The Japanese army in Xinpu had not yet pulled out half a word from Han Chenglin's mouth, but Song Jiliu captured a young intelligence officer. In the afternoon of the next day, Han Chenglin had to be released and replaced with Sato.

During the war years, the situation was changeable.

The enemy suffered heavy losses due to the successive blows of us in the previous period, suffered heavy casualties, and in recent times, the little devils have been so frightened that they dare not easily get out of the nest in the stronghold!

In accordance with the instructions of the higher authorities, our armed engineering team immediately seized this short opportunity and strengthened mass work and political work, so that the armed engineering team became both a combat team and a work team.

The fighters of the martial arts corps, who had been divided into pieces, went deep into the villages, mobilized the masses, organized the masses, armed the masses, and worked together with the district guerrillas to help some branches and re-establish the leading organs. It also helped some blank villages to develop party organizations. In addition, during this period, some military training was carried out for the militia of the villages! and the establishment of a regional joint defense ......

Under the leadership of party organizations at all levels, with the specific help of the Eighth Route Army's armed engineering team, the anti-Japanese atmosphere in the villages and villages; Like mushrooms after a rain, the daily cultivation is active.

Listen! In the vast countryside, there are anti-Japanese songs everywhere. Even those old men who never know how to sing grin with teeth and teeth! Shaking the white beard and learning songs with his grandson!

There are also grandmothers who are over the age of sixtieth birthday and are close to old age, and they also automatically signed up and participated in the song competition jointly organized by the Women's Rescue Association and the Farmers' Rescue Association. In short, these days, the villages and villages are shrouded in singing, and the fighting life of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians is spent in singing.

The women's rescue members of Yigou Village are collecting broken copper and rotten iron in the midst of singing, and are preparing to send them to our army's underground repair station in batches and batches!

The members of the agricultural rescue in Ergou Village are digging holes and fortifying the walls with food and food in a fighting posture to meet the enemy's "clearing the township" and "sweeping".

The old couple of the Sun family sent their son to join the army! The new daughter-in-law of the Li family persuaded Lang to enlist in the army!

The children's group stood guard and checked pedestrians day and night. The militiamen dug trenches and forts to prepare for war in the wilderness outside the village, and all the communication ditches that had been leveled by the "sweeping team" were dug up. On the wall of the village, the slogan that was brushed away by the "Qingxiang Regiment" was written again:

"Down with Japanese imperialism!"

"Long live the victory of the Anti-Japanese War!"

When people looked at these scenes, they all excitedly said: "The flame of resistance against Japan is rising again!" ”

However, the enemy, who had suffered repeated defeats, began to stir up chaos before the scars were dried - they came twice again in the so-called "great encirclement and suppression".

On the eve of this "great encirclement and suppression," Song Jiliu went to the Binhai Naval Region for a meeting.

The burden of leadership responsibility for the first squadron of the Armed Forces Brigade temporarily falls on the shoulders of Minister Gu, who has just recovered from his injuries and has just come from the Shandong Military Region to inspect the work. Fortunately, most of the backbone of this squadron comes from the hoeing team, so he has special trust in Liu Mansheng.

The enemy's "large-scale encirclement and suppression" was fierce and had great momentum, and they kept holding on to the tail of the armed engineering team and pursued it day and night. However, the people's warriors cannot be pursued by any enemy, and they are determined to drag the enemy down.

The elusive martial arts athletes, tightly holding the "bull's nose" of the "sweeping team", circled and "played hide and seek" with those "black and blind" enemies on this vast seaside plain.

Sometimes, the brave men of the martial arts team are so entangled with the enemy that they can't even take care of a meal, so they have to carry dry food in their arms all day long, and take the time to find out and nibble a few bites, and sometimes, in order to prevent the enemy from being at peace, they can't sleep for a night. What to do? They took advantage of the time they were marching in the traffic ditch, and the big guys took turns taking a nap.

On this day, when I was about to start the meal, I suddenly heard people on the street shouting that dogs were biting for a while, and then Aunt Qi staggered in.

I saw her, running straight with her mouth wide open and out of breath, if it wasn't for Mansheng rushing forward to hug her, she would have to fall to the ground! So, Minister Gu hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Aunt Qi's face showed a look of great anxiety! However, she opened her mouth to gasp, but she was still speechless, and suddenly fell into Minister Gu's arms......

At this time, Minister Gu of the Shandong Military Region, who was rich in combat experience, could obviously conclude from Aunt Qi's face and appearance: There is an enemy situation outside, and the situation is very urgent! So, he commanded the war grounds: "Prepare for battle!" ”

Our soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have always been like this: as soon as they hear the order to "prepare for battle", they will not be hungry, tired, sleepy, and sleepy. You see, they put down their bowls suddenly, stood up suddenly, and some of them swished out their cartridges and pushed bullets. Some bite open the cover of the grenade and hang the firing wire on their little fingers, while others pull out a big knife from behind their backs, hold it in their hands and shake their wrists!

By this time, the tired and hungry countenance of the warriors was gone, and in its place was the dancing faces of Sai Yi's eyebrows.

After a while. Aunt Qi broke free from Minister Gu's arms and said angrily: "Enemy, enemy." ……”

"Where are they?"

"Enter, enter the village!"

"Where did it come from?"

"From the east, from ......"

Minister Gu swooped out the box gun, and waved his arm vigorously: "Go!" Rush west with me! ”

"No, no!"

"Why?"

"On all sides!"

When Gu Gu, the director of the United Front Work Department of the Shandong Military Region, heard this, he immediately tensed. The room suddenly fell silent. What to do? Such a thought swirled in the minds of every team member. Pair after pair of battle-seeking eyes—all staring at their leader—Liu Mansheng.

Minister Gu, when he was with Captain Song in the past, no matter how sinister the enemy situation was, his heart was always calm and steady. Now, Minister Gu has temporarily become the No. 1 commander of the No. 1 Squadron of the Martial Arts Brigade, and when he encounters this unexpected situation, he always feels empty in his heart, so he is more or less nervous.

What is he thinking right now? He was thinking, "How weird? How is Luo Chuan's nose smarter than a dog's nose? When we went back to Sangou Village this time, we had only cooked a pot of rice, and we hadn't eaten it yet, so how long had it been, so why did the enemy who had just withdrawn come up again? And yes, as soon as it came, it surrounded the village. ……”

It turned out that this was the case: when Luo Chuan withdrew with a large group of people, he quietly left a group of local plainclothes personnel and set up a secret sentry in this area. After these secret sentinels found out that the martial arts team entered Sangou Village, they reported it to Luo Chuan. After the old devil got the information, he immediately led a large group of people and came straight to Sangou Village.

At the same time, he also used the phone to order Jiao Dadao and other puppet troops in various nearby strongholds to dispatch together to cooperate with his actions. Of course, the martial arts team has no way of knowing these situations at the moment. However, from the enemy's actions, our Eighth Route Army has judged that the enemy has information about our movements, and has clearly realized that the current situation is very serious!