The moonlit night was not peaceful.
village.
A dilapidated courtyard with half the wall collapsed.
Roofless house.
At the broken table with missing legs, Hu Yizheng frowned and looked at the map in front of him, marking it from time to time.
Captain Geng sat on the left side of Hu Yi, looking at the map under the oil lamp, and kept explaining: "...a mountain range extends eastward from the southern end of Taihang. Beyond the mountains is a plain. The train station is less than ten miles from the foot of the mountain..."
Hu Yi was stunned for a moment: "You mean...directly from the train station to the west, there is a mountainous area within ten miles?"
"Yeah, don't you know?"
Hu Yi shook his head and thought, I'm not a god, how could I know?
When Captain Geng saw that Hu Yi was silent, he continued: "The mountain range of the Taihang Rush Plain is divided into two parts. To the south is what we often call Yunmeng Mountain...Guiguzi...have you heard of it?"
Hu Yi didn't even raise his head, and said calmly: "I haven't heard of it."
"Does such a famous person not know about it?" Captain Geng muttered under his breath, and then spoke again: "If we all work together at the station, we might have entered the mountainous area."
Ma Liang, who was sitting on Hu Yi's right, shook his head: "Maybe it will all be glorious."
"You, the Ninth Battalion, can attack the advance team, but are you still worried about an ambush by the enemy?"
This was not easy to answer, and Ma Liang did not answer.
Hu Yi took over the conversation: "Before you joined the work team, you were probably in the combat unit, right? Can't you really see that the situation at the train station is abnormal?"
What he said seemed to mean that he couldn't see the situation clearly? Captain Geng couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "I used to be the instructor of the divisional team. As you know, the situation in the plains is complicated. The Japanese, puppets, bandits, and die-hards are almost all our enemies. Our comrades who work underground After sacrificing one crop after another, the development of the base area is not easy..."
Hu Yi was speechless. I talked about the enemy's situation, and you complained to me?
Seeing that neither Hu Yi nor Ma Liang spoke, Captain Geng continued, "...Our working methods are different from those of combat troops. We usually conduct small-scale sneak attacks to ambush the Japanese. When dealing with small groups of bandits, we usually focus on persuading them to recruit them, and rarely fight with the enemy." When it comes to large-scale battles, your independent regiment has to guard against the little devils entering the mountains...there are always battles to fight."
Ma Liang smiled: "What do you mean by that... Do you really want to fight the Japanese?"
"Hey, who doesn't want to fight against the Japanese? Just pretend to be a common people's development base every day. How can you enjoy fighting against the Japanese?"
Hu Yi raised his head: "I heard from the soldiers that you know how to sing birds?"
"You've learned a little bit, by the way, tell me quickly, how do you judge the situation at the train station?"
Seeing Captain Geng's humbly asking for advice, Hu Yi didn't hide anything: "We traveled dozens of miles overnight and didn't even see an enemy along the way. If that were the case, you wouldn't have worked so hard to establish communication lines. You said Right?"
Captain Geng nodded: "This makes sense, the Japanese will not disappear for no reason!"
"In addition, there was originally a small group of Japs and nearly a company of puppet troops at the station. Why did the Japs and puppet troops disappear when we arrived?"
"Maybe your ninth battalion is so famous that it scares away the Japanese..."
"Haha..." Hu Yi's laughter suddenly stopped, scaring the Japanese away... Absolutely impossible!
That time when the intelligence agent was contacted, it was obvious that the Japanese had deliberately set things off. Could it be that there was another spy in the team?
No, the Japs from that squadron didn’t catch up at all last night, which is unreasonable...
footprint!
The Japs have been looking for footprints, and there are people in the Japs' ranks wearing civilian clothes!
After entering the plains, I entered enemy-occupied areas many times. I knew to some extent that some Japanese intelligence organizations had been infiltrating into the Eighth Route Army base area. Those few people were probably intelligence personnel!
Thinking of this, Hu Yi's heart tightened, and he immediately ordered Ma Liang next to him: "After the break, assemble immediately, and everyone moves towards the train station!"
Ma Liang didn't react: "Huh?"
Captain Geng was also stunned: "Didn't we just come back from the train station? You just said that the Japanese were ambushing you. Where did you make this trouble?"
Hu Yi thought for a while and explained: "If I read correctly, the group of Japanese who chased us last night let us go on purpose."
Captain Geng was stunned: "What does this have to do with you deliberately trying to get into the Japs' pockets? I still don't quite understand..."
Hu Yi hesitated for a moment: "Years ago, the Ninth Company participated in the attack on the Japanese advance team and left footprints at the scene. Yesterday, the Japanese probably discovered our traces."
Hearing Hu Yi personally say that he fought against the advance team, Captain Geng immediately stood in awe: "But, didn't you arrange for the Taoist people to put on those shoes and go eastward, and the Japanese really went eastward?"
Hu Yi shook his head: "It's not that simple. The little devil is very good at tracking..."
"It's impossible that he can catch up after changing his shoes, right?"
"I suspect that the Japanese soldiers divided into two groups and deliberately let us go. In other words, there is a tail behind us!"
Captain Geng nodded: "I understand, the enemy wants to follow our footprints to find the secret service group."
"No, their target is not us, but the secret service!"
"Then what are your plans now."
"Since these guys are targeting us and want to let us go, let's try hitting the train station again!"
"But, did you make a mistake in your judgment?"
"The Japs are launching a massive attack on the national army in the south. Even if they set up an ambush to surround us, they will definitely not have many troops. Moreover, even if there are many Japs and we have bicycles, they can't outrun us."
"But the devils have cars!"
"As long as we don't take the road, what does it matter if he has a car?"
"Now let's go to the train station. It will probably be dawn..."
"It's dawn, wouldn't that be better?"
"Better?" Captain Geng fell into deep thought again.
Village entrance.
The team assembles.
Qi Lao Qi struggled to hold on to the wall and walked to the door of the house. His voice was hoarse and he shouted at Hu Yi who had just come out of the house: "Run when you see a Japs. Run every time you see a Japs... I've had enough... "
Hu Yi looked at the frantic old bandit Qi who fell at the door with an expressionless face: "Wang Taigong has surrendered to the Japanese. If you stay in the village, you may have a chance to survive."
"What did you say?"
"I told you to stay in the village."
"You really treat me like a coward? Hurry up and ask someone to carry me away..."
"...If you are willing to stay, I can give you a sum of money to go back to your hometown."
"Home? Haha, we have lost the three eastern provinces, and almost all our brothers are dead. Why do you want me to have the shame to go back? Go back to Wang Taigong and continue to be a bandit?"
"You better shut up now."
"You have killed so many brothers, what qualifications do you have to shut me up..."
Hu Yi's heart ached, and he remained calm. He stayed for a moment, said no more, and turned around to leave.
"What, you don't have the nerve to speak?"
Old Bandit Qi pulled Wang Xiaosan, who was leaning on crutches next to him, and asked, "What does the guy named Hu want to do?"
"seek death..."
"What?"
"We are going to hit the train station again." Wang Xiaosan got on the bicycle and sat back. The soldier kicked his feet on the ground, swayed a few times, and turned onto the main road at the entrance of the village.
Old Bandit Qi was really dumbfounded this time: "Does this damn old birthday boy really want to die by eating arsenic?"
The assembled team began to file out of the village, and the old bandit Qi muttered: "Yes, yes, it is better for me to die on the battlefield than to go back and die as a bandit."
After saying that, Xiao Hongying walked by with her eyes wide open: "Why are you still standing there, carry me away quickly!"
Xiao Hongying raised her little hand and yawned: "Didn't the fox ask you to stay?"
"How dare he! Didn't you see him walk away in despair?"
Xiao Hongying ordered Li Laosan behind him: "Third senior brother, carry it up..."
"Dele!" Anyone who dares to brag with Camp Commander Hu must be very capable. Li Laosan's eyes lit up.
Does it matter whether he is a bandit or not?
Company Commander Luo was born a bandit, and it is said that the battalion commander was a reactionary before...
TRAIN STATION.
The second lieutenant was in a bad mood.
Looking at the naked corpses of the three injured soldiers, he raised his hand and gave the pseudo-company commander who was bent over beside him a big mouthful.
The pseudo-company commander feels aggrieved. So many of my men have died, I...
"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and send someone to repair the phone line. The Imperial Army's trains are all stuck in Tang County in the north!"
The fake company commander quickly turned around and ran away...
No need to think about it, everything in the warehouse at the train station has been moved away, so what can we do to repair the phone lines?
Fortunately, I had my "mobile" phone with me when I went out at night.
After a while, I climbed up the telephone pole, connected the line, and called Tangxian Station to ask them to send an armored patrol car to bring people to repair it.
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