Chapter 13 8. Eyelids stop twitching

It's hard for me to imagine what would happen if my uncle obeyed Mr. Zhu's arrangement after graduating from the Kangda Branch School and stayed at the school as a political instructor.I heard that Boss Zhu appreciates his uncle's character and talent very much, and even praised the story of him chasing "fleas" with an empty gun.However, my uncle said that he had to go to the front line, and his only purpose of coming here to study was to go to the front line.Boss Zhu said: "Oh, I remembered, you still left a bullet for Doihara, if you want, I can't stop you." He gave him a pocket watch and said: "This is a trophy, please take it with you." Get on it and go all the way. In a few years, when we come together to meet again, you and this watch will both walk 'bass'."

My uncle imitated his Sichuan accent and vividly described his meeting with Boss Zhu to my third grandfather.He said that Boss Zhu is as wise as a fool, and he is a benevolent elder full of human touch.He also said that he was able to cross the criss-crossed Japanese and puppet blockades, thanks to all kinds of "underground traffic officers": there are handlebars driving carts, there are members of the armed forces team in the enemy's rear, there are folks in the medicinal material store, and there are people on the railway line. There are 15 or 16-year-old sheep herders, and an old boatman who steers a boat on the turbulent Yellow River.He said that the Communist Party made him see the people, the "capitalized" people that he had never seen before.The third grandfather listened quietly, and finally said only one sentence: "Okay, you can 'check the watch' for General Zhu De in the future, and don't miss the hour."

At that time, Qi Chu had already pulled the guerrillas to the Henan, Anhui and Su anti-Japanese base areas, joined General Peng Xuefeng, and merged into the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army.The Sui Qitai anti-Japanese guerrilla base area is undergoing frequent and brutal "mopping up" by the Japanese and puppet troops.The third grandfather served as the head of the Sui Qitai Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps, a popular armed force under the leadership of the Communist Party. A heroic sacrifice.The uncle couldn't find the Communist Party for a while, so he put the pocket watch given to him by Boss Zhu to his ear, listened to the sound of "chuckles", and said, "Sanbo, I've checked the watch with Boss Zhu, and the watch said, You want to use the banner of the 'New Fourth Army'." The third grandfather said: "Did you know? The 'Southern Anhui Incident' just happened, and Chiang Kai-shek has announced that the title of the New Fourth Army will be cancelled." The uncle said: "I have nothing to do with this same roommate. There is no such thing as Jiang, who wants to play the banner of the New Fourth Army." The third grandfather said: "My boy, I like to hear what you say!" Then he handed over the self-defense sub-groups of the three townships to my uncle to command, and then He sold more than 100 mu of land, bought the third batch of guns and ammunition, and formed an anti-Japanese armed force with more than 300 people and more than 300 guns, known as the "Second Suiqitai Anti-Japanese Brigade of the New Fourth Army".In the first battle, a whole district office was taken down, the traitor district chief and district captain were killed, and more than 30 "dog soldiers" were captured.In the second battle, another Tuweizi was destroyed, and a group of bandit forces who took refuge in the devils and actively participated in the big "mopping up" were wiped out.Han Dasheng, the newly appointed Secretary of the Suiqitai Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, was overjoyed when he heard the news, "Oh, the New Fourth Army has sent troops!"Han Dasheng is also a student from the "New Private School", and he and my uncle have been friends since childhood.The uncle said: "I'm sorry, I recruited soldiers for you without permission." Han Dasheng said: "It's too late for me to thank you! The devils are sweeping up, and the Kuomintang is also rampantly anti-Communist. Except for you, Mr. Meng, who would fight the New Fourth Army banner?"

This guerrilla team was also included in the independent regiment of the guerrilla detachment of the New Fourth Army, organized into the second battalion, and the uncle was the battalion commander.He took the initiative to ask for additional Communist Party members to be sent to the Second Battalion as instructors and company instructors, and formed a life-and-death friendship with them.Uncle said to my third grandfather with some relief: "Uncle San, I put a bull bridle on my fierce horse!" The third grandpa said, "Really? My right eyelid is still twitching!" The uncle met a pair of eyes.Huang, the leader and political commissar of the independent regiment, was staring at him provocatively.The close contact between the instructor and the instructor and the uncle also aroused the revolutionary vigilance of the commander Huang. He specially reminded his comrades to remember Comrade Stalin's teaching: "The fortress is the easiest to break from the inside." The third battalion commander It was Wang Qimei, a member of the Communist Party, who later became a general and was once the commander of the Tibet Military Region.General Wang recalled, I could hear the meaning of Captain Huang's words, so I told him that your excessive revolutionary vigilance has developed to the point that everything is like an enemy!Battalion Commander Meng is a person who can see through at a glance, a typical "non-Party Bolshevik"!Head Huang said, childish!Is there any real Bolshevik who wants to stay outside the party?Wang Qimei said, so what?He can pull up a team to take the initiative to find the party and fight the Japanese devils, why are you so picky!You are so suspicious, don't you feel tired?Head Huang said, I just want to be suspicious. Comrade Xiang Ying is not suspicious of ghosts. That's why the "Southern Anhui Incident" happened and thousands of our good comrades were sacrificed, including himself. Don't you think he died unjustly?

My uncle would never have imagined that the same "Southern Anhui Incident" had quite reasonably created two diametrically opposite mentalities. In the spring of 1941, when the Independence Regiment was undergoing military training, hundreds of people from the Japanese Army and the Imperial Army suddenly surrounded them in more than a dozen vehicles. The situation was very critical.Head Huang ordered my uncle to lead the second battalion and the fourth company to cover the evacuation of the whole regiment.Uncle used the river embankment as a barrier to stop enemies several times my size.The battle was extremely fierce, and a platoon of soldiers died heroically.Seeing that the ghost soldiers broke through a gap in the river embankment, they swarmed up holding the "plaster flag".The uncle led the soldiers to fight hand-to-hand with the devils shirtless, drove the devils off the river embankment, killed the devils' flag bearer, took the "plaster flag" and hung it upside down on the willow tree on the river embankment.All cheered.The uncle's clavicle was pierced by bullets, blood stained his clothes, but he didn't realize it. He still held the command flag and jumped in the hail of bullets.After the whole regiment evacuated smoothly, the uncle led the team to withdraw from the battle in the dark.Captain Huang sent my uncle away to Fuji to recuperate from his wounds. He looked at the stretcher leaving for a long time, and praised, "He really is a good guy!" Turning around, he said to the people around him, "Such people stay in our team, and It is very dangerous for him to lead troops!"

In time, history offers an opportunity to relieve this danger. While my uncle was recovering from his injuries, the Independence Regiment was ordered to march eastward to join the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army in the border areas of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu.The head of the Huang regiment blocked the news from my uncle, and left quietly with the independent regiment.Uncle's guard Houzi heard the news and told Uncle.The uncle hurriedly led the monkey to a village in Yongcheng before catching up with the troops. He suppressed his anger and reported to Captain Huang.Head Huang told him very kindly that the Second Battalion had appointed a new battalion commander and asked him to take a good rest.At this time, Qi Chuyuan served as the director of the Political Department of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army.The uncle begged to see Qi Chu to reassign the job, but he couldn't see him.It's just that someone sent a message, and Qi Chu thought it was not handled properly, so he gave his uncle the name of deputy head, but he lost the power to command the battle since then.He was never notified of the regimental meeting.

The guard monkey accompanied my uncle through a very embarrassing time.The monkey turned out to be a little homeless beggar.The third grandpa saw that he shot a bunch of sparrows with a slingshot in his hand, covered the sparrows with mud, gathered a pile of firewood, and burned the sparrows in the wild to eat.The third grandpa took him away and said to Huzi, this kid has "materials", put him in the "housekeeping team" and treat him as a "little runner" for you, train him well, he will be promising. When the "Housekeeping Team" was adapted, they thought he was too young and "missed out" him.After his uncle came back from Shanxi, he became his bodyguard.

Monkey said, my uncle lived in a mill far away from the regiment headquarters, and he revolved around a mill every day. His temper, which had just calmed down, became very irritable, and he couldn't even tolerate crows.The crow croaked twice on an old elm tree, and he was also furious, saying, "What's wrong with this? Why are there so many crows in the world!" The monkey still remembered the pocket watch.The uncle sat on the millstone all day, with no expression on his face, propped his arms on the mill fan, clutched the pocket watch in his hand, put his ears on it, listened to the "chuckle" of the pocket watch, closed his eyes, and remained motionless.The monkey stood outside the door looking at the sky, holding a piece of dirt in his hand, always on guard against crows.

Houzi said that Huzi's team was stationed in a neighboring village. When he heard that my uncle was coming, he invited several members of the original "housekeeping team" to come and see him. The secret service team formed by the "housekeeping team" has long been dismantled, and the members have been dismantled and organized into various companies.After everyone said a few words of nostalgia, the topic turned to Huzi.Huzi made many military exploits. In one battle, he killed one of the devil's majors and captured one of the devil's soldiers, and was rewarded by the division headquarters.Sergeant Cao still refuses to admit defeat after being escorted back by Huzi, and wants to wrestle with Huzi again to determine the winner.Huzi readily agreed, and immediately opened the scene.The sergeant glared, bowed his waist, exploded his arms, shook his arms, kicked his feet, and rushed forward with a sound of "hey", Huzi took advantage of the situation and twisted an arm of the sergeant, choked his wrist, turned around, turned his legs away, shook his hips, and shook his shoulders. The "reverse cloth bag" style threw the sergeant face to the sky with a "sounding crispy melon".Everyone laughed.Huzi signaled to do it again, and the sergeant held out his thumb, but shook his head and said, "Your, big, cunning and cunning!" Mr. Peng was overjoyed when he heard the news, and said, "How can such a hero not even be a squad leader?" Huh?" Hu Zi jumped from an ordinary soldier to a deputy platoon leader.The uncle said happily: "Monkey, hurry up and get some wine, I want to celebrate the success of the tiger, and congratulations to Mr. Peng's insightful talents!"

As soon as the monkey went out, he bumped into Tuanzhang Huang and Flea who came hurriedly.Flea is now the political officer of the Fourth Division. When he walked in, he didn't talk to my uncle. He glanced around the room, pretending to be surprised, and said, "Deputy Head Meng, what is the important meeting between you and the 'Guardian Team'?" A meeting?" Hu Zi said, "How can there be any meeting? We just came to see the old bosses of the three teams. You can feel that the millstone is not hot yet!" Head Huang pulled his face and said: "Deputy Head Meng, Please don’t forget that you are a revolutionary soldier, don’t mess around with the old ministries and hang around!”

"What? What did you say?" Uncle's face suddenly turned from red to white, it was a sickly pale, his face was twisted and convulsed, his body was trembling uncontrollably, his lips were trembling, and then , his face turned from white to red again, the blood rushed to the brain through the branching and branching blood vessels, the eyes were like bullets soaked in blood, and the "hysterical" "crazy words" burst out like a flood that broke through the gate "May I ask your Excellency the political commissar, can't the revolutionary soldiers have a little human relationship? They are brave fighters of the New Fourth Army, and Huzi is a hero who has been rewarded by orders. What right do you have to doubt the relationship with you again and again?" Comrade who went to the country together? If you can use half of your vigilance and calculations on the resistance against Japan, you will not be passively beaten in the devil's "sweeping", and you can even fight a few decent battles! If you put half of your Give your true love and trust to a passionate man like Huzi, and they can kill devils who are a little bigger and a little more than a major, and they can even put a few more sergeants in a cloth bag and write them back in your Battle report. You want to put me in your cloth bag and make me suffer! You always look at everything with a revolutionary authority, but you are suspicious and trembling in your bones, which is a little bit less revolutionary. open-mindedness and self-esteem.” Head Huang, also known as Political Commissar Huang, stood still after being bombarded by the platoon. He smiled and said, "Deputy Head Meng, I finally see that you are losing your temper!" "So, what are you?" The uncle stared at him without showing any weakness, "How do you look like a tycoon, a revolutionary tycoon who monopolizes all the truth! I don't understand, as the regiment leader and political commissar, when the troops marched You would leave a battalion commander behind, and when he caught up with the team to ask you for a job, you gave him a mill that should have belonged to a donkey! Your narrow-mindedness, paranoia, suspicion and arrogance are incompatible with your party's doctrine and manifesto They have nothing in common, and it can only make a person who is ashamed to be a young master, who could have been your comrade-in-arms, feel worried and distressed because your party has unworthy descendants like you, and it is also chilling like ice!" My uncle's "hysteria" showed a bright smile because he had a good vent for a while, and asked in a soft tone: "Do you know? Your Excellency, when you regard all anti-Japanese fighters outside your party as aliens, For rejecting the door, you should get a medal from the devil!" Head Huang listened to his uncle's "speech" in surprise, and then suddenly pulled out his pistol. The uncle still smiled politely, and pulled out a grinding rod. Flea jumped to Captain Huang's back and pulled out his pistol. The monkey protected the uncle with his body, and also drew his two guns in a snap. The uncle pulled the monkey away, and held the hard grinder with both hands as if offering a khata, and placed it gently on the grindstone in front of Captain Huang, "Thank you for not pulling the trigger, and the politician But the officer miscalculated the seriousness of this grinding rod. I just want to return the grinding rod assigned to me by the political commissar to the donkey, say goodbye to you, and inform you that I will go to the New Fourth Army again. The anti-Japanese team, but my boss is definitely not your leader Huang!" I heard that my uncle's friends like to listen to his "speech" that blurted out, eloquently, and furiously when he had a "hysterical" attack, saying that he always showed a kind of morbid bravery and extraordinary insight at such moments.This "speech" by Tuan Zhang is one of the examples that everyone loves to talk about. After the uncle delivered his "speech", he broke through the broken door of the mill and strode out into the field.Monkey, Huzi and members of the original "housekeeping team" surrounded him.But Flea hid behind Captain Huang, staring in horror at a scene that was later called "instigating a mutiny in the old department".Fortunately, the uncle still retained the last bit of reason, pushed everyone away and said, "Please go back to your respective companies and go to the battlefield to ask them to see who is the best anti-Japanese soldier!" Everyone stopped.Only the monkey accompanied the uncle, walking towards the sunset on the wilderness. Captain Huang gripped his pistol tightly and watched his uncle go away with a rock-solid look, with a cold and hard smile still clenched between his teeth.Later, someone said that if Qi Chu hadn't said hello in advance, saying that Dameng and his family were not ordinary "united front targets" and should not be reckless, the uncle would never get out of the small mill.In the early days of the Hubei, Henan, Anhui and Soviet Areas, Tuanzhang Huang was once a member of the famous "Eradication Committee", nicknamed "Huang Yisheng".The "counter-revolutionaries" he executed in the Red Army were countless, and when he killed one, he pulled a button from the corpse and threw it into the grain liter.One day, he gritted his teeth with such a cold and hard smile, and handed in a full liter of buttons.All of this is in the name of revolution, showing unique heroism. Head Huang and Political Commissar Huang, also known as Huang Yisheng, caused my uncle to walk more than a hundred miles in vain.When the uncle and the monkey reached a bridge in Luyi County, it was already dusk the next day.There is no one left in the wilderness, only the bloody sunset remains in the sky.The monkey jumped off the bridge and went to the river to fill the pot with water. Suddenly, he heard the sound of horseshoes, and three horses came galloping from behind. "Is it Deputy Commander Meng?" a man on horseback asked. The uncle turned around and said, "I'm Meng Cheng." "Captain Huang, please go back." "Please call back, I don't work with this person." Then came the sound of refried beans.The uncle only "hummed", then trembling all over, he fell off the bridge and rolled into the grass under the bridge.The sound of horseshoes galloped back and forth again, and the land was dead silent. The monkey who was frightened by the "magic disease" ran back to Fu Ji and said, "Master, I touched Uncle Cheng's nose, and he was out of breath. He only touched a hand full of blood. His heart was still beating, It's the sound of steel!" After a few days, Hu Zi also ran back and said: "Tuan Zhang said that the eldest son instigated a mutiny in the old department and defected from the team. The persuasion was ineffective and he was killed on the way to defect. The fleas imprisoned me and asked me to confess. At night, I A hole was poked in the roof..." The third grandfather asked, "Does Qi Chu know?" Huzi said: "Flea said, report to Qi Chu, don't have any illusions!" The third grandpa looked up to the sky and sighed, "Ah, my eyelids stopped twitching."