them on the small table.They sat down facing each other, and Xiao Yang poured them each a glass of cold boiled water. The chess game went to the middle game, and the staff sent several telegrams and documents for Chen Yi to sign.Then he reported the situation of the negotiations with the Senate and said that Chief Gao called to report to the army commander. It seemed that the enemy did not really want to increase the preferential conditions, but was looking for excuses to delay time and wait and see the situation.As for the representative himself, it seems that he has the sincerity of an uprising.Ask him about the enemy's situation, and what he talks about is generally true, which is consistent with the situation we have.Also provided some valuable intelligence.One of them is to affirm that the reinforcements transported by the new air are Ma Zhenwu's reorganized 18th Division.

"Really Ma Zhenwu?" Chen Yi became excited.Without waiting for anyone to answer, he asked Du Ning again: "Do you remember this short fat man?" "Remember. He came to our place during the military transfer execution team. Wasn't he the one who sent us off that time?" "It seems that I really want to prepare a jeep!" Chen Yi laughed loudly, "It's a pity that he is a reinforcement, not our target of annihilation." Chen Yi asked the staff to invite Director Gao and Senate Councilor Yu to come to him.After finishing speaking, he sat down with Du Ning and took more than a dozen moves. He had just arrived in Hong Kong, when there was a sound of footsteps, Director Gao and Sensu Yu arrived.Chen Yi had no choice but to put down the chess and went out of the cave.Councilor Yu hurriedly saluted, and Chen Yi invited everyone to sit on the rocks casually. He shook his cattail fan and said as if talking about family affairs: "We suffered a little loss in the sniper line yesterday. Your determination to revolt has been shaken a little."

"Yes, ah, not necessarily, not necessarily." "There's nothing wrong with waiting and watching. It's just that there is not much time to wait and see. If you revolt, my troops will go to Zhaxinggu; if you don't revolt, my troops will also go to Zhaixinggu! It's good, it's good for yourselves." "That's right, that's right..." Yu Shenyi agreed, while thinking about something absent-mindedly.Suddenly he stood up unexpectedly and saluted again, saying: "I dare to ask the chief to think about it and let me live." Everyone present stared in astonishment, and Chen Yi was also stunned. "I don't want to go back." Yu Senzhi smiled stiffly, causing the muscles on his face to twitch a few times. "Crossing the line of fire is a gate of hell, and..." It's really dumbfounding.Director Gao said, "Well, you were ordered to negotiate, how can you not bring back the results of our talks?" "No, no, I can write a letter, you can send a captured soldier back. I will go back, even if I don't kill him in the line of fire, I go back and forth between the two armies, and the spies will not spare me if they find out." Chen Yi stopped the fan in his hand and thought seriously.No one speaks anymore.Yu Senzhi kept wiping away his sweat.After a long silence, Chen Yi shook his fan again, making up his mind.He said sincerely: "Whether you revolt or surrender, we welcome you! This is the first rule, let's make it clear first." "Yes Yes Yes." "As for the second point, I advise you not to give up an opportunity to make meritorious service. You have been in the reactionary camp for so long, and now you should learn to think about doing good things for the common people. If you strive for a little meritorious service, you will be able to gain understanding and peace. Preferential treatment. You are still in your prime, you will have a bright future, and you can still do things for the people in the future!" "I don't have military power. If I want to make meritorious service, I don't have enough energy." "I can say directly: I hope that your whole brigade will revolt, but I don't believe that it will all come over!" Chen Yi lit a cigarette, took a puff and said, "Go back and tell them exactly what I said , tell them the result of the negotiation, whether they revolted or not, your contribution counts. I asked the staff office to write you a certificate, proving that you have been working for us since you surrendered. After the war, no matter which army took you in , they will send you to the headquarters when they see the proof, and they will never treat you as an ordinary prisoner of war. How about this?" "This, this is really as high as the sky!" Yu Shenyi bowed again and again and said, "If I don't do my best, the world will not tolerate it." "You take care of yourself, we will meet again soon." After Director Gao and Shen Shen agreed, Chen Yi walked back and forth a few steps, raised his arms up and down, looked at his watch and said, "It's past 12 o'clock, we haven't finished this game of chess for two days, what's next? Download it!" They sat down at the table again.Du Ning said: "It is rare for the Senate to be so undisguised for its self-interest." Chen Yi only cared about playing chess and didn't answer right away.After a while, he seemed to be casually talking about his visit to the oil pressing workshop.He said that those workers not only carefully collected the oil and cakes, but also did not throw away the black and smelly oil feet easily.Workers say "make the best use of everything".Throw it away casually, and the shoes will be dirty if you step on it. If the chicken eats it, you will get sick, and it will cause a fire if it is not handled properly.It's better to put it away, put it on the ground, anoint the cart, boil water, draw firewood, and use it on the right way. After this game of chess was played, Chen Yi lost two pieces. "You're talking nonsense with me, distracting my energy!" He grabbed Du Ning's sleeve and said, "No, another game! You can't be called like this!" The guard Xiao Yang pretended to pour water, went behind Du Ning first, and pulled his lapel. Du Ning understood, and hurriedly said: "Boss, I can't hold it anymore." Xiao Yang said: "It's time for the chief to go to bed. Tomorrow you are going to Hutaoyu. Is it okay if you don't sleep?" "You know foreign countries!" Chen Yi shouted to Xiao Yang angrily, "You and Captain Du colluded to prevent me from getting out!" "You can argue as you like! It's my responsibility to make sure you have a good rest!" Xiao Yang pouted after speaking.Chen Yi also pouted.The two looked at each other for a while, and Chen Yi finally admitted defeat and laughed: "Okay, okay, go to sleep! Go to sleep! You should go to sleep too. Call Xiao Wu to get up on duty."