Hu Yi led the soldiers to lie in a forest more than 20 miles away from the station.
Erniu arrived under the scorching sun with a rifle on her back.
Luo Fugui, who was snoring, ran away quickly. Erniu seemed to have a sudden change of attitude. She ignored Luo Fugui and went directly to Hu Yi. He briefly reported to Hu Yi that Tian Sanqi and his men arrested a large number of people outside the village.
Then, Hu Yi raised his head to look at the sky and thought for a while: "Go back and take a look!"
The group of people walked under the scorching sun, there was no wind, there was a heat wave on the ground, and the bare hills in the distance were blurred by the heat.
Two hours later, the team entered the village from the east.
Hu Yi went to the hut and wiped his sweaty body with a towel, changed into military uniform, and led by Tian Sanqi, walked to the newly renovated house with mud walls in the village.
Two shabby rooms, with a total of more than thirty people locked up.
After being locked in the stuffy room for a long time, the door was finally opened.
Four people stood in the shadows under the broken eaves.
Everyone in the room turned their faces and looked at those few people who were obviously wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army and knew they were among their own people, but could not gain their trust. A wave of frustration filled the hearts of the people in the room.
The platoon leader named Tian doesn't believe in the identity of his group. The person coming now should be his superior, right? Maybe there will be a turnaround.
The middle-aged man in the room got up and walked to the door. He couldn't help but lament in his heart that it was just himself and others who changed the direction of travel without notifying them in advance. This cannot be proven. According to regulations, review by the other party is a necessary procedure.
I saw the people coming clearly, there were four of them in total.
A girl with empty hands, wearing a small Eighth Route Army uniform, had a hole cut in the Eighth Route Army cap on her head, and her hair was spread out in braids, withered and yellow.
A soldier with narrow eyes and a dashing appearance wore a shell holster and a twenty-gun gun in his waist!
Behind him was a big and thick bear-like figure. He was carrying a rifle on his back and a Czech machine gun on his shoulder. When he saw his group, his eyes glowed green.
The platoon leader named Tian Sanqi at the front, carrying a rifle with a shining bayonet on his back and hanging a gray cloth coat, was the idiot who arrested his own group.
"Hello, company commander!" "Hello, company commander!" Two soldiers, a man and a woman, guarding the door saluted.
As a result, the worried middle-aged man was relieved, only to see the company commander return the salute to the soldier next to him, frowning and looking at the room full of people without speaking.
The middle-aged man also frowned, but he had to speak: "We are cadres sent to the mountains by the anti-Japanese democratic government in the sandy area. Who are you?"
Hu Yikai: "How many people in the division can you name?"
"Except for the division commander, political commissar, and chief of staff, I really don't know anyone else! I really can't think of how to prove our identities."
Regarding this answer, it shows that the headquarters' confidentiality measures are good. A certain little face showed a bad smile: "Then we have to wait until someone from the regiment comes to verify the identity!"
"Company commander, they brought a lot of medicine!" Tian Sanqi added proudly from the side.
The middle-aged man looked at Hu Yi calmly: "You are right, but our mission is indeed very important. You should know that the headquarters has suffered a lot and needs this batch of medicines urgently, and it also needs personnel to replenish it!"
"Company commander, I have arranged for someone to go to the regiment to report the news!" Tian Sanqi interrupted.
This arrangement is quite reasonable, but to cross the blockade set up by the Japanese security forces at the foot of the mountain, in terms of time, it will take at least a day to go back and forth, and you may not be able to make it back in time.
"In this case, can you send someone to escort us to the military division? If that doesn't work, we can go to your independent regiment!" The middle-aged man was anxious.
"Most of the Japanese have evacuated, but some are still raiding the south. Taking this route into the mountains is not a good choice." Hu Yi heard that his tone did not sound like a traitor, so he suddenly said this talk.
"Oh? What do you mean?" The middle-aged man began to sweat on his head: "We originally took the northern route, but the northern route was full of Japanese troops coming out of the mountains. Most of the roads were impassable, so we took the risk. Detour from the south!"
"Then, if you really need supplies suddenly, we will help you deliver them!" the little girl suddenly said.
"No, we have to send him into the mountains ourselves!" The middle-aged man flatly refused.
"If you know the current situation, you should enter the mountain through the military zone. They control a road into the mountain. You have walked so far. You should see that there is not even a common person here. We don't have enough manpower!" Hu Yi said tactfully! of rejection.
At this time, a sound of footsteps came from among the ruins.
"Report, Captain Meng has brought some friendly comrades over!" A soldier came out of the corner of the room under the sun.
"It's quite lively today. Normally I don't see a single ghost!" Luo Fugui muttered with his ugly eyes widened.
While talking, Captain Meng led a group of people around the dilapidated house and ran over panting.
"Captain Hu, this is instructor Xia!" Captain Meng ran ahead.
A thin young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes followed Lao Meng, stepped out and extended his hand: "Hello, Company Commander Hu, I am..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the middle-aged man in the room and was overjoyed: "Ah, are you really here?"
The middle-aged man was overjoyed: "Instructor Xia, I've been waiting for you!"
"That Lao Meng, uh, Company Commander Hu, we arrested the wrong person! This is our comrade responsible for escorting into the mountain!"
Xia Yong kept saying it, but it must be true that the arrested person knew them.
"Why did we arrest the wrong person? Unknown persons entering the defense area must be scrutinized!" The girl stared with big eyes and raised her eyebrows.
Xia Yong met Lao Meng outside the village. The two knew each other. He followed Lao Meng into the village and exchanged greetings for a while. Xia Yong was still suspicious and wary. After listening to Lao Meng talk about his experience during this period, he felt relieved and said After completing his escort mission this time, he was about to ask Lao Meng to help find the cadre team heading west.
As a result, I heard that the guerrillas had captured about thirty people, and they quickly followed Lao Meng into the village.
Hu Yi and the others all heard that the person in front of them, who had an unexpected encounter last night and had been arguing for a long time, was actually an instructor.
"Oh, you talked to me for a long time last night, couldn't it be you?" the girl asked with wide eyes.
"Hehe, then the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple. If you hadn't said that you are the ninth battalion, and everyone knows that the Independent Regiment does not have battalion-level troops, otherwise there would be no misunderstanding!" Xia Yong looked at the girl, and she looked familiar.
"Didn't you first say that you are from the Fourth Detachment? Aren't you also fooling around with the troops that have been reorganized a long time ago?" The girl is young, and the Fourth Detachment is the first batch of guerrilla teams outside the mountains. The development of the troops, on the plains There were only a few teams in the early days, so they were no strangers.
"Come on, it's my fault, right? We can't just tell people our numbers when we see them, right?" Xia Yong had a black line on his face.
"If you don't tell me, who will believe you? Didn't Lao Meng tell you that he is from the Qiu Feng Guerrilla Brigade? You are so stupid that you don't believe it." The girl asked arrogantly: "Besides, our ninth battalion is a serious eight hundred!"
"There are just a few dozen of you? How dare you call us a camp?" Xia Yong was stunned.
Xia Yong has a black line. Oh, I can't say that Lao Meng lost his voice after being surrounded by the Japanese. What if he surrendered and rebelled, and you are the Japanese traitors pretending to be. You are fooling around, but I can still remember Lao Meng's voice. ? However, the words could not be said.
He quickly changed his mind: "Why, did the military sub-division really hand over this area near the mountains to your independent regiment?"
"That's still false. Part of the division's troops entered the mountains. The Japanese retreated and started sweeping again. Their troops have organized the people to evacuate!" Lao Meng quickly added, after all, he had dealt with instructor Xia several times before, so he was a regular person. force.
Tian Sanqi next to him scratched his head: "Did we really arrest the wrong person?"
