As the night got deeper and deeper, the puppet soldiers on duty began to get sleepy.
"Come on this Tubal Road quickly, I'm starting to feel sleepy."
"Yes, Tubalu comes over quickly and ends this battle quickly. Let's go back to sleep."
"I'm sleepy, and I'm not even allowed to smoke. Alas."
"Stop complaining and cheer up. Not smoking is to prevent firelight from exposing the target at night."
"When Tubalu is eliminated, go back and smoke enough."
…
When the patrolling puppet army officers saw that the soldiers were sleepy, they also said sternly: "My eyes are wide open. Anyone who dozes off will be subject to military law!"
There were puppet army officers watching, and the puppet soldiers were not too tired from the torture, so no one among them dozed off.
The first night passed peacefully:
"Damn it, this Tubalu is so cunning, he didn't even attack at night."
"Yeah, it's so cunning. When we cheered up, they didn't come."
…
The puppet soldiers were cursing.
Looking at the white fish belly rising on the horizon, the commander of the puppet army said to Jiang Deshui: "Sir, it seems that I was right. There will be no night attack on Tubal Road. They must have arranged the night attack later."
"Hmph, if they want to attack us at night, they have to have a chance on Tubal Road." Jiang Deshui hummed and urged: "Order the troops to seize the time to eat, and attack immediately after dawn. Before the sun sets today, I will attack Tubal Road." The main force of the Eighth Route Army has been screened out."
Under Jiang Deshui's order, the puppet soldiers quickly had breakfast and it was dawn.
The puppet soldiers dispersed into search teams organized by the company and conducted a net-like search of the defense area of the new regiment.
Each search team has a company of troops. Even if they hit Tubal Road, Tubal Road will not be able to quickly eat them.
Tubalu wanted to engage in some kind of sparrow war, but a company of troops directly chased him and killed him.
If Tubal Road has a lot of troops, other teams will outflank them.
Six cannons and Japanese soldiers act as powerful backup. Once the main force of Tubal Road appears, beat him immediately.
Facing Jiang Deshui's move, Li Yunlong looked through the telescope and asked Zhang Dabiao: "Dabiao, have all the preparations been done?"
"It's all done, just waiting for the Japs to step over." Zhang Dabiao nodded in response.
"Yeah." Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Then let's have fun with Jiang Deshui."
boom!
boom!
boom!
…
During the search process, Jiang Deshui's search team soon stepped on a landmine.
This is not an ordinary mine, but a mine array with dozens of mines arranged.
The kind that becomes one piece when fried.
The explosives captured by the new regiment were sufficient, so they were able to lay out sufficient mine arrays, and the mine charges were heavier than before.
Following the explosion of the mine array, several puppet army search teams immediately suffered considerable casualties.
"Sir, my soldiers killed five and injured thirteen."
"Sir, my soldiers killed seven and wounded twenty-one."
"Sir, my team has over thirty casualties."
…
"This, this, this..."
The high-spirited Jiang Deshui quickly obtained a summary of the casualty figures.
Five search teams stepped on the mine array, and the number of casualties reached one hundred.
If it weren't for the fact that the search formations were spread out enough, the number of casualties would have increased.
"Idiot, you first send out engineers to clear mines carefully, clear mines first, do you understand?" Jiang Deshui cursed angrily.
"Sir, if we remove mines, the search progress will be greatly reduced." said the leader of the puppet army.
"That's better than being dead." Jiang Deshui roared.
"yes."
The puppet soldiers sent engineers to start clearing mines, but due to the insufficient number of engineers, the progress of mine clearance was very slow.
When it came time to have lunch, the queue was only one kilometer long.
The new regiment's defense area is more than 30 kilometers deep. If this progress continues, it will take half a month. This is definitely not possible.
Looking up at the scorching sun, Jiang Deshui wiped his sweat and looked at the three puppet army commanders in front of him: "Do you have a better way to encircle and suppress them?"
"Sir, I have an idea." A puppet army commander said, "Let's find another way to remove mines."
"What can we do?" Jiang Deshui looked at this person.
"Let's arrest the people and use guns to force them to run towards Tubal Road. Then the people can..." The puppet army commander did not finish his words.
Jiang Deshui interrupted: "Do you still want to live? If you do this, you will easily be blacklisted by the Tubal Road anti-trafficking team. Moreover, even if you surrender in the future, you will not be given preferential treatment."
Tubal Road's anti-corruption teams generally don't show up easily, because if they show up, the risk is extremely high.
But once the anti-corruption team showed up, something irritated them.
Caught ordinary people to step on thunder, such behavior will definitely irritate them.
Generally speaking, the puppet soldiers will not do such unscrupulous behavior unless absolutely necessary.
Because if you do this, there will be no way out.
Not only will they be on the blacklist of the anti-traitor team, but if the imperial army is defeated in the future, these puppet troops will be liquidated.
At present, although the imperial army is unstoppable, who can say for sure what will happen in the future.
"Then how about snatching cattle, sheep and livestock from the common people and driving them away." The puppet army leader changed his words.
"Well, we can consider this." Jiang Deshui nodded.
It would be a mistake to force people with guns, and he didn't dare to do so now.
But robbing people of their cattle, sheep and livestock is no problem.
On weekdays, these puppet troops help the Japanese to cause harm to the countryside, and this is what they do.
"Send someone to contact the rear immediately and ask them to seize the cattle, sheep and livestock as soon as possible and send them over." Jiang Deshui said.
"Yes." The puppet army messenger immediately ran away after receiving the order.
"Taijun, I'm going to ask the rear to send cattle and sheep to clear mines. We have to wait a moment." Jiang Deshui made arrangements and asked Fujimurano again.
"Hurry up." In this regard, Fujimura Noichi did not urge Jiang Deshui.
Although Jiang Deshui suffered another hundred casualties, not a single imperial soldier was lost. Fujimura Noichi did not care about the Chinese casualties.
"Captain, it's a bit strange. These two Japs stopped searching after lunch. What new tricks are they going to do?" Zhang Dabiao saw through the telescope that the puppet soldiers no longer searched, and even their engineers didn't search anymore. Mine cleared.
In the morning, Zhang Dabiao actually suggested that Li Yunlong send people to shoot the engineers of the puppet soldiers, but Li Yunlong stopped him.
The reason why Li Yunlong wanted to stop it was because the opponent had a small number of engineers and did not care about them clearing mines.
Once a shot is fired, one's own soldiers will be exposed. At that time, the opponent's artillery and mortars will explode, and it will be difficult for one's own soldiers to escape.
"What new tricks could it be?" Li Yunlong said calmly, "These puppet soldiers are probably going to capture the people's livestock and want to use the livestock to help them clear mines."
Zhang Dabiao smiled and said: "Then we change the detonation method of landmines to the pull type?"
"Go ahead, make the rope longer so that the puller can run away." Li Yunlong nodded, this Da Biao learned quickly.
"yes."
