preface
At the time of the Nanchang Uprising, Su Yu only served as the squad leader of the 24th Division's teaching team, and for more than twenty years, he cut through thorns and thorns all the way from the squad leader to the rank of grand general of the Republic, ranking first. Never like to play cards and chess, let alone drink and dance, a lifelong wife, this life's hobby is to look at maps and view the terrain. Indifferent to fame and fortune but brave in battle, in the peaceful era after liberation, he still put his clothes, shoes and socks away before going to bed, and if a situation occurs, he can touch it casually, such a "pillow waiting" soldier is su Yu we know well.
Understanding the bandits' black words, he went to the forty-eight villages with a single knife, and the contest was the little-known Su Yu.
1. Formation of advance troops
At the beginning of 1938, the New Fourth Army was regrouped and reorganized in the southern Anhui region.
The new army is faced with new combat terrain, a new combat environment, and new combat targets.
Without grasping the enemy's situation, terrain, and social environment in the enemy areas, it is easy to break through the Japanese army's blockade line easily, and the whole army will be defeated. For the sake of conservatism, Ye Ting decided to send an advance detachment to conduct strategic reconnaissance before the main force of the New Fourth Army entered Jing County and Nanling, and to publicize to the masses in southern Jiangsu the Communist Party's program of resisting Japan and saving the country and the strategic principle of protracted war, so as to help smoothly carry out the work of the anti-Japanese national united front.
The army cannot be leaderless for a day, and the same is true for the advance team, so who can take on this serious and important task, take down this hard bone, and win the opening? After the study of the Southeast Branch and the Bureau Branch,
Su Yu was appointed commander and political commissar of the advance force
At the same time, Zhong Zhiguang was arranged to serve as the director of the political department of the advance troops, and Wang Fengqing to serve as the chief of the democratic movement section. In addition, Chen Yi sent his adjutant Cao Hongsheng, surveying and mapping staff officer Wang Peichen, and reconnaissance staff officer Zhang Chengxiu to the advance detachment to provide Su Yu with a helping force. By gathering the battle-hardened elites of each detachment, this elite combat collective of more than 500 people has been assembled.
Second, strengthen the combat capability of the advance troops
After all, the elites gathered from all over the country are not very adapted to the environment in the Jiangnan region, and everyone needs to be familiar with each other.
Su Yu spent a week to let everyone know each other, learn to swim together, and grasp the characteristics of this water network area, and teach Bao Xue.
Zhong Qiguang, who was the director of the political department, could not swim or ride a horse, so Su Yu personally taught him what skills he should learn and how to deal with emergencies. On the eve of departure, Su Yu also specially selected a war horse with a gentle temperament and a steady running for him. In addition to improving everyone's combat ability, in terms of ideological propaganda, Su Yu and Zhong Hai formulated propaganda outlines.
Knowing that the people in the Jiangnan area are not happy with their lives, the Japanese are in charge, and the soldiers and bandits are in turmoil,
Put forward "This army does not slav, does not pay!" " loud slogan
, directly hit the pain and inspire people's hearts. In addition, Su Yu also compiled a catchy propaganda song: "When I met the New Fourth Army, I was like a family, and I could say that I was unreasonable." Everything was ready, plus the radio station director and deputy taiwan station Jiang Ruzhi and Liao Zhaoquan followed, Su Yu led the advance detachment to set off.
III. Single-handedly attending the "Forty-Eight Villages"
Starting from Qianjiang, passing through Shidai, Qingyang, and Nanling, it reached the edge of the Yangtze River like a bamboo, and along the way, Yu Zhongcheng, Zhu Yongxiang, and other Kuomintang troops and bandits were all defeated. Advancing bravely, the unstoppable elite troops encountered thorny problems along the quarry rocks in Anhui.
There is a large zhuangzi in the area of Quarry Rock, named "Forty-Eight Villages", which is the only way for the advance detachment to go south. At the same time, the terrain here is complex, and bandits have been entrenched for a long time. They were well organized, with chiefs, military leaders, four great protectors, and so on, and there were forty-eight masters in these forty-eight villages, and they also formed gangs with landlords and gentry, and had become a small kingdom that outsiders did not dare to enter. Don't attack, be determined to negotiate. But who's going to talk about it? Send a representative?
Su Yu had been in contact with all kinds of bandits, and he knew a little bit about the black words in them, so he decided to go to the meeting with a single knife and talk to them personally.
Negotiating with bandits is more likely to follow some of their rules of negotiation. First of all, Cao Hongsheng sent the post of "Baishan". The next day, in order to show respect and let the bandits let down their guard, Su Yu led two guards into the forty-eight villages with their bare hands.
At the same time, Zhong Zhiguang carefully deployed his army according to the situation of the forty-eight villages that Cao Hongsheng saw when he sent the post, and once the negotiations failed, he rescued Commander Su Yu at all costs and attacked the forty-eight villages.
Su Yu arrived at the Juyi Hall where the bandits gathered, and there were more than sixty leaders.
Interestingly, the nicknames of these sixty or so people were all animal or plant names plus a child's word, for example, the chief's nickname was "Black Dog", but none of them had the nickname "Cat". In addition, there is a small church owner called "Little Pea", who is very cooked. Later, the investigation found that this little pea was originally the small leader of the Great Knife Society in southern Zhejiang, who had been captured by the army led by Su Yu, released after being educated, and instead defected to the "Forty-Eight Villages".
Su Yu, as a guest, introduced to them the origin of the New Fourth Army and the reason for this visit, just to attack the Japanese Kou by way to the south. The leaders of all sizes also asked many questions to Su Yu in black language, and although Su Yu could understand and speak, he still answered them in the common language. The "black dog" who was the leader blackened his face and questioned Su Yu: "We ask you in the inner language, but you answer in the official language, is it difficult to look down on us?" Su Yu immediately replied wittily: "Commander Ben is not a person on the road, this time he did not come to your land to make a living, the reason why I understand the inner family dialect is because there are friends on the road in several provinces in Jiangnan, and all the leaders of the family will not refuse to make more friends with me." "Wen Yi Guan, Wu Yi Guan."
The chief protector wanted to learn about Su Yu's heavenly skills, and Su Yu also responded generously: "Please ask the Great Protector to teach you." "The conditions of this contest are to put a wine cup on the heads of the entourage of all sides, and a shot is hit, and the entourage is not hurt." Although Su Yu's marksmanship was like a god, he was three feet away from his entourage and shot the wine cup on the head of a living person, but he had never tried it.
In the case of these two dilemmas, he noticed that the portrait of Guan Yunchang was hanging on the incense case, and the portrait of the kneeling cat head was placed on the bottom, and he had a plan.
Before "Baishan", it was learned that twenty-five kilometers away, there was another band of bandits, and the leader was nicknamed "Night Owl". Seeing this situation, presumably the black dog and the night owl are at odds and regarded as enemies. He arched his hand at the black dog and asked" "I haven't played with guns for many years, please ask the big boss to try two shots with him before the competition", and the black dog agreed.
Su Yu then took a pistol and smashed the cat-headed figure into the air, cheering inside and out, but he said, "Only kill one night owl, and commander Ben concedes defeat." As soon as the words fell, there was another round of applause.
After conceding defeat, Su Yu took out a confession form, which read that he borrowed the road to go south and voluntarily gave 500 rounds of ammunition and 10 rifles to the forty-eight villages. Conceding defeat table is also called sending steps, in general, the guest side wins, pretending to be a draw, if the master's men, is to concede defeat, according to the requirements of the guest side. In the end, the black dog accepted it.
On the afternoon of the same day, the advance detachment entered the forty-eight villages, rested overnight, and continued to set out. On the second day, the "elephant" and the "little pea" came to see them off, returning the five hundred rounds of ammunition and ten rifles from the previous confession table, and proposing three conditions.
At this point, the advance troops smoothly passed through the "Forty-Eight Villages".
epilogue
Some people have commented on Commander Su in this way: After half a lifetime of running away, he is still a teenager.
He has a high curiosity about new things, and by the time he is seventy or eighty, he still likes to tinker with telescopes, pistols, maps, etc., and tirelessly study new tactical play. But the little-known heroic and witty side of this single knife meeting also shows his cuteness.