The commander looked at the old man and felt that what the old man said was wrong, but he didn't know how to convince him.
The old man walked up to Cao Sihu and said, "Sangouzi, do you know you are wrong?"
Cao Sihu glared at the old man and cursed, "You old and immortal bitch! Boss, don't listen to him. This old bastard turned out to be the landlord's uncle. I occupied the landlord's ancestral house. He wanted to use me to establish his authority."
So that I can be his member again! I would rather die under Fourth Master’s gun than under this old dog’s stick!”
The commander looked at the old man who was trembling with anger, and understood three things in his heart. Although the Qing Dynasty had been destroyed for thirty years, there were still many old people in the rural villages who thought about the former Qing Dynasty. These old people wanted to return to those days.
When the landlords and squires speak out in the countryside, these old people often try their best to establish authority in the village in order to frighten the rural people. These Cao brothers were originally the guards of the original Cao family landlords, and the old man just wanted to take the opportunity to become another Cao family
Just a landlord.
The commander pulled Cao Sihu behind him and said, "This is not okay. The people I am talking about are not just our Caojiazhuang, but all the people who have been harmed by him. He is going to be tried outside the northwest township government compound.
If you have any grievances, you can tell them here first, and then we can settle the accounts together!"
All the villagers looked at each other, but still didn't speak.
Cao Sihu laughed loudly and said, "Say it, tell it quickly. I think after you say it, how will I deal with you when my third brother comes back?"
The New Fourth Army nearby heard that Cao Sihu dared to be arrogant and kicked him to the ground. The commanders and soldiers quickly grabbed the soldiers, looked at the surrounding villagers, and knew that there would be no results today, so they said, "Okay, everyone.
Let’s settle the score after we catch them all!”
Cao Sanhu on the other side ran all the way to Badou Mountain. There was also a group of bandits entrenched on Badou Mountain. When they saw it was Cao Sanhu, the leader Wan Jia came out with a smile and said, "Brother Cao Sanhu, what's going on today? Fourth brother and brothers
Where are they?"
Cao Sanhu gasped and said, "Brothers from the Wan family, our brothers were caught in a trap and were surrounded by the New Fourth Army in the village and beaten. I was the only one who escaped. For the sake of brother Lulin, please help me."
Give me a handful and help me rescue my fourth brother."
Wan Jiasheng listened and touched his chin and said, "These New Fourth Army soldiers are so strong that even the Japanese can't defeat them and they run away. If we go to provoke the old man, aren't we going to eat arsenic and seek death?"
Cao Sanhu also knew that it would not work without bleeding, so he said, "I robbed the New Fourth Army's convoy some time ago. As long as Wanjia's stuff helps me, I will give you half of the stuff, which is worth tens of thousands of oceans."
Wan Jiasheng's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he smiled and said, "Okay! I'm happy, I'll send someone to investigate immediately, and then we will snatch the fourth brother out!"
The two of them had tea at the mountain stronghold. Cao Sanhu asked people to summon his men. When it got dark, a bandit ran up and said, "Brother, we have found out. Our people saw those four yellow-skinned soldiers."
I took him to the northwest town and said he wanted to be tried in public and shot."
Cao Sanhu became anxious upon hearing this. He stood up and bowed to Wan Jiasheng and said, "I hope the Wan family brothers can help me."
Wan Jiasheng nodded and said, "Okay, let's fight tonight without further ado. If it's too late, the New Fourth Army might be coming for reinforcements."
After that, the two men led nearly two to three hundred bandits and bandits towards Northwest Town. When they arrived at Northwest Town, they saw only a few New Fourth Army patrols scattered on the earthen wall. Wan Jiasheng waved his hand, and a few bandits immediately took out their weapons.
He threw his flying claw onto the city wall and prepared to climb.
"tong" "tong" "tong"
Suddenly, several searchlights came from nowhere and illuminated the place where Cao Sanhu, Wan Jiasheng and others were staying as if it were daylight. Cao Sanhu raised his hands to cover his eyes. Before he could react, he heard "dong dong dong dong"
The sound of machine gunfire.
It turns out that since they learned that Cao Sanhu had escaped, the New Fourth Army had guessed that these bandits would definitely come to rescue them, and had been waiting near Northwest Town for a long time. This time, the main force of the New Fourth Army came to suppress the bandits. Not only did they have light and heavy machine guns, they even had
As for the anti-aircraft machine guns, I only saw about twenty machine guns of various types at the top of the city, on the grass, and on the mounds, firing at the bandits gathered together. These bandits were all robbers and robbers. How could they know how to fight?
In addition, as soon as the mortars exploded, they were immediately frightened and ran around. The whole battle ended under the charge of the New Fourth Army in less than a quarter of an hour.
——The next day
The villagers near Northwest Town heard the news that shocked them today. The Cao brothers and Wan Jiasheng, who had been committing crimes nearby for more than ten years, were arrested by the New Fourth Army. Cao Sanhu was even arrested during yesterday's siege.
He was shot dead on the spot, and a public trial will be held today. After the trial, he will be shot or sentenced.
A platform had been erected in the square outside the northwest town government. Nearly a hundred people were kneeling on the ground in a dark place. Many of them were covered in blood. Several New Fourth Army soldiers took turns telling the origins of these people and asking people to identify them.
People have been doing evil for many years, and I don’t know how many people have been bullied. At first, one or two timidly went up to identify them, and then gradually people began to flow in. Except for some very few bandits who were not pointed out that they had done any bad things, most of them had
The crime was enough to kill them several times.
As the time gradually reached noon, the leading commanders saw that it was almost done, so they began to pronounce sentences, lined up all the identified bandits, and shot them in public.
After the gunshots were fired, there were waves of cheers. Seeing that the New Fourth Army actually dragged these bandits to the gate of the township government and then shot them for public trial, all the people's eyes shone with light. They had already done this.
I don’t know how long I haven’t encountered them. Whether it was the former Qing Dynasty, Marshal Yuan, or when the Chairman and the Japanese were here, they all tried to win over these bandits. Even if they attacked, they usually collected the gold and silver and then killed the small ones. Especially the
When I heard the New Fourth Army officer say that all banditry was to be eliminated, I was even more excited.
Who would want to live in a place where they dare not even go out at night? Who would want all their hard-earned money to be robbed by these murderers?
One person stood up excitedly and said, "I want to report! I want to report that there are bandits over there in Room 32! They even robbed me of my money!"
"I want to report it too, I know where those bastards like Heiba are hiding."
"Me! And me!!"
While the crowd was excited outside, in the New Fourth Army headquarters in Yancheng, Jiang Cheng was sitting in his seat talking to Chen Yi and others about the three evils in northern Jiangsu.
"What happened this time is very typical. Cao Sanhu and Cao Sihu are standard habitual bandits, and that old man Cao is the representative of the clan. Although they don't want the bandits to grow bigger, they want to use them to protect themselves and plunder others.
At the same time, we raided their bandit den on Badou Mountain and found that Wanjiasheng was related to the cult. Haha, it was really inextricably linked. 203, now you know why I said we couldn't immediately take out the gangsters in Yan'an and Shanxi.
That set should be moved here. Every place really has its own situation." Liu Dake couldn't help shaking his head as he said that. He originally wanted to quickly open up large-scale production in the base area, but without solving these problems,
There is no way to carry out large-scale construction projects like Shanxi and Yan'an.
Jiang Cheng nodded and asked, "What are the opinions of the people after we suppressed the bandits? There should be many bandits who are willing to cooperate with us, right?"
Chen Yi nodded and said, "Yes, of course. I analyzed it and found that these bandits can be divided into three types. One is those who have to become bandits because of poverty or oppression by local tyrants and evil gentry, and the other are those who aim to get promoted and make a fortune.
There is another kind of political banditry, which is the habitual bandit who pursues pleasure. We believe that the first type must be eradicated by means of people's livelihood, while the second and third type must be severely cracked down! We are prepared to use courtesy first and then use politics.
We will use various methods to persuade them to cooperate with us, and those who do not repent will be destroyed!"
Liu Dake agreed and said, "Yes, this time we wiped out the Cao brothers and Wan Jiasheng's gang, some people in Caojiazhuang said that we did not issue a notice first, did not rely on evidence, and were completely illegal. This is mainly because
Because many of the bandits of the Cao brothers are from Caojiazhuang, and some of their relatives are aggrieved for them. I think we need evidence. The bandits brutalized the people and killed the New Fourth Army soldiers and the sick and wounded. This is the evidence. In terms of legality, we protect them.
It is legal for the people to demand repayment of blood debts from the bandits. It is illegal to say that the bandits were suppressed without issuing a proclamation and without relying on evidence, and they will never be the real people."
After that, Liu Dake took out a document and said, "And I think we need to promulgate some laws in our base area quickly, especially in terms of targeting bandits. I have written some ideas overnight. Let's take a look at it.
If there is a problem, we will make it public."
Chen Yi took it and looked at it with Jiang Cheng and others. They only saw that it was a document called the "Interim Regulations on Punishing Bandits in the Anti-Japanese Subei District". It not only contained what kind of circumstances would lead to the death penalty or fixed-term imprisonment.
In addition, depending on the actual situation, bandits are allowed to surrender, and even after arrest, their sentences can be reduced because of confession or good behavior.
Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "I think this is very good, and since there are many people who become bandits because they can't live a good life, why not give them a chance, as long as they surrender with weapons, we can count them anyway, we can
Counties and towns have set up surrender points to allow them to surrender nearby, and we can also give them rewards, such as some production tools or money for bringing a person to surrender."
Chen Yi smiled and said, "203 This is a good suggestion. I think it needs to be pulled, beaten and stroked to be effective."
The New Fourth Army's plan to divide the bandits quickly took effect. Seeing that the New Fourth Army was really determined to eliminate the banditry, and the anti-Japanese governments in various places were also vigorously organizing production, those annoying landlords and gentry also restrained themselves a lot because of the New Fourth Army, and were even suppressed or suppressed.
Frightened and fled. Many bandits went down the mountain or chose to cooperate with the New Fourth Army. Within a month, the New Fourth Army successively raided Gu Baocen, Zuo Xiangwu, Zuo Yaodong, Ji Jianwu, Song Yiliang, Peng Kuanfu, Wang Hechen and other bandit forces in the northern Jiangsu base area.
More than 90% of the bandits were eliminated. Only a few fierce bandits refused to surrender, but they were defeated one by one under the strong arms of the New Fourth Army.
Jiang Cheng didn't care about the fate of these bandits. He took Liu Dake and others to his warehouse.
"These are books, these are machinery and equipment, these are hoes and farm tools, over there are cloths and medicines, and inside are weapons, ammunition and some military supplies."
Jiang Cheng introduced it as he walked. Liu Dake and others felt their eyes were blurred. Chen Yi rubbed his hands and asked, "How much does it cost?"
Li Qian felt distressed when she looked at it, and she didn't know what to say when she looked at Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng chuckled and said, "Of course these all cost money. There is no free lunch in the world, but it doesn't matter. After our northern Jiangsu base area develops, these things will be nothing."
Liu Dake held Jiang Cheng's hand and said, "Thank you very much, Comrade 203. Our New Fourth Army will definitely develop the base area."
Several people looked at the things in warehouse after warehouse and were thinking about the future. Jiang Cheng saw a guard coming in and handed Li Qian a piece of paper. Li Qian took a look at it and walked quickly to Jiang Cheng's side and said
"My boss, a telegram from Germany."
Jiang Cheng nodded apologetically to Liu Dake and the others, walked to the side and looked at them. After only a few glances, he frowned.
Seeing Jiang Cheng like this, Liu Dake couldn't help but asked with concern, "203, what happened?"
Jiang Cheng sighed and said, "This is news from Germany. Yesterday, Hitler and the Japanese ambassador talked secretly all night. This morning, several German military factories got the news that they would provide some military technology to Japan. It seems that Germany and Japan have reached an agreement."
What kind of agreement was made?"
Although Liu Dake, Chen Yi and others were at home, they were all very concerned about the international situation. Chen Yi asked, "Germany has been at war with Britain and France for several months, but there has been no war. What does it mean to have good relations with Japan now? 203 You
You have been abroad for a long time, can you analyze it for us?"
Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "If I guessed correctly, Germany has made up its mind to switch from a sit-down war to a hot war with Britain and France. Germany is not confident that it can quickly end the British and French coalition forces, so they are worried about whether the Soviet Union behind them will stab them.
Yida, they are now using a large number of trade orders to hold back the Soviet Union, while secretly making good friends with Japan. If the Soviet Union and Germany go to war, they can use Japan to contain the Soviet Union... If I guessed correctly, Germany
The diplomatic attempt with Britain and France must have failed."
Liu Dake asked, "A diplomatic attempt? Does Hitler still want peace talks?"
Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "I don't know whether Hitler really wants peace talks or is just diplomatic blackmail, but judging from the fact that Germany only dares to secretly order German military factories to cooperate with Japan, Germany still doesn't want the Soviet Union to know, which means that the war should still be over.
For a while, I thought that if it didn’t break out before October, it would have to wait until next year.”
Liu Dake shook his head and said, "Europe is too far away. Let's take care of our own world in northern Jiangsu first."