In China in 1940, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression had reached a very difficult stage, with the devils exercising brutal rule in enemy-occupied areas and brutally suppressing the Chinese who dared to rise up to resist.

Laba Festival is celebrated on January 16 of the Gregorian calendar. When it was almost evening, on the freight dock in Jiujiang, Luo Jinzhang and Zhang Shixiong sent away a fleet full of grain transporting grain.

Looking at the fleet, the two of them were released. For this batch of food, the devil, the security team, and the police station have gone through a lot of trouble. During the requisition, the troops were constantly attacked by guerrillas and ordinary people, and hundreds of people died in the devils alone. Fortunately, hundreds of thousands of catties of grain were finally levied, and they could pay to the devil. Commander Yamamoto greatly praised the two of them, saying that they had a very good conscience, had made great contributions to the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and were models of goodwill in China. This made these two Han Jian's tears of excitement come out, and they wanted to call Yamamoto Devil Daddy. They worked non-stop, day and night, urging the dock workers to load the grain onto the ship. Only then did they breathe a sigh of relief and chant Amitabha Buddha in their hearts.

The grain of this fleet will be transported to Shanghai first, and then to Yuben. For the sake of this batch of grain, the two hardcore men did not know how many things that hurt nature and reason, they extorted money, took advantage of it, and reaped a lot of benefits from it.

The convoy was dragged downstream by a devil's tugboat. There are many squads of devils escorted on the ship, one class of devils lives on the tugboat, and another squad is stationed on the last boat. The rest of the devils were stationed on several grain ships. Looking at the grain fleet of the devils who were gradually moving away, the two Han Annihilation didn't know how happy they were in their hearts.

At nearly eight o'clock, the grain convoy passed through the mouth of Poyang Lake, and then continued downstream. Their first stop along the river is Wuhu in Anhui Province, and they will not stop at ports along the way. The devil had two machine guns on the tugboat, and two on the last boat. Each ship is guarded by two devils. There is a high-power searchlight installed on the tugboat, which can shine far away, and the devil keeps shining the searchlight back and forth on the river, and the broken ship is also equipped with a searchlight, but it is not as far as the previous one. The headlights on the tugboat also shine far away.

In front of it is the Dragon King Temple Channel. This section of the channel is very narrow, because the Yangtze River has entered a dry period, the river is less than 300 meters wide, and the river is very shallow, and only a few dozen meters wide near the south can be navigated. The captain of the devil was quite familiar with this area, and he leaned on the south shore to drive the man cautiously, for fear that the fleet would run aground here.

But whatever he was afraid of came, under the illumination of the devil's searchlight, he suddenly found that not far from the front of the fleet, on the shore south of the river, there was a long wooden raft docked, occupying more than half of the channel. At this time, the wooden raft was very lively, with a few lanterns lit on it, and the platoon workers were busy carrying wood to the shore.

The devil captain kept scolding with "eight checks of teeth" in his mouth, but there was no way, he had to slow down the boat and slowly approach the wooden row. He did not dare to let the fleet move near the north side of the channel, so he had to approach the wooden raft and drive down slowly. He told the captain of the escort devil squad to let his soldiers hold the wooden raft with a penny, so as not to let the wood on the wooden raft break the boat. The leader of the devil squad hurriedly ordered his subordinates to put away their guns, pick up the penny, and quickly support the wooden rafts, and even the devils on the tugboat and the broken boat hurriedly all went down to the grain boat to help open the wooden rafts. The rowmen on the wooden rafts also picked up the pennies one after another, and vigorously supported the grain boats to prevent them from touching the wood.

The flotilla slowly sailed down the river next to the wooden rafts.

When the devil's tugboat was about to reach the last wooden platoon, a whistle suddenly sounded. The penny in the hands of the platoon workers who supported the grain ship suddenly attacked the devils. The devils were caught off guard, and at this time they only heard a series of "poof" and "pop" sounds, and the devils on the boat either burst out with their heads or opened their chests, and were knocked down on the boat by the platoons, and some rolled into the river one after another. At the same time, several figures flew up from the platoon and jumped onto the tugboat and the broken grain ship, only to see their knives rise and fall, and the devils with machine guns and steamers on the two ships returned to Mt. Fuji in a moment.

The devils on the grain ship were all reimbursed in an instant.

The platoon workers hooked the devils floating on the river with pennies, and then tied a big stone with a wire to the corpse of each devil, and after a while, all the devils sank to the bottom of the river and disappeared without a trace, and the finless porpoises and fish and shrimp in the Yangtze River could be eaten again.

It turned out that after Xiao Xiong and the others returned to Jiujiang, they learned that the devil's grain requisition operation was almost over. The requisitioned grain has filled all the grain depots on the wharf, and there are still a lot of piles in the open field of the wharf. He expected that the devils would soon be transporting this grain to the big cities of Nanjing, Shanghai, or Wuhan, so he ordered the intelligence group and the members of the reconnaissance team on the docks to pay close attention to the enemy's movements and collect information on the enemy's grain delivery as soon as possible.

Sure enough, the scouts reported that a convoy had come from the downstream direction the night before yesterday and stopped at the dock, and the ship was not loaded with any cargo, which was most likely the fleet used by the devils to transport food. Sure enough, the scouts reported that the devils had begun to load the ship with food.

Xiao Xiong and the others immediately discussed the plan of action for this attack on the enemy.

If you attack the dock hard, it will definitely not work, since the last time the dock was bombed, the devils have strengthened their vigilance on the dock, and the garrison force is particularly strong, and the hard attack is undoubtedly an egg hitting a stone. If you still want to take the last time to snatch the devil's patrol motorboat, it is obviously not possible, because on the river outside the wharf, the devil's patrol boat is patrolling non-stop, and no boat can get close to the motorboat and the wharf, not to mention that the searchlight on the wharf illuminates the river as if it were daylight, and it is impossible for the fishing boat to attack.

Everyone also has an idea, that is, to find ways to seize this batch of grain, if it can be successful, it is the best choice, not only to solve the food problem in the base areas, but also to help the common people get through the New Year and live a good year.

Xiao Xiong decided to go to the wharf and the riverside separately with everyone to inspect the situation. Together with members of Wang Yantai's and Jiang Yongming's water guerrillas and Jiangxin guerrillas, he rowed several fishing boats downstream along the river. They came to the river near Zhoutou Village to inspect and found that this was originally an ideal place for ambush fleets, but because it was too close to Xingang Town, there were a large number of devils stationed in the town, and the devils also had a number of patrol motorboats here, which could escort the devils' fleet in times of crisis. Even if the ambush was successful, it was not very convenient to transfer.

On this section of the river from Xingang to the mouth of Poyang Lake, it can be said that there is basically no chance, and the devils have a tight defense of this section of the river, and the patrol motorboats are constantly coming and going.

When the fishing boat crossed the lake, he saw a long wooden raft coming out from the direction of Poyang Lake. It was a wooden raft that was hung to go down the river, Xiao Xiong saw the wooden raft, and couldn't help but think of the scene of the big battle of Poyang Lake and the intelligent bombing of Songmen Mountain, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart.

I came to the area of the Dragon King Temple. Xiao Xiong's eyes lit up, and he saw that because it was in the dry season, the river surface was not wide, and it was only less than 300 meters wide here, and the channel that could pass through the big ships was only a few tens of meters wide, and the ships could only pass close to the channel on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River in this area is some distance away from the devil's patrol area, and even after the ambush, the troops can quickly move to the direction of Fujiazhou in Jiangxinzhou, which is an excellent place to ambush the enemy.

Xiao Xiong was very happy to think of this, but there must be a lot of devils escorted, and the defense should be very tight. So how do you launch an attack? I am afraid that a hard attack will not work, the enemy's fire is very fierce, and it is difficult for fishing boats to resist. Dive past it, I'm afraid it won't be able to do it. At this time, in the cold winter, the river water is biting, only a few degrees above zero, and after soaking in the water for a long time, the team members will definitely freeze and will not be able to complete the task at all.

What to do? There is not much time left for himself, and the devil will definitely load the grain and transport it away tomorrow at the latest.

Suddenly, the wooden raft hanging out of Poyang Lake floated in his mind. Right! Or use the wooden raft to complete this mission! He hurriedly asked Wang Yantai to row the fishing boat upstream, and when they caught up with the wooden raft, he let the boat lean against the wooden raft. Everyone got on the wooden raft.

Xiao Xiong found the boss on the wooden raft and told them that he wanted to buy the wooden raft.

When the boat boss heard this, he was really overjoyed, because they were going to sell the wood to Nanjing and Shanghai. If Xiao Xiong and they buy it, not only will they not have to take the risk to go down the river, but they will also be able to go home for a good year. It's really sleepy and touching the pillow, and pie really fell from the sky.

The boss of the wooden row sold the wooden row to Xiao Xiong at the lowest price, but Xiao Xiong still promised to give each row worker an extra dollar. He asked the platoons to dock the wooden platoons on the shore of the Dragon King Temple, and sent a capable subordinate to immediately bring these platoons back to Jiujiang and find Daddy Xiao to settle the bill. Then he sent people to Jiang Xinzhou to organize people to rush here immediately to replace the platoons.

That night, more than 50 members of Jiang Xinzhou came here on time. Xiao Xiong arranged the combat mission, and a person was assigned to be responsible for each wooden platoon. Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Sure enough, the battle was carried out in accordance with Xiao Xiong's plan, which can be called a perfect ambush battle on the water, without a single shot, it eliminated a team of devils, seized hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, a tugboat, and more than a dozen wooden boats.

Xiao Xiong and the others drove the grain convoy to the waterway of Caizhou Village, and scattered the grain to various secret stations on Jiangxinzhou to hide. Then he chiseled off a plank from under each grain ship, and sank it all into the reeds. He also unloaded all the machines on the tugboat, and dug holes in the bottom of the boat, so that it also sank to the bottom of the river. It was really unaware of the ghosts, and a fleet of devils disappeared on the rolling Yangtze River in transit.

When the devils in Wuhu called the city defense headquarters in Jiujiang and asked why the fleet had not yet arrived, the devils in Jiujiang realized that something had happened to their grain fleet.

They dispatched almost all the patrol boats and devils along the river to carefully search the section of the Yangtze River from Jiujiang to Wuhu and its banks several times, but they still did not find any clues. A grain convoy with more than 10 ships and more than 50 escorts carrying hundreds of thousands of catties of grain disappeared inexplicably on the Yangtze River.

Only the surging Yangtze River flows mightily to the east, and it silently transmits this good news to the distance.

When Luo Jinzhang heard the news, it was like a thunderbolt sounding in his ears? How is this possible, on the heavily defended Yangtze River, the grain convoy escorted by a small team disappeared inexplicably, and no one was alive, no corpse was dead, not even a single plank or grain of grain was found. He couldn't help but shudder.

Oh, my God! What's going on, they were either captured by the ghosts on the Yangtze River, or captured by the Dragon King, or they didn't leave anything behind? It's horrible, it's incredible. He only felt that the vest was in a cold sweat, and he always felt that his back was cold, and a cold air penetrated his heart. He had a sense of impending disaster.

When Zhang Shixiong heard the news, he was also stunned, and he couldn't come to his senses for a long time. It's unbelievable, and no one knows when, where, or how he disappeared. On the vast Yangtze River, is there really a mysterious power? He had never believed in ghosts and gods, and he felt uneasy in his heart. He quickly lit a few cigarettes and bowed a few times to God, praying for God's blessing.

February 1, 1940, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, this day is the small year of Jiujiang people. Jiujiang City is lively, and those who have not finished the New Year's goods hurry up to do the New Year's goods, and there are many people who come to the market to buy vegetables for the New Year. In the past few nights, a strange thing has happened, some poor people, I don't know who gave them a large bag of grain, and some even received a small piece of bacon or something. They were overjoyed, but they didn't dare to say anything. But no matter what, this year can be considered a good one.

Luo Jinzhang's house is located on Erma Road near the Jiujiang Railway Station, and the three-room three-tow house is surrounded by a large courtyard with a tall wall. In the past, the yard of his house was not high, but it was only because he became the president of the Devil's Chamber of Commerce that the yard was raised to more than one zhang now. The yard is not far from the barracks of the Devil Station, so it should be said that living here is worry-free. After becoming a puppet county magistrate, he spent most of his time living in the county office by Gantang Lake, where his security team was located, which was very safe. However, today is the New Year, so he gave everyone a half-day off, went home for reunion, and returned to the county government immediately after the New Year, and he himself returned home with a few henchmen.

In the evening, after paying homage to his ancestors, he drank and ate with his family and confidants. After he had eaten and drunk, he sent his brothers home for the Chinese New Year, leaving a few nursing homes to guard them.

Sleeping until midnight, Luo Jinzhang suddenly felt cold on his face, he opened his eyes, and the beam of light of a flashlight was shining on him, only to see a few black holes with muzzles pointed at his head. Oh, my God! It's like something from a dream before. It's not a dream, is it? He bit his tongue, and the pain made him feel relieved, and he woke up completely.

Luo Jinzhang thought in his heart: It's over, retribution is coming, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, and it was in his own home.