"Female bandit?!"

Li Tianlin's eyes widened, first at Wu Zijian, who was also surprised, and then at the staff officer of the Jin army on the stretcher:

"You're an intelligence staff officer, you're powerful enough; There are female bandits in the mountains, do you have all of them? ”

Wu Zijian also wanted to know what was going on, but he didn't speak again: it seems that the situation in Guanmen Mountain is far more complicated than what he expected before setting off from northwest Jin.

"The bandits in the mountains are all men," Xiao Junping changed his tone to a flat tone: "It's just that the bandit leader is a woman, the bandit is called Liu Wumei, who has been in the grass in the area of Guanmen Mountain for many years, and the people and officials in Fengdian and Wencheng all know about it." You Eighth Route Army are outsiders, and it's normal that you don't know. ”

"Staff Officer Xiao, how many people can you have under this Liu Wumei?" Wu Zijian pretended to ask casually.

But the shrewd Xiao Junping observed his words and understood that the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army had already been concerned about the bandits in Guanmen Mountain; He deliberately didn't answer, but teased: "What? Is Chief Wu really going to take a battalion of men and horses to Guanmen Mountain and fall into the grass? At present, the national crisis is at the head, doesn't your party claim to be the vanguard of resistance against Japan? Just run into the mountains to be a pioneer? ”

Wu Zijian was noncommittal, but Li Tianlin laughed, and he said to Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping at the same time: "Our instructor is right, you are really a Kuomintang diehard officer!" Nose and eye pick on the Eighth Route Army. ”

Li Tianlin's demeanor when he said this was not malicious, but when the staff officer of the Jin army heard the word "instructor" and knew that he was referring to Liu Shu, his face suddenly became gloomy.

Suddenly, a burst of laughter like silver bells came from the back of the marching procession, it was two female soldiers who were talking while walking, and they hurriedly caught up with the stretcher, one of them was the female hygienist of the battalion headquarters health class, who was taking care of Xiao Junping for the past two days; And the other, the staff officer of the Jin army also quickly recognized that she was the female clerk who served as a record when Xiao Junping interrogated the Japanese prisoners this morning.

The female hygienist came to check and inquire about the condition of the wounded Xiao Junping, and when she saw that his face was very ugly lying on the stretcher, she hurriedly asked, "Staff Officer Xiao, do you feel uncomfortable?" ”

Li Tianlin snatched the conversation: "It's okay, he's uncomfortable here", said while smiling and pointing to his heart with his hand.

Xiao Junping's eyes fell on the female clerk, and he was once again amazed by the pretty face of this female soldier.

"Hello, Staff Officer Xiao!"

When the female clerk saw Xiao Junping looking at her, she took the initiative to salute him and greeted him with a smile. At this time, the young staff officer of the Jin army became cramped: he was full of pain, untidy clothes, and was quite ashamed of himself in front of the friendly female soldiers.

"You speak Japanese so well!" The female clerk saw the embarrassment of the other party, and without waiting for him to speak, she said generously: "I heard that you studied in Japan?" ”

"Oh...... Yes, I have stayed, I have stayed in school......" Xiao Junping became more and more cramped.

Wu Zijian on the side felt interesting - the staff officers of the Jin Army, who were clever and eloquent, even had times when they were incoherent.

"You two," Li Tianlin interjected again, pointing to the female clerk and the Jin army staff officer, and said: "They are all intellectuals, our Xiao Zhang clerk graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin, and Staff Officer Xiao stayed abroad and drank foreign ink." ”

"My name is Zhang Xiu, and I am the secretary of the battalion headquarters," Zhang Xiu stretched out his right hand to Xiao Junping on the stretcher: "Welcome Staff Officer Xiao to join our Eighth Route Army!" ”

Xiao Junping didn't expect the female soldiers of the communist army to be so hearty and open, looking at Zhang Xiu's slender hand stretched out in front of him, he subconsciously reached out and shook it, but ignored the meaning of the second half of the female clerk's sentence for a while.

"Xiao Junping, Captain Intelligence Staff Officer of the 12th Independent Brigade of the Jin Army." Xiao Junping almost muttered to himself.

Wu Zijian saw the bargain, and immediately said loudly: "Okay! Good! From now on, everyone will be their own people, so you don't have to be so polite! Xiao Zhang, you have to learn from Staff Officer Xiao, he is a Japanese expert; We need such intelligence experts to fight devils! ”

Xiao Junping was shocked at this time: What did this female clerk say just now? Welcome me to the Eighth Route Army? When did I agree to join the Eighth Route Army?! He used his eyes to look at Wu Zijian, who was in trouble, but the latter didn't look at him, with a smug smile on his face. The staff officer of the Jin Army had the intention to correct a few words of the statement in front of everyone, but looking at the worship and expectation written on the beautiful face of the female clerk of the Eighth Route Army, when the words came to her mouth, she opened her mouth, but she couldn't say it.

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The latest information reported by the 12th Brigade has finally attracted the attention of the Commander's Department of the Second War Zone.

First, Fengdian has been declared lost, and second, a small force of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army has appeared near Fengdian. This made the commander and his staff anxious.

Less than 48 hours after the start of the war, the frontier town defended by two regiments of the national army was lost, what was the next step for the Japanese army?

The number of the 115th Division appeared on the periphery of Fengdian out of nowhere, did the Chen Brigade divide its troops and go to the east of Tongpu Road? Will the Eighth Route Army be so insatiable?

The headquarters of the Second World War Zone Commander, who sat in Linfen and watched the sky, of course, could not obtain the true purpose of the Japanese army to rekindle the war this time; What they were most worried about was whether the Japanese army would take advantage of this to launch a large-scale attack on southern and southwestern Jin. Chief Yan, who was good at riding a donkey, had already prepared a boat on the bank of the Yellow River to cross the river to Shaanxi, but he still wanted to stay on the ground in Shanxi until he had to.

As for the battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which ambushed the Japanese cavalry outside Fengdian, the Second War Zone Commander's Department also took it for granted that it was a part of the Chen Brigade; But they didn't know that the battalion led by Feng Changzhi, Liu Shu, and Wu Zijian was not the unit of the Chen Brigade that had been inserted into the activities on the banks of the Fen River at the end of last year; They are from Wutai Mountain, have just entered the Jinnan Gate, and are about to go to Guanmen Mountain to make a big show.

The Commander's Department temporarily vetoed the motion of the commander of the 12th Brigade to send troops to reinforce Wencheng, and they only asked the brigade to make an all-out effort to build defenses, and then make a decision on whether to reinforce after the Japanese army has the next move.

However, the Commander's Department strictly ordered the 12th Independent Brigade to find out the whereabouts of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible and report the relevant movements at any time.

Of course, they also mentioned the 391st Regiment of the Central Army that had been stationed in Fengdian, and asked the 12th Brigade to find out the whereabouts of the regiment, and if the remnants of it were found, they would strive to be incorporated and jointly defend Wencheng.

Although Zheng Yuan is not a general, he is very familiar with the way of officialdom. From the reply from the commander's department, the brigade commander of the 12th Brigade of the Du Brigade, sniffed out a deeper danger - not immediately sending reinforcements to fortify Wencheng, indicating that Chief Yan had no intention of defending the Tongpu Line gate, but had a sense of letting it fend for itself.

And the Eighth Route Army, which began to divide troops and plunder land in Shanxi, actually extended its tentacles here, which made the defense area of the 12th Brigade even louder.

After analyzing the situation, Zheng Yuan thought with fear: either it was wiped out by the Japanese, or it was eroded by the Eighth Route Army. It seems that it's time to think about retreat!