In the southern edge of Tancheng County, the scenery tonight is very different from usual. August 1 <.

Although it was still as silent as usual, in the midst of this silence there was the busiest tense activity: the rows of stretcher teams, their feet held high, and they walked tightly towards the designated place; The carts, pulled by the animals, rattled forward; Groups of boys with shovels and pickaxes, without saying a word, quickly followed the troops towards the stronghold and the road; The main army, which won a hundred battles along the way, rode horses, horses and cannons, and grew wings under the ribs, and galloped forward.

On a cold night, every village was full of people. Most of these people are old people, women, and then there are children who jump like sparrows. They waited intently with their eyes wide open, just like waiting for the lantern festival and fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, waiting for the arrival of a good show in the middle of the night.

Late at night, in the area at the junction of Tancheng and South Sulu, there was a sudden burst of gunfire and thunderous cannons.

I saw the sound of gunfire on the highway for a while, a lightning fire, and a thunderous explosion; There was an urgent trumpet, an inaudible shout. The battle in the whole region, in an instant, entered the white heat. People's hearts were so excited by this loud sound and the flames that they wanted to jump out of their throats. Some people forget that this is the night, that this is near the Longhai Railway, that this is the area where the enemy will come at dawn, and they don't care about anything, and shout with their voices open.

"Look, the place where the fire is on fire must be Xiao Chenzhuang's stronghold!" An old man raised his crutches and pointed due west, and countless eyes looked at the crutches.

I don't know who showed a new sign again, and recklessly shouted: "Hey, hey, hey! Didn't the turret in the X ditch also light the sky lantern! These two sentences dragged people's eyes from the western corner to the X-ditch side.

"Look, aren't a few of the turrets in Datan Village also on fire?"

"Hey, a couple of lantern stands lit by living elephants! It's really hard to watch! ”

"The fun is yet to come! That's a small joke. ”

"Trouble? So when is the fuss? ”

"Hit Wang Haizi Liang Mazi's stronghold! At that point, it will look like a lewd again! ”

The people at the head of the village, through the fire and smoke of the stronghold and artillery tower, were deliberating on the "progress" of the war situation. Where the turret fires, the more vigorously they talk; Where there was no fire, they also knew that this was a place where the battle was extremely difficult, so they were anxious from their hearts.

It is said that this small Chen Zhuang is very strong, and there are dozens of large and small gun holes inlaid with bricks on the high blockhouse. These traitors are also tenacious and hold the polder wall without surrendering their guns. This can infuriate the comrades of the independent regiment who are mainly attacking here.

The spy company that Chen Shiyu followed was very anxious when he saw that this situation had occurred when he attacked Xiao Chenzhuang.

So, he said to Wang Liusheng, who commanded the attack, hotly: "This Xiaochenzhuang stronghold does not have much troops to defend, but its terrain is very good. Now the troops have first surrounded this stronghold tightly. It is necessary to connect with the 'relationship' of the past and silently take down half of the stronghold. I want to enter the village because of other things, and the staff officer Wang will tell you about the surrounding terrain and the enemy's situation. After speaking, he hurriedly took the staff officer Fang Xiao and others to find the secret "relationship", and was guided by the secret "relationship" to find a pseudo township chief.

Although Chen Shiyu had never met the head of the township, he had already heard everything about him in his ears. He is not only a brother-in-law with the head of a village, a Li group, but also because of the right door, he usually walks around quite closely. From the mouth of the Li group, Chen Shiyu also learned that the sika deer, the third son-in-law of the big township chief, was mixing hypocrisy in the garrison, and he was still a leader.

The son-in-law was mixed up with the hypocrisy, and the township chief added a pseudo-person's family, so Chen Shiyu decided to go out to find him in person.

This big township chief is eight and exquisite, and he doesn't want to be a sleek character who doesn't want to fall behind.

His home is as far as Xiaochenzhuang and Linyi, and he can walk there with two cigarettes in a car, so he will often go to the city to sleep. It just so happened that they didn't enter the city today, and it happened that Commander Chen and they came to the door. At that time, he was so scared that he was sweating profusely and his thighs were trembling. After listening to Fang Xiao's introduction, he nodded hurriedly and approached: "I know!" Know! Although he has never met with the chief, he often listens to the praise of the people. ”

"Ahh Ordinary people often praise? Chen Shiyu raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes, he is a good commander who often praises the Eighth Route Army. Special praise for your youth, promising, intelligence, and ability! The big village chief nodded and said. Today, Chief Chen personally came out to come here, and if there is anything noble, I will do it directly, and I will definitely do it. ”

Indeed, whatever little things Fang Xiao asked him to do in the past, he did it all smoothly. Now he is working in person again. Based on this, he felt that the Eighth Route Army might not be good to him. However, the first time I saw the arrival of the commander of the Eighth Route Army, I still had fifteen buckets in my heart, and I didn't put my heart down.

Commander Chen talked to him about the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country, and finally said with a straight face: "...... We must suppress and resolutely suppress those who serve the devil and harm the common people. ”

"Good! Yes, yes! ”

"But we can be lenient with those who, although they are working for the devil, have not sincerely recognized the thief as their father, have lost their conscience, have not forgotten that they are Chinese, and are willing to repent and rehabilitate themselves and make meritorious atonements. You can choose these two paths, yin and yang. Especially the family members who are involved in the incident, you must think about your relatives who are messing around outside, and persuade them to turn back as soon as possible. ”

Commander Chen's words really moved the head of the township. He also thought about the three girls and his son-in-law in his heart.

The township chief took out a bottle of two pots from the box, and there was an unbroken braised beef from Linyi. "Chief Chen, listening to you is better than reading for ten years! In the future, you will know how to walk the aisle! ……”

Commander Chen has seen too many such people. He knows how to cope. Originally, he could not accompany this kind of invitation from the head of the township.

However, seeing that this guy's attitude was okay, and he wanted to pull him to be a "relational" envoy in the future, he brought a full glass of wine to his mouth: "When it comes to drinking, our Eighth Route Army is not interested in this; Nor will I be. However, in order to make friends with you, and for you to do more anti-Japanese work in the future, I am willing to drink this glass of wine! With a flick of his neck, he swallowed the soju into his stomach.

"We are born once, and we are ripe twice!" The chief of the township had three glasses of soju in his stomach, and the conversation box opened. "Chief Chen, my bottom line, I'm afraid that Chief Fang has already told you, so don't repeat it. In a word, as long as you can trust me, don't treat me as an outsider. In the anti-Japanese resistance, as long as I can do it, you will do it for me! ”

"We are the road to the horse. To do the work can, there will be later! ”

"Good!" Chen Shiyu agreed, looked at the luminous watch on his wrist, the time was ten fifty o'clock.

He suddenly remembered the matter of taking a stronghold at the edge of the village, and he couldn't sit still any longer, so he hurriedly bid farewell to the big village chief. As soon as he walked out of the doorway, a communicator with twenty rings on his back came running. The communicator was followed by a man in a coat and top hat.