Kitaoka Yoshino said: "Next month, Murakami-kun and Takagi-kun's troops will be transferred back from Taihang, and it will be okay to deal with the Shina army in Nakajo Mountain at that time." Now our top priority is to correspond to the anti-communist action in Taihang Mountain and to raise the mule and horse food needed for the summer offensive. ”

Kawagishi Bunzaburo thought for a moment and said, "Not bad! We will now begin to raise strategic materials, and when Murakami-kun and Takagi-kun return to Yuncheng, they will be able to inflict a crushing blow on Mt. Nakajo with a short rest. ”

Kitaoka Yoshino's attention was very much in line with Kawagishi's appetite, and it was relatively easy to collect military rations and deal with Tsuchihachi, so that he could also give an account to Shogun Terauchi. He looked at the map and said, "Good! The Dohachi Road behind Ushijima-kun will be handed over to you and your gendarmerie. ”

"Hey!" One head of the chieftain's Cow Island.

Kawagishi Bunzaburo looked at the map again and said: "Sijiao is called 'Red Village' by the people of China, and many of them are from China, and they often harass our Xia County, like a cancer, and this time we will target Sijiao." I'm going to tell Sijiao to erase it from the map. Kawagishi Bunzaburo slapped heavily on the map on the wall.

The Japanese attack on Sijiao was without warning, they quietly sent troops to surround the village of Sijiao in the middle of the night, and sent a company of about 1,000 people, led by a butcher under Kitaoka Yoshino, his job in the army seemed to be to slaughter the Chinese people, and every time his troops arrived at a village, the village was burned down; snatching light; The devils who killed the light wing were all crazy brutes.

Mitani Kuzhi stood outside Sijiao Village, looked at the extremely quiet village with a telescope, sneered slightly, waved his hand, and at the same time the devils began to attack the village, after the guns rang out, the devils rushed into the village under the guidance of some imperial alliance troops and maintenance presidents (traitors), and began to search from house to house, and the slightest resistance was killed, the whole village was full of panic and screams, and the common people were driven to a wheat field to gather.

The dim torches flickered in the four corners of the threshing floor, and the people were gathered together, and they looked at the devils and traitors on the stage with angry eyes.

A traitor wearing a watermelon hat, a coat, and a shell gun smiled and straightened his head towards Sangu Jiu, walked to the front of the stage, and shouted: "Folks! The Imperial Army will not embarrass you, as long as you hand over the anti-Japanese elements and the ** Imperial Army, it will definitely not hurt you. My poor third son can assure the villagers. ”

The audience was silent, and no one gnawed out a word, and the poor third son looked at the muscles on his face with a very ugly twitch and said, "What? Don't give me the face of the poor third son? Well, then don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people. Then he came to Mitani Jiuzhi and said, "Taijun! These people are cunning and cunning. ”

When Mitani Jiuzhi heard this, a wicked smile appeared on his face: "Bring them out." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a group of devils escorting a group of young girls from the village to the villagers, their faces full of tears, choking and crying. At this time, there was a commotion among the villagers, and there were bursts of exclamations, the elderly mother cried and shouted her daughter's name, and the young man was angry when he saw his lover tied up inside, and the sound of crying and scolding came out among the villagers.

In Pinglu County, a fast horse rushed into the east gate to defend the city, and it was the soldiers of the independent column of the Eighth Route Army who looked strange, and it happened that Shi Dagen was there to inspect the sentry post in the city, and saw that the fast horse was as fast as lightning and the gust of wind went to roll up the dust on the ground.

Shi Dagen looked at the fast horse in the distance and said, "Hurry up!" ”

Before the words were decided, I saw a man in civilian clothes also hurrying over, sweating like rain, and his face was pale. Shi Dagen smiled and said, "What's going on today!" Most of the night was in a hurry. He looked at it, it was their liaison in Sijiao, Tong hurriedly ran over and asked, "Tong, why are you here?" ”

"Quick...... Fast...... Fast...... Sijiao ...... The devil is in Sijiao...... "Tong swallowed his breath before he finished speaking." At this time, Shi Dagen found that Tong had been shot a few times, and the white coat inside had been dyed red, and Shi Dagen hurriedly ran towards the column headquarters after thinking about it.

Shaofan of the Youth League Department of the National Youth League was still reading under the lamp when he saw a short-hit teenager running in and said, "Commander! The Japanese army sent troops to Sijiao and is now massacring in the village. ”

"What?" Shen Shaofan stood up in surprise and looked at Sun Zhiyu, who had just rushed over; Block the sky.

Shen Shaofan shouted: "Order! Special Service Battalion; reconnaissance battalions; Pistol Company Emergency Gathering! ”

"Yes!"

Shen Shaofan picked up a gun and a belt and walked towards the outside of the courtyard, Sun Zhiyu said: "Is the devil's action aimed at our Zhangdian." ”

Shen Shaofan said as he walked: "Zhangdian is our strategic pass, we must pay attention to it, and we must not lose it." Wenshan, you go to the Zhangdian position to see if the devil is striking the west.

"Good!" Zhang Wenshan bowed his head.

Shen Shaofan thought about it again and said, "Zhiyu! You're in the regimental headquarters for mutations. ”

"Yes!"

"Tianfang and I rushed to Sijiao." Shaofan looked at the sky and said.

When Shaofan and Tianfang came to the military ground, they saw the spies; The reconnaissance of the strength of the two battalions and the pistol company were ready to go, and Shaofan didn't just give an order: "The target is Sijiao!" Run forward! As soon as the words fell, the whole team ran towards the east gate, and the footsteps rang out. As soon as the troops arrived at the east gate, they saw that Huang Huancheng also rushed to the direction of Sijiao with a team of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and the two teams were advancing side by side along the way.

Shen Shaofan looked at the speed of the troops, which seemed to have slowed down, and then stopped and shouted, "Brothers! We are now going to save people, and the people of Sijiao are being mutilated by devils, and we can save one more person a minute early. ”

Bai Long said on the side: "Shaofan." I think I will rush to Sijiao with a batch of good foot strength first, so that I can save time. ”

"Good!" Shen Shaofan lowered his head.

Bai Long shouted, "The direct company of the spies has increased its speed. Then I saw a group of soldiers speeding up and rushing towards Sijiao.

On the wheat field in Sijiao Village, Sangu Jiuzhi saw that the people below did not move, and waved his hand to several devils around him, and the devils pounced on the group of young women with a smile on their faces, and the girls cried and screamed.

"Devil! I'm fighting with you! I saw the fathers and villagers on the field rushing up to the devil.

Mitani Jiuzhi waved his hand again, and the dozen or so crooked handles on the high wall were strafed at the same time, and he saw the villagers fall down in pieces, and the devils stood on the high platform and laughed frantically, and the group of girls who were killed by the devils looked at their parents with their own eyes; The brothers and sisters were slaughtered, they were stunned, lost any resistance and will to survive, and were ravaged by the devils at will.

The poor third son was also watching from the side, and he laughed loudly and said straight to Sangu Jiu: "Taijun." Why don't you find two to play with? ”

Mitani Jiuzhi didn't even look at him and said, "Burn down all the houses." Open! ”

"Alas! Open! Open! The poor third son echoed on the side, and followed Sangu behind him.

When Bailong's advance team arrived at the entrance of Sijiao Village, he saw the fire in the village and thick smoke billowing into the sky, and Long knew that it might be late, so he hurriedly ordered the troops to prepare for battle and enter the village. Shen Shaofan led the large army and rushed to the entrance of the village with Huang Huancheng's independent column of the Eighth Route Army, and saw Bai Long and others crying at the entrance of the village.

Shen Shaofan asked, "How is it?" ”

"All dead. None of them lived. The white dragon choked up and said, "We're still late." ”

Shen Shaofan couldn't help but feel shocked when he heard the charred houses and desolate ruined walls that rushed into the village, as well as the corpses lying on the road, when he came to the wheat field, the whole person was stunned, he was like returning to Nanjing in January 7, the courtyard was full of corpses, the corpses of the old folks, and the girls who were killed by * * on the side were also naked, and some were stabbed to death with bayonets.

Shaofan walked in the courtyard in a trance, looking at this corpse from time to time, rummaging over the corpse, hoping to find one or two survivors in the pile of dead people. When he came to a wooden house, he couldn't help but bite his fist and began to choke up, the wooden house was full of charred corpses of children, some children were still in swaddling clothes, Shaofan seemed to be able to hear the cries and cries of those children for help.

Shen Shaofan suddenly rushed out of the wooden house and shouted at his subordinates: "Find!" Look carefully, there must be a living. He became powerless and whispered to himself: "There must be someone alive!" There must be a living! There are survivors in the city of Nanjing, and there must be one here. He sat down on the ground and looked at the corpses that had been removed.

"Shaofan. Are you okay? Huang Huancheng came to him and asked.

Shen Shaofan looked at the corpse and said, "I will never let go of these beasts." He stood up and shouted, "Duan Louyun! ”

"Yes!" Duan Louyun ran over.

Shen Shaofan said: "I want to know that the devil army came to slaughter the village." ”

"Yes!" Duan Louyun saluted.

At this moment one of the fighters shouted, "Here's a live one." ”

When Shen Shaofan heard this, he hurriedly ran over, and saw an elderly man who had been shot in the chest, although he still had a breath, everyone knew that he would not live long, and everyone was silent.

The old man saw that it was Chinese army, and he smiled and said weakly: "Poor...... Poor Three Sons...... He brought ...... ...... who came," he swallowed his breath before he finished speaking.

"Uncle! Uncle! Shaofan screamed desperately, but the uncle couldn't wake up.

"Poor third son? The poor third son? Shen Shaofan shouted.

Huang Huancheng thought for a while and said, "Isn't it that Diao Qiongsan of Caojiazhuang!" He's an out-and-out traitor. Now Caojiazhuang is still the devil's base! Listen to him is now the captain of the detective team in Yuncheng. ”

Shen Shaofan actually never hated the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, but he also did not tolerate those devils who slaughtered defenseless people and raped women, which is probably because he escaped from Nanjing and saw such a tragedy in Nanjing, so his troops have an unwritten rule, that is, the Japanese army that participated in the Nanjing Massacre, the National Youth League, did not accept any so-called surrender and capture, and all were shot locally, There is also the fact that Shen Shaofan hates traitors the most, and sometimes that hatred wins over hatred of devils, so the National Youth League's way to deal with traitors is a public trial, and then a shot jumps. As soon as he heard that the 'poor third son', a traitor, led the devil to Sijiao to kill people and set fire, he took a burst of evil fire in his heart, and thought that the son who still brought relatives in the eight villages of ten miles could also bring devils to harm the villagers, this son was really an ironclad traitor to his grandmother's house.

At this time, Lou Yun sent out a wave of scouts and reported that the devil's team in Sijiao Tu Village was the wing of Sangu Jiuzhi, and it was also Kitaoka Yoshino's subordinates, who were resting in Caojiazhuang and wanted to return to Yuncheng early tomorrow morning.

After hearing this, Shen Shaofan breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the ruined walls around him, and after thinking about it for a while, he shouted again: "Correspondent! Give me a trip back to the regimental headquarters right away. Pass my orders: order the cavalry company to be dragged by Morakot; Huang Junjie's 1st Battalion; Nie Yufeng's battalion must rush here within two hours, and I will step on Caojiazhuang to take down the head of Sangu Jiuzhi and avenge the people of Sijiao Village. ”