The woman is gone! ——The advance captain of the Japanese army suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and asked sharply what was going on. The advance team members on the truck were busy blaming each other and couldn't answer the question.

The second truck carrying the armed infantry detachment also drove over, and when Hiraiji found out that the second truck did not have the woman who had just been captured in the village, her legs were weak and she almost collapsed on the muddy wasteland.

Needless to say, it must have been when the two trucks were suddenly attacked by fire just now, and the members of the advance team only cared about fighting back and getting into the car to flee for their lives, and neglected to take care of the woman in China, so that she escaped by night!

Although he was only a lieutenant in the army who had been promoted from a civilian position, Hirai Temple still had an angry desire to pull out his pistol and kill several of his subordinates with his own hands.

The captain of the armed infantry detachment, not knowing what was at stake, urged Captain Hirai to stop caring about the woman and quickly ordered to continue driving: the intensity of the enemy's firepower that had ambushed them just now showed that there were many of them, and the twelve soldiers under his command had already been killed and wounded, and if the enemy pursued them, they would not be able to compete with them with their existing strength.

Hirai Temple is in turmoil. Although there have been several cases of accidental deaths of captured women since the implementation of the top-secret "Wind Plan" to forcibly recruit comfort women, there have never been cases in which a captured target has escaped alive. The severity of the consequences of this matter is difficult to estimate at the moment!

He even had the urge to take people back to the place where the incident had just happened to search for the woman, but after all, he lacked battlefield combat experience and courage, and in the end, Captain Hirai was coerced by the armed infantry detachment and reluctantly chose to continue evacuating.

In this way, the two trucks drove at full speed on the wasteland and rushed all the way back to the temporary barracks in the southern suburbs of Wencheng.

It was none other than the cavalry company of the Guanmenshan Detachment of the Xu Brigade led by Xia Lianshan who attacked the Pingjing Advance Team.

Before suddenly encountering this group of insidious and despicable Japanese advance team, the Xia Lianshan cavalry company attacked the flank of Saijo Shigehei's troops all the way, and watched this large group of Japanese troops retreat back into Ewhapo.

Finding that the Japanese began to occupy the village and implement defense, Xia Lianshan immediately sent people to rush to the first battalion of Wang Shuanglong to give a notification, and then the commander of the first battalion and the commander of the cavalry company reached a tactical plan, the first battalion was responsible for attacking Lihuapu Village head-on, and the cavalry company was outflanked to the north side of the village.

It was in this process of outflanking that the cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army once again encountered the secret advance of the Japanese head-on.

The first to discover the situation was the spearhead of the cavalry company running at the forefront, and the car headlights suddenly lit up in the distance made the two spearheads quickly realize the presence of Japanese troops in front.

Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company who received the report, couldn't help but be taken aback: the top soldiers found that the location of the truck's lights was obviously outside the northern end of Ewhapo Village.

Xia Lianshan's judgment is justified - the large Japanese army that is fighting with them tonight has a truck team in the camp!

"We can't let the little devils run away so quickly, let's rush up and bite them first!" The commander of the cavalry company decisively gave the order.

But when Xia Lianshan rushed to the front first, he found that there were only a few car lights in the distance, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong; So he urgently ordered everyone to stop the formation and stand by on the spot, and he himself personally led two fighters to dismount and sneak until they reached a place only a few dozen meters away from the truck.

The situation became clear: this was obviously not the truck fleet of the large Japanese army fighting fiercely all night, but two trucks hanging alone in the wasteland outside the village, and through the shadow of the headlights, Xia Lianshan saw the few Japanese soldiers armed with rifles, but he couldn't figure out what they were doing.

It doesn't matter so much. If the cavalry company wants to carry out the task of outflanking, it must pass through the front, and the people block and kill, and the Buddha blocks *! Xia Lianshan immediately decided that all the cavalry dismounted, and quietly leaned up to hit the opponent by surprise.

The attack began, and more than fifty cavalrymen of the Eighth Route Army crept and stalked, besieging it in a distance almost in a half-moon shape, and the pony guns opened fire like a storm. The Japanese troops who were attacked by surprise quickly organized a return fire, and relied on the fire of a light machine gun to suppress the Eighth Route Army's attempt to approach forward, and finally covered the two trucks to drive away.

Xia Lianshan was surprised that the trucks that fled one after the other were not heading due north for Xiping Village, which is supposedly the destination of this group of devils, but went straight to the direction of the Tongpu Railway to the west.

The cavalry company commander did not have time to think about it and ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up immediately. This is the northwest corner outside the village of Ewhapo, and the sound of gunfire can easily attract the attention of the main Japanese army in the village. They must leave as soon as possible and move to an ambush due north of the village.

However, an unexpected circumstance arose. In the process of cleaning the battlefield, the remains of not a single Japanese soldier were found, and they should have all been taken away by their living companions; But just as the cavalry was bringing their horses over and preparing to pull, a figure suddenly rushed out of a small bush not far away, and came towards the cavalry, accompanied by a terrible hysterical cry.

The startled cavalry of the Eighth Route Army realized that it was a woman who ran over, and someone hurriedly met it, and found that this middle-aged woman had her hands cut behind her back, and her face was full of horror.

She is the woman who was looted here by the Japanese advance team in the village!

Just now, just as she was forcefully grabbed by several people and taken to the side of the truck, the attack of the Eighth Route Army suddenly came. Fortunately, the position of this woman at that time was at the back of the truck, and at the moment when the bullets of the Eighth Route Army cavalry were splashed, several people who twisted her arms were either knocked down on the spot, or panicked and let go of her guns to shoot back. The woman was first brought to the ground, and then realized that this was a good opportunity to escape, so she struggled to her feet, and with her arms tied by the backcut, she moved in a squatting position to the small jungle not far away.

No one noticed her leaving, and in the opposite direction, the attacker's bullets were coming non-stop, and the attacker, after hurriedly resisting, chose to flee quickly with the man and the car.

The woman hid in the small forest like this, and the piece of linen in her mouth was rubbed repeatedly on the trunk of the tree by her, and finally rubbed off. Later, the attackers approached one after another, searching the battlefield where the fire had just been exchanged; Although the faces of those people could not be seen clearly in the night, the Chinese speaking and attacking the Japanese prompted the middle-aged women to escape from their hiding places, and eventually found that these were the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route who often haunted the village on weekdays.

It took Xia Lianshan a lot of effort to clarify the general process from the excited narration of the middle-aged woman who was untied but still frightened. But this immediately caused the commander of the cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army to fall into confusion: the middle-aged sister-in-law claimed to have been attacked and captured by an apparently Japanese who was not only dressed in the clothes of a Chinese citizen, but also able to speak fluent Chinese at the same time (later next to the truck, someone began to communicate with each other in Japanese)! What is even more incomprehensible is that, judging from the time they entered the village, the Japanese army had not yet retreated into Ewhapo at that time - so what did these Japanese in civilian clothes and speak Chinese do? A scout who acts as a spearhead? However, the most important task of the scouts is to find out the frontier intelligence, and to capture the officers and soldiers who must also capture the enemy's lone army, how can there be any reason to deliberately capture an unarmed village woman?!

"Did the Japanese people in ordinary clothes ask you anything?" For a while, Xia Lianshan felt that the Japanese plainclothes might want to catch this village woman and find out the news of the Eighth Route Army.

But the middle-aged woman's answer dispelled the cavalry company commander: the Japanese did not ask anything, but came up and grabbed her, tied her hands and gagged her without saying anything, and then quickly took her out of the village and to the place where two trucks were parked; There, she first saw another group of heavily armed Japanese soldiers, and then heard the men who had captured him talking in Japanese.

"Damn Japanese brutes! Don't forget to spoil our female compatriots in the war......" The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route nearby listened to the story and began to discuss it quietly and angrily.

Xia Lianshan faintly felt that something was not quite right, but he couldn't think clearly for a while. At this moment, the sound of firefighting in the south of Ewhapo Village gradually rang out. It was supposed to be Wang Shuanglong who led three companies of the first battalion and began a tentative attack on the Japanese troops occupying the village. The cavalry company commander's attention was then drawn to the battle. He instructed a cavalryman to take care of his frightened sister-in-law, and let her move with the troops for the time being. If the Japanese evacuate from Ewhapo, she will enter the village on her own.

Next, a new accident appeared, but this gave the cavalry company a great surprise: Wei Xin, the commander of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade Detachment, appeared in the north of Lihuapu with a team including Liu Wumei's bandits.

Xia Lianshan, who suddenly received strong assistance, did not mention to his old comrade-in-arms Wei Xin about the strange Japanese plainclothes arrest of the village woman, because at this time, the attack and defense around the south of Lihuapu Village had become fierce. The two commanders couldn't wait to start studying new countermeasures: If the large Japanese army in Ewha Pool wanted to hold on, then the troops and horses ambushed in the north of the village at this moment should not only not continue to set up ambushes, but on the contrary, they should find a way to launch an attack and cooperate with Wang Shuanglong's first battalion to carry out a flanking attack on the Japanese army from the north and south.

"There is another point that must be vigilant," Wei Xin looked back in the opposite direction of Lihuapu, and said to Xia Lianshan: "Xiping Village should have been lost at this moment, unless the main force of the Japanese army attacking there all enters the mountain to pursue Captain Wu and them, otherwise, it is very likely that the Japanese army will send a part of its forces to rush here to support the battle in Lihuapu." ”

"In that case, won't you and I become enemies?" The cavalry company commander was emotionally tense.

"That's right! Therefore, we must strike first and quickly attack Ewhapo before the Japanese reinforcements arrive! ”