At this time, Huzi saw from the telescope: the person who dialed the head raised his head and raised the telescope with his left hand. He hurriedly lay down on the ground. At the moment when he lay down, Huzi clearly saw that there was a small black beard in the middle of the man's nose, and Huzi's heart jumped suddenly, "This is Japanese! They are Japanese soldiers! ”

Huzi reached out and took out his pocket watch from his arms: the time was 6:20 in the morning. Huzi didn't dare to delay any longer, and went down the hill from the way he came. He came to Hongyu's side and said hurriedly and quietly, "Thirteen Japanese soldiers have come from the ditch, and it is estimated that they will be here in half an hour." ”

"Really?" Hongyu's face suddenly changed and she shouted loudly.

"Be quiet!" Huzi scolded in a low voice.

"What should I do?" Ruby asked nervously and quietly.

"What to do? Hit the muzzle of our guns and kill them!. Huzi replied viciously, his eyes narrowed to reveal a thick murderous intent. The tiger was so frightened by him that he leaned straight on Ruby.

"Listen to you." Ruby turned nervous to excited.

Huzi drew on the snow with his fingers and said, "I'll hit the first three first." Listen to my gun, you hit the last two, then the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh in the back team. The rest is mine. Remember? Repeat! ”

Listening to Hongyu's repetition, Huzi then said while drawing: "You go to the mountain beam on the opposite side of the ravine, take this hill as the standard, and go a hundred meters further." You have to slowly climb to a point where you can see the bottom of the ditch and lay in ambush. I lay in ambush in the middle of the western slope of this hill. When the Japanese soldiers came, it happened to be me at the head and you at the end. It is necessary to aim at the Japanese soldiers here and here. He tapped his fingers on the center of his brow and on his temple.

"What the hell." Hongyu pursed her lips disdainfully: "You just see!" So saying, she took the blanket and walked away with the tiger.

"What about the 'Seven Tones'?"

"On the body!" Ruby replied without replying.

Huzi tied his horses and climbed the hill again, observing the movements of the people in the ravine with a telescope.

The gang was still a mile from the hill. The snow in the ditch didn't reach the roots of their thighs, making it difficult for them to take every step. The people behind are walking in the footsteps of the people in front.

Ruby lay on the snow on the top of the hill, as if swimming in the water, and slowly crawled forward while pulling the snow in front of her head. Behind her, a man-wide and two-foot-deep trough formed in the snow.

Huzi put away the telescope and went around to a recess on the west side of the hill more than ten meters from the bottom of the ditch. He pulled out a snow pit, made two more holes in the edge of the pit, and then took off his bare sheepskin coat and spread it on the bottom of the pit. He lay down on his coat, took the long barrel of the drum containing 32 rounds of ammunition out of the magazine, loaded it, opened the safety, and then pulled the wooden magazine out of the holster and stuck it on the handle. Then he placed the gun on the right side of his body, put his hands in his sleeves, and looked into the ditch through the hole in the rim of the pit.

Ruby wore black sheepskin gloves on her hands, lying on her coat in the snow pit, holding a box gun with the butt on it in her right hand, and watched the movement at the bottom of the ditch through the hole in the edge of the snow pit. The tiger obediently lay beside her.

Ten of the thirteen people in the ravine were indeed genuine Japanese soldiers. Nine people belonged to the Commander Tanibe Brigade of the Second Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Leading the team was Shozo Minamii Katsuo, who was the operational staff officer of the 2nd Division.

Minamii Shaosa's family is illustrious, his father is a Japanese hereditary nobleman, and his seniority in the military is very deep, and his mother is a close member of the imperial family. After graduating from the Imperial Japanese Army University, he himself entered the Second Division, and before he was thirty years old, he was already a young man.

Why are they here at this time?

At this time, Harbin was under the rule of Jilin Province. Due to the relationship between the Eastern Railway, the Northeast Political Affairs Committee designated both sides of the railway as special administrative regions, and set up the "East Railway Special Administrative Region Governor's Office" and the "East Railway Road Protection Army General Headquarters" in Harbin. ”

The governor of the special administrative region is Zhang Jinghui, the commander-in-chief of the road protection army is concurrently served by Zhang Zuoxiang, the commander of the Changsui road protection army is concurrently served by Ding Chao, and the commander of the Haman road protection army is concurrently served by Su Bingwen.

Li Du, the guard envoy of Yilan Town in Jilin Province and commander of the 24th Brigade, Ding Chao, the town guard envoy of Binjiang Road and commander of the 28th Brigade, Xing Zhanqing, the commander of the 26th Brigade stationed in Harbin, and Feng Zhanhai, head of the guard regiment of the Office of the Deputy Commander of the Northeast Frontier Army stationed in Jilin, led their troops to form the "Jilin Self-Defense Army" and publicly elected Li Du as commander-in-chief.

Xi Qia formed the five brigades of the Northeast Army stationed in Jilin that had surrendered to Japan into a "rebel army" and appointed Yu Chenxi, the former commander of the cavalry division of the Northeast Army, as the commander-in-chief, and launched an attack on Harbin from the Fifth Standing Committee on 27 January 1932.

On 28 January, Li Du commanded the "Jilin Self-Defense Army" to defeat the "rebel army" commanded by Chen.

On 30 January, the Commander of the Second Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Tanibe's Brigade, arrived at the Shuangcheng Railway Station, and on 2 February, the headquarters of the Second Division and its subordinate 15th Brigade approached the southern suburbs of Harbin.

The headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army decided that at 8 o'clock in the morning of 3 February, the Japanese army would be on the left and the "rebel army" under the command of Yu Chencheng would be the right flank, and adopt the tactics of separate attacks and joint attacks to launch an attack on Harbin.

Nanjing, who was following the operation of the Hasebe Brigade, proposed to the commander of the Hasebe Brigade at this time: In view of the fact that more than 7,000 people from the two brigades reorganized from the Heilongjiang Provincial Police and Security Corps were stationed in Tonghe County, Heilongjiang Province, he requested that a special reconnaissance team be formed, led by him, carrying a radio station, to go deep into the Jiangwan Wharf area of Tonghe County 24 hours before the attack was launched to monitor the movements of the two brigades.

The commander of the Tamen Division also sent a telegram to the commander of the Hasebe Brigade, expressing support for Nani's proposal and asking the Hasebe Brigade to fully cooperate with the operation.

In fact, in the eyes of the commander of the Hasebe Brigade: Nanjing's operation was purely superfluous. During this time, the Japanese Kwantung Army was stepping up its persuasion of Ma Zhansan to surrender and made progress. The troops of the Northeast Army in Heilongjiang Province will not reinforce Harbin at all. Besides, these two brigades also do not have much combat effectiveness.

"It seems that the commander of the Duomen Division wants to make this special guy Nanjing make meritorious contributions. From Harbin to Tonghe, most of them are mountainous and sparsely populated. Nanjing's trip was nothing more than a long-distance armed march in accordance with the requirements of military textbooks. Their only enemy is temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius. The commander of the Hasebe Brigade looked at the telegram and said to the chief of staff beside him.

The chief of staff looked at the map and said: "Before the war, Nanjing Shaozuo led more than 10 people to go 200 kilometers behind enemy lines, and brilliantly completed the reconnaissance mission. What a reason to get promoted! ”

Although the commander of the Hasebe Brigade had a complaint, he still made a careful arrangement: he asked Yu Chenzi to send a platoon of cavalry to escort Nanjing and his party.