This night, for the Hirai Temple Ichichuzo in the Songjiagou comfort women's camp, there was definitely a frightening taste.

The attack on the outskirts of the Songjiagou Railway Station has made the entire Xiaoyushushan military blockade area highly tense, and as a person in charge of the top secret in this military blockade area, Pingjing Siyi is particularly frightened.

The subsequent development of events gradually drove the danger away from the Songjiagou area, and when he learned that in several mountain passes at the eastern foot of the Little Elm Mountain, the people of the Otsuka Wing had captured the traces of the Shina Army and were engaged in an exchange of fire with them, Hirai Nakasa finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But an even greater disturbance followed—the head of the Wencheng secret service, who was most tired of Hirai Temple, personally called him, asking him to lead the advance team to set out immediately, taking advantage of the war looting in the area of Guanmen Mountain and Qinglong River, and go out to secretly arrest the women of China.

This is not the first time! The leader of the advance team put down the phone and angrily cursed Masao Kojima, who gave the order. Although a considerable number of women were caught in the last war-torn operation, it is dangerous to wear civilian clothes and go deep into the fighting area at night.

He cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to slack off in his words - in the mysterious "Wind Plan", the head of the Kojima Agency was his top boss in Hirai Teraichi, and once he gave an order, he had to carry it out to the letter.

As soon as Pingjing Temple gave the order to gather the two detachments of the advance team, after hastily camouflaging, he drove away from the Songjiagou station in an unmarked truck, and drove directly into the temporary barracks in the southern suburbs of Wencheng in the night.

When they set off again from the makeshift barracks, there were two trucks, in addition to the one from Songjiagou, and the other truck carried a heavily armed infantry detachment, which was the soldiers of the Ushijima Squadron of the Aikawa Infantry Brigade who remained in the makeshift barracks, and they were responsible for following up on the operation to protect the Hirai Advance Team.

According to the usual practice, the Hirai Advance Brigade, disguised as the common people of China, went to the folk villages to arrest women, and the means of transportation were oxen, horses, and vehicles to hide people's eyes and ears. Unless there are special circumstances, the Ushijima squadron in the temporary barracks in the southern suburbs will not send troops to accompany them.

However, this operation happened suddenly, and the time was close to midnight, if you travel by cattle and horses, I am afraid that it will be dark when you arrive at the location. Therefore, in an emergency, Hirai Nakasa decided that the two detachments of the advance team would continue to ride close to the area of operation to save time; At the same time, considering that there was a war in that area, the Ushijima squadron was specially requested to send an infantry detachment to follow the cover at a certain distance in another vehicle.

They went straight to Ewhapo.

The choice of Ewha Ura was the idea of Teriichi Hirai. Before setting out from Songjiagou in Xiaoyushu Mountain, the captain of the advance team had already asked the specific direction of the imperial army's attack on the lower reaches of the Qinglong River - Xiping Village was in a fierce exchange of fire, and it was obviously not appropriate to approach; The first line of Zhaojia Village is the farthest place that the imperial army has attacked south tonight; In this way, Ewhapo, located between the two places, is undoubtedly an ideal place.

What's more, the last time the advance team went out during the day, they entered the village of Ewhapo, and they also encountered a cavalry force from the Eighth Route Army. On that occasion, due to the absence of armed forces to escort them, the advance party had to flee in disarray. But tonight was obviously different, the captain of the Saijo Wing had advanced to Zhaojia Village, south of Ewhapo, leaving a large gap behind him, and he could be taken advantage of by the advancing team. In Hirai Teraichi's impression, the size of Ewhapo Village is not small, and there should be enough hunting targets.

From memory, the unmarked truck, full of plainclothes hunters, drove through the dirt roads in the countryside at night, all the way to the outskirts of Ewhapo Village.

At this time, Ewhapo had just experienced a rather fierce offensive and defensive battle, and the first battalion and cavalry company of the Guanmenshan Detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, relying on the village, fully blocked the pursuit of the Japanese Saijo Wing for more than an hour. When they withdrew, the Japanese troops who had captured the village hurriedly searched the village before continuing their pursuit. Except for a few villagers who fled at the beginning of the fighting, most of them were cowered in their homes and suffered from guns, many of them were killed and wounded, and the village was even more damaged.

At this moment, the plainclothes members of the Hirai advance team sneaked in quietly. Divided into four groups, they dodged and dodged under the ruins, following the screams and cries of the villagers, and insidiously searched for their targets.

It didn't take long for the people in the two groups to succeed one after another-

At the north end of the village (the area where the offensive and defensive battles were most intense), a middle-aged woman was crying and struggling to pick up the collapsed ruins; The four guys from Hirai's advance team leaned over and asked about the situation in a mocking manner. Although the middle-aged woman realized that these men were not familiar villagers in the village, she begged them to rescue them as if she had seen a savior: the whole family was buried under the rubble except for her!

However, disaster has struck again! Several men, whom the middle-aged woman regarded as a savior, muttered a few words in a low voice, and then suddenly pounced on them—instead of digging up the rubble, they pushed the helpless woman to the ground, quickly stuffed a soft cloth in their mouths, and cut their hands behind their backs and tied them tightly. After careful observation, the four of them grasped the prey and walked towards the outside of the village.

The leader of the advance team, Hirai Terari, with a few team members, was waiting in the northwest corner of the village.

Less than ten minutes before the first prey was caught, another group arrived carrying a fainted woman, whom they had found in a small compound in the middle of the village. At that time, in the door of a family of four, an elderly woman was treating her son, who had broken one of his legs, her wife was hit by a stray bullet and was exhausted, and her daughter-in-law was shocked by a shell and died at the gate of the courtyard.

Several members of the Hirai advance team, which slipped past the gate of this courtyard, found the beautiful face of a young woman lying on the ground by the light of the firewood stack that was burning not far away; One of the guys rushed over and tried the other's snort, and immediately realized that she was just fainting, and immediately waved his hand to beckon a few accomplices to come and carry the person.

This scene was suddenly discovered by the old woman in the courtyard, and she screamed in surprise, and her son, who had a broken leg but was still sane, also echoed it. Seeing that something was wrong, two of the members of the advance team galloped out, ran to the poor mother and son, waved the military dagger in their hands and stabbed each other in the heart. One of the advance team members found no signs of bulleting on the woman's body, so he dragged her body and threw her body into the burning stack.

No villagers noticed the atrocity. They carried the young daughter-in-law of the fainting family to the meeting place outside the village.

Under the leadership of a platoon of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, more than 50 members of the Black Stone Cliff Bandit Gang ran north along the east bank of the Qinglong River.

Behind them, there was still the sound of guns coming from time to time, and everyone knew that it was the main force of the first battalion of the Guanmenshan detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and the cavalry company was chasing after the large force of Japanese troops who were retreating north.

"Run, run!" Liu Wumei, the female bandit leader, lowered her voice and shouted, urging her panting subordinates to speed up. She had to reach Xiping Village before the large group of Japanese troops retreating north, and give a helping hand to Wei Xin's eldest brother who was fighting fiercely with the devils there.

The platoon of the Eighth Route Army, which led the way at the front, was stationed in Xiping Village for a long time, and was also familiar with the topography of the lower reaches of the Qinglong River south of Xiping Village. According to the personal deployment of Battalion Commander Wang Shuanglong just now, this team, which was mixed with bandit armament, was to rush directly along the east bank of the Qinglong River to the end of the village at the southern end of Xiping Village, and after contacting the Eighth Route Army defending the village, it would then participate in the battle.

As a result, a team of nearly 100 people ran rapidly on the winding path trodden out by people on the east bank of the Qinglong River, and passed the outside of Lihuapu Village on the way.

The Qinglong River, which runs from north to south, breaks through the river in the area of Lihuapu and alluves out a large overflow bay, and then returns to the right track and flows southward; And the village of Ewhapo is located behind this manwan. At this moment, across the banks of the Qinglong River, the mixed team that swept past Lihuapu Village could vaguely see several still burning houses in the village. The platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army, who led the team, had just participated in the blocking battle in the village, so he briefly told the big boss of the Black Stone Cliff bandits.

The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional - among the bandits who followed Liu Wumei's vicinity, one of them was the big boss of the Black Stone Cliff, Tie Shou. From the account of the Eighth Route Army, it was learned that the village on the other side of the river bank was almost destroyed by the war, and Tie Shou suddenly became evil.

The reason why the Black Rock Cliff Cottage formed a bond with the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army this time was because the big boss Tie Shou led a group of subordinates to go out of the mountains to loot without authorization. Up to now, Liu Wumei, the big boss, has not had the leisure to punish this daring guy. Unexpectedly, the iron hand who had a bad habit that was difficult to change came up with the idea of Lihuapu Village again - according to the military master of the Eighth Route Army who led the way, this nearby village suffered a lot and should be dying. At this time, if you enter the village to loot, it must be beneficial and costly!

This trip down the mountain, not only did not catch oil and water so far, but was captured by the Qiu Bamen of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, and they were packed with meat and vegetables; The iron hand that held back his evil breath suddenly discovered this good opportunity in front of him, how could he let it go!

He deliberately slowed down in the ranks of marching in the night, during which he quietly co-opted two henchmen minions, and gradually fell to the end of the group, and then stopped and lurked in a bush, watching the team in front of him gradually move away, then straightened up, impatiently waded into the shallow Qinglong River, and rushed towards the pear blossom pool on the opposite bank.

The reason why the bold iron hand only brought two minions to act together was that he judged that the village of Ewhapo at this moment must have been a tragic phenomenon of family destruction and death, and there was no need to use force at all, it was possible to take the sheep and loot the rich gold and silver treasures.

His judgment was not wrong. It's just that the moment the three bandits appeared in the north of the village, they were the first to encounter a few uninvited guests.

It was a Japanese soldier from the Hirai advance team dressed in civilian clothes, dragging a woman from the village, preparing to forcibly leave.