Late at night on December 28, 1949, it was the 26th night of the 541st Regiment of the 181st Division of the 61st Army of the People's Liberation Army marching to the Great Southwest.
Hu Zongnan's Seventeenth Army was also about to be caught up. From yesterday's dark to now, day and night, the May Fourth Regiment marched for more than 90 kilometers continuously.
After nightfall, the troops waded through the icy Zitong River on foot, over several mountains, through a dense forest, and at about two o'clock in the night, stepped onto the Yan (Ting) Three (Tai) Highway.
As soon as they got on the road, there were more troops, and thousands of troops and horses gathered together, like rolling iron flowing into the middle of the basin.
After walking for more than two hours, the speed of the advance suddenly increased, and the troops all trotted up.
Gao Lishu, deputy instructor of the May Fourth Regiment and a company, suddenly heard a woman's scolding voice: "Mother X, I want the old woman's life, do you want to run so fast to charge the army?" ”
This scolding made Gao Lishu feel very strange: the family members of the troops were all left in Baoji, Shaanxi, where was this woman?
This unusual situation immediately aroused his alarm, and he immediately slowed down and carefully observed whether there was anything unusual about the team next to him.
After a while, another brutal insult came from the crowd: "He X," the commanders patronized their homes and fled for their lives, but they could make the soldiers miserable!" ”
An officer scolded: "Bastard, what do you scold, and if you misbehave Lao Tzu again, he will kill you!" ”
"It's the enemy, there's nothing wrong with that!" Gao Lishu quickly made a positive judgment, he was taken aback, and thought: How can we march side by side with the enemy? In any case, let's clarify the situation first.
He strode closer to the group, and in a formal manner, he rushed to a person and asked, "Dude, which part?" ”
The temporary seventeenth army left behind, your brother is the seventeenth army, right? The man replied happily.
Gao Lishu replied, "I'm afraid the Provisional Seventeenth Army is about to run to Chengdu, so why are you still here?" ”
When he saw that the other party did not squeak, he asked again: "Which of your chiefs is responsible?" ”
The man pointed forward with his hand and said, "The fat man in front of him, he is an aide-de-camp." ”
Gao Lishu snorted and said, "Keep up, the People's Liberation Army is not far from here." ”
He quickly returned to the line, bit his ear in front of the second platoon commander Li Wentian and said, "Note, the group of people next to him is Hu Zongnan's provisional Seventeenth Army, and orders the troops to immediately prepare for battle." ”
The two rows of warriors quietly put their bayonets on the ground, the bullets loaded, and their eyes fixed on the strange companions, waiting for the order to move.
Gao Lishu immediately reported the enemy situation to the company commander and the instructor. Then he came to the enemy officer with the messenger and asked in an official manner, "Dude, which one is the aide-de-camp who leads the team?" ”
"Dude, that's me." An enemy officer with a mouth full of gold teeth and a big smell of smoke answered.
"You are the remaining post of the Provisional Seventeenth Army, right?" How many people? How did it come to us? Gao Lishu leaned over and talked to the enemy adjutant.
"Dude, it's hard to say a word!" After the old man's 'Bashan Defense Line' was broken by the People's Liberation Army, it collapsed for thousands of miles. The commanders said that they could not take care of you now, and told us to retreat along the highway to Chengdu, and there were only a few dozen people left in the hundreds of people. ”
Gao Lishu walked and talked with the enemy adjutants and got a clear picture of the situation of these enemies.
This enemy force was the officers and family members of Hu Zongnan's temporary seventeenth Army, with a total of more than forty people and more than a dozen guns.
Under the pursuit of our army, they lost contact with their army headquarters in Bazhong and ran south with the rear of the Seventeenth Army. Somehow, I fell here and walked side by side with May Fourth for a few hours.
Up to this point, he had regarded the May Fourth Regiment as a member of the Seventeenth Army.
The enemy lieutenant coughed and sighed and said, "Brother, we have become kites with broken wires, children without mothers." I had to run with you to Chengdu to find out the whereabouts of the military headquarters. ”
It was almost dawn, and the company of the May Fourth Regiment had already made preparations for battle, closely monitored this group of enemies, and the time was ripe to move.
Gao Lishu pulled the enemy aide-de-camp aside and said sharply, "Brother, let me know a little!" Surrender your guns, you're captured. ”
The enemy adjutant looked at the short gun in Gao Lishu's hand, and inexplicably pushed his hand and said, "They are all their own people, and they have something to say!" What is this for? ”
"Who is your own person with you?" We are the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and you have been captured! ”
A tall, thin enemy soldier standing next to the enemy adjutant saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly pulled out the pistol in his waist, and Xiao Shao, a messenger with fast eyes and feet, saw that this person's abdomen was a kick, and immediately kicked the other party to the ground.
The stunned enemy lieutenant had a cold sweat on his forehead and could not utter a word.
Gao Lishu said to the enemy aide-de-camp and other enemies: "What are you afraid of? The People's Liberation Army treats prisoners leniently, and does not kill them by handing over their guns! ”
In this way, a curse on the way to the march allowed the Platon Torma to easily capture more than 40 officers and men and their families of Hu Zongnan's provisional Seventeenth Army without firing a shot.
It is worth mentioning that at the end of the Liberation War, it was very common for the enemy to flee and be taken prisoner in groups like this, after all, they all understood that the situation was gone, and surrender was the best choice.