Liu Tianshu turned around when he heard the sound, and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl with messy hair, holding a dagger in both hands, frantically rushing towards a constantly struggling Imperial Army, if it wasn't for a soldier to stop her, the Imperial Association Army would have been stabbed to death by the girl.

At this moment, Chen Jian, who was on guard in front, ran over and said in a low voice: "Battalion commander, the devils from Pingyuan Town have come out." ”

"Shi Qiang, clean up the battlefield immediately, take them with you, and we will retreat."

At this time, the soldiers of the second squad also ran up, quickly collected the weapons and other useful things on the enemy's body, and withdrew to the mountain forest on the side with the eight women and four prisoners.

Shortly after entering the mountain forest, a captive suddenly rolled towards the hillside, and rolled down the hillside desperately, Shi Qiang saw this, and immediately took off the crossbow on his back with his backhand, a sharp arrow in his hand, and by the faint moonlight, he saw the figure get up from the grass, and immediately pulled the board machine, and the sharp arrow shot out quickly, and the captive let out a scream and disappeared into the grass.

The two fighters immediately rushed down the hill, and after a while, they came back from the slope, looked at Shi Qiang and said, "Platoon commander, that guy is dead." ”

The remaining three captives saw that their companions were shot directly because they had escaped, so they naturally dispelled the idea of looking for an opportunity to escape.

After running five miles northeast, the group stopped in a mountain forest.

The three captives were naturally strictly guarded, and Liu Tianshu finally understood what happened during the day in the crying of the eldest sister at this time.

According to the eldest sister, the village where they live is called Maping Village, which is a small mountain village ten miles away from Pingyuan Town, and there are only about a dozen households in the whole village, because this village is located in the mountains and forests, opposite Fuya Mountain.

However, Xiaoshan Village is on the south side of the highway from Pingyuan Town to Songkan Town via Qinglongkou, and is not within the scope of the base area.

Of course, as a village not far from the base area, it is inevitable that the Eighth Route Army will be active there.

This afternoon, more than 30 devils and more than 30 puppet soldiers, under the leadership of a traitor wearing a devil's soft leather hat, suddenly came to this village, first forced the villagers to kill chickens and cook for them, and after they were full of wine and food, the devil officer headed by finally showed a hideous face and ordered the villagers to hand over the eight roads, otherwise they would die. It's a pity that there are no eight roads in the village at this time, and besides, even if there are eight roads, these people will not betray the devils.

Seeing the silent eyes of the villagers, the devil commander suddenly became ferocious, ordered the soldiers to forcibly arrest the young woman among the villagers who rushed together, and then opened cruel fire on the unarmed villagers.

As the gunshots rang out, dozens of kind-hearted civilians all fell in pools of blood, and the captured women saw their relatives die tragically in front of their eyes, and their eyes immediately turned red, and they rushed to the enemy desperately, and in the midst of the dispute, twelve more women fell in pools of blood.

The eight women were savagely captured by those puppet soldiers and failed to break free, and finally were tied together by the enemy.

The devil commander couldn't help but laugh wildly when he saw countless Chinese lying in a pool of blood, and then sent six devils and sixteen puppet troops to send these women back to the Pingyuan stronghold, while he took the rest of the devils and puppet troops and continued to advance towards the mountains and forests to the east.

"What? You say that the people in a village have been killed by devils? Liu Tianshu couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon surrounded by him were all furious at this time, and they couldn't wait to rush over immediately and kill all these inhuman devils.

"Comrade of the Eighth Route Army, you have to avenge them." After the eldest sister finished speaking, she lost her voice and became painful.

Thinking of the devil's atrocities in the mountain village, Liu Tianshu glanced at the three trembling puppet soldiers, turned to the women and said, "Did the three of them help the devil kill the villagers?" ”

The girl who was holding a dagger and was about to take revenge looked back at the three trembling puppet soldiers carefully, and said in a low voice: "The three of them didn't shoot, the guy who escaped and was killed shot my father." ”

When Liu Tianshu heard this, his eyes were fixed on the three puppet soldiers, and he said in a cold tone: "You three guys listen to me, I am Liu Tianshu, the battalion commander of the Fuyashan Independent Battalion of the Eighth Route Army, since you didn't help the devils kill the villagers today, I will give you a chance to confess for the time being, Qiangzi, pull the three of them aside and interrogate them well, if anyone doesn't confess honestly, he will be killed." ”

Shi Qiang immediately brought a few soldiers over and pulled the three puppet soldiers aside for interrogation separately.

As for Liu Tianshu, he asked about the plans of several women, but unfortunately all the relatives of these women's families had been killed by the enemy, and finally Liu Tianshu decided to let the reconnaissance team follow these women, first bury the dead villagers, and then send them back to the base area.

At the same time, the devil's massacre of the villagers in Maping Village was reported to the battalion headquarters.

After completing the task, the first squad went directly to the herring valley ten miles east of Fuchang County to meet the main force of the reconnaissance platoon.

After seeing the first squad leader Hao Mengxuan escort the women away with the soldiers, Liu Tianshu took the second and third classes and quickly inserted them in the southeast direction.

As for the guns and ammunition captured in the battle just now, naturally I found a secret place to bury them first.

When it was almost dawn, they finally arrived at Niutou Mountain in the east of the county.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, Liu Tianshu ordered the team to rest in the forest, and from here to the south, it was necessary to cross the railway from Jinan to Qingdao. The independent battalion sabotaged the railroad twice, forcing Watanabe to strengthen the protection of the railway.

In order to ensure the safety of the railway, Watanabe forced the people to cut down all the crops and woods within 500 meters of the railway, make out 500 meters of open land, and even fill in some ravines along the railway.

As for the patrolling devils and puppet soldiers, they patrol between the two strongholds on the railway line every five minutes.

In this way, the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas wanted to successfully pass the railway during the day, and the difficulty can be imagined.

After letting the team rest in the mountains and forests, Liu Tianshu took Shi Qiang, Chen Jian and Shi Hu and quietly came to a forest opposite the railway. Seeing the two sides of the railway in front of him, after being made wide by the devil and reaching the open land of two miles, Liu Tianshu's eyebrows furrowed.

He didn't expect Watanabe to come up with such a vicious move, which was obviously to prevent the Eighth Route Army from operating on the railway line.

Seeing that the devil led the wolf dog along the railway line every five minutes, and there were ironclad cars patrolling from time to time, he couldn't help but glance back at Jian Chen and Shi Qiang.

"Jian Chen, Qiangzi, it seems that this railway is really not having a good time."

"Battalion commander, why don't we use the night to break through?" Shi Qiang saw that the devil's defense didn't seem to have any flaws at all, and gritted his teeth and said.

"Breaking?" Liu Tianshu couldn't help but shake his head, "With us as people, once we alarm the devil, I'm afraid it's not enough for the devil to stuff his teeth." Let's go over there and take a look. ”

Rejecting Shi Qiang's proposal, Liu Tianshu took the three of them and continued to walk east.

Not far to the east, there is a river that originates from Fuya Mountain, although it is not large, but people cannot wade across it. Walking to the river, Liu Tianshu picked up the grass, held a telescope to carefully observe the movement of the river, and saw the river flowing slowly under the railway. However, the shore under the railway bridge was also cut bare by the devils.

As for boats, except for the section under the railway bridge, which is relatively gentle, the rest of the river is rapids and is not suitable for boating.

Seeing the patrolling devils from time to time probing from the bridge to observe under the bridge, he fell into deep thought.

After a while, seeing that Shi Qiang and Chen Jian were staring at each other and thinking, Liu Tianshu thought for a while and said: "Shi Qiang, Chen Jian, our main task this time is to successfully pick up that group of patriotic students, not to destroy the devil's railway line, nor to use devils to fight hard." I had an idea, although it was autumn, the river was not cold, so we would dive through the river at night. Let's go back and discuss it in detail. ”

The four of them returned to the mountains and forests, and immediately called the soldiers over, Liu Tianshu said his thoughts, and everyone supplemented and improved the details, and finally, a complete set of action plans was made by them.

In the middle of the moon, Xiaofen quietly arrived at the river, and the soldiers tied weapons and ammunition wrapped in oilcloth to their backs, and held a reed pole in their hands, ready to go into the water.

After the soldiers of the second squad were prepared, under the leadership of Chen Jian, they quietly slid down the river, and then slowly went downstream to the bridge, saw the bridge, and immediately took the reed rod in their mouths, dived to the bottom and floated down the current.

More than ten minutes later, the second shift quietly went ashore at a corner on the south side of the railway, and then, under the command of Chen Jian, immediately took out his weapons and prepared to respond.

Liu Tianshu saw the signal from the opposite side of the railway, and knew that the second shift had successfully crossed the railway line, so he took the third shift and quietly slipped into the river, and then drifted down the water.

When they arrived at the foot of the railway bridge and heard the sound of a devil overhead, everyone immediately took a breath and dived into the water, using the reed pole to breathe, until they drifted three hundred meters below, and then slowly emerged from the water.

Although the devils guarded the bridge very closely, it was only to prevent the Eighth Route Army from blowing up the railway bridge, and they didn't expect that Liu Tianshu's squad would use this way to pass the railway line.

After the detachment landed on the shore, they immediately went into a mountain forest in the south according to the predetermined plan, and then burned a fire to dry their clothes.

At three o'clock in the morning, the team set off again, this time to the Liu family compound in Yangshan Town.

Walking into Yangshan Town, Liu Tianshu led the team to skillfully avoid the devil's turret outside the town, and used the cover of the night to quietly go behind the wall of the Liu family's compound.

After listening to the surroundings, Liu Tianshu said that Shi Qiang immediately stepped on the shoulders of a half-squatting warrior, and then reached out with both hands, grabbed the upper end of the wall, and with both hands, he easily climbed the wall, and then, the two soldiers followed the wall.

After Liu Tianshu saw Shi Qiang send a safety signal, he immediately climbed over the wall, held the gun in his hand, and slowly walked backwards.

Behind him, the soldiers of the squad turned into the Liu family's compound one after another. (To be continued.) )