December 31, 1939, Shandong Province.

Jining, the hometown of Confucius and Mencius and the capital of canals, is located in the southwest of Shandong Province and the economic, cultural, political and military center of Lunan Province. At the same time, it is also one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization, and the ancestors of mankind, Fuxi, Nuwa, Yellow Emperor, Shaohao and Shaokang, were all born in Jining. But now this civilized land has been occupied by the Japanese invaders, and it has become a city under the rule of Luxi Dao, a puppet Shandong Office, and it is also the location of Luxi Dao, which is equivalent to a prefecture-level city in later generations.

Jiaxiang County is located 30 kilometers west of Jining, and it was already December 30 when Wang Xiaohu and his special combat team arrived here. After the reorganization, the Young Phoenix Special Operations Brigade now has nearly 700 people, and it is difficult to ensure concealment when 700 people act together.

Although the combat effectiveness of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army stationed in Shandong was not particularly strong, even its ace unit, the Fifth Division, was completely defeated, and it could not recover without half a year. However, Wang Xiaohu knew that the strength of the young phoenix special combat team was not enough to run rampant and domineering in the Shandong territory, and there was no field troops to cooperate here, and once the Japanese army was entangled, the consequences would be unimaginable.

More importantly, the special combat team's combat methods and survival methods tend to be hidden, so Wang Xiaohu can only divide the troops into pieces and fight separately. However, in order not to be defeated by the Japanese army, Wang Xiaohu did not dare to disperse his troops too much, so he distributed the entire special operations brigade in various counties and cities under Jining.

The reason why we chose Jining was entirely because of the particularity of Jining's geographical location, and the first thing to do in fighting deep into the hinterland of the enemy army was not how to strike at the enemy, but to find ways to preserve ourselves. Compared with other places, there are two places in Jining that Wang Xiaohu and even Han Yunhua covet, one is Weishan Lake in Weishan County, and the other is Shuibo Liangshan in Liangshan County.

With these two places, once the special combat team is surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese army, they can calmly retreat into Weishan Lake or the Liangshan area. After all, it makes sense that the guerrillas in these two areas have been able to rely on the terrain to maneuver with the Japanese army for nearly three years, and there should be no big problem in ensuring the safety of the special combat units.

"Boss, it's been investigated, tomorrow night the puppet county magistrate of Jiaxiang County will celebrate his sixtieth birthday, so the entire county will be so strictly guarded?" Liu Baoqiang, the squadron leader of the first squadron, quietly ran over and said.

Wang Xiaohu thought for a while and asked: "Have you investigated the background of the pseudo-county magistrate of Jiaxiang County, it is said that the pseudo-county magistrate of a small county town should not be able to make such a big move, and even the devils of Jining City have to come to celebrate his birthday, which is not logical, unless the background of this traitor is not ordinary." ”

Wang Xiaohu's consideration is not unreasonable, this matter has to start from the beginning, it is said that when Wang Xiaohu and the others arrived in Jiaxiang County yesterday, they did not plan to start work so soon, but planned to investigate the surrounding forces and the distribution of the enemy first, before coming, Han Yunhua had already sent a telegram to the 1st Field Division stationed on the border of Lu and Hebei, hoping that the 1st Field Division could cooperate with the actions of the Xiaofeng Special Combat Team and the Cheetah Special Operations Brigade. However, the Jining area is in the center of Shandong Province and is the hinterland controlled by the Japanese puppet army, so the support that the 1st Field Division can give is extremely limited, so Wang Xiaohu must be cautious at every step, otherwise he is likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese puppet army.

But coincidentally, when they were stationed on the outskirts of Maji Township, they found a situation, along the way they had encountered six or seven waves of gift-giving teams, each of which was not small in size, and there was even a luxury gift-giving team of four or five officers escorted by devils from an infantry squadron, and the gifts were even more full of a truckload. …,

Originally, according to Liu Baoqiang's intentions, regardless of 3721, he took down this devil squadron first, and the Japanese army in the wilderness would not find out for two or three days. Besides, there are two lieutenants, two junior lieutenants, and one lieutenant officer in it, which is enough to qualify the special combat team to make a move.

However, Wang Xiaohu still decided to give up this job, after all, this place has just come, maybe this time they will directly stab the hornet's nest, although they are not afraid of poking the hornet's nest, and in their hearts they wish that the little devils would become a swarm, but just with such an infantry squadron and the adjutant of three or two kittens, they are not worthy of such a special operations brigade to mobilize the people, speaking of which, Wang Xiaohu still feels that this devil squadron is not qualified enough to let the special combat team run away for him.

Besides, this matter is still a little strange, although Jining is now the location of the Luxi Provincial Provincial Office of the puppet Shandong Office, in addition to the high-level traitors stationed in the puppet Shandong Office, there are also a large number of Japanese troops stationed there, and the highest-level devil is a major general. And this Jiaxiang County is just one of the most ordinary small county towns under the rule of Jining, and only the county seat is running to Jining to give gifts, and there is no reason for Jining to rush to this small county town to give gifts, which makes Wang Xiaohu keenly feel that things are unusual, so he immediately asked the special combat team members to infiltrate Jiaxiang County to investigate the situation.

Liu Baoqiang was prepared for the captain's question, and hurriedly said: "This pseudo county magistrate is indeed not ordinary, it is very deeply hidden, not only our people don't know the details of this guy, but even the vast majority of Jiaxiang people don't know which county magistrate who has been in office for more than a year is sacred." I only know that this guy doesn't even buy the account of the Japanese army, and several times he scolded the captain of the Japanese military police in Jiaxiang County in public, and here the devils generally dare not arrest and kill people indiscriminately, and people in the county town rumored that the county chief may have something to do with the leaders in the provincial capital. ”

"Well, there is this possibility, the captain of the devil gendarmerie in the county town is generally a captain rank, equivalent to a squadron leader of a field army, and this pseudo county magistrate dares to insult a Japanese officer of this level at will, there is only one possibility, that is, the background of this pseudo county magistrate is not ordinary. Only the big traitors who have this ability in Shandong can do it if they first defect to the Japanese army, but if it is a traitor of that level, he will not be reduced to serving as the county magistrate in this small county with a big fart, I think this pseudo county magistrate should be the immediate family member of a big traitor in the puppet Shandong Office, have you found out, what is the surname of the pseudo county magistrate? Wang Xiaohu asked again.

"Find out, surname Wang"

Wang Xiaohu doesn't know much about this puppet Shandong Office's big and small official position, except for the former puppet governor Ma Liang and the big traitor surnamed Tang, others know very little. Moreover, like their special brigade group, the target is the Japanese army, and the puppet army and traitors are just piggybacking, so when collecting intelligence, they also focus on devils and light on traitors.

"The surname is Wang, is there anyone surnamed Wang among the big traitors in Shandong?"

"Haven't heard of it? I have heard of one surname Ma and the other surname Tang, and then there seems to be another surname Zhang, but I have never heard of one surnamed Wang. ”

"Okay, don't think about it if you can't think of it, just because so many devils and traitors give this guy a birthday celebration, I know that this guy is definitely not a good thing, such a big face is enough for our young phoenix to receive it once. This time, the Japanese puppet army in Shandong is going to be busy for a while, hehehe, inform the soldiers to sneak into the county seat secretly immediately, and it will be our appearance tomorrow night. ”

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Wang Jixian is very proud at this moment, one of the Japanese officers who just sent away turned out to be a captain of the Fifth Division, you must know that the commander of the Ninth Brigade of the Fifth Division stationed in Jining, Major General Kunizaki Noboru, is not a person who wants to be with him, that guy has not suffered a devastating blow since he came to the Chinese battlefield, even if the Fifth Division has been hit hard, but his Ninth Brigade will be safe and sound, so that Da Taijun's eyes are above the top, and he really can't enter his speech, Although his son is also the number one person in the entire Shandong region, who is not afraid of the head of the Wang Hall, but it is still not enough to see in front of Kunizaki Deng, the great prince. …,

But this time, he also sent someone to celebrate his birthday, which made Wang Jixian a little flattered. In fact, Wang Jixian himself is not very good, when he was in power in Han Fuqu before, he was just a small township security chief, and he did some trivial things every day, and even the face of the county magistrate was rare.

But since his son took refuge in the Japanese, the status of their entire family in Shandong has suddenly become hot, although it is still much inferior to the Ma and Tang families, but compared to the Zhang family. The Liu family is still a lot stronger. Even he, an old man who was about to enter the wood, was a county magistrate.

Wang Jixian himself knows what he likes, he was a good woman when he was young, but now half of his body is in the ground, and he is not interested in those young and beautiful little girls, so he is not interested in anything other than the white ocean.

Wang Jixian admires himself very much, speaking of which he can be regarded as having a good way to make money, originally this year was not his sixty, the sixtieth birthday he had already passed three years ago, and this birthday was purely to make money. Unexpectedly, even Kunisaki Daitari was shocked, and when he thought about the scene of the scenery when Kunisaki Daitar's gift list was read out in public after the birthday banquet began tomorrow night, he was excited. Think about it two years ago, when the old immortal of the Tang family celebrated his seventieth birthday, even the tall Taijun was personally present to congratulate him, and that scene was infinitely beautiful.

The birthday banquet was arranged in Wang Jixian's county governor's courtyard, which was originally the residence of a marquis of the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Jixian still has a deep meaning to hold the birthday banquet today, today is the first day of January in the Yang (Western) calendar, which is the beginning of the new year in the Western calendar. Originally, Wang Jixian was going to hold this birthday banquet on the sixth day of the second month of his birthday, but in order to please the Japanese, he had changed his birthday to a Western calendar.

"Wang Quan, have all the guests arrived?" The housekeeper Wang Quan is the old man of the Wang family, he grew up with Wang Jixian, he was Wang Jixian's scholar when he was young, and he became the housekeeper of the Wang family when he grew up.

"If you go back to the master, except for Liu Baochang from Maji Township, who has not yet arrived, the rest of the people have almost arrived."

"What's the matter with Old Man Liu, haven't they already started walking up yesterday? Why hasn't it arrived today, if it weren't for the sake of him helping me before, hum..."Wang Jixian asked slowly.

Wang Quan still said unhurriedly: "Master, Bao Chang Liu's birthday gift has indeed been delivered to the mansion in the morning, but today he sent someone to deliver a letter saying that the group of Qiu Ba on Phoenix Mountain wanted to connect with the imperial army through you, so he found them, and Old Man Liu also said in his heart that those Qiu Ba had prepared five big carts of gifts for you, so he walked a little slowly, but it should be almost there now." ”

"Oh, it's that group of Qiu Ba, it's really possible, some time ago it didn't mean that they and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army used force, that group of Qiu Ba was almost wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and now it's really possible to defect to the Imperial Army. Okay, regardless of them, since they are here, let them in, for the sake of the five carts of gifts, you go to the city gate to pick up this group of Qiu Ba, we can't lose our courtesy. I'll go to the lobby first to greet Ono Taikun, that's our honored guest, let's go."

"Hey, sir, then I'll go," Wang Quan walked out after speaking.

As Wang Quan said, not long after he arrived at the city gate, he saw a convoy slowly walking towards the city gate, and it was the old man Liu of Maji Township.

Because Old Man Liu and Wang Jixian were both security chiefs under Han Fuqu earlier, the two townships were not far apart, and Wang Jixian and Old Man Liu had a good relationship, and Old Man Liu even saved Wang Jixian's life more than ten years ago, so Wang Quan was also very familiar with Old Man Liu. …,

"Old man Liu, you are here, the birthday banquet is about to start, you hurry up, the old man is in a hurry" Wang Quan shouted from afar.

In fact, Old Man Liu was not happy in his heart, not to mention that he was robbed halfway, even the dog slave of Wang Quan dared to show off his might in front of him. I think that even the old man Wang had to shout when he saw himself, since the son of the old man Wang took refuge in the Japanese and became the director of the police department, the ungrateful old man Wang called himself an old man Liu, and even the dog of Wang Quan often gave himself a look, which is really unpopular in the world.

But even so, Old Man Liu has to endure it, not to mention the group of masters behind him, just say that the devils behind Old Man Wang can't be provoked by themselves, so he can only pretend to be a grandson: "How dare you, hey, it's late, there is Lao Wangguanjia here to greet him, and the mere courtesy is not a tribute."

Saying that, Old Man Liu handed Wang Quan a small red envelope, and the sound of the collision inside seemed to be a precious metal such as the ocean.

Wang Quan took the little red envelope in his hand and checked it, feeling that it should be above five oceans, thinking that usually the old man Liu is only three or two oceans even if he stammers himself, this time he took out five pieces at once, it seems that this old guy's family background is still quite rich, and the next time he asks for his own errands, he has to knock this old guy ten oceans.

But thinking about it, I can be regarded as making a lot of money today, so I smiled and said: "Brother Liu is polite, who doesn't know that you are our lord's honored guest, and all the heroes, please wait for everyone's arrival at home, please"

"Steward Wang is polite, please"

In fact, Wang Quan completely misunderstood Old Man Liu, although Old Man Liu can be regarded as having a little family background, after all, thirty or forty years of security chief is not in vain. But in order to convince him, the housekeeper took out five yuan of Xian Dayang at once, it was impossible, and all this money was used by the people behind Old Man Liu to let him get through the relationship.

With the royal power leading the way, the group entered the city smoothly, and no one from the Japanese puppet army guarding the gate came to ask. The big guys are not stupid, can anyone provoke the king scorpion, who dares to provoke even Kameda Taijun who dares to reprimand.

Wang Xiaohu didn't expect that his party would be so smoothly mixed into Jiaxiang County, although two special operations teams had already mixed into the city yesterday, but all the weapons and ammunition had not yet been transported into the city, and the special combat teams without weapons and ammunition were not opponents of the Japanese army, so how to transport weapons and ammunition into the city became the key.

In this regard, Wang Xiaohu's first thought was to enter the city as a gift-giving team and hide weapons and ammunition in the gift-giving car, but after investigation, it was found that the Japanese puppet army guarding the city gate in each gift-giving car was very carefully inspected, and it was impossible to enter the city at all, and when entering the city, he had to take out the invitation card issued by the county magistrate Wang.

Where did the special combat team get the invitation for the first time, and in desperation, Wang Xiaohu had no choice but to be a robber. Fortunately, thanks to their good luck, when they learned that the group of people who kidnapped them were going to deal with County Magistrate Wang, the kidnapped Liu Baochang happily agreed to do his best to cooperate with Wang Xiaohu and others, and came up with the idea of letting them pretend to be bandits from Phoenix Mountain who were ready to join the Japanese army, and at the same time let the chief butler of County Magistrate Wang's family go out of the city to meet them.

In fact, Wang Xiaohu was also afraid that this Liu Baochang would play tricks, but after reading the letter written by Liu Baochang to County Magistrate Wang, Wang Xiaohu dispelled that doubt, and Liu Baochang did not mention them from beginning to end, and did not explicitly say that he would let his housekeeper go out of the city to greet him and others.

In this regard, Liu Baochang explained that Wang Jixian has a very good face, he received his great favor when he was young, and he is also the chief of security, but Wang Jixian is not favored by the county magistrate, and he is indeed a popular person in front of the county magistrate, so Wang Jixian is jealous and hateful about this, and has opposed him many times.

But in a war more than ten years ago, Wang Jixian was broken into his home by a rout, stabbed him in the ribs with a bayonet, and was seriously injured. After that, Wang Jixian also saw the situation clearly, and after the injury was healed, he began to befriend Liu Baochang, and more than ten years have passed.

After the Japanese came, Wang Jixian's eldest son took refuge in the Japanese, and was soon reused by the Japanese, and last year he was appointed as the director of the Police Department of the Shandong Administrative Office, with great authority, and suddenly Wang Jixian also became the county magistrate of Jiaxiang County.

The change of identity made Wang Jixian full of the pleasure of revenge, he did not remove Liu Baochang's position, and often contacted Liu Baochang, in fact, Wang Jixian just wanted to see Liu Baochang, who had been pressing himself up for decades, showing that kind of humble expression in front of him, which made Liu Baochang hateful, this time since he had the opportunity to make a little trouble for Wang Jixian, he was very happy to see it, anyway, he also knew that Wang Jixian would not do anything to him. And Liu Baochang judged that after receiving his letter, whether it was for the "gift" of the five carts or to humiliate Liu Baochang, Wang Jixian would definitely send a reliable person to pick him up, and in addition to Wang Jixian's son, Wang Jixian's most important and trusted thing was the great housekeeper Wang Quan......