Xie Weijun saw that the situation was a little stiff, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain: "Don't worry, don't worry!" The more critical it is like this, the more we have to calm down! Lao Guo, I don't know what the situation of the three regiments of Ludao is, it is better to do this, I immediately rushed to the three regiments in the north to take a look. ”

Guo Tianming nodded: "Okay!" You go to the third regiment, I'll also take a trip, I want to see what kind of enemy mines are. ”

Ling Yun was worried about the safety of the two bosses, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade: "Don't fight, I'll go!" The liaison officer from the third regiment is probably coming soon, so you might as well wait, political commissar. ”

As he was talking, the deputy head of the third regiment, Li appeared outside the temple gate with a sweaty head, and the quick-handed Ling Yun didn't wait for him to raise his hand to report, so he went up and dragged him in, asking loudly what was going on.

The embarrassed deputy regiment commander Li immediately reported the situation truthfully, and the result was very similar to the situation encountered by a regiment of Lao Pan, and he also saw a wooden sign reminding that there were mines and a big wolf dog barking, the only difference was that the enemy stationed at the northwest village entrance of Maopai Ling fired four mortar shells at the mountainside behind the reconnaissance team of the third regiment concealed, and the stones rolling down the mountain frightened the reconnaissance team to hide everywhere, although one person was not injured, but the whereabouts were exposed, and the reconnaissance team was only more than 400 meters away from the enemy's fortifications at that time, and it was completely within the enemy's machine gun strike, However, the enemy did not use machine guns, and after a salvo of four shells, he only waved the red flag at the rapidly withdrawn reconnaissance team, and did not catch up.

Now everyone is silent, the defending enemy is not only equipped with mines, but also no less than four mortars - Maopai Ling, which is in a secondary position, has four mortars, and there should be no more in the other main directions!

"The second regiment stays, the third regiment immediately withdraws and joins the second regiment, since the enemy has discovered our whereabouts, we cannot rule out that the enemy who has been prepared for a long time may strike at our department at any time, the position of the third regiment is in the northernmost part, the enemy with firepower advantage only needs to transfer one battalion, and the third regiment can block the third regiment in the north to fight, and the third regiment cannot run westward, otherwise it will fall back to the hands of the enemy's right army in the west."

Guo Tianming not only gave the order, but also gave a detailed account of the dangerous situation of the three regiments.

Xie Weijun immediately agreed, what Deputy Regiment Commander Li wanted was this result, and when he saluted, he turned around and left, and after going out, he quickly found the two fast horses of the division headquarters, and took the guards and ran north.

The people in the small temple quickly took the order to leave, Xie Weijun saw Guo Tianming tied up an armed belt, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "Old Guo, what are you going to do?" Commander Ling and Lao Pan have already gone out to the alert, where do you need to go into battle in person at this time? And it's so dark, you can't see anything even when you get there! ”

Guo Tianming looked around and found that the acting director of the Political Department and several officers were gone, so he took Xie Weijun's hand and said in a low voice:

"Did you find it? The enemy at Maopai Ridge doesn't seem to want to fight with us, from the day before yesterday when they put back Zhou Dezhi, to today's release of Lao Pan and the reconnaissance team of the Third Regiment, and also put a sign to remind us that there are mines, don't you think it's abnormal? ”

Xie Weijun also looked around, approached Guo Tianming and whispered his opinion: "I think so too, the only thing I don't understand is who is the head of the regiment surnamed Wu who is guarding the enemy?" They are so well equipped, so powerful, and so alert, why do they let our scouts escape? ”

"It stands to reason that at a distance of several hundred meters, ordinary machine gunners can hit people with Czech machine guns, so why don't they hit us? And mortars, found out that our reconnaissance team was directly bombarded, why did it hit the mountainside? There is only one result, the defending enemy does not want to grudge with us, and no other reason can be explained. ”

"That's right! So I'm going to see it myself, even if I quietly touch it and wait until dawn, I have to hold a telescope from a distance to observe it clearly, otherwise how can you and I report to my superiors? Guo Tianming said his bitterness.

Xie Weijun gritted his teeth: "In this case, I will also go with you, and I will also bring Director Li and a few others with me!" ”

Guo Tianming's eyebrows flickered: "Okay!" In this way, you can sleep first, and you can get there in an hour after a dozen miles of travel, and you can arrive at dawn. ”

In the early morning of the next day, the sudden misty drizzle fell silently, and the sky and the earth were full of wontons.

Guo Tianming, Xie Weijun, and two political officers, under the protection of a platoon of officers and men, successfully sneaked to a hill more than 400 meters southwest of Xiaodong Village, where a group of people lay on their stomachs in the wet grass, and the only three pairs of binoculars were passed back and forth in the hands of six people.

After seven o'clock, the light rain gradually stopped, the gray sky and the earth gradually became clear, and the black handwriting on the three wooden rows could be clearly seen in the telescope.

Guo Tianming pondered for a long time, called the sharpshooter and pointed to the wooden sign 400 meters away, and asked him if he could hit? The sharpshooter told him that he was not sure, and he could only give it a try, estimating that he would be able to hit at least one of the five shots.

Guo Tianming immediately ordered him to play boldly, but the second shot hit the wooden card, but the wooden card was inserted deep and strong, and the bullet broke the corner of the second wooden card, but did not knock down the whole wooden card, which made everyone shocked and hated, but there was no way, after all, the distance was too far, and the visibility was not good.

The barking of the dog soon sounded, and Guo Tianming and others, who were just about to evacuate, immediately lay down to observe, only to hear two muffled sounds of "tom tom", two mortar shells crossed the sky, and with a sharp whistling sound, they fell on the pile of rubble more than ten meters above the wooden plaque.

"Boom, boom—"

After the two explosions, I saw grass and trees splashing through the air, and the rattling stones rolled down the slope, instantly detonating the mines under the three wooden rows.

After several earth-shattering explosions, thick smoke and earth and rocks fell one after another, and the original three wooden rafts had long disappeared, leaving only two huge pits in the steady stream of green smoke.

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At noon on the same day, the reconnaissance teams of the spy companies lurking in various directions successively transmitted information back to confirm that the Red Army had withdrawn to the south and completely left the 10-kilometer warning range.

Wu Ming breathed a sigh of relief and called Du Pingzhang, the acting company commander of the communications company, to dictate the message: "Shizuo Junjian: From late yesterday night to early this morning, the three communist forces harassed the northwest, west, and south of our regiment's defense area. ”

Du Pingzhang, who graduated from the telecommunications class of the Quzhou Central Party Department and was praised by German engineers as a natural radio player, was a native of Quzhou, and was also re-trained by Wu Ming after dropping out of Quzhou Industrial School, and then joined the first batch of technical personnel of the Ordnance Institute.

Du Pingzhang's family is poor, his appearance is average, his height is only one meter 60, he has not been conspicuous, in the process of learning to imitate Browning and Colt pistols with Austrian technicians, because of his good handwriting and well-organized record report, he attracted the attention of Wu Ming, who was easy-going on the outside and strict in his heart, and was called by Wu Ming to talk several times, and soon entered the training class of the Quzhou Central Party Department to learn radio.

Du Pingzhang has great respect for Wu Ming, who changed his fate, gave him a new life, and let his poor family live a happy life, and like many brothers from Maoliangwu and Phoenix Mountain, Du Pingzhang not only regarded Wu Ming as his father and brother, but also regarded Wu Ming as his teacher deep down, so his loyalty and love for Wu Ming can no longer be described in words.

Wu Ming finished signing and handed the folder to Du Pingzhang: "By the way, did the girl from the Lu family on Shuiting Street in Quzhou that your mother introduced you to write to you?" ”

Du Pingzhang suddenly blushed: "I received a letter before leaving, I didn't have it during this time, and it is estimated that she is also very busy studying at the normal school." ”

"After returning from the war, it's time to do a happy event, I heard that Miss Lu's father is not in good health, so if you do it early, the old people can feel more at ease."

After Wu Ming finished speaking, he patted his ass and stood up, whistling and walking out of the tent, not noticing that his apprentice Du Pingzhang was already so grateful that he was about to cry.

Wu Ming did not expect that two and a half hours later, division commander Yu Jishi, deputy chief of staff Chen Shizheng, and a platoon of guards suddenly arrived on war horses, and when he received the emergency report, Wu Ming was talking to two old ladies at the west end of the village, talking about the rainy season that might come in the future and this year's harvest.

When Wu Ming rushed back to the temporary regiment headquarters in Da Shaping, he found that Yu Jishi and Chen Shizheng were checking the tent with a little interest, and seemed to be very curious about this kind of boxy tent that could be folded quickly.

Yu Jishi saw Wu Ming running over and hurriedly beckoned, pointed to the tent and asked with a smile: "Where did you buy it?" ”

Wu Ming truthfully explained: "I can't buy it if I want to...... The Quzhou quilt factory that produced this tent has been sold to the Kong family and several other big families, these are designed by their subordinates and quietly tried to produce them, the raw materials are waterproof military canvases produced in Nanyang, and the processing machinery is German industrial sewing machines, and it is estimated that there are only these few in China at present. ”

Yu Jishi smiled: "You are really versatile!" Why don't you go back and give me the design drawings, and I'll find a way to make several quilt factories of the Central Army produce them in large quantities? ”

"Subordinates obey!"

Wu Ming unexpectedly agreed.

Chen Shizheng was surprised: "Head Wu, this is not like your character!" I thought you'd ask for something to compensate. ”

Wu Ming immediately asked, "Are you really going to give it?" Well, the chief of staff just looks at it and gives it a little. ”

Yu Jishi was amused so much that he laughed, and the surrounding officers and soldiers also laughed, but Chen Shizheng shook his head again and again, and there was nothing he could do about Wu Ming, who didn't know what politeness was in front of him.