After thinking about it, Li Ziyuan said: "This old pass, tomorrow I will take a small team to go to the vicinity of Pingchuan Town to observe first, looking for an opportunity to see if I can go in and feel the situation." But I remember you said that this Wang Tieshi and the pseudo-plainclothes captain Liu Kaishan are sworn enemies. Their station is so close to the devil's station, he won't keep this batch of arms at home. As long as we are around the town of Pingchuan, we will definitely have a way. ”

Li Ziyuan's stubbornness, but Guan Li shook his head. But not in this matter, Guan Li knew that he couldn't stop Li Ziyuan. Just thinking about it, Guan Li said: "Captain, otherwise go to the division and let Lao Shi go." Anyway, just send back a machine gun, and it's not a big deal. I am familiar with the terrain and situation, and I will accompany you on a trip to Pingchuan. ”

Guan Li's suggestion, but Li Ziyuan shook his head and said: "Lao Guan, the instructor's girl has never worked in the army, and she is still a girl, I am afraid that the things in the army will not be picked up in a while." Although you have never worked in the team, you have been a traffic officer in the county party committee, and you still know the rules of the team. ”

"The two squadron leaders turned out to be platoon commanders, and they were still in the run-in period, and they couldn't rely on them for a while. You, the vice-captain, don't care if your superiors appoint it or not. There are too many recruits in the army, and any discipline now is not as effective as your old face. They were the only people who could stabilize the troops when I was away. ”

"I'm going out this time, the troops have to be in charge of you, and we can't both go. Lao Guan, the devil will definitely not be so simple this time. I guess their eyeliner is looking for us like mad dogs. We must be prepared, neither of you and I are at home, if the army is attacked by devils, our little capital may be discounted here. ”

Li Ziyuan patted Guan Li's leg and said with a smile: "Lao Guan, you can rest assured." I also crawled out of the pile of dead people, and my life is very hard, and Lord Yama will not take my life so easily. After the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, I also learned some things from the reconnaissance team in the division. These things have no problem dealing with little devils. ”

"Lao Guan, you go to prepare, prepare, and come out immediately. Strive to be back tomorrow. I asked you to go to the division, mainly to get some more bullets for the troops, even if it is a grenade made by us in the base area. But there's one thing, no matter how many bullets and grenades you can get back, you have to be back by tomorrow night. ”

After Li Ziyuan finished speaking, he stretched his waist before saying, "Lao Guan, you go to sleep, I'll check the post again." I'm still a little worried about these recruits. Your brother is still good at raising his spirits, and I know that my old superior is not such a good person to deal with. ”

After explaining Guan Li, Li Ziyuan walked around several sentry posts on the mountain and under the mountain again, and then returned to his residence unhurriedly. After lying down, Li Ziyuan couldn't sleep a little. For the reconnaissance operation that will start tomorrow, Li Ziyuan only has three words to hurry away. But if he didn't go to see it himself, he couldn't be at ease anyway.

After dawn, Li Ziyuan briefly explained to the two squadron leaders, and disappeared quietly into the mountains with a small team. Less than an hour after he left, Chang Juan also came to this dilapidated temple with some of the supplies raised.

After learning that Li Ziyuan personally led the team out to reconnoitre, Chang Juan was annoyed again. But the person has already left, and others don't know where he went, so they can only helplessly wait for Guan Li, who went to the military subdivision, to come back. The captain and deputy captains are not there, and she, the instructor, is not staying in the army, and the army is still not herding sheep?

Looking at the road down the mountain, Chang Juan was very anxious. She was also quite angry at Li Ziyuan's practice of taking people out to perform tasks without even saying hello. He, who is the captain, why does he leave his post at every turn? Chang Juan made up her mind that when this guy came back, she must report to her superiors and reconsider whether he was suitable to be the captain.

At this time, Li Ziyuan, who had already rushed to the periphery of Qiaokou, of course didn't know that Chang Juan was thinking about reporting to his superiors over there. At this moment, he had already rushed to the outskirts of Qiaokou with a small team, holding a telescope on a mountain beam, and he was observing the movements of the Japanese puppet army in Qiaokou Town, but he frowned deeply.

At present, the security inside and outside Qiaokou Town is extremely strict, and all the people who pass through Qiaokou must be strictly searched, and they must also show their good citizen certificates. But the problem is that he doesn't have a certificate of good citizenship and still has a gun on him. Even if the team members don't have rifles, their pistols are too conspicuous. What should I do with the firearms on my body in this body search?

But from Wangjiagou to Pingchuan, Qiaokou Town is the only way. Looking at the sky, Li Ziyuan decided to try it from other places. Because he thinks that it is better to cross the Japanese puppet army blockade line with a gun as much as possible. can look at Qiaokou Town in front of you, not to mention guns, you can't even bring a pair of scissors.

Li Ziyuan didn't think that he would be able to rush over with this team by himself. Therefore, finding a new way to cross the blockade line has become his first choice. But Li Ziyuan, who had nothing to do, led a small team to wander around Qiaokou Town for most of the day, and he couldn't find a route out of the mountain without passing through Qiaokou Town.

This stronghold of Qiaokou Town, where a large number of Japanese puppet troops were stationed, stood in front of him like an iron lock. Li Ziyuan, who turned back to Qiaokou, complained about Guan Li in his heart, and did not tell himself that he must have a good citizen certificate to pass the checkpoint, nor did he tell himself that the Japanese puppet army here would be so heavily guarded.

While raising the binoculars, he carefully observed the town of Qiaokou at the bottom of the mountain, trying to find a weak point that could allow him to penetrate the past. But what disappointed him was that not only a blockade ditch was built on the periphery of Qiaokou Town. Searchlights were installed on each side of the town, and the firing perimeter could block the entire artillery tower inside and outside the town, and several pillboxes with barbed wire fences were built on the inside of the blockade ditch.

Li Ziyuan didn't know, in fact, Guan Li didn't know the situation of the Qiaokou stronghold now. The blockade ditch has been in place for a long time, and the bunkers and turrets have also been in place for a long time, but the security is not so strict, at least the inspection of the good citizen certificate is not so meticulous. The barbed wire and the heightened guard did not appear until after his shot.

For the puppet army that set up a card, the guard is far from being so strict. As long as it is not discovered by the Japanese army, even if you don't bring a good citizen certificate, you can fool the puppet army by giving a little money. It's just that Li Ziyuan's shot goes down, and as a Qiaokou for entering the Shangdang Basin in the mountainous area in the western part of Hubei, it is natural to strengthen vigilance.

Li Ziyuan's shot came down, and Wang Tieshi, the captain of the pseudo-Hubei County Garrison Brigade, although he was hit by dozens of big mouths, he saved his head after all. But the squadron leader of the puppet army in the Qiaokou stronghold and the three squad leaders lost their heads together. The captain of the Japanese squad in the Qiaokou stronghold was almost forced to apologize.

Where do the current Qiaokou Japanese puppet army dare to slack? The degree of vigilance was much stronger than before, and the Japanese troops, who basically did not stand guard, also ensured that there were people at the checkpoint at the entrance of the town to supervise the puppet army. The current change in the situation in Qiaokou Town is a recent occurrence, and Guan Li naturally does not know this.

It's just that how to cross the Qiaokou is something that Li Ziyuan has to find a way to solve. Withdrawing to Li Ziyuan was not considered at all. If you don't go out to feel the situation, you can't hold it in the mountains. What changes have taken place in the enemy situation outside and the predicament of weapons and ammunition are all things that urgently need to be resolved.

But it can be mixed up, not only does it not have a certificate of good citizenship that must be brought to pass the customs, but also firearms cannot be carried over. If you hit it, with your own firepower and manpower, it is estimated that you will all be knocked down before you touch the barbed wire. The machine guns in those bunkers are cross-firing enough to throw all of them here in one turn. But how to pass, but it gave Li Ziyuan a headache.

Just when Li Ziyuan was at a loss for how to get through Qiaokou Town, Shi Jin next to him hesitated for a moment and said, "Captain, I have a way, but I don't know how to use it?" On the mountain northeast of Qiaokou Town, that is, at the cliff, where the Japanese puppet army did not set up a guard. ”

"But it definitely won't work during the day, because the Japanese puppet army can clearly see where when they stand on the turret. Although the devils did not set up a sentry in that direction, they had a machine gun to block the cliff. If there were people there during the day, the devils would not even look at it and open fire. ”

"Several people who used to collect medicine on that cliff died innocently under the devil's machine gun. Now on this cliff, no one dares to collect medicine. Although I had never collected medicine, I knew that there was a path on the cliff that the medicine picker had walked and could go down to the valley below. As long as you can cross that valley, you can also bypass Qiaokou Town. ”

As soon as he heard Shi Jin say this, Li Ziyuan followed Shi Jin to the cliff west of Qiaokou Town without saying a word. It's just that when he looked at the cliff, he shook his head and said, "Old Shi, we didn't bring a rope either." This cliff is more than 100 meters high, and there is a steep slope like dozens of meters below, how can we go down? ”

Seeing Li Ziyuan shaking his head, Shi Jin pointed to a small path on the side of the cliff, which could only accommodate one person's lower foot, which had been obliterated by the barren grass and was almost invisible: "Captain, this road is here." The risk is a little risky, but there is absolutely no problem with going down. ”

Following Shi Jin's hand, Li Ziyuan saw the one in his mouth, which was basically not a trail, at most there were a few trails protruding from the stones. After hesitating for a long time, he finally nodded after looking at the heavily guarded Qiaokou at the foot of the mountain. But he asked all the people to remove the leggings and make ropes.

Moreover, Li Ziyuan changed the time of going down the mountain from the evening suggested by Shi Jin to the dusk time. What are you kidding, it's just such a palm-sized foothold, and you look troublesome during the day, if you wait for the night when your eyes are black and you can't see anything, you're going down the mountain, it's not going down, it's looking for your own death.

Regarding Li Ziyuan's choice, Shi Jin did not object. In fact, after he made the suggestion to go down the mountain this night, it felt a little unlikely. Everyone grew up in the mountains, and climbing mountains is naturally not a problem. But the problem is that this kind of cliff and cliff that only medicine pickers can go down to, everyone has never climbed, and people in the mountains can not go up any mountain.

In order to be able to go down safely without being discovered by the Japanese army, Li Ziyuan first led someone to make a rope with leggings. Cautiously, without attracting the attention of the Japanese puppet soldiers in the Japanese artillery tower in the southwest of the cliff, he slowly went down the path of the herb pickers.