It took others ten minutes to go down, but it took Li Ziyuan more than half an hour to go down to the slope to meet the troops. When his feet touched the ground, Li Ziyuan found that his back was soaked with sweat. Climbing down the cliff in the middle of the night is really not a good job.

In the small team he led, only he and Liu Lianming had leggings. The length of the four leggings was barely enough to cross the stone beam, and then he could touch it a little bit by himself. When lighting is not available, this is not an easy job.

If it weren't for a few small trees to help him, Li Ziyuan almost didn't miss a few times and fell off the cliff, and almost died before he could get out of school. Fortunately, the attention of the Japanese puppet army in Qiaokou Town was attracted by the east. Coupled with the fact that it was getting dark, no one believed that anyone would come out of the cliff to the northeast.

Therefore, the searchlight of the Japanese puppet army turret north of Qiaokou was not turned on, allowing Li Ziyuan to go down to the bottom of the mountain without danger. However, Li Ziyuan, who was lucky enough to escape, ignored everyone's concerned eyes after going down to the slope, rejected everyone's suggestion to rest, and led the team to Pingchuan in the west overnight.

The current Pingchuan is a group of fat sheep in Li Ziyuan's eyes. Thinking of the hundreds of guns hidden in a corner of Hirakawa, he felt a little excited when he thought about it. Although he also knew that the guns would certainly not be so easy to get and the trip would not be easy, he had no intention of giving up. What the troops lack most now, apart from training, is weapons and ammunition.

At this moment, Pingchuan Town is like a magnet, firmly attracting him. But when he rushed to the outskirts of Pingchuan Town, Li Ziyuan was dumbfounded. The terrain here and there is unfavorable, and it is simply quite unfavorable. Even at night, it is difficult for him to get to the edge of the town under the cover of the terrain.

As the name suggests, Pingchuan Town is a town that sits on flat land. In other words, this town is located in a plain area. The town is surrounded by shallow mountains to the east and southeast, and plains to the west. But the location of the town is more than a mile away from the mountains. And the closest to the town are a few scattered hills.

The whole Pingchuan Town not only has a blockade ditch dug on the periphery, but also a wall more than one person high around the town, and a large number of open and hidden forts are built around it. The Baijin railway line, which was being built by the Japanese puppet in a hurry, passed through the west of the town. Within visual range, there are bunkers every 500 meters.

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but have a headache. If the green yarn tent is up, there is no problem in touching the periphery of Pingchuan. But at present, the land is still barren, and there is not even a hidden spot on the periphery of Pingchuan. Now that the sky has begun to brighten again, according to Qiaoguchi's experience, I am afraid that I will be discovered if I do not get close to Hirakawa.

Not only is it difficult to get close to Pingchuan, but even where I am located, I can't stay for a while when the sky is bright. This is a burial ground, although the ancient trees are more suitable for concealment. But now it is the Qingming season, and people who come to sweep the tomb can easily find themselves.

Gritting his teeth, Li Ziyuan said to Liu Lianming and Shi Jin beside him: "Look at it now, at least there is no way to start during the day." Old Shi, you are familiar with this area, you and Lao Liu will find a place for the troops to rest. After a night of mountain travel, we have to find a place to rest. As for how to approach Pingchuan Town, let's figure it out. ”

Li Ziyuan gave the order, Shi Jin nodded and led the troops to find a place to rest. But Liu Lianming did not leave, but stayed by Li Ziyuan's side vigilantly. Looking at Liu Lianming, who didn't leave, Li Ziyuan frowned and said, "You are not familiar with this place, and there is no use in staying here." ”

"Lao Tzu is not advanced enough to use the guard, hurry up and go to rest and change Lao Shi by the way. If you don't rest now, will you still have the energy when you do it? Hurry up and rest and master the troops. When it's time to get your hands on it, that's when it's time to use you. ”

Seeing that Li Ziyuan was about to get angry, Liu Lianming reluctantly bent his waist and walked towards the back of the hillside. Driving away Liu Lianming, who was reluctant in every way, Li Ziyuan raised his binoculars and carefully observed Pingchuan Town, more than 500 meters below the mountain. By this time, the sky was completely bright, and the visibility was very good.

As the crowd in and out of the town, Li Ziyuan had a more detailed grasp of the security level of the entire Pingchuan Japanese puppet army, but this understanding made him think it was very bad. The reason is simple, the security here is even tighter than that of Qiaokou Town. Not only was the Japanese army very vigilant, but even the puppet army did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and the people who came and went were extremely strict.

And although the situation inside the town is not clear, there are patrols outside the town every half hour. In addition to the grave mountain where he is located, there are guard fortifications of the Japanese puppet army on several commanding heights to the east of the town, and the nearest is less than 300 meters away from his current location.

Seeing this, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but shout luck in his heart. Although he led the team to touch the periphery of Pingchuan at night, if the choice of this foothold was a little worse, and he touched the commanding heights garrisoned by the Japanese puppet army, I am afraid that this is not the result now, and it is inevitable to stab the hornet's nest.

However, judging from the changing of guards at several commanding heights, there is only one squad of puppet troops at each commanding height, and only five or six people at the few. The troops stationed on the commanding heights on the periphery are basically puppet troops. Moreover, the firing boundary in front of the Japanese puppet military fortifications at several commanding heights, although it was cleaned up very cleanly. However, between the various firing points, they are limited by the terrain and cannot form an effective coordination.

Seeing the commanding heights controlled by the Japanese puppet army on the periphery of Pingchuan, Li Ziyuan had a slight idea in his heart. However, he did not make up his mind hastily, and decided to take a closer look. However, the more Li Ziyuan looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong with the deployment of the puppet army outside Pingchuan Town.

When Shi Jin settled the troops and returned to him. He pointed to an inconspicuous hill bag directly northeast of Pingchuan, between two low mountains, and said to Shi Jin: "Old Shi, why is that mountain bag a little weird. It stands to reason that the firepower on the mountains on both sides above it can completely block this hill bag. ”

"If one of the mountains on both sides is lost, this mountain bag will not be able to hold at all. The front of this mountain pack faces the town of Hirakawa, and the flanks are connected to the northeast ridge. And from the terrain, this mountain pack has no defensive value at all. How could the puppet army deploy a squad there? ”

Shi Jin took the binoculars and took a closer look at it and said: "Captain, the reason why that mountain bag is fortified is that there is nothing to do, because it is where the ancestral tomb of Wang Tieshi's hardcore traitor is located. This bastard has done so many bad things, and he is afraid that people will dig up his ancestral grave, so he sent guards to guard it. ”

Hearing Shi Jin say that the mountain bag was actually the ancestral tomb of Wang Tieshi's family, Li Ziyuan frowned, and said with some doubts: "This Wang Tieshi's ancestor is from Pingchuan?" Where has their ancestral grave always been? Or did their family move later, and that ancestral tomb was also moved later? ”

Li Ziyuan's question, Shi Jin smiled and said, "It's not." Their family was very poor, where would they buy such a large piece of mountain forest as an ancestral grave? Their family was originally from Henan, and it was his father's generation who fled to Shanxi, and finally settled in Pingchuan. He was as poor as his life, and this guy couldn't get along anymore before he went to the Jin Sui Army to be a soldier. ”

"The ancestral tomb of his family, I heard that it was the tomb of a county king in the Ming Dynasty. Later, after it was stolen, it was abandoned. After this boy made his fortune, he bought the mountain forest and moved his father's grave from this mountain. He specially returned to his hometown in Henan, not only bringing back dozens of family children. said that it was for the convenience of sacrificing and sweeping, and moved his ancestral grave over. ”

After Shi Jin's words were finished, Li Ziyuan pondered for a long time and said: "Old Shi, there is a saying in our hometown that the rich do not move the grave. Because many people believe in feng shui, they think that they or future generations have made a career because of feng shui. Therefore, the more dignitaries and dignitaries, the more cautious they are about moving graves. ”

"I don't know if there is this custom in the southeast of Shanxi, but I do know that in most parts of China, there is a tradition except for those areas where ethnic minorities live. After this guy made his fortune, he moved his father's grave, which is quite normal. But it is a bit abnormal to say that even the ancestral tombs have been moved from Henan thousands of miles away. ”

Li Ziyuan was a little skeptical, Shi Jin thought for a while and said, "Captain, we also have this to say. However, when his family moved the grave, I used to work part-time in his house and saw the whole process of moving the grave. The coffins made of good wood on the dozen or so don't look like fakes. ”

After Shi Jin's words, Li Ziyuan thought for a moment and said, "Old Shi, are you sure that what they brought back from Henan was a dozen large coffins, not other small wooden coffins?" Old Shi, I don't know if you've participated in this kind of thing before. But do you think it's normal to travel thousands of miles to bring back a dozen coffins from Henan? ”

Li Ziyuan's voice fell, and Shi Jin thought about it carefully and said, "That's right, they are all coffins." And when they were sent to the ancestral tomb, they were all sent by their sons surnamed Wang themselves, and they didn't use our local people. During the whole process of moving the burial, our local people were responsible for the periphery, and we were not allowed to contact the things inside."

After listening to Shi Jin's words, Li Ziyuan nodded, but didn't say anything. He vaguely felt that the ancestral tomb of the puppet county garrison captain was definitely not as simple as it seemed. There were more than a dozen coffins in there, and I am afraid that they were either guns or other things, and they would definitely not be the ancestors of that guy.

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan raised his telescope again and carefully observed the mountain bag for a while, as well as the surrounding ridges connected to it. However, Li Ziyuan did not only stare at the ancestral tomb of Wang Tieshi's family, but also carefully observed the security situation of the Japanese puppet army along the Baijin Railway. The Japanese puppet army patrols and the interval between changing posts, etc., Li Ziyuan observed quite carefully.

For a whole day, Li Ziyuan didn't do anything, just climbed on this hill to observe the Pingchuan Town under the mountain, as well as the activities of the surrounding Japanese puppet army. After a day's observation, Li Ziyuan already had a number in his heart. However, he knew that Pingchuan Town himself could not enter, and the Japanese puppet army was too tightly guarded.

Coupled with the blockade ditches and walls on the periphery and barbed wire, he didn't want to alarm the Japanese puppet army, and he had no chance to infiltrate the town, so Li Ziyuan decided to hit the railway line first with the first shot. As for the ancestral grave of the hardcore traitor, Li Ziyuan decided to go first tonight to find out the situation.