Out of the station, Chen Tiehan briefly explained the reconnaissance mission this time, and then began to march quickly with the guerrillas, without stopping at the way, but the speed of their running mountain road made the villagers they met along the way stunned! Towards the village, the terrain began to change, and the mountain on the left gradually eased, but the bushes everywhere were perfect for the guerrillas to lurk.

After running a few miles along the mountain road, a fork in front of him suddenly appeared, and when he arrived at the fork, Chen Tiehan suddenly stopped. Yu Dazhi, who followed him, also stopped, Chen Tiehan stopped, and Yu Dazhi asked a little strangely, "Captain, why don't you run?" We haven't arrived at the horse farm yet! Looking at the fork in the road in front of him, Chen Tiehan couldn't help but be a little undecided, the road in front of him to the left naturally leads to Mazhuang, and the right road leads to the official road, Chen Tiehan didn't know whether the national army that Yu Dazhi said had arrived at Mazhuang.

Chen Tiehan suddenly turned around and asked, "Dazhi, you are a local, how far is it to go to the official road on the right?" ”

Yu Dazhi thought for a while and said, "Oh, our locals call this place a double fork, go to the northeast for two miles, the road will be narrow, and then walk on a three-mile road to the official road you said." Yu Dazhi didn't understand why the captain asked about the way to the official road on the right at this time, didn't he say that he was going to march to Mazhuang to fight the autumn wind?

Zhou Weiguo frowned and laughed secretly that he had thought too much, although the group of people in the national army said that they were taking the winding official road, but they were driving trucks, and although their guerrillas were taking a shortcut, they could only march with a pair of feet, maybe they would have rushed to Mazhuang a long time ago. After thinking about this, Chen Tiehan was immediately relieved, turned to Dazhi and said, "Let's go, let's go to Mazhuang." ”

When the guerrillas were about to arrive at Mazhuang, it was already dark, and Chen Tiehan and the others did not hear the expected gunshots, so they lurked on the periphery of Mazhuang, waiting for the Mazhuang stronghold to start fighting before showing up. Chen Tiehan knew that his guerrillas would not be able to capture the Mazhuang stronghold independently, so he wanted to watch from the sidelines, and when the fight between the national army and the devil soldiers in the Mazhuang stronghold was inseparable, the guerrillas would take the opportunity to attack. can not only reduce casualties, but also get enough supplies from it, this is Chen Tiehan's real calculation.

Ordering his guerrillas to lurk first and wait for his orders, Chen Tiehan took Yu Dazhi and the other two guerrillas to quietly approach the Mazhuang stronghold.

It was getting closer and closer to the Japanese stronghold, and at this time, several people suddenly heard a loud roar. Chen Tiehan's face froze, and he immediately waved his hand and shouted in a low voice, "Find a place to hide!" Although Yu Dazhi and the three of them were all startled by this sudden voice, they still did not hesitate to follow him into the bushes on the side of the road when they heard Chen Tiehan's words. But after a while, no one came, and the roar gradually became quieter.

Yu Dazhi and the others glanced at each other, but they didn't know why. Chen Tiehan frowned and fell into deep thought. The roar just now was very familiar to him, it was the sound of the devil's military vehicle starting, and after a while, the roar of the engine sounded again. With the experience just now, Yu Dazhi and the others were not too afraid, and the engine went off for a while and then quieted down again. Chen Tiehan whispered to Dazhi and the three of them, "Come with me and have a look." ”

Then he quietly climbed to a hill on the side, Yu Dazhi was fine, and Anren didn't know where to go, so he had to follow closely behind. Climbing to the top of the mountain, Chen Tiehan and the others immediately saw more than a dozen electric lights on the flat ground outside the Mazhuang stronghold, and a few searchlights shining around. Chen Tiehan took out a cloth bag in his arms, carefully opened the cloth bag and took out a telescope, and looked at the Mazhuang stronghold with the telescope, only to see a few bamboo poles erected on the flat ground outside the stronghold, and an electric lamp was hung on each bamboo pole, and the lamp was full of ghost soldiers, as if these ghost soldiers were eating.

There were three trucks on the periphery of the bamboo poles, one of which was slowly walking around the open space outside the stronghold. The engine covers of the remaining two trucks were lifted, and a few ghost soldiers were busy there with tools. Chen Tiehan counted through the binoculars and found that there were only about 20 devil soldiers outside the stronghold, and more than 20 devil soldiers were equipped with three trucks.

At this time, the light of the electric light dimmed slightly, and soon the truck on the left with the engine cover lifted began to roar, and the lights in the open space immediately became brighter. Chen Tiehan suddenly understood that the roar just now was the devil using the truck engine to generate electricity, and Chen Tiehan handed the telescope to Yu Dazhi, who had been eager to try. Yu Dazhi gasped after looking at it with a telescope, and then asked a question that Chen Tiehan didn't expect, "Captain, why is the Imperial Association Army in the stronghold missing?" The last time we came to investigate, there were still more than 20 Imperial Allies in the Mazhuang stronghold. ”

Chen Tiehan already felt that there were too many devil soldiers in the Mazhuang stronghold, and when he suddenly heard Yu Dazhi say that there should be more than 20 imperial alliance troops in the stronghold, he couldn't help but gasp. The national army that Yu Dazhi said was only about a dozen people, even if those national troops returned the salute and fought bravely, it was not easy for them to break through the Mazhuang stronghold guarded by nearly 50 Japanese puppet troops, not to mention that these devil soldiers in the Mazhuang stronghold now also have trucks.

"What should I do?" Chen Tiehan asked himself in his heart, should he send someone to the official road to remind the national army, or should he wait and see what happens, anyway, the national army and *** are not all the way. Glancing at the stronghold of Mazhuang full of lights from a distance, Chen Tiehan gritted his teeth and called Yu Dazhi to his side and whispered, "You go to the official road now and wait, when the group of national troops you said comes, you must tell them what you just saw, don't let them rush to death in vain." ”

Yu Dazhi didn't understand why he was going to warn those people in the national army, didn't the captain always say that the Kuomintang was not a good thing, why would he help those Kuomintang again. "I'm not helping the Kuomintang, I'm helping those who really fight devils, and besides, didn't they save a few of your lives in the afternoon, helping them once is nothing, just pay them back."

Knowing that it didn't work to talk to Yu Dazhi about them, Chen Tiehan only said that it was to repay the favor, and Yu Dazhi immediately nodded and left. "Captain, look, the Imperial Association Army in the stronghold has come out, and there are more than a dozen of them." Chen Tiehan, who was full of contemplation, was awakened by one of his guerrillas, took the telescope and looked down, and there were indeed more than a dozen Imperial Cooperative troops in the open space outside the stronghold. These Imperial Cooperative Army who came out of the stronghold were helping the few remaining devil soldiers in the open space to pack up their things, but Chen Tiehan always felt that something was weird, but he just couldn't tell what was weird.

The two trucks that circled back and forth in the open space outside the stronghold drove and stopped, and every time they would change to a ghost soldier to drive, Chen Tiehan knew that this was a ghost soldier practicing driving. waited until night really fell, the lights outside the stronghold were all extinguished, and even the three trucks in the open space stopped, except for the searchlights on the stronghold that were still swaying back and forth, and the Japanese puppet army outside the entire stronghold had all withdrawn into the stronghold.

Yu Dazhi has been gone for almost half an hour, but Chen Tiehan has not seen Yu Dazhi come back, Chen Tiehan, who was worried, was about to go over to see it in person, but saw Yu Dazhi running quickly. "Captain, I've been waiting on the official road for so long, not to mention those people from the national army, I haven't even seen a ghost, do you think they will be rerouted?" Yu Dazhi lay down beside Chen Tiehan, muttering to Chen Tiehan in a low voice, not waiting for those national troops to come, which made Yu Dazhi somewhat disappointed.

Chen Tiehan was not immediately hungry for Dazhi's words, but calculated several routes around Mazhuang in his heart, and after carefully thinking for a while, Chen Tiehan said, "No, they rescued you in Luomapo, 5 miles south of the Qingshui River, there is only one road from Luomapo to Mazhuang, and it is impossible for them to temporarily change the route." If you want to take a small road, there are a few, but if you take a small road, what will happen to their trucks? Could it be that their truck broke down in the middle of the road? Chen Tiehan suddenly remembered the two trucks outside the stronghold that lifted the engine cover, and thought to himself that it was not the car of the national army that broke down in the middle of the road, and it would still be repaired.

As soon as Chen Tiehan said this, Yu Dazhi also felt that there was some truth, otherwise he would not have been able to wait for those people from the national army in the official road. "Captain, if not, I'll take a few people along the official road to have a look, maybe as you said, they stopped in the middle of the road to repair the car." Yu Dazhi volunteered to follow the official road to find those national troops, Chen Tiehan thought about it for a while, and then agreed to Yu Dazhi's request, but he still carefully told Yu Dazhi not to clash with those national troops.

"Tell everyone, pay attention to concealment, and don't expose it." Chen Tiehan is a person who will not give up until he reaches his goal, and since he has already come out with the guerrillas, he cannot go back empty-handed. The group of national troops mentioned by Yu Dazhi obviously wanted to continue to go south, and the Mazhuang stronghold was their only way, and if they didn't go to Mazhuang, those national troops would have to throw away their trucks. Thinking about the national army, which was not good at rapid marching, Chen Tiehan was already sure that the national army would definitely go south from Mazhuang, so he and his guerrillas only needed to spend a little patience waiting here, and there would definitely be a chance to fight the autumn wind.

Chen Tiehan just deduced that Tang Cheng and the others were still halfway there, if he knew where Tang Cheng and the others really were at this time, he would be bedridden with blood in his mouth, because Tang Cheng and them were under Chen Tiehan's nose at the moment.