The stern questioning of the staff officers of the Jin army made Wu Zijian more and more embarrassed. In fact, in his heart, he advocated that the main force of the second battalion move towards Fengdian today, and the origin of the devil cavalry that was ambushed yesterday was unknown, and the guns and cannons in the direction of Fengdian also sounded intermittently. This made him, the militant deputy battalion commander, always eager to try.

What's more, Wu Zijian was resistant from the very beginning to the purpose of the Second Battalion's transfer to the southeast of Shanxi Province as ordered by his superiors: "to break the whole into pieces and only fight small battles and not big ones" -- after all, the Red Army was reorganized into eight routes to cross the Yellow River and came to the Japanese invading army.

But he was only a deputy battalion commander, and he had to obey the instructions of the regiment commander and even the division and brigade commander. Moreover, his immediate superiors also have battalion commanders and instructors!

So, looking at Xiao Junping, who was lying on the bunk with a strong voice, Wu Zijian couldn't find the words to deal with it for a while. Suddenly, he remembered something, avoided the other party's questioning and said: "Staff Officer Xiao, don't worry, we are definitely not eating dry food, you also saw the bloody fight yesterday, we are not bad seeds." Now that you're awake, you have something important to do, please help! ”

Xiao Junping stared at the face of the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army with some confusion, and did not say a word.

"That's right, we captured a few prisoners of the Japanese cavalry yesterday, but none of the whole battalion can speak Japanese, so I want you to hurry up and help with the trial, maybe we can figure out the situation in the direction of Fengdian."

Xiao Junping's eyes lit up, and his expression relaxed, he led a team from Wencheng to Fengdian this time, just to find out the details of the Japanese army, but he didn't expect that he had become a loner before the county town entered, and now there are Japanese prisoners, it couldn't be better!

"Chief Wu, where are the captives? I can judge it now! They should have something to do with the Japanese army attacking Fengdian. Xiao Junping said as he struggled to get off the ground.

Wu Zijian stopped him: "It's inconvenient for you to move, I'll let someone capture the devil and bring it here for you." ”

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The interrogation of the prisoners proceeded quickly, and most of the six Japanese cavalrymen who were interrogated in turn were silent, but Xiao Junping pry out the information he wanted from one of the warrant officers.

The cavalry number of this unit is: Iwata Squadron of the cavalry wing directly under the Sena Division. In addition to the cavalry squadron, a brigade of the field artillery wing and a squadron of the engineer wing directly under the Sena division were also added to the attack on Toyoden.

Wu Zijian specially transferred the female clerk from the battalion headquarters to cooperate with Xiao Junping's interrogation. Xiao spoke to the Japanese prisoners in Japanese, and then informed the main points of the document in Chinese. Under Xiao Junping's inquiry, the warrant officer of the Japanese cavalry was quite cooperative.

At the end of the interrogation, Wu Zijian looked at the full page of records of the female clerk and gave a thumbs up to the staff officer of the Jin army.

"Chief Wu, please give me a copy of the interrogation record, and I will use this to report to the headquarters of the 12th Independent Brigade." Xiao Junping looked at Wu Zijian and the female clerk at the same time and said.

The female clerk's handwriting was quite beautiful, and the female clerk's own appearance was also very pretty, and in the process of recording, the female clerk more than once cast a look of surprise and admiration at the staff officers of the Jin army who were proficient in Japanese. This can't help but remind Xiao Junping of the female soldiers in the communications squad in Tonglaifengdian, especially the female soldier who was handsome and insulted by the Japanese army. The staff officer of the Jin Army felt sour in his heart, and he didn't dare to look at this female clerk of the Eighth Route Army Camp Department again.

Wu Zijian ordered the clerk to go back to the battalion headquarters to copy the interrogation records, but he opened his breakfast in this cave, and he and Xiao Junping drank yam porridge while asking each other about the composition of this Japanese army. The Red Army hastily accepted the reorganization half a year ago, and immediately marched into the Shanxi battlefield, where the battle sequence of the Japanese army is still vague to most of the middle and lower commanders and fighters.

Xiao Junping got the first-hand information of the invading Japanese army, and his mood became better, not to mention, he admired Wu Zijian and his subordinates for their brave battles, so he ate breakfast and explained to the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army with great interest.

He said that at present, the composition of the Japanese army invading China is basically based on divisions and regiments, with more than 20,000 people in each division, which is equivalent to one army of the national army. Each division has two infantry brigades, and its brigade is equivalent to a division of the national army; Each brigade has two infantry wings, which are equivalent to a regiment of the national army. The Japanese troops who attacked Fengdian County and rushed to Dawangyu yesterday came from the Sena Division-

Hearing this, Wu Zijian interjected: "The first battle of our Lin Division in Shanxi, the Japanese army that fought at Pingxingguan is said to be called the Itagaki Division. ”

Xiao Junping nodded frequently: "I know, I know, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki, was transferred from the Kwantung Army; The Itagaki Division has two brigades, the Kunisaki Brigade and the Miura Brigade, and the one ambushed by your Lin Division is the Miura Brigade. ”

Wu Zijian squatted beside Xiao Junping's bed, listened with relish, and kept putting vegetables into the porridge bowl of the Jin army staff officer: it was a plate of salted radish strips.

Xiao Junping politely thanked him and continued: "But the Japanese army pays attention to combined arms operations, and their divisions, in addition to the infantry of the two brigades and four wings I just listed, each division headquarters also directly governs an artillery wing, a cavalry wing, an engineer wing, and a baggage wing——"

Wu Zijian interjected again: "Which wing should the car team belong to?" It's the kind of big trucks of the Japanese army. ”

Xiao Junping was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Car team? Big trucks? Then, it should belong to the baggage soldiers, transporting ammunition and food. ”

Unexpectedly, Wu Zijian waved his hand: "No, the battle of Pingxingguan, I can see clearly on the mountain beam, the grain, ammunition and cotton clothes are loaded on the carriage, and the cars and big trucks are all Japanese soldiers, there are hundreds!" ”

Xiao Junping was taken aback: "You mean, hundreds of big trucks are full of devils?" ”

Wu Zijian's eyes also widened: "That's still wrong!" As soon as we opened fire suddenly, we saw the devils on the truck jump down with a brush, and in a blink of an eye they hid under the car, and the machine guns couldn't hit them. Then we rushed down and forced them out from under the car; Many of those trucks were damaged by the *, and the rest couldn't get out, and then the division commander simply ordered them to be set on fire! Hundreds of cars, full of ditches, all burned, look at that called relief! ”

Xiao Junping pondered, and Wu Zijian's memories of the famous ambush made him fascinated; But it was only then that he learned from the mouths of witnesses that the hundreds of large trucks at that time were not transporting baggage, but Japanese soldiers, which once again shocked the staff of the Jin army at the Japanese army's mobile delivery ability.

He looked at Wu Zijian, who was humbly squatting in front of his bed at the moment: This medium-sized deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army drank the blood of the Japanese in Pingxingguan!

The entrance of the cave suddenly lit up, and a person walked in, Wu Zijian stood up and greeted him, Xiao Junping slowly recognized that this was the commander of the Eighth Route Army who had reprimanded him when he was cleaning the battlefield in Dawangyu yesterday afternoon.

"Instructor," Wu Zijian said excitedly: "I just asked Staff Officer Xiao of the Jin Army to help interrogate those Japanese prisoners. ”

Liu Shu glanced at the Jin Army staff officer who was holding a rice bowl and half-lying and half-sitting on the bed, and the other party was obviously looking at him as well. Liu Shu didn't greet Xiao Junping, but lightly touched Wu Zijian's arm: "Deputy battalion commander, come here, I have something to say." ”

The two of them walked out of the cave one after the other, Liu Shu walked straight forward, and the destination seemed to be the small courtyard of the temporary camp headquarters, but Wu Zijian stood at the entrance of the cave. After Liu Shu found out, he looked back at Wu Zijian, the other party was motionless at the entrance of the cave, and his face was no longer as cheerful as just now. Liu Shu sighed, walked back to Wu Zi Fitness, and lowered his voice:

"Deputy battalion commander, the Jin army staff officer inside, you can't take him away." Seeing that Wu Zijian was about to interrupt him, he made a suppressed gesture and continued to say hurriedly: "Moreover, you must not tell him the destination and mission of our battalion's next march. ”

Wu Zijian shook his head helplessly, but his voice was not deliberately lowered like Liu Shu: "I said instructor, the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army is also our friendly army, not to mention that Staff Officer Xiao is well-informed, I haven't even heard of the battle sequence of the Japanese army he just talked to me, it really works." We should ask him to give a lecture to the company-platoon cadres of our second battalion. ”

Liu Shuqiang endured his anger: "Old Wu, what we need to do most at the moment is to transfer the whole battalion, and then secretly move towards Muguanmen Mountain, how can we have time to listen to the lectures of any Kuomintang reactionary officers!" ”

At this time, Wu Zijian was disgusted, and he shouted: "What kind of reactionary officer? Didn't you see Staff Officer Xiao fighting with a saber and the devil cavalry yesterday? Just the fact that it is not ambiguous to kill devils at him, I respect him! You won't let me take him away? He's lame and wounded now, and we're leaving him here alone, waiting for the little devil to take him prisoner?! ”