Chapter 139: Confidential Conversation, Peeking and Being Captured

Shuihe Village. Village office. Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment, regimental headquarters war room.

Moonlit night is silent. It was quiet in the empty war room.

Yu Genshan took out a cigarette, handed one to Han Dagang, and lit one himself:

"Xiao Han, what did you mean by asking Deng Junsheng those words just now? It's not for nothing, is it? ”

"Regiment commander, someone recently reported to me that Deng Junsheng often went to the Sixth Company, and Ma Fucai, the commander of the Sixth Company, avoided the soldiers, hiding on the side and muttering mysteriously, as if they were discussing something?"

"Oh. Didn't Deng Junsheng go to the Sixth Company to participate in training and lectures? ”

"Well, it's training and lecturing. Captain, do you think it's that simple? Nothing suspicious? ”

"Suspicious? What's suspicious? Xiao Han, you talk about it. ”

"Ma Fucai was brought out by Fang Jiren, and he has a deep relationship and a close relationship. Deng Junsheng often goes to the Sixth Company, and he must look for Ma Fucai, which shows that the relationship between Deng Junsheng and Fang Jiren is also very unusual. ”

"Oh, that's it? What's so suspicious about this? Xiao Han, you're making a big fuss, aren't you? ”

"I hope so. We'll talk about it later. ”

"Xiao Han, do you have anything else to tell me alone? Don't let anyone else know. ”

"Yes. Commander, it's time for Francis to return. ”

"Huh? Is Francis coming back? When will you be back? Who told you that? ”

"Intuition, feeling."

"Huh? What mess? Still intuitive? Feel? Xiao Han, I think you don't have a straight instinct and feel numb. Do you know where Francis is now? What is he doing? ”

"Not knowing, it's a gut feeling. Whenever something big happens, Francis will come back, or send someone back to deliver information. ”

"How could Francis know that the devil intends to secretly calculate such an important and confidential information of our army when exchanging captured personnel on both sides? Do you think that it can still be like the other day, when Fang Jiren led his troops to ambush the devils who came to Shuihe Village to attack our army in the middle of the night? Xiao Han, it's good that you can think of this, but you can't talk about Fang Jiren. ”

"Intuition."

"Alright, don't say that instinct of yours anymore. Xiao Han, tell me, on the day of the exchange of captured personnel on both sides, which company should we send to the Land Temple to answer and cover? ”

"Ma Fucai's six companies. I led the reinforcement battalion to be responsible for guarding the perimeter of the Land Temple. The fourth and fifth companies of the second battalion went to ambush five miles north of Lin'an Town to prevent the devils in Lin'an Town from copying the rear road of our army. The first battalion was stationed in Shuihe Village, and the third battalion was assembled from the west of the Tongyu River to the east of Shuihe Village as a reserve. ”

"Good! Ay? Xiao Han, why didn't you say it during the meeting just now? ”

"Regiment commander, military aircraft must not be leaked."

"Yes, yes, yes. Alas! The hidden agents hidden in our army haven't been dug up yet, it's really tricky! Xiao Han, why don't you do it. We'll go to the Sixth Company early tomorrow morning to see how they've been training lately. And then you go to scouting. ”

"Okay, head of the regiment, call Deng Junsheng to go with you."

Early morning. Shuihe Village. Threshing floor.

Yu Genshan and others came to the threshing floor and watched with great interest the scene of the soldiers training in full swing. Suddenly, Yu Genshan stood up and turned around and asked:

"Staff Officer Wu, why didn't you see the sixth company of the second battalion? Where does the Sixth Company train? ”

Staff Officer Wu: "Regiment Commander, they don't train on the threshing floor every day for six days, they train in the northwest of the village, as if they don't want others to see it. ”

"Oh? I'd love to see it. Let's go, go to the Sixth Company. ”

Seven or eight soldiers, including the political commissar, the chief of staff, Huang Zhongde, Han Dagang, Wu Staff Officer, Deng Junsheng, as well as guards and communicators, followed Yu Genshan out of the threshing floor and walked towards the northwest of the village.

Two or three miles northwest of the village, there was an uneven, potholed clearing surrounded by sparse half-man-high bushes. Ma Fucai used this vacant land as a training ground for the Sixth Company. At this time, on the training ground, the soldiers of the sixth company formed a boxy formation, all of them wore their upper bodies, some soldiers held spears, and some soldiers held broadswords. Ma Fucai stood at the front of the phalanx with a spear in hand, leading the warriors to conduct offensive and defensive training of spear assassination and broadsword slashing. The phalanx of the six companies advanced and retreated as a whole, moving left and right, and the spears and broadswords coordinated with each other and covered each other. The fighters were in high spirits and sweating.

Yu Genshan and the others quietly came to the outside of the village, scattered and squatted in a dense bush to watch the training of the Sixth Company dozens of meters away. The formation of the six companies sometimes becomes rectangle, sometimes triangle, circle, trapezoid, square, and constantly changes the formation. After watching it for a while, Yu Genshan lit a cigarette and watched it with relish while smoking comfortably. Han Dagang reached out to Yu Genshan and asked for a cigarette, lit it and smoked it.

Suddenly, the Sixth Company stopped training. Ma Fucai raised his right hand above his head and waved it a few times.

Yu Genshan: "Huh? What's going on? Why did they stop practicing? ”

Staff Officer Wu craned his neck and looked at it and said, "Yes, why did you stop?" Is the training over? ”

The others watched silently without saying a word.

"Don't move! You are surrounded! Shoot or kill! Four warriors shouted majestically with rifles in hand.

Yu Genshan looked at the four mighty warriors with rifles and laughed:

"Hahahaha! Okay, good, God doesn't know the ghost, and he is unprepared for it. I give up. ”

Ma Fucai ran over in high spirits and saluted, panting and said:

"Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, the sixth company is training, please instruct."

"What do I instruct? We are all surrounded and taken captive by your soldiers. ”

"Commander, I know it's you guys coming, and I ordered the hidden sentries to launch a surprise attack on you, so I surrounded you."

"Oh? You gave the order? Why didn't we hear it? Yu Genshan and the others all stood up.

"Commander, I gave the order for the raid in sign language."

"Sign language? Interesting, who taught you? ”

"It was Francis who started teaching us when he was a platoon commander, and he also taught us how to recognize and use flags, night lights, and whistles. He said: Our troops below the Eighth Route Army are all on the front line or behind enemy lines, and sometimes they are even entangled with the enemy, especially when they operate at night. We didn't have a radio, and it was inconvenient to set up a telephone, and these four special languages were very useful in battle. Sometimes, the key to a life-and-death battle depends on the fast and accurate delivery of information on the battlefield. Right? Regiment Commander, Political Commissar. ”

"Yes, Francis is right. Company Commander Ma, how did you give orders in sign language? Can you show us how to do it? ”

Ma Fucai turned to the training ground, raised his right hand above his head and waved it a few times, and the hidden sentry stood up in the bushes in three directions outside the training ground at the same time, waved his hand to Ma Fucai and then disappeared in the bushes. Ma Fucai raised his arms and waved a few more times, and the soldiers of the sixth company immediately put on their military uniforms, sorted out their military appearance, assembled in formation, and ran neatly in front of Yu Genshan with weapons in hand.

"Stand! Salute! With Ma Fucai's slogan, the soldiers saluted in unison.

Yu Genshan and others returned the salute.

Yu Genshan looked at Ma Fucai with a puzzled expression, and asked puzzledly:

"Company Commander Ma, we also came here quietly, how can you know that we are here? And not someone else, or a devil or a detective team? ”