Standing on the tower of the south gate of Feicheng with a saber in hand, Anda was watching a group of Japanese infantry pass under the tower and march to the stronghold along the Feiwu Highway.

Despite sending five infantry squadrons and one regiment of the Imperial Army, Anta still didn't feel safe.

The main reason is that Anda has just received an urgent piece of information, the Southern Anhui Independent Regiment of the Nationalist Army stationed in Pucheng broke out yesterday in internal strife, and the regiment commander Wang Yi, who had secretly reached an agreement with the Restoration Government, actually disappeared in the internal strife, and the Southern Anhui Independent Regiment is now in the hands of Chief of Staff Yang Ba Nan.

What made Anda even more uneasy was that the main reason why Yang Bayan was able to win this infighting was that the Dameishan Independent Regiment dispatched a cavalry battalion, that is to say, the Dameishan Independent Regiment of the New Fourth Army had a tendency to merge with the National Army's Southern Anhui Independent Regiment, which was definitely not good news for the Japanese army in central Anhui.

Because after losing the containment of Pucheng, or with Pucheng as the eastern barrier of Dameishan, the Dameishan Independent Regiment can free up its hands to attack westward, and from Dameishan to the west is the highway from Wuhu to Feicheng, which means that the four detachments of the New Fourth Army and the Dameishan Independent Regiment have formed a flanking situation on the Feiwu Highway.

"Chuan-sang, I have a sense of foreboding." Anda was holding his saber and said quietly, "Xu Rui's voice on the Datong News Agency is probably not only a threat, but also their declaration, I am sure that in the next period of time, the Dameishan Independent Regiment will definitely launch a crazy attack on the Feiwu Highway." ”

"That's for sure." The chief of staff of the Feicheng Garrison Brigade, Chuan Tezhe, also nodded, and said awe-inspiringly, "Xu Rui's personality is like a street gangster, and he has always been a retribution, and before Dameishan was swept by the imperial army, then Xu Rui will definitely take corresponding retaliatory measures in the future." ”

After a pause, Chuan Zhezhe also said: "And attacking the Feiwu Highway is undoubtedly the most effective means of retaliation, not only can it kill and injure a large number of the living forces of the imperial army, but also threaten the life lines of the northbound cluster, with Xu Rui's vision and the ability of the fighter to capture it, he will not fail to see this." ”

Anda said: "In this case, will the garrison of the strongholds along the Feiwu Highway be too weak? ”

Chuan Tezhe also said: "The garrison force of the strongholds along the Feiwu Highway is indeed weak, if the four detachments of the New Fourth Army and the Dameishan Independent Regiment jointly attack one point, it will be impossible for any stronghold to resist, but at this stage, I am afraid that this is what we can do, unless the country mobilizes again, organizes more field divisions and regiments, and transfers them to the Chinese battlefield, otherwise the imperial army will always face a situation of insufficient troops." ”

Anda Wing sighed and said: "For the empire, China is indeed too big, at present, the imperial army only occupies less than one-third of China's territory, and the army is already stretched, if you want to occupy the whole of China, I don't know how many troops will have to be mobilized from the mainland." ”

Kawasaki also said, "Therefore, we must borrow the strength of that man. ”

"Yes." Anda nodded and said, "If you don't use the power of the Shina people to control the various battle areas, then the imperial army will be busy with law and order all day long, and there will be no need to fight head-on. ”

Chuan Zhezhe also held the stack and said: "But there are also many figures like Xu Rui, the head of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, and Gao Hanting, the commander of the four detachments of the New Fourth Army. ”

The Anda Wingman and Chuan Tetsu, who were communicating at the head of the city, didn't know that Gao Hanting, the commander of the four detachments of the New Fourth Army they were talking about, was downstairs at the city gate at the moment, waiting for the Japanese army to enter the city.

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Gao Hanting wore a melon skin hat inlaid with emeralds, a neat black satin gown, a pair of small round sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, a typical squire dress, and his guard Shi Biao was dressed in black, looking like an accompanying family guard.

Gao Hanting didn't come alone.

Gao Hanting also came with He Shuya, David, Liang Yixiao and Han Feng and other six people.

Gao Hanting did not reveal Xu Rui's battle plan to He Shuya, such a big battle plan, of course, the less people know about it, the better, because the less people know, the less likely it is to leak it in advance, so even if He Shuya is a member of the independent regiment, Gao Hanting did not reveal the entire battle plan to him.

But Gao Hanting still accidentally missed the meeting between him and Xu Rui.

He Shuya was not surprised to learn that Gao Hanting was going to meet Xu Rui in Feicheng, which was heavily guarded by little devils, but David, a trainee reporter for the Associated Press, had a mouth big enough to stuff a goose egg, and David really couldn't figure it out, why did the ******** officer go to the place heavily guarded by the Japanese army to meet?

When Gao Hanting told David through Liang Yixiao that this was just a contest of courage between two men, David felt that his dignity as a man had been greatly challenged, so he also decided to challenge his limits, followed Gao Hanting to Feicheng, and completed the first interview with Xu Rui in Feicheng, which was heavily guarded by devils!

Gao Hanting and He Shuya naturally resolutely opposed it, but the Americans were also very evil when they were stubborn.

After three chapters of the law, Gao Hanting finally agreed to David's request, and in this way, David pretended to be a businessman from the United States who came to Anhui to negotiate the tea business, while Gao Hanting pretended to be a local squire, and Liang Yixiao, He Shuya, Han Feng, Shi Zhu and Hua Niu pretended to be accompanying porters or peasant women.

After the Japanese army had passed, the vendors and pawns who had been stopped outside the city gate began to stream into the city.

Gao Hanting also took David and He Shuya swaggering towards the checkpoint, Gao Hanting behaved calmly, and even a little arrogant, he couldn't see that this was a military town heavily guarded by the enemy, and he didn't know if he was really fearless, or if his personality was like this, I don't know, but Feicheng is the station of the four detachments.

Soon, the vendors and pawns in front of the queue had already entered the city, and it was Gao Hanting's turn to do so.

David, who had a nose and blue eyes, quickly attracted the attention of the sentry, and a Japanese soldier roared, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers rushed out of the security booth with bright bayonets, and more than a dozen puppet soldiers who were originally lazily leaning on both sides of the city gate also immediately cheered up and forced up with Hanyang.

At this time, the countries of the world have successively stood in line, and two distinct camps have been formed, one is the Allies with Britain and France as the core, and the other is the Axis Alliance with Germany, Italy and Japan as the core.

At this time, only the United States still pursued glorious isolationism, and did not show obvious tendencies.

However, although the United States has not yet stepped out of glorious isolationism, due to the protests of its mother country, Britain, it has imposed an embargo on Japan on strategic materials such as scrap steel, glue, and crude oil, so the hostile atmosphere between Japan and the United States is becoming more and more intense, at least not as friendly as before.

This atmosphere in Japan was easily transmitted to the Chinese battlefield, so the Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield began to be harsh on the Americans, and sometimes even deliberately sought fault.

The Japanese commander Cao Chang, who was the leader, pointed at David and said a lot in Japanese.

Immediately, a puppet platoon commander stepped forward and said loudly: "Ohara Taisan asked you, what are you doing?" ”

Gao Hanting immediately took off the melon skin hat on his head, nodded and smiled: "Please tell Xiaoyuan Taisang, this is the deputy manager of Dawei of Damei Trade and Foreign Company, who came to Anhui to buy melon slices, just because the bandits in the Lu'an area are getting worse and worse, so I want to come to Feicheng under the governance of the imperial army to try my luck and see if I can receive enough tea." ”

The platoon commander of the puppet army turned around, nodded and reported to the devil Cao Chang.

As soon as the devil Cao Chang waved his hand, more than a dozen puppet soldiers immediately stepped forward and searched Gao Hanting and a few of them, although Liang Yixiao and Hua Niu were women, they were also unable to escape, but fortunately, Liang Yixiao had already dressed up as a sick village woman before coming to Feicheng, and covered up that beautiful face, otherwise it might cause some trouble.

As for the flower girl, she looks thicker than a man, and the puppet army who searched her body really couldn't give birth to the mind of rubbing oil.

After the body search, the devil army Cao did not let them enter the city, but walked straight to David, stretched out his right thumb and index finger and rubbed it, David was confused, but Gao Hanting immediately reacted, reached out and took out a few pieces of ocean from his coat pocket and put them in the palm of the devil army Cao.

The devil soldier Cao accepted the ocean, but he didn't stop there, and continued to rub his right thumb and index finger, while repeatedly saying in broken English: "Knife music, knife music, knife music." ”

Now David finally understood, and quickly took out a $20 denomination from his satchel.

The devil army Cao accepted the US dollars, and then he turned around and waved his hand with satisfaction, signaling for release.

That's it, a group of eight people entered Feicheng without danger, but this is actually not surprising, because in the first two or even three years of the Anti-Japanese War, the blockade of the occupied areas by the little devils was actually not strict, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army could get a large amount of military supplies from the Japanese-occupied areas, such as sulfonamide powder or something.

It was not until after the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, to be precise, that after the old devil Okamura Ninji became the commander of the North China Front, the blockade of the base areas behind the enemy became tighter, and during the harshest period, not even a single piece of cloth could flow out of the Japanese-occupied areas.

But now, the devil's puppet army's investigation of past business trips is still quite relaxed, one is because the devil has not yet realized the necessity of taking high-intensity law and order to suppress the war, and the other is that the little devil is still launching a continuous attack on the frontal battlefield against the national army, and there is no extra energy to engage in a comprehensive blockade.