The commander of the special service company of the Central Army only woke up from a dream at this point - as early as when Wencheng cooperated with the military command Shanxi Station to carry out the hidden mission, Major Wang Suihua had specially explained to them that he wanted to keep an eye on the special military train of the Japanese on the Tongpu railway line and its Songjiagou branch line, how could he ignore this important point!?

"Damn it!" Zhao Mutou knocked his skull and shouted: "I just noticed that there was a train parked on the platform of Songjiagou Railway Station, but I didn't connect it with the mysterious Japanese army train that Major Wang talked about before!" I should have thought of it at the time! ”

The female major of the military commander did not say a word - this captain of the bamboo pole was indeed careless enough, and such an important discovery could not be immediately sensitively seated! If it was replaced by Li Yan, a subordinate of his own military command, it would be absolutely impossible to leave such an omission; Although that Li Yan is not comparable to Zhao Mutou in many other aspects.

"Major Wang, with all due respect, what is the purpose of the mysterious military column of the Japanese that you have been tracking? Can you tell us a thing or two today? Qin Zhongxiao, who originally held the principle of listening more and talking less at the intelligence meeting, could no longer hold back his curiosity at this time, and finally opened his mouth to ask Wang Suihua.

At this point, the female major of the military commander was embarrassed to continue to keep her mouth shut, so she carefully explained: The Japanese military train repeatedly haunted the Nantongpu railway line, and along the branch line north of Wencheng, it entered and exited Xiaoyushu Mountain (presumably the destination was Songjiagou Station); The Shanxi Station of the Military Commander highly suspected that the military column was carrying out some kind of top-secret mission of the Japanese army; Therefore, he has never given up tracking it.

"Major Wang, it seems that your prediction is quite accurate, that military train should be the big guy who stopped at the Songjiagou Railway Station, but unfortunately the light was too dim at that time to see the specific appearance." The commander of the spy company shouted in frustration.

In view of the fact that Wang Suihua's explanation just now still had a considerable degree of reservations, the colonel of the Central Army did not continue to inquire with interest, but his heart was stirring and wondering: What is the ulterior hidden on the Japanese train, so that the military commander has to persistently track it down?

At this moment, Wang Suihua was already eighty or ninety percent sure that the train that Zhao Mutou and they saw hiding on the hill of the Songjiagou Coal Mine was the mysterious Japanese military train that she had glimpsed and then dreamed of. She began to keep an eye on the topographic map in her hand, and her mind was thinking quickly: in addition to the military columns, the camp standing in the large open space between the Songjiagou railway station and the abandoned coal kiln should be the biggest discovery of the spy company's trip - a large camp is tightly enclosed with barbed wire in the deep mountains that have been militarily blocked, which in itself speaks for itself! In particular, Wang Suihua remembered an important detail that Zhao Mutou had just mentioned: After the gunshots and sirens sounded, all lights in the barbed wire camp were quickly extinguished. What explanation can be given other than to cover and hide some kind of important secret?!

Little Elm Mountain, Songjiagou, military blockade area, mysterious military columns, special camps - these clues are twisted together, will they point to the ghostly looming "Wind Plan"?

The regimental headquarters war room gradually fell silent, only Zhao Mutou, who was annoyed, occasionally made a few self-reproachful noises. Qin Zhongxiao glanced at the female major of the military commander with a solemn face and a heavy heart from time to time, and understood that the other party was trying to guess all kinds of mysteries.

It wasn't until the arrival of Chief of Staff Zhang Hong that the dull atmosphere of the war room was finally broken.

"The regimental seat and all the posts on the front line have been re-inspected and deployed, and there are no signs of Japanese troops entering the mountain at present."

The colonel of the Central Army signaled with his eyes, and then took his chief of staff out of the war room and came to the courtyard outside the regiment headquarters: "Can't just deploy defenses in the mountains, have you come back from the second platoon of the spy company?" Let them continue to send people to the mountain pass near the county seat of Fengdian to spy on the movements of the Japanese army at any time. ”

The second platoon of the spy company mentioned by Qin Zhongxiao once cruised alone in the eastern suburbs of Fengdian County during night operations.

"Don't worry, the spies didn't even fight much in the second row at night, and their bodies were well eaten, and they were sent out of the mountain again after breakfast. In addition to reconnoitring the mountain pass, I also sent a few of their people to Hekou Village - there was no news from the Eighth Route Army, and I was not very worried about Zhu Xingyun's second battalion and sixth company. ”

Hearing the chief of staff's answer, the colonel of the Central Army nodded with satisfaction. Of course, he knew that the pressure on the Xu Brigade Detachment of the Eighth Route Army since yesterday was probably much greater than that of his own, and he hoped that Zhu Xingyun Company, which had been given emergency reinforcements to them, could help.

"Regiment seat," the chief of staff of the Central Army looked at the roof of the war room of the regimental headquarters at this time, lowered his voice and asked, "Company Commander Zhao, have they obtained valuable information?" What did Major Wang of the military command say? The main force of our whole regiment fought bloodily for a night, and there is no merit and hard work, right? ”

When he entered the war room just now, Zhang Hong noticed the abnormality in the room, so he was worried that the results of the spy company's attack on Little Elm Mountain would not satisfy the female major of the military commander.

Qin Zhongxiao understood his worries, so he smiled and told the other party that he could rest assured that Zhao Mutou had caught the big fish that the military commander was looking forward to, and Major Wang was carefully digesting it.

"However, your brother also has to be mentally prepared," the colonel of the Central Army changed his words: "If the secrets hidden by the Japanese army in Little Elm Mountain are in line with the judgment of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, then they are likely to propose to launch an armed attack - in that case, the task of sending troops will definitely fall on the head of the 391st Regiment again." ”

The chief of staff immediately stumbled and complained, and chattered one after another: Do you want to fight?! Isn't the military commander in the dark of us! It's all the Anti-Japanese Army, don't just let our family contribute-doesn't the Eighth Route Army still have a Xu Brigade Guanmenshan detachment? Let them go too!

Zhang Hong's angry and depraved appearance made Qin Zhongxiao find it very interesting, and he suddenly realized that the chief of staff, who used to be respectful of the Communist Eighth Route Army and was afraid to avoid it, seemed to have undergone a subtle change recently. The colonel of the Central Army, who was born as a professional soldier, has always vaguely looked down on partisan disputes, especially when national disasters are at hand and foreign insults are rampant, it is very important to fight the war with one heart.

At this very moment, a telecommunications staff officer of the regiment headquarters hurriedly ran over and reported to the regiment commander and chief of staff with a happy face: I had just heard the broadcast of the Wuhan Radio of the Nationalist Government on the radio, and good news came from the battlefield of the Battle of Xuzhou, Shandong, that the Nationalist Army under the command of Li Zongren of the Fifth Theater had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese North China Front near Taierzhuang, had destroyed countless enemies, and had captured a great deal.

The two officers standing in the courtyard of the Dashan farmhouse immediately smiled when they heard this--this victory news came in time, at the moment, the entire Shanxi, the entire North China, and even the entire Chinese battlefield are in great need of a victory!

"Do you have a detailed battle report, do you take a pen to record it?" Chief of Staff Zhang Hong couldn't wait to ask his subordinates, which was also the focus of the regiment commander Qin Zhongxiao. Located in a secluded mountainous area far from the city, and not having good communication with the headquarters of the theater commander, the most important way for the 391st Regiment to understand the battle situation outside is to listen to the radio broadcast. For this reason, both the regiment commander and the chief of staff have asked the relevant personnel of the regiment headquarters to make a good record of listening notes.

However, the telecommunications staff officer's answer disappointed the two men: the Wuhan radio broadcast was extremely brief, and did not mention the specific battle report.

"Let's go, immediately go and report to Major Wang," Qin Zhongxiao happily pulled Zhang Hong's sleeve: "Let her contact the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, since the radio station has news, the Military Commander must have already grasped detailed information." ”

Sure enough, the colonel of the Central Army did not expect it badly. After Wang Suihua learned about it, she quickly used the radio of the 391st Regiment Headquarters to get in touch with the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station in Wencheng City, and made a corresponding explanation. As late as the afternoon, the radio station of No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane in Wencheng finally replied, and sent a telegram from the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, which read as follows:

First, the Taierzhuang front confirmed that Commander Li Zongren's Fifth Theater completed the defeat of two units of the Second Army of the Japanese North China Front on the 6th and 7th of this month (author's note: April 1938): the Sakamoto Detachment and the Seya Detachment; The number of enemies destroyed is close to 10,000; The remnants of the enemy were defeated to the north, and now retreated to the vicinity of Yi County and Zaozhuang of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway.

Second, according to a report by the Second Theater Commander's Department Wei Lihuang, starting from the 4th of this month, the First Army of the Japanese North China Front Army mobilized one division of each of the four divisions of Shangang, Nakajima, Xiayuan, and Sena to set out from Zhengtai Road in the north, Pinghan Road in the east, Tunliu Road in the south, and Tongpu Road in the west, and encircled and suppressed the Nationalist troops in the Taihang Mountains of central and southern Shanxi. The battle is still ongoing.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the focus of attention of the 391st Regiment Headquarters of the Central Army in the small village of Da Yushu Mountain instantly shifted to the content of the call from the Shanxi Station of the Military Command.

They were particularly nervous about the combat operations of the four divisions of the First Army of the Japanese Army, which were mentioned in Article 2 of the telegram, to encircle the Taihang Mountains in central and southern Shanxi.

"I can't imagine that the devil's first army has made such a big move in Shanxi!" Zhang Hong and several staff officers rushed to complete an operation on the map, which was made with reference to the briefing on the telegram. On this map, huge blue arrows stretched out from the four directions of Zhengtai Road, Pinghan Road, Tunliu Road and Tongpu Road, pointing to the Taihang Mountains in the south of central Jin, and of course including Da Yushu Mountain and Guanmen Mountain.

"With Pulu, Sena Division participated? So yesterday afternoon, Xiping Village at the foot of Guanmen Mountain was attacked by the Japanese army, and it should be part of the overall operation of the Japanese First Army? Staring at the battle map that had just been completed, Qin Zhongxiao said thoughtfully: "Today is the twelfth of April, so it seems that the devils on Tongpu Road are a little slow to move." ”

The female major of the military commander also looked at the map, frowned and said: "I just don't know which places in the defense areas of the national army east of Tongpu Road have been attacked at this moment?" You are indeed too closed here, and the Japanese can't even hear a sound from such a large-scale military operation! ”

Chief of Staff Zhang Hong nodded helplessly: "The Xu Brigade detachment of the Eighth Route Army at the western foot of Guanmen Mountain must have been robbed, and a company we sent to support them has not received any news so far." However, the Japanese army does not seem to have a plan to attack Big Elm Mountain this time, and our 391st Regiment took the initiative to jump out last night to fight. ”

"Don't jump to conclusions yet," the colonel of the Central Army sank like water: "Maybe the devils have left their hands behind, and they have long hated the 391st regiment!" ”