Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 21

Two years later, on the night of July 15, another meteorite fell from Zhu Mountain. This time it was not a meteor shower, but a stone as big as a basket that smashed the ground into a 5-meter-deep pit. Everyone said that the sky was cracked and something bad was going to happen. No one dared to pick it up, and in fact, no one could pick it up. Later, when it rained, the pit gathered water, and turtles and snakes were born in it. The daughters-in-law of two families committed suicide by jumping in and were never fished out. In October, the Communist Party's 25th Army entered the Qinling Mountains from Hubei, planning to go north to Yan'an. The Northwest Army of the Kuomintang also entered the Qinling Mountains to intercept and block it. The two sides launched a tug-of-war that lasted for three years and seven months.

As soon as the 25th Army arrived, Lei Bu and his four men separated from Zhou Baihua, found Easton Kuang and those lost accomplices, and reorganized the Qinling guerrillas. The 25th Army was once blocked by the Northwest Army in the Shili Gorge, which blocked the front and rear entrances of the gorge. The guerrilla leaders successfully transferred from a ditch, and the 25th Army gave the guerrillas a batch of weapons. With this batch of weapons, the guerrillas grew and expanded, with the number of people doubling that during Li Desheng's time. However, during a battle, the 25th Army ordered the guerrillas to attack the enemy's logistics convoy, but the guerrillas did not go in order to preserve their strength. Later, they were asked to raise grain. Although they raised one hundred shi of grain, they only transported 30 shi to the 25th Army. The remaining 70 shi were hidden in a cave, but the security team discovered and burned them all. . The leader of the 25th Army was very angry and sent a man named Deng as the political commissar of the guerrillas. After the man named Deng came, he executed eight guerrillas in the name of eliminating dissidents, including the three people Rebu first led. Rebu and Deng had different opinions and often quarreled. The 25th Army fought another battle with the Northwest Army, and ordered the guerrillas to go to Dongshanya to block the enemy's reinforcements. The enemy's reinforcements were security guards from three regiments and two counties. The guerrillas fought for three days and three nights, and finally Five people including the man named Deng were evacuated, and all the others died in the battle, including Lei Bu. On the morning of the third day of the battle, Easton Kuang was asked by Rebu to deliver a message to the headquarters of the 25th Army. By the time he returned to Dongshanya, the battle was over. According to local reports, Rebu died under a white-barked pine tree in the ditch on the left side of Dongshan Pass. He was shot when he rushed forward. The bullet hit him from behind. He fell down and died. Easton Kuang cried a lot and had to go to the 25th Army again. I found a man named Deng in the 25th Army and asked why Rebu's death was caused by a bullet from behind. Who shot this bullet? The man surnamed Deng said, "How can I tell who shot him? Do the bullets on the battlefield have eyes?" Easton Kuang was subsequently incorporated into the 25th Army, and the army finally arrived in Yan'an the next year.

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After liberation, Zhengyang Town built a martyrs cemetery for the Qinling guerrillas. In each tomb, a person carved in wood was buried with his name. When carving the wooden figures, Easton Kuang personally came to guide him, because he was the only one who knew how many people there were in the guerrillas and what each one looked like. Easton Kuang was already living in Zhoucheng at that time. After Zhoucheng was changed to the location of the Qinling Special Administrative Office, he became the commander of the Qinling Military Division. In the entire Qinling City, there are two people serving in the government as democrats. One is Zhou Baihua from Zhulin Town who has become the deputy county magistrate of Lingning County, and the other is the owner of Jianzizhai Medicine Shop, Xu, who has become the deputy magistrate of Shanyin County. He is still blind in his left eye and wears an eye patch, so he is known as the one-eyed county magistrate.

The one-eyed county magistrate lived to be seventy-seven years old. When I was alive, I wore a four-pocket Mao suit in the summer and a four-pocket Mao suit in the winter. I wore a black cloth coat made of nine-curved lamb wool. I went to primary and secondary schools to give reports and tell the heroic stories of the Qinling guerrillas. .