On the 11th day of the 11th lunar month in 1939, on the night, in the east of Shanwangji (now Shanwangji, Qiaotou Town, Feidong County, Hefei City) near Xishanyi, in a low house.
As soon as Xu Kainan, a traffic officer (former captain of the No. 2 Squadron of the No. 4 Detachment of the New Fourth Army), and Du Yushan, deputy head of the Civil Affairs Unit, who had stayed there that night, lay down when they heard a soft knock on the door outside the house.
Xu Kainan opened the door, and the people outside immediately flashed inside, and in the darkness, a familiar voice sounded, "Old Xu, there is action tonight." ”
The person who came was the captain of the third squadron of the fourth detachment - Xuan Hengfa, who came to Xu Kainan that night, in order to let Xu Kainan go to Chao County to pick up a batch of goods and come back.
There was news from Chao County that the local underground organization had managed to get a few barrels of skin oil (the common name for paint), and that someone needed to send someone to retrieve the things as soon as possible.
Without further ado, after getting the news, that night, Xu Kainan set off to Chaoxian County to pick up the goods, accompanied by the guard Luo Linfu.
The two of them hurried all night, and for the sake of concealment, there were no torches to illuminate them.
On the dirt road, it was quiet, and as far as the eye could see, it was dark all around, and the bushes and woods not far away were dark and miserable, and under the cover of the night, the silhouette was vague, like a monster lurking among the bushes.
When the two walked side by side to the vicinity of the earthen ditch in the east of Sanno Village, a slight "rustling" sound suddenly came from behind the earthen ridge in front of them.
The sound was small, but it was clearly audible in the middle of the night.
When Xu and Luo heard the sound, their hearts were suddenly startled, and before they could react, they heard a crisp gunshot, which instantly pierced the silence of the night.
"Smack!"
Bullets came from the opposite side and hit the left slope of Luo Linfu's ditch, sending earth and rocks flying.
"It's not good to have an ambush!" Seeing this, Luo Linfu roared and pushed Xu Kainan away, then took out a short gun and shot at the place where there might be a hiding person in front.
However, Luo Linfu's counterattack suddenly revealed his position, and after a dense burst of gunfire, Luo Linfu fell to the ground and died heroically.
"Lao Luo!"
Seeing this, Xu Kainan was inexplicably saddened, from being attacked by the enemy to Luo Linfu's sacrifice, the period was only between lightning and flint.
However, judging from the firepower pouring from the opposite side, there should be a lot of enemies ambushing here.
Under grief and indignation, Xu Kainan pulled out the short gun he was carrying, raised his hand and prepared to shoot back, however, the next moment, his head couldn't help but "boom".
The gun won't go off!
During the Anti-Japanese War, although there was a shortage of firearms on our side, the traffic officers often walked between the tightropes of life and death.
tried several times, but the gun still didn't move, and Xu Kainan's heart sank little by little.
There is no way to break through.
The night breeze blew, blowing a chill in Xu Kainan's heart, and the enemies around him saw that there was no movement here, and began to shout "catch alive", and the chaotic footsteps gradually approached.
At the last moment, Xu Kainan pounced on the enemy who rushed over, using all the means he could use with his hands and teeth to fight the enemy to the death.
However, the disparity between the enemy and us was too great, and the enemies who surrounded him smashed with the butts of their guns and kicked them with their boots, and soon knocked Xu Kainan to the ground.
Xu Kainan was eventually arrested...
Xuan Hengfa stayed in Xu Kainan's house all night, and when it was dawn, he didn't wait for news from Xu and Luo.
Xuan Hengfa, who felt that something was wrong, immediately evacuated Xu Kainan's residence, and after lurking for a few days, he found out that there was a traffic officer who was killed by the enemy near Shanwang Village.
Subsequently, after many inquiries, Xuan Hengfa learned that the traffic officer who died was Luo Linfu.
So, where did Xu Kainan go?
The organization sent people to inquire in many ways, but there was no news, and later some people speculated that Xu Kainan should have defected to the enemy, so he disappeared so completely.
Because Xu Kainan could not be found, Xu Kainan's apostasy gradually became a mainstream speculation.
However, some people always insist that Xu Kainan will never defect to the enemy, and this person is Xu Kainan's wife, Jin Kefang.
Jin Kefang didn't believe that her husband would rebel, she kept looking for people to ask around, and many people persuaded her not to look for it anymore, but she was never willing to give up.
A year later, the truth finally came belatedly.
After a traffic officer penetrated into the enemy's interior, he inadvertently learned of Xu Kainan's whereabouts from the subordinates of the puppet regiment commander Li Daochuan.
One night a few days later, on the barren beach east of Sanwang Village, several guerrillas armed with shovels dug up a skeleton from the beach.
Xu Kainan has always been here and has never rebelled.
That night, Xu Kainan was unfortunately captured because he was outnumbered, because he refused to give in, confided in the secrets of the organization, and was finally buried alive in the beach by the river by the angry enemies.
Everyone was saddened by Xu Kainan's sacrifice, however, at this time, Jin Kefang then quietly found the relevant leaders of the four detachments and confided his suspicions to him - the reason why her husband, Xu Kainan, was killed by the enemy may have been deliberately betrayed and killed.
And the person she suspected was the person who came to inform Xu Kainan's action that night, the captain of the third squadron of the fourth detachment - Xuan Hengfa.
After listening to Jin Kefang's report, the leaders of the four detachments immediately decided to send Yu Guolun, head of the civil affairs unit, to conduct a secret investigation.
We must not wronged the good people, nor will we let go of the bad people whose hands are stained with the blood of the revolution.
Yu Guolun investigated for several days, but never found the slightest flaw in the other party, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, could it be Xu Kainan's lover, who wronged Xuan Hengfa because of the paranoid suspicion caused by the heartache of the widow?
Just when Yu Guolun was undecided, a new discovery was made.
At noon one day, when Yu Guolun passed by Xuan Hengfa's guards, he saw that the other party was wiping the box gun for Xuan Hengfa, and the next moment, Yu Guolun inadvertently caught a glimpse of the box gun number in the other party's hand, which turned out to be the bolt used by Xu Kainan.
Yu Guolun chuckled in his heart, and he already understood eight or nine points in his heart.
Subsequently, after further investigation, Yu Guolun finally figured out the truth about Xu Kainan's killing.
On the night of Xu Kainan's operation, Xuan Hengfa knocked on the door and entered the house to arrange tasks, and then, while Xu Kainan was entering the house to clean up, he quietly replaced the bolt with the damaged firing pin to the box gun that Xu Kainan put next to the bedside, and then arranged for Xu Kainan to go to Chaoxian County to get skin oil, so that the other party broke into the enemy's ambush and was killed.
What's even more heart-wrenching is that in order to hide people's eyes, this Xuan Hengfa then made people secretly spread rumors everywhere, saying that Xu Kainan had betrayed and delivered, in an attempt to confuse people's eyes and cover up his crimes.
Soon, Yu Guolun made a detailed report to the organization. Subsequently, the leader of the detachment lured the other party out in the name of transferring Xuanhengfa to the division headquarters to study, and dragged him to the vicinity of the Qinglong Factory for secret execution.
Xu Kainan's grievances were finally revealed.
In those years of fire, there were countless grassroots heroes, who rose up in the dark, but finally disappeared in the long river of history. Although few people know these stories hidden in the long river of history, they are still an indispensable part of the magnificent picture of the people's war.
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Reference: "Hefei Literary and Historical Materials", compiled by Shen Youxin