The more Wu Zijian spoke, the more emotional he became, and he had already forgotten that the staff officers of the Jin army could hear his conversation with the instructor. Suddenly, there was a pop in the cave, followed by the exclamation of the female hygienist, Wu Zijian immediately realized something, turned around and rushed in.

In the cave, Xiao Junping rolled to the ground, a handsome face distorted by pain and anger, and the female hygienist was stunned in place.

"Chief Wu," Seeing Wu Zijian come in, Xiao Junping tried his best to restrain the severe pain, gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Thank you for treating my wounds, I'm leaving." ”

Wu Zijian understood that the staff officer of the Jin Army, who was still talking and laughing with him just now, was obviously stabbed by what the instructor said at the entrance of the cave, so he hurriedly stepped forward and reprimanded the dumbfounded female hygienist: "What are you still standing for?" Help me carry someone! ”

Ignoring Xiao Junping's struggles, the two carried him back to the makeshift bed.

"Where are you going?" Wu Zijian suppressed the nameless fire and said, "With your injured leg, can you walk out?" ”

Xiao Junping also had a seizure: "I can't go out, I have to climb out if I crawl!" I'd rather die on the front line than be a deserter with you Balu! ”

Without waiting for Wu Zijian to refute, Liu Shu rushed in, just like he did yesterday afternoon when he was cleaning the battlefield in Dawangyu, pointing his finger at Xiao Junping and shouting: "Staff Officer Xiao, don't spew blood!" Which eye did you see that we were going to be deserters? If I'm not mistaken, it was Staff Officer Xiao who led a group of deserters yesterday and was chased by devils! ”

"Shut up!" Xiao Junping shouted hoarsely, his face was already pale with anger, and one hand subconsciously went to his waist to touch the pistol. But the pistol and the tunic were clearly not on the body.

The tense atmosphere frightened the female hygienist, and outside the cave, someone had already run to call the battalion commander.

Wu Zijian was the first to calm down at this moment, he stretched out his hand to stop the instructor who was also out of anger, and prevented him from getting closer to Xiao Junping's bed, while persuading: "Don't say a word!" We are friendly forces, and the Japanese are our common enemy. Just now, I was cooperating with Staff Officer Xiao to interrogate the prisoners of war here, and in the blink of an eye, our own people were pinched? Let the captives of the little devils see our jokes?! ”

Liu Shu is a political cadre, and the staff officer of the Jin Army is also a college student, Wu Zijian's three words suddenly made the two opponents extinguish.

As soon as the curtain was raised, the battalion commander Feng Changzhi broke in. Wu Zijian took the opportunity to say: "Lao Feng, you came just in time, let's hurry to the battalion headquarters for a meeting." Just now, I interrogated the Japanese prisoners with Staff Officer Xiao of the Jin Army, and I have important information to report to the two of you. ”

While speaking, he pushed and shoved, squeezed Feng Changzhi and Liu Shu outside the cave, and then, hugged the two of them, and really walked towards the small courtyard where the battalion headquarters was located, and at the same time, he whispered to the battalion headquarters correspondent who came with the battalion commander: "Go and call the 5th company commander, accompany the Jin army staff officer, don't let him go." ”

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In the small wing of the temporary camp headquarters, Liu Shu told Feng Changzhi about the conflict just now, and Feng Changzhi listened quietly and did not speak. He knew in his heart that the instructor had been arrested and tortured during the "April 12 Coup" in 1927, and later escaped death, so he was full of hatred and distrust of the Kuomintang army.

Wu Zijian quickly brought the prisoner trial record just now from the female clerk, Feng Changzhi immediately changed the topic when he saw this, and although Liu Shu was unwilling, he had no choice but to start seconding it.

Through what they learned from the Jin army rout yesterday, and then compared with today's prisoner trial records, the commanders of the second battalion have basically clarified the situation on the Fengdian front: a wing of the Japanese army, two regiments of the national army, is attacking and defending around Fengdian County (they do not know that a regiment of the national army has fled); The devil cavalry ambushed by the 2nd Battalion at Dawangyu yesterday was the first part of the Japanese wing that attacked Fengdian.

On the kang table, there is a map of Shanxi Province obtained from the division headquarters before the expedition, the scale is very sparse, and the time is also very long, the map marks the nearby places, only Junling and Wencheng, and Fengdian and Guanmen Mountain are not marked on it, not to mention Dawangyu and the small villages where they are stationed now. The Eighth Route Army was poorly equipped, and this was already the best map that the regiment headquarters and even the brigade headquarters could come up with.

Xia Lianshan, the deputy commander of the 5th Company, was a native of Shanxi and his hometown was in southern Jin, and Wu Zijian once asked him to mark the mountains and rivers of villages, towns, and towns in the southeast of Jin, especially in the area of Guanmen Mountain, on this outdated map, but Liu Shu did not agree for fear of destroying this only valuable map; Xia Lianshan had no choice but to rely on his own memory and impression, and began to draw a simple map centered on the Guanmen Mountain Range. At this time, Wu Zijian thought of this matter and immediately asked someone to find Xia Lianshan.

Xia Lianshan brought a hand-drawn map, although it has not yet been completed, but the indication of the area where the second camp is located has been much more detailed; Of course, Deputy Company Commander Xia repeatedly claimed that there might be errors in his labeling. Wu Zijian and Feng Changzhi were still very happy, they encouraged Xia Lianshan to work hard to complete this work, and at this moment, they first put the two maps together and studied them.

They also did not understand the intention of the Japanese army to set out from Junling and attack Fengdian on a large scale, but they were surprised to find that on this hand-drawn map of Xia Lianshan, the vertical distance between Fengdian and the north-south Guanmen Mountain Range was not very far, and according to Xia Lianshan's estimate, Fengdian on the map reached the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain, which was about thirty or fifty miles.

This made the commanders of the second battalion nervous all of a sudden.

Before setting out from the northeast of Shanxi, the division, brigade and regiment commanders only told the second battalion to go to the Guanmen Mountain area to establish a development base. Prior intelligence showed that further south of this area was the white zone of the Japanese army and the national army; Unexpectedly, the Japanese army suddenly began to advance southwest of the mountain, and a heavy army reached the head of this Fengdian city, and it was not until now that everyone looked at the map that everyone realized that this Fengdian was so close to Guanmen Mountain!

Liu Shu's heart was pounding. He clearly remembered that the political commissar of the regiment and a staff officer of the brigade headquarters had taken him to the regiment headquarters alone before the Second Battalion set out for the expedition, and they talked for a long time, mainly to describe to him the grand plan for the development of the Guanmen Mountain area, and the key point was that there were neither Japanese troops nor national troops there, and the Second Battalion could break away from the battle situation and let go of the base areas to expand its armament. But at present, the advance of the Japanese army has almost touched the foot of Guanmen Mountain, and this grand plan no longer seems to be so wonderful.

Liu Shu was still holding illusions, and he asked Xia Lianshan in a rather stern tone: "Deputy Company Commander Xia, you have been away from your hometown for so long, can you guarantee the basic accuracy of this map?" ”

Xia Lianshan, who had been away from home for five years, was very nervous and did not answer for a while. Liu Shu became more and more stern: "This is related to the revolutionary future of the Second Battalion, and you must be responsible for it!" ”

Xia Lianshan became more and more uneasy, and felt aggrieved: from the very beginning when he was asked by the deputy battalion commander to draw this map, the instructor was full of distrust of him, and now he is even asking him to be "responsible" for this!

Wu Zijian and Feng Changzhi had the intention to relieve the siege for the deputy commander of the 5th Company, but after all, the matter was very important, and the two hesitated for a moment and did not say a word.

Finally, under the repeated questioning of the instructor, Xia Lianshan spoke, and said amazingly:

"Instructor, battalion commander, deputy battalion commander, if you really want me to take this responsibility, then I ...... I still want to go to Fengdian County! ”

The three of them were really stunned, Liu Shu immediately remembered the sister's family in Fengdian mentioned by Xia Lianshan, and he couldn't help but slap the table: "Deputy Company Commander Xia, we are asking you about the map very seriously, and you took out your family affairs again, what nonsense?!" ”