Shenquan Village, the courtyard of the Zhou family.

"Company commander, company commander, we're back."

Hearing the sound and looking up, he saw Heiwa walking into the courtyard with two soldiers in civilian clothes tiredly, Zhao Shixun sighed and drank the millet porridge in the last bowl, wiped his mouth and stood up.

"Let's go, inside the house."

Since the team arrived at Shenquan Village on the evening three days ago, Zhao Shixun asked Zhou Yu to be responsible for arranging the soldiers to repair, and at the same time sent Heiwa to take two people and went to Hengqu County on a special trip.

Zhao Shixun's purpose is very simple, that is, to see if he can contact the underground party Lao He or Li Chunfeng in the county seat, and get a little information about the movements of the Japanese puppet army from them.

For a long time, the Seventh Company has been like a swarm of headless flies, smashing around in the mountains. Although the troops have temporarily had a stable foothold after escaping death again and again, Zhao Shixun knew very well in his heart that all the stability of the Seventh Company now was based on a little luck, and once his luck was not good, he might fall into a desperate situation again at any time.

Because the mountains were full of sweeping Japanese puppet army plainclothes teams, Zhao Shixun did not dare to let the already weak Seventh Company scatter people to conduct long-distance reconnaissance at this time.

Since it was unable to obtain valuable information on its own, the Seventh Company could only turn to the underground party in the county seat for help.

Although Zhao Shixun had already sent Shao Fei and Lao Qi to Jiangxian County to find the underground party, Zhao Shixun still decided to send someone to Hengqu County to try it again, adhering to the attitude of not hanging himself from a tree.

……

When several people came to the house, Zhao Shixun handed the three of them a teapot and motioned for the three of them to sit down and talk slowly.

After a sigh of drinking, Heiwa wiped the water droplets from her mouth.

"Company commander, don't you know, on the way to the county seat, there are puppet soldiers and plainclothes teams everywhere, and even a few small roads into the city are checked by people.

When we were about to arrive at the county seat, we found that there were a lot of notices posted on the road, and when we asked the nearby villagers, we found out that these were posted by the devil's gendarmerie. You know I'm illiterate, so I don't take it seriously.

No one was found, so a few of us walked around the county seat randomly. At noon, when we went to a teahouse not far from the city, we heard the sound of a gong, and a few two dogs held a notice and posted it by the teahouse.

At first, I didn't care, but then I almost didn't scare my soul when I heard it carefully, and they said that the Japanese not only killed the commander of our column, but also captured our political commissar and more than 100 soldiers. The second dog also shouted that if anyone found that the anti-Japanese elements did not report it, they would be punished according to the great crime of anti-Japanese .......

We didn't believe it at first, thinking that we would find the comrades of the underground party when we entered the city and ask. But when I arrived at the city gate, I found that this inspection was too strict. Not only are there searches and baggage, but even if you have too many calluses on your hands, you will be arrested as a suspicious person.

We had no choice but to return the same way after staying at the city gate for half an hour.

Speaking of this, Heiwa carefully opened the burden behind her and carefully took out a tattered white paper from it.

Puzzled, he took the thing and slowly opened it, from right to left, the first thing that caught Zhao Shixun's eyes was the big black letters of two.

Notice......

Recently, the 69th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Independent Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army fought fiercely for many days in ...... On the same day, he killed Lei Wancheng, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, and 2,000 people below him, and captured nearly 100 people, including Jiang Hongfei, the political commissar of the Eighth Route Army.

Thanks to the sincere cooperation between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Cooperative Army, the effect of public order appeasement in the southern Jinnan region has been greatly improved.

This notice is hereby issued. If the people in this county discover the whereabouts of the scattered anti-Japanese elements such as the Eighth Road, those who take the initiative to report will be rewarded, and those who conceal and fail to report will be guilty of the same crime as anti-Japanese elements!

The Great Japanese Empire's Jinnan Pacification Security Command.

……。

Looking at Zhao Shixun, who was standing on the spot, Heiwa wiped the sweat on her face, and carefully pointed to the two very blurry photos on the poster.

"Company commander, look at this photo, why do I feel a bit like our commander and political commissar......

Heiwa can't read, so it can't read the content of the notice. But in addition to the text, the poster also included two somewhat blurry black and white photos.

Squinting his eyes and looking closely, Zhao Shixun found that the photo on the notice was very roughly printed, and he could only barely see that it was a photo of two men from the Eighth Route Army standing up.

If you look closely, it seems that there are three or four points of resemblance. However, if it weren't for the names of the column commander and political commissar on it, it would be difficult for Zhao Shixun to associate the two with the photo.

"Go and call the instructor back, go right away!"

Seeing that Zhao Shixun's face didn't seem to be very good, Heiwa didn't dare to ask more, so she hurriedly got up and ran out.

After Zhao Shixun was left alone in the room, he slowly sat down in his chair, looking at the notice in his hand and fell into deep thought.

This kind of notice is often posted by the Japanese army on the streets and alleys of the occupied areas to play a propaganda and deterrent role, so the content of the notice is mostly varied. As for the authenticity of the proclamation, it is even more difficult to judge.

Looking at the blurry photos in the poster, Zhao Shixun's brows furrowed slightly.

The photographs are hand-drawn and printed based on real photographs, and the resemblance is not even a hand-drawn portrait. To be honest, Zhao Shixun can't be sure who is on it.

However, the name on this notice is a real name, so Zhao Shixun can't afford not to pay attention to it.

It didn't take long for the dilapidated wooden door to be pushed open again, and Zhou Yu walked in in a hurry.

"Lao Zhao, I heard Heiwa say that the devil posted notices everywhere, and said that he captured our political commissar?"

Before entering the door, Zhou Yu's anxious voice came in.

Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Zhao Shixun first handed the things that Heiwa brought back to the other party.

……

After a while, Zhou Yu looked at Zhao Shixun with a pale face, and his hands holding the notice trembled a little.

"Although this photo is blurry, it still has a three-point look....... And how can the Japanese know exactly the names of the commander and commissar? ”

Walking over and patting Zhou Yu on the shoulder, Zhao Shixun took the notice in the other party's hand, and then handed the other party a cup of herbal tea.

"Don't worry, although this photo is a bit similar, it doesn't mean anything.

Besides, the names of the commander and the political commissar are not a big secret, and there are more than 1,000 people in our entire column, and which one of them does not know. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yu suddenly said thoughtfully.

"Lao Zhao, what do you mean, we have someone captured again......?"

Slowly walked over and opened the door of the house, letting the sun shine on his body, Zhao Shixun carefully folded the notice in his hand.

"At that time, when the troops were divided, the counter-sweeping pressure on the southern front was the greatest.

Now that more than 20 days have passed since the fighting, we have lost contact with the column, the column and the special service battalion. It's really hard for us to predict what will happen and what will happen during this period. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yu nodded helplessly.

Heiwa also told me that they couldn't even enter the city gate, and they couldn't contact the comrades of the underground party at all.

It seems that the devil also knows that there are our people in the city, otherwise it would be impossible to search everything in and out so strictly. ”

Glancing back at the village, Zhou Yu drank all the tea in the cup.

"I also asked a few fortress households in the village in the past few days, and they said that since we left, the contact point of Shenquan Village has been temporarily abandoned. They also don't know where the new point of contact will be. ”

Before Zhou Yu joined the Pioneer Group, he was indeed in charge of intelligence liaison for a short period of time. However, since he joined the combat unit of the Pioneer Regiment, the intelligence work has automatically ended. Not only that, but the contact point of Shenquanzhai that he was in charge of before was also automatically abandoned in accordance with discipline.

……

After a short silence, Zhao Shixun turned around sharply, strode to the wall, and removed his box cannon from the wall.

"Black baby! You go and call Zhang Dapeng over to me, and then pick out two clever ones from the veterans and bring them over, and let them bring their own weapons, ammunition according to a base number, and each person must be equipped with a short gun and three grenades. If they don't have one, then give it to them from within the company. ”

"Huh?"

"Ahhhh Go ahead! ”

"Wait...... come back!"

Just as Heiwa turned around and was about to run out, Zhao Shixun called the other party back.

"You go to the second row again, call that kid from Qi Baoshan to me, and tell him to bring a grenadier and a base ammunition, go and come back quickly!"

Seeing Heiwa running out, Zhou Yu on the side looked puzzled.

"Lao Zhao, do you want to take action?"

Hearing that Zhao Shixun even brought a grenadier with him, Zhou Yu was a little blindsided all of a sudden.

Looking at Zhou Yu who was puzzled in front of him, Zhao Shixun took his Japanese-style riding gun off the table again.

"Well...... we can't wait any longer. Although it is remote, it is not far from the county seat. I'm going to go to the city and go to Lao He and ask them about the situation in person. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Yu suddenly raised his eyebrows.

"You're going to go into the city and find them yourself? Isn't that too dangerous?! Now the investigation inside and outside the city is extremely strict, if something happens to you, what will you do in the seventh company?! ”

"No! I don't agree with you going, it's too dangerous! Besides, didn't Heiwa say it, it's too dangerous to enter the city now. What's more, you still have so many things with you, you can't get in at all. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun put down the weapon in his hand and smiled slightly.

"Lao Zhou, don't worry, it's not difficult to enter the city, the spear grenadier can be hidden outside the city first, just in case you need it.

But this short gun, you have to figure it out for us. ”

……

Outside the gate of Hengqu County.

Zhao Shixun, who was wearing sunglasses, lightly fanned his yellow and white civilization hat, and turned to look at the few people behind him.

At this time, Zhao Shixun had a black short shirt on his upper body, black trousers on his lower body, a box cannon on his shoulder, and a thousand-layer bottom on the soles of his feet, completely dressed as a plainclothes team in the township.

…… To be continued, thank you for your support! Thank you!

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