Lu Dajiang also did what the commander of the 6th Company had just done, and he looked out for a moment through the gap in the cabin, and he recognized which platoon the two soldiers of the 8th Company were from. Now the tricky thing is that the other two people in charge of guarding are from the battalion headquarters communications class, which can be called the "guards" of instructor Liu Shu, and with them, it is difficult for them to communicate directly with the brothers of the 8th Company.

It seems that the sixth (Wang Shuanglong) said that using the opportunity to deliver food to deliver the news is probably the only way.

Two company commanders under house arrest anxiously await the arrival of lunchtime.

At the same time, at the battalion headquarters, acting battalion commander Liu Shu had already completed his assignment of combat tasks, and he had just announced that the instructor of the 7th Company and the deputy company commander of the 8th Company would temporarily serve as the acting company commanders of the two companies, responsible for the mobilization and gathering of troops to suppress the bandits and immediately sorting out weapons and equipment. Liu Shu decided to personally lead the bandit suppression troops to the expedition, and Hongxingxia handed over to his most reassuring instructor of the 8th Company.

Under Liu Shu's order, Wei Xin was sketching a road map of the Black Stone Cliff and the general layout of the bandits' nest with his memory.

Now, Liu Shu's headache is Wei Xin's loyalty: this son of a martial arts family, before joining the Red Army, he had a very heavy habit in the rivers and lakes, even if he was promoted to the commander of the company level, he still did not change his old style, and took out the whip and short knife of martial arts at every turn to compare a few times; Although he really has a few kung fu, in Liu Shu's view, the era of cold weapons has long been history, and no matter how good he is, he is still vulnerable in front of fast guns and bullets. Now, this Red Army company commander, who has never forgotten the rivers and lakes, has actually formed a brother and sister with the bandit leader, and has disregarded the safety of dozens of wounded soldiers of the 7th Company.

This time it was announced that he would enter the Black Stone Cliff bandits' lair, will this Wei Xin still have the same heart with the troops? If he were allowed to enter the bandits' lair alone, would he turn around and mutiny? After all, of the five platoons brought to suppress the bandits, two platoons came from Wei Xin's 7th Company!

When Wei Xin handed over the sketch he had sketched, Liu Shu took it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, and then he found the warrior who had entered the bandit nest on the Black Stone Cliff with Wei Xin at that time, and compared and confirmed it, which made him feel a little relieved.

According to this sketch, Liu Shu summoned the company and platoon-level commanders who went out to fight and held an operational meeting again. In view of the dangerous terrain of the Black Rock Cliff and there was only one path leading to the gate of its cottage, Liu Shu arranged a plan to attack from the front once the battle began, put two Czech-style and one crooked light machine gun at the forefront, implemented fire suppression, and formed two infantry assault squads, carrying * and * to prepare to storm the gate.

The entire Hongxing Gorge immediately began an intensive pre-war mobilization, and the atmosphere in the canyon suddenly became tense.

The cabin where the two company commanders were locked up was located in a remote corner of the canyon, so they could not feel this tense atmosphere. But when the people of the 8th company cooking class sent lunch to this confinement room, Wang Shuanglong and Lu Dajiang learned everything.

The strict guarding of the cabin was only reflected in the aspect of going out: instructor Liu Shu had confessed that no one was allowed to let a few company commanders out of the confinement room without his own order. However, there is little supervision of the house. Lu Dajiang immediately asked the soldiers of his cooking squad to secretly send paper and pencils, in order to gain time, he could no longer wait until the time for dinner to be delivered; Wang Shuanglong came up with an idea, so he said that the commander of the 8th company asked for the spicy seeds he liked to eat on weekdays, and asked the people from the cooking class to send them again immediately, and they would bring the paper and pencil clips over during the period.

The soldiers of the cooking squad were already unhappy that their company commander was inexplicably locked up and confined, and immediately agreed. The battalion correspondent guarding the cabin did not expect that there would be a hidden organ here, and he knew that Lu Dajiang was from Hubei and naturally liked to eat chili peppers, so he did not add any obstruction and interrogation. In this way, the pen and paper were smoothly handed over to the hands of the two company commanders.

The two company commanders who were locked up and confined quickly took advantage of the lunch time to quickly write a short message about the current situation in Hongxingxia on Guanmen Mountain, and the two jointly signed the story of what happened to the three company commanders of the Hongxingxia unit, stressed the unwisdom and danger of attacking the Black Rock Cliff bandits, and asked the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian to immediately rush back to Hongxingxia to discuss with the instructor (who is also the acting battalion commander of the second battalion) and send troops cautiously.

The handwritten letter was handed over to the cooks of the 8th Company, and after cleaning up the lunch bowls and chopsticks of the two company commanders, he secretly took them out, and told him not to make a noise about the confinement of several company commanders for the time being. Lu Dajiang wrote another note, asking the cooks to hand over to a deputy platoon commander of the 8th Company, who had recently accompanied two platoons of the 8th Company to Hekou Village to assist in the defense, and under the command of Wu Zijian, he participated in the battle against the night attack in Hekou Village, and was recuperating from a wounded hand. Lu Dajiang concluded that the troops sent by the instructor to Heishiya this time would not include wounded soldiers like the deputy platoon commander, so he instructed him in the note: After dark, take advantage of the unpreparedness of the people, quietly set off, send the handwritten letter to Hekou Village, and hand it over to Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian in person.

To the surprise of the two conspiring company commanders, instructor Liu Shu did not choose to set off until dawn the next day as they estimated - not long after dark, the deputy platoon commander who went to Hekou Village to deliver the letter had just slipped out of Hongxing Gorge, and the team planning to attack the bandits' nest in Black Stone Cliff received an order to assemble urgently, and then set out directly.

Liu Shu's consideration was that the Red Army was better at night fighting than bandits, and in the darkness of night, the location occupied by bandits would be greatly reduced. According to the memories of Wei Xin and some of the soldiers of the 7th Company, the distance between the Black Stone Cliff and the Red Star Gorge was about twenty miles, and it was six o'clock in the evening at the moment. Send Wei Xin to enter the bandits' nest first, and once the bandits resist, they will launch a strong attack.

Prior to this, Liu Shu had already asked the acting company commanders of each company to strictly keep the news that the battalion headquarters had closed the confinement of the three company commanders, and only said that the 6th and 8th company commanders were working out future combat training plans behind closed doors; The commander of the 7th company was changed to negotiate with the Black Rock Cliff bandits, and salute first and then soldiers.

Wei Xin and several soldiers selected by the 7th Company served as guides and took the lead in setting off, the two platoons of the 8th Company followed closely under the command of the acting company commander, Liu Shu led the other platoon of the 8th Company in the center, and the two platoons of the 7th Company were behind the palace under the command of the acting company commander.

Sure enough, before nine o'clock in the evening, they quietly arrived at the bottom of the Black Rock Cliff Cottage.

The black stone cliff is located at the waist of a mountain beam in Guanmen Mountain, the so-called black stone cliff refers to a cliff that lies on this mountain beam and faces the south, the cliff is about 20 zhang high up and down, about 50 zhang wide left and right, the cliff is as smooth as a knife and axe, and it is impossible to climb at all; But directly below the cliff there is a half-crack, the crack is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, which can accommodate five or six people to pass side by side, and a path in the closed mountain goes straight to the crack from the bottom to the top, and people who don't know the inside can't see what the terrain is at the end of the crack.

And if you pass through this crack, you will find that behind the black stone cliff, there is a large platform that is soothing and wide, and the width of the platform is more than 50 zhang like the black stone cliff that covers it, but the length is not less than 100 zhang; Above such a large platform, along a path made of stone steps, one can continue to the top of this girder, and there are four or five more such platforms in the middle, varying in size to the top; When you reach the top of the mountain, there is no road - on the other side is already an abyss; Similarly, the two sides of the mountain beam platform are also abysses.

The lair of Liu Wumei, the female bandit leader, is on such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack mountain beam, starting from the black stone cliff upwards, each platform is built on both sides of the edge of the abyss, and all kinds of houses are built on the platform.

At this moment, Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army, was climbing towards the Black Rock Cliff alone.

When he visited the Black Stone Cliff bandits' lair two days ago, Wei Xin was invited to the highest platform, where only Liu Wumei, her master and her personal entourage had their houses, as well as the "Juyi Hall" that was only used when the bandit leaders gathered. When leaving the cottage, Wei Xin deliberately paid attention to the terrain structure along the way, especially the crack of the Black Stone Cliff (the bandits called that crack Nantianmen), which not only set up movable barricades, but also hid two iron earth cannons, one of which is said to be from the Qing Dynasty.

The yin and yang weird master once boasted to Wei Xin that in order to move these two cannons to the Black Stone Cliff, the old boss captured a lot of nearby people as strong men, and it took a lot of effort. Once something happens, the two cannons can quickly push to the gate of the south sky and bombard the winding road on the mountainside condescendingly. Wei Xin compared with his own eyes the position and angle of the artillery if it was erected in the crack of the Black Stone Cliff and bombarded downward, and it was indeed a great momentum to be in charge and not to be opened.

Therefore, at this moment, there is less than a dozen zhang away from the Black Stone Cliff, and Wei Xin, who climbed alone, was very worried. After all, the instructor is too conceited, even if it is a regular army against bandits, you have to look at the terrain! He looked back at his back, and in the dark night, he could only vaguely feel the crowd not far behind him—it was the forward led by the deputy commander of the 8th Company who had left the area: after a while, if he could not get the wounded out, the instructor might order an attack. Wei Xin really didn't dare to imagine what kind of tragic scene it would be on the three-person wide mountain road under his feet, once the artillery (even if it was just earth artillery) was bombarded from above.

Of course, Wei Xin is still sure not to fight this battle. His "sister" Liu Wumei can see that she sincerely wants to tie up with the officials and soldiers, and she only needs to explain the situation herself, and the other party will definitely send out the wounded happily - dozens of wounded plus guards, how much food will be consumed every day, not counting the cost of healing!

"What people!? Stop! ”

When he was only a dozen steps away from the Black Stone Cliff "Nantianmen", it was obvious that the guards in the Nantianmen noticed Wei Xin, who had climbed up the path, and let out a loud shout. However, it was only a binge drink, and the bandits almost had people out of the mountains every three or five days, so it was common for people to come back.

"I'm Wei Xin, the company commander of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, and I'm here to see your boss!"

As soon as the words fell, a long pole carrying a horse lantern stretched out from the Nantian Gate, and the voice just now shouted:

"Pick up the lantern, raise it and walk slowly!"

Wei Xin understood that this was the procedure for the bandits to identify the person who came in the night. He immediately walked in front of the long pole, untied the lantern tied to the pole with a rope, held it in his hand to a position parallel to the top of his head, and walked step by step towards the Nantianmen.

Although Wei Xin had just come to the Black Stone Cliff Cottage, the little bandit leader guarding the door at this time did not remember this tall man who claimed to be the company commander of the Eighth Route Army, he just heard that the big boss recognized the commander of the Eighth Route Army as the eldest brother, so he shouted to Wei Xin, who was wearing a military uniform:

"Sir, please stand there and wait for a while, and we will go find the master."

Wei Xin had no choice but to stand outside the so-called Nantian Gate. He felt a little worried that his sudden arrival in the middle of the night would make Liu Wumei, the master, and the third master suspicious. After all, it has been said that the wounded will be left here, and the Eighth Route Army will send someone to pick them up after they are raised. Now, only two days later, he has come to ask for someone.

What would the bandits think if they knew that there were two hundred men and three machine guns in ambush behind them? Wei Xin suddenly felt nervous, and he involuntarily glanced behind him.

It was this glance that aroused the suspicion of the bandit guards.