West of the railway line.
The road outside the village is full of mud.
A soldier covered in mud ran into the yard.
Hu Yi was woken up.
The Mud Warrior immediately saluted: "Report to the battalion commander that Guo Qing's troops have gone east to the railway line in the directions of Groups 2, 3, 4 and 5, but no trace of the Japanese has been found!"
"Continue reconnaissance!" Hu Yi stood up and quickly put on the military uniform that had been dried and wrinkled by the kang overnight.
Follow out of the yard.
There is a muddy smell in the air after heavy rain.
The soldiers spontaneously repaired the houses of the villagers and used brooms to draw water from the ground into ditches.
Some of them were bare-chested and using engineering shovels to dredge the village's drainage ditches and shovel the soil out of the ditches to pile them on the roadside.
No one seemed to feel sleepy.
When I saw the battalion commander coming out, everyone was working hard and pretending to be exhausted.
After the battalion commander reached the entrance of the village, he immediately leaned his shovel against the wall, took out a cigarette and stuffed it into his mouth.
There are always a few who stare wide-eyed to see if the battalion commander will fight back.
Hu Yi walked around the village and took a closer look at the situation in the distance outside the village.
Walk into the village from the other direction, then turn around and walk into a courtyard.
The yard was very lively, and Liu Yuanqing was pulling a heavy machine gun and pointing it at the soldiers who formed a circle.
Lying on the ground next to him were more than ten soldiers who were being punished for unknown reasons and were doing push-ups.
Seeing Hu Yi coming in, the soldiers did not dare to stop their movements, but instead did their movements more effectively.
Liu Yuanqing threw the machine gun in his hand to Mancang next to him: "Continue to maintain it."
After saying that, he stood up and walked to Hu Yi: "Don't worry, none of the three seriously injured people will die."
Hu Yi looked at the soldiers wielding heavy machine guns in awkward postures with narrow eyes. He looked up at Li Xiang on the roof, as if he didn't hear Liu Yuanqing's words.
Climb up to the roof along the stairs on the wall, take the telescope from the guard Li Xiang, lift it up and look into the distance.
Liu Yuanqing followed the roof: "Sir Hu, I think you are too careful. Guo Qing's team has already gone north. The road is full of mud. The footprints we left yesterday can't be seen for a long time. The puppet army has no trace at all." Maybe you can find it here!"
Hu Yi's brows and eyes were full of deep worry. He retracted his gaze, put down the telescope, and looked at Liu Yuanqing: "According to Captain Gong, the Japs have gathered on the railway line. We have never encountered Japs. Something is wrong."
Li Xiang hesitated. "We are now twenty miles away from the railway line. It is not surprising that we have not encountered any Japanese." "
Hu Yi thought for a while: "I suspect that because of the heavy rain, the Japanese did not arrive at the railway station on time to assemble."
Liu Yuanqing was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Hu Yi's guess was not unreasonable: "This is indeed possible!"
Li Xiang said nothing.
Hu Yi suddenly felt that staying here was not a problem: "Get ready to go!"
"No need, there are no roads here, so the devils probably won't come here."
"map."
Li Xiang quickly took out the map. The roof was not completely dry, so Liu Yuanqing stepped forward to talk to Li Xiang.
Liu Yuanqing looked at the map and spoke first: "We do not have detailed information on the deployment of Japanese troops, nor do we have information on the mobilization of Japanese troops."
Hu Yi looked at the map: "The guerrillas demolished a lot of railway tracks. When the little devils find out, what do you think they will do first?"
Li Xiang hesitated for a moment: "I must be trying to find a way to repair the railway."
Liu Yuanqing thought for a while: "The traitors in the detective team should be sent to look for the removed rails near the railway."
Hu Yi looked at the map of the plains with dense rivers: "Have you forgotten the Japanese tiger?"
"No, this kind of sudden heavy rain comes and goes quickly, which is perfect for the little devil to poison!" Liu Yuanqing's expression changed drastically: "Why didn't I think of this!"
The sun is already high in the sky.
All the soldiers and militiamen in the village gathered.
Hu Yi looked at the militiamen in front of him. He had already told them everything about the situation.
Although I don’t know what Huliela is, it’s definitely not a good thing.
More than a hundred militiamen, in groups of three, began to leave the village and walk towards the muddy road.
Because what Hu Yi said was something they couldn't understand, which made them feel even heavier.
The militiamen dispersed as they walked, toward villages they were familiar with or unfamiliar with.
The further I walked, the heavier I felt.
Don’t drink raw water!
If diarrhea or vomiting occurs, you must be isolated.
Treatment: drink vinegar!
Militiamen are not underground traffic officers, but there should be underground organizations in every village.
The risk for them to do this is very high. There may be enemy spies in each village, they may encounter enemy reconnaissance teams, and they may even encounter night attack teams hiding in a certain village.
By spreading it to one more village, it is possible to save the lives of an entire village.
As for whether they believe it or not, it is no longer the most important thing. They can do their best to spread the news.
Looking at the militiamen in the distance, Hu Yi felt heavy in his heart.
The Japanese army did not arrive. This is indeed very abnormal.
According to what Zhu Qihui revealed, the Eighth Route Army and the railway sabotage team attacked the Japanese transportation lines.
The Japs had already made emergency preparations, but they did not see the Japs gathering.
It's very abnormal in itself.
He couldn't figure out why the Japanese would do this.
Therefore, sending messages is an ancient way.
It wasn't easy to make a phone call, and he didn't know where to call him.
The soldiers going to the column had already set off with the militia. As for when he would find the column headquarters, he was not sure.
Because no one, including Gong Shaofeng and Minister Liu, told Hu Yi where the headquarters of the column was!
What he wants to do is go west to the railway, break into Cheng'an County guarded by Guo Qing, and seize the Japanese radio station in the county!
The fastest way to get the news out is through radio.
Li Xiang brought the radio soldiers, but there was no radio.
Cheng'an County.
There is nominally a large group of Japs stationed there.
In order to control nearby towns and artillery towers, most of the Japanese were sent out to serve as instructors in the puppet army.
The actual Japs force in the county is only one squadron, plus one puppet military camp.
In other words, in a county with tens of thousands of people, there are only a total of more than 200 Japanese including the gendarmerie.
The county is empty of troops.
The two regiments of Guo Qing's security brigade have more than 2,000 people and are not qualified to garrison the county.
They are all stationed in the towns and villages surrounding the county.
The two Japs were leading the way, carrying rifles, followed closely by a squad of puppet soldiers carrying rifles.
Behind them were a group of ordinary people with their hands tied with ropes behind their backs, and behind them were five Japanese soldiers and a group of puppet soldiers escorting them with guns.
The team trudged through the mud.
Not looking up at the tall county wall ahead, I couldn't help but think that there was no hope at all in a forceful attack.
The puppet soldiers standing on the city tower looked at the chaotic team that appeared two miles away, thinking that their brothers somewhere had caught the anti-Japanese elements.
Pointing from time to time.
The fake platoon leader who heard the shouting came out of the tower room and looked up for a while, but couldn't figure out why.
Then he shouted to the puppet soldiers standing guard at the gate below the city tower: "Hurry up and see who is coming!"
The two puppet soldiers who were checking the people lining up to enter the city heard the sound and turned to look at the tall tower: "Platoon leader, what are you talking about?"
"Hurry up and put the suspension bridge away." The pseudo platoon leader looked at the approaching team and couldn't help but feel a little confused.
He greeted the two puppet soldiers next to him: "You, you, follow me down and take a look."
The city defense team clearly stipulates that if an unidentified team approaches the city gate, the drawbridge must be closed.
There was a chaos outside the city gate, and the people who were preparing to enter the city were driven to the base of the outer city wall.
The line is getting closer.
Two Japs led the way, and a Japs carrying a plaster flag shouted loudly to the fake platoon leader standing behind the machine gun base: "￥%#@#￥."
Stationed in the county town for a long time and often dealing with Taijun, how could the pseudo platoon leader not understand a single bird song?
Immediately he proudly waved to the puppet soldiers next to him: "Hurry up and release the suspension bridge and lift the horses away. It is the Taijun who is coming!"
