"Guanmen Mountain, you say? There is indeed the existence of the Eighth Route Army in that area," Sitting in the rickety box of the military train, Major General Hagiwara Akira said: "But our first priority is to recover Fengdian County, and the side of Guanmen Mountain, so let's not put it in this battle plan." ”

Kosuke Otsuka was not reconciled: "I understand the purpose of His Excellency the Brigade Commander, but the Eighth Route Army has repeatedly attacked and harassed the Imperial Army, and they are not far from Fengdian, if they are not eradicated in one fell swoop, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles in the future." ”

The little train gasped and struggled to climb up a high slope, and Hagiwara Akira looked through the gap in the curtains of the car window, which was the sword-like cliff of Taihang Mountain.

"The safety of the comfort women's camp is the top priority," Hagiwara retracted his gaze and shook his head firmly: "Don't think about it for the time being, concentrate your forces, and first recapture the back gate of the Songjiagou camp!" ”

Seeing that the brigade commander, Major General, was so resolute, the wing commander had no choice but to give up. However, this lustful Japanese chief took the opportunity to turn the topic to the comfort women.

"General, we have transported all the comfort women in Songjiagou out this time, do we still need to replenish the camp?"

Hagiwara glanced at the co-captain under his command who was full of vulgar and erotic appearances, and sighed: "Don't think it's funny, it's not an easy thing. He paused, and said in the direction of the back carriage: "Our Captain Shaozuo—oh, it should be Captain Nakasa—has already started racking his brains over there. ”

Kosuke Otsuka understood what Hagiwara Akira meant, at this moment, the captain of the military police, Hirai Teriichi, with his one hundred and twenty subordinates, was chatting leisurely on the military train, but as soon as they got off the train at Songjiagou Station, they should be busy.

"I understand that this is not easy, and I have to arrest the woman in the secret camp, and I can't make a noise and must keep it secret," the wing commander raised his voice: "But I still can't understand why the base camp insists on secrecy in the matter of recruiting comfort women in North China?" If allowed to do it, I think my wing would be much more capable than those in the gendarmerie, who would have recruited ten times as many women in a matter of days. ”

When the brigade commander heard what his subordinates said, he couldn't help but widen his eyes in alarm, and reprimanded the other party a few more times. So far, except for the wing commander himself, the entire officers and soldiers of the Otsuka wing still know nothing about the inside story of the comfort women. This point undoubtedly needs to be strictly adhered to.

Kosuke Otsuka, who was reprimanded, was not depressed, and on this issue, he dared to argue with his commander: "Also, that military police captain, who didn't let go of a single shot, was promoted from lieutenant to adjutantant, and now he is going to be promoted to Nakasa!" If he succeeds in getting a group of comfort women, does it mean that he is about to be promoted to Dazuo?! I, the captain of the wing, Dazuo, fought with my life to fight against the Chinese army, can the guy in the carriage over there be on an equal footing with me just by engaging in women? ”

Unexpectedly, Hagiwara Akira was not angry because of the co-captain's presumptuousness, but smiled calmly and said: "So, Osa, you should further understand from this matter how important the base camp is to the plan to secretly recruit comfort women in North China!" ”

Kosuke Otsuka was stunned and wanted to continue appealing, but he pulled the corners of his mouth a few times in succession and didn't say anything, and the expression on his face was like an idiot.

Outside the carriage, the shrill whistle of the small train suddenly sounded, and the comfort women's army train was at full speed and galloped towards the outside of Taihang Mountain.

Wu Zijian, who was depressed, the first thing he did when he returned to Hekou Village was to ask the captain of the enemy engineer to gather the whole team and issue short guns in a unified manner - these more than 20 short guns were also the only harvest of his trip to Xiping.

But he had to leave the newly established artillery squad and equipment at the battalion headquarters in Xiping.

When Li Tianlin, the commander of the 5th company, learned of this, he shouted with Wu Zijian on the spot, and he was so angry that he jumped to his feet and had a heart-rending attack: A soldier of an artillery squad, two mortars, two grenadiers, boxes and bags of shells and * are gone forever!

Normally, Wu Zijian, as the deputy battalion commander, would never let his subordinates vent their anger and ridicule him like this, even if he was an old subordinate like Li Tianlin who had worked with him since the Long March; But this time, Wu Zijian really had no shame to see the "Estuary Fathers", so he endured his anger and let Li Tianlin make a lot of nonsense.

In the end, Xiao Junping couldn't see it, and persuaded him on the side, so that the grief and indignation of the 5th company commander gradually calmed down.

"You dare to stand and talk without pain in your waist," In the end, Li Tianlin didn't forget to shoot Xiao Junping: "Your enemy engineering team is all elite soldiers drawn from my company, and this time the deputy battalion commander has collected all the short guys in the battalion and returned them to you, which is very beautiful!" ”

Xiao Junping was choked embarrassed by these words, and a good-natured smile froze on his face.

Wu Zijian finally slapped the table at Li Tianlin unbearably: "You kid, don't be like a mad dog, catch whoever bites whom!" Do you think the artillery squad is the artillery squad of your 5th company? Let me tell you, the battalion headquarters has officially decided that the artillery squad and heavy machine gun squad will all be under the direct jurisdiction of the battalion headquarters in the future! ”

Li Tianlin was shocked, and let out another wail: "You kill me!" I can't live this day! He howled and slammed the door.

There were only two left in the room, Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping, and Wu Zijian was embarrassed to explain that the Eighth Route Army was poor, and no unit was willing to let others take it if it got some good equipment.

"You also saw it in Xiping during the day, they are simply robbing!"

Because Li Tianlin was no longer in the house, the deputy battalion commander began to vent his anger just like him.

"In my opinion, the attitude of the battalion headquarters to restrict the front-line troops from attacking and fighting is still very clear, and the purpose of forcibly leaving artillery and equipment behind is here." Xiao Junping said more cautiously.

Wu Zijian shook his head sadly and stopped talking; He, like the commander of the 5th company, really felt sorry for the artillery and equipment that had been taken away.

At this time, an uninvited guest came to the door - the captain and company commander of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, with a platoon of men and horses, found Hekou Village.

When cleaning the battlefield outside the southern city of Fengdian before, Wu Zijian had seen the company commander of the Central Army, and he accompanied the chief of staff of the 391st Regiment out of the city at that time, so he still had an impression. Knowing that it was the colonel and regiment commander of the Central Army who personally sent them to contact the Eighth Route Army, Wu Zijian's mood became better.

And Xiao Junping was even more excited, this was also the first time that the former Jin Army staff officer had seen the National Army come after he was injured and stayed in the Eighth Route Army - in his subconscious, he was still not used to seeing the Eighth Route Army as an orthodox National Army.

The two sides talked very happily and exchanged the recent situation of the two armies, and Wu Zijian saw that the other party took the initiative to visit and was quite sincere in uniting, so he did not hide anything, and explained to the other side the basic distribution of troops of the second battalion of the forest division.

Knowing that this battalion of the Eighth Route Army actually had a strength of nearly 1,000 people, the company commander of the Central Army couldn't help but be speechless.

"This has to be given to Chairman Chiang," Wu Zijian said with a big grin: "The Military Commission of the Nationalist Government promised to give the Red Army three divisions, but when we accepted the reorganization last year, there were more than 40,000 people, and as a result, the Red Army became the Eighth Route Army, and one division was crammed with 15,600 people!" They are almost catching up with one army of the national army. ”

The company commander of the Central Army witnessed the Eighth Route Army's charge against the Japanese army from behind at the head of Fengdian City, and saw the number of people condescendingly at that time, and when he met with this deputy battalion commander after the war, he thought that he was charging with the whole battalion of men and horses, but only then did he understand that it was just a company of the second battalion of the Lin Division!

And the 2nd Battalion had four such companies.

In fact, there are five - the captain of the second battalion of enemy workers who was born as a staff officer of the Jin army said in his heart. On this trip to Xiping, he learned from Zhang Xiu and Xia Lianshan that the headquarters of the Second Battalion had established the Self-Defense Force of Xiping Village in the name of the General Mobilization Committee of the Battlefield, and according to Xia Lianshan, it was a recruit company that had not been included in the ranks, and the backbone of the Self-Defense Force had even obtained the guns and ammunition issued by the Second Battalion.

"Admire, admire!"

This company commander of the Central Army didn't care about politics, he just admired that the strength of a battalion of the Lin Division was already on par with that of a regiment of the Central Army. It seems that Qin Tuanzuo decisively sent himself to visit the Eighth Route Army, and this move was the right move.

"Our regiment commander highly respects the combat effectiveness of your army, and very much hopes that your army can send representatives to Fengdian to discuss the joint operations of the two armies." The commander of the company of the Central Army cordially extended an invitation.

Xiao Junping looked at Wu Zijian and said to him: "Actually, after the battle of attacking the south gate of Fengdian, we have sent people to Fengdian again to inquire about the situation, but there is no response. ”

Unexpectedly, the company commander of the Central Army informed that now that the four gates of Fengdian are closed, and non-military personnel are temporarily prohibited from entering and leaving, the spies sent by the Eighth Route Army may not be able to enter the city yet.

"Why is that?" Wu Zijian asked puzzledly: "With all due respect, when the Japanese occupied the county seat, they still allowed the people to enter and exit, why did the national army recover the county seat, but the four gates were closed?" ”

"Commander Wu doesn't know that our 391st Regiment is under-strengthened, and the two battalions that entered the city this time, even if they all go to the city head and city gate to defend, it is not enough to control such a large county town. At present, the situation of the surrounding enemy is unknown, and the regimental seat and the chief of staff are afraid that the Japanese army will come back to carry out a sneak attack, so they have to close the city gate. ”

"Not allowing people and residents to enter and exit is probably not the best policy, and after a long time, it will lose the support of the people." Xiao Junping said worriedly. Wu Zijian nodded approvingly.

"Therefore, our regiment invited your army to Fengdian to discuss matters, and strive to attack the Japanese army in the Little Elm Mountain first and drive them away, so as to relieve the elbow and armpit problems in the county seat, and the regiment dared to open the city gate to let the people enter and exit freely."

Wu Zijian glanced at Xiao Junping again, and felt that the enemy engineer captain had something inconvenient to say, so he asked people to arrange for the company commander of the Central Army and his party to rest and eat.

After the other party left, Wu Zijian summoned Li Tianlin again, and together with Xiao Junping, in response to the Central Army's request for help, an emergency response meeting was held.

The commander of the 5th Company, who was originally aggrieved, suddenly threw the unhappiness just now into his mind, and he tried his best to instigate the deputy battalion commander to send another 5 companies to kill a horse pistol: The Japanese army in Little Elm Mountain obviously still has a lot of good equipment, and it should join forces with the Central Army to take it over!