Chapter 8 Chapter 7

The decisive moment finally came. On the evening of the first weekend in December 1948, the cold wind was blowing in bursts, and the temperature suddenly dropped, as if it was going to snow. Officials of the military engineering headquarters, big and small, had just paid their salaries, and with "tickets" in their pockets, their pockets were swollen, and they couldn't wait to ride to the city. After get off work, Li Village lost the peace and tranquility of the past. After the car returned to the urban area, night fell and the weather was cold, so few people were walking around in Licun Town.The streets are deserted, and occasionally, one or two mobile sentries with live ammunition appear in the night, giving people a more eerie and cold feeling.

After dinner, Ren Daozhi walked over in a leisurely manner.Since he came here often, he was already familiar with the way, and everyone in the headquarters knew him, so he didn't even have to show his ID. compound.When he came to Qin Dafeng's door, he looked around vigilantly at the movement around him, and when he saw no one was paying attention, he opened the door and walked in. Qin Dafeng hurriedly closed the door, and told Ren Daozhi in a soft voice: "Everything is going well, this weekend just paid the salary. After Shi Zhongcheng left with the guards, most of the people also went back to the city. With money in their pockets, no one would like to pay money." Stuck in this small town, those with wives go home to hug their wives, and those without wives rush to the brothel to pick up whores. Except for the staff officer on duty and an orderly who dare not leave, the military engineering command is almost singing It's an empty city plan,"

"What about the situation in the office?" Ren Daozhi asked calmly. "I quietly pulled out the latch on the office window before leaving get off work, and no one noticed beforehand, and I didn't find any abnormal changes." After hearing this, Ren Daozhi thought for a while, and said simply and firmly: "Well, let's act according to the original plan!" They quietly walked out of the room, it was freezing cold outside, the small north wind was blowing, and the stars shone like icy ice in the sky.The locals called it the weather of "driving the dog without going out", which provided an excellent convenience for tonight's operation.

The entire military engineering headquarters, like a row of teeth of a black demon, is surrounded by deathly silence like an ancient cemetery. The rooms in each house are dark and lifeless. Only the north room where Staff Officer Li lives, reveals a A dim light that seemed to be the eye of a ghost. This is an excellent opportunity to start. Ren Daozhi quickly gestured to Qin Dafeng, and Qin Dafeng immediately understood, and quietly approached the door of Staff Officer Li on duty. The movements are coordinated so harmoniously. Ren Daozhi has also come to the window of the office at this moment. After seeing Qin Dafeng's gesture, he immediately opened the window sash lightly, pressed the window sill with both hands, and jumped into the room as light as a swallow. In the blink of an eye, his movements were clean and neat.

If Staff Officer Li on duty suddenly wanted to walk out of the room at this time, Qin Dafeng would pretend that he happened to come in to find something to do with him, and blocked his sight with his body to cover Ren Daozhi's entry into the office. Ren Daozhi is no stranger to this office, he has been in it more than once.Staff Officer Huang in the office wanted to climb up the ranks, and had made friends with him.In order to implement the predetermined plan, he also took the initiative to come here to play with the staff. The so-called play, to put it bluntly, is field reconnaissance.All the furnishings in the room have been deeply imprinted in his mind, which is also the quality that an enemy worker must possess.There is a rectangular desk at the front door of the office, covered with a blue tablecloth, and there are several desks around the room, the one in the southwest corner belongs to Staff Officer Huang, and the key to the filing cabinet next to it is placed in the left drawer inside.For this key, Ren Daozhi and Qin Dafeng had put a lot of thought into it. They originally wanted to secretly match one, but they had no chance to get the original key.

Coincidentally, an incident not long ago inadvertently provided our enemy workers with the convenience of stealing pictures. Once, a staff officer went out on business and took away the key from the file cabinet with him. This was a normal thing, but that day the deputy commander Shi Zhongcheng wanted to see the picture on a whim, and when he heard that the key was taken away, he could not get the picture. Throwing into a rage, this tossing, it was really shocking like a mule and a horse.Afterwards, no one dared to carry the key with them anymore, and putting it in the drawer of Staff Officer Huang's desk became an unwritten system, mainly to deal with Commander Shi Zhongcheng's temporary adjustment of the map, so as not to be caught off guard for no reason when he got it. Training.But since then, Shi Zhongcheng never looked at the map again. The key was lying in the drawer of Staff Officer Huang's desk and became the first target of our enemy workers.

After Ren Daozhi entered the office, he closed the window and went to Staff Officer Huang's desk swiftly. He opened the drawer and found the key. Close to the style cabinet, one hand touched the keyhole, and the other hand inserted the key into the lockhole, just about to open it.Suddenly, voices and footsteps came from the yard, and he immediately leaned over the closet, held his breath, and listened carefully to the movement outside. A life-and-death struggle is about to happen in an instant. Ren Daozhi's heart was already in his throat, and he was ready to fight to the death. His hands were sweating, and he had a false alarm.It turned out to be an orderly on duty, sending visiting friends out.After a while, the entire courtyard returned to dead silence.

Time did not allow Ren Daozhi to delay in the office any longer. He silently squeezed the sweat-soaked key, and immediately calmed down when he thought of the mission on his shoulders.He groped to insert the key into the lock, held the left hand of the cabinet door handle, but pulled it unconsciously and habitually, and with a "crack", the cabinet door opened. He couldn't hold back his heartbeat for a while, the cabinet door was unlocked, so he quickly pulled out the key and put it back in the original place, then groped in the style cabinet in an orderly manner, he found a folder on a thick roll of folders and folded it It was like a blueprint, secretly estimating its length, width and thickness.Judging by feeling, this is the city defense map that is needed, so he put the blueprint into his arms without hesitation.

Qin Dafeng has repeatedly introduced the city defense map to Ren Daozhi in detail, and he himself has seen it once. To be precise, he stared at it from a distance. The scale and the hardness of the paper are all imprinted in his mind, so in the dark, he can also be sure that the thing he took is correct. The blueprints were finally in hand, and there was nowhere to find them, and it took no effort to get them. He couldn't hold back another burst of excited heartbeats.He gently pushed the file cabinet door closed, turned back to the window, pushed the window sash open, leaned over in front of the window and looked out carefully, and saw that Qin Dafeng was standing sideways by the door of Staff Officer Li, vigilantly looking out for himself. , then jumped up and walked out of the office lightly, swiftly like a civet cat, and pushed the window shut again without showing a trace.

It was only a few minutes before and after, but Qin Dafeng was outside like a year.He seemed to be welded in this dark night, and to cover Ren Daozhi's smooth stealing of the picture, he first let his soul fight fiercely.The Communist Party trusted him so much and asked him to assist Ren Daozhi in completing this arduous task. How dare he be negligent?When the orderly saw off the guests just now, he was really taken aback, but when he thought that he was fighting the enemy, he calmed down instead. As a result, his heart finally let go, and everything returned to silence. Ren Daozhi gestured to Qin Dafeng, indicating that things were going well, and then the two returned to Qin Dafeng's room together.After closing the door, Ren Daozhi took out the drawings from his cotton coat and unfolded them. A map with densely packed symbols appeared in front of him.On the top of the map, there are several eye-catching characters clearly marked: "Qingdao City Peripheral Military Defense Project Map."

This is exactly the city defense map we need. He didn't care to take a closer look, folded the picture and put it back into his arms, and hurriedly said to Qin Dafeng: "Let's go separately, I'll wait for you at the station." After all, he opened the door and walked into the night. Qin Dafeng matured in this short moment. He felt that he had done a great thing for the people of Qingdao. If he didn't know Ren Daozhi, then he would end up serving as cannon fodder for the Kuomintang authorities. Inferiority and stubbornness, integrity and narrow-mindedness, contradictory and unified are concentrated on this thin and capable skeleton. In this photo theft operation, he was a direct participant, which is the trust of the Communist Party in him, even though he only played the role of a lookout.Before that, he was pushed into the revolutionary camp with half inferiority and half confidence. Tonight, he felt that what he showed was a heroic spirit.Without this photo-piracy operation, perhaps he would never have realized the sanctity and greatness of underground workers. He stood up bravely and shouldered the mission of a generation! Qin Dafeng controlled the joy and excitement in his heart, and when Ren Daozhi's back disappeared into the night, he also walked out of his room door, greeted Staff Li on duty who was still in the dark, and went straight to Went to the station to catch up with Ren Daozhi. Dark night, silent night. The streets are as desolate as a wasteland cemetery.There was no sound of people, only the sound of the wind, the stars in the sky stared at their eyes like will-o'-the-wisps, and the night was frighteningly quiet, as if it was a short silence before the storm came. Light will eventually defeat darkness, this is a truth that everyone understands. War screens, distinguishes and tempers people's character in the most intense way. Once the sense of justice of the nation is condensed on a certain person, that person's personality strength will be sublimated once.Even a very ordinary and very ordinary person may become a hero of the times. In the dead of night, the entire island city seemed to have fallen asleep. Daocheng seems to have fallen asleep, but one part is awake. No. 22 Jiaodong Road—the secret station of the underground working group, all the members of Yu Shuming's team were busy in an orderly manner. There was no gunfire or bloodshed, but it was a battle against the clock. Before the drawings arrived, Yu Shuming, Wang Chuanding and Qu Qi had arranged a house.The windows of the room were all blocked up with quilts in order not to let any light through.Looking from the outside to the inside, it was a dark hole, as if the people here had already fallen asleep, and the surroundings were dark and lifeless.Everything was done very carefully, and no one would have expected that there would be any major human miracles produced here. What is unexpected does not mean that it does not exist. What history tells people is often an unexpected fact. Ren Daozhi and Qin Dafeng came with chills, and the city defense map was presented in front of everyone. The comrades were very excited, and then there was intense copying work.Comrades Wang Chuanding and Qu Qi undertook this work. The electric lamp covered with black paper hangs low on the tabletop used for drawing, and even the candles and flashlights that will be used in case of power failure are placed beside them in an orderly manner.This preparatory work is not trivial. Before copying, Wang Chuanding and Qu Qizai carefully inspected this important map.It is about one meter long and 70 centimeters wide. It marks the terrain, roads, ditches, villages and rivers outside Qingdao City and other natural conditions; The specific location of all fortifications such as trenches and deer villages. This is a very accurate and complete map of the military defense project on the outskirts of Qingdao. From a military point of view, having this map will play a very important role in the battle to liberate Qingdao.The troops marching to liberate Qingdao will reduce a lot of casualties and shed a lot of blood. This picture can be said to be the lifeblood of the enemy of Qingdao, but at this moment, it was obtained by our underground heroes without anyone knowing it. This is in China In modern history, it has to be said that it is quite a legendary stroke. Wang Chuanding and Qu Qi, lying on the table, concentrate on depicting... A siren whistled past, and the enemy was arresting people again. A night of terror, a night of chaos, a night of blood and tears, a night of death, a night of dawn. The hour hand ticked by every second, and the drawing work was going on intensely without stopping for a moment. Efforts and sweat flowed in the cold night before dawn. In the early morning, when the wall clock just struck four o'clock, all the drawing work was declared over. Yu Shuming, who was in charge of guarding the wind and hadn't closed his eyes all night, woke up Ren Daozhi and Qin Dafeng who were sleeping, and said in a low voice, "The pictures have all been drawn. Now, go back quickly, and put the original map back where it was before the enemy finds out." Ren Daozhi quickly folded the picture and put it in his arms. Yu Shuming held his hand and said: "Be calm and calm, don't be careless, I wish you success." The stars in the sky blinked, unable to understand why these two young people got up so early. It was a cold day, why didn't they sleep a little longer to warm the bed? Ren Daozhi and Qin Dafeng bid farewell to Yu Shuming and other comrades, braved the cold wind before dawn, quietly left No. 22 Jiaodong Road, and took the first bus to Li Village. When the on-duty staff officers and orderlies of the Military Engineering Command were still asleep, Ren Daozhi and Qin Dafeng had sneaked back to the office again, and mysteriously sent the important drawing back to the original place. All of this was done quietly. Steal pictures quietly, paint and copy them silently, return them silently... Finally, destroy the enemy's fortifications according to the pictures in a world-shattering manner. When the Qingdao (Island) Ji (Mexico) Battle started, the enemy's defense lines were destroyed one by one by our army, and no one in the Qingdao garrison who was kept in the dark knew that the city defense map had been stolen and copied. Now that the copied map is in hand, the top priority is to send it out as soon as possible and safely, and hand it over to the superior in time. In the early morning of the same day, Yu Shuming solemnly handed over the map to Li Fang, an underground traffic officer, and repeatedly told him that this map is very important for the liberation of Qingdao in the future, and he must be careful not to make any mistakes. After accepting the task, Li Fang dressed up as a businessman, and avoided the strict blockade of the Qingdao defenders vigilantly and flexibly. Since the liberation of Jinan, the situation in Qingdao is a bit abnormal, and the situation is very serious.On October 4 alone, more than 1,000 people were arrested in the "big inspection" overnight.During the two years from 1947 to February 1949, the Qingdao Special Criminal Tribunal imprisoned 304 Communist Party members, underground workers, democrats and patriotic students.This is the dying struggle of the Kuomintang authorities before their collapse in order to maintain their crumbling rule. Li Fang knew that he shouldered a heavy responsibility. He walked through the city and walked towards Kazimen step by step. There were rubble, empty tin cans, broken glass, rotten vegetable leaves, dead rats and all kinds of filthy garbage everywhere on the road. What a beautiful seaside city, it was ruined by Lao Jiang and his bastards into a desolate and desolate scene. Li Fang cursed bitterly in her heart. The Kazi Gate was getting closer and closer, and Li Fang could see a prison car parked at the Kazi Gate from a distance, showing a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere. The people who left the city walked towards the checkpoint one by one. Beside the prison car stood a small group of murderous soldiers with long guns on their backs, each one of them looked like vicious ghosts who had just emerged from the 18th floor of hell. At the gate of Kazi, there stood a guy wearing glasses and carrying a pistol, with fierce eyes, staring at every passing pedestrian. Seeing this situation, Li Fang's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the enemy has obtained some information and is here specially waiting for it?On second thought, no!The blueprint was drawn in great secrecy, and the enemy must still be kept in the dark. Today's scene is not necessarily directed at the blueprint.Thinking of this, his heart became calmer, and he also became calmer. When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. He greeted him graciously, and the soldiers at Kazimen, seeing his indifference, really mistook him for a businessman, and let him pass without any trouble. On the special front of the underground struggle, it is common for encounters on narrow roads. The ground workers of the Qingdao underground party are not only brave, but also wise. These, Laoshan and the sea can testify. After crossing the Shaling River, and stepping into a wilderness, Nancun is in sight. The setting sun, which is as round as a plate, hangs above the horizon, bright and clear. Li Fang took a deep breath of fresh air and ran towards the municipal party committee office against the sunset. As the dusk deepened, the oil lamp was lit, and the flame flickered leisurely. The light of the fire reflected Yi Jimin's thin face and piercing eyes. In Zhongjiabu Village, west of Pingdu Nancun Town, where the Communist Party of China’s Qingdao Municipal Committee is located, Li Fang, an underground traffic officer, solemnly handed over a box of pastries to Yi Ji, the head of the social group of the Municipal Party Committee, regardless of the fatigue of the day’s travel. Min said: "Comrade Yu Shuming asked me to send this important gift, please accept it!" Yi Jimin carefully opened the bottom of the box, and a densely copied military map appeared in front of him. This is the most precious gift for the Qingdao underground workers fighting in the heart of the enemy to the upcoming battle of liberating Qingdao. .Yi Jimin was very excited, held Li Fang's hand and said: "Thank you, please tell the comrades in Yu Shuming's group that the party and the people thank them." Early the next morning, Comrade Yi Jimin sent a traffic officer to quickly submit the "Military Defense Project Map of the Outer Areas of Qingdao City" to the Jiaodong District Party Committee.The Jiaodong District Party Committee attaches great importance to this map. Three days later, the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China received a reply letter from Xue Shangshi, Secretary-General of the Jiaodong District Party Committee: "The military defense engineering drawing on the outskirts of Qingdao City has been received. After research by the Military Staff Office, it is believed that this engineering drawing is accurate and reliable Systematic and comprehensive, it will play a very important role in the successful liberation of Qingdao. Comrades who participated in this work should be praised and encouraged." The Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China promptly conveyed the spirit of this letter to Yu Shuming who was fighting in the heart of the enemy, and Yu Shuming conveyed the spirit of this letter to all comrades involved in this work.After the comrades heard the news, although they were in the enemy-occupied area, they all gained a kind of strength from this letter, especially Ren Daozhi and Qin Dafeng felt that their blood was filled with atomic energy, full of passion and motivation .