Preface VI

Deputy Secretary Song also waved his fist:

"It's incredible...... It seems that this is not just a conspiracy of the little devils in Jiangcheng, if the enemy sent a secret telegram from our war zone to the Shanghai special high school, could it be that the enemy special in our column has a direct connection with the Shanghai special high school, and this is also related to Shanghai...... Complex,,The question is too complicated...... I don't understand, two comrades, it seems that the problem is even more serious...... No, the whole column must immediately withdraw from the current theater of operations and find a stable base area, the troops must be reorganized, and the spies of the little Japanese must be found out, otherwise, the entire column will ......be in danger."

"Yes, the two comrades of the division leader, our agents have not yet found out the problem so far, whether it is the intermittent of the special high school in Jiangcheng or the ghost of the Japanese spies in Shanghai, it is still difficult for us to identify, but there is one thing that we must not ignore, that is, the Japanese devils have burrowed into our stomachs like Sun Monkey...... Dangerous, too dangerous...... Commander, make up your mind, if you don't withdraw, something big may happen, then it will be troublesome, it will cause a great crisis to the troops, we are completely exposed to the enemy, and if we don't make up our minds, it will be too late......"

Peng Xuefeng slapped the table and stood up, "Jiao Linyi, the commander of the first regiment, Zhao Xingyuan of the second regiment, Zhang Sishui of the independent regiment, Li Shumao of the teaching brigade, Li Section Chief of the Operations Department, Xu Zhihou of the Telecommunications Department, and Director Wang of the Logistics Department"

"To, to, to, to......"

"Command:"

"Please ask the leader for instructions"

"The new 1st Regiment, the 2nd Old Regiment, the Independent Regiment, the Teaching Brigade, the Artillery Battalion, the Operations Department, the Telecommunications Section, the Logistics Department, including the Logistics Hospital, and the entire column immediately ceased any action, and all the units that went out must immediately withdraw to their units, immediately organize all their equipment, and urgently evacuate to the No. 6 area in the mountains, all of them should be remembered for me, you must keep it strictly confidential, and you must not leak any information before arriving at the No. 6 area......

"Yes—"

Staff Officer Chen stopped and looked at everyone:

"Remember to me, from now on, the orders of the headquarters will be directly conveyed to several of you, and the large army must strictly guard military secrets and the whereabouts of the troops...... Also, Director Wang of the Logistics Department, you first draw out two companies to assist Dean He of Big Glasses, to ensure that the hospital is in the middle of the team, and the logistics department does not want mother-in-law and mother-in-law, and the action must be fast......"

"Yes—"

Deputy Commander Song waved his hand:

"Hurry up, pay attention to secrecy......"

"Yes! Understood—"

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In the evening, a large landlord's house in the wide yard, a slip of blue brick and tile house facing south and north, the east three rooms are also people live in the lower house, the west is the lower house containing all kinds of farm tools and things, there is a three-room horse shed in the back, the landlord has lived in Dayangzhuang since the general team, and the big landlord fled into Jiangcheng with his family and fine softness.

The logistics of the column was temporarily stationed in the compound of this large landowner.

Even though everyone is busy, they are sorting out all the equipment, packing, bundling, and packing...... It seemed that they had basically packed up, waited for the order to set off in the column, and then moved to a new location.

Yi Baozhong, the chief of the logistics section of the Eighth Route Army, was leading a few soldiers in the courtyard to tie up the file boxes, he was already tired and sweating, and the staff officer Lou Fengjian, director of the telecommunications department of the column, led two soldiers over:

“…… Hey, old classmate, Section Chief Yi, you're busy...... Bite? And in person? ”

"It's an old classmate, Chief of Staff Lou, you're here...... The large army urgently retreated and transferred, and I don't have enough manpower here......"

“…… Isn't it, the superior gave an urgent order to transfer, and I was busy there......"

"Busy, what are you busy with, busy you are still wandering around......"

"Ahem, where do I have the time to hang out...... I'm in trouble, so I'm here to borrow something from you, an old classmate......"

"Hey, I said Lou Dazui, if it is not enough to borrow my manpower...... Borrow something, you see for yourself, I just packed it, in a word, there is nothing left......"

"Why, Yi Da Huangya, still an old classmate, you sealed me before I opened my mouth...... Today you have to borrow and borrow, and if you don't borrow, you have to borrow......"

"Hee-hee, you difficult Lou big mouth...... Hey, let me ask you, where are we going to move, the column is arranged too suddenly, there is no time to prepare anything, and everyone is in a hurry......"

Staff Officer Lou took a step closer, covered Section Chief Yi's ear and said:

“…… Hey, old classmate, I'll tell you this alone, there is a strict discipline of secrecy above...... We urgently evacuated to the No. 6 area in the mountains, and I heard that our station was exposed......"

"Well, I said how to do it and suddenly transferred...... Hey, no, let's live well in Dayangzhuang, there are several checkpoints outside for more than ten miles, and there are also secret whistles inside Dayangzhuang, the mass base here is so good, how can it be exposed......"

“…… I heard that there were spies of little devils in our column, and they sent secret telegrams to the enemy, exposing the whereabouts of the column......"

"Oh my God, this is worth it, then, have you found the traces of the little devil spy, why don't you send someone to arrest it?"

“…… Big Yellow Fang, you are stupid, the spy of the little devil is so easy to catch, if it is so easy to catch, then what is it called a spy, I really doubt it, how did you become the head of the logistics section with this bag of melons......"

“…… You, that ...... Anyway, there should be a suspicion from the superiors......"

"As far as I know, there isn't one yet, but the dog agent can't run away, and sooner or later he will catch the ......"

“…… That's, that'......"

"Hey, Staff Officer Lou, if you want to send telegrams, you should be experts in the telecommunications department, the spies of the little devils secretly send telegrams, you should be aware of it, you all eat dry food for nothing, what use does the column want you, waste ......"

"Hey, you don't understand this, the little devil secretly sent a telegram, or a special cipher code, we can't receive it at all, let alone detect anything, our column equipment is old-fashioned, and we can't even smell the wind shadow......"

"Oh, that's what happened, we don't understand, we don't understand...... Hey, Staff Officer Lou, patronizing the gossip, what are you borrowing from? ”

"Look, I can't hold the door with this broken mouth, I almost delayed the serious business, those treasures in our telecommunications department are packed, and we need to use mules and horses to carry them on the road, no, the ropes tied are not shared, so I will borrow some rope from you......"

“…… Just this, you wait, I'll get you ......"

As he spoke, Section Chief Yi turned around and went to the west room to take out two bundles of rope and threw them on the ground:

"That's all there is left, I knew you would come to borrow it, and I didn't give them to the teaching brigade to borrow it, so I kept it for you, you see if it was enough, you will use it......"

"Enough, enough, look, it has to be an old classmate...... Hey, what I said just now, you must not say it to anyone, once you say it, I, a staff officer, will have to be picked up, and if I can't get it right, I will have to be arrested as an enemy......"

"Look at what you said, am I so stupid, don't worry...... Hey, Lou Dazui, I still have two bottles of Shanxi old roast, 60 degrees, you can come over when you get to the mountains......"

“…… Old classmate, there is really you, okay, when we get to the No. 6 area, we are all settled, I will definitely come to eliminate your Shanxi Lao Yao, I can't save you, I'll go first......"

"Okay, go ahead and get busy with you......"

Looking at the back of Staff Officer Lou, Section Chief Yi was thinking about something......

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At night, I couldn't see my fingers, and a few thunders sounded from time to time in the distance, mixed with lightning, and it was about to rain.

The secret camp of the Second Vertical Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Theater is surrounded by dangerous mountains and mountains, and only the south is a dangerous pass that can be entered and exited, and the secret camp is densely covered with bright forts and secret sentinels, and some soldiers are busy with something in the dark night; in the dense forest closest to the root of the mountain, it is the seriously wounded treatment area and inpatient department of the rear hospital of the Eighth Route Army; under extreme hunger and hardship conditions, in fact, the so-called rear hospital is the requisitioned residential houses of mountain people and several temporary wooden thatched houses.

Outside the broken wall, by the light of lightning, a pair of gloomy and terrifying eyes peeked into the courtyard. After a long time, in a burst of lightning, a mysterious black shadow in a mask skillfully evaded the sentry, and the ghostly figure quickly climbed into the wall, and in a ruined mill in the courtyard, the masked black shadow groped its way to the millstone, reaching out and groping for something inside......

Shaoqing, the black shadow took out a small wax pill and looked at it with lightning, opened it and took out the note inside and put it in his arms, the masked black shadow looked around, and then turned out of the broken wall and disappeared into the night......

More than half an hour later, in the lightning and deep in the dense forest, there was a dilapidated morgue in the hospital behind me, and the sound of "Didi, ......Didi, Didi" and "Didi" was faint from time to time......

After a long time, another flash of lightning flashed through the dilapidated window, and the remains of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army covered with white sheets were faintly visible. A dark shadow was crouching in the inner disposal room to secretly photograph telegrams, shivering at the sudden lightning, and then continued to secretly send telegrams......

"Who! Password—"

A soldier of the column passed by and found a dark shadow stealing a telegram.

"Red Star."

"Shine"

The masked mysterious shadow replied in a whisper.

"Oh...... Who are you? Why are you wearing a face mask? ”

"I'm a nurse in the hospital, and the smell here is so pungent that you will faint without a mask......"

"It's so late, you, what are you doing here......"

"I'll sort out the bodies of the Death Warriors......"

"Hmm...... Why don't you come and tidy up during the day, it's so late and you're not afraid to be alone......"

"What are you afraid of, they are all our fighters, relatives ......"

"Just now, just now, I seemed to hear a ticking sound...... What the hell are you doing? ”

As he spoke, the warrior came to the mysterious black shadow of the masked, and in the lightning, he finally found a bed, and next to the body of the dead wounded and sick, an open transmitter......

"What is this...... Is this a transmitter, a ciphertext transmitter that sends messages......"

The masked shadow replied in alarm:

"No, no, no, this is an X-ray machine to examine the corpse......"

The soldier reached out and touched the transmitter, still hot......

"It's not an X-ray machine, it's a transmitter, say, who are you sending a telegram to......"

"It's really an X-ray machine, you don't understand it......"

"You lied, so late, in the morgue, the transmitter...... Someone, there's a spy...... Exceptional......"

The masked shadow pulled out his pistol, grabbed the barrel and slammed it down on the warrior's head, once, twice, three times......

In a dark place outside the headquarters, Staff Officer Chen took Meng Xiaodong's hand:

"Do you remember everything I said?"

"Yes, it's all in mind"

"I have to work hard for you, hurry, go find Comrade 'Partridge'......"

"Yes, take care ......"

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