The gunfire on the plain started one after another, becoming more and more intensive, and machine gunfire occasionally began to sound.
Lao Meng kept whispering orders, and the soldiers kept running away from Lao Meng.
A team of more than two hundred people quickly rushed to the village where the Ninth Company was stationed.
The strange thing is that no one in the team is running on the road, they are all marching in the fields.
As the distance slowly shortened and the village became clearer, the team split into two parts, and some warriors jumped over the dense canals surrounding the village.
Tian Sanqi quickened his pace and rushed to the entrance of the village and went straight to the village well.
"Get down to the tunnel quickly!" Minister Zhang next to him watched nervously as the soldiers slid into the well.
After leading the soldiers to carefully inspect the inside and outside of the village, Lao Meng came to the well. Zhang Yi was lying at the mouth of the well, preparing to enter the tunnel: "Lao Meng, when you go to deal with the enemy this time, be careful of the villagers. The spy."
Lao Meng was a little worried: "You can only keep so few people, are you sure?"
Zhang Yi didn't care: "Is it possible that your guerrillas have fought with the Ninth Company so many times and you still don't have any confidence in the Ninth Company?"
Lao Meng shook his head: "The enemy has pushed into the base area, and it would be troublesome if the transferred civilians were bitten by the enemy."
"No matter how great the difficulty is, we have to face it!"
"There are so many people who need food at every mouth. If they don't get food for several days in a row, it will be fatal."
Zhang Yi smiled: "The enemy doesn't raid once or twice. Doesn't he want to eat food? We hide in the tunnels of the village. After dark, we attack the enemy's supply points. After getting the food, we bury it outside the village." In the pit, you can arrange for someone to come back and pick it up when the time comes."
Lao Meng lowered his voice: "Then it's settled. In fact, you don't have to worry too much. Our base has developed over the years. There is Li Youde's security army in the west, the security group in the north to inform people, and your public security team and Lao Zhou in the east. The insiders they developed are all puppet troops, and there are also our people among them, so there should be no problem."
Zhang Yi reminded: "Don't worry, our internal work has been going on. The public security team and Lao Zhou also arranged for people to mix among the villagers. Now we have three households with ten people to jointly protect each other, and ten households are organized into one Groups, each group is led by those students, and the number of people is counted every day. Everyone has at least ten pairs of eyes staring at each other. Even if there is a spy, as long as he leaves the station, there is no fixed way to transmit information, and he has no way to spread the information. so fast."
"It's just a pity that the militiamen newly organized by our guerrillas have to work on a daily basis and don't have much training. Our combat effectiveness is not as high as you think!"
"Then you have to be more careful. There should be no problem on my side. Ma Da Bangzi is just a rabble from No. 100. As long as he leaves his lair, the main force of the Independent Regiment is here now. We are familiar with the terrain and ambush in advance. I still don't believe it." These bandits can ride on our heads!"
Lao Meng pushed Zhang Yi into the well: "Okay, hurry up and hide in the tunnel. Be careful when crossing the blockade after dark. You must take away Ma Da Bangzi's lair!"
"Don't worry, mother-in-law, you give them a painful beating when they come out. There should be no problem with Li Youde's security army. Just don't go overboard and be surrounded by them. The Japanese are watching. Even if they let go, they won't dare to be too conspicuous."
Two hours later.
Two groups of security forces from Ma Dabangzi and Li Youde collided head-on. They searched the nearby villages carefully for a long time, but found nothing useful.
It was concluded that the guerrillas took the villagers and ran north!
With the footprints on the ground plus chicken and sheep dung, it is not difficult to track the relocated villagers north. According to normal raiding experience, we should follow those traces now.
However, the Japanese responsible for supervising and observing the battle did not issue an order to pursue.
The guerrillas obviously wanted to drag the security forces around the hilly areas and conduct sweeps for many years. The Japanese were not stupid. Since the plan of clearing up the country was being implemented, everything had to go according to plan.
More than a dozen security forces are advancing in parallel to the north. Let me see where you go.
Terao Keisuke thought this in his heart, with a smile on his face, and then he added from home. After arriving here with a group of men, not only did he not feel the desolation of the uninhabited plain, but everything felt fresh.
The seniors all said that the two sides are difficult to deal with, but in his opinion, this is actually just a game between cat and mouse.
In the face of absolute strength, it depends on how we can stop those rats!
The main purpose of this sweep is to test the combat capabilities of the security forces. So far, Li Youde's department has performed well, and the Tubal guerrillas have fled after hearing the news. This at least shows that the security combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Tubal guerrillas!
He was very much looking forward to how the security forces who had been trained by his elite group would perform next.
Before he even gave the order, the security forces had already taken the initiative to set fire to the houses in the village.
Then another village was set on fire
The security forces were organized into squads, with a distance of about 300 meters from each other. The total length of the team was 20 miles!
Start advancing parallel to the north.
In this way, as long as they do not rush in, the space within the twenty-mile radius will be completely compressed, and no matter how hard the guerrillas and the villagers run, they will not be able to escape the encirclement!
Everything is going on in an orderly manner, guerrillas? Hard to fly with wings.
No, it should be called doomed. If they really have wings, there is nothing they can do.
The weather was dry and the fire quickly spread from village to village.
In a stove hole in a certain room, a pair of eyes shot out with hatred, looking at the security forces who were rummaging through boxes and cabinets and setting fire to nothing.
Just below the house, in the winding tunnel, dozens of soldiers holding guns sat.
The fire above made the air in the tunnel roar.
Tian Sanqi lowered his voice: "Director Zhang, why don't we kill them with landmines?"
"The enemy is advancing with great vigor now and is very vigilant. Let them be proud for a while." Zhang Yi gritted his teeth and did not tell Tian Sanqi that the group of security forces who set the fire above were Li Youde's troops.
"Should we attack the Japanese supply point first at night, or should we deal with the big stick first?"
"We'll wait until the news comes from the inside!"
Firstly, Li Youde's department had sent people early to convey the news of the impending raid. Secondly, he didn't know whether Tian Sanqi knew about the relationship between Jiulian Company and Li Youde's department. If he didn't lay landmines, he would just return Li Youde's favor.
And up to now, we still don’t know where the Japanese supply point is located. It may be at a stronghold near the blockade. There is no need to start contacting the Japanese right away.
Half an hour later, most of the puppet troops who had set off the fire continued to move north, leaving one squad standing guard outside the village, looking at the fires burning in the houses in the village with mixed emotions.
A figure came out of the well, covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel, came to a corner, opened a brick, and pressed a folded note underneath.
The figure turned back to the well again.
(End of chapter)
