The woods at night looked a little gloomy, the air was still filled with the smell of blood and burning, and scattered bullet casings could be seen from time to time in the weeds on the ground. In the empty woods, a bush suddenly shook without wind, and a Japanese lieutenant covered in bush branches and leaves got up from behind a big tree, and around him, several Japanese soldiers in the same costume also stood up with hulala.

"Lieutenant Okada, it looks like the man really left." A Japanese soldier took a few steps forward, stood behind the Japanese lieutenant and whispered. The Japanese lieutenant named Okada didn't speak, just looked left and right with burning eyes, and listened carefully for a while, Okada couldn't help but sigh softly, it seemed that the person was really not here. Okada and the selected veteran had been silent and hidden here for more than two hours, and if the man hadn't left, he wouldn't have escaped their observation.

During the day's battle, Okada only caught up with the end of the battle, although he didn't really face the mysterious man, but seeing the wounded and corpses that were constantly being carried out of the woodland, Okada knew that the man who was surrounded by them in the forest was by no means an idle person. In fact, just as Second Lieutenant Okada had predicted, the mysterious man who was surrounded by more than a thousand people in this forest, after a whole day of fierce fighting, suddenly disappeared without a trace half an hour before dark.

Mobilizing more than 1,000 troops, and inflicting at least 300 casualties, only to end up in vain, such an outcome was unacceptable to almost all the officers present. Therefore, Lieutenant Okada, who finally arrived here, quietly hid as a new force according to the order, hoping that this would deceive the mysterious person who did not know where to hide. Lieutenant Okada and the selected Japanese veterans actually carried out the orders of their superiors, but it was dark in the morning, and the mysterious person they were expecting to appear still did not move.

Lieutenant Okada was also very disappointed in his heart, as an officer of the Young Zhuang faction, he was very much looking forward to receiving higher merits on the battlefield. If you can lead a team to capture or kill this damn mystery man, maybe you can rise in rank and become an Imperial Captain, and then have the opportunity to command a squad on your own. It's just that now, there is no possibility of realizing this dream of mine, where did that damn guy go?

After staying in place for a while, Lieutenant Okada, whose expression showed a look of loss, finally ordered to retreat, and the Japanese veterans, who were already physically and mentally exhausted, although they did not show it on their faces, were already happy in their hearts. Lieutenant Okada and the others left, except for the gentle breeze that blew and the occasional sound of insects, the silence of the place where they had stayed was restored. An hour passed quickly, and there was a sudden sound of rustling, and behind the big tree where Lieutenant Okada had appeared an hour earlier, two Japanese soldiers, also clad in bush branches and leaves, appeared again.

"Damn, Miki, they're sure they've already eaten." One of the Japanese veterans muttered in a low voice, but his companion beside him did not say anything, but tore the bushes and leaves that were wrapped around him, and he obviously agreed with what his companion had just said. The two who were left behind by Lieutenant Okada continued to lurk in place for more than an hour after Okada and the others left, but nothing happened, and the two had to return in vain.

Neither group of sleepers found Rehe, so where did the mysterious person who was surrounded by them in the forest go? At dawn, when the last wave of Japanese troops lurking in the forest had quietly left, a mound of earth was slowly rising under the roots of the weedy tree where Lieutenant Okada had been lurking during the day. After a few breaths, Lu Yuan's pale face emerged from the mound, and for a whole day, Lu Yuan hid in the dirt hole under the roots of the tree.

Lieutenant Okada, who was bent on catching Lu Yuan, never thought that the target he wanted to capture would have been hiding a few meters away from him. Lu Yuan drilled out of the hole, the wounds on his shoulders and thighs were already a little white, and after rebandaging the wounds, Lu Yuan, who had endured the pain, got up and stood up, limping towards the edge of the woods. Lu Yuan was surrounded by many people at that time, although he made many arrangements, he could not stand the strength of the Japanese army, and the desperate Lu Yuan had to make dangerous moves.

Lu Yuan first ignited the oil to cause a fire, and after killing and injuring a large number of Japanese soldiers who rounded up him, Lu Yuan took advantage of the fireworks in the forest to use his storage space to dig out a hole in the root of a big tree. Lu Yuan's arrangement around the earthen cave* was quickly triggered by the Japanese troops who surrounded him, and the mud that rose with the explosion erased all the traces left by Lu Yuan, which was the main reason why Lieutenant Okada and they found nothing.

Relying on the dry hole in the heart of the tree, Lu Yuan, who was hiding underground, was not suffocated alive, and the Japanese army did not expect Lu Yuan to hide underground at all. Relying on the guidance of the all-view map, Lu Yuan limped for most of the night before bypassing the Japanese army's outer search defense line, and by the time the sky was bright, the exhausted Lu Yuan had already appeared on a hill more than ten kilometers away from the Zhengding Japanese garrison. In the middle of the night, Lu Yuan only moved out for more than ten kilometers, if it was normal, Lu Yuan would have died of shame, but now, he was a little complacent.

After all, it was temporarily out of the situation of being surrounded by the Japanese army again, and Lu Yuan, who was still wounded, temporarily lived in this mountain forest. Lu Yuan hid in the forest to recuperate from his injuries, but the outside world became uproar because of what happened in Zhengding, whether it was the military commander or the underground party organization, they had already been eyeing the Japanese army material transfer station in Zhengding, but they had carried out several actions before, but they were all destroyed by the special high school and the local Japanese army, and now I learned that the Japanese army material transfer station in Zhengding had been attacked twice in a row within half a month, and the military commander and the underground party immediately sent people to find out the truth of the matter.

After all, the military commanders were veteran intelligence organizations, and through their inside lines in the Japanese army headquarters in Baoding, they soon found out what was going on in Zhengding. When Dai Li learned of this, he gladly read all the reports and intelligence on the matter, and when he learned that the Japanese army in Zhengding had suffered heavy losses this time, he immediately reported the matter to Chiang Kai-shek.

"According to all the information we have so far, we have reason to believe that the person who attacked the Zhengding Japanese army supply depot is likely to be the skeleton mask man in Shanghai. We sent out news from the inside line of the Japanese army headquarters in Baoding that before the Japanese army in Zhengding was attacked, two Japanese military columns from Baoding had been intercepted and suffered heavy losses. As he spoke, Dai Li took out a few more photos from his file bag and handed them to Chiang Kai-shek.

"This is a photo of that kind of bullet casing, which was identified by experts as a bullet from an American Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun, which is not available in the country at all." Dai Li's hand once again added a photo, "This is the bullet casing found at the scene of the firefight by the Shanghai Special High School last year when the skeleton masked man appeared for the first time in the Shanghai Concession, including the cartridge casing of this large-caliber bullet." Later, at the scene of Li Shiqun's assassination and the scene of the bloody incident of the Japanese Navy Club in Shanghai, the Japanese special high school also found this kind of bullet casing at the scene. ”

After listening to Dai Li's narration, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly became interested in these files, and in his imagination, the skeleton mask man mentioned by Dai Li should be a chivalrous figure. "Headmaster, this man is very powerful, especially when he is in close contact with the enemy, he often makes unexpected moves. The Shanghai Special High School once thought that the masked man had been exterminated by them, but it turned out that the masked man was still alive. ”

Dai Li said here, Chiang Kai-shek has basically figured out Dai Li's thoughts, and the military commander wants to recruit this masked man. Such a figure who can make the Japanese army sleep, if it can be used by himself, it is indeed a pleasing thing to the eye, Chiang Kai-shek has no reason to stop Dai Li, but Dai Li does not know the specific location of the mask man at present. As a result, in the newspaper of the second day of the Guotong area, the attack on the material transfer station of the Japanese army in Zhengding was placed on the body of the military commander.

The military commander was unashamed to accept this great merit, not because he really wanted to take the risk of receiving the meritorious service, but after the analysis of a group of senior staff officers in the chairman's chamber, they believed that the mysterious person who attacked the Japanese army in Zhengding was probably still surrounded by Japanese regiments at this moment. The military commander's high-profile publicity of this matter in the newspapers was just to divert the attention of the Japanese army, especially the Zhengding Japanese army. Once the Zhengding Japanese army was confused by the actions of the military commanders, the mysterious people who were surrounded also had a chance to escape.

It has to be said that this tactic of the military command is simple and practical, and as soon as the news was published in the newspapers, not only the people in the Kuomintang region were cheered, but the Japanese army base camp in North China also immediately received a reprimanding telegram from the Japanese base camp. At present, the main task of the Japanese army is to continue to move south, and in order to capture a so-called mysterious person, the Zhengding Japanese army has mobilized a large number of troops.

When the military commanders actively responded, the underground party also made the same conclusion, but they did it more simply, directly sending liaison officers to contact the surrounding guerrillas. As with the analysis of the military commanders, the underground party also judged that the mysterious person had not yet escaped, and dispatched guerrillas who were familiar with the local terrain, and the underground party was ready to cooperate with the local guerrillas to search the surrounding area of Zhengding.

The outside world reacted differently, and Lu Yuan, who didn't know anything, was building his temporary residence under a stone cliff at the moment. The two wounds on his body are not healed in a short time, and Lu Yuan plans to rest in this mountain forest for a while, and wait for the Japanese army to relax their vigilance by the way.