Lei Jian's cavalry battalion, pursued by the enemy's puppet army fire on the other side of the river, rushed out for a mile or two, only to hear the fierce gunfire behind him, only then slowed down the horse, turned to the direction of Shouguang, and moved forward with the horse, trying to avoid encountering the enemy.

At this time, Luo Jinchuan, the political commissar of the independent regiment who led the large army of the independent regiment and marched to the whole city of Shouguang County, is now a horse in front of Pingchuan, the whole is a small plain, to the north, to the west, to the southwest, it is all green gauze tents, there are no mountains in the distance, and there are crops in the near place, the troops march on the country road, under the cover of the green gauze tent, and then deliberately conceal during the march, not suddenly encounter the enemy, it is difficult to be the enemy and puppet army in the surrounding strongholds.

Luo Jinchuan looked at the sky and the march of the troops, and thought that before dark, he should be able to reach a big town between Mingcun Town and Shouguang, that is, Dawang Town.

He ordered Zhang Ting, deputy commander of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment and commander of the 1st Company, to lead the Sharp Knife Platoon to search forward quickly, and to return to report as soon as the enemy situation appeared.

Since Zhang Ting was liberated in Liugong Town, he participated in the Eighth Route Army, and he changed his mind, just like a different person, no matter in which battle, he could be like the old Eighth Route soldiers, killing the enemy and charging bravely.

At this time, one-fifth of the soldiers of the independent regiment were puppet soldiers who were anyway, and these people who joined the puppet army for various reasons were once the descendants of poor families, and after participating in the Eighth Route Army, their ideological and military qualities have been greatly improved, and they have become an indispensable backbone force of the troops.

In this sharp knife platoon led by Zhang Ting, there were eleven liberated puppet soldiers, and at this time, they were approaching Yanting Town under the cover of the green gauze tent.

Yanting Town is also a traffic artery, it can be regarded as a town with a large population, and the merchants shuttle back and forth, the town is full of merchants, and there are many merchants coming and going, and there are people from all over the world.

There are gentle crop fields in the east, west and south directions, and not far north of the town is the sea.

Yanting Town is too close to the sea, the sea water has been eroded for a long time, and there is not much land that can be cultivated, the main reason is that Yanting Town is close to the sea, and the tidal flat extends far from the shore, the salt content is too high, and the land is compacted, becoming a saline-alkali land.

The four or five hundred families living in the town, most of these residents and merchants, make a living by fishing, selling fish, drying salt, and trafficking in illicit salt.

Yanting Town is close to the sea, most of the north of the town is saline-alkali land, close to the sea, the salt ponds are one by one, if it is the season of producing and harvesting sea salt, the sea water of each salt pond has been evaporated by the scorching sun, the salt pond exposes the flat bottom of the pool, and the salt beans that have crystallized, under the irradiation of the sun, reflect the dazzling and crystal strong light, just like the pearls of white flowers, lying at the bottom of the pool, waiting for the harvest.

Sea salt is an indispensable precious thing in people's lives, Yanting Town is not only rich in sea salt, but also a relatively large northern fishing port.

Due to the geographical location of Yanting Town and the abundance of sea salt, as well as when the fish news came, large and small fish boats and sampans caught sea fish and docked at the port one after another, those fishmongers and guys from large and small restaurants gathered in the seaside fishing port, bargaining, crazy to grab the fish on the fishing boat that had just docked, and the noisy and even tearing things up for a while often happened.

In any case, the residents who have lived in Yanting Town for generations have come over in the noisy and noisy support of each other, although they are not poor and can't open the pot, they can finally spend this day and day in peace

Since the Japanese army occupied a large area of land in Jiaodong, Yanting Town, a special township, did not escape the clutches of the little devils, and Yanting Town was quickly occupied by the enemy puppet army, and a small group of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops were stationed.

From this time on, the residents of Yanting Town began to live in dire straits, especially the salt flats, salt shops and fishing ports, as long as the salt was exposed, no one could transport it without the notes issued by the Japanese Yanting Town Salt Police.

The fish caught by the fishing boats at sea were managed by the Japanese coastal team, and the fishermen worked hard to fight the fish in the net in the waves of the sea, and the good fish and big fish were forcibly taken away by the Japanese coast guard.

For fishermen, no one can swallow the broken fish and shrimp that are just oily and bloody every day, and they will be disgusted when they smell it.

The geographical location of Yanting Town and the abundance of sea salt and sea fish determine that this must be a place for soldiers to fight, people can be saltless for a few days, and there will be a lot of complications in the body if there is always a lack of salt, salt is a good thing, and it has become a valuable item that the enemy and the Eighth Route Army and the people of China are very needed.

In order to strengthen the defense of Yanting Town, as well as plunder the sea salt and fish products here, the enemy puppet army stationed the fishing port coast team of the enemy puppet army in the town, as well as the salt police station responsible for managing the export of salt production.

In order to control the flow of Haiyan and its products into the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, the enemy puppet army set up inspection posts at all intersections in and out of Yanting Town, and also sent additional patrol teams.

At this time, Zhang Ting, who led the sharp knife platoon to search for Yanting Town, was approaching Yanting Town, and when he was approaching Yanting Town, he saw merchants and pedestrians coming and going, whether they were entering or leaving, all of them were full of fear, and their eyes were wide open in fear, for fear that they would be unlucky and planted in the hands of the enemy puppet army.

Zhang Ting and the soldiers hid in the crop field in advance, and quickly and cautiously approached Yanting Town, and not far ahead, the crops in the field were not even able to cover the people, and the sharp knife platoon had to hide in the crop field, waiting for the opportunity to find out the situation and then return to report.

Huang Yong, the squad leader next to him, asked in a low voice: "Deputy Battalion Commander Zhang, why did the crops in front grow so badly, you see that there are no crops at all in the future, and the fields are full of leg-length weeds. ”

Zhang Ting whispered: "This is a saline-alkali land, the crop field we are hiding now, it would be good to grow like this, don't speak, there is an enemy puppet army patrol in front, pay attention to concealment." ”

A patrol of more than a dozen people of the enemy and puppet army, no one walked on the road, some passing merchants and pedestrians, as soon as they saw the patrol of the enemy puppet army coming, quickly leaned to the side of the road, nodded and bowed to avoid, some timid, directly into the crops to hide.

Just when the patrol of the enemy puppet army was about to walk to the crop field hidden by Zhang Ting's sharp knife platoon, a few timid pedestrians came in from the side of the road.

When they were now hiding in the crop field, the heavily armed Zhang Ting sharp knife platoon, when they saw these soldiers staring wide-eyed, with their guns closely watching the road and the pedestrians running in, they were so frightened that they turned around and ran out.

Zhang Ting was afraid that these pedestrians would expose their targets, so he waved his hand and ordered: "Catch them, don't tell them to run out, keep your mouth shut and wait for the enemy puppet army patrol to pass before letting go." ”

The soldiers of the sharp knife platoon were like tigers predatoring one by one, and with a vertical body, they threw the few pedestrians who wanted to run out of the crop field to the ground, covered their mouths and shouted in a low voice: "Don't be silent, we are the Eighth Route Army, as long as we don't make a sound, we won't hurt you." ”

A few pedestrians did not know whether it was true or not, and at this time they were thrown into the crop field, and in order to survive, they had to hold back for the time being, and they did not dare to struggle without saying a word.

The enemy puppet army came over, and the bud rice straw in the crop field in the east of the road was shaking, and the devil commander shouted with a gun: "Who is inside?" Come out quickly, and if you don't come out again, the imperial army will shoot and die. ”

The commander of the devil shouted and pulled the bolt of the gun at the same time, and he ordered the enemy puppet army around him: "Rush in, catch all the suspicious elements hiding inside, quickly, you understand?" ”

Zhang Ting, who was hiding inside, listened to the enemy puppet army patrolling under the order of the commander of the devil army to rush in, and he was anxious to say 'Wang, Wangwang, Woo ......', and learned a few dog barks.

Huang Yong, the clever squad leader, suddenly jumped up, and the cat ran quickly towards the depths of the crop field with his waist bent, and made a few dog barks from time to time.

(End of chapter)