"Didn't you say that there were 2000 enemies?How did you catch only 200 of them now?The rest must be hiding among the masses. ”
At noon on December 3, 1947, on the playground in the courtyard of the school in Songbu Town, Macheng, Hubei Province, Li Zhen, political commissar of the 6th Column and 18th Brigade of the Central Plains Field Army, frowned and turned pale.
Even if you know that they are mixed in with the masses, what can you do?Brigade Commander Xiao Yongyin was very helpless.
The solution is what people think, and I don't believe that I can't think of a way. Li Zhen said.
That's good, you can't let them run anyway. Xiao Yongyin said.
Li Zhen didn't speak again, put his hands behind his back, and kept pacing.
Suddenly, he stopped and said to Xiao Yongyin excitedly: "Yes, let the guards bring a basin of water." ”
Not to mention, Li Zhen used a basin of water to identify the enemy hiding among the masses.
How could the enemy that Political Commissar Li Zhen said be hidden among the masses?How can a basin of water identify the enemy?
Beginning at the end of June 1947, Liu Deng's army advanced into the Central Plains from southwest Lu.
This sudden action made Lao Jiang confused, and he hurriedly asked Defense Minister Bai Chongxi to transfer back the troops that attacked the liberated area of Shandong, and used 400,000 troops to "encircle and suppress" 120,000 Liu Deng's army.
The enemy was outnumbered, and Liu Deng's army avoided the enemy's edge, advanced into Dabie Mountain, and began guerrilla warfare with Jiang's army.
Guerrilla warfare was the shortcoming of Chiang's army, which made the enemy helpless.
Bai Chongxi was called "Little Zhuge ", and he racked his brains to think of a crooked move to deal with our army and establish a "small security team".
The members of the small security team come from the local area and are made up of four types of people.
What are the four categories?Composed of ruffians, bandits, villains, and remnants of the puppet army.
These people have one thing in common, that is, they have no moral bottom line, and if they have milk, they are mothers.
Also, they are cunning and cruel, unscrupulous in order to achieve their ends, and they are extremely bad.
Bai Chongxi asked the local ** to register these people, and then gathered them, gave them a short military training, and then issued them **, and formed a local security team of different sizes (minimum 10 people, maximum 100 people), referred to as the "small security team".
The local party headquarters gave them the same treatment as the soldiers of the Jiang army, and also exempted them from all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.
All in all, the small security team is a local armed force, a rabble, and the difference in military quality between it and the regular army is 108,000 miles.
However, they caused a lot of trouble to Liu Deng's army.
This is mainly due to the fact that the small security team does not wear military uniforms, and our army cannot be recognized.
Also, the small security team is a local person, who eats and lives in their own homes, and once they meet our army, they assemble quickly.
They did not have the word "enemy" written on their faces, and if they hid the **, it would be difficult for our army to know whether they were peasants or small security teams.
The most terrifying thing is that no matter how bad the Jiang army is, it is still restrained, and the small security team is not restrained by military discipline, and there is no scruple about doing evil, and the methods are cruel beyond imagination.
Once the small security team catches a small group of the People's Liberation Army, they will kill them regardless of whether they are indiscriminate, leave no one alive, and then go to receive the reward.
Despite this, the small security detachment did not dare to attack the large forces of our army, and their main targets were: the soldiers of our army;The wounded who stayed at the villager's house to recuperate;Cadres assigned to work in local areas.
During that time, the small security team committed heinous crimes.
A propaganda officer, thirsty from the long march, went to a small village at the bottom of the mountain to find water to drink, but never returned, only to learn later that he had been killed.
There was a female soldier who went to the bushes on the side of the road to relieve her hands during the march, and happened to meet 5 small security guards, and the female soldier was dragged to the cave**, and a few days later she was hung on a big tree and her head was cut off.
The two wounded were arranged to go to the villager's house, and the cadres of our army left a considerable amount of living expenses, but when they went back a few days later, the wounded were gone, and the landlord did not know where to go.
It turned out that Bai Chongxi practiced the method of sitting together, and one family adopted the wounded of our army, and the whole family was killed.
The ordinary people did not dare to take in the wounded, and those who dared to adopt were precisely the families of the small security team.
They killed two wounded people, cut off their heads, and went to the county to receive a reward. Liu Shuxian, former director of the Propaganda Section of the 6th Vertical and 16th Brigade, recalled that he and eight comrades were selected to join the work team and work in the first district of Yingshan County.
Even so, there were still two comrades who were brutally murdered by the small security team, and it was later learned that the other party entered through the tunnel and ...... under the bed in their bedroom
At that time, the Nakano troopsA lot of fighters have ".Three fears": One is afraid of being left behind, and the other is afraid of being injuredWhen I am sick, I am afraid to go to work.
Some of the fighters, having been wounded, preferred to hide in ravines rather than settle in the homes of fellow villagers.
Some cadres would rather die on the battlefield than work in local areas.
Died on the battlefield and died happily;fell into the hands of the small security team, and you were killed until you were tortured so that you didn't look good.
The evil deeds of the small security team were constantly reported to the Noji, and Chief Liu Deng wrote down the account.
At this moment, the small security team owes another blood debt.
On November 11, 1947, the enemy's 85th Division captured a group of wounded and cadres of our army, a total of more than 400 people.
Wu Shaozhou, commander of the 85th Division, was a native of Guizhou, and most of the officers and soldiers of this division were soldiers of Guizhou, and they were authentic miscellaneous troops.
However, the 85th Division was very favored by the Chiang clan and was the "meat of the heart" of the chairman (Wu Shaozhou), and it was very stubborn.
85 Division in order to lose the "burden".It was decided to kill the wounded and cadres, but theyIn order to avoid suspicion, it is not goodGet straight to the point.
At this time, they thought of the small security team.
With the connivance of the 85th Division, more than 2,000 members of the small security team came to Songbu Town, Macheng, where the 85th Division was stationed, and killed more than 400 cadres and soldiers of our side.
The news reached Yeji and caused the anger of Chief Liu Deng.
On December 3, Liu Deng received a piece of information that the enemy's 85th Division had moved west and left Macheng, and they immediately issued instructions to Wang Bicheng, commander of the 6th Column, and Wang Jinshan, deputy commander: Take advantage of the emptiness of Songbu, destroy the small security team, and avenge the sacrificed cadres and soldiers.
After careful consideration, Erwang gave the task to Xiao Yongyin and Li Zhen's 16th Brigade.
Because the brigade had been operating in that area before, many of the cadres and fighters killed by the small security team were from the 16th brigade.
The 16th Brigade is the Tiger Brigade of Nakano, and fighting a small security team is the same as chopping melons and vegetables.
It took only 3 hours for Songbu to be captured, and the small security team collapsed.
But after cleaning the battlefield, Xiao Yongyin and Li Zhen found that something was wrong: only more than 200 corpses were found on the battlefield.
The fighters grabbed about 5,000 people in front and back inside and outside the battlefield and brought them to the playground.
However, these people, who only 200 were forced to admit that they were small security teams, and the rest said that they were "good citizens".
Li Zhen and Xiao Yongyin were embarrassed, everyone present was wearing civilian clothes, how to screen them?
Because the troops are fighting on the move, they cannot be distinguished in a slow and logical manner.
If it can't be screened, then it can only be released, which is absolutely unacceptable for the fighters of the 16th Brigade.
However, political commissar Li Zhen had many options, and he thought of an idea.
Li Zhen was a native of Shanxi and only participated in the revolution in 1937, seven years later than Xiao Yongyin.
Although Xiao Yongyin is 3 years younger than Li Zhen, he is a veteran of the Red Army who participated in the revolution in 1930.
However, Xiao Yongyin did not go to school for a few years, while Li Zhen went to Tsinghua University and belonged to the authentic "scholar enlistment".
Don't say it, it's really identified.
Songbu is under the jurisdiction of Macheng, and the distance between the two places is only 50 miles, and the language of the people in the two places is basically the same, but there are subtle differences in the pronunciation of individual words.
For example, the people of Macheng pronounce water as "house", and the pronunciation of "water" of Songbu people is similar to "fat".
Li Zhen asked the guards to bring a basin of water and put it in the office, and then called the people outside in turn, asked one by one, and stood on one side of the water as "fu", and on the other side as "fat".
As a result, there are more than 2,000 people who say "Fu", needless to say, they are from Macheng, which is the activity area of the small security team, and it is likely to be the small security team.
Although Li Zhen is from Shanxi, when he was studying in Beiping, two classmates happened to be one from Macheng and the other from Songbu.
In a complex environment, Li Zhen used a basin of water to identify the enemy, which made people stunned.
Xiao and Li's two partners have their own merits, the former is brave and good at fighting, and the latter is wise and strategic.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Yongyin served as deputy commander of the military region, and Li Zhen served as minister of public security.
Founding Major General Li Zhen, who served as Minister of Public Security after the founding of the People's Republic of China, died in October 1973