Author: Achilles
In the summer of 1941, the anti-Japanese base areas of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu ushered in an extremely difficult period. In early July, the Japanese puppet army gathered tens of thousands of troops and concentrated on launching a large-scale sweep against the base areas in northern Jiangsu in a vain attempt to destroy the leadership organ of the New Fourth Army.
In order to ensure the safe evacuation of the headquarters, in mid-July, the New Fourth Army decided to avoid its front, and most of the organ cadres of the military department were quickly evacuated from Yancheng and transferred to other places for resettlement, including sending Comrade Shaoqi (pseudonym "Hu Fu"), political commissar of the New Fourth Army, to Majiazhuang of the 18th Regiment in Jianhu County, Jiangsu Province.
Comrade Shaoqi in 1941. At that time, for the sake of secrecy, he used the pseudonym "Hu Fu" in the military
A few days later, the militia on guard outside Majiazhuang, where Hufu lived temporarily, suddenly found a group of people with suspicious shapes, and the militia shouted loudly after discovering it, and several figures quickly hid in the chaitang, and several militiamen quickly stepped forward and searched for a long time, but not a single figure was found.
Ma Yufu, vice president of the local Peasants' Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress, immediately told Hu Fu the situation. Hu Fu is experienced, knows that the big thing is not good, and said alertly: "This is most likely a Japanese pseudo-agent, and the enemy is likely to have discovered our tracks." ”
Suddenly, not far from Zhuangzi, several bright red signal flares slowly rose, and the red light emitted by the signal flares immediately illuminated Majiazhuang red.
This was a signal sent by Japanese puppet agents to a nearby Japanese stronghold.
Hu Fu cut off his cigarette butt and said to Ma Yufu: "The enemy's telephone line has been cut by the militia, and the Japanese puppet agents can only contact the Japanese stronghold with signal flares, and now the situation is critical, the Japanese army will act soon, and we must immediately cross the river and evacuate to the north." ”
"Absolutely not! The Japanese army has strongholds along the mouth of the river and around Liaozhuang, and we can't get by! Ma Yufu told Hu Fu anxiously.
The Japanese army moved very quickly, arriving within a few hours, and if a high-ranking cadre tribe like Hufu fell into the hands of the Japanese army, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Hu Fu has experienced a hundred battles, and although the situation is urgent, he still calmed down. He said to Ma Yufu: "If you are familiar with the situation in this area, I will listen to you, right?" ”
Ma Yufu thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said: I have a method, we used to use this method to deceive the Japanese, we have an empty coffin in the mouth of the village, now quickly put important documents and radio stations into it, find a paper man, use a few torn clothes, make a fake dead, let it sleep on the coffin above, and seal the note. Your guards and I dressed up as the children and grandchildren of the dead. The political commissar is a foreigner, and the accent cannot deceive the Japanese, so you pretend to be dumb. If the Japanese army really surrounds Majiazhuang, we will pretend to be a funeral procession and go out.
When Hu Fu heard this, he felt that this scheme was good, and immediately agreed, and immediately found a few cadres to start taking action. When everything was ready, it was already dawn.
In order to be on the safe side, in response to the Japanese opening the coffin inspection, Ma Yufu specially got a dead pig's head that had stinked, as the smell of decay of the corpse. Several cadres used pliers and axes to pry open the lid of the already sealed coffin, put the smelly pig's head into the coffin, and covered it with a quilt.
Sure enough, not long after dawn, the militia guard post outside the village came to report that a large number of Japanese puppet troops had arrived at Majiazhuang.
The situation was urgent, and the disguised Hu costume immediately issued an action order to Ma Yufu and the disguised funeral procession.
After a while, a funeral procession appeared in Majiazhuang, and Ma Yufu and several cadres were dressed in linen and wearing filial piety, crying and shouting. Bearded guards dressed in white, holding whips, chasing horses carrying coffins.
Hu Yi wiped a black coal, pretending to be stupid, next to Ma Yufu.
New Fourth Army data photo
As soon as the coffin was transported on board, it sailed to the Great River. Soon, the funeral ship encountered the first checkpoint of the Japanese army. A group of Japanese soldiers shouted for the boat to stop. A traitor with glasses got on the boat and looked at it, muttering in a low voice: What a shame, I met a group of funerals today! One waved his hand at the Japanese and signaled for release.
On the boat, everyone was overjoyed, but they didn't expect this trick to work.
But not long after, they encountered a Japanese patrol team on the shore, and when the Japanese officers found their boat, they immediately asked the interpreter of the patrol team to shout and let them stop and dock for inspection.
Japanese outposts along the river
This group of Japanese soldiers looked difficult to deal with, and the people on the boat couldn't help but pinch a handful of sweat, and Hu Fu saw that Ma Yufu was a little nervous, so he approached and whispered to him: "If the Japanese army asks, do what I taught before." ”
After the ship docked, the fat translator of the Japanese army and a Japanese soldier immediately jumped on board for interrogation.
Ma Yufu cried and said to the translator: "My father died of cholera, this summer, the corpses are already smelly, we have to quickly shake my father to Hebei Group and bury him, boss, you have to let us go over immediately, otherwise it will be transmitted to you after a long time." ”
Before the words were finished, the impatient Japanese soldiers pried open the coffin with bayonets and began to inspect. The moment the coffin was knocked open, a strong rancid smell instantly permeated. As soon as the translator wanted to get closer to the coffin to take a look, the strong stench made him can't help but retch, and several Japanese soldiers covered their noses and moved away from the coffin.
When Ma Yufu saw it, he immediately said: "Boss, look, what we said is true!" After saying that, he took out another silver dollar and sneaked it into the fat translator's trouser bag.
After the fat translator disembarked, the Japanese officer on the shore whispered a few words. The Japanese officer's command knife swung forward a few times, covering his nose and signaling the funeral ship to leave quickly.
Hufu's boat immediately galloped forward like a great river, and a few days later, the boat successfully reached the safety zone downstream.
The Japanese army never dreamed that the commander of the New Fourth Army, whom they wanted to capture alive, would run away right under their noses.
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