The hot sun shines on the mottled roof.

County Hospital.

There was a pungent smell of disinfectant everywhere.

On the left side of the gate, where the sunlight cannot be shined under the eaves, sacks were placed to form barricades, and a Czech light machine gun was rarely installed behind the sandbag.

The county guards wearing big-brimmed hats poked their heads out and looked at the crowds of people in the open space in front of the hospital.

Too many people came to seek treatment.

The hospital is accompanied by death as always, not much different from usual.

Carrying a stretcher and driving a donkey cart to lift the dead from the hospital.

More stretchers still report hopes to be sent to the hospital...

At the gate of the county hospital, it has actually become a place of death shrouded in the sun.

The policeman in black and white shirt and round glasses standing at the entrance of the hospital waved his right hand: "Dear fellow villagers, the hospital is full, please be early tomorrow..."

"I have been waiting for yesterday morning until this morning. It's the morning now. You told me to ask me to be early tomorrow?" The man carrying the stretcher cursed pale and angry.

"The hospital has limited treatment capabilities, and we will do our best..."

"Then let us in..."

The two men carried a stretcher and squeezed out the crowd. The man in black-faced military uniform walking in front frowned and whispered: "Liu Xiwang... You shattered police officer dare to stop me?"

"Haha..." Liu Xiwang, a police officer at Magan, sneered: "So it's the platoon leader Qi. Taijun personally ordered that in order to show fairness, even if your regiment leader comes in person, he would probably have to wait for tomorrow morning..."

"You guy, believe it or not, I'll break you up!" The black-faced men all lined up with long eyebrows. If they hadn't held the stretcher with both hands, they would have pulled the gun directly.

"I believe your grandpa..." Liu Xiwang raised his hand and pointed to the machine gun barricade set up by the police force next to him, and directly curled his lips: "I really think our machine gun is a decoration?"

"I have never heard that someone in your police force can play machine guns..." Platoon leader Qi had no choice but to put down the stretcher behind him, took out two oceans from his pocket and pressed them into Liu Xiwang's hand: "Brother, let me talk..."

Liu Xiwang pushed the black-faced man away and lowered his voice: "It's not that I don't give you face, it's because the Taijun inside issued a strict order, and he will not be admitted today..."

"There's really no other way?"

Policeman Ma Gan looked around and lowered his voice: "The Imperial Army was ambushed, and he freed up his bed to treat the wounded who were about to be sent..."

The patients and their families on the street outside the hospital were pricking their ears and muttering to the two people who were talking.

The eyes slowly filled with despair...

From a distance, I saw the platoon leader of the security team carrying the frame and leaving.

The waiting crowd finally couldn't help it: "It was all caused by the Eighth Route Army. If they didn't provoke the Japanese, we wouldn't be unable to enter the hospital..."

"Don't talk nonsense..."

"Or...we'll leave?"

Soon, more than half of the stretcher parked at the entrance of the hospital were missing.

Next to the stretcher in the corner, two people squatted beside the stretcher and muttered dejectedly: "Shopkeeper Lu, the hospital does not accept patients at all... What should I do if my master is sick?"

The old man named Lu Jianguan sighed: "Now that even the Qi family can't get in. It seems that he has to find another way..."

"I heard that the Eighth Route Army team is organizing the treatment of patients..." Someone muttered in the crowd that was leaving.

"real?"

“Where is it?”

"I heard it's..."

The shop opposite the sun is shining behind the dark earth cloth curtains on the second floor of the shop.

The hidden pairs of big eyes were as vicious as wolves, and they were a little uneasy.

County government office.

There is a table full of wine and food in the middle of the hall.

Six guards with rifles stood on each side.

A man in a military uniform with a national-shaped face standing on the main seat of the table.

A gray military uniform cross-body armed strap, with left foot on a stool, a cigarette in his left hand, and a right hand on the gun holster.

After seeing the man in black led by the guards, he flicked the cigarette butt to the side and greeted the door: "Commissioner Chen, what wind has blown you?"

"Commander Lao Qi has been waiting for a long time. It is reliable news. Those who ambush the Japanese and swept the Japanese are the Eighth Route Army!" Commissioner Chen, who had just entered the door, looked calm.

"Do you confirm it is the Eighth Route Army?" Commander Qi slapped the table and confirmed that Guan County was my territory. These Eighth Route Army members are not afraid of death... They dare to make trouble on my territory!"

Although Commander Qi said so, he must have an attitude.

But I was despised in my heart. In western Shandong, except for the Eighth Route Army, where could anyone dare to attack the Japanese on a large scale?

This Military Commissioner really treats himself as a fool!

Commissioner Chen’s tone was bad: “Commander Qi, you have four brigades and seven regiments, and I didn’t understand what courage the Eighth Route Army has to dare to attack the Japanese…”

"What do you mean?" Commander Qi stood up and shouted angrily: "You dog said you are suspicious of me?"

"Commander, don't get me wrong!" Commissioner Chen smiled and brought up the topic of this trip: "After the war in the Pacific, the Japanese were short of troops, and now is a good opportunity for us to expand the actual control area!"

Commander Qi shook his head: "Hehe, how to protect yourself in this world is the foundation. Expanding the territory will not benefit me for the time being..."

"But we can't watch the Eighth Route Army move on our territory, right? Moreover, you know more about the Eighth Route Army's means of winning people's hearts than me..."

Commander Qi sighed: "During this period, the eighth Route Army on the west bank of the canal has been in a rampant way..."

Commissioner Chen smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for those idiots in Cangzhou Road that ruined our good things...those old guys, so many people, wouldn't be able to deal with Chen Baji..."

"That's because their eating habits are too ugly. Brother, I advise you to avoid getting involved in their affairs..." Commander Qi was heart-warming.

"Hmph...If the Eighth Route Army hadn't been bewitching people everywhere, the Party wouldn't have been able to deal with the Japanese..."

"That's right, just blame the Eighth Route Army to cause trouble..." Commander Qi quickly agreed. This idiot in front of him was really a talented person!

In the early years, there were no Eighth Route Army in this area. Aren’t you still unable to compete with well-trained Japanese devils?

Commissioner Chen frowned slightly and said, "Forget it, it's meaningless to say these things now. The Eighth Route Army violated the cooperation agreement and touched our noses and set up a stage to perform. I asked me to convey instructions to find an opportunity to get rid of the Eighth Route Army that is moving eastward!"

Commander Qi was stunned for a moment: "The Eighth Route Army of Taihang went east and entered the plain. It was a big plan. On the surface, they could pass through my defense zone. If they did it openly, they would be detrimental to the population..."

"You can borrow the Japanese's hands..." Commissioner Chen's eyebrows trembled, and an unfathomable smile appeared on his face.

"The situation is not very good now. A large-scale plague has occurred along the canal. The Eighth Route Army on the west bank of the canal has captured Qinghe County. All kinds of Eighth Route Army are ready to move... It is not advisable to rush before we figure out why this group of Eighth Route Army ambush the Japanese!" Commander Qi was unmoved. Such a trick had been used for eight hundred times, and he had never seen any effect.

"According to the cooperation and anti-Japanese regulations, the county town is the territory of the party and the country. The Eighth Route Army dares to cross the line to move to our territory, which is to create friction! We must be severely punished and not loaned..." Commissioner Chen still felt good about himself and continued to talk.

"I, the security commander, have surrendered to the Japanese in public according to your arrangements..." Commander Qi was amused and crying. He begged to surrender to the Japanese invasion. He was in Cao's camp and his heart was in Han.

As for the Eighth Route Army, they did kill a lot in their early years.

But who knows that the Eighth Route Army has developed so fast?

Many people think that the Eighth Route Army headquarters has been taken over, and the Eighth Route Army has become a grasshopper after autumn.

He knew very well that it wasn't actually the case...

Commissioner Chen looked at Commander Qi who was hesitant, and a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes, using his trump card: "The peak demands that we bear the burden and develop and grow secretly, secretly take all the places in southern Hebei, western Shandong, and northern Henan, and completely remove the fence-leading grass of the Eighth Route Army and the Eighth Route Army... This is an order, not a discussion with you..."

…

There are many shops on both sides of the street.

Where the dazzling sunlight is visible, the boundary is clear from the shadows blocked by the building.

There are few pedestrians.

Facing north to the west of the hospital gate.

The distance is about 200 meters.

The secret contact point of the county town of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei District, commonly known as the office.

Eight people sat around a square table.

"...The superior reported that after investigation and statistics, it was found that the villagers who had symptoms were concentrated along the canal... The district committee organized a working team to isolate the villagers who had symptoms..."

"However, the death toll in the quarantine area is increasing. If this continues, the consequences will be unimaginable..."

"There will be a major epidemic after the disaster, so my ancestors said that... "

"Captain Wu, Shanli sent someone to guide epidemic prevention work. Did the person who was responsible for receiving the reception?"

"I have already picked up the head, and the traffic officer has heard a message, escorting Commissioner Yang across the canal tonight..." The man with patches on his arms, knees, and shoulders stood up and spoke.

"Find a way to do Qi Zixiu's job."
Chapter completed!