Feng Changzhi, the commander of the second battalion, could not ride horses, so when he led people out of Xiping, he borrowed a carriage from his fellow villagers - a carriage drawn by two horses; Feng Changzhi took four warriors and rode in a carriage driven by a fellow countryman, and the speed of running was not slow in the Jinnan wasteland in winter.

When they arrived at Hekou Village, a dozen miles away, they happened to encounter an empty carriage that turned back from the direction of Guanmen Mountain Pass. It was the carriage that Liu Wumei and her entourage had just ridden, and the female bandit leader at this time had already hurried into Guanmen Mountain along the mountain pass.

Seeing the battalion commander suddenly arrive, Wu Zijian was surprised and delighted: "Old Feng, what's the matter, you miss us after being separated for so many days, and come to invite me for a drink?" ”

Feng Changzhi responded with a smile: "I think it's quite thoughtful, but you have to invite me to drink." ”

"I'll please, I'll please," Wu Zijian was really happy when he saw his old partner: "You first come to see Deputy Company Commander Xia's cavalry!" ”

At this time, Xiao Junping was still sitting on the wide old wooden chair sulking, and Feng Changzhi, accompanied by Wu Zijian, came to his side, and he didn't pay attention to it for a while.

Feng Changzhi knew that Wu Zijian attached great importance to the staff officers of the Jin Army, so he took the initiative to ask with a smile: "Staff Officer Xiao, are you recovering well from your injuries?" ”

Xiao Junping had no choice but to force a happy face: "Chief Feng, thank you for your concern, it's much better." Your army takes such good care of me, Xiao is unforgettable, I will leave in two days, everyone will not turn around, and we will meet again if we have a fate. ”

Feng Changzhi couldn't help but be a little surprised, when he just came out of Guanmen Mountain with the main force a few days ago, he saw that the staff officers of the Jin Army had already gotten along with Wu Zijian and them, but at this moment, Xiao Junping's face was quite cloudy.

Wu Zijian understood the crux of the problem, so he simply explained to Xiao Junping in front of the battalion commander:

"Staff Officer Xiao, don't get me wrong, the soldiers and I definitely don't mean to disrespect you. But the men and women just now really couldn't see anything wrong; When the second battalion first arrived, we had to mingle with the people here, but we lost our mass base, and we were unfamiliar with the place and could not gain a foothold. ”

Xiao Junping couldn't help but sneer: "Chief Wu, I don't want to talk nonsense, but I can bet with you with one of my good legs, the woman in the cart is definitely not a good type!" With that, he put on a posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away, no longer paying attention to the people around him, and focused on watching the cavalry training in the distance.

Wu Zijian had no choice but to briefly tell the battalion commander about the scene that had just happened.

Feng Changzhi made this trip specifically to tell Wu Zijian to restrain his troops and not to attack without authorization, and at the same time he was preparing to go to Hongxing Gorge in Guanmen Mountain to visit the 8th Company, and convey to them the good momentum of the development of the main force of the 2nd Battalion outside the mountain, so as to boost morale.

Wu Zijian did not expect that in just a few days, the instructor would make such a big noise in Xiping, and he couldn't help but admire Liu Shu's means to do mass work. However, Wu Zijian did not think so much about the battalion commander's request that he do the same in Hekou Village, saying that there are only dozens of households in Hekou, and there are no big landlords, so it is not possible to spend energy on mobilizing committees and land reform, and it is a serious matter to pay close attention to military training, including cavalry training.

Feng Changzhi is not reluctant, he knows this old partner's temperament too well: what he doesn't approve of, it's useless for others to wear out their mouths.

"Battalion commander, if you want me to say, you will go to the 8th Company, and hurry back to cooperate with the instructors in the construction of the base area," Wu Zijian said with a ghostly heart: "I am close to the 8th Company here, and I will personally run to the Red Star Gorge for you to convey the spirit of the battalion headquarters to them." ”

Feng Changzhi is an honest and loyal person, where would he guess the ghost idea in his stomach at this time as his deputy battalion commander, thought about it, and agreed.

"Old Wu, there is one more thing," Feng Changzhi glanced at Xiao Junping, and quietly pulled Wu Zijian aside: "The six devils we ambushed and captured in Dawangyu are now escorting them around with the battalion headquarters, which is very inconvenient, and several sentries have to be arranged every day to watch them, and food is wasted; The instructor said that a public trial meeting should be held in Xiping, and the people would decide whether they lived or died. But I—Why do I think something is wrong? ”

Wu Zijian was stunned, he had almost forgotten about this matter, and couldn't help but think of the scene where he and Staff Officer Xiao interrogated these prisoners together.

"Public trial...... So if the people ask for them to be shot, how many of them will be killed? Does this count as killing prisoners? Wu Zijian was a little hairy.

"I also have a headache about this, I remember that when I was cleaning the battlefield in Dawangyu that day, the people of the Jin army killed a prisoner, and the instructor was still anxious."

"This political work cadre, his brain has become fast, he was the one who criticized the killing of prisoners at the beginning, and now he is also the one who advocates shooting. It's different from what we led the troops. ”

Feng Changzhi knew that the deputy battalion commander had always been at odds with the instructors, and of course he would not echo these provocative words at this moment. After a moment of silence, he asked, "How about you ask Staff Officer Xiao?" He knows Japanese, see if he still has any idea of digging up information from captives again? ”

Wu Zijian glanced at the staff officer of the Jin Army who looked cold not far away, and smiled: "Okay, I'll ask him when I go back." You tell the instructor that you don't have to worry about the public trial first. ”

Since the battalion commander had finished his work, he was no longer ready to stay and drink Wu Zijian's wine, and he was also in a hurry to rush back: The situation in Xiping was gratifying and urgent, and the Self-Defense Force, composed of more than 200 young and middle-aged people, needed to receive military training as soon as possible, and the instructor had already handed over the training task to him, the battalion commander.

Seeing off Feng Changzhi, Wu Zijian let out a long breath, just now he was really worried that the battalion commander would insist on going to Hongxingxia in person, in that case, it would be difficult to transfer the 8th Company by himself.

He immediately asked Li Tianlin to arrange a squad of soldiers, and set off with him into the mountain after lunch; As for Xiao Junping, who is full of grievances, Wu Zijian knows in his heart: the lame staff officer of the Jin army, if no one supports him now, he will not be able to go anywhere, and he is not afraid that he will fly with wings! What's more, Wencheng was captured by the Japanese army, and the whereabouts of his old troops are unknown, and he has nowhere to go. Let's let him lose his temper there alone.

Unexpectedly, before lunch time arrived, there was shocking news, two soldiers of the 8th Company ran out of the valley and reported to Hekou Village: A female health soldier left by the health team in Hongxing Gorge was robbed by bandits of unknown origin near the station! The 8th Company organized people to chase, but was ambushed by more bandits, and now the commander of the 8th Company is leading the whole company to fight fiercely with the bandits!

Wu Zijian was stunned.

Liu Wumei and her entourage, after escaping from the suspicion of the Jin army officer again, traveled all the way and hid into the valley of Guanmen Mountain.

The frightened female bandit leader finally found a big rock and hid behind it to rest for a while. She asked one of her bodyguards to keep an eye on the mountain path she had come, in case the Eighth Route Army sent someone to chase her.

It's weird! In the Eighth Route Army, how could there be an officer wearing the color of the Jin Army's uniform? Liu Wumei was puzzled.

And this Jin army officer is his own celestial star: on the way to Wencheng and on the way back to the cottage, he was stared at. Last time, it was all thanks to a female soldier of the Eighth Route Army as a cover-up, but this time, fortunately, the guy who was obviously the commander of the Eighth Route Army did not suspect himself.

What Liu Wumei is carrying in her hand now is the twenty-round barge gun she is carrying, just now in Hekou Village, the Jin army officer was almost about to let people search her body, such a bright gun, if she really searched her body, how could she be fooled? !

It seems that the Eighth Route Army not only camped in Hekou Village, but also had their camp on the gentle slope of the mountain pass, plus cavalry on horseback, this Eighth Route Army is afraid that there will be hundreds of people! In the future, this shortcut to the Black Rock Cliff Cottage out of the mountain may be completely blocked.

The more the female bandit leader thought about it, the more annoyed she became, she explained this to the bodyguards, and several big men suddenly shouted: This is worth it! Why is the Eighth Route Army so domineering? We didn't provoke them, they occupied the mountain pass, so they wouldn't let us in or out!?

"We are bandits, and the Eighth Road is an official army, of course we will not tolerate our activities under his nose," Liu Wumei said hatefully: "Let's go back to the Black Stone Cliff first, my master and I still have three masters, and we will discuss together." ”

The three masters that Liu Wumei said, nicknamed the black donkey, were also the old men who were born and died with the old masters. However, when the female bandit leader spit out these words of the three masters, hers, the three masters, had already taken it upon herself to exchange fire with the Eighth Route Army!

In the morning, a few of the black donkey's minions, unable to bear the loneliness, quietly slipped out with their guns on their shoulders, wanting to catch some game. In the Guanmen Mountain, there are pheasants, mountain hares, jackals and red deer; The old boss even led someone to kill a leopard, and the skin of the leopard is still there.

They turned east and west, and actually turned to the vicinity of Hongxing Gorge, where the 8th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army was stationed.

Of course, the bandits didn't know that this place had been named Red Star Gorge, and that there were troops of the Eighth Route Army stationed here. Previously, the big boss had instructed that the Eighth Route Army had appeared in the mountains, and it was necessary to travel carefully in recent days. But these bandits who have been nesting in the mountains all year round only know how to rob houses and houses, and they have always known very little about the political and military climate outside the mountains; In their minds, the Eighth Route Army was no different from the previous officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers never went to this barren mountain and mountain to garrison.

As a result, they recklessly ran headlong into three soldiers of the Eighth Route Army!

The 8th Company that stayed in the mountain, from top to bottom, somewhat knew that there was a bandit in this Guanmen Mountain, but they didn't know anything about the details. These three people, one is the only female soldier left here by the battalion headquarters health team, and the other two are the helpers sent to her by the company commander - the 8th company is now struggling to set up a camp, and many soldiers have been injured in the ice and snow, and several of them have broken bones and need to be fixed in the affected area, so the health worker Juanzi came out to look for something that can replace the wooden plank.

The bandits were the first to discover Juanzi and his party, and there were five of them in total, and they immediately crouched behind a few strange rocks, monitoring the three Eighth Route Army soldiers who were getting closer and closer. Usually, bandits will never take the initiative to provoke officers and soldiers, and when they go out to the mountains to rob, they do not even touch the police in the county town. But at this moment, they found that it was a female soldier who walked in the head, and the little leader of the team was unconsciously moved by evil thoughts: I haven't slept with a woman for a long time, although this woman is rarely wearing a military uniform, but in the barren mountains and mountains, only one person on the other side has a rifle on his back, and the rest are bare-handed. What the fuck, fuck it!