Muto Akira stepped onto the Pukou pier with a heavy heart. 【】

Yes, Muto Zhang's visit to Pukou Wharf this time was on the order of Shanshan Yuan, and the only mission of his trip was to ensure that the 3,000 tons of military supplies that had just arrived in Pukou could be delivered to the front line safely and on schedule, and handed over to the 9th and 13th Divisions that were fighting with the squadron along the Huai River.

This task seems to be very easy, isn't it just 3,000 tons of military supplies, only one military train can be transported to Fengyang at one time, and the rest can be handed over to the baggage troops of the 9th and 13th divisions, after all, Fengyang Town is only less than fifty miles away from Bengbu, and it is under the control of the Japanese army.

However, only Akira Muto knows that this task is definitely not easy.

The biggest uncertain factor in this mission is Xu Rui's Dameishan Independent Brigade!

Muto Zhang firmly believes in what Okahara Toshisi said, for Xu Rui, it is impossible to overestimate it!

Thinking that in Wuxi, who would have thought that Xu Rui would be able to complete a shocking counterattack with the remnants of the provisional 79th Division and eliminate the headquarters of the Tachibana Wing in one fell swoop?

Thinking that in Baoxing, who would have thought that Xu Rui would be able to complete the surprise attack on the special train of Prince Fushimi Palace in Baoxing Town with only a few hundred remnants of the 79th Division under the premise that the provisional 79th Division was almost completely annihilated?

Thinking that in Nantong at the beginning, who would have thought that Xu Rui only relied on less than one battalion of troops, but staged a shocking anti-beach battle on the river beach in Nantong, and annihilated the Shigeto detachment in one fell swoop, and even the detachment leader Shigeto Chiaki became his capture, such a battle is simply rare in the world.

Therefore, who is sure that Xu Rui will not extend his black hand to this batch of military supplies?

After all, the distance between Dameishan District and Jinpu Road is too close, and the nearest straight-line distance is not even fifty miles!

Moreover, just a few days ago, Xu Rui's Dameishan Independent Brigade had just made a surprise attack on Pucheng, annihilating the military police brigade stationed in Pucheng, not to mention, and taking away millions of catties of military rations hoarded in Pucheng, resulting in more than 90,000 Japanese soldiers on the Huaihe front line almost not even being able to eat.

Therefore, Muto Zhang took the initiative to ask Shanshan Yuan for his life and came to Pukou to take charge of security.

In any case, the 3,000 tons of military supplies must be delivered to the Huai River front line on time and safely.

However, Muto Zhang knows that his ability is very limited, and he is not familiar with special operations, but Xu Rui's Dameishan Independent Brigade has a small unit dedicated to special operations, in order to deal with this threat, Muto Zhang specially invited an expert who is also proficient in special operations, that is, Okahara Toshisi.

When Muto Akira and Oshihara Toshisi stepped onto the Uraguchi wharf, an infantry brigade of the Iijima Division had already arrived in advance, and martial law was imposed on the Pukou railway station.

Muto Akira's arrival was very sudden, and he did not notify all walks of life in Pukou at all.

Even Mao Peng, director of the Pukou Railway Bureau, had just received the notice ten minutes ago.

After receiving the notice, Mao Peng hurriedly took Cao Gui, the head of the Pukou section, and other officials of the railway bureau to the dock to meet them.

"It's been too hard, it's been hard all the way." Facing the Japanese, Mao Peng instinctively bent down.

Cao Gui, who was following behind Mao Peng, and more than a dozen officials of the Railway Bureau also nodded.

Every nation has scum, these scum always do everything possible to smear their motherland and belittle their compatriots, if anyone praises their motherland, it is like their enemy, and whoever wants to defend their compatriots will immediately be attacked and abused by them, and then turn their heads, they will lick the West, cheaper than dogs.

Xiaoluhara Junsi despised the Chinese extremely in his bones, so he ignored it at all.

Muto Zhang knew very well that it was impossible to conquer the Chinese nation with the strength of the He people alone, and if the He people wanted to conquer the Chinese nation, they must learn from the Manchu strategy of using China to control China, so Muto Zhang was relatively gentle on the Chinese, at least on the surface, he gave enough respect to the officials of the Nanjing Restoration Government.

"Mao Sang, you don't have to see outside." Muto Zhang smiled and waved his hand, and said with a pleasant face, "I came to Pukou this time because I was entrusted by His Excellency the Commander to come to Pukou to inspect the security work, and you should know that the safety of this batch of military supplies is directly related to the success or failure of the Huaihe battlefield. ”

"Hay, I understand." Mao Peng nodded again and again, and then turned around and said, "Taisang, please go this way, I have already prepared tea in the station building, it is a famous local tea, Lu'an Gua Pian, please enjoy the light, be sure to appreciate the light, heh, please go this way." ”

Muto Zhang didn't want to refuse Mao Peng's kindness too much, so he followed.

However, Xiaoluyuan Junsi did not follow, but took the two accompanying staff officers to start patrolling the train station, of course, he never expected that Xu Rui and his special operations team had already mixed in, and it was right under his nose, so the focus of Xiaoluyuan Junsi's inspection was the security arrangement of the train wagon.

Ito Tamanosuke and another staff officer followed behind Okahara, and asked as they walked forward, "Okahara-san, do you really think that Xu Rui will take action to intercept this batch of military supplies?" ”

Oshihara didn't answer and asked, "Ito-san, what do you think?" ”

"I think it's unlikely." Ito Yunosuke said, "Because judging from the past examples, Xu Rui is a smart person, if he is a smart person, he should know that the chance of intercepting this batch of materials is very small." ”

Xiaoluyuan said: "It's very small, doesn't mean it's absolutely impossible, doesn't it?" ”

"Hello." Ito Yunosuke paused, "However, I don't think Xu Rui would make such an unwise choice. ”

"Unwise?" Xiao Luyuan smiled, his face instantly became cold, "It may not be wise for us, but it may not be for Xu Rui, for Xu Rui, never speculate with ordinary people's thinking, otherwise you will regret it, because the previous examples have fully proved this." ”

Ito Tamanosuke said in a sinister voice, "If you say that, I'm looking forward to it." ”

"Looking forward to it?" Xiaoluhara said coldly, "Ito-san, do you think the security of the military column is already impeccable?" ”

"Of course, invulnerability can't be talked about." Ito Yunosuke shook his head, but quickly changed his words and said, "But at least, with the strength of the Dameishan Independent Brigade alone, it is impossible to pose a threat to the safety of the military column, if Xu Rui really dares to come, he will definitely be in front of the iron wall of the imperial army!" ”

Oshihara shook his head, he was not as optimistic as Tamanosuke Ito.

After two rounds around the platform of the railway station, Xiao Luyuan said: "From the current point of view, the security work of the railway station has been done relatively well, but this is only during the day, and there will definitely be laxity at night, so the task of our special combat team is to focus on assisting the gendarmerie to do a good job of night vigilance and strictly prevent the infiltration of the enemy." ”

Ito Yunosuke paused and said, "Understood." ”

As he spoke, Xiao Luyuan faintly felt as if someone was watching him, but when he looked back, he didn't see anything, only a large group of ragged coolies were sitting together to eat.

Maybe he was really too nervous, Xiaoluhara smiled self-deprecatingly, turned and left.

Not far away, seeing Xiaoluyuan walking away, Xu Rui let out a sigh, it was really dangerous just now.

Xu Rui pulled down the felt hat on his head to cover his face as much as possible, and at the same time signaled Leng Tiefeng behind him with his eyes, and Leng Tiefeng quickly pulled the felt hat lower.

"Old Xu, what's going on?" Leng Tiefeng lowered his voice and asked, "Why is this little devil still alive?" ”

"Strange, no, I obviously hit him in the heart!" Xu Rui was also a little confused, last time in Likou, he obviously hit the heart of this little devil, logically speaking, this little devil has long been dead and can't die anymore, but the little devil in front of him is really the devil at the beginning, what's going on?

Leng Tiefeng said: "Could it be another devil, just looking similar?" ”

"It's not." Xu Rui said categorically, "It's the little devil at the beginning." ”

"That's if you didn't hit the heart." Leng Tiefeng said, "You missed." ”

"Impossible! I definitely hit him in the heart. Xu Rui shook his head categorically and said, "In my opinion, most of this little devil's heart is on the right side, so he was lucky enough to escape it." After saying that, he laughed and said, "But this time, he won't have such good luck again." ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "It seems that the one who robbed Huang Shouyi from Shaqiao Pier should be this guy." ”

"Mostly." Xu Rui said, "It seems that the little devil has also formed a special force, but we can't take it lightly, after returning to Dameishan this time, we must strengthen the security level of the base area." ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "But what should we do now?" With this little devil here, our actions will be greatly restricted, and it will not be easy to figure out the defense arrangements of the devil army. ”

Xu Rui was silent, with this little devil's special forces here, the actions of their special operations team would indeed be greatly restricted, at least he and Leng Tiefeng couldn't act at will, otherwise, what if they accidentally met the other party? Of course, this is not afraid, even if Pukou is full of nets, Xu Rui has enough confidence to break through, but in this way, this operation will become a startling snake, and it will be impossible to intercept this batch of military supplies from the devil later.

After a long time, Xu Ruicai said: "It seems that the action plan must be changed. ”

The original plan was to use the identity of stevedores to infiltrate the Pukou Railway Station, and then find an opportunity to sneak in, and wait until there was no one at night, and then rush out to check the security measures of the devil's army, but now that the devil's special forces are stationed here, the night operation is more dangerous than the daytime.

It's really a plan that can't keep up with the change.