Before dawn, a soldier covered in mud staggered and fell near the sentry post. He was then picked up by the sentry and hurried into Dabei Village.
The regiment commander and the political commissar, who were buttoning their clothes and lighting the oil lamp, saw the two soldiers carrying people in, and their hearts sank.
He is from the second company. He ran back like this at night to report the news. What big thing happened
The first words of the political commissar were: "Find the medical staff first, and bring a stretcher!"
The leader's first words were: "What's going on? Tell me!"
"Yesterday afternoon... our Second Company... and the Ninth Platoon... were at the warehouse of Jinbala in Sanjia Market..."
After a while, the regiment commander shouted loudly: "Company 1, assemble urgently, get ready to go!"
The signalman of the second company, who had been carried on a stretcher and was about to be sent to the medical team, suddenly added weakly: "Don't send me to the medical team. The cave is not in Sanjiajie. I have to lead the way for you. Let me rest for a while and I can catch up. In addition, if we can save the cave, one company is not enough. There are too many things, so many that the whole regiment cannot move them all in one trip."
The regiment commander was stunned for a moment, then shouted to the signalman: "Carry him up, and set off with the first company now. Notify all units of the regiment to gather urgently on the playground, and I will lead the team. Also go to Xinghua Village to notify the fourth company, and then chase. Quick!"
Dabei Village immediately became noisy, with hurried footsteps everywhere in the darkness. The kitchen team, medical team, and supply department all gathered at the playground, while Wu Yan led a group of people carrying a stretcher. They just called the roll at the dormitory door and immediately lined up to march out.
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At the same time, a figure knocked on a door.
The light in the room came on, and then the door opened a crack. A figure inside the room looked cautiously toward the dark outside the door, but did not speak.
The person outside the door said, "I'm here to burn incense." Then the door opened and the person was welcomed in. Then the person inside came out and ran to report the news.
After a while, two figures came out of Luoye Village and came to this house.
The man who had been waiting in the house stood up and bowed when he saw the man coming in, "Master Li."
"Why are you here?" The person who came in was Li Youde.
"I was asked by my boss to come and ask for support."
"Support?" Li Youde was briefly surprised, then slowly walked to the table, sat upright, and continued, "What support?"
The man did not sit down, but stood beside the table and answered: "The Eighth Route Army wanted to rob the Sanjiaji warehouse and occupied the cave. We have been fighting with them for the whole afternoon... This is the situation. Master Li, you have half of the share here. You have to take action now, otherwise the warehouse will be lost."
Unexpectedly, Li Youde was neither surprised nor anxious, with no expression on his face. He just listened to the whole story in silence.
It turned out that in the matter of Sanjiaji, Jinbala and Li Youde were partners, each holding half of the shares. The territory belonged to Jinbala, and he was responsible for security and operation; the entry and exit of goods was secretly coordinated by Li Youde.
After a while, Li Youde suddenly asked, "How many Eighth Route Army soldiers are there?"
"I guess... more than a hundred?"
"What about you?"
"There are a thousand men, but there are actually only six hundred."
"Can't beat the Eighth Route Army?"
"We suffered a flood, and we couldn't get through the cave. We could only watch the Eighth Route Army waiting for reinforcements on the other side. Besides, these people only joined recently, and they are not of one mind at all. When a war breaks out, everyone has their own ulterior motives, which is really worrying." The man was honest, and he did not hide anything in front of the serious-looking major shareholder Li Youde.
"Yeah." Li Youde nodded and stood up. He put his hands behind his back and walked a few steps with his head down. Suddenly he stopped: "You know, according to my identity, it is not convenient for me to show up, but I own half of this warehouse, so I can't hide any longer. Well, go back and tell your shopkeeper that I, Li, will do my best to help you. Reinforcements will come!"
The man bowed excitedly and left.
The mute watched the figure disappear into the darkness, closed the door again, went back into the house, and stared blankly at Li Youde.
Noticing the mute's strange expression, Li Youde smiled at him: "Do you think I really can't bear to part with the stuff in that half warehouse? No, it's Jinbala who can't bear to part with it. Without the warehouse, I just lost a piece of flesh, but Jinbala is bankrupt. Who can work with him without food and money? So... the warehouse can be robbed by the Eighth Route Army or burned down, but it can't be left. Haha, half a warehouse in exchange for five or six hundred guns, do you think I lost or gained?"
A message was sent to the newly built barracks, and three companies of puppet troops hurriedly formed up in the darkness before dawn and prepared to set off. Among them was a company directly reorganized from the Li family militia, a company reorganized from scattered defeated soldiers, and a company of new soldiers gathered from captured and recruited soldiers.
After the Hekou Camp was wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, Li Youde immediately volunteered to join the Imperial Army and established a new local security army based on the Li family militia. Chairman Li suddenly became Battalion Commander Li.
In troubled times, money is less important than guns.
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It was pitch black all around, but I was sure that dawn would soon arrive. Due to the clouds, it might come a little later than usual.
Staring at the dark other side of the river, Gao Yidao asked the person beside him: "Are you sure everything is ready?"
The fast-legged man whispered, "The first row is on the left, the second row is on the right, and they are responsible for suppressing the foothills on both sides of the high ground. The stones are piled up, and as soon as there is any movement on the high ground, the third row will immediately start to fill it up."
Then he asked, "Are you sure that Nine Pai has a rope in his hand?"
Then he answered, "I'm sure. The mule has a rope. I can see it every time I see him on a mission. There is no exception."
Gao Yidao stopped talking and just waited quietly in the darkness, waiting for dawn.
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Two hundred meters away on the small hill, Hu Yi used some muddy clothes taken from corpses to cover a little space, and Li Xiang and the little girl pressed the corners of the clothes to help cover. Turn on the flashlight to illuminate the dial to check the time, the sky will be bright at any time.
He turned off the flashlight, tore open the clothes covering his head, and whispered, "Notify everyone to assemble."
After whispering to each other, the corpses sat up one by one and gradually gathered together.
"The wounded who are unable to fight are now being evacuated to safe areas."
Although reluctant, several figures slowly left the place, pulling each other and disappearing into the darkness in the opposite direction, leaving seventeen or eighteen people behind.
"Single line, Ma Liang at the end, I'm in front, Mule is the second with the machine gun, and then the ninth squad, the third squad, the second squad, the first squad. One by one, always keep an eye on the people in front. If the people in front lie down, everyone lies down. If the people in front stand up, everyone stands up. Don't fall behind, let alone leave the team. Except for the line in the front and back direction, any target on both sides is the enemy. Do you understand?"
The figures around nodded at the same time.
"Prepare your weapons."
There was a slight clattering sound, and the rifles were slung over their backs, the bayonets were sheathed, and the grenades were hung. More than a dozen people were armed with Mauser pistols. The first and ninth squads already had some, and the second and third squads had already found a lot of them among the corpses, so now everyone had both long and short pistols.
"Who else has questions?"
There was silence all around.
"The ground is slippery. Hold your guns to avoid accidental discharge. Let's go."
Hu Yi stood up with his pistol in hand, and Luo Fugui quickly stood up and followed closely with his machine gun. The figures in the darkness took the initiative to follow the people in front of them, forming a slowly advancing, winding snake, and carefully moved towards the target high ground.
We moved cautiously in the mud and came to the foot of the mountain on the side of the high ground. We could hear muttering, snoring, and footsteps in the mud ahead, but we could not see anything.
The soldiers' hearts gradually became tense, and as the team moved, they dared not breathe.
With a snap, someone in the team slipped and fell. Hu Yi in front of him suddenly stopped, and the whole team stopped one by one. All the pistols were raised at the same time, pointing to the left or right, and everyone's heart was beating in their throat.
There was a panicked shout from the front, accompanied by the sound of a gun bolt: "Which one?"
Hu Yi pointed the muzzle of his gun in the direction of the sound and shouted, "Stop yelling! I'm going on patrol." Then he continued to walk towards the darkness ahead with his gun raised. Luo Fugui had no choice but to follow him. Even though his arms were sore, he didn't dare to put down the machine gun.
"Patrol? Can the patrol come from over there? Damn, you guys are really crazy about money. You can't even wait until dawn?" No matter how you look at it, it is impossible to imagine that such a small group of Eighth Route Army soldiers would be stupid enough to run back. There were the most corpses over there, and the bandits on guard thought without a second thought that these people were those who were going to make money from the dead.
"I was just patrolling with people and I just took a detour. What's your business? Get out of the way!" Hu Yi immediately gave up the idea of exchanging fire and decided to move sideways to avoid facing the person questioning him. So the team changed direction and walked diagonally with him.
In this way, they walked past the bandits stationed at the foot of the mountain. The dozen or so shadowy figures were ignored and they started to walk up the hill one by one.
However, Ma Liang, who was walking at the end, did not continue to keep up with the team, but turned around and disappeared.
The people at the foot of the mountain had no suspicion, and the people on the higher ground had no chance of being alert. No one cared about these dozen poor guys who came up here. The disorganization and lack of discipline that distinguished them from the army were fully demonstrated by these bandits.
A glimmer of light had appeared in the distance in the east. Not only Hu Yi, but everyone in the ninth platoon had not expected to be able to reach the high ground like this. The planned scenario was to use the darkness before dawn to create chaos and storm up the mountain, but now they had walked into a group of bandits without firing a single shot. What should they do
Hu Yi was also a little confused. It seemed that the way of fighting had to be changed. He led the team to the location of the trench dug by the ninth row. It would be safer to attack the trench first.
When we got close to the trench, we were speechless again. There was no need to fight in the trench because there was no one in it. The reason was that there was water in the trench. Now it was dark and there was no fighting. Which bandit would be willing to stay there? Are they stupid
There's nothing to say then. Leading the way, the ninth row re-entered the nest they had dug.
"Squad 9, squad 2, move forward, squad 3, squad 1, move back, prepare for battle, don't rush to shoot! Fool, throw two grenades towards the foot of the mountain we came from." He gave the order in a low voice, at the same time took out a grenade, pulled off the safety, depressed the trigger, and then threw it hard towards the front of the high ground.
Boom—the explosion was particularly clear and piercing, the flash was particularly conspicuous, and then Hu Yi was heard shouting at the top of his voice: "There are Eighth Route Army soldiers over there! The Eighth Route Army soldiers are coming—"
Boom-boom-there were two explosions at the foot of the high ground on the right. They were the grenades thrown by Wu Shitou.
Then the sound of Mauser pistol shots came from the darkness at the foot of the mountain, and someone shouted, "The Eighth Route Army is here! Shoot!" From the voice, it was Ma Liang who disappeared halfway.
There was a commotion in the darkness, and the loosely organized bandits were temporarily confused...
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