under fire

Chapter 1650 A generous move

Guan County.

Outside the west gate of the city.

The tall city gate tower blocked half of the sunlight, forming a large shadow at the base of the city wall.

After being exposed to the sun and rain, sandbags were stacked in four layers to form a machine gun defensive position.

The shooting hole between the gray-black sacks protrudes from the muzzle of a Czech light machine gun.

More than a dozen puppet soldiers from the security team, who usually acted arrogantly, were squatting among the sandbags and whispering.

The pseudo squad leader sitting in the middle of the sandbags lit a cigarette and muttered quietly: "The brothers who followed the imperial army out to sweep the area a few days ago suffered heavy casualties."

The deputy squad leader next to him curled his lips and said, "What a bullshit, the casualties were heavy, the whole army was annihilated."

A tall and strong puppet soldier in the crowd was stunned for a moment, his face pale as he looked at the deputy squad leader with a trembling voice: "Are you saying that no one has returned?"

The deputy squad leader took a look at the puppet soldier, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Haha, your brother is probably in danger!"

"You son of a bitch, you can still laugh!" The fake squad leader kicked the squatting deputy squad leader upside down.

The deputy squad leader put his hands on the sandbags behind his head and used the force to roll back like a jar. After returning to a squatting position, he grinned: "It is said that only two people escaped from a squadron of the Imperial Army."

"Tell me in detail." The tall and strong puppet soldier quickly helped the squad leader to stabilize himself.

"You all know the shopkeeper Wang in the city, right?"

"Which shopkeeper Wang?"

"My hometown is Donglu Village, the shopkeeper Wang who sells groceries in the south of the city."

"That's not right. It is said that the Imperial Army sent tens of thousands of people to clean up the area this time. Who is so capable as to dare to touch the Imperial Army's tiger whiskers?"

"I heard it was Wang Shun's guerrillas."

"Wang Shun? Bullshit! With the guns and men in his hands, he can't even beat the security groups in our village, not to mention the security team and the imperial army." The fake squad leader widened his eyes and stared at the deputy squad leader fiercely: "Rumors are flying everywhere now. If you dare to talk nonsense, I will kill you!"

"Hehe, the two who escaped from a squadron of the Imperial Army also had their stomachs cut open, their ashes burned, and then put into clay pots."

Another puppet soldier muttered, "Tsk tsk, I've heard about this too. You don't know that the Imperial Army committed seppuku, and the blood was all over the ground."

"How did you know?"

"My uncle worked as a handyman in the Imperial Army Hospital. He personally went to collect the bodies and even got some firewood to help burn the Japanese corpses in the backyard."

"Shouldn't the dead be buried in peace? Why burn them?"

"The Imperial Army never asked others to burn corpses"

"Fuck, if he can escape back, his ancestors' graves will be smoking, why would he commit seppuku?"

“Don’t interrupt”

"The rules of the Imperial Army are very strange, so don't make any noise."

A puppet soldier squatting in the corner hesitated for a moment and interrupted: "I heard that the river police team in Tianjin was also ambushed and suffered heavy casualties. Only a dozen Taijun escaped from a squadron."

"There's something even more powerful. The Qinghe County across the river was also taken over by the Eighth Route Army!"

"Eighth Route Army? You're such a braggart!"

"That's right. The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was taken over by the Imperial Army. Do they still have this ability?"

"That's right. How could the peasants with machetes and spears and the students who can only shout slogans have the ability to do this?"

"Yes, in this place, anyone who dares to attack the imperial army will die!"

"This is impossible. It definitely cannot be the Eighth Route Army."

"If you said it was the Nationalist army that fought back, I would believe it."

The fake squad leader thought for a while and said, "When I first heard the news, I thought it was fake. Now it seems that it is really possible."

A puppet soldier in the shape of a bamboo pole interrupted: "I heard that a chariot brigade of the imperial army was attacked in the green tent."

"You bastard, why didn't you say they had reached Peking?"

"You don't believe in counting balls"

A puppet soldier changed the subject: "Hey, there are people dying all over the canal in the north, what's going on?"

"You ask me, how would I know? In this damn world, we just live one day at a time." The deputy squad leader finally started the topic, but was changed. He glared at the puppet soldier who was talking.

Someone immediately responded: "I heard from the Feng Shui master in the county that the heavy rain a few days ago angered the river god."

"You're exaggerating, aren't you? The rainstorm is caused by the Thunder God and the Rain Goddess. Aren't they in the same group as the River God?"

"Yes, they are in the same group, working together to deal with the common people."

"You are mentally ill. We are praying to God. He should bless us, right?"

"If praying to God worked, these little devils wouldn't have entered the county town."

"Hey, watch your words, it's Taijun!"

“I think the world may be changing.”

  “Damn it, the Eighth Route Army isn’t going to come and attack the county town, is it?” The Eighth Route Army is going to attack the county town?

The first to bear the brunt were the guards guarding the city gates.

  In the past, the puppet army would have laughed contemptuously and scolded the Eighth Route Army for being blind and like an egg hitting a stone.

But after the previous conversation, the puppet soldiers did not dare to speak nonsense.

  Suddenly, an atmosphere of fear began to spread.

After a while.

The fake squad leader threw the cigarette butt on the ground and said, "I'm not afraid of anything. If they fight back, I can just raise my hands and surrender."

"Yes, we are the puppet soldiers of the security team. Our uncle and grandmother don't love us. We are the first to go out and die as cannon fodder during every raid. If they really attack us, I will lead the way for them."

"Oh, you are addicted to leading the way. It seems that you are the one who led the way when the imperial army came here?"

"Tsk, these days, if you really take yourself seriously as a human being, your whole family will be killed!"

The puppet soldiers murmured worriedly and completely ignored the people entering and leaving the city gates.

It seems that the puppet soldiers who have always been strict in inspections and have done nothing have changed their nature.

The people who came into the city carrying baskets, bags and carts were all smiling and running towards the city.

Those leaving the city also ran faster than rabbits.

In the past few days, when entering the city, the security team would collect paper bills worth two copper coins, but they would not accept them.

The puppet soldiers did not notice that a Taoist priest carrying a fortune-telling sign and a girl with pigtails on her head swaggered into the city among the crowd.

Among the scattered people, there was a ruffian who had not washed his face for eight hundred years, carrying two bundles of firewood and looking around with a shifty look as he entered the city.

Until the sound of the Japanese three-wheeled motorcycle engine was heard from the city gate.

The puppet soldiers in the sandbag circle quickly pulled up the rifles leaning against the sandbags, dispersed back to their respective posts and began to check the people entering and leaving the city.

They didn't notice at all that Wang Shun, whom they had just talked about, had soot on his face and was slipping into the city right under their noses. He was staring with wide eyes at the light of the Japanese three-wheeled motorcycles leaving the city.

There are not many people in the alley, it is quite quiet, with people coming in and out occasionally.

The end of the alley.

Black smoke was belching out of the chimney on the roof of a house with its own courtyard.

Inside the courtyard gate, Tang Dagou sat on the firewood he had carried: "If I had known it would be so easy to enter the city, I should have hidden the rifle in the firewood and brought it in."

"Keep your voice down." Li Laosi lay on the roof to bask in the sun and monitor the situation. From his position he could clearly overlook the situation in the alleys on the east and west sides.

The alley seems to be a dead end, but you can enter another alley by climbing over the high wall of the yard at the end of the alley.

"When I was in these broken cities before, no one dared to say no even if I walked sideways."

"Still walking sideways, are you a crab dog?"

"If you don't believe me, forget it. Hey, have you arranged for everyone in the surrounding areas?"

"Don't worry, even if all the devils in the county come, I can hold out until dark."

"I fought the Japs with a few Mauser pistols until dark. I was so blind."

Some people dispersed into the county town, and those who entered the yard were busy in the kitchen.

In the main room of the yard, a middle-aged man was sitting with a nervous look on his face, looking at the stranger who entered the room.

From time to time, he looked through the gate at the people coming and going in the yard.

It wasn't until Wang Shun walked into the room that the nervous expression on the middle-aged man's face eased a little. He then put on a smile and walked to the door to greet him: "Brother Wang, come in, come in, it's great, congratulations!"

Wang Shun smiled and said, "Boss Wang, you owe me a big favor this time!"

Xiao Hongying, who was standing in the room with her hands behind her back and looking around, turned around and sat down directly at the table.

"I'm going to the city this time to invite some doctors back." Wang Shun took two steps forward to talk about the matter, and then sat down and introduced: "This is a friend of the Eighth Route Army. They will help us gain a foothold in western Shandong in the future."

After saying this, he gave the middle-aged man his seat in favor of Xiao Hongying, and then sat next to him while Xiao Hongying sat at the head seat.

  The middle-aged man was puzzled and dumbfounded. Isn't this yellow-haired girl too young?

He's really showing off.

Xiao Hongying sat down at the head of the table without hesitation, turned her head and looked at the middle-aged spy arranged by Wang Shun in the city, and said directly: "My surname is Su, my name is Su Hongying, and I am a liaison officer of the Eighth Route Army. Now, please introduce the situation of the sub-hospital in the county to me first, in detail and comprehensively."

  Isn't it to invite a doctor? What does it mean to introduce a hospital?

Could it be that they want to kidnap the Japanese doctor?

Maybe an important person was injured and needs a Japanese doctor.

The middle-aged man made random guesses in his mind, and glanced at Wang Shun who was sitting next to him calmly. After seeing Wang Shun nod, he spoke: "The county hospital is divided into two parts. One part is the hospital built after the Japanese invaders came. There are two Japanese doctors and a dozen nurses in the Japanese hospital. The other part is the original county hospital. Many people from the original county hospital left. Those who stayed are old Chinese doctors who make a living. There are also two small clinics."

"The Japanese troops are different from ours. Each of their teams has a doctor and a medic, and all of them have learned basic first aid for trauma."

Wang Shun waved his hand and directly stated the purpose of this trip: "Manager Wang, I want to ask if we rob the Japanese clinic, is there any way to get them out of the city?"

From hiring a few doctors to shutting down the hospital, even the well-informed middle-aged man was so scared that his face turned pale: "This is very difficult. The devils in the county have a military police squad stationed in the county, and the security team has at least two companies, as well as the county police and the detective team."

Xiao Hongying waved her hand to interrupt the middle-aged man: "Wait, are you saying that there are only a few dozen devils in the county?"

"Yes." The middle-aged man saw the little girl's eyes light up, and suddenly remembered that he had just received news that Wang Shun's troops had won a victory in the morning. His heart was pounding: "Well, don't underestimate them. Just a small group of devils can beat a battalion of the national army!"

"Why are you so anxious? I didn't say what I was going to do." Xiao Hongying rolled her eyes and said, "Go on."

The middle-aged man was not stupid: "I know what you are thinking. Two years ago, when the Eighth Route Army came here, they also captured the county town. But the devils mobilized a large number of troops and the Eighth Route Army ran away. It was our people who suffered. Many people died."

(End of this chapter)