When the Japanese army began to attack Fengdian County from the north and south, Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team of the second battalion of the Lin Division, was wandering around the city with two members of the team - since the 391st Regiment of the Central Army attacked and occupied Fengdian, the city gate has been closed, so Chen Xuanzhu could not find the opportunity to enter the city.

As a result, it was outside Nancheng that Chen Xuanzhu suddenly discovered the brigade of Japanese troops who had driven out of the mountain pass of Xiaoyushu Mountain. At that time, the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team did not know that his deputy battalion commander had entered the city and united with 391 to form an allied army. When he realized that this was an attempt by the Japanese to recapture Fengdian from the Central Army, he immediately sent a team member Pegasus back to Guanmenshan Hekou Village to report to Wu Zijian.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping had just sent two other enemy workers from Hekou Village to Fengdian, preparing to enter the city as a guide for the 391st Regiment to attack Xiaoyushu Mountain as agreed.

They met on the road.

The three enemy workers who met unexpectedly quickly exchanged information with each other, and immediately felt the seriousness of the situation, so they all rushed back to Hekou Village.

Wu Zijian was dumbfounded: I was planning to set out to attack Little Elm Mountain, but I didn't expect that the Japanese soldiers actually came out of the mountain: according to what the enemy workers saw with their own eyes in Fengdian Nancheng, there were at least three squadrons of infantry and artillery. Wu Zijian guessed that the cannon should be the 75 Mountain Cannon mentioned by the people of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army.

But where did these devils come from?!

When Qin Zhongxiao, the colonel of the Central Army, counterattacked Fengdian, there were about 100 devils who ran out from Xiaoyushu Mountain to support the garrison Japanese troops in the county town, but he Wu Zijian attacked from behind and beat him up; There are definitely not so many remnants of it that fled back to Little Elm Mountain.

"It's Wencheng, the devil of Wencheng!"

It was Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy workers, who spoke. He had long been vaguely worried that the joint attack of the 2nd Battalion and the Central Army on Little Elm Mountain would attract the Japanese army in Wencheng to take action. But now it seems that the Japanese did not even wait for any more mistakes in Little Elm Mountain, and sent heavy troops to fight for Fengdian.

"At least three infantry squadrons? Didn't you look away? Li Tianlin reluctantly questioned the enemy worker who ran back from Fengdian.

But the enemy workers swore that it was absolutely right, and the deputy Chen and them observed the heads from a distance, only a lot more; The cannon was also pushed to the outskirts of Nancheng in a bright way, and the deputy Chen sent him back to Hekou Village to report the news before the cannon had already fired.

Li Tianlin opened his mouth and stopped talking, his eyes looking at Wu Zijian and Xiao Junping blankly. In his opinion, this plan to snatch equipment from the devil has come to naught.

"What about Fengdian? The people of the Central Army, can they withstand it? Xiao Junping's thinking was obviously different from that of the 5th company commander, and he began to worry about the fate of the 391st Regiment at this time.

"If it's really a big group of devils dispatched from Wencheng, then it must be specifically to capture Fengdian," Wu Zijian stared at his enemy engineer captain with great certainty: "Colonel Qin has two main battalions in the county town, plus a machine gun company and a spy company, and with the city wall condescending, it shouldn't be a big problem to resist." ”

"How long can you hold on?" Xiao Junping said worriedly: "The power of the two seven-five mountain cannons should not be underestimated, if the city wall or city gate is smashed, the pressure on the defenders will become very great. ”

Li Tianlin suddenly interjected: "Isn't there a total of three battalions in the 391st Regiment?" Where is the other battalion? ”

Wu Zijian touched his round nose, shook his head and replied, "That battalion can't be counted." Colonel Qin said that his three battalions were exchanged for horses from the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army, and they were all new recruits from the peasant families of Da Yushu Mountain, and most of them could not even put their guns. ”

When he was still drinking and chatting with Qin Zhongxiao in Fengdian, Wu Zijian learned that the 391st Regiment had captured a cavalry company of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army in the northern suburbs of Fengdian under the pretense of Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army.

"It turns out that that battalion is all new soldiers, it's a pity," Li Tianlin smacked his lips and said: "If that battalion of the 391st Regiment can fight, at this time, you can take advantage of the fact that Little Japan is busy attacking the city, go around from the Big Elm Mountain, and give it a flank attack from behind." Just like we did last time! ”

Hearing the last sentence of the 5th company commander, Wu Zijian's heart moved: That's right, we did a beautiful job last time, this time, do you want to it again?!

Xiao Junping keenly caught his expression, and immediately guessed his thoughts, and couldn't help but look at Wu Zijian eagerly, and said, "Deputy battalion commander, do you want to do the same?" ”

Wu Zijian grinned, looking at the enemy engineer captain and the 5th company commander with a blank face: "If you kill it from behind the little devil who is besieging the city, what are the chances of winning?" ”

Unexpectedly, before Xiao Junping could speak, Li Tianlin, who had always been belligerent, waved his hand desperately: "No way, no way!" Last time we had artillery, and we had twice as many troops as the Japanese; Now that our artillery has been confiscated by the battalion headquarters, the number of Japanese troops is at least three times greater than ours; This deal, with no chance of winning, cannot be done. ”

Li Tianlin's words made the two commanders, who were still enthusiastic just now, instantly calm down - after all, the commander of the 5th company is a battle-hardened general, and he has calculated the key points at once.

Neither of them spoke again, and the room fell silent.

After a while, Wu Zijian still unfolded the hand-drawn map without giving up, examined it carefully, and the other two people also came over and silently accompanied him in the dim light of the horse lamp.

"How about sneaking into Little Elm Mountain? This was originally the task given to us by this joint operation; Wu Zijian's short and thick fingers poked at the southern foot of Little Elm Mountain on the map: "Here, it is the path we once went out of the mountain, and the soldiers at that time can still remember the road, this time, we will touch back from this path!" ”

The deputy commander of the second battalion said that the second battalion of the forest division marched through Xiaoyushu Mountain after the Spring Festival and arrived at today's Guanmen Mountain.

"What are you going to do when you touch it?" Li Tianlin asked puzzled.

"Of course, it's a sneak attack on Dongshankou to cut off the back road of the devils who attacked Fengdian!" Wu Zijian said as he made a truncated movement with his hand: "Perhaps, there will be a lot of firepower equipment deployed by devils in the mountain pass." ”

Speaking of equipment, Li Tianlin's head shone again, and he, who was trying to stop the troops just now, urgently grabbed Wu Zijian's waving hand: "Oh? What will it be? Mortars, heavy machine guns ?! ”

Wu Zijian angrily and funny shook off the other party's entanglement: "How do I know what's there?" When the devil set up the mountain pass position, he didn't ask me to look at it! ”

The captain of the enemy engineer did not participate in the banter of these two old comrades-in-arms, his eyes were still staring at the map, staring at the place where Wu Zijian's finger poked just now, and pondered: This is undoubtedly a dangerous move, but if you move correctly, you will receive miraculous results. Because the Japanese army brigade poured out of the Xiaoyushu East Pass and counterattacked Fengdian, which was close at hand, the devil forces left behind in the East Pass may be very weak. If you can successfully touch the mountain from the path at the southern foothills, and then sneak attack the East Mountain Pass from behind the mountain, and then defend it with danger, it will definitely cause chaos in the Japanese army outside the mountain pass, so as to achieve the purpose of supporting the defenders of the Fengdian Central Army!

Xiao Junping poured out these thoughts in one go, and Wu Zijian nodded vigorously at the other party frequently - this was exactly the plan he had planned in his heart. And Li Tianlin on the side has already begun to be eager to try.

"There is a variable, we have to beware," Xiao Junping still tried to calm himself down, and he also said while comparing on the map: "That is, don't drive any more Japanese reinforcements from the direction of Wencheng!" Otherwise, we will occupy Dongshankou and cut off the back road of the devils, and the devils from Wencheng will cut off our back road again. ”

"Then fight quickly, occupy the East Mountain Pass, seize the equipment, and withdraw with your legs!" Li Tianlin's operational focus was obviously also focused on capturing equipment.

Both of them went to see Wu Zijian together.

At this time, a soldier suddenly reported outside the gate that the deputy company commander of the 8th Company in the Hongxing Gorge in the Guanmen Mountain had arrived with the strength of two platoons.

They were Wu Zijian's original plan to fight with the Central Army and take over the 5th Company to defend Hekou Village.

"The send-off has arrived, and it seems that we should be on our way. The 391st Regiment is fighting the Japanese, and we have to help. Wu Zijian said calmly, but he had clearly made up his mind.

"I agree, since we want to fight, it is better to fight sooner rather than later," the captain of the enemy engineer replied equally calmly: "Taking advantage of the darkness, we will touch the Little Elm Mountain overnight, and launch an attack on the East Mountain Pass before dawn, it will have a surprise effect." ”

"The possibility of the Japanese sending another brigade from Wencheng will not be too great, after all, a large-scale battle is going on in Nantongpulu, and Wencheng is the rear base camp of this railway line, and they will not invest too much strength for a county town dozens of miles away." Wu Zijian made a final judgment.

Li Tianlin had already run out to gather the troops, and he and the deputy company commander of the 8th Company, who also ran in in a hurry, almost collided.

Wu Zijian gave an explanation to Xiao Junping and the deputy commander of the 8th Company, and asked the deputy commander of the 8th Company to command the defense area of Hekou Village during this period, and listen to the advice of Captain Xiao Junping in everything. Immediately, he and Li Tianlin set off with 5 companies.

Their route was markedly different from the last time they went to Dafengdian, and when they had traveled about halfway in the direction of Fengdian, they took a sharp turn onto a path leading to the southern foot of Little Elm Mountain. It was also this action that made Wu Zijian miss out on a member of the enemy labor team who was running back from Fengdian.

It was Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team who had been squatting outside Fengdian City, another subordinate who had just been sent back, because Deputy Chen was surprised to find that the central army defending the southern city of Fengdian had given up the defense of the city without resistance; Later, the gates of the southern city were opened from the inside of the city, and the large groups of Japanese troops gathered outside the southern city had already swarmed into the city. Although the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team could not yet know what was happening in the city, it was certain that the county town had fallen back into the hands of the Japanese.

He immediately sent the last member of the team around him to quickly return to Hekou Village to report the news - this method of reporting news in echelons was personally taught by Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy engineering team, which could ensure that the information on the front line was constantly updated to the rear.

It's a pity that this latest updated information was not delivered to Wu Zijian's hands as soon as possible. Xiao Junping, who received the report in Hekou Village, couldn't help but be shocked: Fengdian had fallen so quickly, and the whereabouts of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army were unknown - he immediately sent people to chase the deputy battalion commander and the 5th Company. Looking down at the watch on his wrist, Xiao Junping began to pray: The marching speed of the 5th Company, I hope it is not too fast!

However, the prayers of the captain of the enemy workers did not work. The 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Lin Division, which was running with all its might, had already entered the small elm mountain in the darkness of the night under the leadership of Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin.