Hu Maosheng moved to the window with great effort, he put his head out of the window slightly, and looked out carefully. I saw that the entire banknote customs building was calm on the surface, but in fact, there was an undercurrent surging inside, and the devils had built a bright and dark castle in almost every corner of the courtyard of the building.

Hu Maosheng looked carefully at the building opposite, that is, the west building of the banknote building, it looked like nothing on the surface, but if you looked closely, there were devils hiding behind almost every window. The devils have turned the entire banknote building into a bunker.

Hu Maosheng couldn't help but cry out bitterly in his heart: "It's not good! There is an ambush for devils! If the brothers really came to save themselves this time, then not only could they not save themselves, but the troops would have to pay a heavy price. No, we have to find a way to stop them. ”

Hu Maosheng lay back on the bed, and due to the movement just now, the wounds were touched, and several freshly scabbed wounds oozed blood. He endured the pain and looked at the room where he lived. He wanted to find a way to stop Xiao Xiong and his brothers from taking this risk.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open. I saw Cao Jimin walk in, carrying a food box in his hand.

"Captain Hu, are you okay? How's your recovery going? ”

Cao Jimin put the food box he was carrying on the table and asked Hu Maoxian.

"Thank you Director Cao for your concern, the injury is much better."

Cao Jimin walked to the side of the bed, and suddenly found that the bandage wrapped around Hu Maoxian's body oozed a little blood, and he asked pretending to be concerned:

"Oh, Captain Hu, why is the wound oozing blood again? I'm going to call a doctor. ”

"Director Cao, I really don't need it. Thank you for your concern. It may be that I accidentally rolled over and pulled the wound, and now it's fine. ”

"That's good, that's good."

Cao Jimin learned from the devil that Commander Yamamoto attached great importance to Hu Maosheng and praised him for his action to capture Hu Maoxian. For this reason, bonuses were also given to him and his meritorious personnel. This can make Cao Jimin happy. If he can get Yamamoto's commendation, maybe he can be promoted in the future.

However, Yamamoto hopes to lure Hu Maosheng down. The main task of instructing him during this period of time is to try to get closer to Hu Maosheng, if the lure can succeed, then his future for Cao Jimin will be brighter. Therefore, he has to come to Hu Maosheng at least once in the past few days, in addition to caring about his injury, he is thinking of contacting Hu Maosheng to contact his feelings.

The first few times he came, Hu Maosheng ignored him. He thought that maybe it was the cause of the pain, so he didn't say a few words every time, and he left boringly. But today, Hu Maosheng seems to talk a lot, and his attitude towards himself is much better. At least there is no such thing as a rejection.

Cao Jimin was very happy, and quickly opened the food box and brought out the food inside. He served Hu Maosheng a bowl of rice and brought out a bowl of meat and bone broth.

Hu Maosheng took the bowl, said "thank you", and ate it in a big gulp. He had eaten almost all the food he had brought, and he had drunk the bowl of bone broth. After eating, I kept burping.

Cao Jimin hurriedly handed him a towel, Hu Maosheng wiped his mouth, handed the towel to Cao Jimin, and said "thank you" repeatedly.

Hu Maosheng's attitude is particularly good today, which has never happened before. Cao Jimin was very happy, he made another cup of tea for Hu Maosheng and put it on the table.

Hu Maoxiang sighed and said to Cao Jimin:

"Brother Cao, I know why you are so good to me, but I am very conflicted in my heart. I've been very sad about this for the past few days, can you give me a few days to think about it? ”

Cao Jimin's Coke was bad today, and he didn't expect Hu Maosheng to take the initiative to talk to him about it. Seeing that his goal was about to be achieved, Hu Maosheng could accept any request. He hurriedly said:

"No problem, no problem, you don't have to rush first, heal your injuries."

Cao Jimin cleaned up the dishes on the table and put them all away. Asked:

"Captain Hu, what else do you command? Whatever you need, just tell your brother. ”

"Oh, I can't sleep at night, the lights go out early here. I want to read a book, but I don't know what to do? ”

"Okay, what do you want to read?"

"Whatever, pass the time, then please find a copy of "Water Margin", and then bring me a lamp, okay?"

"No problem, you wait, I'll let them bring it to you later."

Cao Jimin was just about to leave, when Hu Maosheng suddenly asked:

"Is Yao Ying okay?"

Cao Jimin was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and said:

"She was too stubborn to cooperate. A few days ago, I said that I had killed her. Ugh—"

Cao Jimin shook his head again, closed the door and walked out.

Cao Jimin didn't tell Hu Maosheng that the devil tortured Yao Ying in every way and exhausted all punishments, but Yao Ying just didn't say a word, and the devil Han killed her everywhere, and he didn't know her name.

Later, the enemy escorted her and several other captured anti-Japanese fighters to Xingzi County and paraded through the streets. The devil's reporter also took pictures of them, which were later published in newspapers in their own country. Yao Ying and the others regarded death as home, and no one showed the slightest timidity and fear.

The devil was so angry that he killed them all after parading through the streets.

Hu Maosheng's eyes moistened, and tears flowed down his cheeks to the pillow.

Yao Ying died, died a heroic death, and died a well-deserved death. Hu Maoxiang remembered everything in the past, and the scenes of the past seemed to have happened yesterday.

Yao Ying's hometown is in Susong, Anhui Province, and later due to the flood in her hometown, she fled to Xingzi with her family since she was a child. Because the family was too poor, her mother gave her to someone else as a child bride.

Later, Xingzi made a revolution, and Yao Ying soon left the in-law's house and actively participated in revolutionary activities. In the past few years, she has grown from an ignorant little girl to a determined revolutionary. Especially after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, she threw herself into the anti-Japanese guerrillas, and was the only female guerrilla in the team. Like the male team members, she can endure hardships and is not afraid of danger.

Later, due to the needs of her work, the organization sent her to the village to serve as the president of the Women's Rescue Association. Let her carry out secret anti-Japanese activities in the village, for example, to reconnoiter the enemy situation for the team, collect food, make shoes and clothes, etc.

However, such a strong and brave female warrior is now dead at the hands of the devils.

Hu Maosheng wiped away his tears. He looked around, the sun had already set, and it was getting dark. His heart suddenly became nervous, because it was very likely that tonight, Xiao Xiong would lead his brothers to attack the banknote building and risk rescuing him.

At this time, Xiao Xiong had already led the team to the vicinity of the banknote building, and they hid in the grass by the lake.

According to the original plan, Xiao Xiong divided the team into several roads. Led by Gao Qixing, they occupied the lakeside heights between the banknote building and the wharf, preparing to block the reinforcements and flanking attacks of the devils on the wharf. Wang Yantai and Jiang Yongming led the water guerrillas and waited by the lake, ready to meet the retreat of the large army. Xiao Xiong personally led the team to prepare to storm the Qianguan building and rescue Hu Maosheng.

The attack was scheduled for 12 midnight.

Sure enough, not long after, Cao Jimin asked the guards to send Hu Maosheng a copy of "Water Margin" and a brand-new bright horse lantern. The devil's doctor also came over to change Hu Maosheng's medicine.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, the sound of the generator outside stopped, and the lights went out. The entire compound of the banknote customs building suddenly became pitch black.

Hu Maosheng suddenly felt very nervous, so he quietly opened the window. I saw that the sky outside was overcast and the night sky was pitch black. Because it was near the end of the month, there was no moon or stars in the sky, and it became darker and darker.

In the yard, the patrolling devils were shining around with flashlights, and then the light of the flashlights turned on, and Hu Maosheng found that there were devils everywhere in the whole yard. And in the window of the west building opposite, there is not a flash of red light when the devil smokes.

What are you going to do? Hu Maoxian's heart was very anxious, on the one hand, he hoped that Xiao Xiong and the others would come to rescue him, what if it succeeded? You can swim in the sea again, and the tiger returns to the mountains and forests, and you can continue to fight devils and kill the Han with your comrades.

However, the devils have already set a trap and are waiting for Xiao Xiong and them to fall into the net. Do you just watch your brothers attack at the risk of death and fall under the guns of the devils one by one?

It turned out that in addition to continuing to attack Hu Maosheng and lure Hu Maosheng down, they also hoped to use Hu Maosheng as bait to attract the anti-Japanese guerrillas to come to the rescue, so that they could wipe out the anti-Japanese elements, or at least inflict heavy losses on them. Therefore, the devils not only ambushed heavy troops and set traps in the banknote building, but also gathered a large number of troops on the dock, waiting for an opportunity to encircle and attack back and forth.

It was already late at night, and the banknote building in the dark night was dark and deadly silent.

Hu Mao estimated that it should be almost 11 o'clock, and he looked out of the fence with wide eyes. At this moment, he wanted Xiao Xiong and his brothers to come and save him, but he was very afraid that they would really attack. If the brothers had died for themselves, he would have been rescued, and he would never forgive himself, and he would have regretted it for the rest of his life.

Suddenly, he seemed to see a dark shadow moving outside the wall, and he was so stunned that he didn't dare to blink his eyes, and stared at it carefully. With years of experience in guerrilla warfare, sure enough, he noticed that the black shadow that had stopped just now was slowly moving towards the gate. There were also many figures moving around the wall. It seemed that the brothers were about to attack.

Hu Maosheng closed the window and sprinkled all the kerosene from the lamp on the table on the quilt. He sighed and opened the window. He resisted the pain and got up from the bed, held on to the window frame, and stood by the window.

Suddenly, Hu Maosheng lit a match, and he threw the match on top of the quilt. Suddenly, a flame burst up, illuminating the whole room.

Xiao Xiong, who was preparing to act outside, suddenly saw a room on the third floor of the east building of the banknote building burning, and then saw a figure standing on the window.

"Commander, it's not good, that's Captain Hu."

Cheng Shizhang suddenly cried out. At this moment, the devil downstairs fired at Hu Maosheng who was standing at the upstairs window, and the bullet hit the wall and burst out a little spark.

At this time, the entire room had been set on fire, and Hu Maoxian's back was already on fire.

Suddenly, everyone only heard Hu Maosheng upstairs shouting:

"Brothers, kill more little devils for me, brother, I'll go first!"

With the shout, Hu Maosheng jumped down from the upper floor with his head to the ground with his head on the ground.

"Brother Hu! Don't! Don't! Xiao Xiong shouted softly, tears immediately flowed, and all the people below, including the devil, were stunned by the scene in front of them.

As Hu Maosheng jumped, four searchlights were immediately lit up on the roof of the banknote building. The firelight and lights suddenly lit up the whole courtyard, and the devils in the courtyard shouted loudly, looking for water everywhere to fight the fire.

The whole yard was in a commotion, and searchlights were flickering around.

Xiao Xiong, who was grief-stricken and angry, wanted to attack and avenge Hu Maosheng. However, he knew that Hu Maosheng used his life to stop everyone from rescuing him, and he protected everyone.

"Retreat!" Xiao Xiong immediately gave the order.

As soon as they withdrew from the compound, they joined up with Gao Qixing's men. As soon as I walked a short distance, I saw a large number of headlights shooting from the direction of the dock, and soon I saw a lot of devil army vehicles driving over.