Wu Zijian smiled, but did not answer the barrage of questions from the soldiers of the artillery squad, but only told Zhao Yejiao to teach the soldiers of the class to operate the cannon as soon as possible, as for the shells, they said that there were them!

He went straight to the house of the enemy engineer captain - after Xiao Junping officially took office, Wu Zijian moved out of his house, also in order to make more space for the enemy engineer team to use.

"Captain Xiao, you can command your enemy engineering team in a down-to-earth manner," as soon as he entered the door, Wu Zijian shouted happily: "The battalion commander and instructor have just completely agreed to my plan and appointment!" ”

Of course, Xiao Junping couldn't guess that the deputy battalion commander had just had a big quarrel with the battalion commander and instructor, and he was worried about whether Liu Shu would be able to accommodate him out of instinct, but now when he heard Wu Zijian say so, he was completely relieved.

At the meeting of the battalion headquarters, Wu Zijian also proposed that the main short guns of the whole battalion should be collected and assigned to the enemy's engineering team. Because the enemy engineering team had a special background of often going deep into enemy-occupied areas and not suitable for carrying spears, Feng Changzhi and Liu Shu reluctantly agreed; Fortunately, the pony guns of the second battalion are also abundant, and in addition to equipping the whole company of cavalry, there are dozens of them.

But Wu Zijian finally forgot to supervise the matter after the big noise. At this moment, in front of Xiao Junping, he vaguely disguised and said: The short guns are being counted, and they will be handed over to the enemy engineering team after they are collected - the deputy battalion commander has already made up his mind, and he will not come forward, and in two days he will send Li Tianlin to take a few people and go directly to Xiping to find the battalion commander to ask for a gun.

Xiao Junping's attention was not on the gun, he was eagerly waiting for the team sent to Fengdian to bring back the news. In the hearts of the enemy captains, the Japanese troops in Fengdian were the biggest potential threat to Kawaguchi Village at the moment.

"In the direction of Tongpu Road, I will send enemy engineers one after another in the next few days," Xiao Junping pointed to the map and said to Wu Zijian: "Han Xinling is stationed in Liu Maoen's 15th Army, if the Sena Division conquers it again, then the section of Tongpu Road to the west of us will be completely under the control of the Japanese army, and this will be a threat we will face in the future." ”

"If the devil occupies Tongpu Road, will he send troops in our direction?" Wu Zijian stared at the map intently, as if the Tongpu Road on the map was full of devils.

Xiao Junping blinked a little slyly: "If we don't take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, as Instructor Liu said, I believe that the devils on the Tongpu Road are unlikely to launch an offensive against our Guanmen Mountain." ”

Wu Zijian glanced at the captain of the enemy engineer and heard his voice.

"You must know that further south from Han Xinling, there are Huoxian, Hongdong, and Linfen along the way, and the main force of the Central Army of Chief Wei and the Jin Army of Chief Yan are all in that area, and the Sena Division will not be easily defeated;" Xiao Junping continued to talk eloquently: "Even if Linfen is occupied, there is still a long way to go from Fenglingdu, the end point of Nantongpu Road. In a word, if the little devil wants to completely open up Tongpu Road, it is impossible not to pay the price. Therefore, their primary goal is absolutely to ensure the smooth and safe passage of the railway line, and as for our barren mountains and mountains, the Japanese army will not be interested in patronizing them. ”

Hearing this, Wu Zijian suddenly said in a loud voice: "That's not good! It is impossible for us to watch the Japanese army wantonly invade on the Tongpu Road! The Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River to resist the war, and the little devil is now close at hand, how can he not fight?! ”

"Okay, I support the idea of the deputy battalion commander!" Seeing Wu Zijian's resolute attitude, Xiao Junping was indeed happy in his heart, this staff officer of the Jin Army who participated in the Northern Jin and Xinkou battles, really didn't want the Eighth Route Army he joined to nest at the foot of the mountain and sit back and watch the Japanese army burn and advance.

At this moment, the enemy engineers who went to Fengdian to reconnoiter sent back important information: the Japanese army and the puppet army cavalry in Fengdian suddenly opened in large numbers, and their whereabouts were unknown. At present, the county has only a small number of garrison Japanese troops, and the city gates are wide open to allow people to enter and exit during the day.

Wu Zijian almost couldn't believe that this was true: he was about to sleep, and he actually sent a pillow! He immediately called Li Tianlin to study and deploy the operation against Fengdian - on the Tongpu Road is the mechanized heavy troops of the Japanese army, and the second battalion may not be able to gnaw, but the small Fengdian county town, and the garrison has just become empty, how can there be a reason not to take advantage of the weakness!

The soldiers of Zhao Mutou's 391st Regiment Special Service Company also noticed the movement of the enemy army in Fengdian at the first time.

They lurked in the beef shop of the old shopkeeper in Xicheng, and watched the sudden dispatch of the Japanese infantry and the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army. After receiving the flying report, Qin Zhongxiao's regimental headquarters immediately started to operate nervously. On the one hand, the colonel of the Central Army ordered the commander of the special agent company to continue to intensify his investigation and strive to find out the situation, and on the other hand, he mobilized two battalions to prepare for battle. Since the last counterattack at the north gate of Fengdian and a complete victory, the 391st Regiment has basically recovered its vitality, and the rewards just issued by the Second War Zone have greatly boosted the morale of the whole regiment.

At this time, Major Wang Suihua of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command sent another telegram asking if there was any movement of the Japanese troops in Fengdian City. It turned out that Wang Suihua had a premonition that the Japanese army in Fengdian might be involved through the sudden departure of the mysterious military column of the Japanese army; Qin Zhongxiao couldn't help but admire this female spy for being like a god, so he called back to report the situation of the Japanese army and the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army.

In the Nanyang Hotel in Wencheng, Wang Suihua, who received the reply, has more and more bottom in her heart, and now, she has a new understanding of Wencheng and Fengdian, the two towns occupied by the Japanese army: they are one after the other, sandwiching the Songjiagou of Little Elm Mountain, Wencheng is the avant-garde, and Fengdian is the rearguard. And the secret of the Japanese "Wind Plan" is hidden on this line, and it is very likely to be hidden in Songjiagou, where the military train can enter!

After combining several intelligence analyses from the second intelligence group, the Shanxi station agreed in principle and quickly reported to the Northwest Region and the Military Command Headquarters, asking the Shijiazhuang Station in the North China Region to send agents to the Hebei territory of the Zhengtai Railway Line to monitor the Japanese military train, focusing on Shijiazhuang and Zhengding stations.

Wang Suihua learned that the Japanese puppet army in Fengdian had gone a lot, and thought that it was a good opportunity for the 391st Regiment to send a large infiltration, so she sent a telegram to the 391st Regiment in the Great Elm Mountain, hoping that Qin Zhongxiao would "act cheaply". However, the female major of the military commander never expected that Qin Zhongxiao's "cheap action" would be much stronger than she had in mind.

Feng shop.

In the evening, Aso Nakasa, the deputy wing leader of the Otsuka Wing, and Fukudaoka Shaosa, the captain of the 1st Brigade, sat in the headquarters located in the prefectural government and ordered their subordinates to serve dinner.

Wing Commander Kosuke Otsuka drove away with the troops who came to clear the attack, and this time it was no longer a clean-up, but an urgent task temporarily issued by the brigade commander of Bunjo. Dazuo not only took all the men and horses he brought from Wencheng, but also pulled away an infantry squadron of the Futian Brigade and a battalion of the Mongolian Frontier Army Cavalry Regiment.

Since going to Taiyuan from Junling to carry out a "special mission", Aso Nakasa has always been in the clouds. In Taiyuan, he personally led his subordinates, and on the orders of the commander of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade, escorted a group of "anti-Japanese elements" out of the city to carry out secret executions; But what puzzled Aso was that among the "anti-Japanese elements" there were old and young, men and women, who obviously looked like ordinary people in the city of Taiyuan, but they were all shot one by one in the mountains and fields in the western suburbs of Taiyuan. The brigade commander also specially ordered that the corpses should be burned after the execution.

Subsequently, he led his subordinates and escorted a team of military trucks from Taiyuan to the railway line of Tongpu Road, during which the military trucks were handed over to a train, and the cavalry of the Mongolian army joined the escort. And until announcing the end of their escort mission, Aso did not figure out what kind of mysterious action was worthy of the brigade commander sending their wing to carry out so vigorously.

When he was sent to Fengdian and assumed the garrison duty as the supreme military commander here, Aso Nakasa gradually learned that the small elm mountain, which could go from the south gate of Fengdian, was also blocked by the wing with heavy troops - it seems that the military train escorted last time should be in the small elm mountain. Wing Captain Otsuka clearly instructed that the Fukudaoka Infantry Brigade of the Wing commanded by Aso Nakasa, as well as the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Army, in addition to guarding the county seat of Fengdian, must also defend the area around the pass of Little Elm Mountain at all times to ensure that Little Elm Mountain is not attacked by enemy troops.

What exactly is being defended?

Although Aso did not participate in the siege of Toyoden by the Otsuka Wing—at that time, he led a part of the Wing to guard the Imperial Tomb a hundred miles away—but he listened to Fukudaoka's account of the tragedy of the offensive and defensive battles at that time, and he was still wary of the Shina army that had been stationed in the prefecture. Now, Da Zuo has taken half of the defense force with him, and it is said that he is cooperating with the operation in the Little Elm Mountain, and he is going to escort the mysterious army for many days. Therefore, the deputy wing commander of the Japanese army was extremely vigilant.

"Nakasa, we can relax tonight!"

Brigade Captain Fukudaoka obviously had the opposite idea of his deputy wing commander, and in the past few days, the wing captain has personally come to Fengdian to command the purging and suppression, and the whole city has been extremely nervous, but as a result, not only has the purging not yielded any results, but a cavalry battalion of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army is said to have been attacked by the Eighth Route Army in the mountains south of the county seat. Fukudaoka thought that they would concentrate their forces to retaliate, but unexpectedly, the mysterious mission that fell from the sky instead pulled the wing commander and a large number of troops away.

But just right, you can breathe a sigh of relief!

Fukudaoka sat down opposite the deputy captain at the dinner table and ordered his subordinates to fetch a bottle of Shinaman's liquor. Seeing this, Aso hurriedly stopped:

"Fukuda-kun, don't use the wine, the captain specially instructed us to be cautious before leaving."

Fukudaoka disagreed: "Nakasa, the city gate is closed, and the Shina army does not have the ability to climb in from such a high city wall!" After a few days of hard work, I drank two glasses with Nakasa! And-"

Fukudaoka looked at the left and right of the room, and then said with a smile:

"My subordinates, in Dongcheng the other day, found two beautiful women, a pair of sisters, who had taken care of the house they lived in. Tonight, I'll let them sneak in and bring out those two women, me and Nakasa, have fun! ”