A ray of sunshine fell, and a rooster jumped on top of the haystack, raised its neck and made a sound of "OoOoOo".
When the rooster crows, the world becomes white. With this rooster's crow, the sky and the earth gradually appear in outline, and the water vapor on the ground also evaporates little by little as the sun rises.
The rooster crowed twice more and then jumped back to the yard to look for the wives it had lost yesterday. After searching for a long time to no avail, it accepted its fate.
Miura hesitated for a while after the cockcrow before he went to the house and was called upon by the captain and several other veterans.
The captain raised his eyelids to see that it was indeed dawn, then stretched and called for others to get up as well.
Breakfast still had to be prepared, and if he didn't do it right, he would be the one who got slapped in the mouth.
After washing up a little, the captain came to the kitchen and saw a child lighting the fire. He was very unhappy, so he went up and kicked the child away, and then said to Miura, "Baga, didn't you tell me Don't you want Chinese people to enter the kitchen? Are you tired of living?"
"Hey!" Miura immediately stood up and admitted his mistake after being beaten!
"Pah!" Another mouthful, and then the captain continued to shout, "How many children did you use!?"
"It only took two children. They fetched water, chopped firewood, and made fires. I didn't let them touch the food!" Miura explained.
The captain turned around, looked at the child squatting on the ground, stretched out his fingers and hooked him: "Come here, you."
The child was a little scared, but walked over cautiously.
Seeing the child walking over, the captain picked up a ladle and poured some hot water from the pot, then gestured, "Drink!"
The child looked at the gourd in the devil's hand, took it without hesitation, put it to his mouth and blew on it.
The captain looked at the child dawdling, a little impatient, "Quick!"
The child took a careful look at the ferocious captain, and then blew hard into the hot water in the gourd.
The hot boiling water fell down his throat and into his stomach. The hot ladle in his hand almost fell to the ground, but he just frowned slightly and continued to drink.
"Hmm~" The captain nodded when he saw the child drink it, and then gestured to let him drink it all.
The child nodded, blew in a few more breaths, and then slowly drank all the water in the gourd. Fortunately, it was not so hot this time.
Although the child drank all the water, the Japanese captain did not let him go. Instead, he asked him to continue cracking firewood in the yard so that he could continue to observe.
After a while, another child carrying water came back. When the captain saw it, he also let him drink a ladle of water, but this time the water was not so hot.
"Dezi, did the Japs let you drink water just now?" Goudan asked in a low voice while he was cracking firewood.
"Yeah!" Zhao Mengde responded and turned his head and stopped talking.
"You said, devil..."
Seeing that Goudan was useless, Zhao Mengde quickly coughed twice, "Ahem~"
Although it was a dry cough, Goudan still heard that Zhao Mengde's voice was wrong, so he asked: "What's wrong with your throat?"
"The water is hot, stop talking!" Zhao Mengde whispered in a hoarse voice.
Although Goudan was a bit bearish, he still kept his mouth shut after hearing Zhao Mengde's reminder.
Zhao Mengde was of the same generation as him, and according to the genealogy, he was still his cousin.
The two children were cracking firewood casually, hoping to hear some information, but their Japanese skills were not very good, and they could probably understand the words "Missi, Missi, die, die, die, die".
After a while, the smell of rice came from the kitchen.
Goudan smelled this smell and couldn't help but get close to Zhao Mengde again, "The devils are harming our food again."
Zhao Mengde coughed twice again and signaled him to stop talking. Just because you don't understand what the Japs are saying doesn't mean that the Japs can't understand what you are saying. What are we two here to do? You don't know. Don't waste all your efforts because of your arrogance and harm the Eighth Route Army soldiers. All the work was in vain.
The tunnels in Zhaozhuang have been dug to a large scale. They cannot be said to be accessible to every household, but there are at least twenty exits in Zhuangzi, including one in the ancestral hall.
Last night, reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army arrived again, so there were more than 80 people in total.
Someone has a gun and the rest is easy.
Taking advantage of the dark night, the Eighth Route Army soldiers changed into civilian clothes and replaced everyone in the ancestral hall bit by bit, and then the Eighth Route Army soldiers moved them to a safe place.
Just like this, little by little, most of the old and weak people in the ancestral hall were moved away and replaced by Eighth Route Army soldiers.
If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese imprisoned the villagers in more than one place and counted them, Du Sanping would have really wanted to move all the villagers inside through the tunnels.
Later, Li Si came.
Du Sanping was pleasantly surprised by the addition of Li Si, an expert in poisoning, and re-formulated the battle plan with Li Si.
The first is poisoning. Although the poison Li Si brought can kill more than 200 Japs at once, it is impossible for all the Japs to eat together. The most important thing is that with the Japs' caution, they will definitely ask fellow villagers to test the poison before eating. , so the plan of releasing highly toxic substances was rejected at first.
After repeated discussions, Li Si decided to use mixed poison, but Li Si's mixed poison was not as powerful as before. After using it, he would just feel dizzy and weak in limbs. Only in severe cases could he become unconscious.
But Du Sanping felt that this was enough. If the tactics were arranged properly, all the fellow villagers could be rescued. If not, a large number of Japanese would be wiped out.
After the strategy was decided, it was implemented. Through the knowledge of the rescued villagers, it is estimated that the cooking team is very careful and never allows the villagers to help cook.
However, at this time, Zhao Mengde, the leader of the second group, proposed that the children of the children's group should try it, because children always make people relax their vigilance.
Du Sanping immediately rejected the proposal because he didn't want these children, who were only eleven or twelve years old, to take risks.
However, Li Si had no objection. He thought he could give it a try, because it was normal for children to perform assassination missions in Tangmen, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with using child labor.
After arguing for a while, we finally decided to let the children try. If it doesn't work and there is no chance, we will think of other ways.
In this way, Li Si and several smart children from the children's group entered the tunnel again and replaced several trapped villagers.
The place in Zhuangzi was getting noisier and noisier. All the Japanese who occupied Zhaozhuang had gotten up. A few of the Japanese who had changed into civilian clothes began to wander around in Zhuangzi, pretending to do some work, and then went straight to the canteen to get food. .
After all, during the occupation of Zhaozhuang this time, they confiscated a lot of grain and a lot of livestock and poultry. This was a rare opportunity to improve their lives, so why not hurry up.
