"Mr. Chenyu, wake up. I'll go check it out right away," she got up and left.

"They started discussing it very lively and have written two articles now. Captain Zhou and Captain Li are thinking about it carefully, so it should be finished soon," Xiaowan said.

"Don't be in a hurry, just wait," said Du Chenyu.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Kui handed me two sheets of rice paper. "Mr. Chenyu, here is our action plan. Please take a look." "It's fast. Let's go to the command room." He walked and looked. Zhou Kui walked behind him, tiptoeing, a bit like a primary school student being checked to recite.

Their action plan was generally quite standard. After all, they were too powerful and did not need any strategies. They could just crush them. The main contents of the action were: the first stage was tonight at 5 o'clock, with the special service team as the pioneer, wiping out the sentries. Zhou Kui and Chen Jinhai's two squadrons directly entered and occupied the streets. Li Haoran led the 1st squadron to Mu'er Pass quickly, cutting off any news to Jizhou, and setting up fortifications to block the reinforcements of the Second Regiment and the County Joint Defense Brigade. The second stage was to wipe out several bandit dens in the northern part of Chongqing, including several bandit camps in Laojun Mountain, and gradually resume production.

"Very good, let's execute it like this. The key to this operation is not to seize territory in the early stage, nor to clear out bandits. The most important thing is to block the reinforcements from Jizhou. Jizhou is only a few hours away from Muerya, and they can organize a large force to attack at any time, so at least two squadrons must be guaranteed to defend, build solid trench fortifications, and block the reinforcements," he said after looking at it.

"Yes, do it immediately," he answered, standing up.

"Notify Xue Chen and ask him to send a small team north to strengthen the defense of Chongqing, and free up a squadron to clear out the bandits in the Yangjiagou area in the north," he added.

After everything was arranged, each squadron leader left the headquarters and rushed back to prepare for battle. He planned not to participate in this operation in person. 400 elite soldiers captured a place with only dozens of soldiers. If there was an accident, it would be a real accident.

The first batch of battle reports were not sent back until after 9 am the next day. Sure enough, there was a small accident. According to the battle report:

They began to raid the various checkpoints in Chongqing at 4 a.m., as 10 special service members had been sent here a few days in advance to understand the defenses of each checkpoint. They also completed the code exchange amid the sound of birds, and cooperated inside and outside to kill the sentries and open the road to the township office. However, after they entered the block from four routes, there were too many people and they were discovered by a group of wild dogs that suddenly jumped out. The sentries barked a few times, alarmed the sentries and opened fire to warn them. Zhou Kui immediately opened fire to attack the militia station in the township office. After a crazy burst of shooting, more than 40 militiamen were dragged up from the mats in the light of torches. Suddenly, guns stretched out from the windows of several houses, "bang, bang", and after a few gunshots, several of their team members fell down. "There is an ambush, everyone put out the torches, fight back and hide on the spot," He Chaowu immediately shouted.

"Throw bombs to blow up the rooms where the enemy is." After hearing the gunshots, the attackers immediately launched a counterattack, clearing the fire points one by one. At this time, they did not care whether innocent people were hurt. They could only attack the houses where there was resistance, and some houses were on fire. After dawn, more than 20 scattered hiding places of militiamen were cleared one by one, and then all the team members organized firefighting. In this operation, 9 people died, 6 people were seriously injured, 12 houses were burned, and almost one-third of the civilian buildings on the street were damaged. There were also civilians who were accidentally injured. This was the original appearance of street fighting. In the civil war, the most injured were civilians. This battle also changed the future to "besiege the city but not enter the city" as much as possible to reduce the trauma of war. After the war, there was a ruin and he still used money to compensate the civilians. This kind of war is a pure loss-making business and meaningless.

Du Chenyu ordered Feng Ping to be responsible for civil appeasement in Chongqing, to help the people carry out post-war reconstruction as soon as possible, and to restore production and living order. Feng Ping was an old man who had followed him from Youfangping and had experienced countless battles and appeasements, so he felt relieved to hand over Chongqing to Feng Ping.

Du Chenyu arrived in Chongqing with his guard team on the third day after the war. This was his first time here. What a flat and fertile land. To the north and west are seven peaks, the local "Seven Fairies Peaks", and to the east is Xianglu Peak. When he arrived here at nine in the morning, a rising red sun was hanging obliquely on the northeastern mountain. Xianglu Mountain was covered by a layer of white fog, reflecting layers of purple clouds under the morning sun, creating a scene of "sunlight shining on the incense burner and producing purple smoke".

At the foot of the four surrounding mountains is a flat land, three kilometers square, long from north to south and narrow from east to west, because there is a river running through the middle from north to south. There are hundreds of houses in the middle of the plain, distributed along the river and the avenue. In the middle, there is a circle of densely packed rooms on the east side of the river, where the township office is located. He has always been thinking about this fertile and flat land. He was determined to occupy it even at the risk of being wiped out by a large army. It was too attractive. If he did not pay taxes to Jizhou County, it would provide him with 10 kilograms of food every year, which could feed a team of nearly 300 to 500 people. Therefore, he decided to take the risk of attacking it. If a large army was attracted to wipe him out, he would have to retreat and abandon the Lijiahe area and return directly to Banqiao.

Today Du Chenyu came here riding a donkey. This section of the road was relatively flat. Du Qian led the donkey for him and walked in the middle of the crowd. He was accompanied by more than 10 guards and more than 20 Lijiahe garrison members. Chen Jinhai was responsible for meeting them at the entrance of the village. While enjoying the scenery, Chen ran up.

"Mr. Chenyu, you are here. Let me help you lead the donkey," Chen took the reins from Du Qian and walked beside him.

"The damage to the houses of ordinary people is very serious." He looked at the area near the township office in the distance. The houses were almost all burned down or bombed. The dense bullet holes on the door panels told of the fierce fighting scenes that had once taken place.

"Yes, the enemy's resistance was fierce and they even had a light machine gun, so they had to use explosive packs to destroy it. Under Feng's guidance and arrangement, the people who lost their houses were arranged to live in Xianggong Office. The houses of several armed anti-resistance team leaders were also expropriated. Yesterday, a local tycoon named Li disobeyed orders and his house was ransacked, and his house was also used to resettle the people," Chen Jinhai gave a detailed introduction.

"Coach Feng has done a really good job in managing civil affairs. When we first built our first base in Youfangping, I asked him to learn civil management and be Huang Kunyang's deputy. That's why I transferred him to be your partner. You need to learn about civil affairs," he said like an elder riding on a donkey, walking slowly and leisurely, and constantly teaching.

"Yes, Master Chenyu, I will definitely learn as soon as possible. You are really a Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering. I have never seen a leader give up the good houses to the people and live in barracks or thatched huts himself." He seemed to be speaking from the heart.

"The common people are our parents who provide us with food and clothing. We ourselves are also common people, not officials. Do you see anyone among us who acts like an official? I only need to do things for the common people," he continued.

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