At one o'clock in the morning, the five groups of the police platoon rushed to report that an armed force of more than 600 people had entered the west entrance of the Suozi Valley, leaving more than 200 people lurking in the dense forest west of the valley mouth, and most of the men and horses entered the ambush along the southern slope of the valley.

Hu Zi and Xia Jian immediately led a total of more than 240 brothers from the first company and the machine gun platoon that were already ready to go, and An Yi took five brothers from the second group of the police platoon to the construction site that was about to be completed at the west entrance of the village, handed the letter to Yin Jinan, and ordered the three brothers of the second group to escort Yin Jinan to Gugang Town on horseback, and handed the letter to Chen Jiji, the commander of the fourth regiment who arrived first.

At 4:50 a.m., Chen Jiqin led a battalion to Yonghe Town, four kilometers south of Zhangpan Village, An Yi saw Chen Jiji, and immediately pulled him under the big tree on the side of the road, took out a flashlight and explained in a low voice according to the map.

After less than five minutes of discussion, Chen Jiji ordered the first battalion to advance silently under the guidance of the three brothers of the engineer battalion, and discussed in a low voice with An Yi.

After walking three kilometers, Chen Jiji saw from time to time that civilians were tightly tied to the trunks of trees or big stones on the side of the road, and the eyes of each kidnapped person were tightly covered by wide strips of cloth, and he admired An Yi's strict measures in his heart.

Chen Jiji clearly knows that there must be two groups of ambushes among these civilians, and it is estimated that there are many people who have been wrongfully tied up, and An Yi's indiscriminate control method is a bit excessive but irreproachable, on the contrary, only in this way can he best prevent the leakage of his sudden action.

When the team reached a small village of more than 10 families three kilometers from Donggukou, the sky was getting brighter, and the clouds on the eastern mountain top were yellowed by the rising sun.

The brothers of the first battalion entered the edge of the forest on the side of the road to rest, and Chen Jiji and several regimental deputies and battalion commanders were just about to ask An Yi, but found that An Yi had already walked to the pile of more than a dozen people who had been blindfolded and tied up with flowers, and stood in the middle of the shuttle dart knife and whispered to a figure with strips of grass-colored rags hanging all over his body.

After a while, the figure dressed in rags quickly left, ran dozens of meters into the woods on the side of the mountain and disappeared.

An Yi returned to Chen Jiji and the others, hugged his left arm with a faint pain, and laughed in a low voice: "Interesting, more than 600 chaotic armed forces in the south entered the ambush position in the south just after midnight, and more than 800 chaotic armed forces in the north entered the ambush position in the north at dawn, and the part that entered later did not find the part that went first, and the part that went in first did not alarm the part that went in later, everyone is waiting, haha!"

To the south, a caravan of one hundred and twenty-six pack horses marched to about two kilometers from the mouth of the valley, and their scout team was already approaching the mouth of the valley, and if there was no accident, the caravan's main force would enter the valley within half an hour. Brother Chen, let the brothers prepare, my people will solve the sentry near the valley mouth in advance, as long as the gunfire is fired, you can rush to block the valley mouth with all your strength, no matter whether the people inside are alive or dead, they are all meat on our chopping board. ”

Chen Jiji ordered the two battalion commanders on the side to go and prepare the battalion deputies, motioned to the adjutant to take out the map and spread it on the ground, squatted down with An Yi and pointed to the east of the valley again: "Xiao Yi, do you have enough people to block the east entrance of the valley?" ”

An Yi patiently explained: "There are 27 light machine guns, 65 flower machine guns on the mountainside 100 meters away from each other on both sides of the valley, and 160 veterans with an average military age of more than four years are equipped with rifles, and 16 of them can break wine bottles with 8 out of 10 shots within a distance of 150 meters. Can your battalion rush through without artillery support? ”

Chen Ji looked at An Yi in surprise: "So good? I thought you were a reinforced company, this kind of combat power is more than enough to block a regiment, when did you kid save this possessions? ”

"Little brother is bitter! It took so long to pull out this company from the whole battalion, and in private, a lot of junior brothers put old books on them, you look at my scouts, each group cost the junior brother more than 4,000 yuan of equipment, I feel distressed! How many times in a lifetime can you encounter an opportunity like today? Isn't it a loss if you don't get some money back? An Yi looked distressed when he said it.

Chen Jiji looked funny and couldn't help but scold: "Don't shout poor in front of Lao Tzu, you and Third Brother Ming think I don't know what you and Third Brother Ming are doing secretly?" ”

An Yi was taken aback: "It's over...... In this life, the little brother jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it! ”

Chen Jiji sighed: "This is also something that cannot be stopped, which army of the entire revolutionary army is not doing it secretly?" Or where did you get the money for guns? If our second division did not have the care of the principal, it is estimated that its life would be even more desolate than that of the local army. You don't have to worry too much, who in the whole division doesn't know that you are righteous to your brothers? Not only did he never deduct military salaries, but he also paid for equipment and improved food, to be honest, none of the generals in the whole division could compare to you, and even my brothers were envious of your brothers in the engineer battalion. Who will work for you if you don't have money these days? When it's done, both of us brothers will have to earn him a lot of money. ”

"Good! Don't want any of the younger brothers to be captured, just let the younger brother take away fifty horses carrying things, and the rest will belong to you, the eldest brother. An Yi finally said his plan to share the spoils.

Chen Jiji nodded happily: "There are 1,600 people in it, even if I kill 1,000 and the remaining 600 are enough for me to expand a battalion, and half of the captured will be distributed to the division headquarters, I am satisfied, big brother." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled and stood up at the same time, Chen Jihe's adjutant Lehe put away the map and stood aside, and several lieutenants strode over after assigning tasks, seeing Chen Jiji and An Yi so happy and asked why.

Chen Jiji pointed to the brothers who were guarding a pile of captives on the ground not far away, and was very curious about the strange vests they were wearing. An Yi hurriedly explained in detail, and at the same time input concepts such as "camouflage uniforms" into these old brains, so that everyone could leave an impression that they would be good at selling in the future.

But some of the bosses liked it, some disdainful it, and had different opinions, and when it was about the excitement, there were dense gunshots and shouts of killing from the direction of Taniguchi, among which there was a dull sound of earthen cannon firing.

"Woo Woo ....... Dash ......"

"Brothers, rush—"

The 500 brothers of the first battalion rushed to the valley mouth, and Chen Jiji, An Yi and other teams all went over before they got on their horses, and it took more than 20 minutes to reach the valley mouth.

After dismounting and listening to the reports of their respective subordinates, the two climbed the high post on the north side of the valley mouth together, took out binoculars to observe the battle situation in the valley, and in less than a minute, the two laughed:

The valley was littered with corpses and wounded, horses carrying opium fled everywhere, and the neighing of horses accompanied by the wails of the wounded echoed in the valley for a long time, and the nearly 1,000 survivors of the three sides of the battle all stopped fighting, huddled in the middle of the valley in panic, not daring to move, apparently terrified by the powerful fire at the exit of the valley on both sides of the valley to the east and west.

As the brothers of the first battalion raised the muzzle of the black hole and slowly pressed in, the roar of "put down your arms and raise your hands" came out, and the sound of swords and guns falling in the valley rang out, and the brothers of the first battalion quickly separated the prisoners who were automatically separated, and the brothers of the engineer battalion led by Taniguchi Beard in the east also approached the middle of the valley, and the pack horses that had escaped were concentrated.

After a while, a middle-aged captive was brought to Chen Jiji and An Yi.

Chen Jiji was quite surprised when he received the documents handed by the blood-stained captives, nodded and ordered the commander of the first battalion to greet Lieutenant Colonel Yang in front of him, and escort all his brothers to the engineer battalion camp at the bridgehead of Zhangpan Village to rest.

Seeing such a scene, An Yi suddenly felt bad, and gestured to Hu Zi who came with his eyes, Hu Zi nodded and returned to the valley, and after a while, he led more than 200 brothers who were unharmed, and led fifty pack horses with goods on their backs to walk slowly out of the mouth of the West Valley and slowly to the north.

An Yi smiled at Chen Jiji and saluted goodbye, left in a chic manner with Chen Jiji's helpless wry smile, rode on a horse under the escort of more than a dozen elites led by Xia Jian, walked two kilometers south of the village and turned north, and rushed along the sheep intestine trail to Crosshorse Village, thirteen kilometers east of Zhangpan Village, to meet with the brothers of the second and third companies who had completed the construction task before dawn and quietly rushed to the new camp.

At nine o'clock in the morning, An Yi, who returned to the new camp, was very satisfied with the place chosen by the police communication platoon brothers, separated by a weedy field less than 50 meters away from the road, surrounded by mountains and rivers, shady trees, a four-meter-wide clear cross-horse stream flowing from the south, and there was a hill more than 50 meters away from the camp under the stretching mountain peak behind it, and only one sentry post could be placed to observe the east, west and south directions.

As soon as the diligent brothers of the third company arrived at this new camp, they immediately cut down several seven or eight meter-high vertebral trees and erected a sturdy improvised bridge.

In the evening, the brothers who had been asleep woke up to the whistle of the opening of the meal.

An Yi happily gathered in front of the main tent and sat on the ground, Mei Zizi drank a little wine, and just ate a piece of delicious fish and meat cooked from the cross-horse stream, the sentry rushed to report: Deputy Division Commander Jiang and several division staff officers have arrived!

An Yi hurriedly led Hu Zi and Yin Jinan across the bridge to greet him, Jiang Dingwen was full of praise when he saw the beautiful camp, and led the four school officers and staff officers to sit on the ground under the respectful invitation of An Yi and the three of them, facing a plate of boiled river fish just served, everyone ate a few pieces and drank two sips of wine, and immediately praised the quality of the bridge construction and the amazing speed of An Yi's battalion.

In the end, An Yi couldn't help it: "Big brother, if you have something to say, you are torturing people!" ”

Jiang Dingwen laughed, several staff officers also laughed, but An Yi was depressed.

Jiang Dingwen put down his chopsticks and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Yi, do you know who the people of the three parties in the Shuttle Valley are?" ”

An Yi shook his head: "After the fight, I knew that the horse gang belonged to the Sixth Army, and I couldn't tell the difference between the other armies, it seems that they are all mountain bandits who occupy the mountains and rob homes for the king." ”

"I don't blame you or Commander Chen for this, but only Lieutenant Colonel Yang Yongjiang, the quartermaster deputy director of the Sixth Army, if he had notified us in advance, there would have been no such misunderstanding."

Jiang Dingwen smiled meaningfully, took a sip of wine and continued: "The armed forces of those two gangs of robbers are quite interesting, after the interrogation, we learned that the Red Guards composed of more than a dozen towns and villages in the Yangxi area occupied the southern slopes of the advanced valley, and they hated the underworld forces that sold opium very much, so after they got the information, they organized and decided to crack down hard. Entering the valley to occupy the northern slopes of the mountains were the bandits from northwest Jiangxi who had long been entrenched in the depths of the Jiuling Mountains, and they also had their own intelligence sources, knowing that they were the men and goods of the Sixth Army, and they also wanted to unite and bite into it, trying to seize guns, ammunition, horses, and opium in the ambush to strengthen themselves.

So, when the caravan entered the valley, this group of bandits with more than 800 people took the lead in attacking, killing more than 40 people of the Sixth Army and wounding hundreds of people at once, especially their self-made loose cannons, which knocked down a large area with tens of millions of fine iron sand. Five minutes later, the Red Guards who were ambushed in the south couldn't sit still, and when they saw that the bandits were all flocking to the horses and the unlucky people of the Sixth Army, they launched a fierce attack and rushed down condescendingly, and the result was all chaotic, and many frightened people fled to the valley mouth on both sides, and were killed and wounded all over the place by the powerful firepower of you and the brothers of Commander Chen, and the three sides fighting in the valley stopped fighting, and you know the last thing you know at the scene, haha! ”

An Yi smiled slightly, tilted his head and asked, "Big brother, you won't come to reward your little brother on purpose, right?" ”

"That's right! It was precisely here to commend you that the division headquarters decided: The engineer battalion has made meritorious service in suppressing bandits, and will reward 5,000 yuan in cash. However, what you get back must be returned to the friendly army, including all the captures of the Fourth Regiment, and they must be sent back intact. In this emergency, the friendly forces suffered heavy losses, more than 100 people were killed and wounded, and all the guns, horses, and goods were not complete. Right, Xiao Yi? Jiang Dingwen persuaded earnestly.

An Yi frowned and sighed: "Five thousand yuan for three hundred thousand, grandma's!" No wonder Lao Tzu's right eyelid kept jumping on the way back...... Big brother, two of those pack horses fell and died along the way, and they couldn't even get their bones out of the deep valley, and ah, fifteen of them had nothing on their backs......

"Haha! You guy, others don't understand you, don't I know you? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu will now order the brothers of the more than 30 spy companies waiting outside the camp gate to come in and search? ”

After that, Jiang Dingwen looked at An Yi with a smile.

An Yi had no choice but to surrender: "Okay, I'll obey your boss!" The fifty horses are at the foot of the hill behind, and the things on the horseback have not yet been unloaded, so you will take them back later...... In the future, the little brother will never do this kind of thing again! ”

Jiang Dingwen and several staff officers laughed, stood up and walked out of the camp gate, and An Yi and the three frustrated ordered the brothers to lead the horses.

Fifty horses quickly led the small bridge, the brothers of the spy company happily took the reins and pulled onto the road, and several staff officers saw Jiang Dingwen holding An Yi's shoulders, and also said goodbye and left with interest.

Jiang Dingwen pointed to the twenty good horses left by the brothers of the spy company, and whispered to An Yi: "This is the order of the master to reward you with the model battalion, and they are all good horses that can go to the battlefield. It's not good for the big brother to tell you just now, I'll tell you now, as soon as the chief of staff of the friendly army arrives in Liuyang, he will send us 50,000 oceans, and we can't help but give them face, right? Let's accept the money and let the other party owe a big favor, why not? The Fourth Regiment did not suffer any casualties in this beautiful operation, not only received 500 prisoners to expand its establishment, but also received a reward of 10,000 yuan from the division headquarters, and Regiment Commander Chen was already very satisfied. As for you, the credit is the greatest and the least is the least, the eldest brother knows in his heart that he can only compensate you in other aspects, so come over with his ears and ......"

Jiang Dingwen whispered in An Yi's ear, An Yi's eyes lit up when he heard it, his eyebrows fluttered, where did he still look a little depressed at this time?

(To be continued)