In Hekou Village, when Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping sent out a number of enemy workers who had not yet sent back the information, several uninvited guests suddenly came to the door:

The person who came was none other than Captain Zhu Xingyun, the commander of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army!

As the liaison officer of the 391st Regiment sent to the second battalion of the forest division, Zhu Xingyun was already familiar with Wu Zijian, Li Tianlin, etc., this time, he and his three subordinates were dressed in civilian clothes, and carefully touched the periphery of Hekou Village, but were discovered by the mobile sentry set up by the 5th company of the second battalion of the forest division.

Wu Zijian, who was directing the repair and restoration of the fortifications, saw Zhu Xingyun, and the expression on his face seemed to be a ghost, and he even grabbed the shoulder of this captain of the Central Army and carefully stared at the other party's face to confirm that this person who was not wearing a military uniform was the former liaison officer of the 391st Regiment.

"You guys, where the fuck are you dead?!" After the identity was verified, the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army immediately roared: "Fengdian will lose it if you say it's lost!" When the Japanese besieged Lao Tzu's base area, what were you doing with Qin Zhongxiao, a son of a bitch?! ”

While roaring, Wu Zijian grabbed the collar of the other party's clothes and shook them angrily. On his side, several soldiers of the 5th Company also pulled the bolt with three or eight guns and rattled.

Although Zhu Xingyun was a little embarrassed, his demeanor was still quite calm, he waited for Wu Zijian to finish his seizure, and waited for the young man known as Captain Xiao to step forward and pull the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army away, before he sorted out his collar and opened his mouth:

"Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, I'm very sorry, on behalf of Qin Tuanzao, I would like to express my condolences to your army for the misfortune that has befallen you, we-"

"Fart!" Wu Zijian, who was still furious, interrupted the other party's words: "Lao Tzu can use your fake condolences? Why didn't you notify me if you lost the county? What about the offensive and defensive alliance that we said would be good, let the dog eat it?! Do you know how big the losses of the Eighth Route Army were in this battle? ”

Zhu Xingyun first smiled bitterly, and then said with a straight face: "We all know the situation - Xia Lianshan, the commander of your army's cavalry company, has already told us. ”

"What?!"

Hearing Xia Lianshan's three words, Wu Zijian suddenly jumped towards the captain of the Central Army again, Zhu Xingyun reacted very quickly this time, and took a big stride backwards.

"Did you see Lian Commander Xia? He's alive?! Wu Zijian did not continue to catch the captain of the Central Army who deliberately dodged, but his voice was already trembling with nervousness and excitement.

"That's right, Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company of the second battalion of the Lin Division, and the twenty-six cavalry under his command are currently all resting at the headquarters of my 391st Regiment; However, Company Commander Xia suffered a gunshot wound in the shoulder and is being treated by the military doctor of our regiment, please rest assured that he has no worries about his life. ”

Wu Zijian opened his mouth wide, he wanted to say something but couldn't say it, suddenly, his body shook, and he almost fell in the direction behind him, and Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy engineer who was close at hand, was quick and supported him.

"It's okay, I'm fine......" The pale-faced Wu Zijian hurriedly waved his hand at Xiao Junping, but muttered in his mouth: "Lianshan, Lianshan, cavalry company ......"

Even in front of the liaison officer of the friendly army, the tears of the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army still rolled down in big drops: these days, the most worrying thing for him is Xia Lianshan and his cavalry company. The officers and men who participated in the fierce battle in Hekou Village clearly knew that it was the cavalry company's desperate raid at the last moment that saved Hekou Village, which was already on the verge of a desperate situation. Now that I finally learned that they all survived, how could I not let Wu Zijian be sad and happy!

"Captain Zhu, may I ask how our Xia Company Commander and the rest of the cavalry company met your army?" It was Xiao Junping who asked the question, which was undoubtedly what Wu Zijian wanted to ask the most at this moment, but the latter's emotions obviously couldn't calm down for a while.

Zhu Xingyun then briefly recounted the scene of the two sides meeting unexpectedly in the wilderness that day.

Wu Zijian almost didn't believe his ears, his eyes widened, looking at the lips of the captain of the Central Army; As soon as the other party finished speaking, he couldn't wait to ask:

"Qin Zhongxiao actually dispatched the main force of the 391st Regiment to Hekou Village to help me relieve the siege? Captain Zhu, are you commenting on books in a teahouse?! ”

Unexpectedly, this time, Zhu Xingyun also lost his temper, and he coldly replied to Wu Zijian: "Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, I know that you and our Qin Tuanzuo hit it off at first sight, and Tuanzao praised you to us behind his back; However, please be respectful, how to say, Qin Zhongxiao is also the head of the colonel of the national army! He was anxious when he learned that your army was attacked day and night, and immediately sent troops to help. How did it become a storytelling in the eyes of Deputy Battalion Commander Wu? ”

After being robbed like this, Wu Zijian was not only not annoyed, but laughed out loud, and the blood color quickly recovered on his face: "Okay! Good! You Colonel Qin are friends enough, it's not in vain that I took someone to get up early and go back to Little Elm Mountain! ”

Zhu Xingyun was confused all of a sudden, and was waiting to be asked. Xiao Junping suggested with a smile: "Deputy battalion commander, Captain Zhu is a guest from afar, shouldn't we stand in the cold wind and talk?" ”

Wu Zijian was reminded and hurriedly ordered the captain liaison officer of the Central Army and his party to be invited to the camp above the mountain pass, where there was no fighting and was not as dilapidated as Hekou Village. At the same time, I asked the correspondent to quickly find the commander of the 5th company to meet with an old friend.

At the Yamaguchi camp, the two sides exchanged details about what had happened a few days ago to the present, and the changes in the battle situation surrounding the two armies over the past few days gradually became clearer.

It was not until this moment that the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army learned that on the night of the Japanese puppet army's night attack on Hekou Village, the liaison officer of the Central Army in front of him went to the periphery of the battlefield in person, and desperately rushed back to Da Yushu Mountain overnight to report to Qin Zhongxiao; I finally figured out why the night attack of the Japanese puppet army was carried out until the dawn of the decisive battle, and suddenly hastily withdrew the troops - it was because the 391st Regiment of the Central Army implemented the standard "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" strategy! Thinking that Qin Zhongxiao, in order to understand his siege, dispatched the elite of the whole regiment, while firing artillery to feint attack Fengdian County, and on the other hand, he did not hesitate to transfer troops to risk advancing towards Hekou Village in the wilderness without heavy firepower, Wu Zijian couldn't help but feel his heart fluctuate.

Wu Zijian solemnly apologized to the liaison officer of the captain of the Central Army for his reckless and rude inappropriate words and deeds when they first met; The matter has come to this point, and Zhu Xingyun also generously expressed his understanding. The deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army also asked him to convey his respect and gratitude to Commander Qin Zhongxiao.

At the simple welcome banquet that followed, the Eighth Route Army was the host, and the wine bowl was repeatedly toasted to the liaison officer and the officers and soldiers of the 391st Regiment. Wu Zijian said with arrogance that in the future, as long as the 391st Regiment is in need, the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division will come in the fire and go in the water!

"Liaison Officer Wang, don't think that our second battalion has collapsed," Li Tianlin noticed the frequent sighs of several people in the Central Army for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe of the Eighth Route Army, so he began to cheer up the other party: "The main force of our battalion is now concentrated in the camp in the Guanmen Mountain, with all the formations and light and heavy weapons. This time, I accidentally suffered the loss of the devil's sneak attack, and we will definitely get it back! Since Master Lin started Pingxingguan, he has never been afraid of little devils! ”

Zhu Xingyun couldn't help nodding in agreement, he secretly thought: The Eighth Route Army's ability to pull the team should not be underestimated, this second battalion of the forest division, there are thousands of people in one battalion, and it must be quite good in this regard. I'm afraid it won't be long before they may recover.

This time, he was sent to the base area of the Eighth Route Army to inquire about the news, and before he left, Qin Tuanzao specially told him to explain clearly to the Eighth Route Army why the 391st Regiment withdrew from Fengdian County without a fight - after all, the two armies agreed to join forces to attack Little Elm Mountain. Now, after exchanging information with Wu Zijian, he also learned that Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin, two fierce generals, had actually lurked into Little Elm Mountain with a company of people.

The lieutenant liaison officer of the Central Army also expressed his admiration for the courage and courage of the commanders of both sides. By mistake, the battle of Little Elm Mountain failed to start, but the coming day is long, and if the two armies can join forces, they will definitely be able to open up a big situation in the future.

Wu Zijian deliberately repeated what he saw and heard when he was ambushed in Little Elm Mountain to Zhu Xingyun, asking him to tell Qin Zhongxiao about it. And on the wine table, a piece of paper was opened, and the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army sketched the general appearance of the road in Little Elm Mountain from memory, and marked the garrison of the Japanese sentries along the road, and handed it over to the captain of the Central Army.

Xiao Junping watched Wu Zijian sketch this sketch with a daze, and suddenly said: This road must have been rebuilt and widened after the devil occupied and blocked Little Elm Mountain!

Wu Zijian nodded, he understood that when Xiao Junping was still an intelligence staff officer in the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, he took the communication soldiers by truck, and he took the Fengdian front line from Wencheng along this road, and he should have a say in this.

"At that time, we made a wrong fork in the mountain, so we hit the west gate of Fengdian City instead of the south gate, and we encountered the devil cavalry;" Xiao Junping said with more and more certainty: "At that time, the road in the mountains was narrow and broken, and if it was such a wide avenue that you drew now, our driver would never have driven the truck into the fork in the road." ”

After Li Tianlin's explanation, Zhu Xingyun knew that the bookish enemy engineer captain of the second battalion of the Lin Division in front of him was actually the intelligence staff officer of the original Jin Army's Independent Brigade, and he was a young man with the same rank as himself! Zhu Xingyun secretly said: Good guy, the Eighth Route Army is really extraordinary, even Yan Laoxi's captain has been pulled in; I think of the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army who are resting at the headquarters of the 391st Regiment in Da Yushu Mountain at this moment: They relied on the surrendered officers and soldiers of the puppet Mongolian army to train a cavalry company! The captain of the Central Army became more and more surprised by the Eighth Route Army's joint art.

"I don't know the real purpose of your Colonel Qin joining forces with us to attack Little Elm Mountain," Wu Zijian's words interrupted Zhu Xingyun's drifting thoughts: "However, as far as I have seen and heard in the mountains, the Japanese have definitely invested a lot of money in that area, as for what reason, I hope that your army can exchange information with us in a timely manner." ”

The captain of the Central Army carefully put away the sketch and said that he would definitely bring the map and words to Qin Tuanzuo.

At Xiao Junping's suggestion, Wu Zijian also sent two members of the enemy engineer team to return to Da Yushu Mountain with Zhu Xingyun and his entourage, so that they could recognize the way and use it for future liaison between the two armies -- the second battalion of the forest division had no radio and could only rely on manpower to carry out communications, which was a fatal shortcoming -- Wu Zijian handed over a note to Xia Lianshan to the enemy engineer members, in which he told the cavalry company commander to concentrate on recuperating from his wounds, not to rush back with men and horses, and to wait for him to send someone to explain the specific actions.

Seeing off the captain and liaison officer of the Central Army, Wu Zijian's mood improved greatly: Xia Lianshan and the cavalry company still existed, and he had a heart disease; And the 391st Regiment's righteous action also doubled his confidence and courage.

The deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army ordered the repair of Hekou Village to be stepped up, and asked the instructor and deputy company commander of the 5th Company to take two squads and immediately rush to Xiping Village to station, while monitoring the enemy situation in that area, while presiding over the reconstruction of the villagers' homes, and at the same time began to recruit new recruits - the instructor and the battalion commander had done a vigorous job in Xiping, and they could not retreat into the Hongxing Gorge in the deep mountains and give up the base area that laid such a good foundation just because they were attacked by the Japanese army!

However, the ambitious Wu Zijian did not know that at this moment in the deep mountains of Hongxing Gorge, a thrilling internal change was taking place, the three company commanders of the second battalion of the Lin Division, all under the command of instructor Liu Shu, were detained and imprisoned, and a bloody purge of military discipline had been launched in Hongxing Gorge.