Yuan Jing joins

  "Put hoods on all captives, can't reveal our true identity." Luo Yi and Lu Shuangyong converged and instructed.

  "Wear whatever hat, all... just got it." Lu Shuangyong made a neck-wiping gesture, meaning that killing the captives would be more convenient.

  Luo Yi shook his head: "Alas, after all, we are all people of the same country, and if we can kill one less person, then let's kill one less."

  Wang Dacheng led the soldiers to take away the captives, and according to Luo Yi's arrangement, each captive wore a black hood on their head, so they couldn't see what was going on outside. After all the captives were settled, other soldiers who didn't wear Red Army uniforms came down from the mountain to collect the spoils of war.

  The battle only cost the assault battalion a few lightly wounded, mainly due to injuries sustained while descending the mountain. The National Army's resistance did not last long and did not cause effective harm to the soldiers of the assault battalion hiding in the fortifications. More than 80 National Army soldiers were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner. Most of the prisoners were injured, and more than a dozen had severe injuries. Yuan Jing let people do some simple bandaging for them, whether they could survive or not depended on their own luck. Pan Yishan was killed in the first shot fired by Jiang Huiming, which also gave Luo Yi a chance to vent his anger.

  Over 100 rifles and 2 light machine guns from the National Army troops became spoils of war for the assault regiment, several officers' handguns were also taken away. Yuan Jing stared at Pan Yishan's "Browning" with envy, seeing Luo Yi put the Browning into his own pocket, Yuan Jing couldn't help but hum heavily.

  The 2,000 yuan and two gold bars extorted by Pan Yishan from Luo Yi were also found, with soldiers in charge of collecting them, waiting to return to Zhushan Town to return to Lejialin. Luo Yi had the soldiers collect the National Army's uniforms, belts, shoes, etc., but stopped the behavior of searching the prisoners' waist bags, which made the prisoners even more convinced that this was indeed the Red Army that ambushed them.

  After sweeping the battlefield, Luo Yi directed everyone to perform a big show in front of the captives. The soldiers walked past the captives in batches, heading east. They walked far away and then turned back to continue walking, giving people the feeling that they had passed through many troops.

  Yuan Jing, Xu Liangqing and others pretended to discuss work in front of the captives, mentioning attacking Nanchang and ensuring the leaders' safety. Luo Yi specially invited Zhang Tianyou and his wife from the mine to play the role of Red Army leaders, their northern accent and middle-aged voices sounding like high-ranking leaders in the Red Army. However, Luo Yi, Lu Shuangyong and others did not appear, as the Nationalist soldiers had seen them before, and if they recognized their voices, it would be disastrous.

  "Alright, that's enough acting." After messing around for half a day, Luo Yi said, "Leave the captive here, let's go."

  Several stormtroopers viciously warned the captives, ordering them not to move or speak, and then the entire stormtrooper team quietly left Mugang and returned to Zhushan Town. The captives waited for over an hour before tentatively shouting: "Red Army officer, I want to urinate."

  After shouting a few times and hearing no response, the bolder prisoners managed to pull off their headgear. As a result, they found that the people in front of them had already left. They helped each other untie the ropes on their hands and looked around again to confirm that the Red Army had indeed left before feeling at ease.

  But by now the sky had already turned completely dark, and the mountain valley was filled with a gloomy wind, with distant howling of wolves. The captives did not dare to move around, and stayed in their original place until dawn, before hastily rushing westward to run to the nearest town to report the news.

  The report of the captives shocked the KMT's forward command, and after dispatching troops to survey the battlefield and asking the captives for details, the KMT's forward command made a judgment: The main force of the Red Army had already escaped from the gap in the encirclement. Because judging from the previous phase of the war, there were only one or two regiments of the Red Army within the encirclement, and now they could concentrate more than one regiment near Liujiadu to annihilate a KMT company, indicating that there was no longer any Red Army within the encirclement.

  In addition, judging from the way this battle was fought, it is also different from the Red Army's tactics in the past. Generally, the Red Army would not use dense and heavy firepower so lavishly, and such a fight suggests that the Red Army is eager to annihilate this regiment, possibly to cover up the escape of important leaders.

  After the ambush at Mugang, Luo Yi arranged for Yuan Jing to lead a few soldiers to march another 100 miles east, attacking several supply points of the National Army along the way and leaving behind fresh slogans such as "The Red Army will surely win". This small detachment withdrew from the mountains back to Zhushan Town after completing its mission without leaving any trouble. This move also caused great disturbance to the National Army's forward command, making them even more convinced that a Red Army unit had broken out of the encirclement.

  After that, the Nationalist army advancing westward stayed in place for several days. Two divisions of Nationalist troops turned back to search for the illusory "surrounded Red Army". This change gave the retreating Red Army time to escape, and the Soviet organs and Red Army command were able to safely retreat into Hunan province, avoiding even greater losses. Of course, these events were extremely secret, and it was not until much later that Luo Rui and Yuan Jing learned of them.

  "Lao Xu, this battle was fought wonderfully." At the victory banquet of the assault regiment, Luo Yi held up his wine glass and toasted to Xu Liangqing.

  "It was a good fight, brothers." Xu Liang said humbly, "From this battle, it can be seen that our previous training was effective. Moreover, Luo Zi, the snipers you trained played a huge role, their target consciousness was very good, and they timely took out the enemy's machine gunner and commander, disintegrating the enemy's combat effectiveness."

  "Lao Xu, I think Zhang Shao is really blind to talent. With abilities like yours, being just a squad leader is a waste of your potential." Su Xiaofeng chimed in.

  Xu Liangqing smiled and said: "Hehe, being a squad leader is pretty good."

  Luo Yi said: "Old Xue, this time, it's considered that you've handed in your letter of surrender. From now on, don't say you're a National Army soldier again, you're just like us, a standard bandit."

  Everyone burst out laughing. Wang Dacheng said on the side, "Luo Zi, I think Old Xu should be promoted. Otherwise, let him be the company commander of my company, and I'll be his deputy."

  "Cannot be helped, cannot be helped." Xu Liangqing hastily said, "Dacheng, I understand your intention. I'll just remain as the military officer, it's fine."

  Luo Yi hesitated for a moment, then said: "Alright, let's not rush into this, or the other brothers might get ideas. Let Old Xu be the combat advisor of the assault battalion, consider it a demotion to regimental level, just this once."

  Everyone had no objection, and Xu Liangqing's appointment was decided. After another round of drinks, Lu Shuangyong pointed at Yuan Jing and said: "Miss Yuan also made a lot of effort this time, commanding properly, and cooperating well with Old Xu. How about giving her a position too?"

  Le Jialin had a chicken leg in his mouth, and after drinking a bit, he said dazedly: "Yuan Niang is quite capable, she's from the Red Army, I reckon our temple is too small to keep her."

  Luo Yi suddenly remembered something and burst out laughing. He said to Yuan Jing, "Yuan Jing, isn't it time for us to fulfill our original agreement now?"

  "Redeem?" Yuan Jing naturally knew what Luo Yi was talking about, and her face suddenly turned a little red. "What's there to redeem?"

  Luo Yi had his own way to deal with her, he turned his face to everyone and said: "Well, well, the Red Army is just unreliable, let's forget I ever said that. Let's drink."

  Yuan Jing couldn't bear it when Luo Yi made fun of the Red Army, thinking that he was in the wrong, gritted his teeth and shouted: "I do things by myself and I take responsibility for them, what right do you have to say that the Red Army is not trustworthy? If we are going to settle accounts, then let's settle accounts, are we going to settle accounts here?"

  Luo Yi said: "Of course it's here, everyone is a witness."

  Yuan Jing picked up a cup of wine and drank it down fiercely, her face becoming even redder, unsure if it was the effect of the wine or shyness. She took a deep breath and shouted at Luo Yi: "Brother Luo!"

  Everyone was stunned, although they didn't know what kind of agreement Luo Yi had made with Yuan Jing, but the bet must have been this "Luo Zi Ge". Yuan Jing has always maintained a proud attitude since joining the assault camp. Although she is quite polite to everyone, she can't integrate into everyone's circle and treats herself like a guest. This "Luo Zi Ge" shout was equivalent to completely putting down her pride. Everyone looked at each other, laughed and applauded together.

  Lè Jiālín hastily pulled out a few large coins from his pocket and stuffed them into Luó Yì's hand. Luó Yì looked at him in surprise, and Lè Jiālín laughed: "Since your brother has called you, shouldn't you give a gift for meeting?"

  Su Xiaofeng said with a smile: "A gift for meeting? Too stingy, right? At least two dragon boats should be released!"

  The flower boat is a custom when getting engaged, the man's family prepares the betrothal gifts and sends them to the woman's family by boat. Along the way, they beat drums and gongs to let everyone come and see. If there are too many gifts, one boat can't hold them all, so two or even more boats can be used. Of course, many families want to save face, so they often put empty boxes on the boat to make it look like a lot of gifts. Su Xiaofeng asked Luo Yi to send the flower boat, meaning he wants him to get engaged.

  "Xiao Feng, you're going to die!" Yuan Jing was also a local, so she could understand the words. She blushed and scolded Su Xiao Feng in embarrassment.

  Luo Yi said: "Everyone has been called, if you don't give some meeting gift, it seems like it's not going to work. Xiao Jing, what kind of meeting gift do you want?"

  Everyone heard Luo Yi change the way he addressed them, and they all burst out laughing together. Yuan Jing's face was bright red as she gazed at Luo Yi with sparkling eyes, saying: "What kind of gift is that? Those 100 National Army soldiers will do as a meeting gift."

  Luo Yi suddenly pulled out a Browning pistol from his pocket and said, "Xiao Jing, I'll give this to you. I know you've been craving for it."

  "Really? I want it!" Yuan Jing jumped up and snatched the pistol, playing with it in her hand. This pistol was exactly what she had wanted on the battlefield - Pan Yishan's sidearm, which had been taken away by Luo Yi at the time, leaving her fuming for a while.

  "I'm announcing that Xiaojing has agreed to join us, from today on, she will officially become a member of our Jiangdong Assault Camp," Luo Yi said solemnly to everyone.

  "What kind of position is it?" Lu Shuangyong asked.

  "Position...," Luo Yi thought for a moment, "I guess it's the confidential secretary of the battalion headquarters, a ranked cadre, and we'll see about promoting you later. Specifically, you'll be in charge of two things: one is the cultural education and ideological work of the officers and soldiers. However, I've already said it clearly, don't talk about big principles like overthrowing the reactionary faction, just say that we are the people's army and we need to serve the people, that's enough. Can you do that?"

  "Alright, I'll obey the arrangement." Yuan Jing replied solemnly. From the last battle, she had already felt that the Strike Corps was a force worth fighting for, and now it wasn't easy to return to the Red Army either. It would be better to stay here and gradually influence the Strike Corps, striving to make it an ally of the Red Army.

  "Secondly, assist Dacheng in doing a good job of intelligence work."

  "That's great." Wang Dacheng said on the side, "I'm limited in recognizing characters, and I'm really not good at doing intelligence. Yuan Jing is educated, and it's really suitable for her to be in charge of intelligence."

  "This job is too important, I'm afraid of doing it badly," said Yuan Jing.

  "What kind of work is not done by humans? At present, our situation is still relatively relaxed, and some loopholes in intelligence work will not have a great impact. However, you should think more, and quickly improve the intelligence system... I estimate that in two or three years, we will face a series of fierce battles."