The roast chicken and sauce meat that Li Yan had stored had already been eaten by him. The female boss sent food for the first time, and at the same time, she also sent a big limit to crack the Japanese army's "Wind Plan", and the lieutenant of the military commander naturally knew the hidden crisis. During the day, he no longer crouched in this dilapidated courtyard, but roamed the side of the Little Elm Mountain Pass, hoping for something else to discover; At night, he really slept with his ears on his ears, listening for sounds coming from the railroad tracks outside the courtyard.

But the sound that came from the middle of the night, when it was really caught by his ears, was not the familiar "wheels of a train rolling over the tracks", but the iron palms of the horses' hooves slapping on the frozen earth and stones. The sound was unfamiliar to him, but it was so loud that it woke him up.

Li Yan had two things next to his pillow, one was a shell gun tucked under the pillow, and the other was a flashlight resting next to the pillow. At this moment, the lieutenant of the military commander first touched the flashlight and illuminated the watch on his wrist, it was already 11:40 in the middle of the night! At the same time, he confirmed that the sound of a large number of horses trotting outside was heard. Li Yan began to hurriedly put on his coat, he thought: In the middle of the night, how could there be so many horses running outside, could it be the Japanese cavalry?

The lieutenant guessed correctly, it was indeed the Japanese cavalry that was speeding outside this dark courtyard at this moment; Nearly 100 horsemen and horses lined up in two rows along both sides of the tracks, and the sound of horses' hooves was particularly shocking on a winter night.

By the time Li Yan put on his clothes and rushed into the courtyard from the house, the cavalry's horse team had already run over, and he couldn't figure out what he was doing, so he wanted to catch up and see what was going on, but at this moment, a familiar voice faintly came; At first, the lieutenant of the military command, who was focused on the direction of the departure of the horse team, did not react for a while, and when he suddenly realized: this faint sound was the time when the wheels of the train rolled over the tracks, and in the darkness, a train coming from a distance had made the sleepers and gravel of the tracks tremble slightly.

Li Yan almost couldn't believe what was happening - the ghost military train that the female boss insisted on and the mysterious train that ran over this abandoned branch line a few days ago are now really visible?!

Excited, Li Yan pushed open the courtyard gate and ran to the side of the track two or three zhang away, the small train that drove from the direction of Little Elm Mountain, which looked quite like a toy during the day, was now a little huge due to the shroud of night, and the front of the locomotive, which was getting closer and closer, was wrapped in the sound of wheels rolling over the track, and ran towards the lieutenant of the military commander here. Li Yan stood upright beside the tracks, watching with wide eyes as the head of the tinkling train passed in front of him, and then the carriages—this was obviously a passenger train, the first carriage was sparsely lit, but seemed to be obscured by a curtain; The windows of the rear carriage are all black.

No!

That's not a car window, no car window!

Li Yan, who has been in the Tongpu Road Construction Bureau for many years, relies on his unusual familiarity with the narrow-gauge train, and in the dark night, he can still clearly identify the few passenger cars in the middle of this train, there are no windows at all, and the position of the windows should be sealed by something - everything is as described by his female boss!

Li Yan's body trembled in the cold wind and the gusts of wind rolled up by the train, but what made him tremble was not the coldness of the temperature, but the tremor from his body and mind - the ghostly train, the strange military train that the beautiful female boss had witnessed with her own eyes, not only really existed, but was also close at hand!

Li Yan, who was stunned by this unexpected change, didn't suddenly think that he shouldn't just stand and watch stupidly until the last carriage of this small train slipped in front of him, but should chase after him and find out what was loaded on this mysterious train! At the very least, to figure out where it's heading.

The lieutenant of the military commander pulled out his legs and gave chase.

The speed of the little train was not very fast, probably about the speed of the first passing horse; However, Li Yan, who was running under the roadbed, was constrained by the potholes and uneven road surface, and the deeper and shallow the ground, the slower and slower he chased. What surprised him even more was that the small train in front of him was moving away, but there was the roar of a motor behind him; Li Yan turned his head and immediately saw several bright lights approaching, no doubt, they were the lights of a car, and there was more than one.

At the moment when the headlights in the front were about to hit him, Li Yan jumped to the side and hid in the night, and this jump happened to jump into a small field of sorghum poles that had not been cut down, so the lieutenant of the military commander hid behind the sorghum stalks that were more than one person high, and witnessed a group of Japanese military trucks passing by at close range—it was a Japanese 94-style truck, and there was no doubt that the truck's compartment was covered with tarpaulin, and it was impossible to see the contents of the compartment.

What is this for? So exciting!

When the last truck drove by, Li Yan asked himself as he jumped out from behind the sorghum pole and continued to grit his teeth and chase after him. However, perhaps he was desperate to chase but neglected to conceal, as a result, at the end of the last truck, suddenly came a Japanese shout, before Li Yan could react, the gun went off, the lieutenant of the military commander felt a bullet whistling through the night sky above his head, he was bluffed and jumped subconsciously came to lie on the spot, thinking that a denser bullet would soon be summoned, but after a shot, the night sky returned to silence.

It's just that when Li Yan, who was lying down, finally dared to get up from the ground, not to mention the train, even the figure of the truck could not be seen.

The team that slipped past Li Yan was the Japanese army who was carrying out the task of transporting comfort women in the "Wind Plan". At the head of the patrol along both sides of the railroad tracks was the Iwata Cavalry Squadron of the Otsuka Wing; Subsequently, there was the "Fengzi Military Column" secretly mentioned in the high-level telegram of the Japanese army, in which Major General Hagiwara Akira, commander of the Sena Division and Brigade, personally sat in charge, and Hirai Daichi Military Police Major Zo and Kojima Masao, the head of the special service, led 120 members of the military police to supervise 36 Chinese women who had become comfort women; The truck convoy escorted behind the military column was the Nara Infantry Brigade led by Wing Commander Kosuke Otsuka.

All the cavalry, gendarmes, and infantry in trucks were gathered around the platform of the Songjiagou Station in Little Elm Mountain at half past ten o'clock in the evening, ready to go. The reason why the Japanese army chose to travel in the middle of the night was, of course, to hide people's eyes. Hagiwara Akira and Kojima Masao deduced that starting from this time period, before dawn, they could quietly drive past the Taiyuan Railway Station on Tongpu Road, and then turn onto Zhengtai Road; Once you leave the Taiyuan area, there will be sparsely populated small stations along Zhengtai Road, and the probability of the military train being seen by passers-by will be greatly reduced.

Du Dongqiang, the cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army, led a battalion of cavalry to guard in advance at the intersection of Tongpu Road and Songjiagou branch line north of Wencheng, and joined the Iwata cavalry squadron when it arrived, and then marched forward together to open the way.

At the Taiyuan Railway Station, martial law was imposed two hours before the arrival of the special train, and people other than the military were strictly prohibited from entering. As for the Zhengtai Road in Shanxi Province, which starts from Taiyuan and ends at Niangzi Pass, the North China Front Army has telegraphed a wing of the Shangang Division to strengthen vigilance and patrol to ensure the smooth passage of the military columns.

Wang Suihua excitedly left with the director of the radio station from the headquarters of the 391st Regiment in Da Yushu Mountain.

The commander of the special service company led the escort, and he was still in the Yedian next to the road from Junling to Fengdian to connect with the soldiers of the special service company guarding the Chevrolet car. After saying goodbye, the female major of the military commander who drove the car went straight to the mansion where Li Yan was squatting.

Unexpectedly, Wang Suihua pounced, and was shocked after seeing the signal left by Li Yan: Something happened!

The members of the second intelligence group each carried two boxes of "Great China" matches, which were very popular on the market at that time, and if they needed to warn their companions in an emergency at the contact point, they would empty one of the boxes of matches, half-open the empty box of matches, and put the other box of matches on the side of the empty matchbox. This is a sign of an emergency, but it is too late or inconvenient to contact.

At this moment, on the kang table in Li Yan's room, it was this match pattern of emergency warning that was placed - it was actually hastily arranged by Li Yan who could not catch up with the Japanese army and returned here. Then he left again to chase the columns.

Since the female major of the military commander had just been captured by the life of the Central Army's special service company, she immediately judged that Li Yan's residence had been attacked, and his people were captured or escaped urgently: the messy and open quilt on the fire kang also symbolized that her subordinates had happened during bedtime at night.

However, there were no enemies left around, and there were no signs of fighting indoors. The landlord's family was not at home at this time—they may have gone to pick up waste along Tongpu Road——, but Wang Suihua observed through the cracks in the door and window lattices that the landlord's house showed no signs of being in a mess.

She made a quick decision and drove straight to the Nanyang Hotel in Wencheng with the director of the radio station. Sure enough, in the hotel room, I found a note left by Zhou Yi: My cousin has something, contact my cousin quickly.

Cousin and cousin are pronouns of Li Yan and Zhou Yi respectively. Previously, Li Yan arranged temporary work for Zhou Yi in the freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station, and lied to the public that Zhou Yi was his cousin. Although the female major of the military commander was anxious, she found that Zhou Yi was still able to leave a note here, indicating that the situation had not yet entered the level of getting out of control. She left Liu, the elder of the radio station, on duty at the hotel, and she drove to the freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station.

Zhou Yi, who was also in a hurry, finally explained everything to the boss who rushed over. It turned out that Li Yan found a Japanese military column escorted by heavy troops from the direction of Songjiagou in the middle of the night, so he chased all the way to Wencheng Railway Station; He first asked the person on duty on the platform, and then woke up Zhou Yi, but in the end, they were surprised to find that the military column he described had never arrived or passed by Wencheng Station at all!

Li Yan stumbled along the railroad tracks of Tongpu Road, and if this military column did not appear at Wencheng Station, it could only show one fact: the military column did not go to Nantongpu Road according to the lieutenant of the military commander's guess, but after driving onto Tongpu Road from the branch line, it went north!

Zhou Yi told Wang Suihua that after Li Yan discovered his wrong tracking direction, he had borrowed a bicycle and chased it back in the northbound direction. Wang Suihua couldn't help but stomp her feet and scolded: This idiot, where can the bicycle catch up with the wheels of the cavalry and trains and cars!

But the body of the female major of the military commander was also trembling almost irrepressibly: everything Li Yan found in the middle of the night undoubtedly proved their previous discoveries and inferences: after the strange Japanese military train disappeared from the Taiyuan Railway Station, it was the Songjiagou branch line that drove in! Now, it ghostly drove out at midnight, and it was heavily escorted and re-headed in the direction of Taiyuan.

Wang Suihua couldn't contact Li Yan, who had witnessed all this, she turned around and ran to the Nanyang Hotel, she had to immediately telegraph to Shanxi Railway Station and immediately send someone to Taiyuan Railway Station to monitor!