"What's the situation? Why don't you leave?"
The Japanese soldiers from behind rushed up and yelled at them, but when they heard that the puppet soldiers in front stepped on the mines, they quickly retreated and lay down on the ground in a well-trained manner.
One of the Japanese soldiers shouted: "Quickly, dig out the mines."
The puppet army had no choice but to find a way to dig out the landmines after looking at each other face to face.
One of them used a bayonet to cut along the sole of the puppet soldier's shoe. Although he accidentally cut the opponent's sole several times and bled a lot, the puppet soldier finally left the mine.
The puppet soldier demining the mines pressed the sole of his shoe with a bayonet, while another puppet soldier found a stone weighing more than thirty kilograms and pressed it on it.
Everyone let out a long sigh at this time. But unexpectedly, the little devil called out again, telling the puppet army to dig out the mines, because next, the large troops behind would have to march!
Because the little devil doesn't know what kind of landmine this is. If it is a series of mines, the imperial army will suffer heavy losses. So even if you take risks, you must clear the landmines first.
But at this time, the puppet soldiers in front wanted to curse after hearing this. It was dark at this time, and even if there was a little moonlight, it was not enough to clearly see the mines buried underground. You had to rely on your hands to clear the mines. What's the difference between that and letting them die?
But the little devils don't care about that. In their eyes, these puppet soldiers are just cannon fodder. They won't feel bad about them no matter how many people die.
As for the puppet army detonating the mines and exposing them, it is also the puppet army's fault.
Therefore, these Japanese scouts didn't care about the life and death of the puppet troops. Even though they knew that the light was not good and not suitable for clearing mines at all, they still urged them to clear the mines quickly. And let the remaining puppet troops continue to move forward to explore the road.
The puppet soldiers had no choice but to continue moving forward to see if there were any landmines, while the remaining four or five continued to clear the mines.
The little devil was still lying on the ground. They would not go to a dangerous area. Unless the puppet troops in front trample the ground all over.
As time passed, the veteran of the puppet army who was responsible for demining finally touched the hard object on the sole of the shoe.
It wasn't a mine at all, but a slightly raised rock. They are completely scaring themselves.
But the puppet soldier rolled his eyes, but did not say that it was not a landmine. Because if he said that it was not a landmine, the Japanese would most likely give them a big mouthful.
So the puppet soldier held the stone and said: "Imperial Army, the mine has been dug out. But it is a little damaged. I will find a safe place and put him down so as not to hurt the Imperial Army."
"Quick, quick!"
The Japanese team leader quickly waved his hand and told the puppet soldier to go as far as possible, for fear that the mine would accidentally explode and affect them again.
"go ahead!"
The Japanese ordered again, and the group continued to search forward.
At the same time, the veteran of the puppet army hid in the woods and found a place to smoke.
He turned his back to Dongping County and used his clothes to block the light from the cigarette.
So this veteran of the puppet army still has some survival experience on the battlefield.
He was not in a hurry to return to the team, let the Japs and others run ahead to explore the way, he just needed to find a suitable time to return to the team.
But little did he know that he had been targeted a long time ago. Zhao Weidong's investigation team.
The investigation teams previously sent to Feicheng and Pingyin have been withdrawn by Duanwu, but the investigation teams outside Dongping Town are still there.
They have been aware of the movements of the puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers outside the city, and are waiting for opportunities to find the lone puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers and take them back alive.
As it happened, the old gentleman was hiding in the woods smoking, and someone covered his mouth from behind. Then two other people lifted his legs and snatched him away.
The puppet army wanted to resist before, but seeing that there were so many people on the other side, they had no choice but to give up. Otherwise, if you offend the other party, you will definitely die.
So, he followed the other party obediently until he entered Dongping Town.
However, they did not enter Dongping Town from the north gate, but entered Dongping Town from the east gate, taking a slight detour.
But their speed was still faster than those puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers.
The puppet troops and the Japanese thought that there were landmines on the road, so they searched almost inch by inch for fear of stepping on the mines.
This time, the little devil surprisingly did not urge them, because once stepped on, landmines would not only kill people, but also expose their targets.
Of course, they didn't know that they had already been exposed, but they just wanted to be cautious and not be discovered by the enemies in the city.
So just after the scouts plundered the puppet troops and returned to Dongping Town, the puppet troops and the Japanese were still lingering five hundred meters outside the north gate of Dongping Town!
After a while, the captured puppet soldiers were brought to the north gate of Dongping Town, where Duanwu used binoculars to look at a dozen puppet soldiers who were cautiously probing 500 meters away.
It can be said that Dragon Boat Festival did not know what the two Japanese were looking for. I just wonder if these Japs are a little too careful, searching inch by inch on the mountain road. Are they afraid that they may have laid landmines?
But Duanwu didn't know that it was entirely the puppet soldiers and the Japanese who scared him. Thinking of the scene where he stepped on landmines before, even stepping on a raised stone was regarded as a landmine.
And coupled with the fact that a veteran oil man was lazy and held a stone and said it was a landmine, it became more confirmed that there were landmines planted on the road leading to Dongping Town.
Later, when they heard that the captured two Japanese soldiers told the whole story, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, Zhou Tianyi and others all burst into laughter.
And those puppet soldiers are really talented people who know the current affairs. There is no need for Duanwu to ask, he told them all by himself.
Let me first talk about their origins. They are the Imperial Alliance Army in North China, and they fought against the Japanese against the Eighth Route Army before. Later, when the Japs tried to open up the Jinpu Line and were frustrated, they were transferred from North China along with the Fifth Division.
Outside the city, there are Japanese troops from the 11th Regiment, with two squadrons and an artillery squadron. As for the puppet army, it is a regiment, all infantry, without heavy firepower.
Moreover, the puppet army also said another thing, and the puppet soldiers outside the city all regretted it at this time. At that time, I followed my superiors to join the Japanese just to survive. But the little devils have always used them as cannon fodder.
This man died many times, and they understood that there was no way to survive even if he surrendered to the Japanese. But they didn't dare to rebel directly, after all, their family members were still under the control of the little devil.
So this little devil is not stupid. There are so many puppet soldiers that they can't control at all, so they moved their families together. It was said to be for protection, but it was just for supervision. And once any puppet army betrays their Imperial Japanese Army, they will kill the families of these puppet soldiers.
So the captured puppet soldier said: Sometimes they really have no choice. Now he is waiting to die at the gunpoint of his own people, and he doesn't even dare to run away!
(End of chapter)
