Ouyang Xue's words represent the voice of everyone in the observation group and the press group. For this mysterious Gao Jiu, the dragon has always been a dragon but not a tail, and everyone wants to know his specific situation.

Especially about Gao Jiu's age and appearance, everyone had secretly guessed in their hearts, and outlined a picture in their hearts according to their own imagination. Everyone wanted to know what he looked like and see if it fits his imagination.

Ouyang Xue is generous and dignified and elegant. She speaks Mandarin with a Zhejiang accent, and speaks clearly and has a crisp voice. The question suddenly asks everyone what they care about the most. Her speech and behavior are in line with her image and temperament.

Wang Zhankui had a headache. Attending a press conference was definitely the first time for Wang Zhankui. For this press conference, he put in some effort and Chief of Staff Liu trained him in advance. Therefore, Wang Zhankui spoke in a very literary manner, which made him feel uncomfortable.

However, the questions raised by these reporters seemed simple, but they were difficult for him to answer. Only then did he realize that dealing with these reporters seemed to be more troublesome than dealing with the Japanese.

Wang Zhankui was very embarrassed and didn't know how to answer this question. Gao Jiu never showed up in public. When he attacked the prisoner-of-war camp, he came to the 792nd Regiment and simply put on makeup. At least he had a mustache and his eyebrows became a little heavier. Gao Jiu went to Wuhan and had his pseudonym Mr. Xiao. This is naturally related to his need to go deep into the enemy's back and disguise himself as a Japanese and puppet army.

Wang Zhankui didn't know what to say, so he looked at Wang Jindong again.

Wang Jindong shook his head slightly, and Wang Zhankui understood what he meant.

He said: "Brother Gao Jiu is called Jiu Ye, and he is a little older than me. He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, straight nose, and a beard, two feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a heroic spirit."

What he said were lines from the plays, and when it was used to describe powerful military generals in ancient times, it was basically this set of words.

After listening to Wang Zhankui's description, everyone started to talk in a low voice.

The officers of the observation group were satisfied with Wang Zhankui's words because this was more in line with their image. Gao Jiuye was so powerful, so he should naturally be a weather-beaten and experienced general around 35 to 40 years old. He called him Jiuye, which was quite comparable in age and image.

The female reporters were a little disappointed when they heard this. In their minds, Gao Jiu should be a handsome and suave young man.

When they first heard about Gao Jiu and Taohuashan Guerrillas, they aroused their rich associations.

The place name Taohua Mountain alone is so poetic and picturesque. In their minds, it should be described in martial arts novels. Gao Jiu walked through the peach forest, dressed in green and robe, handsome and elegant. He held the long sword of Qingfeng, flew up in the air, his clothes fluttered, and rolled up peach blossoms. Wow, what a beautiful picture and beautiful artistic conception.

Wang Zhankui's words broke their beautiful imagination. When everyone thought of a young man wearing a top hat, a long gown, a mangrou, a red face with a wind and sun, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a beard, a black belt wrapped around their waists, two mullets, and a nine-ring big knife with red silk on the hilt of the knife.

It makes people feel so inconsistent and uncomfortable.

However, they can also accept it. After all, this was a war era. A famous general who was so powerful that the Japanese invaders feared him seemed to be in this image.

So, Gao Jiu became a greasy middle-aged uncle in people's minds.

Ouyang Xue smiled slightly, and without continuing to ask questions, she sat down.

Ouyang Xue didn't believe a word about Wang Zhankui's words, because she found the eye contact between Wang Zhankui and Wang Jindong, and she felt something was wrong. Moreover, when she saw Wang Zhankui saying that, the guard standing at the door couldn't laugh, which meant that the guard had seen the real Gao Jiu. The image of Gao Jiu that Wang Zhankui said must be far from him, which made the guard amused.

Ouyang Xue has made up her mind that she will go to Taohua Mountain in person this time, and everything will naturally come to light, so there is no need to ask any further questions.

After the press conference, Ouyang Xue and a female reporter named Zhao Jie returned to their temporary dormitory.

Since they met in Nanyang, they have been very close to each other and have always asked to be assigned to live in the same room along the way. The two are now very familiar with each other and basically talk about everything.

Zhao Jie has a bun face and looks very delicate and pleasing. She is even younger and only two months old to 20 years old. She is now just an intern reporter. I don’t know what relationship she has joined the reporter group.

Zhao Jie said with some regret: "The Mr. Gao Jiu from Taohua Mountain looks like that. This image is majestic, but..."

Speaking of this, she shook her head slightly and sighed softly.

Ouyang Xue chuckled and said, "You are such a silly girl! Captain Wang is telling lies, you can't even tell what he said?"

Zhao Jie asked in confusion: "Captain Wang and Mr. Gao Jiu fought side by side many times. They should be very familiar with each other. How could they tell lies? Isn't the Mr. Gao Jiu he said like this?"

Ouyang Xue smiled and said, "Of course not. Have you not heard Captain Wang introduce it before? He said that the Taohuashan guerrillas are in the back of the enemy, and their specific situation cannot be explained in detail. Not only the number of their troops, the issues of weapons and equipment, including their age and appearance, must be kept confidential."

Zhao Jie's eyes lit up and she said, "Oh, Miss Xiaoxue, I remembered when you said this. It must be yes, this Mr. Gao Jiu must not be what Captain Wang said."

Ouyang Xue smiled and said, "What do you think he should look like?"

Zhao Jie said in a fascination: "He must be a young and handsome, tall, handsome young man who is as handsome as a handsome young man. By the way, Miss Xiaoxue, I remember that he had a relationship with a female general in red before, and he must be a young man. Miss Xiaoxue, do you think so?"

Ouyang Xue shook her head slightly and said, "He has never met Mr. Gao Jiu who wrote this report. His words are the same as those of Captain Wang, and they are all fabricated."

"Oh, that's right." Zhao Jie also shook her head slightly.

She was in her prime and poetic age, and she was in a conflicted mood. She hoped that Gao Jiu was a handsome young man, but she felt a little uncomfortable when she felt that she had a confidante like a female general in red. However, she would rather feel this way than want Gao Jiu to be a greasy middle-aged uncle.

After sighing, Zhao Jie suddenly had a thought in her heart. She said, "Sister Xiaoxue, this place should be not far from Taohua Mountain. I want to go to Taohua Mountain in person to see it."

Ouyang Xue smiled slightly and said nothing. She had already made up her mind to go to Taohua Mountain. The underground party had already made arrangements for this matter. However, this was her own secret and she would not tell anyone.

Jinan, Japan Military Police Command Special High School.

That evening, Sakai Hiroichiro was about to get off work, and one foot had already stepped out of the door. At this moment, the phone ringing on the table rang. He was a diligent person, and immediately walked back, grabbed the phone, and he said, "Hey?"

No one spoke on the phone, but he could hear the sound of breathing, showing that there was still someone on the other side. He asked, "Who is this?"

The other party still didn't speak.

Sakai Toichirojun was really angry. He said impatiently: "If you don't talk anymore, I'll hang up the phone."

The other party finally spoke. When he heard his words, Sakai Toichiro suddenly became furious. He cursed angrily: "Eight Yalu, Hamada Yoshiji, you damn guy! Why are you not dead yet?!

It’s all your reasons. More than 1,500 brave warriors of the Yellow Japanese Army in Japan are all broken. Do you still have the face to live in this world?

Why do you, a damn coward, run away? You have simply lost all the face of the Japanese Huang Jun and the face of our special high school class.

Why don’t you apologize for caesarean section? Bageyalu, Bageyalu."

Hamada Yoshiji listened to Sakai Hiro's roar patiently, and then said in a deep tone: "Sir, you are right to teach me. It is my incompetence that has caused such heavy losses as the Great Japanese Yellow. I can't escape the blame, so I will never redeem it for my death.

At that time, I was fighting bravely on the battlefield, and I just wanted to die on the battlefield like other Huang army warriors. Later, I was knocked out by shells, and after I woke up, the battle was over.

Looking at the bodies of the brave Huang army warriors on the battlefield, I was heartbroken and was about to commit suicide by cesarean section at that time, apologizing to His Majesty Tianhuang and to all the broken Huang army soldiers.

But, there are always people who report to you about the situation on the battlefield? That's why I endured humiliation and survived."

Hearing what Hamada Yoshihiro said with great sincerity, Sakai Hiroichiro's anger was a little less. But he still had anger and scolded, "You damn coward! Why did you escape from the gendarmerie?"

Yoshiji Hamada said, "Secretary, I know that I am guilty. It is appropriate to go to the military court after I go back, and even if I have a caesarean section, I should apologize.

However, I can't just die like this. If I die like this, I will be sorry to His Majesty Tianhuang! I am sorry to those brave warriors of the Great Japanese Huang Army, and even more so to your cultivation of me by Section Chief.

Mr. Chief, you are so kind to me. Even if I die now, it will bring shame to our special high school class because of my reasons. Thinking of this, Hu Zhi decided to temporarily endure humiliation and live a life of silence. We must try to make meritorious service and regain our special high school class. At that time, Hu Zhi will definitely apologize."

In fact, Sakai Hiroshiro has always had a good impression of Hiroshiro, otherwise he would not have left him in the Special High School. He heard that Hiroshiro was still thinking about the Special High School at this time, and he softened his heart. Moreover, he thought what Hamada Yoshiro said was reasonable. If Hiroshiro died like this, he would have become a scapegoat. After all, he was a member of the Special High School, or a person promoted by Hiroshiro Sakai, which would be equivalent to taking all the blame for this failure by the Special High School, and he could not accept such a result.

In fact, what he was angry was that he thought Hamada Yoshihiro should not have escaped, which confirmed his guilt, which was equivalent to putting the blame on the special high school class.

If Hamada Yoshihiko was able to make meritorious service to atone for his sins, the result would of course be better than Hamada Yoshihiko’s apologies for his cesarean section. He asked: “If you want to make meritorious service, how can you make meritorious service to atone for your sins?”

Hamada Yoshihiro was overjoyed when he heard Sakai Toichiro's tone change his tone. But he could not express such emotions. He still said in a heavy tone: "Secretary Chief, Huine left the Pingyue Prefecture Military Police Team at that time, and did not know that the military police headquarters wanted to let Huine go back. If he knew, Huine would definitely wait for the military police team honestly. At that time, Huine was anxious to leave because he suddenly discovered a major secret. Huine discovered that the losses of the 115th Regiment of the Great Japanese Yellow Army this time had a common reason with the losses of the 18th Battalion of the Cavalry last time. In order to investigate this reason, I took the risk of going deep into the enemy's back to investigate."

When Sakai Toichiro heard this, he felt that what Hamada Yoshihiro said was reasonable. He hoped that Hamada Yoshihiro could find some important secrets so that he could really make contributions and atone for his sins. In this way, the special high school class could also give an explanation to the above.

He asked, "What a big secret?"

Yoshiji Hamada said: "Sir, I have come to the vicinity of Jinan City. I hope to report to you alone."

Hamada Yoshi was already in Jinan City at this time. He said this to find out about Sakai Toichiro's tone. He didn't want to return to the military police headquarters yet, so he would be arrested.

Sakai Hiroichiro understood Hamada Yoshihiro's thoughts, and he said, "Don't worry, I will rush over there alone if you say a time and place."

What secret did Hamada Yoshihiro discover?

After Hamada Yoshihiro left Pingyue County that day, he carefully recalled his experience of dealing with Gao Jiu and others on the way. He found that until today, he still knew too little about Gao Jiu and others.

Based on what he learned, he knew that Gao Jiu's Taohua Mountain guerrillas currently have only more than 200 people, including men, women, and young and old. In other words, the troops used for combat should not exceed 150. The 18th Battalion of the Japanese Cavalry had hundreds of people, and this time the 115th Regiment had more than 1,500 people. It was impossible to annihilate so many Huang troops with just these more than 100 people.

Moreover, this time he clearly saw the troops wearing the Eighth Route Army uniforms and the troops wearing the National Army uniforms. This shows that Gao Jiu had helped in his previous battles.

This time when he arrived at the Pingyue County Military Police Team, he found out that there was a GCD unit called an independent battalion in Pingyue County. The national army unit that appeared that day should be the unit of the 792nd Regiment of Wang Jindong, Zhiyuan County.

Now he understood that Gao Jiu's Taohua Mountain guerrillas were located in a mountainous area with a complex terrain. If they wanted to deal with the Taohua Mountain guerrillas, they had to send heavy troops to encircle and blockade the entire Taohua Mountain area so that they could find their nests and finally completely eliminate them. To do this, they had to cut off their foreign aid first.

He knew nothing about the independent camp of GCD now. He didn't dare to take the risk of investigating. Although he could speak skillful Chinese, Shandong had special local dialects, so it was difficult to conduct investigations in those rural areas.

The most obvious target was Wang Jindong's 792nd Regiment in Zhiyuan County. Therefore, he decided to start by investigating the 792nd Regiment and see if he could find any breakthrough.

After thinking about this, when the motorcycle drove onto the Jizheng Highway, he did not turn to Jinan, but drove along the Jizheng Highway towards Lu County. After arriving in Lu County, he found that Lu County had been captured by Wang Jindong's 792nd Regiment. This further proved that Gao Jiu, Wang Jindong and others were fighting in joint operations.

After Wang Jindong's troops evacuated Lu County, he left the two Japanese soldiers sent by Pingyue County in Lu County. He changed into plainclothes and drove his own motorcycle outside the city of Zhiyuan County. He found a place to hide the motorcycle and sneaked into Zhiyuan County.

In Zhiyuan County, Hamada Yoshihiro heard a lot of things he wanted to know.

One is the situation of Gao Jiu. Not long ago, Gao Jiu had come to Zhiyuan County, competed here, and helped the national army in Zhiyuan County win battles many times, and his reputation was very famous here. The people talked about it with relish. Hamada Yoshihiro Hamada had a general understanding of his age and appearance, and knew that Gao Jiu was now closely related to Wang Jindong and others, and the recent series of battles with the Huang army were carried out together.

He heard that the 792nd Regiment was adapted into the 187th Division, and Wuhan sent an observation group and a press group, which had arrived in Zhiyuan County.

Hamada Yoshiji was overjoyed after mastering this information. He thought it was enough to explain to Sakai Toichiro. And he was confident that he would persuade General Matsuda to avoid pursuing his own responsibility. So he returned to Jinan City and wanted to call Sakai Toichiro.

General Matsuda, commander of the Jinan Military Police Command, is a standard soldier with a strong sense of responsibility. Last time, in order to protect Ayuki Hamasaki, he used his body to cover Ayuki Hamasaki.

In life, he also has a strict self-discipline. Every time he comes home from get off work, in order to avoid excessive labor of his servants, he will personally place his leather shoes. If he is a hateful Japanese invader, as a general of the army, he is unanimously respected by Japanese officers and soldiers.

This time he regarded Hamada Yoshihiro as a scapegoat, not because of his original intention. He just felt that as a joint participant in this combat operation, the Japanese field army suffered such serious losses, and their military police headquarters should bear certain responsibilities.

The combat plan was formulated based on the opinions of Hamada Yoshihiro, who was a direct participant in this operation and could only sacrifice Hamada Yoshihiro to give an explanation to the 114th Division of the Japanese Army.

Even so, Matsuda did not shirk responsibility. He personally wrote a letter of review and handed it to General Haneda, the chief of staff of the 12th Army, took the initiative to take responsibility and made a profound review.

The 12th Army of the Japanese army respected him very much. Lieutenant General Shigeji Momoji, the commander of the 114th Division, and Major General Obofu, the commander of the 128th Brigade, did not criticize him.

General Matsuda felt deeply guilty about the heavy losses suffered by the 115th Regiment, and he also hoped that he could take remedial measures.

After Sakai Toichiro and Hamada Yoshizhi met, they found General Matsuda and reported the information that he had. General Matsuda thought that the information was very important, so he decided not to chase Hamada Yoshizhi anymore, and personally came forward to plead for Hamada Yoshizhi's commander Lieutenant General Matsumatsu Shigeji and Major General Oboo, the commander of the 128th Brigade. Afterwards, he took Hamada Yoshizhi to meet General Haneda, the chief of staff of the 12th Army.

As one of the highest Japanese commanders in Shandong, General Haneda's recent series of heavy losses of the Huang army have attracted his attention, and Gao Jiu's name has been engraved in his mind. After listening to the reports of General Matsuda and Yoshihiro Hamada, he called Lieutenant General Shimaji Momoji, the commander of the 114th Division and Major General Oboo, the commander of the 128th Brigade, to hold a combat meeting.

After the meeting began, Chief of Staff Haneda first asked Hamada Yoshihiro to report on the situation.
To be continued...