In troubled times, human lives are like straw.
Survival is the ideal of most people.
In order to survive, all kinds of people have to wear masks to survive.
Apart from survival, everything else is just a cloud.
It doesn't matter whether it's gorgeous or shabby on the outside. All the moral integrity and ethics for the country and the people have long been lost in the face of survival.
After dark.
The inspection team arrived at the mountain pass, and the leader looked at the more than 30 puppet troops being guarded by the divisional security post.
After asking the guards to take the fake platoon leader aside and asking some questions, he waved the guard to take the fake platoon leader away.
With a heavy expression on his face, the leader followed the convening working group to the mountain ridge for another meeting.
It mainly discusses the development status of enemy-occupied areas and base areas on the plains, the work of the democratic movement and the situation of various enemies.
The person in charge of the divisional enemy engineering department made a detailed report.
Obviously, the division has not been idle during this period, working hard to expand the base area.
There was no way to record in the dark night. Su Qing occasionally looked up at the dark land outside the mountain, trying to remember the conversation in his mind.
The chief occasionally turned around and asked her about the situation in An County, and she reported the truth.
In particular, it was mentioned that most of the artillery towers along the blockade line at the foot of the mountain in Dong'an County, north of the Taihang Mountains, have been infiltrated by the Independent Regiment, Qiufeng Guerrilla Brigade and armed work teams.
Hu Yi and his party left the mountain pass after dark.
He had been lying in an open field about a mile away from the blockade ditch for three or four hours.
On the railway two miles away, a Japanese armored patrol car would pass by in about half an hour.
In about an hour, a heavy-haul train will be wheezing its way south or north.
On the east side of the blockade ditch, puppet troops with dogs were patrolling back and forth.
This area is the end of the Taihang Mountains extending to the plains, and the Japanese have extremely tight defense on the railway line.
Hu Yi took out his pocket watch and used the occasional searchlight from the turret in the distance to read the time clearly on the dial.
At half past eleven.
Half an hour later, the inspection team will cross the blockade ditch between the two gun towers and once again enter the activity range of the fifth division of the enemy-occupied area.
In the afternoon, I learned about it from the pseudo platoon leader.
After the Changgou Railway Station and the blockhouses were taken over by the Ninth Battalion, the puppet troops in the nearby blockhouses learned their lesson and kept dogs in each blockhouse.
That dog doesn't matter whether you are the imperial army or the puppet army reconnaissance team, no matter who comes close, it will bark to make people feel scared.
Thinking about it, it is very difficult to sneak into the turret and set up strongholds without anyone noticing.
Hu Yi wanted to suggest another place to cross the blockade ditch, but he did not get the consent of Director Lin of the Enemy Ministry of Industry.
The reason is very simple. The enemy engineering section of the division has made arrangements on both sides of the blockade ditch. In the past two days, there will be no traitors from the reconnaissance team operating on both sides of the blockade ditch.
Xiao Hongying lay down next to Hu Yi: "Hey Fox, I heard that during the meeting in the morning, Yang took it upon himself to arrange for the water conservation team to carry the gun tower, and the chief slapped the table?"
"How do you know?" Hu Yi was stunned for a moment: "Should this be considered a leak?"
"What secrets are you leaking? When you were having a meeting, my eldest sister and I were right next door."
Thinking that the little girl has always had great powers, Hu Yi didn't think too much and decided to tell the girl about the current situation he learned during the meeting: "After the Japanese surrendered Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army and Pang Bingxun's Forty Army, they were everywhere around Xinxiang. We encircled and suppressed various local armed forces. After more than a month of reorganization, we established four armies and are about to go north."
"I know about this in the regiment," Xiao Hongying said, and continued to complain: "We almost built the turrets ourselves, and that idiot Sun Youshang is really stupid. I really don't know how he would take the initiative to provoke the enemy at this juncture?"
Hu Yi saw that the girl kept insisting on this matter: "The Soil and Water Conservation Corps has already planned the county's armed forces department. The matter of Duanbao Tower is probably not his idea."
"What do you mean, is it Yang Deshi's doctrine?"
Hu Yi was silent for a while: "There are some things we should let go of."
Xiao Hongying's little boxer hit the ground in front of her: "Impossible! No one can steal what my aunt is holding. If Yang Deshi dares to be in the first grade of junior high school, I will dare to be in the fifteenth grade."
Hu Yi was annoyed: "What can you do now besides staring?"
"I" Xiao Hongying really couldn't swallow this breath, so she turned around and asked Wang Liujin next to her: "Hey, Liujin, has Lao Li, the instructor of the second battalion, left?"
Wang Liujin was called by his name by a trainee and said: "Due to the need for confidentiality, he must stay with the comrades of the 5th Division Enemy Industry Department for two days before going back."
The commander and instructor of the special agent company Wang knew that the Ninth Battalion also had a Huangqiudong guerrilla squadron in the mountains.
He was a little curious. A guerrilla usually consisted of only one company with a hundred and ten men. What tricks could Xiao Hongying pull off?
Moreover, he also knows Sun Youshang. It can be said that the Soil and Water Conservation Corps itself is a team reorganized from the Ninth Battalion!
As for County Magistrate Yang, although he has never had much contact with him, as a company commander he leads a reinforced squad to take charge of security work, so he has naturally heard of it.
Intrigues rarely occur among the Eighth Route Army, but proper competition is good for the development of the team.
The ground floor of the railway tower.
The puppet platoon leader guarding the artillery tower was staring with big red eyes: "Hurry up and place your bet, I will win all your pants this time."
Several puppet soldiers gathered around the broken table and stared. One puppet soldier placed his fifty cents on the table and yelled: "Hey, I'm betting big on this one. I don't believe it. You can throw it continuously." Come out with five small handfuls!”
"Two, three, four small"
"Forget it, stop playing, this is so fucking evil."
A night train rumbled from the distance in the south.
"Report." A puppet soldier ran into the gun tower.
The puppet soldier who had just lost money cursed: "If you fart, just let it go."
The puppet soldiers lowered their voices and said, "The goods have arrived."
The pseudo-platoon leader put away the money on the table: "Wake up everyone who is sleeping and get to work."
Hu Yi could see clearly that someone had thrown a lot of things from the train carriage.
Luo Fugui next to him asked with wide eyes: "Hey, Boss Hu, is this the smuggled goods that the puppet soldier mentioned this afternoon?"
Hu Yi thought for a while: "That should be it."
Luo Fugui rubbed his hands and said with hope in his tone: "Should we go and kill him?"
Next to him, Wang Liujin warned: "The chief and the comrades from the district are about to cross the blockade. We are responsible for the vigilance. No one can cause trouble."
Luo Fugui stared at his ugly eyes and muttered: "Instructor Wang, let me tell you, the zero-yuan purchase business does not happen every day."
Instructor Wang was stunned for a moment: "What is zero-yuan purchase?"
The big dog next to him reminded: "This is a business without capital."
"Isn't it just a crime?" Wang Liujin came back to his senses: "Zero yuan purchase? Who came up with such a term?"
"Who else can I have with you? Crazy Yang and Liu Yuanqing who have studied abroad?" Luo Fugui muttered.
Xiao Hongying in the darkness corrected: "Don't talk nonsense, this is called seizure."
Hu Yi turned around and ordered into the darkness: "Li Laosi, kill that dog for me."
"It's your order, uh, yes!" Li Laosi took out a piece of meat from his body and poured medicinal powder on the meat.
As the saying goes, dogs are afraid of bending down and wolves are afraid of sharp knives, which refers to being face to face with dogs.
Sneaking is also a science.
Dogs' hearing is very sensitive, and it doesn't rely entirely on the sound of approaching footsteps. In many cases, changes in environmental sounds will also make dogs alert.
For example, when a person passes a certain place and the summer insects stop chirping, it can attract the dog's attention.
It was almost impossible to get close to the turret without being heard by the dogs tied outside the turret, masked by the sound of passing armored vehicles.
Only when a heavily loaded train passes on the distant railway, a loud sound is made when the wheels hit the joints of the rails.
It is possible that the dog's ears are temporarily unable to distinguish the changes in the surrounding sound when someone approaches the turret.
Li Laosi's method was very simple. He jumped into the blockade ditch between the two blockhouses, then quietly slipped along the blockade ditch to the vicinity of the blockhouse, and then threw the piece of meat with medicine next to the dog outside the blockhouse.
The searchlights on the turrets were swaying everywhere in the wilderness, and it was not difficult to avoid them.
The difficulty was that there were puppet troops patrolling along the blockade ditch.
According to the requirements of the enemy's Ministry of Industry, try not to expose your whereabouts.
There are many ways to cross the blocked ditch. If this method of muting the dog and quietly crossing the blocked ditch does not work, there are other ways.
For example, deliberately sending people close to the gun tower to keep the dog barking.
Or launch a feint attack on a nearby gun tower.
(End of chapter)
