under fire

Hu Yi stood quietly on the river embankment with his rifle on his back, looking at the sparkling canal under the moonlight and thinking.

The muddy-smelling river water is full of murderous intent.

He knew very well that Su Qing's intelligence team and radio station could directly contact the division.

However, her whereabouts are classified, and it is impossible for her superiors to convey her situation to the "Guard Battalion".

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The crisp metallic sound of the silver pocket watch.

I looked at it out of habit, the faint sunset left the last trace of light in the sky,

Look at the hands on the dial clearly: ten minutes to eight o'clock.

Put the pocket watch back into your pocket.

Not far away, the sound of footsteps could be heard.

Taking advantage of the dark weather and cooler weather, we seize the time to train. The newly joined ninth battalion militiamen are practicing formation.

Other teams almost all practice in the morning, but the Ninth Battalion takes the time to practice.

After entering early autumn, the sun was still scorching. On the southbound ferry in the afternoon, everyone was exposed to the sun for a long time and was covered in salt.

However, no one went down to the canal to take a refreshing bath.

The sound of galloping horses could be heard on the embankment.

"Who?" the sentry with his gun shouted loudly, "password?"

"Majiahe detachment." The man who immediately announced his home address could not answer the command, but directly shouted: "Looking for your battalion commander Hu."

Hearing the sound of horse hoofbeats, Hu Yi thought it was Battalion Commander Li who sent someone to report the news.

He waited quietly for the sound of horse hooves to reach him before asking, "What's wrong?"

The soldier who came on horseback to report the news quickly jumped off his horse and stood still in front of Hu Yi. There was panic in his tone: "Report to Commander Hu, a large number of soldiers in the first battalion suffered from painless severe diarrhea and vomiting symptoms. The detachment leader and Li Ying The commander’s preliminary judgment may be that he attacked a Japanese iron-hulled ship in the canal today and was hit by a tiger.”

Hu Yi was shocked and took a step forward to face the visitor: "What did you say?"

"All those who have symptoms are soldiers who participated in the canal battle. Battalion Commander Li has ordered collective isolation measures for all soldiers in the battalion, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not." After the soldier finished speaking, he added: "The villagers who have been in contact with them are also Isolation measures were taken.”

It was the detachment correspondent who came to report the news, not the battalion commander's correspondent. Hu Yi suddenly understood, because no one knew whether the correspondent would develop symptoms halfway!

There is no need to think about it, there is indeed Tiger Lazine cast by the Japanese in the canal!

Hu Yi, whose heart was beating wildly, suddenly thought of the girl. Fortunately, she didn't play in the water when she was at the river.

Thinking of this, I asked the detachment correspondent: "Did you add sugar, salt, and vinegar to them? And... drink water boiled with grass ashes?"

"These prevention and treatment measures have been taken. Fortunately, a large amount of supplies were obtained from Qinghe County this time, and the soldiers' condition did not continue to deteriorate!" After the soldier finished speaking, he immediately said the second thing: "About ten miles to the east, there are several villages A large number of Japanese soldiers massacred the village. Battalion Commander Li did not have enough troops to act. After discussing with the detachment leader, we decided to ask your troops to go for reinforcements!"

map! Hu Yi turned around and shouted at Luo Fugui.

Luo Fugui, who had always been resentful that Boss Hu did not allow him to take a bath in the river, quickly looked for the briefcase containing the map and took out his flashlight.

"To the east and north, here, here and here...the Japs' strength is estimated to be at least one squadron!" The correspondent pointed to the map and reported to Hu Yi.

While collecting the map, Hu Yi ordered: "Everyone, prepare to leave after eating."

"Yes."

Tiger Lagera bacteria is scary, but don’t worry too much.

If there is Tiger Lagera bacteria in the water, just boil the water to kill it immediately.

So, eating is not a problem.

Not long after, Luo Fugui's voice came: "Boss Hu, we have checked everything and there is no one with diarrhea."

The soldiers who had finished eating but were not allowed to wash their lunch boxes at the river quickly wiped the bowls clean with sand.

"Pack up and go." Hu Yi gave the order to the big dog.

In the darkness, Luo Fugui asked: "Boss Hu, Li Xiang and the others haven't come here yet, can you wait a while?"

"No."

"Then where are we going now?" Luo Fugui asked again.

"Donglu Village." "Huh?"

"Hurry up and leave now! The Big Dog Scouts will march eastward lightly, and your Ninth Company will follow."

"Boss Hu, do you think I can cut off the queen?"

"Huh?" Hu Yi asked with a rising tone.

"Hehe, I'm not afraid of death. If I get married, I can let this girl come with me."

"Yeah" Hu Yi's tone changed to a falling tone.

After unloading their burdens, the soldiers of the Big Dog Leading Soldiers platoon lined up and counted their number, then trotted away from the temporary resting place, gradually formed a long line, followed the detachment correspondent leading the horse, and headed straight to the northeast on a moonlit night.

Hu Yi looked in the direction of Luo Fugui, who took the initiative to cut off the rear, then tightened the rifle sling on his shoulders, took steps, and merged into the eastward group.

In the queue after the break, a voice whispered: "Did you just hide in a ditch and have diarrhea?"

Then Xiao Hongying replied feebly: "My aunt drank a whole bottle of vinegar. Even if she was hit by Hu Liela, she would definitely not die. Also, if you dare to tell the fox about this."

"Grandma... if something happens to you, Boss Hu can kick me to death..." Luo Fugui turned around and said, "Stretcher, hurry up."

The Japanese reopened the canal for transportation, learned lessons from previous attacks on transportation lines, and summed up new experiences.

Even if the villagers along the canal were cleared, it was still possible for the anti-Japanese elements to operate in the abandoned villages.

Moreover, among the anti-Japanese elements, Tubal Road's methods of deceiving people and developing base areas were the most powerful.

Therefore, the Japanese began to brainstorm and try various methods to solve the problem.

When summarizing various measures to manage the occupied areas, a very targeted method attracted the attention of the Japanese: immigration.

Immigration means that residents leave their original place of living and live in a new place.

In the eyes of the Japanese, immigration is another matter entirely: first clear out all the original villagers along the canal, and then move in the good, honest and obedient people!

There are also a large number of traitors among the good people.

This method is not new. In the three northern provinces, the Japanese have done this kind of thing many times.

This operation is just a pilot.

A squadron of Japanese soldiers led a battalion of puppet troops, escorting nearly a thousand civilians.

The three squadrons of the Japanese squadron were divided into nine squads and dispersed into more than thirty groups. They spread out for more than ten miles from east to west, advancing from south to north, and adopted a net-like tactic of cleaning up villages one by one.

When encountering a village, a team will assemble to eliminate them one by one. If resistance is encountered, a small team will assemble and use the "one-shot" method: kill them all.

After each village was cleared, the puppet army troops that followed behind them would enter the village and carefully fill in the underground cellars dug by the villagers.

Then bury all the corpses in the village.

In the end, the Imperial Association Army escorted the covered immigrants, who had brought their families with them and carried the grain and food distributed by the Imperial Army, into the cleaned-up village to settle down.

In order to prevent the news from leaking out, the Japanese who were responsible for killing everyone in the village did not advance very quickly.

There is no need to advance too fast. The most important thing is to build each designated village into a good and hard-core citizen under the rule of the imperial army. The task assigned to each team is only to clear out one or two villages in a day!

The intermittent gunshots and grenade explosions in Donglu Village continued until dark.

The Japanese second lieutenant who was cleaning up near Donglu Village finally felt that something was wrong and quickly sent a messenger to Donglu Village to understand the situation.

Soon, the messenger reported that Shimizu, the master of Kondo's team, was killed in battle.

The second lieutenant squad leader was absent-minded for a long time, and finally realized that his fierce subordinate Kondo Sergeant was in big trouble.

Anxious, he ordered the soldiers to immediately gather their troops and go for reinforcements.

More than thirty Japanese soldiers ran forward together and quickly followed the village path to the outside of Donglu Village.

Without saying a word, the team leader waved his men to disperse and outflank them from the east and south of the village.

At the same time, leading soldiers were sent into the village from the west to establish contact with the men in the village.

Soon, the leading soldier came out of the village with a Japs. After the second lieutenant asked about the situation, he immediately ordered: "Go back immediately and notify that idiot Kondo and ask him to find a way to light a fire to avoid accidentally injuring his own people!"

Being familiar with the terrain of the village, Wang Shun and the remaining six people were still at odds with the Japanese.

It was already dark, and the reinforcements he sent back to move had yet to arrive.

However, Japanese reinforcements appeared outside the village first.

Wang Shun began to retreat in his heart, but suddenly realized that it was too late to leave now.