Chapter 510 Pathfinding
Xiang Chu knew that she was afraid of killing the wrong person, so he explained, "Sister Xi! You ordered the military police to arrest a group of plainclothes officers from the Military Control Commission or the Central Control Commission near our home. These plainclothes officers outside must not be ours."
"makes sense!"
Song Xi nodded and drove calmly.
She turned the bend ahead and stopped the car quickly.
"Sister Xi! Be safe."
Xiang Chu gave an instruction, opened the car door, and rushed out with a gun.
"I'm not a vase!"
Song Xi said angrily, got out of the car, pulled out his pistol, and hid behind a big tree.
The jeep driver was speeding up to catch up for fear of losing the target.
"Bang! Bang!" several sounds.
Xiang Chu fired several shots at the two people in the car without hesitation.
Song Xi also followed him and shot.
The driver and the passenger in the jeep were shot dead.
With a loud "bang", the jeep crashed into a big tree.
Xiang Chu shouted, "Sister Xi! Get in the car, I'll check it out."
He ran forward, opened the car door, checked the two dead people in the car, took their documents, weapons and notebooks, and then quickly returned to Song Xi's car.
Song Xi drove the engine away quickly and said worriedly, "Brother! Did we kill the wrong person?"
Xiang Chu checked the documents and said with a smile, "Of course not! They are Japanese spies, their identities are postmen, the documents they use are fake, and the weapons they use are also the Japanese Nambu-style pistols."
Song Xi said bitterly: "I didn't expect the Japanese spies to reach the gate of the compound. Dai Nong really should be demoted."
Xiang Chu smiled bitterly and said, "I guess the higher-ups are just trying to scare them. There's no way they'll really be demoted."
Song Xi shook his head and said, "No! We have killed many people who are not fighting well and who betrayed the information."
Xiang Chu said worriedly: "Sister Xi! After picking up Gan Rong, I will send you home before leaving."
Song Xi said without allowing any rebuttal: "No! I'll send you off first. I'm not afraid of death."
"That's...okay!"
Xiang Chu nodded with emotion, paused, and instructed,
"Sister Xi! Don't go home the same way you came."
Song Xi happily said: "Okay! I'll listen to you."
Soon, she drove to Changchun Temple.
Gan Rong was waiting outside the gate and got in the car immediately.
Song Xi drove straight to the Hankou Ferry Terminal.
A military motorboat had been waiting at the dock for a long time.
They said take care to each other, hugged each other and waved goodbye.
The trip to Wuhan came to a successful conclusion.
The motorboat left Hankou Port and sailed eastward along the Yangtze River.
Xiang Chu sat in the cabin, took out the map and looked at it carefully.
From Hankou to Jiujiang, the Yangtze River waterway is 250 miles long.
In the middle, it passes through three major port terminals: Ezhou, Huangshi and Wuxue.
Of course, as long as you have enough fuel, there is no need to dock at these ports.
Now the Japanese troops are attacking westwards along the Yangtze River and have captured important places such as Huangmei, Guangji and Wuxue on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and are heading straight for the Tianjiazhen fortress.
Today, the Tianjia Town Fortress is bound to become the focus of competition between the two sides.
Xiang Chu looked at the map and weighed the pros and cons again and again, and felt that the north bank of the Yangtze River was not an option. He had to dock at the old ferry on the south bank of the Yangtze River, then enter Ma'anshan in the south and take the mountain road to enter Jiujiang.
The motorboat was driven by a naval lieutenant officer and a sailor.
Following orders from their superiors, they did not say a word to Xiang Chu and the other man who were in plain clothes.
Xiang Chu ordered, "Lieutenant! We will disembark at the old ferry on the south bank of the Yangtze River."
"understand!"
The Navy Lieutenant nodded.
The navy sailor handed Xiang Chu and the other two blankets and said with a smile, "Two officers! Get some rest. We probably won't reach the old ferry until noon tomorrow."
"Thank you!"
Xiang Chu smiled and thanked him.
Jiujiang, the stern of the Xicang ship.
Doihara Kan'ei brought Takahashi Taisho and others over in a motorboat.
Needless to say, he wanted to see whether Xiang Chu was on the ship.
Zheng Zhili immediately called Liu Zhengxiong and asked him to pretend to be dumb to fool people.
He and a group of Lamma Squadron agents watched from a distance in the back.
Liu Zhengxiong held a Type 99 light machine gun and pointed it ferociously at Doihara Kenji and others.
Doihara Xian'er pulled out his pistol and yelled loudly: "Baka! This intelligence officer is here to check your shadow organization, you mute, get out of here now."
"Uh-ah!"
Liu Zhengxiong was not afraid at all. He shouted randomly and turned on the safety of his Type 99 light machine gun.
"Da da da!" He deliberately fired a volley of bullets into the sky, scaring Doihara Ken'er so much that he quickly squatted down.
Takahashi Taisho said helplessly: "Mr. Intelligence Officer! This is a mute, and it's useless to say anything. Let's go quickly."
"hateful!"
Doihara Kenji roared angrily and led his people away helplessly.
Liu Zhengxiong wiped the sweat from his forehead when he saw the motorboat going away. He thought to himself, "Xiang! I almost lost my life to cover up for you."
At noon the next day, the motorboat carrying Xiang Chu and Gan Rong finally arrived at the old ferry.
From afar, we could hear the rumbling of mountain artillery and naval guns, as well as the sound of planes dropping bombs coming from the direction of Tianjia Town.
The two men bid farewell to the naval lieutenant and the soldiers, got off the motorboat and headed straight south to Ma'anshan.
There are a large number of Chinese troops on the banks of the Yangtze River. If you pass through them to join the Japanese, you might be killed by stray bullets.
Xiang Chu and Gan Rong walked into the mountains, followed a small path around Tianjia Town, and headed east.
The vegetation on the south bank of the Yangtze River is lush, and when people walk on the mountain paths, they can't even see the planes in the sky.
However, because of the winding mountain road, the distance to Jiujiang is more than half longer.
Xiang Chu smiled bitterly and said, "Gan Rong! We may both have to walk through the mountains at night tonight."
Gan Rong said with some regret: "We should have asked the motorboat to take us a little further."
Xiang Chu shook his head and said, "We can't go forward. We are too close to Tianjia Town. We can't cross the line of fire."
The mountain road is winding, passing through the hills, and the Yangtze River is in full view.
Gan Rong said with emotion: "Chief! If the National Army sent a unit to attack Jiujiang in this way, it might be successful."
Xiang Chu shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the Nationalist Army can't think of it, but the Japanese can think of it first and bypass Tianjia Town directly from the mountains. In that case, Tianjia Town will become the second Madang."
At this time, the sound of war horses neighing came from the mountain road in the east.
Gan Rong said anxiously: "Chief! I will climb up the tree to see who is coming."
After saying this, he put down the radio and climbed up a big tree beside the mountain path.
“That’s pretty fast!”
Xiang Chu praised and quickly took off his civilian clothes and put on the Japanese military uniform.
Gan Rong quickly climbed down from the tree and praised, "Chief! How did you know it was the Japs?"
Xiang Chu smiled and said, "From the sound of the horses running, they should be Japanese horses, and there are two of them. It's just right for us to have one each, so we can get to Jiujiang in time."
"Great!"
Gan Rong was overjoyed and quickly changed into the Japanese military uniform.
Soon, two riders and two men came running along the path.
The two Japanese soldiers were both non-commissioned officers. When they saw Xiang Chu wearing the uniform of lieutenant general and Gan Rong wearing the uniform of lieutenant colonel, they immediately reined in their horses and stopped.
"Whizzing!"
Two flying knives flew out and grazed the throats of the two men.
The two Japanese non-commissioned officers fell off their horses before they could even scream.
Before Gan Rong made a move, Xiang Chu had already solved it, and he couldn't help but praise:
"Chief! You are amazing."
Xiang Chu waved his hand and said, "Don't give me that! Check the devils' bodies quickly."
After saying this, he walked forward and grabbed the reins of the two war horses.
Gan Rong checked the two devils and found nothing except weapons and maps.
Gan Rong handed the map to Xiang Chu and said with a wry smile, "Chief! It seems that these two people are here for reconnaissance."
Xiang Chu opened the map and looked at it, then shook his head and said, "No! They are here to explore the way for the main force."