At two o'clock in the afternoon, 11 kilometers west of Yibin County.

In the midst of the torrential rain, only to hear a shout of "stop advancing, quickly conceal", sixteen cavalry immediately rushed into the arbor forest by the roadside, followed the path of the woodcutter, and rushed to the bend of the mountain road ahead, and the wet cavalry and horses were splashed with mud.

If it weren't for the dense raindrops in the wind that fell like beans, washing away the dirt on the faces and bodies of these people, no one would have been able to identify them as officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Frontier Army by their clothing.

Without any orders, the two spearheads quickly turned over and dismounted, panting and climbing up the steep cliff in front of them, carefully observing the situation in the east.

In the depression of the stone wall under the hill, a short man quickly pulled out a march map wrapped in rubber cloth, and took out a British compass to determine the direction.

A thin man on the side wiped his face with a wrung out military hat, leaned in to look at it for a while, and whispered his judgment:

"It is estimated that the front is the Hexagram Mountain, just now on the horse I seem to see the Huang Jingguan upturned hall, but the rain is too big, I can't see clearly."

"That's right, it's Dagua Mountain, over this small mountain col to the Huangjingguan, east of the Huangjingguan is the big carriage road, only twenty miles away from the county seat in the east."

The stout man put away the map and compass, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time:

"It's going to be dark in four hours...... Fourth baby, you take a brother and rush back immediately, inform the chief of staff to lead his troops up, and go to Huang Jingguan to rest and prepare, otherwise it will be too late. ”

"Yes!"

The thin man put on his military hat and left at once, and halfway through he pulled a brother by the hand, and together they led the horse out of the arbor forest, turned over and got on the horse, and galloped away in the way they came.

After a while, an early warning voice came from Gaogang: "Platoon commander, a team of cavalry is running from the east, like the Dian army, seven people and seven horsemen, the distance is about eight hundred meters, and the speed is not slow." ”

The sturdy platoon commander who was sitting on the ground panting suddenly jumped up, gave a low cry and prepared for battle, then rushed to a black war horse in a few steps, and neatly untied the rope loop from the saddle:

"Lu Ming, a few of you are stealthy aiming, providing fire support, and you are not allowed to shoot unless you have to! The rest of the people left the horses, all of them were ambushed by the side of the road, Liao Laosan and I went to pull up the tripping rope together, this road is just a curve, it rains so heavily that the other party can't see clearly, fast! ”

On the east side of the curve, seven horses ran west at high speed, and after rushing up the small slope, the knight immediately threw up his whip and urged the horse to refuel loudly, and soon reached the top of the slope and began to go downhill, the horses and horses seemed to be very familiar with this road, and rushed through the curve without much slowdown.

Just into the corner, the head of the war horse instantly tripped by the tripping horse in front of the tripping horse, the side behind a head of the smart war horse just about to jump, the side of the road suddenly appeared a man covered in mud, upside down with a rifle suddenly picked up, "pop" a crisp sound, smashed the front hooves of the war horse, the war horse's shin fractured, neighed to the ground, splashed a high yellow water curtain, the rifle that swept the horse's leg also flew into the air, the man with the gun was shocked by the huge momentum of several meters, "bang" fell into the dense thorn tent beside the road.

The fall of the two war horses caused a chain reaction, the four war horses that followed behind could not dodge and crashed into a pile, the huge collision sound and the sorrow of the war horses suddenly sounded, the last cavalry finally tightened the reins and took the horse to avoid, a fist-sized stone roared, accurately smashed on the face of the cavalry, the cavalry did not have time to scream, and then fell to the ground in the splash of blood, seven or eight border soldiers on the side of the ambush road had rushed out, picked up the butt of the gun, and rained down to hit the Dian army that had not yet gotten up, The three Yunnan officers and men who were about to get up from the fight fainted in a blink of an eye.

The sturdy platoon commander came out of the thorn tent, his face covered with blood and tattered clothes had no time to be tidied up, and he got up with his hands and feet to give a series of orders, four struggling horses were caught, and seven Dian cavalry were dragged together one after another, three of whom were already out of breath.

The stout platoon commander shouted in a low voice: "In pairs, each bring a live mouth to the back, interrogate them separately, and leave this one with a Browning pistol to me." ”

But the brothers did not say a word, but immediately set to work.

The stout platoon commander stepped forward and squatted down, untied the belt of the Yunnan army officer who was lying on the ground half-dead and panting urgently, and quickly tied the gun belt to his waist, and then ripped off the cowhide official bag on the Yunnan army officer, opened it and saw that there were two documents stamped with official seals, and the short and stout platoon commander was immediately dumbfounded:

"Hey? Which of you can read? ”

The strong black man standing behind the platoon commander cracked a mouthful of buckteeth, shook his head, and a few laughs came from behind the canopy: "Platoon commander, our brothers don't know a few words, and you are the most educated in the whole platoon, who else do you ask?" ”

The platoon commander reluctantly closed the briefcase, quickly wiped the blood from his eyebrows, spit out the fishy mud and sand, and stared coldly at the Yunnan army officer who was slowly relieving:

"Turtle son, be honest and honest, otherwise you will feel better."

The officer of the Yunnan army was very stiff, simply closed his eyes, and lay in the mud without saying a word.

The short platoon was angry, waved his hand to the bucktooth on the side, the bucktooth carried the spear on his back, strode forward, pulled away the hand of the Yunnan army officer, and stepped on his feet respectively, the pain made the Yunnan army officer tremble, but he always gritted his teeth and did not say a word.

"your ancestors!"

The short platoon commander scolded and scolded, lifted his thick legs across the officer's body, pouted his heavy buttocks, sat down on the officer's legs suddenly, pulled out the multi-functional sharp dagger special for border scouts at his waist, and without saying a word, cut the officer's pants, took out the big bird's head and pulled it up vigorously.

Before the sharp dagger fell, the officer of the Yunnan army in the mud was frightened and cried out like a pig: "Yo...... I'll recruit, I'll recruit......"

Dense footsteps and horses' hooves were heard from the west, and several guards surrounded Bao Jiqing, chief of staff of the border army, and the short platoon commander held the briefcase in both hands and presented it, and reported in detail what had just happened and the results of the interrogation.

Barth, the chief of the guard, bent down on his horse to take it and quickly delivered it to the lieutenant behind him.

Bao Jiqing didn't rush to read the documents, but looked at the reconnaissance platoon commander in front of him with blood stains and ragged clothes with interest: "What's your name?" Where are the people? ”

"Report to the chief of staff, his subordinates are called Pang Chao, a native of Luding, and the platoon commander of the fourth platoon of the reconnaissance company directly under the brigade headquarters."

Pang replied loudly, rain and blood flowing all over his face.

Bao Jiqing sat on the horse and didn't move: "Staff Officer Chen? ”

"Here!"

The tall staff officer in the rear also seemed to dismount, and rushed to stand up in front of Bao Jiqing in a few steps, and a group of captains also hurriedly got off their horses and stood upright.

Bao Jiqing calmly gave the order:

"All the four platoons of the reconnaissance company will be credited with merit once, and each will be promoted to the rank of one rank, and the platoon commander Pang Chao will be promoted to second lieutenant and deputy company commander of the reconnaissance company from now on."

"Yes!" The staff officer replied loudly.

Bao Jiqing raised his horsewhip and pointed forward: "Everyone rushed to Huang Jingguan to rest, and all departments hurried to eat dry food, check weapons and equipment, and be ready to set off at any time." The commander of the second regiment and the commanders of each company directly under him must be executed immediately, and all of them must rest within half an hour! ”

"Yes!"

Half an hour later, Bao Jiqing, who had been patrolling around, returned to the Taoist temple hall and stared at the map on the square table and thought carefully.

At this time, Bao Jiqing, like all the officers around him, was crying out for luck in his heart, and he was also glad for the bravery and courage of the reconnaissance platoon commander, if it wasn't for the herald who accidentally caught the general of the Yunnan Army, Xie Ruyi, no one knew that Gaochang Town, which had just been bypassed, was actually ambushed by Xie Ruyi's most elite pistol regiment, and this pistol regiment equipped with twenty-four French Hatch Chase air-cooled heavy machine guns was temporarily transferred to cross the river to sneak attack Zhou Jun's first division.

After interrogating the captives again, everyone learned that the night before, Bao Jiqing and Wang Jian led two regiments of the border army to sneak attack a battalion of the Qianwei Yunnan army, and after the battle, they handed over Qianwei to the first division and immediately marched eastward.

The battalion commander of the Yunnan army escaped from Qianwei County overnight, and rushed back to Xufu by speedboat to call the police, which led to Xie Ruyi's rapid response and ruthless countermeasures, fortunately, the battalion commander was not in the camp at that time, and he did not know that the main force of the attack was the Ya'an border army, and thought that it was a certain unit of Zhou Jun's new army that crossed the river and raided unknowingly, otherwise the secret of the Ya'an First Brigade's participation in the war would inevitably be exposed, and the famous general of the Yunnan Army, Xie Ruyi, would probably also make a plan, open a big pocket outside Yibin City, and wait for the Ya'an First Brigade to throw himself into the net.

Not to mention whether this pistol regiment, which has amazing firepower and as many as 2,200 officers and soldiers, can successfully cross the river quietly and launch a sudden attack behind Zhou Jun's first division, only to say that the current situation of the headquarters, if this unexpected situation is not discovered, when the headquarters attacks Yibin County, if this missed pistol regiment hears the sound of gunfire and suddenly turns around and rushes to help, it is not yet known who will die by then!

(To be continued)