Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army, and Meng Longsheng, the captain of the detective team of the Japanese army's secret service in Wencheng, have recently had a hot fight.

Since discovering that the silk village named Cheng Ruixiang on Dongguan Street is very capable of "fighting righteousness and squandering money", the traitor Meng Longsheng has firmly grasped this gold owner. Of course, in Captain Meng's opinion, the shopkeeper surnamed Chen of the Silk Village does not know each other very well, but fortunately, the cousin of the shopkeeper Chen, who went to school in Beiping, is indeed a person who understands the literacy and hyphenation, and it seems that he can influence the financial power of the Silk Village. So, for the sake of this cousin's hospitable face, Meng Longsheng and his subordinates did not do anything to harass Cheng Ruixiang's daily business.

It's just that the captain of the Japanese detective team never dreamed that the Beiping scholar who had been trying his best to envelop him turned out to be the captain of the team: the captain of the enemy engineering team of the Xu Brigade Detachment of the Eighth Route Army!

Xiao Junping has begun to send the guys in the store to the detective team from time to time, and invite the captain to come over for tea and wine. If it is drinking, the food must be delivered by the well-known restaurant restaurant on Dongguan Avenue - Xiao Junping used to be stationed in the city as a staff officer of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, so he now resolutely refrains from making high-profile appearances in the downtown area as a precautionary situation - he explained to Meng Longsheng that eating and drinking in his own store is more casual and quiet.

The captain of the detective team is at ease with this, anyway, there is good wine and good food to serve, and he eats and drinks in his stomach if he doesn't go to the restaurant. What's more, in this silk village, there is also a stunner he is thinking about: Sun Nier.

Xiao Junping is such a shrewd person, how could he not notice that Meng Longsheng had ill intentions towards Sun Nier, the female partner in the store, so he blocked the other party's ghost fetus in advance, saying that Sun Nier had already been married in her hometown in Pingquan County.

The Japanese detective captain couldn't help but be disappointed, and he also questioned - why did such a handsome woman run out to do things without her family and business since she was married?

But the enemy captain of the Eighth Route Army was prepared, saying that Sun Nier was deeply cultivated by the old shopkeeper of Chengruixiang Silk Village in Pingquan County, and she was already familiar with this line.

Although he was extremely unwilling, Meng Longsheng had no choice but to restrain himself because of Xiao Junping's generous gifts and hospitality*. But he didn't give up, and every time he came to the silk village, he itched to see the beautiful female fellow. Helplessly, the shopkeeper Chen hid Sun Nier tightly, so that the traitor captain had no time to drill and no opportunity to take advantage of.

In this way, Meng Longsheng could only focus his energy on the ocean and wine and food. Since he was immersed in wine and wealth, the detective captain with Mauser * in his waist never realized that Chen's cousin, who was generous, had been quietly probing and extracting valuable information from his mouth while drinking tea and drinking.

Today's detective team, the pace of action is almost under the unified command of the Japanese army's Wencheng secret service, so Meng Longsheng, who is an officer to the captain, almost controls the military and political dynamics of the whole city; Including a series of operational orders issued by the head of the Japanese secret service, and even the size of the local garrison.

So on this night, with only a meal of mutton hot pot called from Deshunfang in the city and two pots of soju, Xiao Junping successfully obtained the relevant information of the Japanese troops who had just entered the western suburbs of Wencheng - a few days ago, the members of the detachment of the detective team arranged at the railway station noticed the barracks that suddenly rose west of the station, and then the head of the secret service also personally informed Meng Longsheng of the return of a unit of the imperial army.

"A guy in our shop, whose family lives in a small village in the western suburbs of the city, didn't expect the house to be requisitioned by the imperial army overnight," Xiao Junping took advantage of the hot copper charcoal hot pot, in the aroma of mutton and soju, and put the words of the detective captain: "I don't know how long the imperial army will requisition his house, so I asked the captain to inquire about it." ”

"Well, you're out of luck!" Meng Longsheng, who was already a little drunk, said with a smile: "Those imperial troops were withdrawn from the front line in the south, and my Japanese boss said that it was a whole wing!" They retreated and did not leave, and from then on they lived in the outer part of the city. You tell your buddies to find another place to settle down. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Junping was secretly frightened, and while pouring wine for Meng's head, he continued to ask: "The imperial army was withdrawn from the front line?" So the battle to the south is over? ”

"I don't know if the battle is over, but a large number of munitions were brought from Taiyuan, and they were directly unloaded into the barracks outside the city; Many of my brothers have been staring at the station in black and white for the past two days, for fear that another damn anti-Japanese element will come to make an explosion! ”

Speaking of the explosion at the Wencheng Railway Station, the enemy engineer captain of the Eighth Route Army still does not know the specific inside story. On the night of the incident, he and his team members haunted the area around the station, and afterwards he knew that the Captain Meng in front of him was also at the station at that time - that area was undoubtedly the area that the detective team and its Japanese master focused on.

At this moment, he really got the situation he wanted from the railway station that Meng Longsheng mastered. This hot pot is worth it!

Withdrawn from the Jinnan front, to be stationed in the western suburbs of Wencheng for a long time, the formation of an infantry wing, just received arms and supplies from the direction of Taiyuan - this information is too important. After sending away the Japanese detective captain, Xiao Junping immediately had an urgent consultation with Chen Xuanzhu and decided to immediately send someone to the Xiping Village base area to report to the detachment leader.

"Is it necessary to be in such a hurry?" The deputy captain of the enemy engineering team was puzzled: "Maybe, it's just a normal change of guard of the enemy; Or, they came back to rest and replenish, didn't the traitor leader also say that a large number of arms were sent from the direction of Taiyuan and transported directly into the barracks! ”

Xiao Junping shook his head, it was by no means as simple as changing guards and replenishing baggage - Meng Longsheng had confirmed that the barracks in the western suburbs where the village houses were requisitioned were permanent, and it could be inferred from this alone that this Japanese infantry wing would not leave in a short time.

"I heard the radio from Hankow that the Second Theater of the Nationalist Army was still putting up stubborn resistance in the southern and southwestern areas of Jinjin, and the Japanese would not withdraw a whole infantry wing from that front line at this time for no reason!"

The enemy engineer captain used to control an ore radio of the Xu Brigade Detachment, but this time he did not bring the radio to Wencheng to establish an underground intelligence station, but left it to the original battalion headquarters and the current detachment headquarters, which were kept and used by Zhang Xiu, a female soldier clerk. Since he had a large amount of money on hand, Xiao Junping bought a rather fashionable radio from a foreign firm in Wencheng and placed it in the storefront of the Silk Village, where he broadcast the programs of the puppet regime radio station to hide people's eyes and ears, and when there were no outsiders, he quietly listened to the radio of the Nationalist Government (now located in Wuhan) in order to grasp the current military and political news.

Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team, was not satisfied with Captain Xiao's lavish spending, including the purchase of this radio; Now that he saw that Xiao Junping relied on the news of the war situation broadcast by the Kuomintang government from the radio and judged the local enemy situation, he was quite disapproving: "Maybe the battle of Jinnan is really over-the war report released by Lao Jiang may not be true!" In the past, when I was in the Soviet zone, I didn't listen to them brag. ”

Xiao Junping, as a person who surrendered from the Jin army, did not have a resume as a Red Army against the government army, so he also disagreed with what his deputy said. And with his intuition, he firmly believed that this Japanese army wing, which suddenly withdrew from the Jinnan area to Wencheng, must have an important task and purpose.

So, he resolutely sent someone to Xiping Village at the foot of Guanmen Mountain with the information he wrote in his own hand the next morning.

Wu Zijian, the commander of the Xu Brigade Detachment, who received the information, immediately paid attention to it. He himself had great trust in the judgment of the intelligence staff of the former Jin Army; What's more, not long ago, he and the 391st Regiment of the Central Army had just joined forces to attack Tongpulu, and the Japanese who suffered a big loss would almost certainly want to retaliate.

The commander of the Eighth Route Army immediately made three arrangements: brought Xin'er to the Wencheng underground intelligence station, asking them to closely monitor the Japanese wing that had just arrived in the western suburbs of Wencheng; The flying pigeon sent a message to the Great Elm Mountain to inform the 391st Regiment of the Central Army of this information; An emergency meeting of the commanders at and above the battalion level of the detachment was held to make combat readiness arrangements in advance.

Present at the emergency meeting in Xiping Village were: detachment commander Wu Zijian, detachment political commissar Liu Shu, detachment chief of staff Li Tianlin, first battalion commander Wang Shuanglong, second battalion commander Wei Xin, third battalion commander Lu Dajiang, cavalry company commander Xia Lianshan, artillery platoon commander Zhao Yejiao, and detachment clerk Zhang Xiu.

Wu Zijian took the lead in making an analysis, believing that an infantry wing of the Japanese army suddenly moved from the Jinnan front to the outskirts of Wencheng in the rear and received a large amount of ammunition and heavy supplies, showing signs that it would have a combat mission. It cannot be ruled out that it is to launch retaliatory actions against the Nantongpu Road attack that has just occurred. The detachment must be vigilant and deploy response plans; If necessary, contact the 391st Regiment of the Central Army to implement joint defense.

"A wing of devils, if they retaliate, will it be against us or against the Central Army? Or is it both? Li Tianlin pointed to the sand table and asked.

Wang Shuanglong immediately said worriedly: The 391st Regiment of the Central Army is hidden in the Great Elm Mountain on weekdays, and it is difficult for the Japanese to catch them; However, the main force of the Xu Brigade detachment was at the foot of Guanmen Mountain, which was more likely to be attacked first.

Before anyone else could speak, Liu Shu took the opportunity to complain to Wu Zijian: "I said a long time ago that the main force of the detachment should be hidden in the Hongxing Gorge of Guanmen Mountain, and only a few troops would be placed outside the mountain. But you just won't listen! Look at how cunning the Kuomintang Central Army is, the main force of a division of the first division is completely hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, and the Japanese can't fight if they want to! Now, if this wing of the Japanese army is directly coming at us, how will you deal with it? That's a whole wing! Do you still expect Qin Zhongxiao to come and join us in defense? I'm afraid they won't be able to hide! ”