The puppet army robbed and got two knives of fire paper, but the gun was gone
In the winter of 1944, Ma Guangping, a communicator of the independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army, again asked the battalion commander Zhou Aiyong, hoping to be issued a gun. Ma Guangping insisted that as a soldier, he should have the appearance of a soldier, and as a communicator, he had not touched a gun for half a year, which made it difficult for him to claim to be a member of the Eighth Route Army.
Battalion commander Zhou Aiyong looked at Ma Guangping and felt very helpless. In fact, this is not the first time that Ma Guangping has made such a request to him.
Although Zhou Aiyong has the heart to help Ma Guangping, it is not easy to give anyone a gun. Considering that the anti-Japanese war troops are facing the difficulty of scarcity, even the *** taken from the enemy is often given priority to the front-line combatants, and it is difficult for the front-line personnel to ensure that each person has a gun, let alone a non-direct combatant like Ma Guangping.
However, Ma Guangping's stubbornness made Zhou Aiyong be entangled several times, and he was both understanding and helpless. In the end, Zhou Aiyong told Ma Guangping that although he didn't have a gun here, he didn't object to Ma Guangping trying to find a way to get a gun himself.
Zhou Aiyong also promised Ma Guangping that as long as he used any legal way to get guns, including purchases, his superiors would provide financial support. With the battalion commander's promise, Ma Guangping began to seriously consider how to get a gun.
The hard work paid off, and Ma Guangping soon found a shortcut to get a gun.
Ma Guangping heard that the soldiers of the 33rd Division of the puppet Huaihai Province often wanted to desert, but they were suffering from lack of travel expenses. A fighter surnamed Zhang told him that he could buy a gun with just a few pieces of ocean or a Japanese joint ticket.
The soldier half-jokingly said that the gun seller was so frightened that he didn't even count the money, and ran away as soon as he put it in his pocket. After listening to this, Ma Guangping took it seriously. The next day, he bought two knives of fire paper and folded them into the shape of money, and used a red envelope leather to look like real money.
Ma Guangping smoothly passed the railway suspension bridge without the puppet army sentry, and walked west along the railway until he reached the Wudao Bridge in front of the Dahu Gate. However, what he didn't expect was that just as he passed a sentry, something unexpected happened.
Ma Guangping disguised himself as an ordinary person and tried to sneak through the sentry. However, a puppet soldier stopped him and began a body search. When the puppet army found the wallet he was holding under his armpit, he temporarily changed his plan.
Ma Guangping deliberately misunderstood the puppet army, saying that it was all money. Hearing this, the puppet army's eyes flashed with greed, let him untie it and take a look. Ma Guangping pretended to be very nervous, clutched his wallet tightly, and claimed that it was all the wealth of the family and could not be seen by anyone.
Ma Guangping was forced to untie the burden, but his actions made the puppet army anxious. In the end, the puppet army took the burden and prepared to untie it by himself, but Ma Guangping took the opportunity to take the gun away and then fled.
After the puppet army found out that the burden was fire paper, they threw the burden on the ground in a fit of anger and tried to chase Ma Guangping.
At the next moment, his face instantly became dramatic, and the place where he put the gun was empty, obviously taken away by Ma Guangping. For the sake of just two knives of fire, he actually threw away a gun, and the puppet army standing at the sentry suddenly beat his chest and felt remorseful.
Ma Guangping ran out of 100 meters in one go, and turned around to find that the puppet army was still in the distance, so he ran and jogged, ran three or four miles in one breath, crossed the reed field east of the dam, came to Houba, and then handed the gun to the battalion commander Zhou Aiyong.
Zhou Aiyong officially assigned the gun to Ma Guangping and rewarded him with 22 oceans. At the subsequent commendation meeting, Zhou Aiyong said to everyone: "When we are the Eighth Road, we must be like Ma Guangping, dare to do and be capable!" ”
In that era 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 occupy an indispensable corner in the magnificent picture scroll of the people's war.
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Reference: "Xuzhou Cultural and Historical Materials", oral description by Song Xiaozhong and Zheng Guangzhong.