In the middle of the night on January 28, 38, in a civilian courtyard five miles away from the Yihe Bridge, Zhang Zizhong of the 59th Army of the Kuomintang received an urgent call from the head of the General Headquarters: The Canal Bridge, the transportation choke point of the Western Front, suddenly exploded 10 minutes ago......

Li Zongren ordered them to repair the canal bridge within three days to cooperate with the great counteroffensive of the large army on 30 January.

Time was pressing, and Zhang Zizhong of the 59th Army immediately drove to the scene. The bridge had been damaged beyond recognition, and he felt very strange: how could this incident of overturning suddenly occur when the military vehicles were running well on the bridge?

Zhang Zizhong was thinking about it, and the commander of the 57th Army, Wan Yi, was also ordered to arrive, and their regiment was ordered to come to support. I saw him full of red silk and a tired face. In the past few days, when he was directing and assisting in the repair of a project, he did not close his eyes for two days and two nights. Wan Yi listened to the briefing on the destruction of the bridge, and he was furious, clenched his fists, and shouted: "This must have been done by a spy!" ”

Zhang Zizhong agreed with his judgment, and it seems that the enemy's claws have reached our transportation throat.

Zhang Zizhong instructed: "You must not only rush to repair the bridge, but also dig out the spies who destroyed the bridge as soon as possible!" ”

Wan Yi replied firmly: "Don't worry, Chief Zhang, we promise to complete the task!" ”

After coming out of the 59th Army Headquarters. Wan Yi began to learn about the enemy situation at the beginning of the bridge's guard squad. There was a suspicious situation that caused him to think deeply: in the evening of the same day, he found a person with an unrecognizable face walking on the embankment; The second is that someone has fired a signal flare at night.

Wan Yi took a hard puff of cigarette and said to the guard squad leader: "You keep a close eye on the enemy situation in this area, and don't let go of any suspicious signs!" ”

"Yes!"

After Wan Yi finished speaking, he strode back to the regiment headquarters for a meeting. Three major measures were quickly adopted at the meeting: first, frequent aircraft bombing during the day and emergency repairs at night; the second is to affirm the emergency repair plan proposed by the engineer; Third, it was decided to immediately set up a commando team.

When the issue of being allowed to be the commando captain was discussed, Wu Ming, the leader of the engineering team, first nominated Boss Song to be the captain. Of course, Boss Song is Captain Song Jiliu Song, Wan Yi is afraid that others will gossip and it is difficult to agree, and in the end, the minority obeys the majority. A few minutes later, according to the decision of the meeting, Song Jiliu led a commando team and set off in formation.

On the bridge, the battle for emergency repairs began. Thousands of Kuomintang officers and soldiers and ordinary people in Shandong under the leadership of the Communist Party rushed to the frozen riverbed. The sound of labor trumpets and laughter shook the valley.

Song Jiliu, who was carrying a straw bag, recognized Li Yu at a glance. Li Yu is the secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. At this moment, together with the liaison officer who had just been sent there, he led a group of migrant workers to ask Song Jiliu for a task. Li Yu held Song Jiliu's hand and didn't let go for a long time......

Song Jiliu came to the piling site in the southern section of the bridge. Suddenly, three gunshots rang out, and three red signal flares rose from behind the mountain on the south bank. —In the blink of an eye, the sound of airplanes was heard in the dark sky. The flares reflected the snow-white riverbed, and the construction workers were a little flustered, and Song Jiliu shouted: "Don't run around, lie down on the spot!" ”

At this moment, an enemy plane swooped down and "gurgled" and spat out a string of tongues of fire. The bullets of the enemy plane injured several workers, and Song Jiliu led the hygienists to rush to the rescue.

After a while, a puff of black smoke rose from the tail of the plane. It turned out that getting carried away flew too low and was hit by our machine gun on the fuel tank. The enemy aircraft fled in a hurry. There was a burst of jubilation in the riverbed. Song Jiliu walked up to Commander Wan Yi and reported: "Chief Wan, the footprints of big leather boots have been found on the mountain on the south bank......"

At this time, in the dense forest on the mountain on the south bank, a man dressed as a migrant worker, evading the tracking of two soldiers, was tiptoeing towards a cave. His name is Xia Xin'an, and he was sent by the Japanese spy Yoshiko to destroy the bridge.

Just now, it was he who fired a flare gun to contact enemy planes in a vain attempt to bomb the engineering team and migrant workers who were rushing to repair the bridge. At this moment, he was ordered to come here to meet his boss, the head of the secret service hidden near the bridge. By the light of the moon, he vaguely noticed a young woman sitting beside the cave. Who is she? Is it the person I'm going to connect—one-two-two? Xia Changan couldn't believe that the famous boss One, Two, Two would be a woman!

However, the time and place of the joint were correct, Xia Changan cautiously looked around again, and when he saw that there was no ambush, he pretended to be lost, flashed out of the bushes, and stepped forward to talk to the woman. The woman stood up suddenly, staring at him with a pair of cold eyes: "What are you going to do?" ”

"Sister-in-law, I want to ask...... How to get around Xuzhou? Xia Changan tested her in code words.

The woman did not answer, but took out a revolver and shouted, "Hands up!" ”

Xia Changan was suddenly so frightened that a cold sweat broke out on his back and raised his hand timidly. Unexpectedly, the woman snorted: "Let's go!" Go to the cave and talk! ”

After entering the cave, the two of them whispered to each other, and Xia Changan breathed a sigh of relief. First, understand that the other party is not one-two-two, it is one-two-seven, which is under the jurisdiction of one-two-two. He was a little angry, and thought to himself: With such a person as himself from the side of a dignified general, he can't even see one, two, two, or two! I saw that this woman asked Xia Changan arrogantly: "Did you bring the goods?" ”

Xia Changan hurriedly replied: "Brought it, Miss." As he spoke, he took out a pocket watch from his pocket: "Please hand over one-two-two, this is a time bomb, the lethality is equivalent to twenty grenades......"

"What? I'll hand over 122, and I'll tell you the truth, I've never seen 122 even to this day. The woman said coldly. Then, she handed him a note, muttered a few words, and left.

Besides, the two soldiers who were following them, although they searched the mountains for a long time, found nothing. After listening to their report, Song Jiliu said: "You go to rest first and stay at home!" ”

Song Jiliu asked the correspondent to find the deputy captain Xu Dazi, and after research, the two decided to let the deputy captain Xu Da bring a few comrades, change into the clothes of fellow villagers, bring short guns, and continue to go to the mountains on the south bank after dawn to carry out patrol tasks.

At dawn, Song Jiliu and the deputy captain came to the cave where the spy had been. There was a bush of thorns blocking the entrance of the cave, which was difficult to find, but Su Yiqi, who was sharp-eyed, quickly discovered it, and also found the leather boot prints on the wetland in front of the cave.

"Captain! The dog agent must be hiding here! Su Yiqi took out his pistol and wanted to break into the hole immediately, but after thinking about it, no, this is too reckless. He hurriedly motioned for everyone to come around.

The young men who caught the spies pushed the bullets of their pistols into their loads one by one, staring at the hole with wide eyes, for fear that the dog spies would escape as soon as they grabbed the way. Deputy captain Song Jiliu grabbed a stone casually and threw it hard, except for a "pop" sound, there was no reaction in the hole.

"What? Is there no one in there? Song Jiliu took out a flashlight and took a photo, but he was very disappointed: it turned out that the cave was not deep, and he could see the bottom at a glance, and there was nothing inside.

Suddenly, Xiao Su found that there were collapsed stones on the roof of the cave, and the surrounding soil had been loosened. He flicked his fingers and said, hey! The stone fell to the ground, and there was a small stone cave inside. Song Jiliu used a flashlight to shine a small transmitter in the stone cave......

Xiao Su took out the transmitter and looked at it, put it back in its place, and said excitedly: "Captain, with this thing, we are not afraid that he will not come back!" ”

Song Jiliu nodded and said with great interest: "Xiao Su and two comrades are guarding the entrance of the cave, and we will report back to the headquarters!" ”