Two members of the enemy engineering team of the 2nd Battalion had already infiltrated the freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station. At that time, not long after the Taiyuan-Wencheng section of the Tongpu Railway was opened to traffic, the freight yard of the railway station posted a notice to recruit workers - because of the war, the original freight yard was paralyzed for a while, and most of the hired workers ran out, so the two strong members of the enemy engineering team were easily hired by the reactivated freight yard. Xiao Junping's task for the two of them was to keep an eye on the movements on the railway line, record the situation of the Japanese army's troop and arms transport, and report it immediately if there was any abnormality.

The freight yard of the Wencheng Railway Station was divided into two parts, north and south, and the south freight yard was requisitioned by the Japanese army, and the baggage wing of the Sena Division established a military station there to receive and send equipment and supplies for the main force of the division and regiment to the south. The North Freight Yard is still civilian, and now there are buses and wagons coming from the direction of Taiyuan every day along the railway line to roar into the station, and the inside and outside of the freight yard are gradually showing a busy scene.

Since entering Wencheng to establish an underground intelligence station, Xiao Junping has found out the deployment of the Japanese garrison in the city in almost the shortest possible time. To the surprise of the captain of the enemy workers, there were so few troops left behind in the huge city of Wen. According to his and his team's reconnaissance, the Japanese troops in the city were roughly distributed in the following locations: fixed posts at the three city gates, mobile posts on the three city walls, and fixed posts on the streets and alleys in important areas; Hagiwara Brigade Headquarters, Otsuka Wing Headquarters, Railway Station. Visually, the combined size of the Japanese army at these locations should have been more than 1,000 men, but never more than 2,000 men, including a small number of cavalry roaming the streets.

It should be said that Xiao Junping, who was born as an intelligence staff officer of the Jin Army, made this inference quite close to the truth, because the Japanese army stationed in Wencheng City at present does have only an independent infantry brigade plus a cavalry squadron. However, the enemy engineering team, which had not yet entered the city and had not had time to carry out further reconnaissance, missed a large number of Japanese troops outside the city: the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Otsuka Wing stationed in the eastern suburbs of Bunjo, that is, the Nara Infantry Brigade; Of course, the infantry brigade sent a squadron to the newly established barracks in the southern suburbs of Wencheng, and Xiao Junping and his enemy engineers were even less aware.

For the railway station and the north and south freight yards in the west of the city, the enemy engineer captain was attentive from the beginning, not only was there the most concentrated Japanese garrison in the city (in fact, it was an entire infantry squadron), but also a large number of Japanese pseudo-plainclothes agents roaming the neighborhood all day long. The South Freight Yard has also become a baggage station for the Sena Division, and the mountains of war materials are jaw-dropping.

Deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian has just sent a message clearly informing him that the 2nd Battalion will join forces with the 391st Regiment of the Central Army near Lingshi County on the Nantongpu Railway Line. The encirclement point was Lingshi County, and the reinforcements were fought by the Japanese troops who rushed to the rescue from Wencheng. This made the captain of the enemy engineer feel a little confused, he really couldn't imagine how many men and horses could be sent to Lingshi County, which was dozens of miles away, to help the defenders who were already stretched thin in Wencheng City?

Equally perplexing, however, was the fact that Wu Zijian referred to the fact that a group of Japanese troops in five trucks quickly swept through villages along the Qinglong River in one afternoon. Five Type 94 trucks, if calculated according to each carrying more than 20 people, is almost close to the size of an infantry squadron, where did this mobile force come from? Was it really Wencheng drawn out of the few garrisons? When the deputy battalion commander asked him to find out the origin of this Japanese mobile unit and the motive for attacking the villages along the Qinglong River, Xiao Junping felt a little at a loss what to do.

Xiao Junping, who doesn't like to drag mud and water, immediately sent someone to send his question back to the second battalion headquarters at the foot of Guanmen Mountain, and he quickly got part of the answer: according to the intelligence source of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, there is an infantry brigade of the Japanese army stationed in the eastern suburbs of Wencheng, which is suspected to be the mobile force of the local Japanese garrison; The 391st Regiment drew up a plan to encircle the points and send reinforcements, and they were the ones who coveted it.

The captain of the enemy engineer was shocked, and he was slightly surprised that the 391st Regiment, nested in the deep mountains of the Great Elm Mountain, could do such detailed intelligence work. During the Battle of Xinkou last year, Xiao Junping had already experienced the obvious differences between the Jin Sui Army, a local warlord in Shanxi and Suiyuan, and the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, and this difference was not only reflected in the combat equipment, but also in the overall personnel quality of the troops.

This 391 regiment is really not simple! As early as after the end of the battle against the night attack in Hekou Village and Xiping Village, Xiao Junping also sent enemy engineers to reconnoiter in the direction of Wencheng under the instruction of Wu Zijian.

At present, the underground intelligence station of the enemy engineering team Wencheng also has a contact point outside the city, which is a farmhouse located in the southeast corner of the suburbs of Wencheng. In view of the new information provided by the 391st Regiment, Xiao Junping sent an additional man from the underground intelligence station in the city to this contact point outside the city to reconnoiter and observe the Japanese mobile troops stationed in the eastern suburbs of Wencheng.

According to the tactical analysis of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, after the start of the joint operation with the Pu Railway, the rescue troops sent by the Japanese army from Wencheng to Lingshi County are likely to come from this department; Therefore, from now until the beginning of the operation, the monitoring and defense of this Japanese mobile unit must be carried out 24 hours a day.

At the same time, the two enemy workers who had already infiltrated the north freight yard of the Wencheng Railway Station should also pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army on the railway line. Xiao Junping analyzed that once the Japanese army in Wencheng went south to aid Lingshi County, where the garrison was weaker, the probability of reinforcements taking a train from the railway line to the past was quite large: after all, the two places were adjacent stations on the Nantongpu railway line, and the straight-line distance was only more than 40 miles.

From this point of view, it is very likely that the Japanese convoy that attacked the villages along the Qinglong River also came from this Japanese mobile unit. But what the deputy battalion commander asked to find out was what was the purpose of this Japanese convoy inexplicably sweeping the villages on the banks of the Qinglong River where there were not many garrisons?

Knowing that the Japanese army did not loot food or arrest food in this sweep, they hurried and hurried away, burned and killed, and then retreated. Xiao Junping couldn't help but have big doubts in his heart, but he couldn't find a way to find out the truth for a while.

After arranging all this, Xiao Junping exchanged views with his deputy captain Chen Xuanzhu in the silk village storefront - although the 391st Regiment of the Central Army is separated from Wencheng by a Fengdian county town and a small elm mountain, it is still able to feel the strength of the Japanese army here, and it is no accident; He judged that the 391st Regiment was very likely to have an intelligence agency in Wencheng like the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade of their Lin Division, and perhaps their men came earlier than their own enemy engineering team, and they also had much more tentacles in the Wencheng area than their own.

Chen Xuanzhu once participated in the battle where Wu Zijian led the 5th Company to attack Fengdian, when it happened to coincide with the 391st Regiment of the Central Army was also counterattacking Fengdian County, and the two armies met at the end of the battle, and he had a one-sided acquaintance with the regimental chief of staff of the 391st Regiment, and also witnessed the sophisticated equipment of the Central Army.

"I agree with you," Chen Xuanzhu said to Xiao Junping, "The 391st Regiment dared to pull the team to the Tongpu railway line to fight, and it must have done quite thorough reconnaissance before. The battle in which they counterattacked Fengdian was quite exciting, and it was definitely brave and strategic. ”

At this time, the captain of the enemy engineer of the Eighth Route Army suddenly thought of something: the enemy engineer team could drive the underground intelligence station to Wencheng, and it was difficult to say that the 391st Regiment did not have the same intelligence agencies and personnel in Wencheng; Perhaps, the two sides will be able to meet in this railway hub city in the occupied area in the future!

Xiao Junping excitedly explained this point of view to Chen Xuanzhu, and suggested that the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion and the 391st Regiment should communicate with each other, and simply exchange the inside story of the establishment of an underground intelligence station in Wencheng with each other, and the intelligence agencies of the two armies would cooperate with each other to achieve better results.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xuanzhu waved his hands and said no repeatedly, bluntly saying that he absolutely must not communicate with the Kuomintang army in this regard. Xiao Junping, who was born in the Jin Army, was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and couldn't understand why his deputy in front of him had such an opinion about the national army: "The second battalion of the Xu Brigade has united with 391 to form a military alliance, why can't the underground intelligence agencies of the two sides meet frankly?" ”

"These are two completely different concepts, the army alliance can be, but the underground intelligence work of our party and our army has always been on guard against the Kuomintang, and we have had a painful and bloody lesson in this regard." When he said this, Chen Xuanzhu's gaze was almost fierce.

Xiao Junping's heart fluttered, and in an instant, he saw the familiar content from the tone and demeanor of the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team, which was vividly reflected in Liu Shu, the instructor of the second battalion. The former intelligence staff officer of the Jin Army sighed silently.

"Okay, I'll be in charge of the movements at the train station, and I'll be responsible for the task of spying on the motives of the Japanese army's sweeping troops, so you can take on some more."

When the two captains and deputy captains of the enemy engineering team of the Eighth Route Army were confused about the Japanese convoy sweeping the banks of the Qinglong River, another small group of Japanese troops covered by the sweeping team had already completed the day's task and returned to the barracks in the southern suburbs of Wencheng; Dressed in civilian clothes, they not only retreated, but also brought back four Chinese women who had been secretly arrested.

The fourth woman was met on the way back in the direction of Wencheng after the two arrest detachments had converged in one place. It was a lone woman in her thirties, who had gone to her mother's house in a village west of the railway line two days earlier to return to her husband's house on an errand, and that day she was about to return to her husband's house. This sturdy Chinese woman fought to the death against the plainclothes of the Japanese army who suddenly rushed to capture her, and finally a Japanese soldier knocked her out on the head with the handle of a dagger, and then she was loaded into a cart and transported into the Japanese barracks along with the three unfortunate female compatriots who had just been captured.

In order to cover people's eyes, a truck drove out of Xiaoyushu Mountain that night, picked up the four Chinese women, and transferred them to the secret camp of comfort women in Songjiagou.