When the news of Li Youde's reconnaissance battalion came back, it was already in the afternoon, and he made up his mind that Meng Qingshan did not delay in the slightest, and immediately led the team to set off despite the darkness. Under the leadership of Li Youde, after a night of rapid marching, he dared to go to a hill near the Japanese army's Fengxiang fortress to hide and rest.

After arriving at the location, Meng Qingshan left Wang Minggui and Shen Qingshan to command the main force, ready to respond and prepare for battle. He personally led Li Youde's three reconnaissance teams to quietly lurk over under the cover of grass and woods.

In order to reconnoiter the enemy, Meng Qingshan personally led the team to reconnoitre, and before leaving, Wang Minggui and Shen Qingshan did not agree. But Meng Qingshan, who didn't have much time to nag them, still persuaded them.

Walked 500 meters away from the fortress, Meng Qingshan took the glasses to look at and found that the Japanese fortress was very hidden, but only less than a third of the building was built, and there were still some vacant land in the rest of the place that had not yet been built, as if it had just been built and had not yet been completed, although the inside was not completed, but the outside was already a circle of barbed wire, leaving only a four-meter-wide dirt road to the door of the fortress, and two heavy machine guns and observation towers were erected at the door.

Meng Qingshan found that as long as the heavy firepower of the Japanese army at the gate killed the devils inside, it would be easy to solve it, but the premise was how to solve them unprepared, and there were still more Japanese troops left in this Japanese army base, and he looked to the right and found that there was a grass on the right side of the fortress, the grass grew very lushly, and there was more than one person tall, Meng Qingshan touched his chin and asked Li Youde and said: "Yes, you said that we can send a small team to quietly lurk from the grass over there to clean up the Japanese army at the gate?" ”

"Commander, I see that the grass there is as tall as a man, and under the cover of the moonlight, I personally led the team to lurk over to open the passage for the troops, and I will go to see the terrain now."

"Don't worry, wait a minute, let me think about it, it's impossible for the Japanese army not to notice such an obvious shortcoming of the grass on the right side of the fortress, why don't they cut down the grass?"

Just in case, Meng Qingshan took out his glasses and took a closer look and found that the devils in the fortress were still supervising the labor work, and the devil's strength was probably only about one squadron, one squad was stationed at the door, one squad was patrolling, and the remaining two squads should be resting and preparing to take over, and there was a squad of prisoners and some overseers who beat the slow laborers from time to time, and the total number of Japanese soldiers guarding was less than sixty, about 200 supervisors, and the number of workers was estimated to be thousands. Among them, there were many people wearing the clothes of the Nationalist army, and these seemed to be prisoners of war from North China who had been transported after the battle with the Japanese army.

"Yes, you send someone to order the troops to come over quietly, and we will attack as soon as it gets dark."

Li Youde quickly instructed a reconnaissance battalion soldier to run in the direction where he was quietly coming, "Commander, look inside, there's a commotion." ”

In the fortress, a group of workers walked slowly with their bare arms and stones on their backs, sweating like running water, and in the middle of the crowd, a few sturdy and uniformed men in this group of laborers gathered together.

"What about the brigade commander? If this continues, the brothers have to be exhausted to death, this little devil makes us work day and night, and does not let us have enough to eat, you see they eat white rice, but we eat wild vegetable buns, and they have been here for more than half a month, and the more than 2,000 brothers who were captured with us are now less than 2,000 people left. ”

"By the way, brigade commander, at this time, we have a good chance, in the morning, I saw the head of the little devils here with two squadrons of little devils went out, and they haven't come back until now, and now their strength is less than two hundred, and we have five or six thousand of our people here, why don't we have a riot and escape?"

"Deputy Zhao Tuan escaped easily, you don't look at the ghosts among these little devils, don't come out and hide to the side, you see that there are at least four or more heavy machine guns around us aimed at us, and dozens of wolf dogs pulled by the overseer next to us are looking at the prisoners of war in front of them with their mouths open, constantly jumping up and down, desperately trying to break free from the chains in the hands of their masters, and come up to bite them. And more than a dozen searchlights around the fortress and the surrounding area are bright, as long as we have a little movement, the little devils hidden in the dark will break us all out, then you don't even know the dead, and this group of dogs are enough for us to bear, Lao Tzu can only play less than thirty percent of the ability now. ”

"Brigade commander, you're right, but if we don't take advantage of the main force of the Japanese army to leave, we won't be able to run away when their large army comes back, but if we want to escape, we have to kill this group of dogs first, and I don't know where this little devil got so many dogs."

"If we want to escape, we have to have weapons, and we are not familiar with the situation in the Northeast, if we escape in a daze, the consequences will be self-defeating."

"Staff Officer Liu, you don't have to worry about this, the one who is locked up with me is the commander of the Northeast Army Battalion called Guandi, he must be familiar with the terrain here, and I will go to find out his tone in the evening."

"Okay, then let's go our separate ways, while we are working, we must observe more in the main areas of the Japanese army, such as dormitories and weapons depots, as well as the route, and wait for two hours later, we will strive to prepare for action tonight."

"These days, I have observed the Japanese army's arsenal, which is in a warehouse 100 meters away from the two walls in front of us, and I passed by there when I was working the day before yesterday and saw that the Japanese army moved their weapons below, and those weapons were enough to arm our group."

Hearing Staff Officer Liu's words, the brigade commander of the national army nodded lightly, and just wanted to say something, but the overseer who walked to him whipped him on the shoulder and pulled back what he wanted to say. Along with this whip there is a saying: "Work quickly, and do not talk to each other." I'm whispering, I'm going to let you die. ”

was tilted by the whip that suddenly fell, if it weren't for the fast support of Staff Officer Liu next to him and Deputy Zhao Tuan behind him, the brigade commander of the national army, who almost didn't fall, could only swallow back the words he was about to say. The brigade commander of the national army, who couldn't speak, could only nod slightly to Staff Officer Liu, signaling to leave him alone and not let the little devils suspect them.

Staff Officer Liu and Deputy Zhao Tuan immediately let go of the hand that was helping him, pretending not to know him and continuing to do their work.

There was a sudden accident among the laborers working on the side, dozens of people were very close to the grass on the right side of the fortress, picked up stones and threw them at the overseers and wolf dogs around them, and ran into the grass, and the overseers immediately blew their whistles when they saw someone running away, and for a while it was very harsh in the fortress that was only panting.

At this time, Meng Qingshan, who was in the distance, and the brigade commander of the national army in the fortress were a little puzzled, why the little devil didn't send an army to hunt down these fleeing laborers, could it be that the little devil deliberately let them go, and soon Meng Qingshan and they knew why the devil didn't care about the laborers who fled to the grass.

The group hurriedly turned into the grass and rolled down, knowing that there was a river under the grass and that their chances of survival would increase a lot if they fled there.

Just listen to "Boom! Rumble. Several deafening sounds in a row startled Meng Qingshan and the others in the distance.

I saw that the dozen or so people who rolled down had all been killed, and the limbs that were blown up were flying around, and the little devil was too shady, and he actually planted mines in the grass and arranged a minefield, Meng Qingshan exhaled a breath of cold air, my obedient If the Japanese army attacked from the grass, they would not all be dead, and Li Youde next to him and the national army who were ready to escape from the grass broke out in a cold sweat.