When Zhang Xiu took Xia Lianshan's hand-drawn map and found Xiao Junping, the latter was not so much looking at the crappy map as he was attracted by the pretty female soldiers.

After Xiao Junping returned to China from Japan, he first served in the 33rd Army of Sun Chu, a general under Yan Xishan, and received professional military training, and then became an intelligence staff officer by Zheng Yuanxiang, the commander of the 12th Independent Brigade. These resumes are destined to make the young captain a figure who has seen the world, so he is both surprised and amused by the various reasons of the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division.

This map of central and southern Jin, hand-drawn by Xia Lianshan, a local and deputy commander of the 5th Company, is sparsely proportioned, unconventional, and has a lot of errata, whether it is in the communication battalion of the 33rd Army of the Jin Army or the headquarters of the 12th Brigade of the Independent Army, Xiao Junping can take out a random one, and he can compare it to the decent.

Of course, in the face of the beautiful and lively little clerk Zhang Xiu, Xiao Junping was embarrassed to express his disdain, and he said to Zhang Xiu euphemistically: study this picture by yourself, and then express your opinion. Zhang Xiu praised Xiao Junping's erudition and thanked him for his help.

Until the female soldier disappeared from Xiao Junping's tent with a silver bell-like laugh, the latter was still immersed in the aftertaste of her voice and smile. The young captain finally secretly admitted that he had fallen in love with this female clerk of the Eighth Route Army! The feeling of heartbeat every time he saw her was something he had never had with his first girlfriend when he was studying in Peking.

The deputy battalion commander named Wu Zijian and the 5th company commander Li Tianlin, who saved his life, couldn't have more obvious intention to keep himself to join the Eighth Route Army; However, if it were just the two of them, it would be impossible for a dignified captain of the national army to deign to stay in this dirty Eighth Route team. However, now "a female clerk has fallen from the sky"! With the intuition between young people, Xiao Junping can sense that Zhang Xiu also has a very good impression of him, if she is in love with each other, then does she want a future or love? ! The captain of the Jin army fell into a hesitation for a while.

Of course, Xiao Junping didn't know that the goddess in his mind had just come out of his tent and was watched from a distance by the instructors of the second battalion. After Liu Shu asked Zhang Xiu for finding Xiao Junping's reason, he not only severely criticized this female clerk, but also quarreled fiercely with the deputy battalion commander and the battalion commander for this.

Wu Zijian had been fighting with the instructor for a day or two, and he had long regarded this as a common thing, and he would forget about it after quarrelling, and when he learned the information sent back by Xia Lianshan from Fengdian in batches, he admired Xiao Junping's resourcefulness as an intelligence staff officer even more.

Xiao Junping shook off the crappy hand-drawn map and laughed at the Eighth Route Army, and Wu Zijian was not annoyed, he thought that it was easier to impress the other party by showing weakness than showing strength to such an arrogant national army officer.

"Staff Officer Xiao, I won't tell you anything," Wu Zijian said with a bitter face: "Our Eighth Route Army was nested in Shaanxi back then, and I didn't expect that one day we would cross the Yellow River to fight in Shanxi, so we are absolutely blind to the situation here." If you want to talk about local maps, there are a few, but they are all in the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the division headquarters, and the brigade headquarters, and our regiment commander does not have them. No way, poor! I also asked Xiao to staff officer Duo Haihan. ”

Sure enough, the staff officer of the Jin army was moved by compassion, he no longer sneered, but comforted Wu Zijian: "Chief Wu, don't worry, when I am injured and can leave, you send a brother to follow me back to the headquarters of the 12th Brigade of the Independent Army, and I promise to give you a few standard military maps of Shanxi, and you will not have to scribble by yourself." ”

"Do you want to go back to the headquarters of the 12th Independent Brigade?" The deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army suddenly asked a little slyly.

Xiao Junping was stunned, and suddenly remembered Zhang Xiu, and his heart thumped again. He couldn't figure out the true meaning of the Eighth Route Army's commander on the other side, and he vaguely felt that the other party seemed to have some of his own thoughts, but he was not sure.

Seeing that Xiao Junping was speechless, Wu Zijian added cruelly: "Since you think that the 12th Brigade can't hold Wencheng, where will they retreat?" If Wencheng is also occupied by the Japanese like Fengdian, where are you going to find your brigade headquarters? ”

Without waiting for the stunned Jin army staff officer to answer, Wu Zijian got up and left, and before leaving, he dropped another intriguing sentence: We-me, the battalion commander, Company Commander Li, and Xiao Zhang (and Xiao Zhang!) I hope you can stay and join the Eighth Route Army, we need a military genius like you!

And Xiao Zhang!

Xiao Junping felt dizzy.

Leaving from the staff of the Jin army, Wu Zijian finally agreed to the decision to withdraw Xia Lianshan's reconnaissance group from Fengdian at the meeting of the second battalion headquarters.

Instructor Liu Shu insisted that the investigation team be withdrawn and that the entire battalion should be transferred immediately; Battalion commander Feng Changzhi agreed to the previous article, but was still hesitant whether the whole battalion would immediately move into the deep mountains of Guanmen Mountain; And the reason why Wu Zijian agreed to let Deputy Company Commander Xia and them come back first was not out of retreat.

"Battalion commander, I don't agree with the instructor's proposal to retreat into the deep mountains," Seeing that Liu Shu was very nervous, Wu Zijian said deliberately and slowly: "According to the intelligence of the second group of scouts sent back by Lianshan, the devil's army in Fengdian has already marched towards Wencheng on Tongpu Road. Through the interrogation of Japanese cavalry prisoners before, we know that the attack on Fengdian was about a devil company, about 3,000 people; At present, this wing has to occupy Gufang Fengdian and divide its forces to attack Wencheng, I am afraid that they do not have the strength to take any action against us here. ”

Feng Changzhi nodded quickly: "Yes, the second battalion moved in from Little Elm Mountain, and did not encounter any national and Japanese troops, so it should be said that the operation is still very hidden." Moreover, the area around Guanmen Mountain is meaningful to us, and the devils may not be interested here. ”

When Liu Shu heard this, he became more and more anxious: "Battalion commander, I don't agree with your point of view!" You all say that our rotation is very hidden, so I may ask, what about the ambush in Dawangyu? Almost the entire battalion was mobilized to cripple a Japanese cavalry squadron, how would the Japanese soldiers who fled back report? Do you really think that the devils will not be interested in ambushing their team after suffering such a big loss?! ”

The battalion commander and deputy battalion commander couldn't help but look at each other and didn't answer for a while. Although the Dawangyu ambush battle achieved good results, the side effects were obviously great, including exposing the whereabouts of the second battalion.

"Well, so, after the battle of Dawangyu, we quickly withdrew from the West Kiln." In the end, Wu Zijian replied dryly; Xiyao is the small mountain village that the second battalion arrived at before the Spring Festival.

"Withdraw? The deputy battalion commander said it lightly! A single withdrawal covers up the whole problem? Liu Shu knew that Dawangyu's ambush was the weakness of the two military commanders in front of him, so he caught the chase and chased after him: "Seven or eight hundred people are swarming down from the mountain, and the devil cavalry can't understand it?" We can evacuate from Xiyao Village, but can Xiyao Village itself be evacuated? What does it mean that a monk can't run away from the temple?! The devil only needs to send another team to touch back along Dawangyu to find traces of our stationing in Xiyao, not to mention that there are still many ordinary people in the village! ”

Feng Changzhi was a little shaken, although the instructor was born as a political worker, but after all, he had experienced such a brutal battle as the Long March, so he was also very insightful in military affairs.

"Think about it again, how far is the place where we are camping now from Fengdian? Deputy Company Commander Xia took the soldiers on horseback and made a round trip from outside Fengdian City in less than half a day! What about the devil's cavalry army?! ”

Wu Zijian also secretly admired, he has always been unaccustomed to the instructor's style of doing ideological work on the shelf, but the deputy battalion commander has to admit that his occasional burst out of military views is reasonable.

At one point, the meeting reached an impasse. The three of you say a word, and the focus is on whether to immediately turn into the deep mountains. The reason why the battalion commander and deputy battalion commander are reluctant to move into the mountains is mainly because they have already fallen in love with the position of Hekou Village - as soon as Wu Zijian came back from Hekou Village with the Sixth Company, he excitedly used stones to put a simple sand table for Feng Changzhi.

In the end, the three of them still adopted the eclecticism that had always been after the contradictions: the whole camp was opened, leaving the camp and driving into Hekou Village; Feng Changzhi and Liu Shu led the main force of the battalion along the pass of Guanmen Mountain next to Hekou Village, turning into the mountain to find a more hidden camping site; After thoroughly clarifying the movements of the Japanese troops occupying Fengdian, we will make the next step.

Just do it. As soon as the order was issued, the camp of the second battalion immediately began to prepare for the opening, and Wu Zijian picked two more from the soldiers who came back from riding back to report the news, and ordered them to rush back to the periphery of Fengdian immediately, and inform Xia Lianshan to withdraw here quickly; He left a squad of the 5th Company in the camp, waiting in place to meet Deputy Company Commander Xia.

Xiao Junping couldn't help but shake his head when he heard the health soldiers say that he was going to transfer again, he really couldn't figure out the number of the Eighth Route Army: he witnessed the scene of the second battalion fighting with the devils in Dawangyu, and he admired the combat power and bloodiness of this team. However, after that battle, they became timid, and transfer seemed to be their only task!

Xiao Junping is well aware of the current injuries on his legs and shoulders, and he will not be able to act alone for at least a month. But what about a month later? After recovering from his injuries, should he immediately return to his 12th Brigade headquarters? As Chief Wu Zijian reminded: At that time, will Wencheng still be in the hands of the 12th Independent Brigade?

"Report!" A familiar female soldier's voice rang out outside the tent.

It's Zhang Xiu!

The staff officer of the Jin army, who was half-lying on the stretcher, suddenly blushed and his heart jumped again.