The female major of the military commander and his party drove to Fengdian, choosing the route of detouring to the northern foot of Little Elm Mountain. They drove out of the city from the road next to the Wencheng railway station and followed the road next to the Tongpu railway.

Due to the sudden blockade of the mountain pass of Little Elm Mountain, the shortcut between Wencheng and Fengdian has been cut off, and people who travel between the two places have to complain and start detouring Little Elm Mountain again.

"Look, the track in front of you is the branch line to Songjiagou," Li Yan drove a Chevrolet car, holding the steering wheel in one hand and pointing to Wang Suihua in the co-pilot seat with the other: "The coal dug out of the coal kiln in Songjiagou was transported to Wencheng Railway Station through this branch line." ”

Through the windshield of the Chevrolet, the military commander clearly saw the railroad track that branched off from the Tongpu railway line in front of her.

"Stop!"

Wang Suihua's heart moved, and she suddenly muttered a sentence in a low voice, so that the driver Li Yan didn't understand.

"I told you to stop!" This time, the female major raised her voice, and Chevrolet squeaked and stopped in front of the tracks.

Wang Suihua got off the train first, walked to the side of the track, and looked in the direction of its end - this is the northwest corner outside Wencheng, this railway branch line, after leaving Tongpu Road, crosses the northern suburbs of Wencheng, and then turns to the eastern suburbs, enters the mountain pass of Xiaoyushu Mountain, and reaches Songjiagou Station.

Inexplicably, Li Yan didn't turn off the car, pulled the car door and followed, walked to the side of the female boss and stood side by side.

"The railroad tracks in Shanxi are all narrow, and this branch line is no exception," Wang Suihua muttered to herself, but her tone seemed a little excited, and she turned to look at Li Yan: "That is to say, the train that can run on this Tongpu Road can also run this branch line!" ”

The lieutenant of the military commander was confused by his female superior, shrugged his shoulders and responded: "Isn't this nonsense? If the little train can't run on this branch line, what's the use of repairing it? How could the coal from Songjiagou be loaded onto the train and transported to Wencheng? ”

Wang Suihua grinned, she looked at her ignorant subordinates, approached him and whispered: "We haven't been able to find the Japanese army column that came out of Taiyuan, isn't there a whereabouts now?!" ”

Li Yan narrowed his eyes in surprise and retorted: "You mean that the military column drove along this branch line?" You think the military column is crazy, right? What is it going to do in the abandoned coal kiln in Songjiagou? Transporting coal? ”

The female major of the military commander smiled like a flower: "Then the Japanese suddenly blocked the Little Elm Mountain Pass, what are they doing?" ”

A word woke up the dreamer, and Li Yan was also convinced by the female boss's inference. Suddenly, he stepped onto the track of the railway branch line in three steps and two steps, and crouched down to check what was going on; When Wang Suihua, who didn't know what was going on, followed up, Li Yan had already raised his head, looked up at her and said excitedly: "I'm afraid I guessed it for you!" You see, this branch line has been abandoned for a long time, and it should be rusty, but now it has bright marks, indicating that a train has passed by recently! ”

Before Li Yan joined the military command, he had been on an errand for a long time in the Tongpu Road Construction Bureau in Shanxi, and naturally had a great say in things like railroad tracks. His discovery further confirmed Wang Suihua's judgment.

"You're my right-hand man!" Wang Suihua was so excited that she patted Li Yan's head with a leather hat, which made the latter feel dizzy with happiness.

They immediately drove along the railway branch line and bumped, passing across the northern suburbs of Wencheng. In the distance, the sun flag at the head of Wencheng City was fluttering in the hunt.

After turning to the eastern suburbs of Wencheng, they followed the track until they approached the pass of Little Elm Mountain, and stopped more than a mile away from the pass, where they saw that it was indeed tightly guarded by Japanese soldiers, and the track under their feet extended into the pass. At this moment, about a dozen people gathered in the area, apparently another group of people who tried to pass through the mountain pass to Fengdian, but were blocked and driven away by the Japanese soldiers.

In the Chevrolet car, Wang Suihua and Li Yan exchanged glances, and the car immediately turned the front of the car and drove in the direction from which it came, and they noticed that the bright marks on the railroad tracks continued, which was enough to confirm that a train had recently entered the pass of Little Elm Mountain.

"Are you sure that after this branch line enters the mountain, it will lead to Songjiagou Station? Is it possible that it has already reached Fengdian County? Wang Suihua asked Li Yan.

Li Yan hesitated for a moment: "It must only lead to Songjiagou, which is the end point of this branch line, and behind Songjiagou Station, it was a big coal mine back then." If, as you said, the railway line has already reached Toyden, it must have been built by the Japanese recently. ”

"Good, there should be a secret here! A coal mine that has been abandoned, what is the train doing in it? What did the Japanese do with blocking its front gate again? If the train that drove in was the weird military train I saw at the Taiyuan Railway Station, it would be even more revealing! ”

"Let's go to Fengdian immediately and find out!"

"No, you stay, keep an eye on the railway line to see if there are any trains that continue to pass around, especially the military train with the planks nailed to the windows of the train I am talking about."

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had to stare at a lonely railroad track all day in this wilderness, and he had to be separated from his beautiful female boss who admired him, and his mood suddenly became gloomy.

Wang Suihua didn't pay attention to the mood changes of the male subordinates, they drove the car, patrolling around the railway branch line, which was adjacent to the railroad tracks, and some ordinary households were scattered on the ground. They found a family with a low courtyard wall, owned by a middle-aged couple with three children, who had cultivated a plot of land in the nearby wilderness to grow sorghum and corn, and went to pick up waste along the Tongpu Road Railway during their leisure time.

Wang Suihua said that she had come to Wencheng to do business, and wanted to find a place outside the city to store her goods, and asked for rent from the family's courtyard and house, and promised to pay a lot of rent. The man and woman were overjoyed and promised to clean up one of the three rooms at once, and the courtyard could be used as they pleased. Wang Suihua introduced Li Yan to the male and female hosts and said: This is the deputy manager of our company, and he has been living here these days, waiting for the goods to be delivered.

The lieutenant of the military commander never imagined that he would fall from the big hotel in Wencheng to the poor family outside the city in one step, crying and mourning and keeping silent.

"The conditions are not good, you endure for a few days, and keep an eye on this track for me. Turning back, I'll ask the station for credit for your lieutenant to be promoted to captain. Before leaving, Wang Suihua cheered up her subordinates in a simple house.

"I've worked so hard for you, what will you repay me?" Li Yan, who had no choice but to admit his fate, stared at Wang Suihua reluctantly.

The female major of the military commander suddenly lost her temper again, she put away her kind expression, and coldly dropped a sentence: "What nonsense? Remember, you are serving the party-state and serving the leader. ”

"Then you have to bring me some food from the city, I can't eat their coarse tea and light rice all day long, right?" Watching Wang Suihua and the radio director go out without hesitation, Li Yan chased all the way to the courtyard and pleaded with a crying voice. Liu Liu, the elder of the radio station, was soft-hearted, so he helped Li Yan persuade his team leader. Unexpectedly, this reminded the latter, she turned around and whispered to Li Yan, who was in hot pursuit: "Honestly keep an eye on me here, before I come back from Fengdian, if you dare to leave without permission and run back to Wencheng, I promise to enforce the family law against you!" ”

Chevrolet kicked in and slipped away. The lieutenant stood in despair at the gate of the courtyard, angrily imagining that he would one day strip the vicious female boss and press him to the bed.

When Wang Suihua and the radio station director drove to the north gate of Fengdian, it was already nearly evening, and they bypassed the northern foot of Little Elm Mountain and drove halfway to the road leading to Fengdian from Junling. Unexpectedly, at the heavily guarded north gate of Fengdian, the Japanese troops defending the city refused Wang Suihua to enter the city, and if it weren't for the female major of the military commander who showed her fake identity in time and communicated with the Japanese soldiers in Japanese, their car with a radio station was almost searched.

The Japanese soldiers learned that this fashionable and beautiful lady was from Taiyuan and had the background of high-ranking officials and dependents of the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China" in Beiping, so they politely replied to Wang Suihua's questions.

From the conversation with the Japanese soldiers, Wang Suihua learned that Fengdian is currently under full martial law, and the imperial army in the city is sending troops to clear the remnants of the Chinese army around the county.

The female major of the military commander was dumbfounded, the sky was about to be dark, and if she couldn't enter the city, she would either have to return to Wencheng at night, or she could only sleep outside the city. There are two iron square barrels of gasoline in the trunk, and the amount of oil in Huiwencheng is not a problem, but the black light is blinding, and he has to drive a long section of the wilderness without a road, Wang Suihua is really not sure.

She discussed it with Liu, the elder of the radio station, and decided to find a farmhouse on the outskirts of the north of the city first, find a place to stay, and then return at dawn - since the Japanese troops in Fengdian were strictly forbidden to enter and leave in the short term, there was no point in staying here any longer.

In the end, they knocked on the door of a family next to the highway, and the owner was a pair of deaf and dazzling old couples.

At night, lying on the cold kang head of the West House with the honest and loyal Lao Liu, Wang Suihua couldn't help but smile bitterly: she had just left Li Yan's guy in a farmer in the northern suburbs of Wencheng, and she suffered the same fate immediately after herself, which can be regarded as Li Yan's retribution for her.

Why did the Japanese army in Fengdian go out of the city to clear it? Obviously, they were disturbed by the Chinese army nearby (at this time, the female major of the military commander did not know about the incident that had just been attacked at the north gate of Fengdian), so what secrets did the Japanese hide in this county town in the mountains? Are they to be so guarded as if they were facing a great enemy?

Today, I was lucky enough to find the clues of the Songjiagou Railway Branch, if the train that entered the Little Elm Mountain Pass was the strange military train, then, what was in the car? That guy Li Yan once denied the possibility of chemical weapons, but that was the premise of assuming that the strange military column was heading south along Tongpu Road; Now, if the military train really drove into the mountains of Little Elm Mountain, the possibility of loading the cart with poison gas bombs became great again.

I'll have to report to the station tomorrow, these clues seem to be getting more and more concentrated, and I should be able to break through. Also, is Fang Moshu still in this Fengdian county? Did his wife Zhou Yi rush to the Nanyang Hotel in Wencheng? Li Yan's guy wants delicious food with a dead face, do you want to send him some after returning to Wencheng?

Wang Suihua was thinking in a daze, and her eyelids gradually became heavy after a long journey. The Chevrolet sedan from Wencheng was parked right outside the door of this farmhouse. In the 27th year of the Republic of China (author's note: that is, in 1938), the Chevrolet car was a very expensive and rare industrial product in China, and it was parked in front of a dilapidated farmhouse, which looked very dazzling under the bright moonlight in winter. Unbeknownst to the female military major, who was sleeping in her clothes, the sedan had already attracted the attention of a group of people from afar, and they tiptoed over and decided to raid the owner of the sedan in the farmhouse.

They are members of the Special Service Company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, and the leader is the commander of the Special Service Company, Zhao Mutou.