Chapter 112 Chapter 112 Escape from the Tiger's Den 2

"Where is the closest national army to here?" Master Zhou Qingxiang asked. "The nearest one is the 73rd Army of the National Army! Commander Peng Weiren's headquarters is not far away in Loudi." Director Wang replied hastily. "Oh, then send us to Commander Peng!" General Sun Mingyu said. "Okay! Okay! I'll arrange it now." Director Wang agreed, and shouted to his subordinates: "What are you still doing? Hurry up and get some sedan chairs to serve the Chief!" Finally, the two generals went to Loudi, transferred to Xinhua, and then went to Zhijiang. They finally escaped the clutches of the Japanese army and arrived at a place of absolute safety. They became the first generals of the 10th Army to return to the rear.

At this time, Fang Xianjue was still performing the drama "In Cao Ying, Heart in Han".In order to save the lives of the remaining officers and soldiers of the 10th Army, he specially imitated the "golden cicada escape" strategy of General Cai E, the predecessor of the 1911 Revolution: on the one hand, he conditionally accepted the designation of "Xianhe Army" conferred by the Nanjing Wang puppet government at that time; He often mingles with Japanese captains and concubines sent by the Japanese army as adjutants and concubines, and spends their time drinking and drinking, giving people the appearance of losing their fighting spirit and indulging in sex.On the one hand, he tried every means to actively contact the outside national army and local government, always trying to find a way to escape from the tiger's den and return to the embrace of the motherland and relatives.

After the fall of Hengyang, officers and soldiers of the 10th Army often escaped while the Japanese army was not paying attention, joined the anti-Japanese guerrillas in the four townships on the outskirts of Hengyang, and turned around to help the officers and soldiers in the city escape the sea of ​​suffering. On this day, a few common people came from the Catholic Church to deliver firewood and vegetables. After entering Fang Xianjue's residence, Commander Fang immediately signaled the guards to go and release the wind.It turned out that the escaped spy battalion commander Cao brought people to rescue the army commander.

"Mr. Zuo, I'm sorry for making you suffer! We were ordered to come and rescue you." Battalion Commander Cao Huating fell to his knees when he saw Fang Xianjue, weeping uncontrollably. "Huating, get up, get up. I should be sorry for the brothers, I'm sorry for you!" Fang Xianjue comforted Cao Huating while pulling him up.Seeing a few unfamiliar faces beside him, he asked, "Are they..." Cao Huating hurriedly introduced: "This is Commander Zhou of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment of Hengyang County." "Zhou Bingran of the Dongxiang Guerrilla Brigade. General Fang, we are late, please criticize!" Zhou Bingran hastily saluted and confessed himself.

"This is..." before Cao Huating was allowed to introduce, the handsome young man next to him hastily introduced himself: "Reporting to General Fang, I am Chen Zhongheng, an engineering graduate of the 18th class of the Military Academy, serving as the platoon leader of the 2nd Armored Regiment, Due to my mother's illness, I asked for leave to return to Hengyang to take care of her. I am familiar with the situation in Hengyang, so I volunteered to meet General Fang!" After a standard military salute, Chen platoon leader reported articulately. "Report to the military seat, this is the evacuation route map we planned, please have a look!" Zhou Bingran took out a sketch.

"Okay! You have worked hard!" Fang Xianjue took the blueprint and handed it to Zhang Guangkuan, the deputy director beside him. "You can't stay here for a long time, lest the Japanese become suspicious, and we will strengthen contact in the future. We will inform you after we have studied it. Please come back!" Zhang Guangkuan said to several people in a tactful voice.When sending a few people out of the door, he deliberately said loudly: "Several, if you have any good things in the future, hurry up and send them to our chief, no Wu!" "Yes, yes, yes... Thank you, sir, for the reward!" Several people also replied loudly on purpose, while lighting counterfeit banknotes in their hands, they backed away.

Back in the house, Fang Xianjue immediately instructed Director Zhang: "Guangkuan, take a chance and go out and check the wiring to see if it is suitable." "Yes, Military Seat! I'll do it this afternoon." Zhang Guangkuan stood at attention and replied. On the afternoon of November 18th, the sky was gloomy, the autumn wind was blowing, and the yellow leaves everywhere were falling endlessly in the cold wind and rain.It is the mid-autumn season, and Hengyang will soon enter the cold winter season. Zhang Guangkuan came to the Japanese adjutant accompanying him: "Mr. Ikeda, the weather is very cold. It is the time when the fish is fat and the shrimps are beautiful. We are drinking. The military seat invites you to work on drinking."

"Oh, Mr. Zhang, yours is very good, your great master is very good! Drinking is good, and I will go as ordered." A group of people drove from the Catholic Church in the south of the city to Qingcaoqiaotou in the north of the city by car. Once seated in the box on the second floor of "Liu Lingwen Restaurant", good wine and food were served one by one. He was so drunk that he was unconscious.It turns out that Fang Xianjue has a lot of water and is very good at drinking.Major General Peng Kefu Gao Can is a native of Guizhou, the hometown of liquor, so two catties of baijiu is no problem.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker, Hengyang was deserted after the fall, and the lights and cameras were lit up from far and near.From time to time, there were yelling and dog barking from Japanese checkpoints questioning people entering and leaving the city.Seeing that the time had come, Zhang Guangkuan, the deputy chief, stepped out and came to the outside room. "Your Escort Ikeda Taisun went back to rest and work, and our Tai Taisan went out to check the sentry. Do you understand?" Zhang Guangkuan said to a few Japanese guards who were also a little drunk, and he personally sent them to the car.After seeing the car go away in a hurry, he hurried back to the house to invite Fang Xianjue and others.

"Military seat, the arrangements have been made, shall we go on the road?" Then, he brought in several oriental war horses prepared in advance, let Fang Xianjue, Peng Kefu and other generals and adjutants ride on them, and galloped to Dayun Temple at the junction of Hengyang, Shaoyang and Qiyang counties.A group of people stopped and walked, dodged, and finally arrived at Xinqiao Town, 30 kilometers away from Hengyang City. Less than an hour after Fang Xianjue and others escaped, the Japanese military intelligence officer Major Takeuchi came to the Catholic Church in the south of the city, calling him to pay a visit to Fang Xianjue.Seeing that Captain Ikeda was drunk, but Fang Xianjue and others were nowhere to be seen, I already understood a little bit.Immediately furious, he grabbed Captain Ikeda's collar, bowed left and right, and slapped and slapped several times: "Ba ga! Fang ran away! Your dereliction of duty is serious, and you must follow the military law!"

"Takeuchi-kun, I, I, my damn..." Ikeda said in a panic when he woke up from his drunkenness, at a loss for what to do. "Bagayalu! Hurry up, hurry up!" Takeuchi swished out his Japanese saber and shouted sharply, waving it. Chi Tian was slapped a few times and was still in a daze at first, but when he heard that Fang Xianjue had run away, he broke out in a cold sweat and was mostly sober from the wine.Immediately called the Japanese guards to accompany the Japanese gendarmerie brought by Takeuchi with more than 30 people. Some rode horses and some drove cars. They rushed to the checkpoint at Qingcao Bridge to ask. They knew that Fang Xianjue and others had been out of the city for a long time.Under the leadership of the military dogs and wolf dogs, they hurriedly searched and pursued.Just happened to catch up with Fang Xianjue and his party in Xinqiao Town. Zhang Guangkuan hurriedly asked the guards to continue riding forward to attract the Japanese army forward, and asked Fang Xianjue, Peng Kefu and others to get off their horses and take shelter in the houses.Just after hiding, the Japanese army searched every house in the street.At the critical moment, the guerrillas led by Zhou Bingran arrived.The guerrillas skillfully used the terrain and features to shoot at the Japanese army and drop bombs to block the Japanese army. Intensive rifle gunfire, grenades, and mortar explosions followed one after another.Seeing this, Takeuchi thought he was in an ambush, and while reporting to the Japanese army headquarters, he hurriedly led the Japanese army to retreat. At this time, the small fishing boat that Cao Huating, Chen Zhongheng and the others were supporting also rowed over.Fang Xianjue and his party then boarded a boat and crossed the narrow Xinqiao River, turning the crisis into safety.Before boarding the boat, Fang Xianjue and others gave all the counterfeit banknotes they had on their bodies to the resident who was protecting them.