"Who is it?" The vigilant soldier pointed his gun at the reeds by the river.
"Come out! If you don't come out again, shoot!"
There was a commotion in the reeds, and a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old crawled out from it. His clothes were in tatters, soaked with wet mud, and he looked at the muzzle of the gun pointed at him with horrified eyes.
"What happened?" Fang Muheng, the leader of the field working group, happened to be nearby. He immediately pulled out the Mauser pistol from his waist and strode over.
"Team Leader Fang," the soldier said, "I found a person in the reeds."
Fang Muheng walked over and took a closer look at the frightened young man.
Probably not a Japanese spy.
He initially judged that this should be a compatriot.
And they are probably local people in Zhenjiang.
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"Fellow, what are you doing hiding here?" Fang Muheng asked in Danyang dialect. His grandmother was from Danyang, so he could speak Danyang dialect.
Hearing the familiar local accent, the frightened and trembling young man looked up at Fang Muheng, "Is the boss from Danyang?"
"My hometown is Danyang." Fang Muheng nodded.
"Then you are not Japanese soldiers?" the young man asked again...
"Young man, we are the New Fourth Army." Fang Muheng said.
"New Fourth Army?" The young man looked confused and shook his head.
"We are the Chinese army, the newly formed Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army." Fang Muheng said solemnly, and then a smile appeared on his face, "You may not understand this, but to put it bluntly, we are the Chinese army fighting against the Japanese."
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"Are you really fighting the Japanese?" The young man looked at Fang Muheng suddenly, took a step forward, but was a little scared, and stepped back, looking at Fang Muheng like that.
"Yes, we are here to fight the Japanese!" Fang Muheng nodded and said.
After hearing these words, the young man seemed to have been drained of all his strength and sat down on the ground.
"I thought you were Japanese soldiers and thought I was going to be caught by you," the young man said.
…
Fang Muheng immediately captured the intelligence contained in the other party's words.
Grasp?
Why did the Japanese want to arrest him?
Or is this young man trying to avoid capture by the Japanese?
Are there Japanese troops nearby?
"Run and report to the company commander and instructor that there is a situation here." Fang Muheng did not dare to neglect and said to the soldiers beside him.
Soon, the company commander and instructor came in a hurry.
"Comrade Mu Heng, what's going on?" the company commander asked.
"This is a fellow villager who escaped from the massacre by the Japanese army." Fang Muheng said. In just a moment, he had already briefly learned about the situation from the other party's mouth.
"Erping, please tell our company commander the situation." He squatted down, sat down directly next to Lu Erping, and said.
The company commander and the instructor looked at each other, smiled, patted their buttocks and sat down.
"Yes, fellow Erping, don't be afraid, we are a team to fight the Japanese," the instructor said.
…
Lu Erping was indeed avoiding capture by the Japanese army.
Just a few days ago, two soldiers from a Japanese stronghold came out to harass the village, intending to bully a girl who was hunting pigweed. The girl's brother was Lu Erping. When he heard his sister's cry for help, he ran from behind and used a hoe to He killed a Japanese soldier and saved his sister.
The next day, the escaped Japanese soldier brought several companions to the village to retaliate. The village's self-defense forces surrounded the Japs and killed three Japs in one go.
Four Japs died in two days, and the Japanese troops in the stronghold immediately launched a retaliatory massacre.
Starting from the stronghold, they burned and killed all the way along the rural road. Every time they reached a village, they killed people and set fire to them.
The Self-Defense Forces, which had only a dozen people, were quickly slaughtered by the Japanese army.
In two days, the Japanese army raided five villages, massacred hundreds of unarmed innocent villagers, and burned more than a thousand houses.
Lu Erping's whole family was killed, but he woke up from the death pit and escaped.
"Boss, are you really fighting the Japanese?" Lu Erping's eyes were swollen from crying and he looked at Fang Muheng.
"Yes, we are here to fight the Japanese." Fang Muheng nodded vigorously.
"Why didn't you come earlier? Why didn't you come earlier?" Lu Erping cried loudly and hit the ground with his fists.
…
Fang Muheng's eyes were red, and his expression was solemn and sad. He looked at the company commander and instructor, "Company commander, instructor, we are late!"
"Yeah, we're late!" The company commander gritted his teeth and turned his head, "You stupid little devil! He's as vicious as the Kuomintang raiding the Soviet areas!"
"Company commander!" The instructor glared at the company commander.
"Why, they killed people and set fires, why don't we let them talk about it?"
"Mu Heng, ask Lu Erping about the situation of the Japanese troops near here." The instructor said to Fang Muheng.
After more than twenty minutes, Fang Muheng arranged for a soldier from the working group to take Lu Erping over to rest.
He, the company commander, and the instructor carefully recounted the situation provided by Lu Erping.
After analyzing and organizing the intelligence, the company commander and instructor ordered Fang Muheng, who knew the local dialect, to take a few soldiers to investigate the area.
"Comrade Mu Heng, please take two people to see the boss and commander to report the latest situation." The company commander said, "By the way, take Lu Erping with you. The commander may ask questions."
They are the sharp knife company of the first detachment and advance detachment of the New Fourth Army. The boss and commander are not far behind.
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"Ruolan, where are my cigarettes?" Cheng Qianfan couldn't help but asked after searching everywhere but couldn't find it.
"I don't know." Bai Ruolan shook her head.
Cheng Qianfan smiled bitterly and shook his head. He was there just now, but now he is gone. He must have been hidden by his wife.
At this time, more than a month had passed since he was shot and injured.
The doctor just finished the examination and he can finally be discharged from the hospital today.
The Special High School Department's investigation into the attack and death of Nagatomo Akio ended up in vain. For this, Sanmoto Jiro was reprimanded by the military and faced a punishment.
Yes, Nagatomo Inao died in the end.
To be precise, Nagatomo Inao died the night he was rescued at the police hospital.
It was just that Mimotojiro pretended that Nagatomo Akio was not dead, transferred him from the police hospital, and invited the best doctors to race against time for treatment.
The purpose is to delay time and at the same time find out the truth behind the attack on Nagatomo Inao.
After finding out the truth at that time, we will report the death of Nagatomo Cunnan to the superiors, so as to minimize the responsibility.
It was only because of Yan Chang's unyielding character that he never uttered a word until he died for his country that Sanbonjiro's plan failed.
The news of Nagatomo Inao's death could no longer be concealed and could only be reported.
According to the words of Koike who came to visit him, he inadvertently revealed that the Japanese military headquarters was furious, and a certain big shot personally called the Special High School Section and ‘scouted the section chief bloody’.
After hearing what Xiaochi said at that time, Cheng Qianfan was secretly surprised, and he couldn't help but have more speculations about Changyou Cunnan's true identity.
Yes, even though Nagatomo Akio is dead, there are still many unclear mysteries surrounding this man.
Even though this person is dead, he still has research value and intelligence value.
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