readx; The Fifth Battalion first attacked a railway station 20 kilometers from Pukou, completely annihilated a squad and two platoon puppet troops stationed there, and then used explosives to blow up the railroad tracks by more than 50 meters, completely cutting off the Jinpu Road. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After receiving the report, the Pukou army immediately dispatched a brigade to cover the sappers to repair the railway. The 5th Battalion then withdrew, and then reported the enemy situation to the regimental headquarters.

The city wall of the county was originally built in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, more than ten meters high and four or five meters wide, the wall is made of green bricks, and then the gap is smoothed with glutinous rice juice mixed with lime, which is strong and abnormal. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing soldiers entered the customs, there were 'three massacres' in Yangzhou, and the nearby [***] was not spared, most of the city walls were destroyed in the war, and although they were repaired several times, they were not restored to their original appearance, and the moat outside the city wall was also filled with silt because of the time for too long.

Since the Heisei Brigade was annihilated, the newly stationed [***] army spared no effort to build fortifications in the city, and built a bunker a few hundred meters away from the four gates as the outer barrier of the county seat.

After receiving the telegram from the 5th Battalion, Lao Hei immediately ordered his troops to attack simultaneously from the east, west, and south, preparing to seize the county seat in one fell swoop with an overwhelming superior force.

150-mm infantry shells smashed straight on top of the pillbox, and the masonry structure crumbled, along with the army inside. Immediately afterwards, infantry artillery and mortars began to bombard the city walls violently, and with the sound of violent explosions, several gaps appeared in the ancient walls, and the attacking troops poured up like a tide under the cover of dense machine-gun fire. At this time, the army on the city wall fought back desperately, throwing down strings of grenades, and at the same time, light and heavy machine guns burst like beans, suppressing the firepower under the city.

The attacking troops rushed up like a tidal wave, and soon retreated like a tidal wave, and thick corpses quickly piled up above and below the city. As the battle continued, the army was at a disadvantage, and soon could not support it, except for the south gate where the enemy was heavily armed, the east gate and the west gate with the puppet army as the main force were broken through after holding out for more than ten minutes, and the army had to abandon the city wall, shrink the defense line, and use the streets and houses to resist stubbornly.

At this time, the guns and grenades that had just been equipped with the troops played a huge role, and the attacking troops continued to fire guns and grenades while advancing rapidly, blowing the Japanese army to pieces.

After receiving the report, the army in Pukou hurriedly sent a large brigade of reinforcements, but until the loss of [***], they could not take a step forward in front of the blocking troops, so they had to retreat in disgrace.

To Lao Hei's surprise, after learning the news, the Tianchang defenders quickly retreated to Yizheng with the remnants of [***], giving up the county seat. In view of the fact that the Yue army gathered in Yizheng had reached a brigade, Lao Hei decisively canceled the plan to recover Yizheng and decided to turn the direction of the attack to the line of Lai'an and Dingyuan in the west, because the north was already close to the [***] control area of northern Jiangsu.

After this operation, Lao Hei not only succeeded in controlling a large area west of Gaoyou Lake, so that he could receive a steady stream of supplies from here, but also found out the attitude of the Yue army towards the Soviet Union and central Anhui and eastern Anhui, and began to let go of the consolidation of the base area and the development and expansion of the army.

During the civil war, due to its proximity to the Red Army-controlled area, Longyan was always under the threat of war, and it changed hands many times in the hands of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, resulting in a dilapidated city with almost no industry and commerce. After Sun Baili officially took charge of Fujian, he built it as the base of the military industry and heavy industry of the Ninth Army, and a large amount of funds and personnel and materials were put here, factories rose from the ground, and the city expanded and developed at a geometric speed. After several years of construction, Longyan City has developed into a heavy industry base with a population of more than 500,000 people, and with the rapid increase in population, various supporting industries have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

It was an ordinary Sunday, when the factories in the suburbs were mostly closed, and the busy people were dressed in costumes, strolling happily along the wide streets, smoking cigarettes and chatting, and the crowd was mixed with many white-skinned Jews, walking up and down the streets with composure. The green park is full of laughing children playing games. The city was full of high-rise buildings, and the streets were densely packed with trading houses, pharmacies, teahouses, banks, restaurants, dance halls, employment agencies, and auction houses, and the surging flow of people in and out of these places from time to time, keeping the bosses and men busy. From time to time, buses painted in turquoise hues sped past the streets, and their bodies were covered with advertisements for American movies and various merchandise. On the dazzling billboard, the department store is desperately trying to attract customers.

There was a quiet and peaceful scene in the whole Longyan City, although the Yue army had occupied Guangzhou, but there was not the slightest atmosphere of war here, and the Fujian people were very confident in their Ninth Army Corps, believing that they would be able to keep Yue himself out of Fujian. If it weren't for the fact that the crowd was interspersed with uniformed soldiers from time to time, no one would have thought that this place was only a few hundred kilometers away from the army in a straight line.

Liu Zhenqi's appearance was as plain as his name, with an ordinary round face, medium build, always with a humble smile at the corners of his mouth, and a slightly shabby gray cloth robe that made him go there without attracting the attention of others. At this moment, he was slowly walking forward with the flow of people, stopping from time to time to bargain with the roadside vendors, and casually scanning the crowd behind him out of the corner of his eye. Passing the entrance of a shopping mall, he suddenly turned and got in, walked through the crowd like a fish, and came out from behind, and then he resumed his old speed, not only did he not walk slowly to the door of a barbershop, and straightened his clothes against the glass at the door. After confirming that he was not being followed, Liu Zhenqi immediately walked through a deep alley and came to another street.

After looking around again, he walked into a hardware store on the side of the road.

A delicate-looking girl behind the counter smiled slightly, and looked at Liu Zhenqi with gentle and respectful eyes: "What does Mr. want to buy?" ”

"I want to buy three catties and two taels of iron nails!" Liu Zhenqi's voice was very low, so low that the third person couldn't hear it.

"How long are the nails, please?" The smile on the girl's face gradually disappeared, and her tone became solemn, and after looking up at the door hurriedly, she looked up and down at Liu Zhenqi.

"How long is your longest nail here?"

"One foot two inches!"

"Then I want two inches!" Liu Zhenqi said categorically.

The girl hurriedly lifted the horizontal board on the counter, and Liu Zhenqi flashed in. Then the girl snorted at the stairs behind, and Liu Zhenqi hurriedly climbed up in three steps and two steps.

The attic was full of all kinds of goods, and a middle-aged man in his fifties was sitting behind a desk in front of the window, and immediately put down the account book in his hand after seeing Liu Zhenqi come up, and scolded in a low voice: "Tanaka, didn't I tell you not to come here unless there is something very important!" Don't you know how much it cost us to build this station! Do you think the intelligence department of the Ninth Legion is easy to deal with! ”

Tanaka hurriedly bent down and bowed, and said eagerly: "Kobayashi-kun, I have discovered a very important piece of information that may even affect the fate of the empire!" ”

Xiao Lin's pupils narrowed sharply, and he asked in surprise, "What information is so important?" Could it be that they have already successfully developed tanks in the arsenal in Fujian? ”

Tanaka hurriedly said, "Neither! Then he elaborated: "Since I entered the arsenal, I have tried every means to collect information about the Arsenal Research Institute, but later I found that there is a place in the arsenal that is more heavily guarded than the research institute, and the people who can enter and leave there are all engineers and above, so I pay special attention." ”

Kobayashi's attention was firmly drawn, and his two small mung bean-like eyes shot a beast-like light, staring at Tanaka for fear of missing any details.

Tanaka continued: "I waited for three months for an opportunity! There was a sudden explosion in the heavily guarded area that day, and I ran in with the firefighters, and saw some of the equipment and instruments inside, and although I couldn't figure out what they were really for, I heard one of the engineers inside mention 'oil', and in connection with the fact that coal had been sent here in the past, I deduced that they might be experimenting with making oil from coal! ”

"What?" Kobayashi opened his mouth wide in surprise, grabbed Tanaka's collar hard, and asked viciously, "Are you sure?" ”

Tanaka nodded vigorously and said, "Later, I carefully recalled the instruments and equipment I saw inside, and they were indeed used for this purpose. ”

Kobayashi let go of Tanaka and walked around the ground excitedly: "Tanaka-kun, well done, this is a great discovery!" Then he said viciously: "There is no oil in the empire and Manchukuo, so it has to be imported from the United States, but the damned Yankees are now starting to impose an embargo, which makes the domestic oil supply very tight, and the Kwantung Army lost the battle of Zhang Gufeng and lost the opportunity to seize Russian oil." If the empire could master this technology, it would be able to use Manchukuo's abundant coal resources to refine oil and meet the needs of the Great East Asian Holy War. Finally, he asked, "According to your speculation, what stage of their research has been?" ”

Tanaka said in a very earnest tone, "I think I'm very close to success!" He then explained: "After the explosion, there was a noticeable increase in the number of people coming in and out, and the number of vehicles transporting coal became more and more frequent. ”

Kobayashi looked eagerly at Tanaka and asked, "Do you have a chance to sneak in and steal the information?" ”

Tanaka shook his head: "There is no chance!" There is a separation zone of several hundred meters between the Ordnance Research Institute and the laboratory and the rest of the workshop, fenced off by a five-metre high barbed wire fence, and patrolled by soldiers 24 hours a day. ”

Xiao Lin thought for a moment and made another suggestion: "Do you know who is the person who is in charge of this experiment? ”

Tanaka nodded and replied, "I know, it's an international student named Cycad." ”

"Good!" Kobayashi asked, "Do you know where he lives?" ”

Tanaka replied, "He also lives in a dormitory outside the valley. ”

Xiao Lin nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Don't act rashly after you go back, and don't come here to look for me again, just pay attention to the whereabouts of this cycad." I will report the information you provided to Shanghai and wait for the next instructions. You pay more attention to the missing person notice on the Longyan newspaper, if there is any action, I will notify you according to the old way! ”

Tanaka asked with concern, "Are you going to kidnap him?" ”

Kobayashi said with a grin: "Of course, it is best to be able to kidnap, the empire urgently needs this advanced technology!" The 21st Army has already captured Guangzhou, advanced the battle line to the line of Shaoguan, and if the kidnapping fails, it will send bombers to attack Longyan and destroy them all! ”

Tanaka hurriedly stopped: "Neither of these methods will work!" Then he explained: "Longyan is the key area of the Ninth Army Corps, the garrison is very dense, and the arsenal is the focus of the focus, even if we can kidnap the cycads, we can't get out." On the peaks around the arsenal there were anti-aircraft positions of the Ninth Army Corps, arranged with a considerable number of anti-aircraft guns, which were difficult to break through. Most of the buildings of the arsenal were close to the mountain, and the bombing was very difficult. In addition, if it is simply to destroy the plant and equipment, it is easy to recover with Fujian's industrial strength. ”

Xiao Lin glared at the little eyes and asked, "Then what good can you do?" ”

Tanaka replied confidently: "Assassinating the cycads is the most direct and effective way!" Headquarters just needs to prepare me with a time bomb and a silent pistol. ”

Kobayashi asked, "How are you going to approach him?" ”

Tanaka replied, "The dormitory is very heavily guarded, but it is mostly external, and I can easily approach the target from the inside!" ”

Xiao Lin thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll ask the headquarters for instructions immediately!" When you get back, start preparing! ”

Seven days later, Tanaka appeared on a hill outside the city, and he walked along a secluded forest path for ten minutes, and when there was no one in sight, he quickly burrowed into the bushes by the roadside.

When Tanaka reappeared on the mountain road, he had a heavy paper bag in his hand, exuding a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine.

After descending the mountain, Tian found a few workers who had gone into the city together, bought some random things, and got into the bus back to the dormitory.

Cycad Shi, who was busy in the laboratory, didn't know that a poisonous snake had swam to his side, waiting for an opportunity to bite his venom-stained teeth into his **!

Liu Pillow's real name is Tanaka Kakuei, his father is a businessman who has been in business in China for many years, his mother is Chinese, he went to school in China since he was a child, and when he was thirteen years old, his father sent him to a secret service school in Kobe City to learn Chinese, English, shooting, explosives, makeup, poisoning and other secret agent techniques, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sent to North China to collect intelligence on the [***] team. Because Tanaka's mother is Chinese and he has lived in China since childhood, he is able to speak many dialects very fluently. After the Ninth Army Corps successively annihilated the Ninth and Sixth Divisions in Shanghai and Nanjing, it immediately attracted the attention of the Tokyo base camp, and dispatched a large number of spies to infiltrate Fujian to collect economic and military intelligence in various ways. Tanaka was chosen because he was able to speak Henan dialect very fluently, and he was mixed with the refugees in the Yellow Flood Zone and went to Fujian. According to the prior plan, he went directly to Longyan, the arsenal of the Ninth Army and the base of heavy industry, waiting for an opportunity to collect intelligence.

As soon as Kakuei Tanaka arrived in Longyan, he rushed to the arsenal to recruit workers, and there were no special requirements other than basic cultural qualities and physical requirements, so he dared to apply. Unexpectedly, after copying an article of more than 1,000 words, he successfully passed the cultural class exam and officially became a worker in the arsenal. In the factory, he tried his best to behave in a decent manner, neither outstanding nor backward, to avoid attracting the attention of others, and at the same time deliberately made friends with workers to cover his identity.

The co-worker who lived with Kakuei Tanaka was named Li Dali, a rough Henan man, and the family had been swallowed up by the boiling Yellow River, so he got drunk at every opportunity to soothe the nostalgia for his relatives. If it weren't for the fact that he had worked in the Gongxian Arsenal for several years before, and he had two times to repair the machine, he would have been fired a long time ago.

After retrieving the time bomb and pistol from the mountain, Kakuei Tanaka began to keep an eye out for the cycads. Because the car that the cycad was riding had to pass through the workshop where Tanaka was on his way to and from work, he easily figured out the rules of the other party's life, probably because the experiment was close to success, the cycad did not stay in the laboratory all day as before, and basically returned to the dormitory on time every day to rest, so that Tanaka felt that the time was ripe to do it.

That night, Tanaka specially bought two bottles of good wine, bought a few dishes from the canteen, and pretended to be excited and invited Li Dali to drink.

Li Dali smelled the mellow aroma of the liquor, with a look of intoxication on his face, and asked casually: "Lao Liu, don't you don't drink, why did you suddenly break your vows today?" Did you find out about your family?"

Tanaka sighed and said, "Where can I find out any news in the chaos of the war, it is estimated that there is more luck and less luck!" Then he smiled bitterly and said, "The dead are dead, but the living are still alive!" Today is my birthday, in previous years, at this time in previous years, my wife had already cooked longevity noodles, and the family had a reunion dinner around the table! Now, I'm the only one left! With that, his nose twitched a few times, and two tears flowed down.

Li Dali patted Tanaka's shoulder vigorously and comforted: "Isn't there still my old Li to accompany you!" Let's fucking drink today and forget all the sad things that these bitches raised! Then he scolded loudly: "I'm a devil, if I can't fight, I'll blow up the Yellow River, it's really not raised by people, and one day I will be punished!" After that, he lifted the wine bottle, took a big sip, and then handed the wine bottle to Tanaka, and said in a commanding tone, "Drink!" ”

A bottle of wine passed between the two of them, and after a while, it was bottomed out, and Tanaka immediately opened another bottle!

(To be continued)