Chapter 58 The Bank of Huaihe River

The weather in September is already slightly cooler. Peng Dezhu, who is a northerner himself, can't stand the slightly humid climate in the south. In the past two days, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and developed a fever.

Liu Wenxu had already seen him and bought him some medicine when he was passing through Xinyang. With Liu Wenxu taking care of him and taking medicine for a few days, Peng Dezhu's condition gradually improved.

As the sky gradually darkened, Liu Wenxu suggested to Peng Dezhu: "Dezhu, it's already dark. I think we should go to the front and find a place to camp. After marching for so many days, the brothers are a little tired.

I can’t bear it anymore.”

Peng Dezhu turned around and looked at the team behind him. The soldiers were indeed exhausted and listless. He turned back and said to Donkey Bazi who was following Liu Wenxue: "Donkey Bazi, you go to the front and inform Li Tieshu to let him go."

He found a place to stop ahead, and we will be stationed here tonight."

"Yes!" After replying, Donkey Zhizi turned around and ran towards the front of the team.

Peng Dezhu and the others gathered Zhu Tianyi's remaining bandits on Xiema Ridge, and now their team has grown to nearly a hundred people.

After they came down from Xiemaling, Liu Wenxue and Li Tieshu proposed at Gechengzhuang to reorganize the team, under the banner of the Fourth Regiment of the 38th Division Independent Brigade, and then report to the 38th Division. Peng Dezhu said about this

Agreed, but in this regard, he didn't know how to do it, so the entire team reorganization work was completed by Liu Wenxu and Li Tieshu.

Liu Wenxu and Li Tieshu reorganized the entire team into company-level units into an independent company of the Fourth Regiment of the 38th Division Independent Brigade, with three platoons, a reconnaissance squad and a guard squad. Peng Dezhu served as the commander of the independent company, and Li Tieshu

He serves as the deputy company commander of the independent company, and Liu Wenxu serves as the staff officer of the independent company. The three platoon leaders are Chai Yunci, Ma Tianhua and Song Jiaming respectively. The reconnaissance squad leader is Guo Shi, and the guard squad leader is Donkey Bazi.

After all the reorganization was completed, they immediately bid farewell to the people of Gechengzhuang and headed towards Huangchuan. In the next ten days or so, everything went very smoothly and they did not encounter any trouble again. They traveled along the way.

Following the direction of the Huaihe River, we marched all the way to Luoshan County.

Donkey Zhizi walked for about a quarter of an hour, ran back again, walked up to Peng Dezhu and said to him: "Company Commander! Deputy Company Commander Li asked me to tell you that five miles further on there is another place called the Ancestral Temple.

Where will we camp tonight."

Peng Dezhu nodded to him and said: "Okay! Go and convey the message to each platoon, speed up the advance, and station yourself at the Patriarch Temple."

"Yes!" Donkey Zizi replied, then put it aside again and went to convey the order to each platoon.

The team accelerated their advance, and not long after, they arrived at the ancestral temple that Li Tieshu was talking about. When he saw Li Tieshu, Li Tieshu and Guo Shi were talking to two old men.

Seeing that Peng Dezhu and Liu Wenxu had arrived, Li Tieshu hurriedly brought two old men over, introduced Peng Dezhu and Liu Wenxue: "Dezhu, these are the villagers here. They just told me a situation."

Peng Dezhu smiled at the two old men. When Li Tieshu said there was a situation, he asked, "What's the situation?"

Li Tieshu replied: "They said that some time ago, they heard that a war had started in Huangchuan. Moreover, just yesterday, Japs also appeared in Xixian, across the Huaihe River from here."

When Peng Dezhu heard about this situation, he immediately asked the two old men: "Uncle, how do you know that there are Japs in Xixian County?"

An old man said to Peng Dezhu: "Boss! This is what the people in our village said. Yesterday, the second pillar of our village who was a clerk in Xixian County came back and said that the Japanese were attacking Xixian County! Hundreds of people were killed!"

Peng Dezhu asked Donkey Bazi to send the two old men back home. He, Li Tieshu and Liu Wenxue walked to a dilapidated house that had been selected, which was their temporary command post.

In the dilapidated house, Peng Dezhu sat on a big rock and said to Liu Wenxue and Li Tieshu: "I think what these two uncles said should be true. The Japanese have probably started to attack Xixian. However, they are not attacking.

Huangchuan? Why are you here?"

Liu Wenxue said: "I guess it's because they didn't fight well in Huangchuan and they were outflanking. When I was in Xinyang, I heard someone say that our former teacher, Chief Zhang, is now fifty-nine.

Now he is leading the 59th Army to block the Japanese Itagaki Division in Huangchuan. Do you think that with our teacher here, can the little Japanese successfully capture Huangchuan?"

Li Tieshu also said: "Yes! I feel the same way. But, do you think we should go east to report to the 38th Division, or go north across the Huaihe River to stop the Japanese in Xixian County?"

As soon as Li Tieshu finished speaking, Peng Dezhu immediately said without hesitation: "Of course we will cross the river to stop the Japanese in Xixian County! Since they want to outflank them in a roundabout way, how can we let them succeed!"

After finishing speaking, Peng Dezhu took out his pipe, took a pot with him, took a puff and said to Li Tieshu again: "Brother Tieshu, I want to pay you back, please!"

Li Tieshu asked, looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Peng Dezhu took another puff of cigarette and said: "I want you to take Chai Yunci's platoon and cross the river tonight. The main purpose is to set up a front station for us and detect the Japanese movements in Xixian County."

Li Tieshu heard this and said with a smile: "That's no problem! However, if it is just reconnaissance, I suggest not to bring a platoon there, but just bring Guo Shi's reconnaissance squad. If we encounter a situation and there are few of us,

Easy to get away with."

Peng Dezhu knocked the finished cigarette bag and said to Li Tieshu with a smile: "That's okay! But, thanks to my brother, you haven't had a good rest these days."

Li Tieshu chuckled and said: "What's the matter! The current situation is much better than when we fought with the group. Okay! I'll make arrangements now, and we'll cross the river directly in a while.

, I won’t come to bid you farewell.”

As Li Tieshu stood up, Peng Dezhu and Liu Wenxue hurriedly stood up. They both told him repeatedly to pay attention to safety.

To the north of the Patriarch Temple is the Huaihe River. At this moment, Li Tieshu and Guo Shi's reconnaissance team, with the help of the old man who just told them about the Japs situation, are rowing across the river.

After crossing the Huaihe River, Li Tieshu thanked the old man and asked him to go back immediately, and asked him to bring a message to Peng Dezhu. He would send someone here to wait for them to cross the river tomorrow morning.

Watching the old man rowing slowly past, Li Tieshu turned around and ordered Guo Shi and the others: "Brothers, let's keep going. When we reach a village, we must pay attention to see if there are any Japanese."

"yes!"

Immediately, Li Tieshu led the reconnaissance team, a total of eleven people, and cautiously moved forward in the northeast direction of Xiangxian County.

When Li Tieshu and the others had marched for about ten miles under the darkness of night, the two soldiers who were scouting the road came back and reported: "Vice Lieutenant Li! A village was discovered ahead, and people came out of the village again. They headed towards the river.

We left. We didn’t dare to get close, and we didn’t enter the village.”

Li Tieshu asked: "How many people are there? Are they Japs?"

One of the soldiers replied: "There are three of them. It's dark and we can't see clearly, but they don't look like Japanese soldiers."

Li Tieshu lowered his head and thought for a moment and said to Guo Shi: "Three people are not many. However, it is better to be cautious, in case it is a Japanese spy. In this case, we will also walk along the river now and speed up. It is best to catch up.

Get in front of them to the river. Set up an ambush and capture them first!"

"Yes!" Guo Shi replied.

Immediately, Li Tieshu and the others immediately changed their marching direction, ran eastward to the bank of the Huaihe River, and then quickly headed north. Not long after their rapid march, Li Tieshu and the others discovered a boat docked on the river bank. However,

No one was found. Li Tieshu raised his hand to signal to stop.

After careful observation, Li Tieshu and the others found no one. Li Tieshu ordered Guo Shi to take two people and quietly walk along the river to see if there was an ambush. He took the remaining people and followed closely

behind them.

Guo Shi led two reconnaissance soldiers, carefully approaching the boat on the river little by little. A few meters away from the boat, Guo Shi and the two soldiers stopped and carefully observed the boats on the river.

The situation was indeed nothing unusual. Guo Shi boldly walked towards the boat.

Not far away, Li Tieshu saw Guo Shi approaching the river without concealing himself. He worried about the atmosphere and cursed: "Damn! This Guo Shi was hit on the head, just go by like this, if there is really someone

, Aren’t you just being a target for others?”

However, scolding comes after scolding, Li Tieshu knew very well why Guo Shi acted so recklessly. Because the two soldiers who were in charge of the investigation just now had already said that the people coming out of the village in front were coming to the river. If

, it is not yet certain whether there is an ambush by the enemy here, then it is unlikely that they would ambush and capture people coming out of the village.

Li Tieshu was not far behind, nervously worried about Guo Shi. Guo Shi, who had made no hidden moves in front, was also nervous, holding the rifle in his hand, and slowly moved toward the pair of them.

For example, a ship suddenly appeared approaching.

When everyone was worried about Guo Shi, nothing happened after he got close to the ship. Guo Shi finally felt relieved. He looked around and found that there was nothing unusual, so he asked Li Tieshu

He waved his hand and motioned for them to come over.

After Li Tieshu came over with his people, he first cursed at Guo Shi: "Guo Shi! You bastard, you don't want to live anymore. There is no one here. If someone were ambushing you, you would have been killed by now."

This is the fish in the Huaihe River!"

After being scolded, Guo Shi walked up to Li Tieshu with a shy smile and said: "Li company deputy, there is nothing we can do! If we are not sure about the situation here anymore, the people coming out of the village should be here soon."

Just when Li Tieshu was about to scold him a few more times, a soldier suddenly touched him and whispered in a low voice: "Li company deputy! There seems to be someone over there, come this way!"

Li Tieshu looked in the direction pointed by the soldier, and there were indeed three figures in front of him. However, the people coming from the opposite side seemed to have noticed them and immediately hid themselves.

When Li Tieshu saw this situation, he immediately pulled out his shell gun and ordered: "Take cover immediately! We have been discovered. Guo Shi! Take a detour immediately and don't let these guys escape!"

"yes!"
Chapter completed!