"Commander Liao, because it's inconvenient, I won't salute you," the deputy captain of the guerrilla team looked at the rope on his body and said, "I am the deputy captain of the Eighth Route Army's Jixi guerrilla force, and I have important information to report to Commander Liao this time." ”

"Important information?" Liao Fan looked at the deputy captain of the guerrillas, "How can I judge the truth of your identity?" What if you are a spy sent by the Japanese army and deliberately leak information to me and lure me into the bait? ”

Liao Fan attaches great importance to the source of intelligence, but he is also very careful, once the intelligence goes wrong, it is a trivial matter for the troops to go in the opposite direction, in case he enters the ambush circle of the little devil, Liao Fan has no place to cry.

"Commander Liao, let me talk about the intelligence first, is it true, I believe that Commander Liao himself will definitely be able to judge it!" The deputy captain of the guerrillas was neither humble nor arrogant in the face of Liao Fan.

"Then you can talk about it first, and then I will decide whether to let you go or not!"

The deputy captain of the guerrilla team glanced at the people around Liao Fan and did not say any more.

Liao Fan understood what he meant, waved his hand, and asked the surrounding warriors to leave.

"Does Commander Liao know that the guerrilla captains of our Eighth Route Army in the Jingcheng area have disappeared?"

"Is there such a thing?" Liao Fan glanced at Lu Liming, he wanted to know from Lu Liming if he had missed any news.

Lu Liming shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

The deputy captain of the guerrilla team looked at Liao Fan's expression, and after confirming that he didn't know about this matter, his hanging heart relaxed halfway.

"The guerrilla captains of our Eighth Route Army in the Jingcheng area all disappeared overnight, and it happened just a few days ago, they had a meeting in a village, and then there was no news!"

The deputy captain of the guerrillas told the reason for the incident.

"You're guessing it might have something to do with us?" Liao Fan felt a bad premonition in his heart, the guerrilla captains of the Eighth Route Army disappeared en masse, which was not a trivial matter.

"We also have no evidence to prove that this matter is related to the New 33rd Army, but our Political Commissar Xu insists that this matter is related to the New 33rd Army, and this matter is an action taken by the New 33rd Army to suppress the Eighth Route Army, so our Political Commissar Xu is ready to lead troops to attack Xiulin Town (Nanzhang Village) tonight!"

Liao Fan frowned when he heard this, it seems that if this matter is not done well, it will cause a war between the two armies.

The most important thing is that this vice-captain took the risk to send this information, what the hell is it for.

"Why are you doing this? Leaking the troops' plan of action will be shot! Liao Fan reminded that he wanted to know the reason why this vice-captain risked his life to do this.

The deputy captain shook his head helplessly, in fact, he had a dead heart, his superior was a regiment commander of the Eighth Route Army, who had been put under house arrest by Political Commissar Xu, and many officers were under house arrest by him, if this continued, the troops they had worked so hard to pull up behind enemy lines would be finished overnight, and he didn't want to watch his guerrilla detachment end like this.

Moreover, what happened recently in the Eighth Route Army was a matter of their own family, and he didn't want to tell an outsider.

But he didn't say it, just looked at Liao Fan sincerely: "Commander Liao, the Japanese army has not been driven out of China, are you willing to do what your own people do to fight your own people?" ”

"It is said that the communists are above board, and today I saw you as a deputy captain of a guerrilla team with such insight, I Liao Fan really admired!"

Hearing the words of the deputy captain of the guerrillas, Liao Fan also had to sigh that there were many capable people in the Eighth Route Army, but Liao Fan still didn't believe the words of the deputy captain, but this did not prevent Liao Fan from preparing for this matter.

"Lu Liming, untie him, serve him with good food and drink, he can't leave your sight half a step before the matter is investigated!"

Liao Fan pondered the words of the deputy captain of the guerrillas, and thought that what he said must be at least eighty percent true, especially the disappearance of the guerrilla captain, which was either related to them or related to the little devils.

"Signal soldiers, inform the troops of Xiulin Town, all the soldiers will go down to their positions tonight, increase vigilance, and prevent a sneak attack!" The first thing Liao Fan had to do was to protect his fighters from harm.

"Wait, Commander Liao, I hope Commander Liao can make your troops raise their noble hands and don't hurt our soldiers!" The deputy captain of the partisan detachment suggested.

Liao Fan smiled: "Don't worry, I'll arrange it!" ”

Liao Fan thought to himself that you have all come to beat us, do I still let my brothers not let go of a single shot and let you slaughter at will? But he can't say it, as for whether the Eighth Route Army is a loss of soldiers, Liao Fan still needs to think carefully, and will minimize the damage of this matter, otherwise he will really not be able to face Political Commissar Liu and them in the future.

"By the way, this brother, do you know if Political Commissar Xu will act with the troops tonight?" Liao Fan wanted to inquire about the situation of this political commissar Xu, who was sacred, so good that he dared to attack their new 33rd Army.

As the deputy captain of the guerrillas, although he came to deliver information, he did not want to divulge the information of his superiors.

"I also hope that Commander Liao will not embarrass me!"

"If you don't say it, I really can't reduce the casualties of your troops!"

The deputy captain of the guerrilla team looked at Liao Fan, not sure whether what Liao Fan said was true or not, but the purpose of his coming to Liao Fan was to reduce the casualties of the troops.

After much hesitation, the captain of the guerrillas decided to tell all the information about Commissar Xu, even the route of this plan of action.

"Please rest assured, I guarantee that this incident, except for a few soldiers who were injured, no one had an accident!" After getting the detailed news, Liao Fan confidently assured, "Lu Liming, now we will go back to Jingcheng, take him and we will go back together!" ”

Regardless of the disappearance of the guerrilla leader of the Eighth Route Army in the Jingcheng area, Liao Fan must first contact the threat of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas to Xiulin Town, and give a satisfactory explanation to the Eighth Route Army.

It has been four days since the guerrilla leader of the Eighth Route Army was arrested, and today is the fifth day, and Huang Changsheng, the person involved in this incident, has already forgotten about this incident. It's as if this had never happened.

Liao Fan returned to Jingcheng, and after confirming that Ma Wanzhong did not know about this incident, he asked Ma Wanzhong to go to Xiulin Town to prepare for what happened tonight.

"Where's your brigade commander?"

Liao Fan came to the temporary station of the special operations brigade in Jingcheng and asked the soldiers on duty.

"Report to Brother Fan, our brigade commander is having a meeting inside!" The soldier replied, "Do you want me to inform our brigade commander now?" ”

"No need, I'll just go over by myself!"

After the battle in the Jingcheng area ended for a period of time, not all the fighters of the special operations brigade had returned to the team, and there were at least more than 300 fighters lurking in the enemy-occupied area, so Huang Changsheng had a lot of work to arrange.

Liao Fan sat at the door of the headquarters and waited for Huang Changsheng to finish the meeting, since this matter has nothing to do with Ma Wanzhong, nine times out of ten it has something to do with the special operations brigade, after all, the special operations brigade has its own system in the new 33rd Army.

Half an hour later, Huang Changsheng finally came out.

"Brother Fan, you're back!" Huang Changsheng was stunned when he saw Liao Fan, Liao Fan had been elusive in the past few days, and few people knew where he had gone, and now he suddenly appeared at the door of his headquarters, which caught Huang Changsheng a little off guard.

"Let's go, let's go inside!"

"Brother Fan, what's the matter, why is it so serious?" Huang Changsheng had a bad feeling.

"Did your special operations brigade arrest a group of people a few days ago?" Liao Fan asked.

Huang Changsheng recalled carefully, then patted his thigh and said, "Yes, there is such a thing, I also sent someone to inform you, but they didn't find you, and then things were busy, I forgot about this matter!" ”

"You...... You almost missed something big! Where are people now? "Liao Fan wants to confirm the safety of these people, if something goes wrong with these people, then there will really be irreconcilable contradictions between the New 33rd Army and the Eighth Route Army.

"I'm locked up next door to the barracks!" Huang Changsheng replied, "Could it be that they are really the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army?" ”

Huang Changsheng didn't interrogate them after he arrested them, so he didn't know the true identities of these people.

Liao Fan nodded: "These people are the guerrilla captains of the Eighth Route Army in the Jingcheng area, and they were arrested by you during the meeting, and now people are coming to us for trouble!" ”

"Huh? Trouble? How did they get into trouble with us? Huang Changsheng asked.

"In this way, you arrange a team of brothers to give Lu Liming, I have already told him what to do, and you will release them all to me now!"

Liao Fan immediately asked Huang Changsheng to release him, and by the way, he also wanted to see what kind of confidence this Xu political commissar had to fight an offensive and defensive battle with their New 33rd Army.

After it was completely dark, all the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in the Jingcheng area gathered, and with the support of Linxian, the number of this team reached more than 1,500 people.

Political Commissar Xu looked at the assembled troops, and a sense of pride rose in his heart, this was the first time he led his troops to fight, he was well prepared, even if the new 33rd Army had strong combat effectiveness, it would be beaten down by him with his troops.

Under the arrangement of Political Commissar Xu, more than 1,000 people surrounded Xiulin Town. Since Liao Fan had already arranged in advance, the forward posts did not clash with the troops of the Eighth Route Army, and they directly withdrew their troops and waited for the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the troops defending Xiulin Town had one battalion of troops, the actual strength was only two companies.

After the battalion commander learned the news from Liao Fan, he only felt the trickiness of this matter, because the Eighth Route Army was a friendly army, and if they shot first, they would become sinners of the nation. In line with the principle of not firing the first shot, the battalion commander gave the order to give up the front-line positions.

However, the battalion commander did not give up the front-line position in vain, but arranged some traps at the front of the front-line position, but there were no sharp weapons to hurt people in the traps.

Political Commissar Xu did not even do reconnaissance before the battle, and directly sent a platoon of soldiers to launch a tentative attack on the position of the New 33rd Army. In fact, his method of fighting is very similar to Liao Fan's method of fighting, that is, relying on luck.

However, Political Commissar Xu relied on the luck of the soldiers to die, if the soldiers of this platoon could successfully attack the position, he would immediately press up with a large army, and if the soldiers of this platoon died, he would launch a strong attack with a large army.

Political Commissar Xu should be glad that the first time he led his troops to fight was the New 33rd Army, instead of fighting with little devils, otherwise all the soldiers of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army would not want to get out alive tonight.

A platoon of soldiers slowly approached the front-line position in Xiulin Town, without prior reconnaissance, they did not know what was going on on the position, and their eyes were black on the deployment of troops and firepower. But they had to carry out the orders of Commissar Xu.

"Ah~"

With a scream in the night, the soldiers of a platoon of the Eighth Route Army quickly lay down, not knowing what was happening.

"What's going on? You two go check it out! The platoon commander ordered the two fighters around him to check what was going on.