The hectic early morning in No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane was spent half nervous and half sad.

The first to escape from the direction of the railway station was of course Wang Suihua, a female major of the military commander, who drove and was the first to evacuate. When the Chevrolet, with its headlights off, drove into the alley, Li Yan's figure flashed behind the big willow tree - the male agent of the military commander had sneaked out from behind the empty gate of the No. 1 courtyard countless times to watch under the willow tree at the mouth of the alley in the middle of the night.

The two military commanders didn't start talking until they entered the courtyard, and Li Yan asked anxiously: Why is it so late? Wang Suihua replied in a low voice: Company Commander Zhao's identity was exposed, and he got into trouble with the Japanese in the station square.

Hand in the fire! This is the most dangerous scenario that has been estimated before the operation. Li Yan's mood instantly became heavy, and Liu, the elder of the radio station who had been guarding behind the courtyard gate, was even so nervous that he couldn't speak when he heard this.

Wang Suihua returned to her room, took a bottle of whiskey from the Bogu shelf, poured half a glass of wine and mixed it with some hot water and began to sip, the Browning pistol, commonly known as the "flower mouth", was put on the table by her sitting in her clothes.

Li Yan, who sneaked out of the courtyard door and went to the mouth of the alley, took a long time to welcome the second group of returning comrades: the duo carrying Bergman*.

When their company commander was being pursued by the Japanese army, the soldiers of the two special service companies used unexpected automatic firearms to strafe from the side, buying time for Zhao Mutou to escape. On the way to evacuate, they ran desperately, but fortunately did not encounter the Japanese puppet army, and miraculously escaped back to No. 1 Courtyard of Yangliu Lane, with the conspicuous target Bergman*.

The last to return was the spy company commander himself. Because of the color on his face and the realization that he was wearing a Japanese military uniform when the station square was exposed, Zhao Mutou did not dare to take more avenues when he fled to Yangliu Lane, and deliberately avoided the Japanese soldiers on duty at several intersections, so he delayed too much work. By the time Li Yan finally embraced the commander of the spy company and flashed into the courtyard gate, the hands of the clock had already passed four o'clock in the morning.

At this point, the Second Intelligence Group of the Shanxi Station of the Military Command cooperated with the operation of the Nantongpu Railway Line and blasted the freight yard and military station of the Japanese railway station.

One comrade did not return.

In Wang Suihua's room, Zhao Mutou reported in detail all the accidents that happened that night, and when it came to the details of his subordinate Xiao Zhong being shot and wounded and detonating * suicide, the two military commander agents could hear that the young spy company commander was desperately gritting his teeth to prevent himself from sobbing.

After spending some time with Xiao Zhong, who was martyred in the country, Li Yan's mood was also sad. However, the female major of the military commander looked indifferent, and she couldn't see any emotion.

Since the danger has not passed, the Japanese puppet army in the city should soon launch a search, Wang Suihua ordered all the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane to wait for the day. Two soldiers of the special service company who were lucky enough to escape were arranged to take turns to be on duty behind the courtyard gate and listen to the movement in the alley outside. Liu, the elder of the radio station, is very old, so he temporarily went back to his room to get dressed and rest.

Wang Suihua, together with Li Yan and Zhao Mutou, reviewed the actions just implemented overnight and reviewed the loopholes.

- The two soldiers of the special service company who have been lurking back in the shantytown on the north side of the square in front of the railway station should be at the forefront of danger; But fortunately, they have the identity of working in the North Freight Yard, and they have just received the certificate of good citizenship, so it should not be difficult to pass the customs in confusion. The premise is that you must hide the short gun and dagger that you carry with you.

- The small clock that detonated * suicide in the square, except for the Mauser* and the military dagger he carried, there were no other items that could indicate his true identity, and the military uniforms and documents were all from the Japanese officers they attacked and killed in the alley. From his body, the Japanese could not find any valuable clues.

- When Wang Suihua drove away along the street outside the square in front of the station, he tricked three traitors from the detective team who tried to rush to the square to get into the car, and finally shot them all dead in the alley near the Nanyang Hotel. In retrospect, it was a risky move: a Chevrolet sedan with three detectives on the street would undoubtedly become a potential threat, and the bodies of the three spies destined to be found would easily be linked to the Chevrolet. The male agent of the military commander was very surprised that the experienced female boss could make such a low-level mistake, and the special agent company commander, who was in the pain of losing his comrades, failed to understand the reckless actions of the female major of the military commander at that time.

- Zhao Mutou's unexpected encounter with a small group of troops of the Eighth Route Army in the process of escaping is also a risk that is difficult to assess for the time being. Why did the person who called himself Xiao Junping of the Second Battalion of the Xu Brigade appear in Wencheng City with this small team? Could it be that the Eighth Route Army, which participated in tonight's battle with Lingshi County on the Pu Railway, was sent into the city to monitor the movements of the main force of the Japanese army? The spy company commander and two subordinates and Xiao Junping's group, after all, showing their faces face to face and at close range is a blessing or a curse, and it is difficult to predict.

To sum up, the biggest hidden danger left by a series of actions tonight is the Chevrolet sedan parked in the alley outside the courtyard gate, and now we can only hope that when Wang Suihua lured the members of the detective team into the car, there were no witnesses at the scene.

At the same time, the commander of the spy company, Zhao Mutou, had a wound on his face, and his identity was revealed in front of another group of people who claimed to be the Second Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and he must not appear in the public eye again in a short period of time.

This dark early morning with mixed tastes finally got through it with difficulty. The No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane ushered in the bright color of dawn.

After dawn, Wang Suihua ordered the director of the radio station to send telegrams to the Shanxi Station of the Military Command in Taiyuan and the 391st Regiment Headquarters of the Central Army in Dayushushan. Report to the former the results of the second intelligence group's night attack and demolition of the Japanese army's Wencheng military station; The latter was asked about the outcome of the operation in which the unit, together with the Eighth Route Army, attacked the Tongpu railway line.

The Shanxi station soon replied, and the stationmaster Zhao Qingwen encouraged the second intelligence group, and commended it for its bold actions of attacking and killing Japanese officers and traitor spies, and blasting the Japanese military station at Wencheng Railway Station; He expressed his condolences to the officers and men of the Special Service Company of the 391st Regiment who accepted the command of the Second Intelligence Group and participated in the operation, paid tribute to the martyrs who died in the operation, and transferred them to the 391st Regiment to give generous pensions.

The reply from the regimental headquarters of the 391st Regiment took two days to wait - that was after the regiment's brigade returned to the Great Elm Mountain garrison from the Eighth Route Army base area, and the regiment commander Qin Zhongxiao personally replied.

After Wang Suihua forwarded the battle report submitted by the 391st Regiment to the Shanxi Station of the Military Command, Zhao Qingwen, the head of the station, also learned that the former commander of the Second War Zone had dispatched the 17th Army of the Central Army in Qinyuan County that night and cooperated with the 391st Regiment to attack the county seat of Huo County on the Nantongpu Railway Line. Thus, the confusion of the Kuomintang and Communist armies that were fighting together in the area of Lingshi County about the sudden retreat of Japanese reinforcements was solved.

Soon after, the Shanxi Railway Station transmitted another telegram, saying that the former enemy headquarters of the Second Theater of the Nationalist Army highly praised the joint attack of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army and the Second Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, pointing out that this operation had once cut off the Nantongpu railway line and telecommunications along the way, and forced the Japanese army to mobilize many troops from the rear of Wencheng and the front of Linfen to rush to the theater of rescue and disrupted the enemy's deployment and delayed the pace of the main force of the Japanese Sena Division to launch a general attack on Zhongtiao Mountain in southern Jinnan. For this reason, the former enemy headquarters of the Second Theater sent a telegram to commend the two participating units and attach a bonus of 10,000 yuan.

Wang Suihua immediately asked the radio station chief to call the regimental headquarters of the 391st Regiment to convey the commendation order of the Second Theater -- Up to now, the telecommunications liaison between the 391 Regiment and the former enemy headquarters of the Second Theater has not yet been restored, and can only be relayed by the radio stations of the Northwest Region and Shanxi Station of the Military Command, as well as the Second Intelligence Group.

Zhao Mutou, who couldn't move in the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane, saw the commendation order transferred from above, and his pain and depression suddenly decreased.

The female major of the military commander did not expect that this operation of the 391st Regiment would cause such a strong shock in the local area and even in the entire Jinnan region. On the one hand, she was happy for the colonel of the Central Army, but on the other hand, she was still worried about the participation of the Eighth Route Army in this battle. Previous indications showed that the small unit of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, the Xu Brigade, was expanding their territory to the south based on the western foothills of Guanmen Mountain; Everywhere they went, they took up the banner of the "General Mobilization Committee" advocated by Yan Xishan, and established a grassroots political power that they could control. This is no different from the small actions carried out by the large forces of the Eighth Route Army throughout Shanxi, and it is an insidious act of secretly seizing power from the hands of the Nationalist Government. Station Chief Zhao Qingwen had already called and told him to closely monitor the development and expansion of the local Eighth Route Army. Now it seems that just taking the second battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division as an example, it is enough to see the ambition of the other party.

What the female major of the military commander is worried about is that under the guise of joint operations with the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army has also been commended by the Second War Zone, which will undoubtedly help and rely on their potential expansion in the future. You can't afford to be unguarded against this.

Wang Suihua decided to go to the headquarters of the 391st Regiment in Dayushu Mountain again to meet with Xing Zhongxiao in person, reminding the colonel of the Central Army to be cautious about cooperation with the so-called friendly forces in the future.

Of course, there was a more important reason for the female major of the military commander to rush to the 391st regiment: Qin Zhongxiao had promised her Japanese army to launch a small-scale reconnaissance attack on Xiaoyushu Mountain, which was on blockade and guard, in order to find out the mysterious activities of the Japanese in the mountain as soon as possible.

Until this moment, Wang Suihua still insisted on believing that the "wind plan" circulated by the Japanese army's high-level that the dragon could not see the end was hidden in Little Elm Mountain!

Now that Qin Zhongxiao has completed the surprise attack on the Nantongpu railway line, and has achieved achievements and awards, there is no reason for him to shirk the armed reconnaissance of Xiaoyushu Mountain at the moment.

What kind of shameful name did the Japanese devils sneak up in that deep mountain, and it's time to clarify the truth!