Li Chuanzong listened with great interest and expressed his emotions from time to time.

He talked a lot today. The reason for this was because he was going to perform a secret mission today and was inevitably a little nervous. He wanted to use this to relieve his nervousness.

As the backbone of the Intelligence Section, Li Chuanzong has performed many arduous missions in the past, so he should not be so nervous. However, the Nanyang area has been under the control of the Guo Army over the years, and the number of agents at the Nanyang Station of the Military Command has greatly reduced the number of missions carried out deep into enemy-occupied areas.

, Li Chuanzong has not been to enemy-occupied areas for several years.

Now that he is married and has two children, he cherishes his life even more than before, so he feels nervous this time.

The task given by Zhou Mingshan to Li Chuanzong was to enter Guning County, contact the military intelligence agents in the county, and then contact the chief of staff of the 37th Division, Colonel Kuan Jiuheng.

Kuan Jiuheng and Gao Jiu are old friends. He was the captain of the 63rd Regiment of the Japanese Army stationed in Lu County. He once gave Gao Jiu 200,000 rounds of ammunition and helped Gao Jiu many times.

This time, Commander Yang led the Sichuan troops to pass by the defense area of ​​the 37th Division. Gao Jiu hoped that the Japanese army could open a passage, so he sent people into the city to get in touch with him.

Zhou Mingshan, Li Chuanzong and others landed on the outskirts of Guning County in an armed helicopter, and Li Chuanzong walked to the county seat.

After entering the city, Li Chuanzong went to the military unified contact point and got in touch with the agents lurking here. Then he went to the post office and called the 37th Division's duty phone through an outside phone.

Kuan Jiuheng's adjutant answered the phone, and Li Chuanzong said that he was a friend of Colonel Kuan Jiuheng. The other party agreed to meet Li Chuanzong, and the two parties agreed on a time and place for the meeting.

Li Chuanzong had rich experience in reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance. When the agreed time came, he did not go directly to the teahouse where he had agreed to meet. Instead, he hid in a nearby shop until he saw a Japanese captain entering the teahouse.

He didn't go in immediately, but looked around.

He found no suspicious traces and entered the teahouse.

After Li Chuanzong walked up to the second floor, he saw the Japanese captain sitting at the table near the window, reading the menu, but paying attention to the stairs with the corner of his eye.

When he saw that Li Chuanzong's age and clothing were the same as what he said on the phone, he nodded slightly towards him.

Li Chuanzong looked around and found nothing suspicious, so he walked towards him.

Li Chuanzong pretended to ask him about the situation, but actually exchanged the secret code with him. Seeing that there was no problem, he walked into a private room. Soon after, the Japanese captain also followed.

The Japanese captain said: "Are you the messenger sent by Mr. Gao?"

Li Chuanzong nodded and said, "I am."

The Japanese captain asked: "Mr. Gao, what do you want to see your Excellency, Colonel?"

Li Chuanzong said: "Master Gao Jiu has a business and wants to cooperate with His Excellency the Captain. Please send a message to His Excellency the Captain."

The Japanese captain said: "If you have anything to do, just tell me."

Li Chuanzong said: "Jiu Ye has invited a group of guests from Sichuan. They are going to pass through your army's defense area. I also ask your army to get out of the way."

The Japanese captain asked: "Who are the guests? How many people are there? Where are they passing by? Where are they going? Please explain in detail."

Li Chuanzong suddenly felt a little confused. On the surface, there seemed to be no problem with the questions he asked. When asking people to give way, he had to explain clearly what was going on. However, Li Chuanzong felt a little uneasy because Zhou Mingshan had already explained it before he came.

After that, Master Jiu said that it was enough to prepare to cross the road, and there was no need to go into detail about other things, because there was a tacit understanding between him and Colonel Kuan Jiuheng.

Not only that, when an army of the Sichuan Army arrived at the border of Xiangyang, it was impossible for the Japanese army not to notice it. Gao Jiu made it clear that he wanted the 37th Division to make way for the Sichuan Army so that there would be no conflict between the two sides.

Gao Jiu used to directly contact Colonel Kuan Jiuheng through the radio. The reason why he sent Li Chuanzong this time was because Gao Jiu failed to contact Colonel Kuan Jiuheng through the radio, so he had to send someone to meet with Kuan Jiuheng.

This Japanese captain had never met Li Chuanzong, not even Gao Jiu. The last time Li Chuanzong asked to speak to Colonel Kuan Jiuheng, he was not found.

The adjutant said at that time that it was inconvenient for Colonel Kuan Jiuheng, and he had been told to come to meet with Li Chuanzong. This process itself made people feel a little uneasy, and the adjutant asked such detailed questions, which could not but make Li Chuanzong suspicious.

He decided to call it a day and stop revealing the relevant secrets. He planned to go back and ask Zhou Mingshan for instructions before making any plans.

In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of the Japanese captain, he said: "I am here this time just to meet you first and see if you have any difficulties here. I don't know the specific content. I will wait until I go back and report to my superiors.

I’ll contact you again.”

Li Chuanzong originally thought that this was a good argument. He thought that if the Japanese captain had a problem and wanted to know the details of this operation, he would let him go and wait until they met again to find out the situation.

Therefore, he should not be detained until the other party grasps the real situation. However, he did not expect that he was from the Guo Army, so he casually said, "Report to the superior when I get back," which exposed his identity.

The Japanese captain was sure that this person was not one of Gao Jiu's subordinates, otherwise, he would not be called such a person. He felt that Li Chuanzong had noticed that there was something wrong with him, so of course he could not let Li Chuanzong go back.

So he shouted loudly: "Here comes someone!"

Following the words, several plainclothes agents holding bastard boxes rushed in and arrested Li Chuanzong.

After Li Chuanzong entered the teahouse, the military intelligence agents who followed him had been quietly monitoring the place.

When he saw that Li Chuanzong had not come out for so long, he felt something was wrong. Later, he saw a car parked at the door of the teahouse, and soon Li Chuanzong was escorted out by several plainclothes agents and pushed into the car.

Due to tight funds and insufficient equipment, the Juntong Intelligence Station in Guning County was not equipped with a radio, so the Juntong agents had to find opportunities to go out of the city to report to Zhou Mingshan.

When they arrived at the city gate, they found that the city gate had been blocked and they could not get out at all.

Zhou Mingshan had been guarding outside the city. He didn't know how the time was agreed to meet with the Japanese army inside, so he was not sure what happened inside. He waited until 4:30 in the afternoon. He felt something was wrong, so he sent

People went into the city to find Li Chuanzong, but the people sent found that the city gate had been closed in advance, indicating that something had happened in the city.

It was impossible for Li Chuanzong to come out today, maybe something had happened to him. So the military commander's agents hurried back to report to Zhou Mingshan.

Zhou Mingshan guessed that something had happened to Li Chuanzong, so he sent a telegram to Gao Jiu.

After Gao Jiu received the telegram, he also felt that there must be a problem. He couldn't contact Kuan Jiuheng by telegram. Maybe there was something wrong with Kuan Jiuheng. In addition to the situation at hand, Kuan Jiuheng's line should be

It can no longer be used.

Gao Jiuheng's guess was correct. Kuan Jiuheng had been transferred from the 37th Division a month ago and was transferred to the South Asian Front Army as the commander of the 24th Division. The reason why Kuan Jiuheng had dealt with Gao Jiu before was because he had no choice.

37th Division

His defense area is very close to Nanyang, and the Taohuashan guerrillas often pass through the defense area of ​​the 37th Division. He can't afford to offend Gao Jiu, so he has to cooperate with Gao Jiu's request. Now he has finally been transferred from the 37th Division and will not be able to do so for the time being.

Ken will contact Gao Jiu again.

The Japanese captain Li Chuanzong met was the personal adjutant of the current chief of staff of the Japanese army. When Li Chuanzong called Kuan Jiuheng, he wanted to find out what connections Kuan Jiuheng had with people outside, so he sent his adjutant over.

Pretending to be Kuan Jiujiuheng's adjutant.

Gao Jiu called Zhou Mingshan back and asked him to learn about the mobilization of Japanese troops through the Military Command Xiangyang Station.

Soon after, news came that the Japanese 37th Division was gathering troops to go to the Funiu Mountains for reinforcements. Obviously, these were troops targeting the Sichuan Army.

Gao Jiu knew that a fierce battle was inevitable, and he also began to mobilize his troops to prepare for the troops of the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army brought by Commander Yang.

Gao Jiu's judgment was correct. After the Japanese army captured Li Chuanzong, he was tortured severely.

Li Chuanzong was very strong and withstood the torture of the Japanese army without revealing the secrets of the Taohuashan guerrillas and military control.

Based on the intelligence they obtained and some of the information revealed in the conversation with Li Chuanzong, the Japanese army had already determined Gao Jiu's general intention.

They knew that the Sichuan Army troops coming from Sichuan were going to join the battlefield in Shandong or Henan to cooperate with the anti-Japanese armed forces. Because they were related to Gaojiu, they were more likely to join the battlefield in Shandong.

So the Japanese 37th Division reported this situation to the Central China Front Army Headquarters.

The Central China Front Army reported this situation to the Minister of War, who ordered the Central China Front Army to mobilize troops to block the Sichuan Army.

After receiving the order, the Japanese 37th Division sent the 74th Brigade to the Funiu Mountains to block the Sichuan Army's road to Henan.

At the same time, the Central China Front mobilized the independent mixed 75th Brigade stationed in Xiangyang to cut the retreat of the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army, striving to encircle and annihilate the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army in the Funiu Mountains.

After negotiation, Wang Jindong dispatched two divisions of the newly formed 187th Army to the Funiu Mountains to attack the Japanese 74th Brigade. Gao Jiu personally led the air commando of the Taohuashan guerrillas to support the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army.

Before departure, Gao Jiu sent a reconnaissance plane to conduct reconnaissance in the Funiu Mountains. The reconnaissance plane reported that on the hills surrounding the road passing through the Funiu Mountains, the Japanese army had built a large number of defensive positions to block the advance of the Sichuan troops.

He ordered the bomber group stationed in Nanyang to go to the Funiu Mountains to bomb the Japanese positions.

Shortly after the bombers set off, Gao Jiu also led an air commando to the Funiu Mountains to attack the Japanese army.

The 74th Brigade has received a notification from their superiors. They know that the Taohuashan guerrillas have a powerful air commando team. In order to deal with the commando armed helicopters, the Japanese army specially deployed rapid-fire artillery and deployed it on the top of Funiu Mountain.

If the air commandos attack forcefully, they will definitely suffer a heavy blow from these rapid-fire cannons.

The Japanese army did not expect that Gao Jiu's punch was a combination of punches.

That morning, the Japanese observation post saw a small black dot appearing on the horizon, and immediately fired an alarm and reported to their superiors using a wireless telegraph phone.

The Japanese army immediately ordered the rapid-fire artillery units to enter the position, preparing to attack the guerrilla air assault forces. The Japanese rapid-fire artillery units occupied the favorable terrain on the top of the mountain, and many rapid-fire artillery units formed cross-fire. They were confident that they would be able to inflict heavy damage on the guerrillas.

The gunships dealt a heavy blow.

The Japanese army did not expect that the first thing that flew over was not an armed helicopter, but a high-altitude bomber.

What flew this time was a B29 bomber that was improved on the B24 Liberator bomber. This bomber can fly at an altitude of 8 kilometers.

The effective range of the Japanese rapid-fire artillery for anti-aircraft fire was only 1,900 meters. The B29 bombers started bombing at an altitude of 3 kilometers. The Japanese army could only be bombed and had no resistance.

Although the hit accuracy of dropping bombs at such a high altitude was very poor, there were a large number of B29 bombers coming to bomb, and the Japanese troops were exposed on the top of the mountain with nowhere to hide, so a large number of aerial bombs still fell into the Japanese positions.

The Japanese officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and even rapid-fire artillery was destroyed in large numbers.

Just when the Japanese army was panicking and running away from the bombers, Gao Jiu commanded the air commando team to fly over. More than 100 armed helicopters flew over the Japanese position, firing rockets and strafing fiercely with machine guns.

The Japanese army had already been stunned by the aerial bombs. Under the fierce firepower of the air commandos, they were unable to fight back. The defensive positions were destroyed and the Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

After the air commandos finished shooting the rockets and machine gun bullets they brought and returned, the commander of the Japanese 74th Brigade, who was hiding in the cave, climbed to the top of the mountain to watch.

He saw the mutilated corpses of Japanese soldiers scattered all over the mountains and plains, and the defensive positions had already been blown to pieces.

Although he had already prepared the worst in his mind, the result still surprised him.

After the round of bombing and air commando attacks just now, the 75th Brigade lost more than 3,500 people. This is an infantry regiment. Now most of the various artillery in the position, including anti-aircraft artillery, have been destroyed.

The only result achieved was to shoot down an armed helicopter belonging to the Air Commando.

The mission of the 74th Brigade is to block the Sichuan Army. Now it has suffered such heavy losses before even seeing the Sichuan Army. The brigade commander really doesn't know how to fight this battle.

He knows very well that the anti-Japanese armed forces will not give up in order to open up the channel for the Sichuan army to enter Henan. It is estimated that a large number of bombers from the guerrillas will come again soon, and the air commandos with replenished ammunition and fuel will also come again.

attack.
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