The grenade flew out in a parabola in the darkness and fell from among the trees, and several devils who were chasing forward with guns heard a noise above their heads, and they didn't care about it at the moment, and continued to run forward.

A few devils running behind walked to the side of the grenade, and the grenade exploded suddenly, and the smoke shook the leaves into the sky, and at the same time danced three unlucky devil soldiers.

Fujisa was shouting loudly to order the soldiers to pursue, when he found another explosion in the charging formation, and the imperial soldiers, who thought that they were unlucky, detonated the tricky mines arranged by the Chinese in the forest, and only cursed eight grids, and then ordered the soldiers to run forward.

The devils standing on both sides of the communication soldiers were attracted by the sudden explosion, and Shi Qiang touched his side and didn't notice it. When he felt a pain in his ribs, he was surprised to see a companion in the uniform of the Imperial Army standing in front of him.

There was a grim smile on his companion's face, a face he was sure he had never seen before, but he couldn't speak out loud.

Shi Qiang passed between the two vigilant devils, and the communication soldier who was shouting wildly with the radio did not notice anything unusual at all.

Shi Qiang approached the signal soldier, because he was worried about damaging the radio station, he reached out and patted the signal soldier on the shoulder, and when the signal soldier raised his head, he swung his dagger and slashed through the signal soldier's neck.

The communication soldier was weak and leaned on Shi Qiang's shoulder, Shi Qiang glanced around, immediately took off the radio station on his body, and then made a successful gesture to Liu Tianshu, who was on guard on the side.

Liu Tianshu saw that the devil didn't notice the strange appearance here, and immediately signaled Shi Qiang to retreat into the forest, while he himself carefully watched the surroundings, and then quickly slipped into the woods and slipped away.

Of course, they retreated into the woods, taking with them all the things they had just hidden.

Fujisa commanded his squad to chase out of the woods and rendezvous with the devils who had been chased out of the opposite ridge, only to find that they had lost track of their opponents.

"Signal soldiers, immediately report to the squadron leader that the Chinese attacked us, the ambush failed, request the next move." Fujisa shouted without looking back.

Unfortunately, no one answered.

Fujisa's anger suddenly rose, and he was about to find the messenger and give him a slap in the face.

At this moment, a military officer came running to report that the signal corpsman had been killed and the radio was gone.

"What?" Fujisa felt that his thinking could not keep up with the changes, so he hurriedly followed the soldier to the side of the signal soldier, and saw that the three soldiers, including the signal soldier, were all sent back to the East with sharp blades.

"Eight-square, bastard." Fujisa couldn't control it anymore, and after some angry scolding, he had to run to the Japanese commander who was ambushed on the opposite side to tell him the situation, and asked the communication officer of that unit to report to the top.

Watanabe received a report from Noeda that the troops heading to the wolf's tooth valley to ambush had come with news that the ambush had failed and that the mysterious Eighth Route Army squad had not appeared in the wolf's tooth valley. Instead, a group of unknown people attacked the Imperial army that was lying in ambush there, killing twenty-one Imperial soldiers, and Fujisa's team lost the radio.

"Uehara-kun, you say, did the Chinese surnamed Song betray the imperial army and did not bring the mysterious Eighth Route Army detachment into the Wolf Tooth Valley as agreed?" Watanabe looked at Uehara, who was standing on the side, and asked with some puzzlement.

According to common sense, the route of action of the Eighth Route Army's response team was selected by the underground traffic officer, and Lao Song also said that his task was to be responsible for bringing the Eighth Route Army's response team to Fukan Town smoothly, as for what the task of the team was, Lao Song was not clear.

Old Song didn't know, but Watanabe and Uehara could guess it. A group of college students from Shanghai, as well as three overseas Chinese, secretly went north, preparing to go to Taihang Mountain via Shandong, and finally rushed to Yan'an.

Moreover, according to the information obtained by the bamboo agency, these people have arrived in Yongyang County, south of Fuchang County.

It's just that the actions of this group of people are very secretive, and the escort is very vigilant, and the people of the bamboo agency are tracking all the way behind, but they have not been able to find the last foothold of this group.

At this time, the small force of the Eighth Route Army in Fuya Mountain suddenly went south, naturally to meet these intellectuals.

"Your Excellency, the Chinese surnamed Song should not have the guts to betray the imperial army, besides, although his daughter was released home by us, she has always been in our sight, and he should know the price of not cooperating with the imperial army. However, judging from what Captain Yezhi said, this Eighth Route Army squad that went south to respond should be the elite under Liu Tianshu. According to the information I have, he has a reconnaissance platoon with super combat effectiveness. Uehara thought for a moment and said.

At this moment, a devil came in a hurry and handed a piece of information to Uehara, Uehara took it and glanced at it, suddenly his eyes lit up, he looked at Watanabe and said: "Captain, there is information from the inside line, Liu Tianshu, the commander of the independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army, may have left Fuya Mountain, I estimate that he personally led the team this time." ”

"What? Liu Tianshu left Fuya Mountain? When Watanabe heard this, his eyes lit up, and he rolled his eyes twice and said, "Okay, that's great, order the Noeda Brigade to tightly block the road to Fukan Town, and at the same time contact the Yongyang County defenders, so that they can strictly check all the intersections and strictly prevent Liu Tianshu's squad from entering Fukan Town, and order the Saito Brigade to prepare immediately and sweep Fuya Mountain tomorrow." ”

Since Liu Tianshu is not in the base area, if Watanabe does not seize this golden opportunity, he will be really stupid.

The Eighth Route Army of Fuya Mountain was able to develop rapidly during this period of time, and it was precisely because of this Liu Tianshu that he was in command.

Although he desperately wanted to capture Liu Tianshu, as the captain of the wing, he naturally knew that it would be difficult to encircle and annihilate a small army of only a few dozen people in the mountains of northern Lubei.

The most ideal result is to block the road for Liu Tianshu to return north, as long as he takes advantage of his absence in the base area to completely level Fuya Mountain, even if Liu Tianshu has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to make many waves.

Liu Tianshu and Shi Qiang ran wildly all the way, and after two hours, they left the devil far behind, and saw that there were still five miles away from Chenjiaping, Liu Tianshu signaled Shi Qiang to stop, and then asked him to be on guard on the side, and he turned on the radio and immediately contacted the base area.

He called twice, and received a response from Yang Juan. Liu Tianshu immediately sent the problems encountered by the team, and after Yang Juan received the report, she ran to Zhu Aiguo with the message.

"Instructor, battalion commander telegram." Walking into Zhu Aiguo's room, Yang Juan said crisply.

"What? The battalion commander sent a telegram back? Zhu Aiguo was overjoyed when he heard it.

You must know that when Liu Tianshu went out with the team, he didn't bring a radio station, although he also persuaded him to bring a radio station with him.

Yesterday, a squad of the reconnaissance platoon escorted eight women back, saying that their village had been swept by devils, and only a few of them were rescued by the reconnaissance platoon in the whole village, and the rest of the villagers were all killed.

At that time, Xiang Shuyu and Secretary Wang were so angry that their eyes were red when they heard this, and then Secretary Wang specially convened a meeting of cadres above the company level of the independent battalion and reported the incident at the meeting.

Of course, at the meeting, Secretary Wang inevitably denounced the atrocities of the little devils.

After the first shift was sent away, the women were temporarily integrated into the health team of the independent battalion.

saw that the telegram said that the devils were preparing to ambush the team in the Valley of Wolf's Teeth, but fortunately, they detected it in advance, and the team did not fall into the trap. However, Liu Tianshu said in the telegram that the devils had set up an ambush in advance, and it was very likely that it was related to the underground traffic officer Lao Song, and he asked Zhu Aiguo to report the situation to Secretary Wang, and asked the organization to inform him of the emergency contact information of the underground organization in Fukan Town.

Wang Shuihe heard Zhu Aiguo say that Liu Tianshu sent a telegram back that the squad was ambushed by devils in the Valley of Wolf's Teeth, but fortunately, the squad was alert in advance and changed its course of action in advance, so that it did not suffer losses. However, from the analysis of various situations, there seems to be a problem with the traffic officer Lao Song. He couldn't help but change his face in shock, although he didn't know Lao Song, he still heard Tang Shui say it. Tang Shui is in charge of the underground transportation lines in Fuchang County, and he is also in charge of the connection with the Yongyang County organization.

According to Tang Shui, this old Song, his wife died a few years ago, and there is only one teenage daughter in the family, and Lao Song is an old comrade who has been in the party for many years, how can he have a problem.

"Comrade patriot, is Comrade Liu Tianshu mistaken? I have heard of Lao Song, he is a long-tested old party member, how can he have problems? Wang Shuihe looked at Zhu Aiguo and asked.

"Secretary Wang, the current situation is very complicated, in order to ensure the safety of this group of students, I think we should prepare for the worst, Comrade Tianshu I know, since he said this, there should be his reason." Zhu Aiguo said solemnly.

Seeing this, Wang Shuihe glanced at Tang Shui, who was sitting on the side and pondering, "Minister Tang, you are in charge of the underground transportation line, you know the situation best, tell me your opinion." ”

Tang Shui was also thinking about Liu Tianshu's telegram at that time, and when he heard Secretary Wang's words, he thought for a while and said, "Okay, in this way, instructor, I will follow you to the battalion headquarters." ”

When he arrived at the camp headquarters, when he made an appointment with Liu Tianshu, Tang Shui wrote a place and name, as well as two code words on a piece of paper, handed it to Yang Juan, watched her send the message, took back the note, and lit it on the oil lamp.

After he and Shi Qiang arrived at Chenjiaping, he found a room, asked Shi Qiang to guard the door of the house, and no one was allowed to approach, and contacted Yang Juan at the agreed time.

"Platoon Commander Shi, you arrange a combat group to be responsible for protecting this radio station. No one is allowed to touch this radio station without my orders. After saying that, he walked to the side of the kang and lay down to sleep.

When Lao Song turned to Chenjiaping from the north of the Wolf's Tooth Valley, he found that there were always soldiers from the reconnaissance platoon by his side, and he immediately knew that Battalion Commander Liu had become suspicious of him.

Sitting in the room, he stared at the wall with his eyes on the wall, looking a little dull, as if his soul had been taken away by something. (To be continued.) )