"Withdraw! Immediately retreat south! ”

The commander of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade detachment immediately gave the order, and at this time Wei Xin was already the highest-ranking commander here. He sent the platoon of the 1st Battalion to continue to be the vanguard, but he had to turn around and turn back towards the lower reaches of the Qinglong River; The platoon of his own second battalion served as the rear platoon; In the middle of these two platoons, sandwiched is the team of the Black Stone Cliff Cottage.

The bandits, of course, do not give orders like the officers and men of the army. Tonight in Longwan Village, the headquarters of the 570th Regiment of the Jin Army, most of these guys drank a lot of wine, but they were suddenly tossed up and fled in the middle of the night; Immediately after that, he was ordered to fight the Japanese soldiers; Now I finally trekked all the way to Xiping Village, and I just took a breath, but I was about to be carried away and set off again on the way I came! A group of bandits, including the master, immediately started to complain.

Liu Wumei, the female bandit leader who escaped death, has been in ecstasy since she saw the righteous brother of the Eighth Route Army, and her inner ecstasy can no longer be expressed in words - she feels that she is really too smooth on this night, and she simply has nothing else to ask for! Hearing that Brother Wei said that he would take them to turn around and go south to besiege the devils, he immediately agreed.

"What's the noise? Shut up! Liu Wumei shouted at her minions, and now, they are all gathered between a few small woods outside the end of Xiping Village: "You all listen well, this Xiping Village has been occupied by devils, and it is impossible for us to return to the cottage from the mountain pass behind the village." It just so happened that my eldest brother was going to take the Eighth Route Army to join forces with us, surround the Japanese who shot at us just now, and beat them up! As long as we kill the Japanese, even if we can't enter the mountain for a while, we won't have any trouble. ”

Wei Xin just learned from the mouth of the righteous sister in front of him that the beam between the Black Stone Cliff Cottage and the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army was not only not untied, but became more and more tense. But this inadvertently gave him a God-given opportunity - Liu Shu, the political commissar of the detachment, and Wu Zijian, the leader of the detachment, had already warned him not to interfere in the negotiations between the Black Stone Cliff bandits and the hostages of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army - Liu Wumei, a lawless woman, actually used beauty tricks to make the head of the 570th Regiment of the Jin Army lose face; The Black Rock Cliff bandits have laid down such a big enemy, I'm afraid they won't be able to rely on the Eighth Route Army in the future! Thinking of this, Wei Xin immediately followed the words of the female bandit leader and declared:

"The brothers of Black Rock Cliff don't have to worry about being sought revenge by the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army—as long as you follow the Xu Brigade Detachment to fight devils, the Eighth Route Army will naturally protect you. The Jin army is a friendly army with us, and this face will definitely be given. ”

The singing and harmony of this black and white brother and sister really stabilized the mood of the bandits. Under the instruction of the battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, Liu Wumei divided more than 50 minions under her command into three teams, one team was led by the master and was close to a platoon after the Eighth Route Army was broken; One was led by the big boss Iron Hand, close to a platoon of the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army. The last group of female bandits led by the leader, and several soldiers of the Eighth Route Army led by Wei Xin lived in the center.

It was at this moment that the female bandit leader finally found out that her big boss Iron Hand was missing! As soon as she opened her mouth, the entire bandit team began to search for people in a hurry, but there was no trace of the Iron Hand in the vast night.

"What's going on?" The commander of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army, who learned of this sudden situation, couldn't help but feel a tight heart--Tie Shou, a bandit, had dealt with the Xu Brigade Detachment several times in the past, and it had been confirmed that he was by no means a good type. Wei Xin's first reaction was whether this guy would defect to the Japanese!

"Can't you?" Liu Wumei, the big boss, replied with a little hesitation: "Although this bastard of Iron Hand is greedy for money and lustful, he will not vote for the Japanese to be a traitor......

"Since you are greedy for money and lustful, then it is possible to do anything!"

Liu Wumei's explanation made Wei Xinyue suspicious, if this bandit leader really ran to the Japanese to fight back, the more than 100 human guns in front of him were completely exposed to the plains, once surrounded by the Japanese army, it was almost impossible to get out safely.

He was already considering whether to revoke the order he had just made to encircle the Japanese troops in the lower reaches of the Qinglong River.

At this critical juncture, a person suddenly walked out of the crowd of bandits, came to Liu Wumei and the master, and reported in a trembling whisper: Brother Tieshou was killed!

Several people, including the commander of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army, were stunned in an instant, and the master grabbed the reporter's collar in a hurry, and asked in a sharp voice: Who killed him?!" Where did you kill it?!

This bandit who came out to report was one of the two minions who had just been co-opted by Iron Hand and quietly broke away from the team and prepared to enter Lihuapo Village to take advantage of the fire and rob. He witnessed the scene of Iron Hand and another brother being shot at close range, and he tried to hide it when he escaped, but in the end he broke down and confessed to the big boss.

Although the reporter had emptied all his memories, the female bandit leader, the master and Wei Xin standing next to him still felt confused - the few people who killed the iron hand were obviously from Lihuapu Village, and they were carrying an injured woman, but they actually carried a short gun with them, and they shot them without saying a word. This could never have been done by ordinary Ewhapo villagers!

The commander of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army has been following the soldiers of several battalion headquarters, and one of them quietly pulled Wei Xin's shirt at this time, and then whispered in his ear: Could it be someone from our task force?

The task force refers to the small contingent sent to various villages in the lower reaches of the Qinglong River by the "General Field Mobilization Committee of the Guanmen Mountain Area" in the previous stage, and most of them are composed of several armed fighters and several detachment political workers. These small units were directly under the leadership of Liu Shu, the political commissar of the detachment, and Zhang Xiu, the secretary of the detachment, and their task was to go to the villages of the Eighth Route Army, where there were no troops, to carry out infiltration propaganda, conscription, and food requisition.

Wei Xin quickly shook his head - it is impossible for the people in the task force to have short guns, and it is usually impossible to say that they will open fire without knowing the identity of the other party.

"Grandma's, I killed the brothers in the Black Rock Cliff Cottage, we must not just let them go!" The treacherous and cunning master keenly discovered the whispers of the battalion commander and his subordinates of the Eighth Route Army, and immediately guessed that the one who killed the iron hand in Lihuapu Village might be the Eighth Route Army! So he deliberately shouted in a high-profile manner, and his eyes looked at Wei Xin and the others provocatively.

The master originally did not advocate that Liu Wumei get too close to the Eighth Route Army, especially against the copycat armed forces accepting the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army. Tonight, the big boss played the golden cicada out of his shell and offended the commander of the 570th Regiment of the Jin Army, and after coincidentally meeting the so-called sworn brother, it is difficult to say that the big boss did not take the initiative to fall to the Eighth Route Army again. Therefore, the accident of the iron hand being killed suddenly appeared, and the master was naturally ready to catch it all at once and make a big fuss.

After all, Wei Xin had competed with the master in front of him who had a lot of ghost ideas, and he knew that the other party was good at demagogic methods. So he didn't let it go, and said to Liu Wumei in the same loud voice: "Since the iron hand did not throw himself at the Japanese, then let's act according to the original plan and kill back along the Qinglong River." Just pass by Ewhapo and find out! ”

"That's right! Our brothers can't die in vain, and if we can't catch the enemy, we have to get the corpse of the iron hand back first! The female bandit leader immediately echoed.

After a brief arrangement, the mixed team of 100 people set off in a hurry. Fortunately, the Japanese troops who rushed into Xiping Village never divided a part of their forces to kill here. Wei Xin calculated that the main force of the Japanese army was now violently attacking the Guanmen Mountain Pass behind the village, and as long as the detachment leaders successfully turned into the mountain pass, they should be able to rely on the familiar and dangerous terrain to fight and retreat.

As for the death of the bandit boss Tie Shou, the commander of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army didn't say anything, but he felt very happy in his heart - that bandit was in cahoots with his backer and the black donkey of the third master, and he put a trap on the Xu Brigade Detachment of the Eighth Route Army. Now that he is dying, although it is not known who killed the killer, there will undoubtedly be one less stumbling block in the future action of absorbing the Black Stone Cliff bandits.

"Big brother, who do you think will do the accident of Tie Hand in Ewhapo?"

On the hurried march that had already begun, Liu Wumei, the female bandit leader, found an opportunity to ask her eldest brother - at this moment, in her heart, she was also wondering if it was the people of the Eighth Route Army who killed the big leader of her with one shot.

Of course, Wei Xin knew the doubts of his righteous sister, so he patted his chest and promised that it would definitely not be the Eighth Route Army: "Sister, the Xu Brigade Detachment only has a small number of work team activities in that area, and the weapons they carry are all spears. You have also seen with your own eyes that the short guns of our troops have been put away in a centralized manner to carry out special tasks, and we, the commanders of the first battalion level, have only recently been re-issued with short guns. ”

Having said this, Wei Xin's heart couldn't help but chuckle - his own pistol was changed to a pony pistol, and it was the righteous sister in front of her who couldn't see it, so she resolutely gave away a German mirror box (Mauser*) used by herself. However, before the gun was hot in his hand, he was forced to give it to Liu Shu, the instructor at the time and today's political commissar - he was worried that Liu Wumei would reconsider the whereabouts of the good gun.

However, now the female bandit leader's thoughts are all on the cause of death of the big boss Tie Shou: if it is really not the person shot by the Eighth Route Army, as Brother Wei promised, then what are those few people with short guns and suspicious appearances doing!? Listening to the minion who escaped by luck, the other party also carried an injured woman to the outside of the village, claiming to be to see Langzhong! It's a headache......

Suddenly, Liu Wumei's mind moved, she raised her head and blurted out to the commander of the Eighth Route Army who was walking side by side: "Big brother, then after your short guns are taken away, who will use them?" ”

Wei Xin was stunned. He naturally thought of the enemy engineering team commanded by Xiao Junping and Chen Xuanzhu - could it be that someone from the enemy engineering team haunted the area of Lihuapu and just ran into the big leader of the bandits?!

As soon as this idea was opened, Wei Xin immediately thought of one more thing: Wu Zijian, the leader of the detachment, had indeed ordered a few days ago to send several members of the enemy engineering team to secretly go to Gaomiao Village near Lingshi County on the Tongpu Railway Line to investigate a tragic case in which the entire village was destroyed and many women disappeared mysteriously.

Could it be such a coincidence?!