After looking at Wang Suihua, who was sitting in the scattered seat eating and drinking, Liu Wumei returned to the room behind the warehouse, feeling a little depressed; After all, the female bandit leader is also a woman, and when she meets a similar person who is more beautiful and gorgeously dressed than herself, she will inevitably become jealous.

Trading company? This is a trade and title that makes Liu Wumei feel unfamiliar, she doesn't even know much about the business experience of running a restaurant in the second master's house, let alone "trade".

"Baoyuan, I think that little girl outside is coming from a wrong way." The female bandit leader blurted out such a sentence about the arrival of the second master, but in fact, she didn't really notice anything, but out of depression and jealousy, she wanted to find something to say to belittle the other party.

Unexpectedly, Bai Baoyuan nodded thoughtfully: "Well, the big boss, I also don't think it's right," Bai Baoyuan, who temporarily coded mahjong cards for Liu Wumei, said while getting up to let her return to her position: "This woman can see at a glance that the island agent is not Chinese!" To be honest, if President Yang hadn't introduced me to me just now, I wouldn't have seen it; The little Japanese child wore a Chinese cotton robe and spoke a mouthful of Chinese. ”

This time, it was Liu Wumei's turn to be surprised.

"Also, I'm thinking about it now—just now, that girl should have asked the Japanese from my mouth under the pretext of ordering, and she saw me coming out of the Japanese box."

Liu Wumei was a little skeptical: "Then according to you, where did she come from?" Like us, is it to do this, to step on the plate (author's note: bandit slang, referring to the action of stepping on the bottom before the robbery)? As the female bandit leader spoke, she gestured in the shape of a pistol in her hand: "If so, could it be that she wants to rob the Japanese?" ”

The men on the mahjong table laughed all at once, this inference of the big boss is too unbelievable.

Liu Wumei herself laughed. After a while, she said with a straight face: "Now that the Japanese are here, the world is more chaotic than before, and those who are mixed with the three religions and nine streams are indispensable to come to our restaurant, and the second master, you can be more careful." ”

Suddenly, the female bandit leader suddenly asked, "What kind of Meng head is that, has it shown up recently?" You keep an eye on me, once you find his whereabouts, the old lady must pick his skin with her own hands!"

What Liu Wumei said was Meng Longsheng, the ruffian leader who took the lead in teasing her and her cousin Xiaoju when she came to Wencheng last time.

"I didn't show my head, since I was almost shot by the Japanese soldiers, this kid has not appeared on the street, probably because he is afraid that the Japanese will find him to settle the account."

"Hmph, it's not just the Japanese who want to settle accounts with him!" The female bandit leader gritted her teeth and slapped a six-cylinder on the mahjong table.

Wang Suihua and his entourage finished drinking and eating, returned to the Nanyang Hotel, and immediately called Shanxi Station about the appearance of Kojima Masao in Wencheng. The three of them asked for two rooms in the hotel, the two closest to the gable on the top floor, which were quieter, less easily disturbed, and relatively safe to use the radio.

Shanxi Station was extremely surprised by this sudden situation and immediately paid attention to it, and investigated the intelligence group 1, and then reported to the intelligence group 2 after the news was confirmed; At the same time, they informed Wang Suihua that they had just learned that the military commander's Chasui station (author's note: the military commander merged the institutions of Chahar and Suiyuan provinces to build a station under the leadership of the North China Region) was partially sabotaged by the special services of the Kwantung Army, and several people had already been arrested.

Wang Suihua's second intelligence group usually does not intersect with the intelligence group in business, so he didn't pay much attention to this news. But she suddenly realized that the Japanese Kwantung Army's secret services in Chahar (mainly in Zhangjiakou City) and Suiyuan (mainly in Guisui City) were in close collusion with the secret services in Taiyuan, and the head of the secret service in Taiyuan was in Wencheng at the moment! What is this Kojima Masao doing in Wencheng? Is it really as the owner of Baoyuan Restaurant said: has he become the head of the secret service of Wencheng?

Turning off the radio, Wang Suihua discussed with Li Yan that he should be vigilant against Kojima Masao, and before getting the exact news of Shanxi Station, he would not carry out activities in Wencheng for the time being. Of course, they can't stay in Wencheng helplessly, the most important thing at the moment is to continue to track down the Japanese military column that mysteriously disappeared at the Taiyuan Railway Station, since its shadow has not been found along the railway line from Taiyuan to Wencheng, then we must be prepared to continue to chase south along the Tongpu Road.

"The main force of the Sena Division has already laid the spirit stone," Li Yan took out a map of the whole picture of the Tongpu Railway and pointed it out to Wang Suihua: "Next is Huoxian and Hongdong, and then there is Linfen, the governor's department of the Second War Zone." If, as you have analyzed, the train with the windows closed was transporting poison gas bombs, then it should be wrapped up in the southbound army of the Sena Division. ”

"The telegram in the station has not mentioned the content of the Japanese army's use of poison gas on the front line," Wang Suihua was a little anxious: "They also have to wait for the relevant war reports in the second war zone." ”

Li Yan watched her beautiful female boss walk around the room like a trapped beast, and felt that her stubborn judgment that the core of the "Wind Plan" was that the Japanese army was secretly dropping chemical weapons, which may not be the right direction.

"Team leader, what do you think is the chance that the Japanese will use poison gas bombs in broad daylight along the railway line?" Li Yan carefully began to beat the female major of the military commander from the side.

"I don't care!" Wang Suihua replied irritably, thought about it, and added: "What's wrong in broad daylight?" In the Battle of Xinkou last year, didn't the Japanese army fire poison gas bombs in broad daylight? At that time, the defenders had both the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army, involving several regiments and brigades, which were later confirmed when they reported to Shangfeng. ”

Li Yan swallowed his saliva and said: "I know, it is a high ground in Xinkou, which belongs to the strategic point of the battle, but the mountains and beams in that area are vertical and horizontal, except for our defenders and attacking Japanese troops at that time, it can be said that there is no one to live, so the Japanese dare to take risks; However, it is said that it was only secretly used for two days when the fighting was at its most intense and intense. Do you think they have the guts to launch an attack on the plains along the prosperous Tongpu Road, where poison gas is used on a large scale? ”

The female major of the military commander was silent.

She was pondering Li Yan's words - this guy's analysis is not unreasonable. She read a perfunctory report from the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government in the Northwest Region of the Military Administration, and the Japanese army did indeed use poison gas when it repeatedly attacked an important high ground in Xinkou but could not capture it for a long time. At that time, the Itagaki Division was already quite at the end of the crossbow, and it was probably a desperate move to sacrifice chemical weapons, which was an extremely vicious method.

What now? The southward movement of the Sena division does not seem to encounter any strong resistance, the poison gas bomb......

Wang Suihua's mind became very confused. What is hidden in the "Wind Plan" that the dragon sees the beginning and the end, and the ghostly Japanese military column?

"I just don't believe that the Japanese sent a lieutenant general from the General Staff Headquarters in Tokyo and flew to Taiyuan just to deal with Yan Xishan, who was already trapped in a corner! Even if you add a Wei Lihuang, I don't believe it! ”

The female major of the military commander finally spoke out in an almost rogue rage.

Li Yan clearly saw that the other party was moving out of the unreasonable side of women - it seems that even if she is a strong woman in the military command, she is not exempt from vulgarity.

He closed his mouth in amusement.

The Kato Brigade of the Sena Division has really occupied the county seat of Lingshi.

After setting out from Wencheng, they sent an infantry brigade to reinforce a field artillery squadron as the vanguard, took a small train, got off less than ten miles away from Lingshi, and attacked on foot instead; A squadron of the Guigong Cavalry Wing, which was directly under the division, went forward on the flank of the infantry brigade and cooperated.

According to the spirit stone, it is the 17th Army of the Central Army of the Kuomintang. Less than half a day after the exchange of fire with the Japanese front, the unit began to disengage on its own initiative; Another infantry brigade of the Japanese army, which arrived later, joined forces with the forward and attacked the county seat in one fell swoop, and soon, the whole county of Lingshi fell into the hands of the Japanese army. The commander of the Kato Brigade and the commander of the Sena Division arrived at the county seat by train and set up the headquarters in Lingshi.

In fact, in addition to the wall defense line of the 17th Army, there was another unit of the Jin Army participating in the defense, they were the Brigade Headquarters of the 12th Brigade and the 569th Regiment that fled here from Wencheng.

Zheng Yuan, the brigade commander of the 12th Independent Brigade, had previously received a telegram from the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone, asking them to move closer to the Linfen Defense Area where the Commander's Department was located; The one who issued this order was, of course, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army system.

However, at present, the defenses along the Nantongpu Road are all Wei Lihuang's Central Army system, Gao Guizi's 17th Army is at the forefront of Lingshi, Han Xinling's area is Liu Maoen's 15th Army, and behind them is Li Mo'an's 14th Army. Therefore, the 12th Brigade of the Du, which fled from Wencheng to Lingshi by train, was not allowed to enter Lingshi County at all, and the Central Army seized their train and drove them outside the city to set up defenses, and repeatedly stated that this was the order of General Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Second War Zone and former commander-in-chief of the enemy.

Zheng Yuan was dumbfounded, he hurriedly contacted the headquarters of the Second War Zone Governor, and the latter telegraphed them to Linfen as soon as possible. But Chief Yan's telegram order, in the eyes of the Central Army, is equivalent to waste paper. He called the headquarters of the Second World War Zone again to complain, but the other party smeared the mud and asked him to temporarily carry out the orders of the commander of the guard. Obviously, Yan Xishan was unwilling to tear his face with Wei Lihuang for the sake of the miscellaneous cards of one or two thousand people.

The adjutant pleaded Zheng Yuan to lead the team to break away from the Tongpu railway line and turn along the highway towards Pingquan County, which was the retreat route of the 570th Regiment planned in advance, and perhaps the head of the regiment Tian Mingda had gathered the remnants and assembled there.

However, the 17th Army of the Central Army is behind him, and if he breaks away rashly at this moment, it will inevitably impact the defense line of the 17th Army. Brigade Commander Zheng Yuan knew very well that his 569th Regiment not only could not defeat the Japanese, but was also not an opponent of the Central Army.

He decided to first follow the orders of the Central Army and set up a defensive line outside the city on the spot - the officers and soldiers of the 569th Regiment scolded the Central Army for not being authentic and let them take the first shot of the Japanese army outside the city.

"The Seventeenth Army is not a strong force!" Zheng Yuan hatefully said to the adjutant and a few of his subordinates: "They will not fight the Japanese on the railway line, and when the fight starts, we will smear oil on the soles of our feet!" ”

Zheng Yuan did what he said, and when an infantry brigade of Kato's brigade attacked along the railway line a few days later, they only resisted in the rudimentary temporary fortifications for ten minutes, and when the Japanese field artillery began to bombard, Zheng Yuan immediately ordered the withdrawal of the fortifications and withdrew to the west of the railway line.

However, after the 17th Army took over the exchange of fire with the Japanese forward, it did not pay attention to the unauthorized retreat of the 12th Brigade. They also did not intend to defend to the death, and the order given by the commander of Wei to the 17th Army was to resist gradually, and then move towards Qinyuan County in southern Jin.

Zheng Yuan was lucky to escape again, they first broke away from the railway line and ran all the way west for five or six miles, and when they saw that the Japanese army did not pursue them, they turned back to the highway and ran along the highway to Pingquan County. There, he and his deserter commander Tian Mingda finally met the division.

At this time, the 12th Brigade of the Frightened Bird did not know that less than 30 miles away from them, the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Lin Division had already established its own base area.