Taierzhuang is located at the junction of Sulu, located in the south of Zaozhuang, located in the north bank of the Grand Canal 30 kilometers northeast of Xuzhou, on the railway branch line from Lincheng to Zhaodun, connecting Jinpu Road in the north, connecting Longhai Line in the south, adjacent to Nansi Lake in the west, it is the gate of the southeast of Shandong, the gateway of Xuzhou, it is the last barrier to Xuzhou in the south, the world-famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal traverses the whole territory, it is the hub of the north and south transportation since ancient times, the strategic location is very important, it is a place where soldiers must fight in history, and it is also the first place for the Japanese army to attack Xuzhou.

Taierzhuang is only 30 kilometers away from Xuzhou, once captured by the Japanese army, the door of Xuzhou is open, and it is difficult to protect itself.

This campaign is unlike any other. Whether it was the Battle of Taiyuan or the Battle of Songhu, the national army was pessimistic and had no determination to defeat the Japanese invaders. But in the battle of Taierzhuang, Li Zongren was full of confidence and wanted to use a big victory to inspire the people.

Shao Fei led his troops to set out early in the morning, and their destination was the mountains west of Yi County. It is located in the center of the triangle of Yixian, Lincheng and Hanzhuang.

"Rest in place!" Shao Fei ordered.

Now it was afternoon, and the troops had not rested much since the morning march, and now they were sleepy and tired. They had to find a place to settle down before evening and attack the Japanese army.

"Daozi, you follow me to the front to explore the road and see if there is a mountain village where you can stay."

"Got it."

The knife followed Shao Fei, and the large army settled down to rest in a dense mountain forest.

On the forest path, Xiao Dao looked around and felt extremely excited, and said to Shao Fei: "Squad leader, this is a different place in Shanxi, the mountains are high, full of greenery, a hundred flowers are blooming, and the birds are singing and fragrant, what a scene of spring returning to the earth!"

Shao Fei smiled: "Don't be coquettish, don't show that you are educated."

Xiaodao said: "I just feel it, and I feel like I have returned to my hometown in Yunnan." When the war is gone, I'll go back and take my sister Ruxue with me. I don't care about the rules of the Eighth Route Army, I'll leave immediately after beating the devil, and don't care about me. I said squad leader, when will you be able to drive away the devil? ”

"How do I know?"

Xiaodao rushed to the front, walked backwards towards Shao Fei, and said, "Don't fool Xiaodao, I know you know."

Shao Fei said: "I don't know what you want to know."

"I know you must know what I want to know."

Shao Fei smiled: "How do you know that I must know what you want to know."

The knife pointed at Shao Fei: "You must know."

Shao Fei shook his head: "I don't know."

The knife was helpless and said, "Okay then." You say, you guess, or you predict a few years. ”

Shao Fei knew that the knife was as suspicious of his origin as the pillar, but he didn't ask, they didn't want to pierce the layer of window paper.

Shao Fei said: "I guess there are still seven years."

"Seven years!" Xiaodao exclaimed: "Ru Xue is old, she is 26 years old now, and she will be 34 years old in seven years, can she still give Xiaodao a baby?"

"It's 33, idiot."

The knife was so excited that he didn't pay attention to his feet, and was suddenly stirred with a string and touched the mechanism. I saw a sharpened wooden stick shoot out of the grass on the side and shoot at the knife's calf.

"Be careful!"

Shao Fei kicked the knife two meters away, and the wooden stick was inserted into the trunk of the tree next to it and trembled.

The knife molded his stomach and complained: "Squad leader, you are ruthless enough!"

"So that you are absent-minded." Shao Fei looked around and said, "It seems that this is a trap laid by Orion, there must be a village around." Get up! ”

Knife stood up and continued walking. There are traps around, so you should be extra careful when walking.

Not long after walking, the knife found a hare caught in a trap not far away, so he quickly stepped forward, removed the hare from the trap, and picked it up.

"There's a lot of game here, and it looks like you can eat meat at night."

The knife grabbed the hare's ears and walked towards it with joy.

With a "whoosh", a long arrow came from a distance, speeding over the head of the small knife.

"Put the rabbit down!" A young woman's voice came from the direction from which the archery was coming from. The knife looked over and saw a woman raising an arrow at him.

The woman was tall, dressed in a black bodysuit, with two pheasants hanging from her waist that had been shot to death. Looking at her face, her face is thin, her big eyes are bright and bright, her nose is high, and what attracts men's attention the most is her thick and sexy lips.

The knife slid the rabbit to the ground and sighed, "Big brother, will there be beautiful women in the mountains?"

The woman saw that Xiaodao and Shao Fei were wearing plain clothes and resisting the robbery on their shoulders, so they were extremely vigilant.

"Who are you? Why did you come here? Why do you still have a gun on your body? Bandits? ”

The woman asked a few times in a row, but Shao Fei and Xiaodao didn't know how to answer.

Shao Fei walked up to the knife, faced the woman, and said, "We are good people, passing by here, there is no malice."

The woman asked, "Good guy?" Do you have the word "good person" written on your face? My mother once said that the more good-looking a man is, the worse his heart will be! You must all be bad people! ”

Shao Fei smiled: "Then what do you think?" Are we bad or good? ”

The woman looked at the appearance and eyes of the two of them, and replied: "You don't look like you, he looks like." None of your eyes have the murderous intent of a beast, but there is ill-will towards women in his eyes. My father said that each other is born from the heart. You are good, he is bad. But why do you have guns? ”

Xiaodao was in a hurry, rushed to Shao Fei, and said: "I'm grumpy, I have a caring eye for a woman, what a pure and flawless look you see."

When the woman heard this, she couldn't help but smile and said, "It's the eyes of a pervert." Whether I fight wild beasts or look at men, I know what is going on in their hearts by looking at their eyes. ”

Shao Fei didn't want to delay time, so he asked the knife to stand aside and said to the woman: "I'm not a bad person, I use a gun to kill devils, I'm Japanese." This time......"

"Wait!" The woman put down her bow and arrows and asked, "Are you devil killers?" I've heard the men in the village say that devils are big bad people. They burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, and many refugees from the north came to the villages below the mountain. Now the people in the village are panicking, and they are afraid that the devil will come over. But just the two of you......"

Knife interjected, "There are more than two hundred people behind us."

The woman said, "If what you say is true, I will take you into the village." The village chief is my father, and the people in the village are all jealous and hateful. My village is called Zhongyi Village. ”

Shao Fei agreed, "Okay then."

Subsequently, Shao Fei and Xiaodao took the woman back and joined the large army.

Along the way, I learned from the conversation that the woman's name was Deng Nan, and the origin of Zhongyi Village was not ordinary.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Naval Division was destroyed. Among them, there was a pipe belt, and his warship was sunk by the Japanese navy before it left the port, and he was disheartened and lamented the corruption of the imperial court. So he led his subordinates and their families to avoid trouble here and establish Zhongyi Village.

After 50 years of development, coupled with the foreign population, the village now has a population of more than 800. The villagers are still martial and loyal, and make a living by hunting and planting crops. However, there is a written rule: a man can marry a woman from another village, but a woman from his own village cannot marry to another village. If you want to marry a woman from this village, you can only settle in this village. In order to add Ding Jiahu and prosper Zhongyi Village.

(End of chapter)