Looking at the 5th Company Commander Li Tianlin's eager appearance, Wu Zijian's heart was also alive: friendly troops took the initiative to invite joint operations, and such an opportunity should not be missed. It's just—

"Captain Xiao, what do you think? Is it worth another sortie? Seeing that Xiao Junping had been silent, Wu Zijian asked.

The worries of the enemy engineer captain at this moment are exactly the same as the worries of the deputy battalion commander: the battalion headquarters has just made a fierce criticism of the 5th Company's unauthorized attack on the Japanese troops in Fengdian, and has detained the seizures outside Fengdian City, and the intention is self-evident. At this juncture, the 391st Regiment of the Central Army came to the door, which was tricky.

"Do you want to ...... What should I ask the battalion headquarters first? When Xiao Junping said this, his eyes didn't dare to look at the other two people in the room, he knew that this was tantamount to nonsense.

Sure enough, Li Tianlin immediately sneered mercilessly: "Captain Xiao, you might as well directly suggest canceling the operation!" ”

Xiao Junping's face suddenly turned red.

Wu Zijian was silent. As a commander at the forefront of the military, he could not always take the lead in disobeying the orders of the rear battalion headquarters. However, the opportunity to expand the gains and expel the Japanese was just around the corner, and it was a good opportunity to connect with friendly forces and form alliances. If you just give up like this, you are really unwilling.

"I think that even if the attack fails, at least we must send someone to Fengdian to formally establish military liaison with the 391st Regiment;" Xiao Junping quickly adjusted his thinking: "At present, on the Nantongpu Road, the Central Army is retreating, and sooner or later the Japanese army's heavy troops will completely control our westward direction, once they free up their energy, it is very likely that they will press over to the side of Guanmen Mountain, at that time, we may have no other way out except to retreat into the mountains." Therefore, it is necessary to form an alliance with the surrounding friendly forces and conspire to advance and retreat before the difficulties come. ”

Wu Zijian nodded frequently: "It makes sense." In fact, the 391st Regiment currently occupies Fengdian County, which is also a tactic of advancing and retreating, according to the company commander and captain who came, they only have two battalions in the whole regiment to defend in the county, and if the Japanese make a comeback, these two battalions can only be forced to abandon the city and retreat back into the Great Elm Mountain. In this way, the situation of friendly forces is very similar to ours. We should be prepared for danger in times of peace, establish liaison for joint operations as early as possible, and take care of each other at a critical moment. ”

The singing and harmony between the deputy battalion commander and the enemy engineer captain made Li Tianlin, commander of the 5th Company, a little confused: Since the 5th Company established a base in Hekou Village and the main force of the battalion headquarters carried out all-round work in Xiping Village, he did not consider the issue that the 2nd Battalion would one day be driven into the mountains by the Japanese army. However, Wu Zijian was far-sighted after all, and Xiao Junping, who was a staff officer of the Jin Army, was also well aware of the strength of the Japanese army here, so the two of them talked about this situation more than once.

In the end, they decided not to notify the battalion headquarters for the time being, and Wu Zijian led a platoon to visit Fengdian County with the captain and company commander of the 391st Regiment who came to visit and meet with their top commander. Xiao Junping initially proposed that Li Tianlin lead the team, on the grounds that the other party was a company commander, and our return visit should also be at the level of a company commander, so as not to look down on friendly troops. However, Wu Zijian took into account that Li Tianlin was brave and unsociable, and second, when it came to matters related to joint operations, it was easier for him to make up his mind to make a decision.

And just before Wu Zijian was ready to leave, several members of the enemy team who were sent by Xiao Junping to Nantongpu Road returned after the establishment of the enemy team, and they brought the latest battle situation along the railway line: the main force of the Japanese Sena Division conquered Hongdong County, and Linfen, where the headquarters of the second theater commander was located, was not guaranteed day and night!

This information shocked Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping quite a bit - Linfen is only a few dozen miles away from Hongdong County, and there is no danger to defend in the area, so it should only be a matter of time before it falls!

If the headquarters of the Second War Zone is declared lost, it means that after being forced to relocate from Taiyuan, the Second War Zone has once again lost its command center, which is only less than half a year! Although they were mentally prepared, when they really heard the news, Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping still looked at each other, and their hearts were full of depression and frustration.

Another piece of news brought back by the members of the enemy engineering team caught their attention: according to the local people, when the Japanese army attacked Hongdong County, in addition to Wei Lihuang's Central Army, they also saw the figure of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division Chen Brigade near Zhaocheng (adjacent to Hongdong County).

As for Lin Shi Chen Brigade, Wu Zijian knew that the ministry was active in the southwest of Shanxi. Before the second battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Lin Division was subordinated, the staff officer of the Xu Brigade Headquarters revealed that the Chen Brigade had been personally led by the division commander as early as the end of last year and had moved to the southwest of Shanxi Province and was preparing to establish a base area in Luliang Mountain. After the 2nd Battalion entered the central and southern Jin Dynasty and met Xiao Junping, a staff officer of the Jin Army, Xiao also revealed some recent information about the Chen Brigade of the Lin Division that the 12th Independent Brigade had mastered. Therefore, the division commander took this main brigade and kept wandering around the front line of the Fen River. Now the intelligence of the enemy engineering team shows that the Chen Brigade exchanged fire with the Japanese army in Zhaocheng, which should be on the opposite scene.

Wu Zijian was a little excited, last year he followed the division commander and gathered the main force of the whole division to fight the Japanese Itagaki Division at Pingxingguan, and he still remembers it vividly; Knowing that the division commander and his Chen Brigade were in Zhaocheng - judging from the map, Zhaocheng on Nantongpu Road was less than two hundred miles away from Guanmen Mountain - would the division commander take Chen Lu to Guanmen Mountain?

Wu Zijian did not approve of the Eighth Route Army being broken into pieces and dispersed behind enemy lines, so Division Commander Lin and an entire brigade were concentrating on fighting in Zhaocheng, which made him, a veteran of Whampoa, particularly excited. It was at this moment that the deputy commander of the second battalion made up his mind to jointly attack Xiaoyushu Mountain with the 391st Regiment of the National Army: the division commander personally led his troops to fight with the Japanese on the railway line, so what reason did he have to lie at the foot of Guanmen Mountain to raise his glory!?

He decided to leave for Fengdian immediately.

The head of the secret service, Masao Kojima, rushed back to Bunjo ahead of the brigade commander Akira Hagiwara's military column.

Kojima Masao came back in a car temporarily sent to him by the Taiyuan secret service. He took the comfort women's train to get off at the Taiyuan Railway Station, went to the original office to pick up a batch of important documents, and at the same time, handed over the work to the new Taiyuan secret service chief, who had just arrived; and asked the commander of the Shangang Division to take away a few of his right-hand men who were working in Taiyuan.

However, before he had time to finish all this, the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters in Bunjo came with the news that the county seat of Fengdian had been attacked by the Shina Army and lost, which made Kojima Masao shocked. At that time, he did not know the true intention of the Chinese army to attack Fengdian, fearing that the secret camp of comfort women that was close at hand would be unfortunately exposed.

Lieutenant General Yamaoka Atsushige, the commander of the division garrisoning Taiyuan, learned of this news and was willing to support, but the troops at hand were also stretched. At that time, the two brigades under the command of the Shangang Division, in addition to one wing staying in Taiyuan and the surrounding important counties, the other three wings were heading north and westward respectively; A wing to the north cooperated with the harem division of the Kwantung Army stationed in Datong to attack the Yan Xishan Cavalry Army and the He Division of the Eighth Route Army in northern Jin; One wing of the westward advance was attacking Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army in western Jin, while the other wing was cooperating with Sena's division and planned to attack Yan Xishan's nest in southwest Shanxi. In this way, Lieutenant General Yamaoka can only say that he can't help.

Masao Kojima got in touch with the commander of the Sena Division, who was fighting in the south of Tongkaro, and was slightly relieved to learn that Lieutenant General Sena had urgently dispatched two infantry squadrons from the front line to rush to the aid of the starry night. Lieutenant General Sena asked Kojima to rush back to Bunjo immediately to assist the chief of staff of the Hagiwara Brigade in taking charge of Bunjo to deal with the possible threat to the secret camp of the comfort women in Songjiagou.

When he arrived at Wencheng, he learned that the chief of staff of the Hagiwara Brigade had boarded the small train returning from the front line and set off for Little Elm Mountain with the two infantry squadrons, and they were given the task of guarding the east pass of Little Elm Mountain and never allowing the Chinese army to enter Little Elm Mountain or even Songjiagou Station. At the same time, the Nishiyama Pass at the other end was also strengthened, and the chief of staff of the Hagiwara Brigade transferred an infantry squad from the already tight garrison of Bunjo to guard the small elm mountain pass near Bunjo.

So, back to Bunjo Kojima Masao, when riding through the streets, I couldn't help but worry about the city's city defense at my feet, and now this large city with a population of more than 100,000 people in the south of Tongpu Road, only the Otsuka Wing is less than one infantry brigade to garrison, and nearly half of this brigade has to guard the railway station and freight yard in the west of the city to ensure the normal operation of the station and the nearby railway line - the main force of the Sena Division is fighting on the railway line in the south, and Bunjo is both a large rear and a transit station, and the geographical location is extremely important- In this way, there will be no less force left for the walls and gates. At this moment, if a branch of even a few hundred people came in from the direction of a certain city gate, the defenders would not be able to resist it no matter what.

But garrisoning a city will never be enough if it relies only on the Imperial Army's troops; In addition to the regular army troops, the head of the secret service has already thought of forming his own team in Wencheng as soon as possible.

As a result of serving several terms as the head of the secret service in many cities in Manchukuo, Kojima Masao has accumulated a lot of experience, one of the most important of which is to rely on the local Han people to set up a special service team: the so-called use of China to control China is this way. Kojima found that any secret service that could successfully mobilize the enthusiasm of the Han Chinese would often achieve twice the result with half the effort; Because he understood that once the Han people were determined to help the imperial army rectify the Han people, their ferocity and cunning were definitely no worse than that of the imperial army.

And to form a Han spy team, that is, what other Han people call a "traitor team", looking for members is the key; These people must be familiar with the local environment and people, be clear in black and white, and dare to deny their relatives and be ruthless to their neighbors; Usually, in a town that meets the above conditions, it is often the local ruffians who have been famous for a long time.

What Kojima Masao needs now is to find such a ruffian in Wencheng as soon as possible. Through the recommendation of Yang Yaokang, the local maintenance president and president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry who is about to become the new mayor of Wencheng, a local ruffian named Meng Longsheng entered the field of vision of the head of the secret service.