Wu Zijian took the lead in showing his views at this moment, which was equivalent to setting a tone for all the commanders attending the meeting. Liu Shu didn't expect the deputy battalion commander to come to this hand, he just wanted to explain, but Wu Zijian took advantage of the situation and added:

"My opinion is that it is best for the instructor not to take those Japanese prisoners of war with him on this trip, and it is not too late to make a specific plan for escort and transfer after getting in touch with the higher command."

After that, he looked at Liu Shu with his eyes. Liu Shu was extremely angry in his heart for a while, and he even regretted that he shouldn't have taken the initiative to cancel the title of acting battalion commander just now, in that case, Wu Zijian would not have unscrupulously grabbed people with the position of military commander. At this juncture, Wang Shuanglong, the commander of the 6th Company, stood up again:

"Instructor, I think Deputy Battalion Commander Wu's suggestion is reasonable. Afterwards, I heard one of their platoon commanders say that the prisoners were extremely dishonest during the transfer, and they always wanted to find an opportunity to slow down the pace of the troops, and some of them even shouted and wanted to signal the devils chasing the soldiers. The men of the recruit company were anxious, and beat them a few times before they could continue on their way; They—"

Liu Shu interrupted Wang Shuanglong with some impatience: "You mean, my ability to lead people to escort prisoners is not as good as that of recruits in the recruit company?" ”

Wang Shuanglong was startled, and immediately opened his mouth and didn't dare to say more. However, Lu Dajiang, the commander of the 8th company on the side, hurriedly explained for his old comrades-in-arms:

"Instructor, I don't think the commander of the 6th company meant that, he wanted to say that if you escort the prisoners through the enemy-occupied area, those prisoners may be even more uncooperative, and they will definitely find an opportunity to call for help or break free, in that case, you will be very troublesome."

None of the others spoke, and the room fell silent.

Liu Shu looked at Wang Shuanglong and Lu Dajiang, and couldn't help but sneer from the bottom of his heart: Okay, I just locked up the two of you before, and now, you will pay tribute to me one after the other, okay!

At this time, the instructor felt more and more that he was isolated and helpless in the second battalion of the Lin Division, so his intention to go became more and more resolute: "Okay, I respect the advice of Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, and I also respect the suggestions of my comrades. I decided to take only eight fighters from the communications squad of the battalion headquarters with me on this trip. Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, you continue to lead everyone to the meeting, I will go to prepare for the itinerary first. ”

With that, Liu Shu walked out with a sinking face.

The venue became even quieter, and everyone looked at the instructor's back in a daze, and then looked at each other again. The company-platoon-level commanders of the second battalion actually knew some of the discord between the deputy battalion commander and the instructor; But the battalion commander was still there before, and he was always able to mediate and resolve it, so there were not too many twists and turns. Unexpectedly, the battalion commander had just died, and the two remaining commanders of the battalion headquarters broke out into an irreconcilable dispute so quickly - the dramatic reversal caused by the confinement of the three company commanders made more commanders and fighters see clearly the contradiction between the deputy battalion commander and the instructor.

Of course, Wu Zijian was a little embarrassed, he deliberately coughed dryly twice, and then said: "Let's put this and the instructor's matter aside for a while, and I'll talk to him about it later." Next, we need to study the future deployment of the 2nd Battalion. ”

After these two bloody battles against night raids, the company and platoon structure of the 2nd Battalion was seriously damaged, and except for the 8th Company, which did not participate in the battle, the remaining three companies all had the phenomenon of the death of the entire platoon and the entire squad. Wu Zijian took the large list counted by Zhang Xiu, the secretary of the battalion headquarters, and confronted the company and platoon commanders one by one, and after accurately establishing the number of combatants without injuries or illnesses in each department, the deputy battalion commander of the second battalion made the following arrangements:

It is necessary to ensure the safety of the Hongxingxia camp, and for this reason, the original layout of the 8th Company of Lu Dajiang stationed in the Hongxingxia should be maintained, supplemented by Wang Shuanglong's 6th Company to strengthen the outer defense of the Hongxingxia. This area belongs to the wide canyon with relatively low terrain in the northern part of Guanmen Mountain, and if the outer defense is not effective, once the enemy forces break through, there is a danger that the enemy will be condescendingly suppressed in the canyon. To this end, the 6th Company will select several important places south of the canyon, lay independent positions or fire points, form tactical support on the periphery of the Red Star Gorge, and increase the defensive depth of the camp.

Wei Xin's 7th Company, after a short rest, will pull out of Guanmen Mountain and go back to Xiping Village to garrison.

Li Tianlin's 5th Company and the battalion's heavy machine gun squad maintained the original position of garrisoning Hekou Village and Guanmen Mountain Pass.

The cavalry company (temporarily left in the 391st Regiment of the Central Army), the recruit company, the battalion headquarters, the battalion's enemy engineering team, and the battalion's artillery squad will be led by Wu Zijian himself, and the 7th Company will follow in the footsteps and pull out of Guanmen Mountain to carry out various tasks in a mobile manner.

This re-made deployment, at a glance, is clearly aimed at restoring the original pattern of the 2nd Battalion before the Japanese night attack - except for the 6th Company, which suffered serious casualties and attrition, was left behind at Guanmen Mountain, the rest of the changes are not significant. However, Wu Zijian, deputy battalion commander, emphasized the use of mobile forces, and he wanted to achieve a strong projection of troops between the two base areas outside the mountain, so as to avoid repeating the mistake of fighting separately when attacked by the enemy.

After the meeting, the commanders returned to the various departments with the courage they had just mustered, and in the Red Star Gorge, they quickly launched intense preparations; The second battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, which was hit badly, has not dried up with blood on its body and tears on its face, and the desire for revenge has risen in everyone's hearts.

The Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain carried out a war of extermination, which once brought a lot of relief to the Japanese chieftains sitting in Wencheng. Now, however, their attention was no longer on the Eighth Route Army, and new threats were beginning to plague their nerves.

First of all, the Sena Division urgently changed the telecommunications password and temporarily activated the backup password. The order was issued from Linfen on the Nantongpu Road front and was personally signed by the division commander, Lieutenant General Sena; This is the first time since the division entered the Chinese battlefield. After the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters in Wencheng received the order, the brigade commander, Major General Hagiwara, learned that when Linfen City had just been occupied by the Imperial Army, there had been a bizarre incident in which the confidential telecommunications staff officer of the Kato Brigade had disappeared and been assassinated in the city.

Then, in Wencheng City, the military police captain Hirai Temple Ichichusa, who came to Wencheng from the Songjiagou comfort women camp to inspect the terrain, was watched by the mysterious Shina woman in the area of the railway station, and was tracked to the city hall in the center of the city. When the people of the Wencheng secret service carried out anti-tracking and arrest of the woman, the woman escaped, and was later intercepted and killed by the captain of the Chinese secret service team who happened to be at the scene.

These two things, whether it is the brigade commander Akira Hagiwara, who was born in the army, or Masao Kojima, who has been in charge of the secret service for many years, have sensed more suspicious points.

As for the assassination in Linfen City, the military had not yet had time to establish a secret service in the city because of the recent occupation there; Masao Kojima, the head of the secret service of Bunjo, learned about the relevant on-site situation through his connections within the army, and when he reported these situations to Hagiwara Akira, the latter almost immediately vetoed the possibility that the Shina army remaining in the castle was responsible.

"Do you know, Kojima-kun," Major General Hagiwara explained to Kojima Masao with a solemn expression at the brigade headquarters in Bunjo, "Many of the elite units of the Shina Army are quite brave when they fight head-on with the Imperial Army; However, as soon as they began to retreat, the troops scrambled for their lives, and even easily disarmed and surrendered, which was almost like two armies! This is a tried-and-true experience that I have had since I joined North China to command operations; In addition, the battle of Nanjing, which took place more than two months ago, also confirmed this law. Therefore, I absolutely do not think that after General Sena's army occupied Linfen City, the remnants of the Shina army did not have time to escape from the city, and they still had the courage to attack the imperial officers and soldiers. There must be something strange in this. ”

Masao Kojima greatly admired the analysis of the brigade commander, Major General - after all, this is the experience of a general who has been fighting for many years. Of course, the head of the secret service has more convincing evidence:

"General, the corpses at the scene of the assassination show that two of the three imperial officers and soldiers killed were killed with a precise knife, and the points of assassination were the heart and carotid arteries. This kind of killing method is by no means something that ordinary soldiers of the Chinese army can do. And judging by the weapons of killing, they are not the rifle bayonets that the Chinese army is generally equipped with, their bayonets are of inferior quality, and they should be professional military daggers. This kind of dagger is quite rare in the Chinese army. ”

"Can it be determined that it is a small assassination detachment specially organized by the Chinese Army for the special departments of the Imperial Army?" Hagiwara Akira was interested in the evidence provided by Masao Kojima: "So it is equipped with a different tactical weapon, and the quality of the personnel is relatively capable and fierce? ”

Masao Kojima was silent, he felt that the idea of the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade was too bizarre: at least until then, there was no similar information indicating the existence of such an assassination detachment in the Shina Army. However, in the mind of the head of the secret service, a phantom flashed again: the Blue Coat Society!

Will it be the Blue Coat Society?

Not long ago, when several secret agencies of the Kwantung Army successively cracked the organization of the Blue Coat Society operating in Chahar and northern Jin, Kojima Masao also learned from it that the Shanxi branch of the Blue Coat Society had sent an espionage team from Taiyuan to track down the information that the Sena Division was heading south. At that time, he discussed this issue with the commander of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade, and Kojima was also ordered to contact the head of the Kwantung Army secret service stationed in Zhangjiakou and Datong, but the relevant clues were really pitiful, so they were completely in a situation of passive speculation. Now, the strange assassination case in Linfen City has once again touched the sensitive nerve of Masao Kojima.

"General, I know that Hiraiji Ichichusa has just complained to you about me," the head of the secret service suddenly changed the subject, "However, I also have a good reason for doing so." ”

Next, the head of the Kojima Agency will report to Hagiwara Akira about the detailed process of discovering and trapping the woman Zhou Yi at the Wencheng Railway Station. The brigade commander, Major General, was also dissatisfied with Kojima Masao's intention to put the responsible gendarmerie captain in danger of being followed, but now after listening to the other party's story, his thinking was also brought into the framework of the Blue Coat Society.

"You mean, the Blue Coat Society has noticed the captain of our Songjiagou gendarmerie? Isn't that ridiculous? Hirai Nakazuo lives in Songjiagou on weekdays, and he only went around Wencheng Railway Station before he was recognized? Hagiwara's head shook like a rattle: "Doesn't that mean that "Wind Project" has also been discovered by the Blue Coat Society? ”

Masao Kojima further explained humbly: "General, I don't think that Captain Hirai's true identity or even the Wind Project has been exposed, and I'm afraid that the people of Shina don't have the ability to reach the sky, even the Blue Coat Society is no exception. But what I can be sure of is that the woman Zhou Yi is suspicious of Pingjing Temple, and as for where she got this suspicion, there is no way to verify it now. However, this extraordinary, experienced Shina woman is not acting alone, at least there is another Shina man named Li Yan, who is her accomplice. But when I tracked down Li Yan's identity, I found that I had also walked into a dead end. ”

The brigade commander, Major General, immediately understood, and he felt the seriousness of the situation: it seemed that there was a mysterious underground organization of the Shina people, and it was close to the sensitive Hirai Temple Ichi Nakasa, and the comfort women plan behind the Hirai Temple Ichi Shoichi approach!

Yaga!