When the innkeeper heard Lei Yunfeng say that he was afraid that he would cut off his tongue if he told him, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and kowtowed like garlic and cried: "This master, I guarantee the lives of my whole family and the three guys in the hotel, if I reveal the slightest rumor, I will not die well." ”

"Shopkeeper, how can I trust you? Besides, if I robbed Qinshui City under the rule of the Imperial Army, if the Imperial Army knew about it, would the Imperial Army make me fart and pee?

For the safety of me and my brother, we can only tie up all your grievances, and then hang a sign at the door that is temporarily closed, and wait for us to go out of the city smoothly and put back your cousin Pang Translator, and he will release you, and the shopkeeper will have no opinion, right? ”

"No, no, your method is very good, so that you have an accident, and you will not suspect me and my buddy of the secret, come on, come on, hurry up and tie it up."

Under the guidance of Lei Yunfeng's eyes, Fang Shichao found a few ropes to tie up the shopkeeper and the three guys, carried them into a room, and hung a sign at the door to suspend business when he left, and then left.

Walking to the mouth of an alley, Lei Yunfeng let go of Pang Yuting and said in a low voice: "Your family thinks that you died in Dongguling, and you are doing a funeral at home, you wait two hours to go to the hotel and let them go before going home, you have to remember that you must do what I say, otherwise you will die a miserable death." ”

Lei Yunfeng released Pang Yuting, took Fang Shichao to conduct secret reconnaissance in the city, and after half an hour, he mixed out of the city, waiting for Hou Sheng, Zhu Zhensheng, Han Nina and Su Xiaoyan outside the city, and finally looked forward to Lei Yunfeng and Fang Shichao coming back.

Su Xiaoyan couldn't control the tension and excitement in her heart, and jumped up and grabbed Lei Yunfeng tightly and asked, "Boss, have you and Ah Chao gained anything from entering the city this time?" ”

Fang Shichao pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "Hmph, this time I went to the city to be a bandit and robbed a hotel, you see, these are the ocean and valuables that were robbed, our boss has also become the king of the mountain, and I am familiar with robbery and kidnapping, I feel that my face is dull, and my ancestors are ashamed." ”

Zhu Zhensheng heard Fang Shichao say this, stared at Lei Yunfeng with angry eyes and asked, "Boss, did you really do the bad thing of kidnapping tickets and robbing when you entered the city this time?" How can you do that? What's the difference between you doing this and a little devil and a bandit? I'm really blind, and I should be ...... if I don't fight a good devil. ”

Han Nina and Su Xiaoyan heard Fang Shichao and Zhu Zhensheng damage Lei Yun Peak so badly, and the two felt that there must be something strange in it, and not only defended Lei Yun Peak:

"Don't you two know who our boss is? You can say anything, it's a pig's brain, if the boss says that he did this to confuse the devil, what else do you two have to say? ”

"Okay, I know that you two are confused by lard, and you can't kidnap tickets to rob even if you want to confuse the little devils?" Zhu Zhensheng said indignantly.

Hou Sheng, who was standing on the side, had been looking at Lei Yunfeng's expression, but he shook his head in disappointment and said, "Boss, my brother has a lot of complaints about your approach to the city this time, and when it comes to this, not only do you not defend but also laugh, what do you mean?" ”

Lei Yunfeng exhaled deeply, and said with a serious face: "I'm glad that everyone can have this realization, but I really have my plan for doing this, but I use this despicable means to protect their lives."

Besides, it was the translator Pang who kidnapped him, and you don't want to think about it, if I want to kill him, will I wait for him to enter the city? If I want to extort money by kidnapping tickets, I can do it safely outside the city, so why risk going into the city?

Alright, it's not enough for me to tell you my plan right now, so we'll rush to Yongji City right now and report to our chief. ”

"Boss, who in Yongji City can be our chief? Isn't Yongji City now garrisoned by the adapted Northern Shaanxi Army? Besides, from Qinshui City to Yongji City, there are a large number of Japanese troops fighting with our army in the middle ground, how can we pass through the blockade line? ”

Hou Sheng knew more than the others, because after completing the task of encircling and killing the puppet spies in ambush, he returned to the headquarters of the Military Command Bureau to report for duty, and after a few days, he heard about the tense situation between the enemy and us on the frontal battlefield, so he reminded him.

Lei Yunfeng was very concerned about the books and materials of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain in his previous life, according to the records:

In order to cooperate with the operational deployment of 'entering Wuhan in the middle, taking Guangzhou in the south, encircling Wutai in the middle, and advancing to Xi'an in the west', the commander of the Japanese North China Front, General Sugiyama Moto, ordered the 110th Division, the 6th Division, and the 2nd and 4th Independent Mixed Brigades of the First Army to launch a nine-way frenzied attack on the area of Zhongtiao Mountain in the southeast of Shanxi.

In order to break through Xi'an, the last line of defense of Chongqing in northern Shaanxi, the Japanese army concentrated its forces to carry out a strategy of sweeping while advancing, which caused a very critical battlefield situation for the National Revolutionary Army on the frontal battlefield, and its main battlefield was located in Zhongtiao Mountain.

Zhongtiao Mountain is located at the southern foot of the three main mountain ranges of Taihang, Taiyue and Luliang in the southern part of Jinnan. The northeast of Zhongtiao Mountain is adjacent to Taihang Mountain, the northwest and Luliang Mountain are each other's horns, the west and south are backed by the Yellow River, the mountain moat barrier Longhai Railway and the Central Plains, Henan and Northwest Jin, Shaanxi and other places, is the place where soldiers must fight.

In order to protect Xi'an, the last barrier in the northwest, the National Revolutionary Army ordered the First War Zone to deploy three defense lines in the east, middle, and west of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The troops holding on to the Western Front were the local motley army composed of Lengwa in northern Shaanxi, and the headquarters was stationed in Yongji City at this time.

Yongji City is about six or seven miles away from Fenglingdu, and Fenglingdu is a barrier fortress separated by a river from Tongguan.

Legend has it that Nuwa created the ancestors of the Chinese nation with the water and mud of the Yellow River in Fenglingdu, and it is also said that the word "Zhonghua" comes from the combination of "Zhongtiao Mountain" and "Huashan" opposite Fenglingdu.

The commander-in-chief of the Western Front of the National Revolutionary Army led the troops to block the enemy on the north bank of the Yellow River, and ordered the 17th Division, the 177th Division and three independent brigades to forcibly cross the Yellow River and dig deep trenches outside Yongji City as quickly as possible.

The 30th Brigade of the 17th Division was ordered to lay two lines of defense against the enemy on the front line forty or fifty miles away from Yongji County in Yuxiang County, strengthen and strengthen the defense of the Pucheng River, strictly prevent the enemy from sneaking attack, and make combat preparations for coexisting with Yongji City.

Subsequently, Commander Wei, commander-in-chief of the Western Front, led more than 6,000 officers and soldiers of the directly subordinate organs to set off from Chaoyi, crossed east to Yongji City on a rubber raft and braved the enemy's artillery fire, and led the men and horses of the headquarters to the south through Hanyang Town, and arrived at Liuguan Town at the western end of Zhongtiao Mountain to garrison.

Commander Zhao of the 17th Avant-garde Division, who entered Yongji in advance, took a battalion to defend Liuguan Town, and when he saw the dust that exploded from the official road of Hanyang Town, he flew on his horse and galloped over.

Division Commander Zhao saw Commander Wei's first sentence and said: "Commander, a wing of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army has deployed defenses fifteen miles southeast of Yongji City, and has sent Japanese squads to harass from time to time. ”

"Division Commander Zhao, we mobilized soldiers to cross the river to resist the Japanese in Chaoyi, and everyone made an oath at that time to kill the enemy with blood in order to defend the Yellow River and the Great Northwest, and never be a deserter and lose face for our ancestors, how could I retreat to a safe place?

What I want to ask is whether the reconnaissance plainclothes team sent by the vanguard unit has any understanding of the deployment of Japanese troops, the replenishment of logistics, and the enemy's plan of operation. ”

(End of chapter)