When the agents heard the gunshots, they were searching for suspicious people near a cloth shop in the south of the city, and the place where the shots were fired was less than two miles away from them. The person who fired the shot was a private of the Nara Infantry Brigade.

The Nara Infantry Brigade was urgently transferred to Bunjo to participate in the search and arrest, and it has been stationed in the eastern suburbs outside the city on weekdays to guard the direction of Little Elm Mountain. In the eastern suburbs of Wencheng, a battle broke out between the Otsuka Wing and the 12th Independent Brigade of the Jin Army, and most of the local people either died in the war or chose to flee, and the entire eastern suburbs are now vast and sparsely populated; This also made the officers and men of the Nara Brigade more and more bored. Now that they have suddenly received an urgent order to enter Wencheng, the entire squadron is extremely excited, you must know that many of them have never set foot in this famous city in the south of Jinzhong, which is close at hand.

The Otsuka Wing slaughtered the city for two days after taking the county seat of Toyodian, but the Nara Brigade was unable to participate in the feast of robbery and rape at that time, and it is still haunted by it. In view of the bad impact of the Togadian massacre, the brigade commander, Major General Hagiwara, strictly ordered the Otsuka Wing to refrain from looting property and raping women when they captured Bunjo in the future. This undoubtedly made the Nara brigade, which was holding back enough energy and preparing to have a good time in Wencheng, depressed.

This time, the 4th Squadron of the Nara Brigade entered the city by car from the East Castle Gate, and the captain and squadron leader told them that there were anti-Japanese elements of the Shina people who attacked the establishment ceremony of the maintenance association in the city, and that the anti-Japanese elements were unknown in number but carrying automatic weapons, and that in view of the fact that the garrison Imperial Army quickly closed the city gate and strengthened the cordon around the railway station after the incident, it was certain that the armed anti-Japanese elements were still stranded in the city and could not leave the city, and the 4th Squadron would launch a search and arrest of the entire city under the guidance of the maintenance members.

The specific method of search and arrest is that the whole squadron is divided into groups of two or three people, led by members of the maintenance committee who are familiar with each residential area, and the search is carried out door to door, and strangers who are not residents of the city are the focus of the search. More than 100 riders of the Iwata Cavalry Squadron roamed the streets and could support the search and arrest operation at any time.

The manhunt was relatively rigorous at first, but after nightfall it gradually fell into a state of disorder, and some officers and men of the infantry squadron entered the homes of the targets of the raids, and from time to time they snatched some valuables, and families with young female dependents were repeatedly harassed with ill intentions.

The manhunt was suspended in the middle of the night and resumed the next morning. In a house in the south of the city, three Japanese soldiers who entered the room found a woman with a good appearance in the room, and the warrant officer who led the team finally couldn't hold it back.* He ordered the superior soldiers around him to guard the door of a room, and he himself forced the woman into the house with a bayonet. The woman's family hurriedly begged the people of the maintenance association to help them intercede and let their female relatives go, but the senior soldier guarding the door was not moved at all, but blindly carried a 38-type rifle, threatening to forbid anyone to approach.

The woman's miserable cries and cries for help were heard in the house, and one of the woman's family members could not bear it anymore and grabbed a chair and threw himself over, and the frightened superior soldier pulled his rifle and the bullet hit the family member in the chest at close range, killing him instantly.

Meng Longsheng and several of his subordinates in the special team clearly heard the gunfire of this Japanese soldier, although it was only one shot, it was enough to make most of them feel frightened, and their eyes turned to their captain together. Meng Longsheng had already identified the direction of the gun, so he waved the twenty-shot barge gun in his hand:

"Lean over to me! Don't worry, touch it slowly! ”

His words were actually a bit redundant, because none of his men were not slow, and they were looking around and moving forward slowly. Finally, Meng Longsheng, as the captain, couldn't stand it anymore:

"Grandma, why don't you get on the ground and crawl! Hurry up for me! ”

Suddenly, the sound of galloping horses' hooves came from behind them, and soon, several Japanese cavalrymen appeared on horseback, and they were none other than the Iwata cavalry squadron cruising nearby, attracted by the sound of gunfire.

"Taijun, over there, over there!"

Meng Longsheng hurriedly jumped to the side of the road with a brisk step, dodging the way for the Japanese cavalry, and at the same time shouted in the direction of the gun. And the cavalry didn't even look at the gang of traitors, and ran over on horseback.

With the help of the imperial cavalry, Meng Longsheng suddenly grew up in courage, shouted chaotically, and followed behind the ass of the Oriental Horse.

However, by the time they arrived at the scene panting, the situation there had calmed down. No more gunfire rang out, and the cavalrymen, who had been running wildly all the way just a moment ago, now let the mounts under their crotch wander back the same way, chattering to each other in Japanese.

Meng Longsheng and the others were confused, and they couldn't understand what the imperial soldiers on the tall horses were saying, so they had to continue to stand on the side of the road and send the cavalry away. At this time, several members of the city's maintenance association led three Japanese infantry with big guns on their backs, the Japanese soldiers were full of frustration and annoyance, and the faces of the people who maintained the association were both frightened and a little embarrassed.

"Hey, where to shoot? What's going on? ”

Seeing the Chinese, Meng Longsheng's confidence was sufficient, and he dragged one of them and asked. Although the person who maintained the association didn't know Meng Longsheng, he saw that he and a few people next to him were holding short guns in their hands, and they knew that the comer was not good, so he told the scene he had just witnessed intermittently.

The three Japanese soldiers were nervous when they first discovered Meng Longsheng and his group, but they immediately understood that the other party should be Chinese hired by the city's secret services, and before the search and arrest began, the head of the Wencheng secret service had specially reported this. Soon, the Japanese soldiers and the people of the maintenance association also left behind them, and Meng Longsheng followed the cries of a family calling for heaven and earth, paced closer, pushed the door and walked in.

The Secret Service Captain then saw a middle-aged man lying on the ground, his chest covered in blood, and a young woman curled up in a corner, disheveled. Their families surrounded them in grief and screaming.

Rao is this ruffian who is ruthless, but he was also quite shocked when he saw this scene: the Japanese are really his grandmother's nature! Just to sleep with a little girl, she even said shoot when she shoots! In their eyes, human life is simply inferior to pigs and dogs.

However, this little lady is indeed very handsome, no wonder the imperial army moved his mind - Meng Longsheng took a few eyes and glanced at the dull-eyed young woman, wondering if the Japanese had slept with her. Grandma's, is this a search for anti-Japanese elements, or is it a visit to play with women?!

Hearing this shot, there were also several people with special identities: members of the enemy engineering team of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division.

The two enemy workers were ordered by the captain Xiao Junping to infiltrate Wencheng to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. Serving as their guide was a villager from Hekou Village, whose uncle ran a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in Wencheng, and he often walked around a lot to deliver herbs from the mountains to his uncle. As soon as they entered the city yesterday, there was an attack on the town hall celebration. The two enemy workers were unable to go to the city hall to see what was going on, and the Japanese immediately launched a city-wide search.

The guide told his uncle that these two people were also from a nearby village, and they met when they went to Guanmen Mountain to pick herbs and mountain goods, and they came to Wencheng with him this time. They used the clinic to hide their eyes and ears and evade the Japanese until the news passed, and the Japanese soldiers who had found nothing stopped the search and reopened the city gates, and then returned to the village of Kawaguchi at the foot of Guanmen Mountain.

Coincidentally, after walking into Hekou Village with two enemy workers and guides, Wu Zijian also led people back to Hekou Village from the Hongxing Gorge in the deep mountains. This made Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy labor team who had been hanging his heart, very gratified.

Wu Zijian only brought with him the soldiers of the battalion headquarters communications squad and the remaining recruit company, and he planned to temporarily leave all 51 recruits in Hekou Village for training. Of course, he knew that these people were all children of Xiping Village, and he had a strong desire to return home at the moment. However, it was precisely because all the soldiers of the recruit company were from Xiping that there was an astonishing scene of a large number of recruits deserting on the night when the second battalion withdrew from Xiping Village and fled into Guanmen Mountain. Wu Zijian believes that this is definitely a problem with the overall training of new recruits, and although the more than 200 people have nominally joined the Eighth Route Army, they are still a rabble in essence, and there is no discipline in their minds. No matter how much such a recruit company is raised, it will be meaningless for the future growth of the second battalion, and it will help you in the future.

Fortunately, compared to the more than 100 recruits who deserted, these 51 people still obeyed the order and left their hometown with the main force of the battalion; This also gave Wu Zijian confidence in them. He planned to let Li Tianlin, the commander of the 5th Company, who was strict in administering the army, sharpen them well, and after they were truly qualified, they would be reassigned to each company.

However, Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy workers, hurriedly pulled Wu Zijian, who had just entered the village, to report, and asked the deputy commander of the second battalion to put aside the matter of the recruit company.

"What? Someone in Wencheng attacked the maintenance association? Listening to the excited report of the captain of the enemy workers, Wu Zijian also became excited all of a sudden: "Who did it?" The 12th Brigade of your Jin Army? ”

Hearing Wu Zijian's question, Xiao Junping's heart really moved: how much he hoped to attack the traitor maintenance association, he was the person of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army in the past! Reason, however, told him that the odds were slim to non-existent. When the Japanese just came to the city, the brigade commander Zheng Yuan only symbolically resisted, and then led the main force of the whole brigade to jump on the train and escape, how can he be expected to have the courage to fight in the dark after the devils have fully occupied and controlled Wencheng?!