When the three Japanese soldiers in civilian clothes walked around the village of Ewhapo, most of the villagers had already eaten lunch, and the smell of cooking and food in the village was almost gone. These three Japanese soldiers with evil intentions went to the door to buy Chinese medicinal herbs in a pretentious manner, and at the same time, they searched and observed the young women in the village.

One of the three Chinese-speaking subordinates of Hirai Teruichi is named Mizukawa, and he is the leader of the newly established capture team, and his military rank is already lieutenant. Lieutenant Mizukawa was not a military police member, but had served in the Sena Division, stationed in Northeast China and North Korea. Before joining the army, his hometown in Japan had been neighbors with a Chinese TCM family for more than ten years, so Lieutenant Mizukawa was very proficient in both Chinese medicine and Chinese.

When Hirai Teraichi's gendarmerie was forming an arrest squad at the Songjiagou comfort women's camp, Commander Hagiwara Akira, the leader of the "Wind Project," ordered the entire division to recruit officers and men who were fluent in Chinese, and Lieutenant Mizukawa was selected from the combat unit. Moreover, he was directly appointed as the leader of the capture team and became the right-hand man of Hirai Teruichi.

On this afternoon, the eyes of Lieutenant Mizukawa, a medicinal herb merchant, unfortunately found only one young girl from a family, about eighteen or nineteen years old, and her appearance could be called mediocre. In the courtyards of several other houses, he heard the voices of the ladies in the houses, but he could not see the real person, so he could not judge the age of the woman who spoke.

The detachment led by Hirai Teraichi came to Ewhapo from the direction of the Tongpu Railway, and the three Mizukawa entered from the west side of the village and went from west to east to find out the rows. Ten minutes after they entered the village, in the east of the village, that is, in the direction of the Qinglong River, the cavalry company commander of the Eighth Route Army led the team to cross the Qinglong River and enter the village.

Shanxi has been fighting for more than half a year, but Lihuapu has not been harassed by the war so far. The common people here have never seen the Japanese army, nor have they seen the national army, and the only armed action they have ever experienced is the robbery of the Black Stone Cliff bandits in Guanmen Mountain. Against this background, the sudden appearance of Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company, and a group of more than 40 people from the work team completely disrupted the calm atmosphere of the entire village.

They were amazed to see Zhang Xiu, a handsome female soldier dressed in a military uniform with a short gun slung over her shoulder, not as reserved and stage frightened as the young women in the village, and who spoke a nice Mandarin (author's note: Mandarin is called Mandarin compared to Shanxi dialect).

Zhang Xiu stood in the carriage of a big car, condescendingly and loudly preaching to the villagers, many of the words that came out of her mouth, the closed villagers seemed to understand whether they understood or not, and felt very fresh, and at the same time, they all had a sense of intimacy with this smiling female soldier. From her mouth, they knew that the comer was the Communist Eighth Route Army, an army that specialized in fighting the Japanese invaders.

At the same time, the male soldiers in the task force took some villagers to ask for warmth, and offered to go to the villagers' homes to have a look, and help the villagers do some manual work such as chopping wood and carrying water.

This team of more than 40 people began to gradually become scattered. Some of the people entered the homes of the villagers at the east end of the village, and Xia Lianshan's cavalry company began to spread out to the west of the village, and Zhang Xiu's cart also drove slowly in that direction, and she herself continued to preach along the way.

In this way, the task force of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese capture team finally met in the village. Lieutenant Mizukawa and his partner who purchased Chinese herbs had just turned out of a family's house when they saw the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army more than a dozen paces away. Mizukawa was shocked, he didn't expect that there would be a branch army here, and it was cavalry. From their armbands, it can be known that the comer is the Eight Paths.

Mizukawa was frightened in his heart, but he was silent on the surface, and the Japanese lieutenant, who could be called a veteran oilman, knew very well that there was no flaw in his appearance, and he could speak Chinese, so he could be confused. And the horsemen, who were walking slowly on their horses, apparently did not suspect the two peddlers who were leading a donkey; The two sides passed by, and one of the horsemen even looked at their donkeys and smiled good-naturedly at them.

Shui Chuan rode on the back of a donkey and looked around, and then he realized that these cavalry of the Eighth Route Army could be seen everywhere. He realized that something was wrong, and whispered to his partner beside him: "Hurry up and get out of the village, inform Hirai Nakasa, and evacuate immediately!" ”

However, just as Mizukawa and the others were about to find a route that would not be noticed by the cavalry and escape to the outside of the village, the Japanese soldier who was in charge of the response behind the two of them showed his horse's feet. This man had been following Mizukawa at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, and because of the angle of his position, he had spotted the oncoming cavalry even earlier than Mizukawa. This Japanese soldier, who also spoke Chinese, panicked on the spot, and immediately strode under the courtyard wall of a house, and turned over into the courtyard behind the low courtyard wall.

He lay motionless at the base of the courtyard wall, nervously listening to the movement outside, until the sound of the horse's hooves was far away, and then he panicked out of the courtyard wall again, ready to go to meet the squad leader Mizukawa in front. But his action of climbing over the wall was noticed by another group of cavalry of the Eighth Route Army not far away, and the cavalry first saw a person coming out from behind the courtyard wall, and just when he was very strange about the other party's behavior, the person who climbed over the wall turned nervously to look at the cavalry who was walking away, and began to run in the opposite direction. This alerted the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, and he quickly pointed out the back of the suspicious person to a companion beside him, and the two exchanged glances, and they coincidentally rode after him.

"Fellow, stand still, I have something to ask you!"

When they were only a few feet away from the runners, one of the horsemen shouted loudly, and considering that the identity of the other party was unknown, neither pursuer immediately drew his saber or carbine, they only wanted to intercept the other and interrogate the situation. Unexpectedly, the running man suddenly turned around and raised his hand, and when the two cavalrymen of the Eighth Route Army saw clearly that he was holding a pistol in his hand, there was a "bang", and the other party had already fired.

Before the gunshot, Lieutenant Mizukawa happened to see the female soldier Zhang Xiu's cart coming slowly, and a group of curious villagers followed the cart around the cart, and the two sides were chatting enthusiastically. The captain of the Japanese army was instantly stunned by Zhang Xiu's appearance, and for a moment forgot his motive for escaping from the village, and he even whimsically felt that he should find an opportunity to rob this beautiful female soldier.

On Zhang Xiu's car, there was another woman dressed in people's clothes, who looked like she was in her thirties. Shui Chuan couldn't help but sigh secretly, after searching in this village for a long time, he didn't find a satisfactory object, and he didn't expect that the gang of troops who accidentally broke into the village turned out to be a strange thing to live in!

Mizukawa's companion didn't know what was going on in his squad leader's boss at the moment, and when he saw him staring motionlessly in the direction of the cart, he thought he was avoiding this group of troops - around the cart, three other male soldiers were following on foot, their shoulders were all carrying rifles, but their expressions were very relaxed.

At this moment, the gunfire suddenly rang out.

The guy who shot at the two chasing cavalrymen was a pure gendarme, and he was sent from the headquarters of the North China Front to the Sena Division in Shanxi at the same time as the military police captain Hirai Terai, and he had almost no decent combat experience. He was already running in a panic, but when he found the cavalry of the Chinese army chasing after him, he was even more frightened, and without thinking about it, he took out a short gun from his waist - the Southern 14th pistol, which is called * by the Chinese military and civilians - and turned around and pulled the trigger while running.

This shot was fired at no level, not only did it not do basic aiming, but the muzzle of the gun was even deformed and pointed into the sky during the run, and the bullets whistled and flew directly above the two cavalrymen of the Eighth Route Army and disappeared. The startled cavalrymen hurriedly reined in the reins of their horses, and immediately pulled out their pony pistols from the pouches on the side of the saddle: the equipment of both of them came from the cavalry wing of the captured Sena Division, and they were also the first veterans to be trained under the instructors of the puppet Mongolian army. Looking at the panicked shooter in front of them, the two urged the war horses under their crotches, and began to chase and kill in a flanking attack.

At this time, Lieutenant Mizukawa, about a few dozen meters away from the place where the gun was fired, and there were several scattered houses in the middle, following the sound of the gun, he was riding on the back of a donkey, and he first saw his own men who were galloping wildly, and then, the figure of the horse pursuer also appeared in the field of vision. Mizukawa's heart sank, knowing that his subordinate had been exposed, and the direction he was running in at the moment was neither towards his own side, nor towards the outside of the west of the village where Hirai Nakasa was waiting.

"There is a situation, spread out quickly, hide!"

The shouts came from the big car not far away, and the three male soldiers around the female soldier Zhang Xiu were taking off their rifles and shouting nervously to disperse the overwhelmed villagers around them. Mizukawa noticed that everyone in the cart had jumped out of the car, and the short gun worn by the female soldier was also pulled out and held in his hand. At the same time, he looked around the area and found that many cavalry of the Zhina Army were riding their horses in the direction of the gun, and Shuichuan was soberly aware at this moment that he must not let the Zhina Army catch him alive!

Next to it was a house without a backyard, Mizukawa motioned for his companion to retreat, and the two hid in the back of the house, and the Japanese squad leader took out a 94 type* from his waist, observed it left and right, and then flashed out and threw it at the cart.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, * was thrown from the rear near the cart, and at the same time knocked over several people who were caught off guard, including a soldier of the Eighth Route Army. Before the explosion subsided, Mizukawa and the others drove the little donkey out of the other side of the house and ran towards the west of the village in a panic.

As soon as the cavalry company commander Xia Lianshan heard the gunshots, he ordered the soldiers around him to be on alert immediately: the enemy situation was unknown, and his reaction was first to shrink the scattered forces and move closer to the cart of the task force. At this time, most of the infantry and half of the cavalry of that squad were helping to work in the villager's house in the east of the village, and the area where the guns were fired was located in the center of the village, and about a dozen cavalry companies were scattered.

Xia Lianshan, on horseback, held a telescope to observe urgently, and saw that his two warriors were chasing something, but his vision was blocked so that he could not see the object being pursued. Just when the move was undecided, the explosion of * sounded behind the side, and the explosion was so thrilling that the cavalry company commander who had been in battle for a long time immediately recognized that it was the Japanese army's usual *-Japanese army!

Xia Lianshan's heart instantly tightened: I'm really afraid of something! I took the female soldiers to go deep alone, and what I was most worried about was encountering the Japanese army that might suddenly appear! How many of them came?!