A shadowy team marched in the westward wilderness, marching under the moonlight and in the autumn wind. The team was three to four hundred meters long. The people marching were panting and had no intention of talking. Occasionally, a low horse neighed.
At the head of the team, more than twenty soldiers on bicycles stood in a line. It was not until a black figure appeared on the roadside that the marching team finally stopped.
After the team stopped, they sat directly on the roadside, took out the kettle and sipped water, and stuffed two handfuls of fried wheat grains into their mouths.
Some energetic ones began to whisper.
There was a crisp click, and the pocket watch case jumped up. Under the dim moonlight, it was blurry to see clearly, but the warm rhythm was still clear in the palm of my hand.
"Brother, we are only fifteen miles away from Qixian County. How about we speed up and pass the railway line overnight?" Ma Liang stood on one foot on the bicycle next to him and couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
Luo Fugui, who had been walking for most of the night and slept all day during the day, was in high spirits. Hearing the sound of Hu Yi's pocket watch, he immediately took out his flashlight, turned it on, and pulled out the map of the plains and presented it to him.
Hu Yi looked at the time: four o'clock in the morning!
He took the map handed over by Luo Fugui, unfolded it, looked at it for a while, took the pencil handed over by Ma Liang and marked it. After a while, he raised his head and faced Ma Liang: "Go to Ma Chang Village, about ten miles away from the railway, to rest!"
"Do you want to inform the Second Company to speed up and catch up?" Ma Liang didn't ask why he didn't cross the blockade overnight. He thought about it and asked.
The leading soldiers of the Second Company followed not far behind the Ninth Company, and the brigade was about an hour away.
"Inform the leading soldiers of the second company that they must arrive at Machang Village before dawn."
"Yes!" Ma Liang turned around and whispered to the soldier next to him. The soldier turned the front of his bicycle and ran back.
Without saying a word, Luo Fugui turned off the flashlight and collected the map, and the group set off again.
The new recruits from the plains are more knowledgeable than the veterans from the mountains, but the squad and platoon leaders of the Ninth Company are all veterans from the mountains.
There was no intention of stopping the speaker.
The silent march, known to all the vigilantes, fell on deaf ears.
In a year of great disaster, topics related to food and population naturally become the focus of all topics, even more so than weapons.
The "veteran" boasted about the great achievements of the independent regiment in the mountains, and the fact that there were crops growing in Qingshan Village naturally became the focus of attention.
There were too many people in the Ninth Company plus the Second Company, and there was no time to sneak through the railway line guarded by Japanese soldiers before dawn.
During the division of Qixian County, the cavalry regiment blew up the railway bridge on the river. During this period, the Japanese engineers recruited a large number of civilians from the north to repair the bridge, and also mobilized the railway tracks to repair it day and night. Seeing that it was about to be opened to traffic, heavy troops were stationed along the railway line to guard against it. The railway line was again damaged by eight routes.
The Japanese headquarters planned to use the railway and Qixian County as bait, hoping to wipe out all eight roads on the plain, but it failed completely.
A certain cavalry major who was overdue committed hara-kiri and apologized, which finally calmed the headquarters' anger. At the same time, he gave a stern warning to the intelligence personnel of the Special High School Division who provided the information, and ordered the cavalry brigade to be disbanded on the spot and merged directly into the baggage force!
Only the squadron-level cavalry is left, assigned to various units for maneuvers and serving as reserve and search teams!
The Japanese encirclement has once again become a typical example.
Due to the cutoff of the canal, road transportation speed was too slow, and transportation capacity was too low, the railway line became an important transportation line connecting the north and the south for transporting troops and supplies.
The war in Nanyang was tense, and this transportation line was used to transport large amounts of coal back to the country. Troops were mobilized, and the transportation pressure on the railway lines increased greatly. There was a large backlog of materials in the counties at both ends of the bridge.
Soldiers could cross the river on foot from the temporary pontoon bridge, but the baggage could only wait until the railway was repaired before catching up.
The Eighth Route Army is still active in the eastern plains.
However, according to the "inside information" that broke into the Eighth Route Army, the reason why Tubal Road dared to attack Qixian County, occupy Huaxian County, and force the security brigade was because of the arrival of a special force.
This army is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness, but its military discipline is lax, and there are even soldiers who come to the city to look for prostitutes.
The Special High School Department used most of their methods, but they still couldn't find out the number of that unit! We can only judge based on experience, which national army team is probably mixed up with the Eighth Route Army!
This kind of thing cannot be tolerated and cooperation between both parties must be destroyed!
Except for the division leaders, most of the people below did not know the number of the Ninth Company. Although the Japanese had inserted spies into the Eighth Route Army early in the morning, their attempt to obtain information from within the Eighth Route Army failed inexplicably!
Because the enemy engineering section led by the divisional political commissar caught the incoming spy, but did not announce it to the outside world. The news spread through this spy was all false news!
Even the special agent traffic officer and the subdivision were just under surveillance.
Obviously, it is impossible to get more information about the division. The division has done a flawless job in countering enemy agents.
The news of Hu Yi's departure from the military division has been kept secret until now. Even the people in the villages on the road don't know the origins of this team.
Before leaving, Hu Yi had a sumptuous dinner with the district leaders: horse meat, sweet potato, pickles and millet porridge.
During the exchange, we learned that there was no difference between fighting the enemy in the plains and in the mountains, but the team's confidentiality was more important than anything else.
In particular, he was deeply inspired when he heard the district political commissar's simple examples of instigating rebellion and using enemy agents.
Although he was not good at underground work, he still subconsciously compared the work done by the division and Su Qing, and found that the Independent Regiment had many shortcomings. In terms of mobilizing the masses and arranging people to break into the security forces, the division was not as good as the division.
The Ninth Company had almost no systematic intelligence system except for Lao Qin who had managed to develop a few unreliable insiders in the gun towers near the activity area.
In other words, although a lot of news reached the wine station, the scale was small and the delivery was not timely.
If more people can be arranged to break into the enemy's interior, even if they cannot fully understand the enemy's situation, at least every move of the Japanese and puppet troops can be known in advance.
Sending people to break into the enemy's interior was not possible in the short term, so he could only focus on delivering the news. Before leaving, Hu Yi did not ask for guns and ammunition from the division, but loaded them all on the following carts and cut them back around Huaxian City. wires!
The commander, who was smiling from ear to ear, turned a blind eye to the little tricks of the Ninth Company to clean up the battlefield, and generously gave Hu Yi a technician who knew how to use wired telephones.
The queue was slowly flowing, and there were a few more corpses in a pit in the ground! The indifferent detective team meets the special agent platoon!
Ten miles ahead is the railway blockade. If it is daytime, even if most of the Ninth Company is wearing the uniform of the security army, they will not dare to pass directly through the blockade with great fanfare. The Japanese are not stupid. There are telephones next to the turrets beside the railway. One phone call can verify the troops. serial number.
Therefore, we can only cross the railway line in the dark.
After all, the railway line is so long, it is impossible for the Japanese to have troops stationed at all of them.
The last time the Ninth Company was able to get armored vehicles from the west of the railway line, it was because the divisional cavalry regiment happened to occupy a section of the railway line. But now that the various units want to go back to the west, they can only sneak past the railway line.
The soldiers who went ahead to conduct reconnaissance reports on the defense information of the Japanese strongholds along the railway line took advantage of the darkness to return and sent them back to Hu Yi one after another.
In the dark night, a tall black-faced man led more than a hundred guns, loaded with live ammunition and bayonets hung high, and carried a stretcher team into the village.
A long line of militiamen from the division behind helped carry the wounded. The Second Company suffered nearly half of the casualties in this battle. Gao Yidao was very uncomfortable, and he looked down upon the Ninth Company who could not hold up the wall through the mud.
After such a big battle, you don’t even have a single serious injury! A typical person who cheats and cheats, I really don’t know if the division commander is blind, but he still looks at the Ninth Company in a different light.
After thinking about it later, I guess the division commander took a fancy to the armored vehicle, so he gave the color to the Nine-Link!
Otherwise, why didn't the Nine Company even pick up two extra guns when they left?
Not to mention the ammunition that was seized, I heard that the Ninth Company didn’t catch any ammunition. I felt a lot better when I thought of this. I wanted to save my face and suffer the consequences!
As for what those broken wires were used for, he did know, but he didn't believe that the Ninth Company could install a telephone in the Independent Regiment!
It is said that there are only a few telephone lines in the entire army, and calls between various departments cannot be reached every two days, and there is no ring.
Communication mainly relies on radios, but even regiment-level troops basically don’t have radios.
Is your Jiulian Company going to heaven?
Of course, during large-scale frontline operations, there is a frontline command headquarters, and high-tech telephones are occasionally set up with the frontline troops. At least they are available at the brigade and regiment levels, and they are usually only three to five hundred meters away for temporary command. Telephone.
Even if you bastard can get through the phone, who can you call? Can you call the political commissar to report how wicked your Ninth Company is?
Those bundles of phone cords on your truck? How far can it be stretched?
There is a telephone number for the Eighth Route Headquarters, but I don’t know if there is one for the 129th Division. I guess not.
(End of chapter)
