East of Liucun Township.
"Look, platoon leader, they have set up a hidden sentry outside in the yard of Uncle Zhao's house! There are only two sentries, maybe because they are afraid of the cold, and there is no one on the sentry tower..." The soldier who was lying in the ditch outside the countryside and was in charge of reconnaissance was heading towards Li Huanzhang, who just brought his team, reported.
"Have the soldiers passed by?"
"I've already crawled over from the south, lurking outside the low wall!"
The sound of drinking and fist-fighting could be heard faintly in the countryside. Li Huanzhang did not hesitate and gave the order: "Send the signal!"
The soldier in charge of reconnaissance struck a match in the ditch, lit a stick of incense, waved it twice under the moonlight, put it away, and after a while, waved it twice more.
The Lianghuangshahui congregants behind the low wall stared wide-eyed: "Am I blinded?"
Another yawned: "What did you see?"
"Kind of like a will-o'-the-wisp."
"where?"
"In the ditch to the east..."
Another head stuck out from the low wall. After a while, he asked, "Why didn't I see it?"
The so-called darkness under the lamp, two black shadows suddenly appeared under the eyelids, and they immediately hugged the two protruding heads.
"ah..."
The blackened bayonet blade flashed a cold light in the moonlight.
Ah sneeze... formed a coherent sound with the "ah" sound in front of it, and sounded in the yard beside the intersection.
Then the dog in the compound started barking.
After barking a few times, the dog may feel that there is nothing unusual. The barking turns into a low whine, and then there is no movement.
Liucun Township is said to be a township, but in fact it is just a larger village. It is surrounded by many small courtyards. The small courtyards are connected into a circle and form a wall.
A road more than a mile long runs from east to west in the middle. Several shops are opened on both sides of the road. The rest is still a courtyard wall.
There are watchtowers built at the east and west intersections when entering the countryside, and the shabby wooden doors are tightly closed.
There is a small square in the middle of Zhuangzi. To the north of the square is the gate of the township office, with two lanterns hanging swaying in the wind.
Four figures were busy in the yard next to the sentry tower, two on guard and two cleaning the battlefield, pulling guns and searching for bullets.
The soldiers behind silently approached the low wall.
"They are all poor people. We don't need these bullets." A soldier picked up a broken gun on the ground. The gun was a bit strange and the model could not be seen. Another member of the congregation used a large guillotine.
The body was covered with firewood, and the four people were divided into two groups. One group searched the yard.
There were ordinary people in the courtyard who did not dare to speak out after hearing the commotion. They huddled in the side room and shivered.
"Sir, please forgive me. I don't have anything valuable at home..." The soldier struck a match. There was an old man and an old lady in the room with a child whose mouth was covered.
"You didn't scream too loudly, that's okay, but you are quite brave..."
The day before yesterday came the national army, yesterday the Huangshahui came, today the Bazhonghe came, tomorrow the bandits came, maybe the security army came the day after tomorrow, I can’t afford to offend anyone?
"You're quite good at talking, hehe, but you were right today. Don't worry, we are the Eighth Route Army!"
"Is it really eight-way?"
"This area is the poorest on the Eighth Road. Do you think there will be people pretending to be it?"
"Why not? There were eight people looking for President Cheng two nights ago." The uncle was still worried.
"Brother Huang, I'm Huanzhang." Li Huanzhang climbed over the short wall and called in a low voice as soon as he entered the room.
"Huan Zhang, you scared me to death."
"Hehe, I told you earlier, don't live at the east end of this village. Anyone who comes has to enter your yard first."
"This house left by our ancestors cannot be thrown away."
"My ancestor, your father built this shabby house only twenty years ago! It was burned by the Japanese, and now you have a reed roof and it still leaks when it rains. Why are you guarding it?"
"Brother, there is nowhere to go but this place. Besides, I wish it rained every day."
"It would be great to go to our base. By the way, has my cheap nephew come back?"
"What a heck, he came back with money. His life with the national army is not going to be easy either."
"Come on, little dog, call me cousin." Li Huanzhang looked at the child whose mouth was covered by Uncle Huang, and handed him a piece of candy.
The uncle let go, and the child grabbed the candy with wide eyes: "Third cousin! I also want to join the Eighth Route Army..."
"Okay, when you grow up, you can join the Eighth Route Army. Second brother, come out and talk."
"Where is my niece-in-law Yueying?" Li Huanzhang asked.
"I am a person with the surname Cheng."
"That person named Cheng is not a good person. How could you let her go there? Is this a sheep in the tiger's mouth?"
"What can I do? It's better to die than live... It's nice to be able to bring some food back every day." Huang's second brother is in his fifties and is a distant relative of Li Huanzhang.
Li Huanzhang was silent for a while: "We won't leave when we come back. Last time I asked you to remember the evil done by those people in Huangshahui. Have you made it clear?"
"It's all done. They have nearly a hundred people here tonight. Can you really beat them?"
"Why are there so many? Haha, no matter how many there are, they are just a mob..."
"New members of the congregation, but those new ones don't have guns."
"That's okay. We'll clear out all their backbones in a while, and you'll be responsible for identifying them."
"Aren't you pushing me into a pit of fire? No, if word spreads, my whole family will be ruined."
"I really don't know how you survived if you are so scared..."
"You are a single person, you can run away if you want. I have a whole family, what else can I do?"
"Then you... cover your head for a while so no one can recognize you... That's it."
"That's okay too."
A dozen black figures holding guns walked out of the yard from the front door of Uncle Huang's house and moved toward the middle of the village along the wall. The yard faced the rural road on the side of the low wall, and a dozen heads were swaying in warning.
The dog barked again.
The black shadow walked along the road. The first one came to the door of the yard where the dog was barking and knocked regularly a few times. Then the barking of the dog in the yard disappeared.
Liucun Township became quiet again, leaving only the fist pumps and unbridled laughter from the village hall spreading in the countryside.
As if nothing would happen.
Li Huanjian took the lead in the darkness, and the people behind him quickly flowed outside the township office.
The hazy moonlight had no effect on this operation, but there was a sentry on the high wall and roof of the township office, and most of the surrounding areas could be seen clearly.
Unfortunately, the courtyard wall is too high, but under the courtyard wall is a blind spot for the sentry on the roof.
For people who have received little formal training, how do they know what military defense is?
Besides, you can surrender when the Japanese come, and you can surrender when the national army comes. Bandits? Commander Wang Taigong is my eldest brother!
Li Huanzhang put the rifle behind his back, took out the case, and waved forward.
More than a dozen soldiers walked toward the doorway of the township government office where lanterns were hung.
The two sentries at the door had no military skills at all, and they were drooling at the banquet in the courtyard.
He was immediately pulled away with his mouth covered, and soon, two more people stood at the door.
However, the original sword in his hand... turned into a rifle.
There were people surrounded by torches, and more than ten tables were set up for hundreds of people. The scene was quite big and lively.
Women were constantly serving food on wooden trays and shuttled between the tables. Occasionally, they were taken advantage of by the congregation, and there were shouts of curses and laughter.
"Do it!" Li Huanzhang no longer hesitated.
Bang, there was a gunshot, and the congregation sentry on the roof tilted.
Li Huanzhang followed him through the door, and more than a dozen soldiers rushed in from behind. The muzzles of black holes were filled with evil spirits: "Don't move, anyone who moves will be killed!"
Immediately afterwards, several more black holes appeared on the wall.
The soldiers who rushed into the courtyard of the township office did not stop at all and rushed directly into the lighted room inside the township office.
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