At this time, the captain of the enemy engineer suddenly remembered a person: the female soldier Zhang Xiu! In the past and now, Zhang Xiu has led the people of the Xiping Village Field Mobilization Committee to be busy, if you want to find a person in the second battalion of the forest division who is familiar with the geography and population of Xiping, I am afraid it must be Zhang Xiu, right?

"Deputy battalion commander, can you let Xiao Zhang of the battalion headquarters cooperate with the counter-espionage operation of our enemy engineering team?"

The former staff officer of the Jin army couldn't help but blurt out, but before the words fell, he himself immediately felt that something was wrong; Sure enough, the smile on Wu Zijian's face became mysterious again.

"Oh? Captain Xiao, why do you have to name Zhang Xiu? Do you think a female clerk in the battalion headquarters is suitable for counter-espionage work? Or is there another reason? ”

Xiao Junping's white face was already crimson, he shook his hands in a panic, and explained incoherently to his deputy battalion commander.

Wu Zijian finally understood, and at the same time secretly applauded Xiao Junping's meticulous thinking - indeed, Zhang Xiu is a very suitable candidate. He immediately approved this suggestion, and immediately sent someone to call Zhang Xiu, and Xiao Junping personally explained and deployed to her the task of secretly searching for Japanese puppet spies who might have infiltrated Xiping.

In fact, this time, when Zhang Xiu went out of Hekou Village with the troops from the Hongxing Gorge in Guanmen Mountain, Xiao Junping had already met with her quietly. Seeing Xiao Junping's leg injury getting better day by day, the beautiful female soldier was very pleased; During this period, the two told each other about their experiences and experiences during the anti-night raid battle, and they were both afraid of the thrilling incident that the other party encountered, and Xiao Junping, who was engaged in enemy work, paid special attention to the strange actions of the Japanese raid team in the Xiping Village Office. At this moment, he specially told Zhang Xiu to pay attention to all kinds of people, including the villagers of his village, and who had or were investigating the detention of Japanese prisoners of war.

Zhang Xiu, who has never been in contact with counter-espionage work, feels both fresh and nervous, and when she follows the instructor to squat in Xiping Village for a long time, she has a more thorough understanding of the customs and customs in the village, but she never thought that there would be the eyes of the Japanese puppet army in this village. Xiao Junping said: The probability of people in the village and strangers is half of the likelihood! At the same time, she also learned that five members of the enemy labor team had infiltrated Xiping Village in disguise and secretly tracked down the spies.

"You remember, your task is not to catch spies," Wu Zijian, who was on the side, finally emphasized to Zhang Xiu: "Once there is a suspicious target, if it is not a last resort, don't startle the snake and report us quickly." ”

Zhang Xiu suppressed the excitement and excitement in her heart and left. It wasn't until her figure disappeared from sight that Xiao Junping turned his head to Wu Zijian and said: "Deputy battalion commander, knowing yourself and knowing that the other side can survive a hundred battles, now that the enemy has sent spies to infiltrate us, in addition to dealing with and clearing, we should also fight-for-tat and send our eyeliner to the heart of the enemy!" ”

"How?" The interest of the deputy commander of the second battalion was aroused at once, and he asked eagerly, staring into the eyes of the enemy engineer captain.

"We sent the team members to Wencheng, set up an intelligence point, and keep an eye on the movements of the Japanese command center at any time!"

Wu Zijian couldn't help but be a little surprised: Go to Wencheng? Don't you go to Fengdian? Obviously, Fengdian was closer to the base of the 2nd Battalion of the Lin Division, and the Japanese puppet army stationed there was a more direct threat to the Eighth Route Army.

Xiao Junping pointed to the map and talked eloquently:

Fengdian is still in a closed state, and the Japanese puppet army troops guarding the county town are more vigilant, and at least for the time being, they will not be able to send enemy workers into the city. Moreover, the 391st Regiment of Qin Zhongxiao's Central Army, which was once stationed in Fengdian, was shrinking in the big elm mountain east of Fengdian at this time, and they could launch a strike on Fengdian County at any time; From this point of view, the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division can look further and aim at Wencheng, which is fifty miles away!

At present, the brigade headquarters of the Hagiwara Brigade of the Sena Division is stationed in Bunjo, and it is reported that the wing headquarters of the Otsuka Wing of the brigade is also located in Bunjo. It can be said that Wencheng was the military center of the Japanese puppet army in this area; Not to mention that it was located on the Tongpu Railway, and it was the rear of the Sena Division attacking the Second Theater of the National Army along the Nantongpu Road. Every move there had a profound impact on the battle situation within a radius of several hundred miles. Therefore, staring at Wencheng is equivalent to staring at the weather vane of the Sena Division.

"Well, you have a say in this, after all, when you were in the 12th Brigade of the Du, you were stationed in Wencheng for a long time;" Wu Zijian also looked at the map, and said to Xiao Junping without raising his head: "It's just, what are you going to do?" Or send back a few enemy workers who went to Wencheng to reconnoiter last time? ”

"The choice is secondary, and my idea is to build one or two intelligence stations in the city, close to the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters and the Otsuka Wing Headquarters, so that they can be detected by us first as soon as they are disturbed, so that they can immediately pass on the information back."

"How? Is there a need for a radio station again? ”

Xiao Junping smiled, he knew that he asked the second battalion to have a radio station as soon as possible, which made Wu Zijian very headache and ashamed: "Not necessarily, the radio can be done slowly, of course it is more convenient and faster to have a radio station; However, for now, we can first use people to pass it on, for example, find a private house in the southeast direction outside the city of Wencheng, and arrange for the enemy workers to live in, and prepare horses; When there was information in the city, they sent people to send it there, and then they rode back to report the news. ”

The deputy commander of the second battalion nodded frequently when he heard this, and although he had only listened to it for a few minutes, he suddenly liked the plan of the enemy engineer captain to enter the heart of the enemy.

"How to set up an intelligence station? Can the TCM clinic that was used as a cover in Wencheng last time continue to be used? ”

The TCM clinic mentioned by Wu Zijian was opened by a relative of a villager in Xiping in Wencheng, and was used as a temporary base for the enemy engineering team of the second battalion when they went to the city to reconnoiter the situation.

Xiao Junping said that the TCM clinic could continue to be used, but since the enemy team planned to gain a long-term foothold in Wencheng, it was necessary to have a showdown with the owner of the clinic and do his job, so that he could know the details so that he could cooperate better and more tacitly.

"However, deputy battalion commander, we should still consider establishing our own foothold, for example, in a place close to the Hagiwara Brigade and Regiment Headquarters, we set up a shop facing the street, ostensibly using business as a cover to secretly monitor the Brigade Headquarters' every move. There is already information that the brigade commander of the Hagiwara Brigade, Major General Akira Hagiwara, is actually the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Bunjo, who is not only responsible for commanding the Japanese puppet army in the area of Bunjo and Fengdian, but also serves as the supreme commander of the rear base camp of the main force of the Sena Division in the south. ”

Xiao Junping had introduced the Sena Division before, so Wu Zijian was more familiar with its combat sequence, and he knew that there were two brigades under the jurisdiction of the division, of which the Kato Brigade was under the personal leadership of the division commander Lieutenant General Sena, along the Tongpu Road to attack the last defense area of the Jinnan Wei Lihuang National Army; The Hagiwara Brigade was divided into two: one wing was attacking the main force of the Jin army in Yan Xishan, southwest of Shanxi, and the other wing was the Otsuka Wing guarding the front line of Wencheng and Fengdian.

"Okay, Captain Xiao, your vision is indeed farther than mine!" Wu Zijian became more and more excited: "I have always regarded Fengdian County as the primary offensive and defensive target of the second battalion of the forest division, but you suddenly saw Tongpu Road, good!" The troops of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division still have to fight a big battle after all! ”

Wu Zijian's excitement was not without antecedents, he had learned earlier that Lin Shi Chen Brigade (author's note: Brigade Commander Chen Guang) was currently operating on both sides of the Fen River along the Nantongpu Road, and the division commander was also among them. If the division commander and Chen Brigade are frontal battlefields, then Wencheng, a few hundred miles away on the same railway line, is behind enemy lines; The second battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Lin Division, sooner or later, will have to be pulled to the direction of Wencheng to fight a few battles, and deal with the division commander and the Chen Brigade in front!

Since arriving at Guanmen Mountain, Wu Zijian's determination to fight a big battle has not been lost, and this determination was still restrained by the battalion commander and instructors, and now he is the highest military commander of the second battalion - at least until the instructor goes to find the return of his superiors - the idea of leading his troops to fight Tongpu Lu suddenly became very realistic.

Seeing that the deputy battalion commander was ambitious, Xiao Junping's mood also rose, and he always remembered the days and nights of the bloody battle against the Japanese Kwantung Army in northern Jin with the 33rd Army of the Jin Army last year; Wencheng was the place where he was stationed after he was transferred to the 12th Brigade of the Independent Brigade, which also made him unforgettable. If the Eighth Route Army can reach Wencheng and Tongpulu, it will undoubtedly make the former Jin army staff officers get what they want.

"Deputy battalion commander, I immediately personally led people to Wencheng to set up an intelligence station; As soon as the opportunity is ripe, the second battalion of our forest division will give the Sena division a back flower! ”

Although Wu Zijian was very happy to see the captain of the enemy workers go to Wencheng to do it himself, he was still worried about Xiao Junping's safety; Xiao Junping reassured the other party, saying that during the period when he was stationed in Wencheng with the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, most of them planned within the brigade headquarters and rarely showed up in the market. However, he proposed that it would take a lot of money to open a shop in Wencheng to do business.

"Well, don't worry about the cost," Wu Zijian said with a smile: "The last time our battalion commander and instructor led the main force to Xiping, they carried out land reform in the village, and confiscated a lot of gold and silver treasures from the landlords and squires. I heard Zhang Xiu say that there are dozens of gold bars alone; Take out a few to open a shop, it should be no problem. ”

Xiao Junping couldn't help but be taken aback: Is the confiscation of the wealth of the landlord and squire in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Republic of China government? He had the heart to ask Wu Zijian about the specific situation, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed back: That's it, now that the army is in chaos, and many local government agencies have fled, where are there any laws and regulations? The Eighth Route Army is the ranks of the Communist Party, and in terms of local rule, it has always been contrary to the Nationalist Government.

"Those gold bars...... Where are they? Is it convenient to take it out and use it?" asked the captain of the enemy engineer cautiously.

Wu Zijian waved his hand and told Xiao Junping to let go of the use, the gold bars are now in the battalion headquarters of Hongxingxia in Guanmen Mountain, and Zhang Xiu has been temporarily handed over to Lu Dajiang, the commander of the 8th Company, for safekeeping before going out of the mountain this time; He would immediately send someone to pick up his handwritten letter from Red Star Gorge. Of course, the deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion understands that in the current war-torn situation, the fiat currency issued by the Nationalist Government has long been strictly forbidden to be used in the occupied areas by the Japanese puppet authorities, and gold, as a hard currency, is undoubtedly the most enjoyable.

"Captain Xiao, I'll give you another task," Wu Zijian suddenly lowered his voice and said: "You and the enemy engineering team, try to find a clue about the underground arms trade in Wencheng, I heard the commander of the 7th company say that the bandits in the Black Stone Cliff of Guanmen Mountain have bought guns in the black market with gold bars and tobacco, from machine guns to box guns!" ”

Xiao Junping smiled bitterly: Of course he knows this, the so-called arms black market, the source of firearms are all from the hands of the national army garrison, the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army are secretly engaged in this transaction, and some people in the 12th Brigade are very happy!

"Deputy battalion commander, what kind of guns are we going to buy in the second battalion?"