The old beggar is not troubled, after mixing to this age, he naturally understands that people who are troubled in this age are prone to die early, although he has been reduced to the current situation, but he still wants to live a little longer, maybe one day he can beg for a bun or a steamed bun, a beautiful meal.

Although he was in the beggar's den, seeing that Liao Fan was not dressed ordinary, and those beggars had no intention of bullying him, Liao Fan slept peacefully and left the broken temple before dawn.

Liao Fan's reconnaissance line is not the Zhengtai line, the Zhengtai line is built along the south side of the Jingcheng mining area, and the area where Liao Fan is located is Xingtang, which is located in the northeast of the Jingcheng mining area, but this is where Liao Fan and they must pay attention.

Walking along the little devil's highway to the west, it is the upper third level, Liao Fan walked to the upper third level at the fastest speed It took six hours, and if the little devil took a car from Xingtang to the upper third level stronghold, it would only take one and a half hours at most.

The defense of the Japanese army at the upper level is very similar to that of Xingtang, and the total strength of the Japanese troops stationed in these two strongholds is only about 500 people, but these strongholds are very strong, and without artillery support, it is difficult for even one regiment to capture three strongholds.

However, the upper three levels of the north are adjacent to the Hutuo River, after Liao Fan's careful reconnaissance, because the Japanese army has the natural barrier of the Hutuo River, the defense force in the north of the upper three strongholds is much weaker than Liao Fan imagined, and the main defense forces of the Japanese army are placed on the south and west sides.

…… Liao Fan reconnoitred all the way, he stayed for a day in each of the little devil's strongholds north of the Jingcheng mining area, and it was not Liao Fan's task to reconnoiter the little devil's firepower points, he just wanted to figure out the deployment of the little devils in each stronghold, and after going back, Liao Fan could arrange the limited forces in his hands according to the deployment of the little devils.

In the end, Liao Fan and Lu Liming met in Xiaojue, Xiaojue no longer had the Japanese army, and a battalion of the puppet army was stationed, obviously this was related to Li Weimin in the direction of Beitai Peak, so when they arrived in Xiaojue, Liao Fan and they didn't have to worry about any trouble here.

Lu Liming took out a white cloth, which was painted on the Japanese army they had detected on this line, Liao Fan looked at it carefully, compared it with himself, and then Liao Fan supplemented the situation he had detected on the white cloth.

"In the next few days, we will reconnoiter along the Zhengtai line, according to what I said, but we must focus on our own safety!" Liao Fan said to Lu Liming.

Even if the Zhengtai Line has been cut off by the New 33rd Army, the Zhengtai Line at the east and west feet of Taihang Mountain is still running, especially the Zhengtai Line passes through two important places in the Hebei direction, Jingcheng and Luquan, of course, it is impossible for the little devil to paralyze the traffic here.

Just when Liao Fan was scouting behind enemy lines, Li Lingfei finally realized that something was wrong, but he only felt that something was wrong, and he didn't know where the problem was, so he was restless and restless in the command headquarters.

Also uneasy is Li Weimin, after Liao Fan set off from Ma Wanzhong's station, Ma Wanzhong arranged for the communication troops to go to Beitaifeng to tell Li Weimin that Liao Fan was going to him, but Li Weimin waited left and right, and the waiting was about to become a wangfu stone, and he still didn't see Liao Fan's shadow.

So Li Weimin arranged for the communication soldiers to go to Ma Wanzhong and Li Lingfei to confirm the news, and after the final confirmation of the three people, they lost Liao Fan again.

The commander was lost, which was a big deal in the troops, and in order to prevent the troops from being confused, the first thing they did was to block the news, and then slowly look for it. Of course, when Ma Wanzhong was sure that Liao Fan had secretly seen Zhi Zhengming, he knew that Liao Fan did not lose it, but ran away by himself.

"My Grand Master, don't you make a mess, how can you agree with Brother Fan to do this! Even if he wants to shoot you, you have to stop Brother Fan! Ma Wanzhong complained bitterly in his heart, if Liao Fan really had three longs and two shorts, the good situation that had just been formed in Taihang Mountain would come to naught, and the tens of thousands of horses of the new 33rd Division would also become a plate of scattered sand.

Zhi Zhengming knew that in order to force Liao Fan to stay in the station honestly, the three of them tried their best to sign an agreement with Liao Fan, and then he realized that he had made a big mistake, because Liao Fan is the entire Taihang Mountain, Liao Fan is the entire New 33rd Army, without Liao Fan, all this will not exist.

"Brother Fan should take someone to scout the Jingcheng area!" Zhi Zhengming reported to Ma Wanzhong.

Ma Wanzhong should have guessed that Liao Fan would do this, Liao Fan came to their division this time for the matter of the Jingcheng mining area, so it was not surprising that Liao Fan went to reconnoiter behind the enemy, but a dignified army commander and lieutenant general, if something went wrong behind the enemy and died inexplicably, then Ma Wanzhong and others would have no place to cry, and it would be written in the history books in the future that the commander of the new 33rd Army went to reconnoiter behind the enemy line, and never returned, and the cause of death is unknown.

"Commander Zhi, take your regiment and launch an attack on the Nanyu area to attract the attention of the little devils!" Ma Wanzhong ordered the name to be corrected.

"Division commander, Brother Fan told me when he left, don't act rashly, this will startle the grass and snakes, and it will not be conducive to our attack on the Jingcheng area in the future!" Zhi Zhengming said.

Ma Wanzhong hurriedly turned around in the command headquarters: "Arrange the soldiers, go to the Jingcheng area, find Brother Fan, even if you tie up Brother Fan, you have to tie Brother Fan back!" "Ma Wanzhong is completely anxious, Liao Fan disappeared from him, and now he can only arrange for someone to go behind enemy lines to find Liao Fan.

For Liao Fan, at this time he has forgotten his own safety, because he is the commander, the commander wants to fight a good battle, let more soldiers under his command live, must have enough information in his hands, no intelligence to fight is a blind fight, if the information is not enough, it is to let the soldiers under his command die, a good commander will not watch his soldiers die in vain.

Compared with the reconnaissance a few days ago, the situation of the Japanese troops on the Zhengtai railway line is more complicated, and only in the short distance from Jingcheng to Nanxincheng, there are many strongholds of the little devils, which is a bit scary.

Although Liao Fan had already prepared in his heart, Liao Fan was still a little dumbfounded after seeing the actual situation.

"Hey, I really don't know if I don't see it, I'm shocked when I see it!" Liao Fan was in Shang'an between Jingcheng and Luquan at this time, which was a stronghold of the little devil, and the purpose of the little devil to establish so many strongholds in the Jingcheng area was to protect the Jingcheng mining area, as well as to protect the Zhengtai line, but the little devil finally didn't expect that the Zhengtai line had now become Liao Fan's asset in the section that passed through Taihang Mountain, and the little devil had to take a long detour to transport the materials from Shanxi.

Liao Fan felt more and more that this battle was difficult to fight, in addition to the various strongholds of the little devils on the Zhengtai line, there were also Jingcheng, Luquan, Nanxincheng, Shijiazhuang and Zhengding, which all hoarded a large number of Japanese troops, and the most important thing was the traffic in this place, in addition to the railway and the road, the little devils went all the way, it was simply unimpeded.

According to Liao Fan's plan, he still stayed on the periphery of each stronghold for about a day, even so, he only detected the deployment of the little devil's peripheral troops, and Liao Fan still had a black eye on the little devil's firepower point, but in the end he still figured out the deployment of the little devil's troops in the Jingcheng area.

After nearly twenty days of reconnaissance behind enemy lines, Liao Fan finally decided to leave behind enemy lines, but this time Liao Fan ran into the old beggar again. Liao Fan was surprised that this old beggar was able to walk such a long distance.

However, Liao Fan did not take the old beggar's matter to heart, but met Lu Liming at the designated place, and then gathered the information collected in his hand, and finally Liao Fan integrated the news together.

"You go back to the army and tell your regiment commander that I have gone to Beitai Peak, so that they don't have to worry about my safety!"

Liao Fan has been missing for twenty days, and the people in the army must have noticed it a long time ago, so Liao Fan asked the scouts he brought to go back first, and then he had to continue to go to the station in Beitai Peak to see Li Weimin and discuss the battle plan with him.

When he arrived at the Beitaifeng station, it was already completely dark, and Li Weimin cried with joy when he saw Liao Fan's arrival, and now all the troops of the New 33rd Army had entered the first-level security because of the disappearance of the army commander.

"Brother Fan...... You're finally here......"

As soon as Li Weimin saw Liao Fan, he almost cried in front of Liao Fan.

"Well, haven't I just been missing for a few days? By the way, why are you all here? Liao Fan glanced at Li Weimin's headquarters, where the four division commanders were guarding.

"Brother Fan, have you been missing for a few days? In 20 days, it seems that it will be November, the battle in Changsha has been completed, and Chairman Chiang is holding a celebration party for them! "Since Ma Wanzhong learned that Liao Fan disappeared, he couldn't eat or sleep well, and he lost a lot of weight.

"Brother Fan, this is the agreement we signed at the beginning, you can do it yourself!"

Compared with Ma Wanzhong and Li Weimin, Hu Guoshan was more straightforward, and took out the agreement signed with Liao Fan last year and put it in front of Liao Fan.

"Brother Fan, although my name is not on this, but as your former guard, should I also ask, what should I do if the officer leaves his post without permission and goes missing with everyone, according to the military law of the New 33rd Army?"

The four of them have already discussed the countermeasures, it's time to restrict Liao Fan again, otherwise they will suddenly disappear, and everyone will be shocked, if this goes on a few times, they will not sacrifice on the front line, and they will also be played to death by Liao Fan.

"Okay, I know it's wrong! Isn't that urgent? If you were all by my side at that time, I would definitely ask the three of you for advice, and when you all agreed, I would take action, but the key is that you are so far away, and when you come to discuss, the daylily is cold! Liao Fan smiled and compensated a few people.

But the four of them have already discussed, how can they give in themselves.

"No, I have to give an explanation today, Chu Pengtian was expelled from the army for violating military law more than a month ago, as the supreme commander of the New 33rd Army, it can't be treated as if nothing happened, it must be punished, and it must be severely punished!" Hu Guoshan said.

"Oh! I understand, I'll pack up my things and leave Taihang Mountain tomorrow morning! Liao Fan pretended to be aggrieved and said.

"Wait, Brother Fan, it's okay not to be a scoundrel like you, we have been worried about it for more than ten days, and you are still playing a scoundrel like this after you come back, and we are also thinking about your safety!"

Ma Wanzhong is in a hurry, if Liao Fan really leaves, he might as well not come back!

"And what else do you want to do with me?" Liao Fan asked the four people.

The four of them looked at each other, what were they going to do with Liao Fan? Liao Fan has to manage the affairs of the whole army, of course, it is impossible to drive Liao Fan away, even if they go, Liao Fan can't go, and finally comes back. Confinement, writing a letter of repentance? Does this work?

At this time, the four of them were in a dilemma, they had thought about everything, but they didn't think about how to punish Liao Fan.