Wu Zijian, who was born in the firearms department of the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, is familiar with guns and weapons, but when the captain of the enemy engineer asked in detail, he still pondered for a moment - yes, what kind of gun to buy? After the defeat in the battle against the night attack, the results of the whole battalion's inventory of weapons were still gratifying, and the vast majority of the commanders and fighters kept their own guns, which also fully proved the excellent military quality of the 2nd Battalion of the Lin Division. And through this vicious battle, the biggest weapon weakness exposed by the second battalion is the lack of light machine guns!

Of the four companies of the battalion, there were only six Czech-type guns, and the two Taisho-11 light machine guns captured from the puppet Mongolian army were crooked, and one was lost in the battle; According to the officers and men of the 7th Company, which were equipped with these two Japanese machine guns, the guns were very awkward to use in actual combat, and they were far less handy than the Czech ones.

"Then the first choice is a light machine gun, Czech, and see if you can be sure of getting it?"

After thinking about it for a while, Wu Zijian made up his mind, although he knew that even if he could get it, the price of Czech light machine guns in the underground arms black market must be quite expensive.

Xiao Junping nodded, he also heard a lot about the summary of the anti-night attack battle, Li Tianlin, the commander of the 5th company, who also mentioned the problem of insufficient number of light machine guns; Taking Hekou Village as an example, there are Makqin fortifications at the head of the village, and there are also two heavy machine gun fortifications on the mountain pass, which are equipped with Japanese 92 heavy machines, and the firepower is strong enough; But light machine guns, which are easy to move, are clearly not enough, and whenever a dangerous situation occurs somewhere in the line of defense, the need for light machine guns is not guaranteed.

"Also, Wei Xin and they scolded the Japanese crookedly this time, I first saw this kind of machine gun captured at the brigade headquarters, but it was not test-fired, so I didn't know it was so difficult to fiddle with! But I don't understand, is it that they can't shoot foreign meat in the 7th company, or is there something really wrong with this gun? Isn't it easy for the Japanese army to use it? You are a Japanese expert, can you explain it to us? ”

While listening intently to the questions of the deputy battalion commander, Xiao Junping recalled the relevant information he had, and then replied: "The 7th company commander, what they said should be true. I have the impression that the Japanese Army has consciously replaced the equipment of light machine guns in recent years, and in their permanent divisions, most of the Taisho 11 types have been eliminated due to poor reputation, and they have been thrown to the second-line ad hoc divisions; The main force focused on the replacement of the Type 96 light machine gun. ”

Since joining the Red Army, Wu Zijian has rarely come into contact with relatively advanced new light weapons, and the Type 96 machine gun mentioned by the enemy engineer captain was precisely after the Taisho Type 11 was widely criticized by Japanese officers and men, and the military made up its mind to change its equipment. As for Wu Zijian's 96 style, he has only heard of it and has never met it. However, the quick-thinking deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army still quickly made an association, and he slapped the table and shouted:

"No wonder! Didn't we two crooked men capture them from the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army! In addition, when Lianshan's cavalry company attacked the rear of the Japanese army in the night battle in Hekou Village, he once saw with his own eyes the light machine guns set up on the ground by the Japanese, and the shiny bayonets were inserted in front of the muzzles. A few days ago, Lian Shan specially found Wei Xin, studied the crooked handle that was still left in the 7th Company, and found that there was no device for inserting a bayonet at all. The big man Wei also laughed at Lianshan, who was dazzled at that time. In this way, the light machine gun with a bayonet stuck in the cavalry company may be the Type 96 you are talking about. ”

In fact, the captain of the enemy engineer had never seen the real body of the Japanese army's Type 96 machine gun, so when he heard Wu Zijian say this, he did not dare to confirm it for a while.

"This little Japanese, who has enough eyes, actually stuck a bayonet in his machine gun, apparently to prevent the enemy from pounced when the bullets ran out. However, the bayonet stuck in front of the muzzle does not affect the accuracy of the shot? Wu Zijian smacked and muttered to himself, his eyes looking a little distant.

In the end, Xiao Junping pulled the topic back, and he asked the deputy battalion commander how many he planned to buy if he could buy Czech-style from the black market? Wu Zijian couldn't help but laugh, and said that it was better to find a channel first and then look at it, as long as the second camp can afford the price, he can make a few of them!

"However, Captain Xiao, you have to know in your heart, the first task you want to go to Wencheng is to establish an intelligence station, as for the purchase of machine guns, it is of the nature of beating rabbits in the grass, and everything is focused on intelligence work!" Wu Zijian said with a serious expression: "Also, we must pay special attention to the incident that occurred in Wencheng last time to attack the Japanese Puppet Maintenance Association, try to find out who launched the attack, and if possible, we can contact them and strive to join forces with them to fight the war." ”

When the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army was worried about the attack on Wencheng, Masao Kojima, the head of the Japanese secret service in Wencheng, had already begun a covert search for the elements of the Blue Coat Society.

Kojima Masao has just received a confidential letter from the Tianjin Army secret service, which is the information about the Blue Coat Society in the Pingjin area that the commander of the Tianjin Command personally ordered his subordinates to sort out at the coordinated request of the North China Front Command, and gave a detailed account of its internal organizational structure, personnel characteristics, and action patterns. Masao Kojima is a treasure.

The Bureau of Statistics of the Military Commission of the National Government, referred to as the Military Commander, is the official name of the Blue Coat Society in the military government of China today. Carefully looking at the pages of secret documents, Masao Kojima finally has a more systematic understanding of the prototype of this mysterious anti-Japanese organization. Thinking of the information provided by the Kwantung Army's secret service in Datong before, the Shanxi branch of the Blue Coat Society gradually had a clear appearance in his mind. It seems that an agency called the Northwest District of the Military Command Bureau is located in Xi'an, Shaanxi, and this Northwest Region has a branch in Shanxi: the Shanxi Station, which is hidden in the city of Taiyuan, and this station is supposed to also consist of an action group and an intelligence group.

What is most worrying is that there is already uncovered intelligence that the Shanxi Station of the Military Command Bureau has dispatched intelligence groups to towns along the Nantongpu Road some time ago, and it is possible that the main purpose is to spy on the intelligence of Sena's division and disrupt public order in the rear. And thinking of a series of anti-Japanese incidents that happened in Wencheng, it can almost be concluded that this intelligence group of the Blue Coat Society has infiltrated Wencheng City!

The woman named Zhou Yi in the freight yard of the railway station died, and the tracking died; The mysterious business man behind Zhou Yi has not been seen so far; The killer who fired a flurry of gunfire at the town hall left only a pile of Mauser* bullet casings on the scene! So far, only the homicide case that just happened outside the new residence of Meng Longsheng, the captain of the special service in China, has relatively detailed clues.

Regarding Meng Longsheng's new residence, this ruffian finally told the truth under his own questioning: it is difficult for this guy, who has never had an inch of private house, to seize a deep mansion and a large courtyard of a wealthy merchant in the past under the banner of arresting anti-Japanese elements. What lawlessness and audacity!

However, now is the time to employ people, and the rich merchant in Wencheng who ran away with gold and silver is simply worthless in his own opinion; Meng, on the other hand, can kill the wolf dog in front for himself and for the Imperial Army. For the wolfdog, it is allowed to steal a few bones.

Kojima Masao personally visited Meng Longsheng's new residence, and in all fairness, the magnanimity of this ruffian family has exceeded the standard of living of middle-level officers in the Imperial Army. Of course, all the new furnishings in the house are also forcibly seized from the people. The head of the secret service even couldn't suppress his jealousy for a while: why did the market hooligans, who had nothing before, have all this all at once?!

"Listen up, Meng!" In the end, Kojima Masao chose to ignore it, after all, now is not the time to be idle: "This mansion of your unknown origin is largely unruly, and as a subordinate of the Imperial Army's secret service, this will greatly damage the image of the Imperial Army among the civilians of China!" However, today I will open up and allow you to live here temporarily; Next, you'll have to lead your team of agents to quickly find out who is killing people outside the door! Otherwise, the Imperial Army will reclaim this mansion without mercy! ”

Although Meng Longsheng was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, as soon as he saw that things were still slowing down, he suddenly nodded desperately like a chicken pecking rice, and let out a stack of hi babbling sounds from his mouth. Soon, the head of the secret service assigned him specific actions: the special team secretly escorted the young man of the porcelain shop to the streets and alleys of Wencheng without stopping, trying to make the young man of the porcelain shop find the man on the bicycle who accosted him in the Gonggu Alley in the crowd.

At the same time, Masao Kojima sent a capable plainclothes team to search for clues from the bicycle side. Wencheng is a bustling city on Nantongpu Road, but at present, bicycles are still a rare luxury, with a limited number of bicycles and even fewer people who can ride bicycles.

After arranging the tracking operation of the Blue Coat Society, Masao Kojima immediately took another plainclothes detachment of the secret service out of the city and went straight to the southern suburbs of Wencheng - according to the latest instructions given to him by the brigade commander, Major General, he would personally lead people to choose a temporary transit point for the secret arrest of comfort women in the southern suburbs.

After his subordinates' recent survey of the places dozens of miles south of Wencheng, the head of the secret service quickly screened and finalized a lonely house.

This private house is located on the wasteland in the southeast of Wencheng, about 20 miles away from the south gate of Wencheng, if you use a car, it is more than half an hour's drive from here to the small elm mountain pass in the eastern suburbs of Wencheng. The whole house is surrounded by a wooden fence into a courtyard, which is divided into two parts, one is three main adobe houses, and the other is two small side houses made of wood a few feet away. Masao Kojima's men had already observed that the main house was inhabited by a family of four, a young couple with a baby boy who could not yet walk, and an elderly woman presumed to be the elder of the young couple. The side rooms are filled with grain and agricultural tools.

Less than ten zhang away from the compound, there was a large area of cultivated farmland, which should have belonged to the owner of the compound, and through the remnants of snow that had not yet melted, it was possible to see the stubble of the roots and stubbles of the last year's crops cut down from the ditch, which were sorghum and corn.

The courtyard radiated far from the surrounding area, and there were no people in sight, and it was obviously an excellent temporary base for the hidden transit comfort women. Masao Kojima decided to occupy it immediately, killing the man and the old woman, leaving the hostess and her baby as a cover.

Disaster befell this originally quiet and peaceful mansion in an instant