Before liberation, an underground party wanted to step into the enemy's trap, and the peasants on the roadside waved their fans to make secret signs
On August 17, 1947, in the early morning, the entrance of Qianzhuang Village, Da'an Township (now Da'an Village, Baimi Town, Jiangyan District, Taizhou City) was shrouded in morning mist.
Zhu Yulong, the leader of the leading homecoming regiment, led more than 100 members of the Self-Defense Force, suddenly poured out of the dense fog and quickly surrounded the entire village.
Late at night the day before, someone hastily reported that Bao Decai, a Communist Party member, the head of Da'an Township, had quietly returned to Qianzhuang Village that night.
Zhu Yulong, who learned the news, immediately gathered the people around him and hurriedly led the team to raid Qianzhuang, preparing to arrest him.
However, to his surprise, the Self-Defense Forces searched for a whole morning, but they never found any trace of Bao Decai. Zhu Yulong was furious, and then grabbed the informant next to him and asked viciously
What about people? What about the person you're talking about? ”
The villager looked at the angry Zhu Yulong, his face couldn't help but turn pale, and his lips trembled. He couldn't figure it out, why did he disappear in a blink of an eye when he saw Bao Decai walk into the house?
Just when Zhu Yulong was about to attack, a person suddenly ran at the entrance of the village, and while running, he pointed to the outside of the village and shouted
There was a person outside, who looked like he was going into the village, and it was probably Bao Decai. ”
After Zhu Yulong heard this, he clenched the gun in his hand and instinctively wanted to rush out of the village to arrest people. But then he took into account that the sorghum outside the village had grown to the height of one person, and once everyone poured out, alarming Bao Decai, he turned around and hid in the green yarn tent, it would be bad.
Zhu Yulong pondered for a moment, and then ordered, everyone immediately hid in the houses and ravines in the village, and when Bao Decai entered the village, when he heard his order, everyone rushed up and captured him.
Not long after the order was issued, the entire Self-Defense Force of the Returning Regiment quickly dispersed into the houses and ravines. The village had just experienced a lot of clamour, but now it had returned to its former tranquility.
However, there is a danger in this tranquility, full of potential murder.
At this time, a visitor from outside the village was the head of Da'an Township, whose surname was Bao and Decai.
Bao Decai had just returned to his village last night and had quietly left shortly afterwards for a one-night meeting with local township officials in a neighboring village. At this moment, he was exhausted and was about to return to the village to rest for a while.
During the entire journey, no anomalies were noted. However, as he approached the entrance of the village, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a family in the east.
The owner of this family, surnamed Li Wanmin, is drying fans in front of the door. In the chaos of the previous return to the hometown group to search for Bao Decai, the whole village was boiling, and Li Wanmin's family also suffered a lot.
The farm tools and chicken coops in the yard were turned into a mess by the homecoming group. Seeing his wife busy tidying up the courtyard, Li Wanmin couldn't help but grit his teeth at those members of the homecoming group. These guys, what a bunch of nasty doglegs.
However, the next moment, Li Wanmin, who was drying fans, was stunned. In the direction of the entrance of the village not far away, a person was walking quickly. Take a closer look, isn't it the township chief Bao Decai?
The other party was not aware of the potential threat in the village.
Li Wanmin in front of him looked nervously at Bao Decai, who was gradually approaching, and his heart couldn't help but be tightly pressed against his throat. He opened his mouth, instinctively trying to warn, but when he thought of the two self-defense members of the Returning Home Regiment hidden in the courtyard, the shouts that rushed to his lips were finally swallowed back.
Can't shout loudly, can't stop it, what now?
Li Wanmin thought anxiously, at this time Bao Decai was gradually approaching the entrance of the village, and it would be too late if he didn't take action.
Li Wanmin, who was anxious in his heart, kept kneading the fabric in his hand, so nervous that he actually came up with a bold idea.
Li Wanmin walked to the drying rack and began to pretend to be ready to dry the fabric, but deliberately let the fabric in his hand slide to the ground.
Oh my God, it's dirty! ”
Li Wanmin pretended to be in a hurry, quickly bent down to pick up the fabric, and fiddled with it, pretending to get rid of the dust on it. Later, when he was putting on the fabric, he pretended to continue waving his hand and waved his hand vigorously in the direction of Bao Decai.
Li Wanmin's series of abnormal actions all fell in Bao Decai's eyes, and Bao Decai, who had rich experience, immediately realized that there was a potential danger in the village ahead.
The next moment, Bao De quickly stopped, and deftly dodged into the green tent on the side of the road.
Boom! At the moment when Bao Decai was hiding in the green gauze tent, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out in the village, and the bullets were fired fiercely at the sorghum field where he was hiding, and the sorghum stalks broke one after another under the heavy blow of the bullets, scattering and splashing in all directions.
Eager Zhu Yulong led a group of people to rush out of the village, and quickly poured into the green gauze tent to search, and the scene in front of him was a continuous stream of sorghum stalks in the green gauze tent, and Bao Decai had already disappeared without a trace.
After a while, the angry Zhu Yulong returned to the village, walked straight to the door of Li Wanmin's house, and pointed at Li Wanmin with a roar and said
Tie him up for me, I didn't expect you, a seemingly honest fellow, to dare to report to the Communist Party right under my nose. ”
Li Wanmin pretended to have a blank expression, kept claiming that he was innocent, and said loudly
If you can't find the Communist Party, you can't just ask us ordinary people to get angry! ”
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhu Yulong arrested Li Wanmin back to the stronghold and began to interrogate him repeatedly, but even though Li Wanmin was beaten and bruised all over his body, he still insisted on one sentence:
I was drying the fans in front of my house, and when the fans fell to the ground, I picked them up, and I didn't leave a step at all, you wronged me. ”
In the following period, Zhu Yulong interrogated Li Wanmin for another three days, but was unable to find any reliable evidence. In the end, he had to let Li Wanmin bail out.
In that era full of beacon fire and wolf smoke, countless ordinary heroes emerged. They stood up in the dark moments, but finally disappeared silently into the long river of history. Although few people know about these stories hidden in the long river of history, they are an indispensable part of the magnificent picture of the people's war.