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Communist General Chang and a few of his men had stayed behind in Paiyen when the main Communist force retreated into the high mountains of central Shantung. Their job was to harry the Government's communications and hold villagers to the Communist line as they had been held since the Japs left in 1945. Then on a hot, dusty day, Government troops appeared before Paiyen's low mud walls...
Rifles in the Afternoon. There was not much of a battle. In late afternoon the Government general, a lean Szechwanese, ordered his men to close in. A few rifle shots, some mortar fire, and by dusk Paiyen and some 50 prisoners belonged to Government forces. Communist General Chang and most of his force scattered into the mountains...
...arrival of Government troops stirred anger and alarm in hunchbacked, round-faced Chen Wei-fu. He is one of Paiyen's few intellectuals-a primary schoolteacher who had wholeheartedly joined the Communists and become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must...
...villagers killed by the nightly grenades came to the Government general. They begged for retribution and protection. The general told them they must help. There were Communist informers and fingermen in the villages. Slowly, his intelligence men, with whispered guidance from those who bore grudges, rounded up Paiyen's underground. Most important captive was onetime Magistrate Chen...
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