This large shantytown, which is close to the north end of the railway station square, is not unfamiliar to the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army - the last time he led a few team members and planned to infiltrate the Hagiwara Brigade and regimental station in the south freight yard of the station, he failed to steal the arms, and when he retreated, he crossed the Tongpu Railway Line and turned into this shantytown from the north freight yard.

Of course, what made Xiao Junping even more memorable was that not long after entering the shantytown, they encountered Zhao Mutou, the commander of the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, who had just been chased and killed by Japanese soldiers and spies, and decisively opened fire to the rescue. And it was precisely because of the large area of this shantytown and the complicated path that the enemy workers who participated in the battle were able to escape smoothly. If nothing had happened, the tall and thin spy company commander of the friendly army should have managed to escape at that time.

But today, danger has come again, but this time it is not the Japanese puppet army, but the hateful and hateful former Jin army ruffians and their accomplices, whose unexpected threat to the underground intelligence station of Wencheng of the Eighth Route Army is unprecedented. This is also the reason why the captain of the enemy engineer decided to kill the killer.

The surprise that Zhang Shaonian and the three of them resurfaced after entering the residence of the enemy workers in front of the station did not escape Xiao Junping's eyes at all. Several guys didn't dare to openly ask the true identity of these heavily armed people on their side, Xiao Junping secretly thought: Zhang Shaonian's guy was a soldier, and he knew his Xiao someone's past, so he must be able to guess a rough idea. He is also happy not to explain - let these ruffians who have no sense of integrity and patriotism always hang their hearts! This will be more conducive to their subsequent control.

However, the captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army was overconfident after all, and underestimated the instinct of these ruffians to have the courage to give it a go when it came to life and death.

On the way through the streets and alleys to the shantytown, Zhang Shaonian noticed that Staff Officer Xiao, who was at the forefront and took the lead, deliberately avoided the Japanese sentries and patrols that appeared several times. This gave him hope - since the other party is so jealous of the Japanese, then his side has a life-saving trick that can kill people with a knife.

When he saw the shantytown just across the street in front of the station, and realized that they were going to enter that area, the Jin army ruffian couldn't help but feel happy: when he had just taken off his military uniform and mixed into Wencheng to work, he had carried a lot of work in the freight yard of the railway station for a few days, and he had entered the shantytown next to the freight yard, and he was very aware of the messy terrain there. Later, because he found that there were many Japanese soldiers and plainclothes spies near the train station, he was worried that the military features on his forehead, shoulders and palms would be easy to recognize, so he left the area in front of the station to make a living elsewhere.

At this moment, Zhang Shaonian made up his mind, and after entering the shantytown, he found an opportunity to run away!

He made this decision based on his intuition - the former staff officer Xiao and his subordinates, with guns and knives, had an advantage in numbers, and made it clear that they would send the three of them all the way to the vicinity of the railway line outside Wencheng before they would be released. This made the ruffians smell dangerous: if they really want to go out of the city, they may not even be able to see the shadow of the Japanese soldiers, so that their little life will not be firmly in the hands of Staff Officer Xiao! If his life is gone, the hundred pieces of ocean he is holding in his arms will lose any meaning.

He had the intention to find an opportunity to quietly reveal this idea to the two accomplices, but Staff Officer Xiao's subordinates followed the three of them like shadows, so he had to give up - forget it, wealth is in the sky, life and death have fate, and when the time comes, he will run first, whether the two brothers can react quickly depends on their creation.

In the blink of an eye, two groups of eight people, each with their own hearts, crossed the street in front of the station in three batches and disappeared into the shantytown. The first group was Xiao Junping, Zhang Shaonian, and a member of the enemy workers, who hid in the shadows on the edge of the shantytown, and greeted the arrival of the second and third groups with their eyes.

At this point, the captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army finally breathed a sigh of relief: Thank God, there was no harassment by Japanese soldiers and spies on the road, and Zhang Shaonian and they were also very cooperative.

Still in the order of the three batches just now, keeping a distance of five or six paces between the batches, they began to move forward along the winding path in the shantytown.

When Xiao Junping's nervous mood tended to ease, Zhang Shaonian's nerves were already tense to the extreme. At this moment, in the first batch of Jin army ruffians, in front of him was Xiao Junping, who was exploring the path, and behind him was a member of the enemy engineering team. This guy with a ghost in his heart tried his best to quietly observe the forks in the road on both sides, focusing on the direction of the north - you can't go to the south, there is the square in front of the station, even if he escapes the control of Staff Officer Xiao, it is very likely that he will fall into the hands of the Japanese with a hundred pieces of ocean.

The opportunity was finally waited for by him!

There are electric wires in the shantytown, and a handful of electric poles are scattered along the road from the outer wall of the North Freight Yard to the street side of the main street in front of the station; The electric lights on the telephone poles were dimly lit, and the simple houses in the shantytowns were basically lit by oil lamps and candles at night, so it was difficult to see each other as long as they were a dozen steps away.

Zhang Shaonian, a ruffian of the Jin army, just saw a small fork in the road that appeared on the right hand, made up his mind and suddenly flashed to the side, and then began to run wildly.

This sudden action caught the enemy worker who followed him off guard, and exclaimed: Stop, where to run!? Then he pulled out his legs and chased after him.

With his hands tightly grasping the pocket containing the ocean in front of his chest, Zhang Shaonian's running was restricted, and as a result, he only ran seven or eight meters away before he was caught up by the enemy worker. Listening to the footsteps, he knew that the pursuer was close at hand, and in a hurry, Zhang Shaonian clenched the ocean pocket with his right hand and struggled to pull it out horizontally backwards. The enemy worker, who had already grabbed the back of his opponent's clothes, did not expect this blow, and was hit the right cheek, his head was dizzy, and he fell forward with a stagger, and the Mauser* holding it in his right hand also fell out in an instant.

Zhang Shaonian's eyes were sharp, and with the help of the not bright moonlight, he saw clearly where the Mauser* flew to the ground, and immediately rushed forward and picked it up.

At this moment, another black shadow rushed over from behind, and it was the staff officer of the Jin Army in Zhang Shaonian's eyes!

Xiao Junping, who then caught up, saw the scene in front of him more completely, his heart was beating wildly, regretting that he underestimated the enemy, seeing his team members being knocked down, seeing Zhang Shaonian picking up something, and turning around and raising his arm at him - Xiao Junping suddenly realized that it should be the opponent who was raising a gun at him!

said that it was too late and that it was too fast, and he didn't have time to think about it anymore, the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army struck first, and pulled the trigger of the pistol as soon as he raised his right hand:

Bang!

At a distance of less than three meters, Xiao Junping's bullet by feeling accurately hit the chest of the burly Jin army ruffian, who shook his body and fell to the ground on his back.

As soon as the guns rang out, the captain of the enemy engineer understood that he could not stay here for long. He first grabbed Zhang Shaonian's side and took the Mauser* from his hand; At this time, the Jin army ruffian was already dying, his wide open mouth was spraying blood foam outward one by one, whimpering and trying to say something but he couldn't figure out.

Xiao Junping stared at the other side of the pang at close range for two seconds, but in the end, he failed to make a ruthless move, and instead ran to his team, who was struggling to get up from the ground,

Bang! Bang!

Suddenly, two more gunshots rang out, and the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army, who had just supported his comrades, was taken aback, and the gunshots came from not too far away. The two of them tacitly followed the same path as they ran back, and began to whisper the names of their companions as they ran.

The five members of the enemy engineering team soon converged in one place - one of Zhang Shaonian's accomplices had just taken advantage of the chaos to escape, and was immediately shot and killed, and the two gunshots were fired from this. Another accomplice, Zhang Shaonian, who was still in the hands of the enemy workers, shouted in terror and was finally stabbed in the front heart.

All three troublesome guys were dealt with - but not in the intended location, and not by the established means. This means that new troubles will follow.

Sure enough, on the outskirts of the shantytown, sharp whistles sounded one after another, which was a special warning signal for the Japanese puppet spies cruising near the station.

Xiao Junping decisively issued a retreat order, and the five people were divided into two groups, still the two enemy workers who lived in front of the station were one group, and the three people who lived in Chengruixiang Silk Village were the other group, and they withdrew separately.

It wasn't until this moment that the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army suddenly realized: the cloth bag containing a hundred oceans had forgotten to snatch it back!

Just now, after being forced to shoot Zhang Shaonian, Xiao Junping first observed the life and death of the other party, and at the same time took back the Mauser* that had fallen from the hands of the enemy workers, and then went to help his comrades who were not lightly injured. And the gunfire that rang out immediately afterwards completely diverted the attention of the enemy engineer captain.

"You two go first, I'll go and get the ocean back!"

Xiao Junping gritted his teeth and said. Of course, he was well aware of the critical situation in front of him, but that hundred oceans were not a small amount, it was an important part of the Xu Brigade detachment's family base, and it must not be lost from his own hands in vain!

"Second shopkeeper...... Captain, I'll go with you! The team member who had been hit hard by Zhang Shaonian's escape just now whispered anxiously and ashamedly.

"No, there are many people and the goal is big, you two will withdraw for me first!" Xiao Junping gave the order to die without question.

Unexpectedly, before the words fell, a few flickering flashlight beams suddenly shot from not far away, and then a slightly stiff Chinese dialect came:

"What for? Stand still! ”