A crescent moon hangs high in the desolate sky.

Located in Qinghe County, the junction of Hebei and Shandong canal.

The county town, which once flourished because of the canal, seemed deserted in the darkness shrouded by the moonlight.

The searchlights on the city tower sway from time to time on the moat bank outside the county town.

The edge of the suspension bridge still has traces of waterline left by the sharp rise in the moat water level two days ago.

A group of puppet troops patrolling the city wall were leaning against the arrows outside the city gate tower and muttering, occasionally leaning toward the south.

The city gate at the foot of the puppet army was closed, and notices were posted on both sides of the city gate opening.

Several unsticky lines fluttered in the night wind, and the portraits of the human faces on the yellow paper had already faded.

One of the contents is to maintain the government's decision to demolish the houses that were obviously burned outside the South City Gate in order to rectify order, and all the owners of the houses were allowed to move them away within half a month.

The owner's house had long been gone, and the moonlight shrouded in the darkness, and it looked like a dilapidated scene.

Suddenly, one or two barkings came from the city, which caused a series of unwilling local dogs to bark in the dark.

As time goes by, the dog barking slowly disappears and the county town returns to peace.

Not long after, the dogs somewhere in the city couldn't help but speak again, and then the barking of the dogs came one after another.

Late at night, the county town is still not peaceful.

After receiving the order from his superiors, Commander Cheng led his team to sneak for more than fifty miles after dark.

Arrive at a village about three miles west of Qinghe County.

The autonomous army uniforms were not much different from the puppet army. The march in the Qingshi tent in the enemy-occupied area did not attract too much attention from the reconnaissance teams dispersed to the countryside.

There is no way to pay attention to it. The vanguard arranged by Captain Cheng in advance had already blocked the way to the city. At this time, whoever dares to run towards the county town is the spy who reported to the Japanese...

Su Qing sat next to a millstone in a yard with no roof.

Untie the legs and rub the almost unconscious calves, and from time to time he looked up at the south sky.

From time to time, there were subtle rumbling sounds from faraway places in the sky.

There were many soldiers in the yard who turned to look south like her.

Wang Xiaosan started looking for a place to dig a stove. He planned to cook porridge, so that the fire could not be directly created in the stove house where the villagers were covered with roofs.

Commander Cheng is directing the soldiers to set up tents in the yard and look at the map. It is impossible to hide without a tent.

Time passes by minute by minute...

Su Qing and Yi leaned against the female guerrilla Captain Pei to clean it up, laying a marching blanket and pressing it against the base of the sorghum leaves. Her fatigue made her unable to sit firmly. She slowly leaned against the wall and lay down sideways, her thoughts gradually became confused.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the yard.

Two black shadows followed the sentry and quickly came to the yard where the soldiers slept all over the place.

Cheng Haibo in the tent heard footsteps and quickly came out of the tent. He saw clearly that the person was a trafficker in Hejian Village, Qinghe County, and walked up to him and stretched out his hand: "Dad Zhao, thank you for your hard work..."

"Not working hard..." Mr. Zhao was over forty years old.

"Have you eaten?" Cheng Haibo smiled on his tired face: "Guardian, hurry up and get some food..."

"I'll talk about the meal later..." Old Dad Zhao introduced the two people behind him: "Xiao Cheng, this is Captain Zhang Dagui of the Third Division Armed Working Team... This is Qiu Dafu, the leader of the First Team of the Working Team..."

"Hello Captain Cheng!" The young Captain Dagui saluted first and then extended his hand: "The leader led the team behind and arrived in about half an hour..."

Seeing Su Qing coming out of the darkness of the wall, Cheng Haibo quickly introduced him to several people.

Soon, a circle of people surrounded the map of the tent command center.

"We have a radio station and can contact your guard battalion at any time!" Captain Zhang straight to the point: "The superiors have given us a glorious task to liberate Qinghe County tonight!"

Cheng Haibo was a little embarrassed and subconsciously glanced at Su Qing.

Su Qing knew that the password book was needed for a radio contact, otherwise it would be useless to hold it in his hand.

Depending on the situation, the 23rd Group should be able to contact him...

She knew the word liberation, but few people used it.

Next, Captain Zhang began to announce the commander's order...

Su Qing was a little dumbfounded, and suddenly a picture of a girl with two braids on her head squeezing her eyebrows and raising her eyes.

They just fought Chengwu County, and now the head of the third division also wanted to fight the county town. If she wasn't there in the middle...

Some people in the village have ulterior motives and want to go to the county town to report a letter to Taijun.

But I dare not go out.

Those teams who started to clean up houses and sweep the floor as soon as they entered the village, and they knew that they were coming to the Eighth Route Army...

Before dark, the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army launched a large-scale out-of-town city, and the rumors naturally spread outside the village: the Eighth Route Army surrounded the Imperial Army.

Now that a large number of Eighth Route Army members have come outside the county town, is this the rhythm of changing the weather?

Wu Jiguo, the richest man in the village, was so anxious that he was in a row.

There was a room full of people sitting in the main room, and there was no light on it.

No one spoke, and the eldest young master was the commander of the Imperial Association Army in the county town.

He is pretty good to the villagers on weekdays, but under the pressure of the Imperial Army, he occasionally has to do things that go against his conscience.

Last night, my son led the team south and has not received any news until now.

Now that the Eighth Route Army has appeared here, is the backer of their own family going to collapse?

Mr. Wu is in a nervous mood. His family is low-key and his whole family doesn't even live in the county...

The main reason is that the Japanese are too bad and live in the county town, no one can guarantee that their wife will not be ruined by the Japanese.

Mr. Wu quietly told his younger son and daughter-in-law who was also unable to sleep: "Take a few grandchildren... hurry up and hide them..."

"Dad, a few days ago, the cellar was flooded and there was no way to hide people..."

Bang bang bang bang, the gate of the courtyard was suddenly smashed.

Mr. Wu quickly came out of the main hall. More than a dozen guards in the yard holding short guns were hidden behind the big tree in the yard, with guns all facing the knocked door.

"Mr. Wu, please open the door. I am Zhang Dagui!"

He seemed very happy to hear the tone of the outsider's speech. Wu Jiguo didn't dare to open the door, so he shouted loudly: "It turns out it's Captain Zhang, I don't know what kind of guild you do when I come to visit late at night..."

"You open the door first, tell you if you have something important..."

"It's dark and there are all old, weak, women and children in the house. Can you tell me after dawn?"

"Haha, don't worry, our Eighth Route Army will not take the masses with a needle or thread..."

He really doesn't take a single needle and thread, and just writes IOU all day long... Wu Jiguo complained in his heart: "If you lack food and have some at home, what if I have someone to send it to you from the wall?"

"I know what you are worried about, but don't worry, we will liberate Qinghe County tonight! I'm here so late and I really disturb you. If you have any concerns, please come out and discuss important matters!" [As for the word liberation, I have been using it for a long time]

It’s okay to guard against bandits by yourself.

Now the Eighth Route Army has already filled the village. If we don’t listen to him, it would be no problem to capture our own yard with the ruthlessness of the Eighth Route Army.

Fortunately, the other party was quite polite, and a stone in his heart finally landed on the ground.

Liberation...What does it mean? Maybe the Eighth Route Army was defeated by his son, or maybe some people were arrested by his son, maybe they wanted to say something nice to the person in front of his son?

Thinking of this, this is what made the family worker open the door.

The two seemed to have a dispute in the darkness. After a while, Wu Jiguo returned to the house, lifted the big blue brick in the room, pulled out a heavy box from under the brick, called the two guards, and went out.

During the whole process, I didn’t say a word to the family and the young in the house.

...

Half an hour later.

A group of people dressed in a wardrobe appeared at the south gate of the county town.

The puppet army on the city gate building immediately shouted: "Who is it!"

"It's me, Wu Jiguo, open the door quickly..."

"Oh, it's the regiment commander's biological father... or not the door is open?" A puppet army asked the puppet squad leader next to him with some embarrassment.

"Haha, the leader's biological father came over in the middle of the night. Do you still want to be a gatekeeper model in Taijun's place?"

"Hehe, although it is not in accordance with the rules to open the city gate in the middle of the night, it is just a crack... nothing should have happened..."
Chapter completed!