Rise from the sword

Chapter 253 A Series of Bad News
On the hillside only one kilometer away from the mountain road, the monk sat cross-legged on a stone, holding a piece of dry grass in his mouth, holding up his binoculars, looking at the road in the distance.

Beside him is Wang Gensheng in the same posture.

In the dim field of vision, a team of devils was walking quickly between the roads. Even at a distance of several kilometers, they could still see the huge billowing dust raised by the armored vehicles. Several devil soldiers were blown away, and the originally orderly team was in chaos...

Finally, after seeing the impotent rage of the devil officer, the monk lowered his binoculars.

"Hey, this wave, at least ten devil soldiers were killed or injured..."

Estimating the little devil's formation, the monk speculated with a smile.

He looked at Wang Gensheng with admiration in his eyes.

The little devil is actually very good at guarding against landmines. There is a special mine removal team in front of the team, but this old bastard, when the devil is attracted by Wang Xikui and Cao Mantang, sees that the two teams are out of touch, and inserts the devil's main force and the mine clearance team. Twenty grenade-modified mines were quickly planted between the teams.

The devil was caught off guard.

"almost."

After spitting out the grass clippings in his mouth, Wang Gensheng spoke calmly.

A series of landmines composed of twenty grenades, plus he specially put on a fragmentation sleeve, the damage range is very large. It is normal to injure a dozen or so devil soldiers, but this group of devil soldiers is very loose in training troops, and they react quickly. At that time, the surrounding devils immediately fell down and avoided most of the fragments. He estimated that not many devils died.

The head of the group said that a dead devil is a good devil!
such a pity.

This time, there are fewer good devils.

"Go, go back to the regiment."

Wang Gensheng stood up, patted his buttocks and said.

"what?"

The monk was stunned: "Shouldn't you come again? This time I brought a lot of grenades!"

As he said that, he lifted the big backpack beside him, which contained dozens of grenades. For Monk Hua, who was as strong as a cow, it was easy to carry dozens of grenades.

"The little devil won't give us this chance."

Wang Gensheng shook his head.

Landmine defense is actually very simple. Just find some livestock and drag stone rollers or wooden haystacks to open the way. There are mine-clearing staff in front of the little devil's team. This time it is Wang Xikui and Cao Mantang who can give him a chance to let the two The line was out of joint, and a large gap appeared in the middle, allowing him to find an opportunity to plant a mine.

But the little devil is not stupid.

After suffering such a big loss this time, I will definitely learn a lesson, and I will never have such a good opportunity again.

"Then, let the devil go like this?"

The monk was a little reconciled.

But after thinking about it, they really had no choice. As long as the little devils were serious about guarding against landmines, and the demining team and the main force were not too far apart, they would have no way to blow up the devils.

"Wang Xikui and Cao Mantang will continue to stay here to entertain the devils."

Wang Gensheng licked his lips.

His landmines are very lethal, but he is easy to guard against. However, with the two guns of Wang Xikui and Cao Mantang, plus the two people's familiarity with the surrounding terrain, as long as the devil enters the mountain road, he will not be safe.

As long as those two people are careful, in this mountainous area, if they don't fall into an ambush by the devils, the devils will have no way to deal with them.

"Okay, let's go back."

The monk nodded.

Anyway, it won't be long before the heavy machine gun squad masters the newly acquired heavy machine gun, and the group leader will really fight against the devils.

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Shou County.

Inside the Japanese Army Headquarters.

Oshima Kan looked at the news in his hand, his brows were deeply frowned, and even the corners of his eyes were twitching.

Obviously, what he was holding was bad news at this time.

"In the villages outside Shou County, only a dozen or so usable members of the security team have been recruited?"

His tone was full of disbelief.

The so-called usable people are generally criminals and desperadoes such as bandits, murderers, hooligans, etc. These people will not deal with the Eighth Route Army, and basically will not join the Eighth Route Army. As long as they are given certain benefits, these people are also very effective in their work Efficiency is far more useful than the imperial association army adapted from those militias, and in this war-torn era, there are so many such people that there will be no shortage of them anywhere.

There are many Shou County.

But he has been here for so long, except for some people in Shou County, outside the city, only ten people were recruited.

"Do you know the reason?"

Oshima Suga asked the staff who reported to him.

"They seem to be afraid of Li Yunlong, afraid of Li Yunlong's revenge."

The staff officer replied.

"Afraid of Li Yunlong?"

Oshima Suga was dumbfounded.

Because he was afraid of Li Yunlong, he didn't dare to do things for the imperial army?

Next to the staff officer, an intelligence officer answered his question.

The intelligence officer is a very high-tech person, a professional intelligence officer, proficient in Chinese, known as the Republic of China, and he came here to be in charge of intelligence. He gave a more specific answer:

"According to the information I have investigated, Li Yunlong once warned these people that if they serve the imperial army, their lives will be lost. They are very afraid of Li Yunlong's threat."

"They think the imperial army can't protect them?"

Oshima Kan's tone was full of disbelief.

If it is a so-called base area, then he can still understand it. After all, it is an active area of ​​the guerrillas, and it is normal to be afraid, but this is the occupied area of ​​the imperial army, protected by the imperial army garrison, and doing business here for the imperial army. Afraid of Li Yunlong's threat?
The intelligence officer replied in a strange tone:

"I used to disguise myself as a refugee from the Republic of China to inquire about the news. People from the Republic of China near Shou County..."

After a short pause, he continued:
"Almost everyone thinks that we will be wiped out by Li Yunlong in the end. Therefore, except for those murderers who are wanted by Li Yunlong or some landlords and gentry who were chased away by them, the rest dare not join the security team."

"Nani?"

Oshima Kan opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a long time.

As the captain of the Fifth Division, he has been to many, many places, even the important towns of the national government. As long as it is an area occupied by the empire, most people in the Republic of China believe that they will lose and the empire will win.

And this Shou County.

The people of the Republic of China here, unexpectedly, generally have no confidence in the imperial army, but they are full of confidence in Li Yunlong.This was the first time he had seen it.

"Let's recruit people from the surrounding counties first."

The corner of his mouth twitched, and finally Oshima Kan said helplessly.

He can force these people to join the army to serve the Imperial Army like the Imperial Association Army did, but it is conceivable that this group of people who are full of pessimism about the empire and full of fear of Li Yunlong, the efficiency of their work can be imagined, and once there is trouble, they will immediately turn into Li Yunlong's spy passed on the news of the imperial army.

However, recruiting people from several other counties is very troublesome and inefficient, but this is the only way.

"Hi."

The staff officer bowed his head and said yes.

Suddenly, a staff officer rushed in, speaking hurriedly:

"Reporting to the head of the battalion, Major Sano reported that today's training troops were sporadically attacked by the Eighth Route Army within kilometers, with a total of 14 casualties, of which seven were killed and seven were injured."

Major Sano is the major responsible for commanding the training of troops.

"idiot."

Oshima Kan was furious when he heard the news, got up and slapped the table: "What's going on?"

In the face of sporadic attacks, how could there be so many casualties?

The staff officer looked at the creaking table, and heaved a sigh of relief. If it wasn't for the distance and the fact that the lieutenant assistant was sitting, this slap would definitely have slapped him on the face.

It's no wonder that Major Sano himself refused to come and report... He suddenly realized in his heart.

The staff officer bowed his head, then walked up cautiously, and handed the detailed report to Oshima Suga.

Taking a deep breath, Oshima Kan opened the report in his hand, looked at it, his face twitched obviously, and his breathing began to be short of breath. During this period, he even walked around the headquarters.

This made the two staff officers in the room stop breathing, for fear of being slapped.

Fortunately, after all, he was the captain of the permanent division, an elite grassroots officer of the Japanese Empire, and there were only a dozen or so casualties, which were not large. He quickly suppressed his anger:

"Starting tomorrow, the training location will be changed to a flat area outside the city. In addition, before the training, we must send troops to search to ensure safety."

"Hi."

The second chief of staff to report breathed a sigh of relief and began to breathe again.

In this way, he will be safe and will not be beaten.

However, just when the two staff officers were about to leave with new orders, suddenly, another staff officer ran in, followed by another report: "Captain, Jiazhuang has been attacked."

Another bad news.

"Jia Zhuang?"

Oshima Kan frowned. He had not been here for a long time, and the surrounding villages were not very familiar, so he remembered.

Jiazhuang is only five kilometers away from Shouxian County. It is the first village where the people of the Republic of China who defected to the imperial army controlled the occupied area and implemented the Baojia system to control the rural population.

"what happened?"

Oshima Kan, who was standing in front of the third staff officer, frowned.

Could this Li Yunlong dare to send people to attack Jiazhuang?It is only five kilometers away from Shou County, and the road has also been widened. With the reaction speed of the imperial army, it can be reached within half an hour at most.

"According to reports from those who went to investigate, it was the Eighth Route Army lurking in the village. They secretly attacked the security team in the village. Wang Daquan, who came from Taiyuan, was killed, and five members of the security team also died."

At first, the staff officer of the local brigade in Shou County didn't pay much attention to the news. He thought it was just a few people from the Republic of China who were killed and it was no big deal.

This newcomer, the captain of the [-]th division seems very angry?
"idiot."

A slap slaps the new staff officer away, Oshima Kan can no longer control the anger in his heart.

Wang Daquan died, he didn't care, he was just a man of the Republic of China.

But this person is an administrator, without him, who will train the government officials in each village?Who will train the newly recruited security team?How can we strengthen our rule over the occupied areas?
(End of this chapter)