In addition to the Aikawa Infantry Brigade of the Otsuka Wing and the Sena Division, a squadron of the Engineer Wing of the Sena Division also stayed in the mountain to build and repair the comfort women camp and the garrison barracks, repair the mountain roads, telecommunications and lighting facilities, and more importantly, be responsible for the establishment of the blockade line.

The small elm mountain is hundreds of miles in radius, and the Japanese army mainly occupies the southern part of the mountain, in order to completely block this part of the mountain, the engineer squadron can be described as exhausted and exhausted. Up to now, barbed wire fences have been erected on the south side of the highway that runs from east to west in the mountains, with wooden piles more than one person high.

However, the situation north of the highway is more special, with the Songjiagou railway station and the comfort women's secret camp, as well as the Xiangchuan infantry brigade and the engineer squadron's own barracks, all built according to the mountainous terrain. So the blockade to the north is messy and cumbersome – barbed wire, wooden fences, and even stone walls of varying heights and lengths.

The commander of the Hagiwara Brigade and the commander of the Kojima Agency had given strict instructions to the engineer squadron, requiring them to block every crevice; At the same time, the Xiangchuan Infantry Brigade was also required to set up fixed posts along the road, and on the northern blockade line, all the artificially built barriers should be deployed according to their location and corresponding guard teams, so as to prevent anyone from climbing over these barriers and entering the blockade area.

Tonight, one of the reconnaissance squads of the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army successfully touched the back of a stone wall on the blockade line, and then turned over, only to be discovered by the Japanese soldiers who were on duty nearby and exchanged fire on the spot.

When another team led by Zhao Mutou, commander of the spy company, struggled to climb the mountain beam behind the Songjiagou coal mine, the team bypassed the high mountain beam and turned to the bottom corner of the east side of the mountain beam along the mountain.

This bottom corner is located at the junction between the other mountain beams on the left, a small valley about a few zhang wide, and the guide who led the group said excitedly: If he guessed correctly, he could go around the front of the Songjiagou coal mine through this small valley.

Leading this reconnaissance team was a squad leader surnamed Zhang of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company, and when he heard what the guide said, squad leader Zhang also became excited, and immediately ordered the whole group to search and advance.

However, unexpectedly, they didn't go far, they encountered the barrier head-on, and in the dark night, squad leader Zhang, who turned on the flashlight, was surprised to find that the barrier in front of him was not natural, but a wall made of stones!

The almost two-meter-high wall, undoubtedly done by manpower - the Japanese did it - after the surprise, squad leader Zhang couldn't help but feel ecstatic again, it seems that they have touched the right place!

They decided to climb over the wall at once, and if it went well, on the other side of the stone wall, they would soon discover the hidden deeds of the Japanese in the mountains.

The guide became timid at this moment, and he didn't say a word to lead the way for the brothers of the national army, but as soon as he thought that he might break into the lair of the fierce Japanese if he climbed over this wall, the middle-aged man's legs and stomach were suddenly sifted with chaff, and he refused to continue with the soldiers of the special service company.

Squad Leader Zhang carried out some persuasion and intimidation, but the other party was unmoved, so he had to order a soldier to stay with the guide on this side of the wall; Immediately, he and three other soldiers set up a human ladder, carefully climbed the top of the wall, and after observing in the dark for a while, slipped down the wall.

The moonless night made the whole front pitch black, and the four soldiers of the special service company who climbed over the wall did not notice the mechanism under their feet at all—it was a rope lying on the ground less than half a foot high, and the rope was full of empty tin cans and a few bells—a soldier of the special service company who walked in front of the cat's waist happened to trip over the rope with his right foot, and suddenly made a thrilling sound in the silent night sky.

Less than ten meters in front of this rope, a thick cowhide tent was erected, in which a whole detachment of Japanese soldiers lived. They were in charge of guarding the stone wall that the soldiers of the Special Service Company had just climbed. During the day, there were always a few people standing guard in the direction of the stone wall, but every time at night, the strength was relaxed - since the beginning of the vigilance here, there had never been any accidents, which naturally made the Japanese soldiers of a detachment all relax their due vigilance.

But on this night, the bells and canned food boxes suddenly made a terrifying sound, even if the tent door curtain facing south was lowered, there were still a few Japanese soldiers inside who heard it for the first time, they were bored under the dim horse lamp in the tent, and immediately rushed to grab their guns, and the fast-reacting squad leader and a soldier rushed out of the tent door first, and went around to the back of the tent from the left and right respectively-

"Who? Password! ”

The captain of the detachment was half-kneeling on the ground, raising his gun with both hands and aiming at the pitch-black front, and shouted in Japanese. Behind him, more and more soldiers poured out of the tent, and the sound of bolts pulling guns came and went.

The opposite side, where the jingling sound had just been heard, was silent at the moment, and in the darkness, it was impossible to tell what was going on there. After a while, the Japanese detachment leader whispered to one of the soldiers next to him to go back to the tent and get a flashlight.

At that time, the soldiers of the special service company of the 391st Regiment, who were lying ten meters away from the opposite side, had already realized that a catastrophe was coming. Because the Japanese cowhide tent was extremely tightly closed, no light or sound was revealed before, so that squad leader Zhang and others have not figured out where the oncoming Japanese soldiers came from until now - listening to the sound of the 38-type rifle pulling the bolt, I am afraid that there are no less than ten people!

They tacitly chose to retreat, and in order to avoid touching the damn rope again (who knows if there was another rope), the soldiers of the Special Service Company crawled on the ground with their hands and feet together and slowly wriggled backwards.

They looked forward to being able to retreat under the wall like this. But it didn't take long for the flashlight on the opposite side to suddenly light up. A beam of light swept straight across the back of a spy company soldier and locked onto him.

Shots rang out.

The Japanese soldiers, who were confirmed to have broken in, did not expect to provoke a strong counterattack from the other side, even at the beginning of the firing of their guns—the soldiers of the special service company saw that they had been exposed, and the Bergman* in their hands immediately opened fire one after another; With such a close confrontation space, automatic firearms would undoubtedly have the upper hand, and half of the Japanese soldiers scattered around the cowhide tent were defeated in an instant.

The *men who completely suppressed the opponent's firepower could have used the precious time they had won to retreat, however, the experienced veteran of the Japanese army, the squad leader, braved the dense rain of bullets and threw a *, this extremely lethal 94-type *, exploded near the squad leader Zhang of the 391st regiment's special agent company, blowing up half of the squad leader's legs.

The commander of the Japanese detachment, who risked his life to throw bombs, was beaten into a sieve by the bullets of Bergman* on the opposite side, and six soldiers were also killed along with him; The remaining Japanese soldiers had to retreat to dodge the terrifying tongues of fire of automatic weapons.

The soldiers of the special service company noticed the squad leader's serious injuries, and two men dragged his armpits to the stone wall from left to right, while the other man retreated and kept shooting at the back.

They came under the stone wall. At this moment, the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side had been repulsed, but the night sky was resounding with a terrible and piercing siren, and there was no doubt that the Japanese reinforcements would soon rush here.

Squad leader Zhang was still quite conscious, but it was not until this moment that he realized that in addition to half of his right leg being blown away, a sharp shrapnel was also embedded in his abdomen, and blood was pouring out from there.

"I can't live," squad leader Zhang said with a faint breath: "You guys run for your lives, go back and report to the company commander and the regimental ......"

The grief-stricken soldiers of the spy company tried to lift their squad leader up and send him to the wall, but immediately realized that it was in vain. Squad Leader Zhang collapsed to the ground again, and blood began to pour out of his mouth - if he was exposed, he would never be captured alive! Before leaving, the regimental seat and the chief of staff gave a death order to the reconnaissance team - squad leader Zhang finally ordered his subordinates in vague words: Take away all my guns and stay*.

Two minutes later, the soldiers of the Special Service Company, who had already climbed over the stone wall and began to retreat in a hurry towards the support site, heard a heavy, muffled sound from *.

The sudden firefight incident in the Little Elm Mountain was reported to the Otsuka Wing Headquarters in Bunjo as soon as possible, and then the Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters was informed.

Brigade commander Akira Hagiwara was almost stunned the moment he received the report: Opposite him stood the brigade chief of staff, Kawabe Osa, and the two were studying the battle situation of the attack on the base area of the Eighth Route Army in Xiping Village, Guanmen Mountain, which had begun during the day. Unexpectedly, the battle to sweep Guanmen Mountain has not yet been divided, but there is chaos in his backyard!

Moreover, it is the most sensitive little elm mountain! Moreover, it is near the more sensitive Songjiagou Station!

Fortunately, a series of reports from Little Elm Mountain followed, indicating that the brief exchange of fire that appeared in the mountain had completely subsided. The body of an unidentified intruder was recovered, and no other anomalies were found in the cordoned off area of Little Elm Hill except for the site of the firefight. Aso Nakasa, the deputy wing commander of the Otsuka Wing, was personally commanding the Aikawa Infantry Brigade to stand by. One of the infantry squadrons had already put the perimeter of Songjiagou Station on guard.

"Unidentified intruder? What does that mean?! The frightened brigade commander, Major General, slapped the table and roared.

The chief of staff, Kawabe Daisa, who was also confused about this, looked at the angry brigade commander, and did not dare to draw conclusions lightly for a while. His mind was all on the battle of Saijo Wing's sweep of Xiping Village in Guanmen Xiping - Saijo Shigehei reported in the evening that the attack on Xiping Village was not smooth, during which he repeatedly encountered serious attacks from the flank and rear of the Eighth Route Army, resulting in the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Wing unable to concentrate on conquering Xiping Village in front - although the chief of staff of the riverside was very dissatisfied, he was already thinking about whether to send reinforcements to Saijo Shigehei's team. However, now, the vital and inmissible Little Elm Mountain has come with murderous news, which will inevitably make him, the chief of staff of the brigade, even more anxious.

"Call the secret service," Hagiwara Akira, who was calm, ordered a telecommunications staff officer with a roar: "I want him to immediately lead people to Little Elm Mountain and carefully screen the body of the intruder!" ”