Chapter 18 Chapter 8 The Sky and the Earth (1)

The chilly autumn wind blows from outside the Great Wall.It rolls with yellow sand, leaves and dry grass, and spreads over thousands of hills, as if chasing something in a hurry. As soon as our army's resistance troops in Jiuli Mountain retreated, the enemy flowed southward from the north of Jiuli Mountain along the Xianyu Highway like a flood of water that was pulled out of the gate.Not so long ago they were organized armies, brigades, regiments, and battalions; now they are almost a mob.They roared and ran around desperately, trampling on each other, shooting at each other, cursing, fighting, robbing... Some people fell down and shouted for help, but countless feet trampled on the fallen people until they turned into meat paste .Sometimes, when the people, mules and horses were so crowded in the ravine, a group of people fired with submachine guns to open up escape routes for themselves.The infantry pushed the artillery's livestock into the ditch and fled.Some officers rode on horseback, pistols raised, trying to maintain order, but the flood-like crowd wrapped up the officers and flowed forward.

Run away, run away, wherever you go, as long as you can escape.Run, run, even with a burst heart. On the endless hills, in ditches large and small, there is a panic flow of people everywhere, and there are bandits trained by US imperialism everywhere. It rained heavily.The enemy crossed the ditch and climbed the mountain. The road was slippery in the rain, and they fell and stumbled every step. From time to time, some people rolled down the deep ditch. The bandit army of Hu couldn't find a single commoner everywhere, couldn't find a grain of grain, couldn't find a pot or a piece of grass, couldn't even find a small pot or a pair of chopsticks.The enemy had no choice but to burn the doors and windows of the cave dwelling.

The enemy artillerymen slaughtered the mules carrying the cannons, and the infantry attacked the artillerymen, robbing them of meat. The enemy's three or five transport planes, braving the harsh weather, threw big pies at their army.It also became a focal point of conflict between various sections of the enemy army.Some enemies saw the planes delivering supplies coming, so they used machine guns to control the drop area. Every time they fought for the bags of moldy and stinky pancakes, there were many soldiers. A piece of cake, lying on the top of the mountain forever eating loess. The enemy is afraid of bumping into landmines when he moves his feet; if he is afraid of stepping on landmines, he will step on landmines.Moreover, as long as one person steps on a landmine, the news will reach the ears of every enemy like a gust of wind.

This group of fierce spirits swept the ground with their tails between their tails. When they heard the sound of leaves, they thought they were in an ambush;For example, every stone in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region will fly up and beat them, and every cave will open its mouth wide to eat them; like every mountain in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region is a volcano that is about to erupt at any time; like the People's Liberation Army, It may emerge from the cracks in the ground at any time and clean them up. Every inch of land in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region has become dangerous and terrifying to the enemy!

In the big ditches, the front, the left, the left, and the small forks of the enemy, there were sniping shots everywhere, and there were thousands of women, children, and old men everywhere, taking shovels, shovels, sickles, scissors, kitchen knives, and sticks to demand blood debts from the enemy. The endless mountains in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region are all ablaze! In the past, guerrillas attacked the enemy at night.A guerrilla force of 30 to 50 people kills or captures a dozen enemies in each battle, which is no small victory.In the past few days, they have also jumped from one mountain to another in broad daylight, harassing and attacking the enemy; it is not uncommon to capture a hundred or ten enemies in one battle.

A guerrilla team led by Li Yushan has about 300 people. The regular army always flies over mountains and ridges and takes small paths, rushing to the front of the enemy and attacking the enemy.As for Li Yushan, under the order of his superiors, he led his team members to chase the enemy from the area south of Jiuli Mountain and harass the enemy.Sometimes, they went around to plant landmines on the road that the enemy had to pass during the day, and flanked the enemy at night. In the dark night, it was raining.The deserted autumn wind is blowing slightly. Li Yushan led the team up the mountain.Looking westward, he saw piles of campfires burning on the hilltops in the distance. This was where the enemy had camped.

Li Yushan led his team and approached the enemy's flames.They turned over a hill, and suddenly, they heard the voice of the enemy.Li Yushan thought: This must be the enemy's security force.He directed the team members to throw a row of grenades, and the enemy rolled down the ditch in a burst of flames; the six enemies who did not escape became prisoners; the enemy on the opposite mountain immediately extinguished the fire and started shooting. Some team members didn't even look carefully, and started to fight when they lay down. Light machine guns, rifles, and submachine guns rang out.Li Yushan couldn't help shouting.He became irritable, pushed the team leader, and said: "I can't see the fart clearly, I'm wasting bullets!" He turned around and shouted:

"Sixty Cannon! Throw a few cannonballs at the opposite mountain!" The enemy fires harder.A few flares hung in the sky, and the hills near and far were brightly lit. Taking advantage of the light from the flares, Li Yushan saw clearly that a group of enemies had approached.While assigning several team members to plant mines everywhere, he led the team to retreat up a mountain behind.When he arrived at the back mountain, he checked the number of people, but Li Laosi and Niu Du who planted the landmine did not come back.He was so angry that he scolded the team leader of the explosion: "I don't know how effective your landmines can be, let's throw away two people first!"

The guerrillas lay on the wetlands on the top of the hill, stretched their ears and stared round their eyes, waiting for the mines to show their majesty. A group of enemies shouted and shot and climbed to the opposite hill; suddenly, there was a few bangs, and the stunned enemies quickly jumped into the single bunker and under the ridge. On the landmine, there were a few more bangs, the flames of the explosion broke through the night, and the enemy screamed and screamed. The guerrillas clapped, whistled, and shouted.Li Yushan stomped his feet and shouted: "When you shout, the enemy will know that we are not a regular army. Quietly!"

At this time, on the opposite hill, the flashlight flashed, probably the enemy was picking up the corpses! Li Yushan asked the captives he had just captured to speak out. A prisoner shouted timidly: "My name is Li Zhanbiao. The People's Liberation Army treats prisoners leniently!" Brothers..." The enemy fired several shots. Li Yushan was angry. He commanded three 60 artillery pieces and fired about twenty shells at the enemy's position without stopping.Enemy calm down. Li Yushan covered his mouth with the microphone, and opened his voice to tell the enemy about the situation of the national war.At the end, he said: "When the officials get rich, why did you soldiers work hard? It's pitiful for you to be hungry and drenched in the rain on the mountain. Come here, brothers! Come here and let you go home!"

The enemy listened silently, probably thinking about Li Yushan's words. Li Yushan quickly organized his team members and sang on the top of the mountain: The autumn wind blows and the autumn wind is cool, and the clothes are thin and miserable. The autumn wind is blowing and the autumn wind is cool, why do you work hard with Lao Jiang. Some players sang, and some players played the flute.The cold autumn wind blew through the enemy's position with this desolate sound mixed with the misty rain.On the opposite hill, the enemy commander shouted and cursed at the soldiers, telling them to shoot. Li Yushan thought: "Okay, it will work!" Late at night.He took his team members and jumped several mountains to the west to camp. The next morning, the guerrillas crowded into the cave where Li Yushan lived, chattering.Some people outside the kiln door sang with open voice: "Green grass blooms inch by inch, sing a little twist to get rid of heart anxiety!..." Some people made up random jokes to amuse everyone. Li Yushan shouted: "We don't eat fried cakes here, what are you doing here?" "The team headquarters can't come!" "Look, the captain frowned, he must have drank coptis water!" Li Yushan ignored them.He had something on his mind: the two team members didn't come back, they were probably captured by the enemy!He shouted: "Ding Huzi, I told you to send someone to look for Li Laosi and Niu Du. You haven't moved yet?" There was a voice outside the kiln door: "I'm back! Hey hey, the captain thought you got into the old cow's ass!" The calf entered the kiln door, jumped onto the kang, shook its shoulders and sang: "...If you want to go home and see the girl coughing, you can't take care of beating the enemy..." Li Laosi came in and squatted on the stove, exhausted from exhaustion.He is an old man after all! Li Yushan said: "Old Si Li, why did you come back so soon? I just said that you and the calf fell into the hands of the enemy!" The calf said, "What are you afraid of falling into the hands of the enemy?" Li Laosi said: "When people are happy, the shoulder poles bloom, but when people are unlucky, the ginger is not spicy. For a long time, I will not be lucky. Two days ago, I went home, and my wife was in a panic. The oil is pouring. I said, look, look, within three days I will be unlucky! It is more accurate than the sun coming out of the east, and I hit a head when I planted mines tonight." Li Yushan said: "Your elder brother is more than enough to take a lot of money. Kowtow* dial up on time. Why are you sneaking into the enemy's hands?" Li Laosi wiped the spittle from his mouth and said: "As soon as the mine was buried, the enemy came. I ran north with the calf, passed a mountain, and captured an enemy soldier. That guy kowtowed Pleading like pounding garlic: I am a good person, God has eyes! I have spoken: You stand up, and I want to question you. He didn’t say anything and stood up, and said: I was recruited as a soldier. I He is a person who is afraid of breaking his head when the leaves fall, and he hasn’t done anything wrong for a long time! When I heard that he was a soldier, my heart softened! Who knew that guy jumped out while I wasn’t paying attention, and everyone I yelled, and in the blink of an eye, a large group of enemies came rushing in, and surrounded me and the calf. I hurried and jogged, and accidentally rolled into the ditch. The calf was caught! Look! Look, how mysterious!" Li Yushan said: "Good guy! You slipped away and gave away the calf!" The calf said: "You have sent me, and I have sent the enemy too!" It turned out that near the dawn, the enemy discovered the calf.Seeing that he could not escape, the calf unbolted the gun and fell into the ditch.Then he leaned his back against the ridge nonchalantly and hummed a folk song. The enemy forced him with a gun and asked, "Why did you throw the bolt away?" The calf ignored her and said, "I love it? It was sent by Truman, and I didn't pay for it." An enemy stabbed him hard on the back with the butt of a rifle. He was knocked down to the ground, but the eighteen-year-old child only got up stubbornly, clenched his fists, and opened his tiger eyes, as if he was about to fight. At this time, an enemy came up to search for the company commander, and said: "Pull him here, don't kill him first, it's still useful!" The calf said: "You use guns to scare people, and we people in the border areas don't accept that; , then we can discuss it!" When the enemy company commander heard this, he was very happy, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Do you know what marks are on the places where the guerrillas laid mines?" The calf said, "There is a mark. I can't remember it, but I can recognize it." The enemy company commander was happy: "Okay, you lead us the way, it's not a loss to you, and you will give us money for leading the way. Hey, do you know where there is food?" The calf said, "Turn left to the right by the side of the ditch outside, and two stones of grain were buried. If you don't believe me, I'll show you. " The enemy company commander walked out, followed by two or three messengers.He walked to the edge of the ditch.The calf said: "Look, look," pointing to the slope of the ditch.The enemy company commander stretched his neck and looked towards the hillside. The calf hugged him violently and shouted: "I'm dead, come with me!" The two rolled down the ditch.The enemy company commander was terrified of falling, and was completely confused; the calf got up and smashed his head with a stone, pulled out the "Browning" pistol from the enemy's waist and put it in his own waist, burrowed into the ditch, and climbed up. a high mountain. The messenger of the enemy company commander slammed into the ditch for a while. The calf went up the mountain and took a rest. He felt pain in every joint, but he still stood up and shouted to the enemy on the opposite mountain: "Give up your gun and don't kill me. If you don't hand in your gun, you will go back to your hometown!" The enemy chased while shooting, and the calf let go of its legs and ran.The calf walks like flying on the high mountains.The enemy was so angry that his stomach growled and he stared helplessly. After hearing this, Li Yushan clapped his hands together and shouted, "Calf, you can do it! I want to report your heroic deeds to Chairman Lin of the Border Region Government!" The calf said: "That's not counting. If the enemy chases me, I will run. If the enemy doesn't chase me, I will sing: Riding a white horse, hanging a foreign gun, the third brother has joined the Communist Party, and I want to go home to see the girl Huer cough, beat Lao Jiang Just ignore it." Two Zhou Dayong's column finished its second overnight march after starting from Jiuli Mountain.The order was passed down one by one: "Put in front of the enemy again!" At dawn, the drowsiness that haunted the soldiers passed, and singing, laughing, and talking arose again in the ranks of the troops. When the sun was setting on the eastern mountain line, suddenly, there was the sound of machine guns ahead: "Beep! Beep! Beep!" The machine gun sounded like a signal, followed by dense gunfire and explosions. The soldiers stretched out their ears to listen.They wanted to judge from experience that the place where the gunshots were fired was so far away and the scale of the battle was so large. Zhou Dayong knew that it was the troops ambushing in front of his column that had caught the enemy again.He looked back at the soldiers, who, like him, had the nervous, excited look on their faces just before they entered the battle. About half an hour later, there was another violent explosion ahead; after a while, the sparse gunshots that usually follow after a battle are over. The flow of people is flowing forward, and this small river is like a mountain torrent erupting.The war horses in the crowd, the tall pack mules, seem to be floating in the rapids. At noon, the troops turned into a small valley east of Yongping Town and advanced.These ravines are so remote that not even a single commoner can be seen.This ravine is also quite quiet: In the ditch, a small stream flows quietly; bursts of warm wind shake the willow tips in the river channel.Looking up, the sun, which showed its face for the first time in several days, dyed the rolling hills bright red. A sudden gust of wind brought singing.The soldiers looked around strangely and could see nothing, but the singing was getting closer. Someone on the mountain in the west opened his voice and sang: From one mountain to another river, Mountains, mountains, mountains, rivers, rivers! Someone on the mountain in the east picked up and sang: Clear flowing water and green mountains, There are countless rice grain rivers in northern Shaanxi! "Who is so happy?" The soldiers were looking around in amazement and discussing excitedly, and the people on the mountains on both sides sang again: The new year comes in the first month, Liu Zhidan came out of northern Shaanxi. Liu Zhidan came as an upright official, He led the team up Hengshan, Dedicated to communism. Spring breeze blows in February. Mao Zedong came up from Jiangxi. Mao Zedong came with many influences, He got on the plane in the air, Then bring millions of soldiers. The soldiers were all captivated by the singing.They walked and shouted: "Good singing! One more!" In a blink of an eye, many people came down from the hillsides on both sides, dancing, singing, shouting, and whistling.They crowded on both sides of the marching caravan.Only then did the soldiers see clearly: they were guerrillas.These team members include old men and women, but most of them are strong young men in their twenties.The young women wore hand grenades in their waists and held large sabers with red silk in their hands.Those young lads had "mortella towels" wrapped around their heads and bullet belts around their waists.Some of them carried the "Zhongzheng" rifles captured by the Kuomintang bandits on their backs, and some of them also carried submachine guns made in the United States.Those old men, with box guns hanging from their belts, seemed to be the leaders of the guerrillas.Perhaps, when they were young, they were all experienced Red Army soldiers under the leadership of Comrade Liu Zhidan! The women shyly shouted to the soldiers: "Have you put on your shoes? Have you eaten the food? We mobilized that. Look, look, even if you walk with your head up, you don't say a word of thanks." !" The young guerrillas shouted to the soldiers: "What are you laughing at? Are you underestimating us? We captured a lot of cannons and water traps. The barrels of the cannons are as thick as the mouth of a bowl!" The soldiers shouted happily: "I wish you victory! Long live the people of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region!" The guerrillas clapped their hands wildly and shouted: "Long live the main force!" "We work together to strike the enemy!" Amidst the earth-shattering shouts of joy, one man, running away from the crowded guerrillas, waved and shouted: "Zhou Dayong, where are you looking! Zhou Dayong!" This man was quite tall, with a white "sheep belly towel" on his head, a black padded jacket on his upper body, and a pair of yellow woolen breeches handed over to the enemy.When he ran forward, he held the leather bag in his waist with his right hand and the box gun with his left. "Who is this?" Zhou Dayong was stunned.He saw the person running: square face, thick eyebrows, high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, and black beard.This appearance reminded Zhou Dayong of the old man Li Zhende. The man put his hand on Zhou Dayong's shoulder and said, "Dayong, what's the matter, the regular army looks down on the guerrillas? This thinking needs to be rectified!" Zhou Dayong pinched the man's shoulder with both hands like a vice, and shouted: "Li Yushan! Hey, look at this look! You have a beard growing all over your face, why don't you burn it?" Li Yushan said, "Give it up, brother! You don't want me to live?" Holding hands with Zhou Dayong, he smiled and said as he walked, "Dayong, these dozens of days have been really hard! Look, even your head is wounded!" Zhou Dayong said: "Needless to mention, who can relax these days! Yushan, I saw your whole family in Jiulishan! You really--" Li Yushan hurriedly asked about the situation at home, how the old people were doing, Ask yourself how your wife and children are doing.In particular, he asked if the child had lost weight... He asked for a long time before saying, "Brother, I haven't seen them in the past two months! Oh, they must be terrified and suffering a lot!" He touched Chin, after thinking for a while, he said: "Hey! It's not bad to know their whereabouts now! Dayong, I see you have nothing to say, and I will give you another box of bullets." Zhou Dayong moved forward the bullet clip hanging on the belt behind him, picked out the bullets and gave him two cartridges. Li Yushan weighed the bullet in his palm and said happily, "It's brand new! After all, the regular army is capable." Zhou Dayong said: "What's the matter, your current guns and ammunition are not enough?" Li Yushan patted Zhou Dayong on the shoulder and said, "Dayong, don't take last year's almanac as a scripture! This time I am talking about rifles, even American submachine guns are not rare. However, box gun ammunition is not available yet; if you want to buy it, one piece of silver and two pieces! " Zhou Dayong said: "Yushan! The enemy is really like a fish that slipped through the net, going straight to the south. I only hate his mother for losing two legs!" Li Yushan said: "Grandchildren, ghosts cry and howl; when someone farts, they regard it as a cannon; when they hear a sound, their souls go out. Now, they want nothing but life! Hmph, these Dog bastards have their day too!" Zhou Dayong said: "Yushan, our roads in northern Shaanxi are all built around Sichuan roads and river channels. The roads go round and round for a long time, and the enemy flees along the road. We turn over the mountains when we see them, cross the river when we see them, and take shortcuts. Go. This way we're always ahead of the enemy,-- Even enemies in cars can't beat us! " Li Yushan said: "People say that the land in northern Shaanxi is not three feet flat. I am not boasting. I said that northern Shaanxi is a good place for revolution. Look, there are mountains everywhere, and it is a good place for ambushes. Dayong, are my words reasonable? ?” He pointed to a place five or six miles ahead and said: "Ahead is the suburb of Qusi, Yanchuan County. A regiment of your column fought a battle there just now. It's really neat. Three hammers and two sticks wiped out an enemy battalion, twenty or so cars, and six tanks. ! The cars and tanks went up in flames, and the fireworks went up!" Zhou Dayong counted with his fingers: "The enemy ran away for more than half a month and lost more than 10,000 people before they escaped for two or three hundred miles. Hey, they crawl like turtles!" Li Yushan said: "The enemy fled for two to three hundred miles, but he planned to leave our main force far away. How could he know that he was ambushed again in the suburb of Qusi ahead." Zhou Dayong said: "Yes, the enemy never expected this." Li Yushan also talked about how they helped the troops fight in the front just now. Zhou Dayong said: "Yushan, your guerrillas are really good!" Li Yushan slapped Zhou Dayong on the back hard, and said, "It's okay or not, anyway, it's enough for the enemy to eat and drink." He then whispered into Zhou Dayong's ear: "Last night, I met Peng in the Chakou River. The deputy commander-in-chief came. Mr. Peng asked me if I had any difficulties, whether I needed guns or ammunition. I said, there is no shortage of anything for a while. Deputy commander-in-chief Peng asked me to send dozens of team members to lead the way for our team. Dayong, I Look, our team is going to make a big fight in the Chakou area!" Zhou Dayong thought of the role of attacking, blocking, attacking, and ambush in the past ten days; he remembered the meaning of the troops marching day and night when they saw rivers, waded waters and saw mountains and opened roads.He said: "Yushan, in the past ten days or so, we have been attacking the enemy along the road. First, we want to consume the enemy, block the enemy, and cooperate with the Chen Geng Corps who crossed the Yellow River and marched into western Henan; Go to the front of the enemy, set up a posture and settle accounts with the enemy!" Three The enemy pays a high price every day to travel fourteen or five miles.They began to flee from the Wuding River at the end of August, and did not retreat to the area of ​​Yongping Town until the middle of September.Yongping Town is located 100 kilometers northeast of Yan'an.Chakou Village is three to forty miles south of Yongping Town.The enemy must pass through Chakou Village when fleeing back to Yan'an. In the thousands of mountains and ravines in the Chakou area, our army laid down a net of heaven and earth again. Tens of thousands of enemies entered the area of ​​Chakou Village, and our army surrounded the enemy like an iron barrel. A fierce battle ensues.Various departments of our army stormed the Chakou area from various hilltops.The various ravines behind the attacking troops were packed with tens of thousands of guerrillas, self-defense troops, stretcher teams, and many fellow villagers.There are huge crowds of people, like people from the whole Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region have come here to help their army, it is more lively than going to a temple fair. When the lightly wounded came down the mountainside, many villagers immediately ran up to meet them.The stretcher team carried the seriously wounded down from the mountain, and immediately many people crowded in front of the wounded; the old ladies and women hurriedly fed the wounded with water and said some touching words. In the river channel, there are many fellow villagers helping the cooks in the army cook pots, and some carry food back and forth.They were bustling with laughter and shouting. Zhou Dayong's brigade had two regiments storming Chakou Village from north to south. Zhao Jin's regiment was the brigade's reserve team and did not go into battle.They put up a combat alert on the hill behind the North Mountain Ridge, and at the same time helped the troops attacking in front to do some things: shoot into the air, receive prisoners, and so on. Zhou Dayong, who was officially promoted to the commander of the first battalion, took some soldiers down the valley to carry grenades.They went down to the ravine, carrying boxes of grenades on their backs, and were about to go up the mountain. Dozens of fellow villagers gathered at once, took the grenade boxes from the soldiers' shoulders, and carried them up the mountain.Enemy planes strafed wildly over the hillside.Those fellow villagers lay down for a while, and walked up again for a while. Judging from their tenacious figures, it seemed that no force could stop them from moving forward. Some guerrillas kept coming down from the mountain, reporting the news: "Our team has taken down another mountain!" A group of people surrounded Zhou Dayong and asked, "How many enemies should we surround?" Zhou Dayong said: "Two army headquarters, two division headquarters, and five brigades are coming, and Hu Zongnan's two generals—the two big thieves Liu Kan and Dong Zhao, also told us to surround Chakou Village. In a word, Let's encircle the enemy's entire mobile force on the battlefield in northern Shaanxi!" A woman asked: "Comrade, comrade, what is a mobile force?" Zhou Dayong said: "It's those bandit troops running around in northern Shaanxi!" An old lady said, "My God! They can't abuse people anymore!" Suddenly, there were people running around in the river channel.People are surrounded by something. There are more and more people, and the circle is getting bigger and bigger. It is really three layers inside and three layers outside. It is impenetrable. Zhou Dayong went over to take a look. It turned out that fellow villagers crowded to see the captives—a colonel and five or six hundred soldiers. Zhou Dayong turned around and met Li Yushan.He said: "Yushan, look, how lively the fight is!" Li Yushan said: "Oh, Meiza! You have screwed up all the enemies." Zhou Dayong said: "There are so many fellow villagers, but they must be well organized. Be careful of stray bullets, shells and planes." Li Yushan said: "I am in charge of the guerrilla militia here; District Chief Liu is in charge of the stretcher team; my father is in charge of the fellow villagers, but he has gone to get food. Look, those mothers-in-law and aunts are arguing so much. One The mother-in-law and aunt are playing together, and the two mother-in-law and aunt are playing together. I have a cure for everyone, but I have no cure for them!" Zhou Dayong hurriedly asked: "Your father is here too?" Li Yushan said: "Come on, the old man is very energetic!" Zhou Dayong was huddling among fellow villagers when he suddenly heard someone calling him.He turned around, took a closer look, took an old man's hand, and said, "How are you, old man? I see you here again!" Old man Li Zhende's eyebrows are completely white, his eye sockets are deeper, and the cheekbones on his square face are also higher.He has been fighting for half a year, but it seems that half his life has passed, he is completely old!He took Zhou Dayong's hand affectionately, and said, "I'm here to support the frontline again! You didn't expect that, did you! How can we be full?" He looked at Zhou Dayong, eagerly waiting for his answer. "Ask Li Yuming? He's good, and he's making rapid progress. Now he's the deputy platoon leader." Old man Li Zhende wiped his beard with his coat sleeve, and said, "Is that so? You youngsters, I haven't seen a big change in three days!" Two or three hundred donkeys squeezed through the ditch.Some of the fellow villagers yelled at their donkeys, and some shouted: "Old captain! The former village is supposed to be the grain station of Zha?" Li Zhende shouted: "Yes. You go first, I will come!" His old man's voice was as loud as a bronze bell. Zhou Dayong asked: "Old man, where did you get all this food?" Li Zhende said: "This grain was donated by farmers who turned over in Shanxi. They sent the grain to the Yellow River, and we transported it here from the river! It's hundreds of miles back and forth!" Zhou Dayong saw a donkey lying down in the ditch, but the villagers did not get up even though they were beaten to death. One of the villagers held the donkey's tail, and the other pulled the rein, and lifted the donkey up. Li Zhende said: "I don't stop working day and night, and the donkey is exhausted!" Zhou Dayong said: "Look, those people who drive donkeys work hard! Old man, they are people who will never be forgotten. Who in China has a revolutionary history for several years has not eaten the millet produced by them? Who Haven't used their donkey bedrolls?" Li Zhende said: "I always make plans. If I want to be lucky and live to the day we win, I will travel all over China. If I say I am from northern Shaanxi, then I have relatives everywhere." Old man Li Zhende laughed so hard that tears jumped out of his eyes.This is the first time that Zhou Dayong has seen the old man Li Zhende smile so heartily since he met him. Old man Li Zhende untied the bundle wrapped around his waist, took out a pair of shoes, and said: "Dayong, do you still remember? We met at Jiuli Mountain. The time before you left was full of your mother--my wife, I will give you a pair of shoes. You, hey, before you leave, you quietly Press the shoes under the hay. Afterwards, I will blame you when I think of this incident later! This time, when I came to support the front line, I put these shoes on again. I plan: Maybe I can meet you again .Here, Dayong, take it as a souvenir!" Zhou Dayong smiled.He asked: "The old mother always misses us. How is she doing?" How is everyone at home? " The old man Li Zhende let out a sigh of relief, shook his head with difficulty, and said, "Everyone else in the family is fine, but Yushan's mother--my wife is dead!" pain.Slowly lowering his head, he repeated alone: ​​"My wife...my wife..." His pale beard trembled and shone with silver light; tears dripped drop by drop from his sad face! Zhou Dayong took a deep breath, paused for a long time, and asked: "She can't, can't she..." Old man Li Zhende, looking at the ground, took out the other dry tobacco pot in his waist, and slowly filled it with smoke, as if he didn't want to Smoking, just want to use this action to relax: "She is dead! Baby, she's dead!The enemy retreated from Jiuli Mountain, caught her in the ditch, and asked her for food.Dayong, where did she get the food?The enemy is too cruel to be human!They set her hair ablaze... the pain of her death!Dayong, this time the villagers came to support the front line, but the comrades in the government refused to let me come, saying that I was old and my hands and feet were not flexible.Dayong, I must come, I must see the enemy die! " Zhou Dayong stood there without moving.He thought of the thin old mother.Ah, the old mother may not have the heart to kill a chicken all her life.The ferocious Menglu will turn away when he sees her kind face; the hard-hearted person will cry when he hears her cry!But those lackeys of the United States can... A fire rushed from his heart, and blood rushed to his head; feelings of sadness, pain, and anger engulfed him, and he wished to kill those murderers immediately Absolutely. The old man Li Zhende gave Zhou Dayong a hand and said, "Let's go to the company! I'll go and see Manman, chat with him and leave. There's still work to do!" The battle is fought from day to night. In the night, under #*#饔饔G古讨蟊蟊维目蛋ち摇* On the third day of the battle, at dusk, Zhao Jin's regiment went into battle.Zhou Dayong led the first battalion to attack the last mountain fort. The dark clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker.There was thunder in the distance.The sound of thunder and cannon twisted together, roaring like a flood. Zhou Dayong led the soldiers of the first battalion, took down the last mountain fort, and pushed it down into the ditch again.On all sides he heard the trumpets and shouts of his troops.Hey!There are tens of thousands of enemies, and all of them have been nested in Chakou Village by our army. This is the time to finally deal with the enemies. It was dark and dark.Suddenly, lightning flashed, snow fell, and heavy rain fell down. Zhou Dayong took his troops to Chakou Village.He saw scattered enemies, mules and horses crowded everywhere; weapons and ammunition were discarded everywhere... Tens of thousands of enemies were all disrupted.Many enemy soldiers simply lay down in the muddy water on the ground, waiting for the People's Liberation Army to take them in.Zhou Dayong blocked the mouth of a small ravine, and the ravine was crowded with enemies who had laid down their weapons. ... The sound of guns and cannons, the sound of bugles, the shouts of "hand in your guns and don't kill", the sound of wind and rain, and the rushing sound of mountain torrents reverberated in the night sky of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.Four After the "Battle at Fork", Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng ordered the main force of the Northwest Field Army to pursue the defeated enemy to the edge of Yan'an City; Wings can't make it escape from Yan'an City. The only road from Yan'an to Xi'an is the Xianyu Highway -- from Yan'an to the south, through Laoshan, Ganquan, Luochuan and other counties to Xi'an. Zhou Dayong's column wanted to cut off the road to the south of Yan'an City, preventing the enemy from escaping from Yan'an.They started from the Chakou area and headed south at a rapid march speed.In the ravine, troops, guerrillas, stretcher teams, and fellow villagers who followed the troops to carry ammunition flowed forward in mighty force. At this time, General Peng Dehuai was standing on the top of the mountain.He was dressed in very old gray soldier's clothes, with two large patches on his knees, and rough shoes on his feet.With his hands behind his back, he looked at the heroic soldiers solemnly and calmly, going from victory to victory.Sometimes he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, pinching his fingers repeatedly to calculate something. Twenty paces to the left of Mr. Peng stood the commander of Zhou Dayong's column, brigade commander Chen Xingyun, brigade political commissar Yang Kewen, and a dozen other cadres. The commander of the column said: "In the battle of Chakou, we almost killed Hu Zongnan." Brigadier Chen said: "Yes, the unlucky torrential rain has made it difficult for us, otherwise, we would have cleared them all!" Yang Kewen, political commissar of the brigade, said: "Anyway, we have smashed all of Hu Zongnan's mobile forces in the Northwest battlefield into a pile of scrap metal!" Brigadier Chen said: "When Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters invaded Yan'an, they used to hold celebrations in various parts of the Jiang administration area, as if their dying dog's life had been given a magic pill to bring the dead back to life. ... But now? Hehe, Hu Zongnan's great prestige was exhausted after only six months!" The commander said: "Now, the situation in the Northwest War is a headache for the enemy, and the situation in the whole country is even more headache for the enemy."