under fire

Chapter 800 Followed
It was early morning.

A team formed an encirclement circle from a distance, encircling the village where Ma Liang stayed in the south of the blockade ditch, and the night was quiet.

The enemy in the village actually lit a fire, and several houses were still smoking. Needless to say, the puppet army demolished the houses and set fires to keep warm.

Captain Geng's eyes were blazing, and with a big wave of his hand, two of his staff crawled on the ground and slowly approached the village.

Ma Liang who was next to him immediately stopped him in a low voice: "Wait a minute, something is wrong, the bright whistle walking around is a dummy!"

Captain Geng asked the two team members to stop in the field, and turned to look at Ma Liang: "Wang Sanzhu said that he would send someone to contact us at night, but we haven't seen any of them come yet!"

Ma Liang handed the telescope to Captain Geng.

After Captain Geng took it, he looked carefully at the puppet sentinel at the entrance of the village: "These guys who are afraid of death can really figure it out. But since the dummy is moving back and forth, someone should be hiding nearby to pull the dummy around!"

Ma Liang said smoothly: "You just said that Wang Sanzhu's people didn't come out to contact us. Maybe there are devils and puppet soldiers in the village. Maybe they can't come out."

Captain Geng shook his head: "The hearts of the Wang family and his son are as dark as the coal in Xishan. I think they can't be trusted completely. Who knows if they have a conspiracy!"

Ma Liang nodded, how could such a big village accommodate the puppet army and so many bandits: "I also think it's a bit wrong when you say that, Tian Sanqi said that the withdrawn enemy is the same as the roughly estimated enemy on the battlefield There is a difference of four or five hundred, if all the ones left are in the village, why is there no movement at all?"

"When the enemy retreated, our people followed. It is absolutely true that there are puppet troops in the village, but we don't know how many there are."

Ma Liang looked at the fire in the village, and suddenly thought of a way: "That's not easy, just throw a grenade in and try it, and you'll know?"

Captain Geng was stunned for a moment: "Aside from the grenade, who else can throw a grenade so far that it can be thrown into the village at a distance of two to three hundred meters?"

"The puppet army is afraid of death. The sentries they arranged would never dare to stay outside the village. I will try to make a feint first."

"Forget it, I'll figure it out"

Li Huanzhang led the team and left Zhaozhuang Village at noon and headed southeast.

The mighty team occasionally stopped for a temporary rest, changed bandages for the wounded, and added some food.

It took more than ten hours to travel less than sixty miles.

Until midnight, the team was still walking in the wilderness.

The situation here is slightly different from the situation in the north, this is a drought-stricken area!

The rivers flowing through the villages dried up directly, and the cracked earth looked like the wrinkles on the face of a weather-beaten old man. Most of the wells in the villages had no water, and the water in a very few deep wells was only enough for people to eat and drink. Where else could it be provided? Livestock and crops.

Most of the common people on the plain couldn't survive at all, and they had to flee the famine as a last resort. Without people, the devils didn't have much interest in these barren lands, so that some of the gun towers built a few years ago were not guarded by puppet troops.

It was only with difficulty that the Eighth Route Army developed a base area on the plains that even the devils were too lazy to mop up.

Humans have to eat and drink to survive, if they can survive without water for two days, how can they persist after ten days and a half months?Who would have imagined that the Yellow River, which our ancestors relied on for generations, would change its course, and what would follow would be that there was almost no rain for a year. Let thousands of miles of fertile fields become barren land!
Li Huanzhang kept stopping in front of the team, ran to the front of the team after the team passed by, and kept reminding the team to pay attention to safety along the way.

A bandit saw Li Huanzhang on the side of the road again, and quickly stopped in his tracks: "Report sir, I have something to say!"

Li Huanzhang looked around and scolded: "What's the matter? I only rested for less than an hour. If you tell me about shit and urine again, I will kill you!"

The voice of the bandit soldier was very loud: "Hey, how can I trouble you with those small things, sir, I see that you are also working hard, can we discuss it, didn't the Eighth Route Army say that they would pay two oceans when they left, we don't want oceans now , can you let us go first?"

But the soldier next to him interrupted: "If you don't want to join the Eighth Route Army, of course we will let you go. It is agreed that two yuan and one cent will not be less! However, you must go to our base area to study for three days."

The bandit soldier still looked at Li Huanzhang with a sad face: "Oh, hey, I follow you and you still have to take care of us, and when you stay in the base area for three days, you still have to take care of our food and shelter, and you have to pay two dollars for nothing? I Are you saying that you are short-sighted?"

The guarded soldier directly stabbed the stopped bandit with his gun: "What are you talking about, kid, hurry up!"

"Hey, don't worry, it really doesn't work. I'll give you five oceans, and I beg you to show me your hand. I have an eighty-year-old mother on top, and some on my bottom."

The soldier next to him had turned his gun horizontally, and was ready to hit him with the butt of his gun at any time: "Speak again? I will give you two butts of the gun! The Eighth Route Army keeps what it says, and you think it's business?"

"Stop!" Li Huanzhang immediately stepped forward to stop the soldier's movements, and the three of them mingled together as if trying to persuade a fight. Li Huanzhang's voice was not low: "Don't worry, as long as we verify that you have not done anything bad, when the time comes I can consider letting you go home early!"

The bandit soldier looked around, and suddenly lowered his voice: "You have to pay attention, someone among the bandits left a secret mark along the way, and someone will rob the road tonight!"

After finishing speaking, pushed and shoved by the soldiers escorting him, he followed up with the group of captives in front.

Li Huanzhang frowned, obviously he had already made an agreement with the work team, but he didn't expect that those bandits would be lingering, and they would release them after they arrived at the base area for inspection. They couldn't wait for these three days?Which one was this played in?
Do they really have a conspiracy?But this is a barren land that has been sifted through by the puppet army. Is there anything that can make the bandits catch their eyes?
The team continued to head southeast in the dark, and walked another ten miles ahead, crossed the Jindi River that had long since dried up, and entered the edge of the sandy base area, where there were militiamen who had been arranged to respond.

After half an hour.

Panting heavily, a soldier rushed into the exhausted line from the darkness behind in embarrassment, shouting eagerly: "Platoon Leader Li, where is Platoon Leader Li? Platoon Leader Li..."

Li Huanzhang on the side of the road grabbed the soldier running over: "What are you panicking? I'm here!"

The soldier looked around and lowered his voice: "A group of bandits are coming up from behind! There are at least two or three hundred of them, and we will definitely not be able to stop them!"

Li Huanzhang was stunned. Most of the captives taken away this time were bandits. Based on what the insiders said, did they really want to take these captives away?

These guys chose to do it when the team was the most exhausted, and it seemed that this time it was going to be bad!

Damn. You can't believe what these bandits say!

(End of this chapter)