Author: Wang Dong said history
One day in August 1944, at noon, Zhoujiatun in Jing County, Anhui Province, a restaurant called Longxing, was a bit unusual.
It was more than 2 p.m., it was already past dinner, other restaurants were deserted, only this family was quite a few people, and there were a few sneaky men swimming around the shop.
In the shop, there were already more than a dozen heavily armed Japanese troops ambushing, waiting for the "big fish" to be caught.
After a while, a burly middle-aged man with a dark face appeared, and he was the "big fish" that the Japanese wanted to catch.
This person's name is Wen Guocai, who joined the New Fourth Army 5 years ago and is a reconnaissance officer in the 55th Regiment of the 49th Brigade of the New Fourth Army.
At the moment, his task was to go into the city to buy medicines, and several of his comrades were wounded in the battle, because there was no anti-inflammatory medicine, the wounds had festered, and it was urgent to buy medicine.
The purchased drugs have been put by the underground organization to the contact point - Longxing Hotel.
Although Wen Guocai has been in the New Fourth Army for 5 years, he used to work as a messenger in the military department, and he was not long after becoming a scout, so he was not familiar with this place, nor did he meet the liaison officer.
He came to the hotel, only through the secret code and the boss joint.
When he walked into the store, he felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and the owner sat there alone, with a somber face.
Wen Guocai thought that maybe the boss had encountered something unhappy and was so unhappy.
He didn't think much of it and said the joint code: casserole.
Hearing the secret code, the boss did not react, and rushed out several Japanese soldiers from the private room to surround Wen Guocai.
It turned out that the owner of the restaurant had been exposed and became a traitor.
Wen Guocai looked at it, it was bad, he was likely to have come and go.
But he thought that the liaison officer, that is, the hotel owner, did not know himself, and the joint code was a colloquial language, whether he was the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese soldiers did not necessarily eat accurately.
He told himself that he should not be chaotic and should try to deal with the enemy as much as possible.
Wen Guocai tried his best to maintain his composure, intending to make the enemy dispel his suspicions as much as possible.
Pretending to be very frightened, he trembled and took out a "good citizen certificate" from his pocket and said, "Taijun, I am a good citizen..."
Sure enough, Wen Guocai's appearance paralyzed the Japanese squad leader, and he asked the hotel owner: "Is his New Fourth Army in the end?" ”
The restaurant owner said: "He may be the New Fourth Army." ”
The Japanese squad leader waved his hand and said to his interpreter, "Yours, the interrogation work, figure out his identity." ”
"Yes, Taijun!" A guy in a top hat made a stand for the Japanese squad leader and then came to Wen Guocai.
Seeing this translator who confessed to being a thief as his father, Wen Guocai hated and hated him, and was eager to go forward and tear him to pieces.
But the identity has not been exposed, can not be impulsive, now he is a timid and afraid of ordinary people, how can he be angry?
He nodded and explained to the translator, "I am indeed a good citizen, my mother is sick, buy casseroles to boil medicine, and can't find a daily grocery store, so I went to the restaurant to ask if there was a casserole here." ”
Wen Guocai's explanation was not leaky, but the translator had already seen his identity.
He could see that the identity of the "peasant" in front of him was in doubt, at least a person who had received military training, whether it was walking posture or speech, which was very different from ordinary people.
The most important thing is that the moment Wen Guocai handed out the "good citizen certificate" just now, the translator keenly observed that his index finger was obviously thicker, which was caused by pulling the trigger for many years.
Since the person in front of him was likely to be the New Fourth Army, the translator had a number in mind and knew what to do.
The interpreter pretended to be suspicious of Wen Guocai, and after interrogating him for a while, he approached Wen Guocai and searched his shirt and pants pockets in turn.
Wen Guocai pretended to be afraid of itching, so that the translator laughed, several Japanese soldiers also reflexively laughed, and the squad leader also laughed.
At this time, the translator suddenly stopped laughing, approached Wen Guocai's ear, and whispered: "Calm down, don't expose!" ”
Everyone was laughing, but only one person wasn't laughing—the hotel owner, the liaison.
He was very anxious, his mind spun quickly, and he began to think: If the Japanese think that the people in front of them are not the New Fourth Army, and they will not be able to catch the real New Fourth Army in the future, the Japanese will surely say that they have lied and deceived them.
In that case, he would be miserable, and he would definitely lose his use value and be killed by the Japanese.
No, whether this person is the New Fourth Army or not, we must be firmly determined.
He walked over to the Japanese squad leader and said, "Taijun, I know this person, he is the New Fourth Army!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the smile on the squad leader's face froze, and he said to the interpreter with a somber face: "Yours, continue the interrogation, let him confess honestly!" ”
Wen Guocai secretly cried bitterly, this time I was afraid that I was doomed.
Death is not terrible, it is too bad to die like this.
Besides, the Japanese had not yet driven out of China, and they could not be blinded when they died.
Just then, the interpreter came to him again and asked himself if he was the New Fourth Army, who had been in the New Fourth Army for several years, and what mission he had come to carry out this time.
While asking, the translator gave Wen Guocai a look.
Wen Guocai wondered, what is the origin of this translator?
In fact, even if the translator did not hint at it in this way, Wen Guocai would still grit his teeth and not say anything.
But as long as the interpreter believes that he is the New Fourth Army, he is afraid that he is more fierce than Ji.
His fate is in the hands of the translator, and it depends on what the translator does.
After pretending to be interrogated, the interpreter went to the Japanese squad leader and began to report with the Japanese army wow.
As he reported, the Japanese squad leader's tense face began to soothe and he nodded unceasingly.
Although Wen Guocai could not understand Japanese, he could see from it that the translator was trying to downplay the matter as much as possible and clear his suspicions.
Sure enough, although the Japanese did not release him, they did not continue to interrogate him, let alone torture him, but imprisoned him in the house where the peasants were imprisoned.
After entering, Wen Guocai only learned when he asked that the Japanese were imprisoning these people and intended to make them traitors.
Relatively speaking, the guards here are not so strict, and the chances of escape are greatly increased.
Thinking of this, Wen Guo began to look for opportunities to escape.
He found that the house had only two small windows and an iron fence on it, and that the only way to escape was to dig holes in the walls.
Yet himself and his detainees are unarmed.
At this moment, the interpreter came to the prison again to "interrogate" Wen Guocai, and he took out a small shovel for children to play with from the cuff and quickly handed it to him.
Wen Guocai was overjoyed at first sight, let a few ordinary people as cover, and only spent one night, he dug a hole in the wall and led everyone to flee the tiger's mouth before dawn.
After returning to the army, Wenguo continued to resist japan until Japan surrendered, then participated in the War of Liberation and worked in Shaoxing after the founding of New China.
Wherever he went, Wen Guocai thought about the translator who helped him get out, but never saw him again.
Wen Guocai not only did not know the name of the translator, but also did not even know the origin of the other party.
Wen Guocai believed that he should be a comrade on the hidden front.
Because the underground work is disciplined and is a single-line connection, in addition to the upper and lower lines, it is impossible for outsiders to know their true identities.
It may be that after the victory of the War of Resistance, the interpreter broke into the Kuomintang again, or he may have returned to the ranks and participated in the Liberation War.
Of course, there is also a possibility that he was killed by the Japanese army because his identity was exposed.
Anyway, in Wen Guocai's heart, he has always been alive and toothless.
In 1985, Wen Guocai was still looking for him after he retired, but he never succeeded.
In the revolutionary war, many soldiers on the hidden front made great contributions, but they did not even leave their names, but their exploits are always there!
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