The sound of gunfire from the direction of the Jiaolai River Bridge alarmed a squad of devils stationed not far from the bridge, and the leader of the devil squad led his troops to quickly rush to the bridge.

It was found that three or four civilians were being chased by the enemy puppet army, and the enemy who was chasing behind was shouting and shooting, and the bullet hit a young man who was running, and he fell to the ground, and he tried to get up, but he was seriously injured, and he just got up and fell down.

The three civilians who were running in front quickly returned, one lying on the ground and shooting to block the enemy who was catching up, and the other two were holding the wounded man who had just run a few steps before being blocked by the oncoming devils.

Wang Xiaoliang shouted in a low voice anxiously: "Battalion Commander Lei, we can't watch these anti-Japanese youths being killed by little devils in front of us, rush up, and rescue them quickly." ”

Lei Jian dragged Wang Xiaoliang, who was about to rush up, and scolded in a low voice: "You bastard, we are a platoon, and we don't have heavy weapons, we are not a squad of devils and more than a dozen opponents of the enemy puppet army who chased after us from the bridge, not only can we not save these brothers, but also may expose the target and destroy the top-secret mission we carried out this time." ”

"Then just watch it anyway?"

"Wang Xiaoliang, senseless sacrifice can't solve any problems, only find a way to rescue them." Lei Jian watched the little devil escort away the four armed anti-Japanese youths, and his heart was like a knife cut, which was very unpleasant.

In order to find out the enemy's military deployment of the Jiaolai River Bridge, he led a sharp knife platoon disguised as ordinary people, and approached the Jiaolai River Bridge in twos and threes. ”

Lei Jian glanced at Wang Xiaoliang, and Wang Xiaoliang rushed to the puppet army who came over, and used all kinds of tricks to entangle a few puppet soldiers with guns.

The little devil standing guard in front saw that a few more croppers were making trouble, and a class of little devils rushed over with guns and surrounded Wang Xiaoliang in the middle.

Lei Jian took the opportunity to rush to the head of the bridge in a few arrow steps, and suddenly pulled the bolt on the other side of the bridge and raised the gun to aim at Lei Jian, and was about to shoot, at this time Chun Tao pounced on him from behind, tearing Lei Jian and crying: "You have no conscience, you can't open the pot at home, you are still running out, go back with me." ”

Wang Xiaoliang, who was surrounded by the enemy puppet army, saw Lei Jian and Chun Tao tearing, and the stinky boy immediately shouted: "Catch him, drag him back." ”

Wang Xiaoliang pointed to the bridge and said: "Taijun, bosses, my brother-in-law doesn't study well all day long, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling is not caring about his family, you see that he wants to run away in order to avoid debts, my sister begs us to arrest him back, let me go quickly, and if I delay time, my unlucky brother-in-law will really run away again." ”

A puppet army squad leader said a few words to a few little devils suspiciously, and the little devils saw Chun Tao at this time, and left Wang Xiaoliang and a few people with bright eyes, and shouted in a smooth tone in their mouths: "Yexi, the flower girl is very good." ”

Wang Xiaoliang saw that the enemy puppet army let go of them, and hurriedly rushed to Lei Jian and Chun Tao who were standing at the head of the bridge, and several people covered Chun Tao and immediately retreated, while Lei Jian was twisted by Wang Xiaoliang and several people, scolding and pushing and shoving, to the east.

The little devil saw that the flower girl disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the little devil was about to chase after the thunder sword with a gun, and was called back by the devil captain, slapping his head and covering his face a few times, and scolded angrily: "Pig, you boar, the Jiaolai Bridge is more important than the flower girl, once it is lost, we will all die, you understand?" ”

"Hay, Hay."

The enemy puppet army returned to the sentry post, punched and kicked the passers-by who wanted to pass through the Jiaolai River, and some passers-by argued a few words, and the vicious little devils ordered the puppet army to tie up the troublesome passers-by and throw them down the Jiaolai River, which was washed away by the raging river.

Besides, Wang Xiaoliang twisted the Lei Sword and walked out of the distance, and Chun Tao, who was following him, said to Wang Xiaoliang: "Okay, let go of Camp Commander Lei, so that the injuries on his body will not be bearable." ”

"No, we can't put it now, once the enemy puppet army at the bridgehead finds out that we are acting, then it will really be a bad show, and it will be more troublesome at that time."

Wang Xiaoliang looked at Lei Jian with a smile and asked, "Battalion Commander Lei, how does this taste and feel?" ”

", you kid can seize the opportunity this time, okay, I won't resist, let me go when you've had enough, I'll thank you well."

"Don't, don't, I'll let you go now, don't let you go, you clean me up again, then you're a personal vendetta, hahaha." Wang Xiaoliang said and shouted to a few soldiers: "Quickly let go of Battalion Commander Lei." ”

Several people laughed along the way also seemed natural, back to Da Miaojia Village, Lei Jian told him about the situation he touched on the Jiaolai Bridge, and a middle-aged man who sat on the edge of the kang and didn't speak looked at Lei Jian and asked with a smile: "You are Lei Jian?" ”

"Report to the eldest brother, and I will be the thunder sword."

"Hahaha, I've seen it today, and it's the first time I've heard someone shouting 'report big ......' in front of me, the little guy is very clever and very good." The middle-aged man looked at Lei Jian carefully and exclaimed.

Lei Jian had seen a lot of upper-level positions before the crossing, and he could figure out a rough idea from talking and talking, at this time, in his eyes, this middle-aged man who spoke amiably and handsomely, and was handsome, must be the important person of this escort, Political Commissar Li, but he knew the importance of secrecy work, and at a critical moment, he only had a temporary 'report brother', so that he would not be slack off and not lose proportion, and he kept the secret just right.

He guessed correctly, sitting on the edge of the kang was the important leader of the provincial party committee, Political Commissar Li.

Political Commissar Li patted the edge of the kang and said, "Sit on the kang, sit down and talk." ”

Yu Deshui, the commander of the third battalion, looked at Lei Jian and said, "You have conducted a field reconnaissance of the Jiaolai River Bridge, and tell me how we can cross the river." ”

Lei Jian looked at Political Commissar Li and boldly analyzed: Da Miaojia Village is more than five miles away from the Jiaolai River, and there is a platoon of puppet troops stationed in a village north of the Jiaolai River Bridge.

The Jiaolai River Bridge is a wooden bridge, five meters wide, the river surface has forty or fifty meters, there are bridgeheads of the enemy puppet army at both ends of the bridge, there is a squad of little devils and two classes of puppet troops guarding the east of the bridge, and there are also bridgeheads and enemy puppet army occupation at the west end of the bridge.

The entire enemy puppet army guarding the Jiaolai Bridge is about 100 people, and the east bridgehead is equipped with a heavy machine gun and a light machine gun, and the west of the bridge should also be equipped with this weapon configuration.

Lei Jian introduced this, looked at Political Commissar Li and continued: "After reconnaissance, the enemy puppet army stationed near the Jiaolai Bridge will not exceed two hundred. ”

As he spoke, he spread out the simple map he had drawn through observation on the kang, pointed out a few key points and explained again, and finally jumped to the ground and saluted the report: "Report big brother, report is over." ”

Political Commissar Li was amused by this clever Lei Jian, he took Lei Jian's hand and asked: "You know the situation best, and you have the most right to speak, you can tell me, when will we cross the Jiaolai River, and how will we cross it?" ”

"Sneak attack, outwit it." Lei Jian said four words simply and clearly.

After a period of detailed research and deployment, it was decided to take advantage of the darkness of the night to sneak attack and outwit the Jiaolai River, and once this plan was frustrated, it was changed to a strong attack.

Lei Jian left the political commissar Li and redeployed the independent battalion: ordered Li Gang to lead a company to force the crossing of the Jiaolai River, raid the western bridgehead of the Jiaolai Bridge, destroy the enemy's occupied positions, and cover the troops to cross the bridge.

ordered Wang Xiaoliang and Zheng Tie to lead the second company to prepare to storm the bridgehead east of the Jiaolai River;

Ordered Niu to lead the three companies to ambush in the small high ground west of Luqiao Village, where the Japanese army squad was stationed in the east of the bridge, once the devils heard the gunfire of the Jiaolai Bridge to implement reinforcements, resolutely block the attack, even if the battle was to the last person, to cover the third battalion to protect the safety of important people and gold in the provincial party committee, and forcibly cross the Jiaolai River.

Zhang Ping was ordered to take a squad to closely monitor a platoon of puppet troops stationed in the village leading to the Jiaolai Bridge and halfway through, and wait for the three battalions to retreat after the large army passed, and once the puppet army resisted, all of them would be wiped out.

Lei Jian deployed the combat mission, and he took Li Gang's company to set off first, bypassing the village where the puppet army was stationed, and heading straight for the narrow embankment of the river.

Before you even reach the river, you can hear the waves of the river being lifted by the strong wind, and the roar of the waves crashing on the shore.

The soldiers knew that they had to wade across the river, and they couldn't help but shiver in their hearts, this was a cold month, the river was cold and biting, not to mention, two or three meters into the river bank were formed into thin ice, and before they went down the river, they made people feel their legs and stomachs turn tendons.

Approaching the river, Thunder Sword ordered his troops to stop at a lower depression.

Lei Jian saw the soldiers in the dark shadow, listening to the roar of the Jiaolai River, one by one before they went into the water, they hugged their bodies tightly, if they forced the soldiers to cross the Jiaolai River by force, they would not all be frozen and washed away by the turbulent river.

(Tianjin)