Chapter 422: The Enemy Situation Is Strange The situation is grim

Linhe Township, Hebei Border Region, Western Hebei. The weather was sunny. In the afternoon.

Linhe Township. Fang's house, the headquarters of the special column.

After returning to the headquarters, Fang Jiren and Meng Dakui first went to the water room at the west head of the front yard to take a bath and change clothes, and Zhou Qiwei walked into the conference room on the landlord's side of the middle courtyard to prepare maps and documents.

Four warriors carried Poplar Hill sitting on a wicker chair to the conference room.

Fang Jiren and Meng Dakui, who had changed into clean clothes, walked into the conference room.

When Fang Jiren saw Yang Shushan's painful face, he immediately felt that his condition might be more serious. So he squatted down to inspect Yang Shushan's swollen feet and neck. As soon as Fang Jiren held up his hands, Yang Shushan bared his teeth in pain and kept shouting in pain. With both hands, Fang Jiren gently untied the bandage around the neck at the foot of Poplar Mountain, and gently touched and pinched it for diagnosis.

"Political Commissar Yang, you are the talus and root bone misalignment, plus the ligament and muscle sprain caused the swelling, there is no sign of bone cracking and fracture, a small problem, easy to treat. Bear with me, I'll reset your bones. Fang Jiren grasped the lower end of Yang Shushan's calf with his left hand and his heel with his right hand, first gently twisting it a few times, and then pushing it hard.

"Ahh Yang Shushan felt a sharp pain, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his brain.

"Alright. Political Commissar Yang, you will be healed in five or six days, and you will walk as usual" Fang Jiren asked Meng Dakui to bring a few patches of unicorn plaster to Yang Shushan and re-bandage it.

"All right, comrades. We are now in a meeting. Don't record today's meeting, but keep it in mind, and keep it strictly confidential and don't let it be passed on. Fang Jiren looked at Meng, Yang, and Zhou San, who were sitting at the long conference table and were about to take notes, and said solemnly.

Fang Jiren stood in front of the map on the east wall, looked at his comrades with a solemn expression, and said:

"Comrades, the hostile situation in the western Hebei region is strange and the situation is grim."

"Huh? Commander, are you going to fight a big war, a vicious war? Meng Dakui asked.

"Yes. It's just not known when the war will start. Francis replied.

"Commander, how many troops do we need to mobilize in our special column? How to deploy? Where is the first battle going to begin? Have you made a battle plan? Zhou Qiwei asked.

"I don't know, I haven't made a battle plan yet." Francis replied.

"Commander, when should I do the pre-war mobilization? When will the villagers be evacuated and transferred into the mountains to avoid the war? How much food and ammunition should be prepared? Yang Shushan asked.

"I don't know. I don't know any of the things you asked me, and I can't answer you accurately or definitively. Francis said helplessly.

"Huh? Don't know anything? Commander, what are you kidding? These things have to be figured out before the war, and they all have to be settled. Meng Dakui said.

"Commander, so you don't know anything about the enemy's situation, so how can you judge that the current enemy situation in the western Hebei region is strange and the situation is grim?" Zhou Qiwei asked.

"Well, the chief of staff asked well. Commander, you are now unaware of the enemy's situation and have no plan, so what are we going to study and discuss at this meeting today? Yang Shushan asked.

"Comrades, it is precisely because I don't know anything about the enemy situation now, and this is the important issue that we have to study and discuss at today's meeting, and at the same time, it is also the key to the strange situation of the enemy and the grim situation at present."

Meng Dakui, Zhou Qiwei, and Yang Shushan were all a little confused when they heard Fang Jiren say this, and at the same time felt the seriousness of the unknown situation.

"Ouch. I said, Commander, don't play dumb riddles, you don't know anything and you're confusing me. Let's just tell me what's going on, right? Meng Dakui said.

"Okay, then I'll talk about it. Comrades, after the May Day Sweep, the strength of the Japanese army, heavy equipment, and cavalry increased by more than two times, the puppet army increased by several times, and the reconnaissance team also more than doubled. We have analyzed and judged that the enemy will certainly have a strategic and major military action. What action? We and the supplementary regiment of Shuihe Village know nothing. During this time, why did the Japanese puppet army not have any major military operations? After transferring and gathering so many troops, is it because they have come to our western Hebei region to recuperate? According to the practice of previous years, one month after the wheat harvest, the Japanese puppet army will send troops out of the city to go to the villages to grab wheat, why has there been no movement so far this year? What is even more incomprehensible is that knowing that the supplementary regiment is stationed in Shuihe Village, why did the Japanese army not send troops to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression? What are the Japanese waiting for? ”

"Well, that's weird? I'm wondering why? Meng Dakui muttered to himself.

Yang Shushan and Zhou Qiwei are also thinking about these things that are not in line with the usual things in previous years.

"Well, I can't figure it out. We carried out some operations in the county town, including medicine, weapons, ammunition, and food, and the enemy only searched and arrested the county town for a while, and did not send troops to retaliate on a large scale. The hardcore traitors, sleeper spies, secret intelligence agents, and bully landlords in all the townships and villages in the western Hebei region were almost secretly hoeed away by the anti-Japanese masses, so why didn't the enemy react? The supplementary regiment attacked Lin'an Town at night, intercepted and increased troops halfway, severely damaged the Japanese army, and captured a lot, why didn't the little devils send troops to attack Shuihe Village to retaliate? Is it just because Eiichi Nakagawa temporarily left Lin'an County? What did he do in Baoding? When will you be back? Fang Jiren looked at the three comrades-in-arms as if asking questions, and as if talking to himself.

"Commander, if you think about it calmly and carefully, don't you have any military intelligence about the Japanese army? Didn't the enemy do anything? Zhou Qiwei reminded Fang Jiren.

"Huh? Well, let me think about it. Francis lowered his head and paced for a moment, and then said:

"I got the news that Eiichi Nakagawa was transferred to the western Hebei region this time to implement and complete a 'Mount Fuji Plan', and he also brought a geological expert and a smelting expert from Japan. What are you doing here, little devil? ”

"Well, that's right. Commander, the Japanese army has increased its troops in large quantities, exceeding the establishment of a perennial garrison of one brigade, reaching or exceeding a wing, and expanding the puppet army, just for this 'Mount Fuji Plan', as well as geology and smelting experts, should be aimed at the mountainous areas in the western part of the Hebei region. It was supposed to build factories in the mountains, open mines to make steel, and make weapons. Zhou Qiwei said analytically and inferentially.

"The Chief of Staff is right. This is the sinister conspiracy of the Japanese army to plunder China's resources, feed the war with war, and feed the Japanese with war, so as to achieve the goal of using China to contain China. Yang Shushan approvingly added.

"What? The little devil is coming for the mountains? Commander, master, then our Fang family's gourd valley is about to suffer and suffer. Meng Dakui's face was full of nervousness and worry.

"Commander Wang, Deputy Commander Meng, I think it's more than that. Once the Japanese army attacked and occupied Hulu Valley, it was bound to march westward with heavy troops all the way and attack our anti-Japanese base area and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain. If the Japanese conspiracy is allowed to succeed, then the war situation in northern China will be greatly unfavorable to our anti-Japanese army and people. Commander Wang, we must resolutely stop and completely destroy the Japanese army's 'Mount Fuji Plan' at all costs. Yang Shushan looked at Fang Jiren with bright eyes and said with determination.

"Well, Commissar Yang is right. Commander Wang, you must get the 'Mount Fuji Plan' as soon as possible, and we will formulate a targeted battle plan to completely smash the Japanese army's conspiracy. Zhou Qiwei said in a sonorous tone.

"Huh? Let me go and find it? How do you find it? Where can I find it? ”