Chapter 39

  The captives were settled, and Li Tie took the two men out of the health team again, back to the ruins of the battalion headquarters office. The three soldiers who had been on the roof earlier had already been found, with no major problems, only being stunned by the blast wave from the explosive package. They didn't have any injuries on their bodies, after all, they were wrapped in thick thatch, and there was no fire or burns either. It's estimated that they'll be fine after resting for two days. However, the battalion headquarters' sentry, due to being hit by the enemy, had a fracture, so he might need more time to rest.

  It wasn't until dawn broke that there were no more enemy attacks.

  The sky brightened, and everyone gathered in front of the ruined company headquarters, looking at the ruined office, unanimously asking Er Gou, the company commander, to go to war and request a battle with the enemy.

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  After verification, the basic situation of this battle is as follows:

  Our side sacrificed one person, five people were lightly injured, lost five houses, and suffered a small amount of household losses.

  Killed 17 enemies, captured one alive, seized 18 guns, nearly a thousand bullets, six explosive packs, nine compasses, nine maps, nine binoculars, 428 silver dollars, nine pocket watches, three wristwatches, eighteen daggers, nine small knives, and other miscellaneous supplies.

  All evidence indicates this was a carefully planned operation by the enemy and possibly one of multiple operations.

  The captured devil was as stubborn as a ghost and refused to utter a word.

  Trapped in a wooden house, with an expression of a dead pig that doesn't fear being scalded by boiling water, I just won't speak, what can you do to me?

  Li Tie arrived at the barn and saw that this was absolutely a little devil, didn't look carefully last night, now taking a look, **not over ten, can confirm it's a little devil.

  "Identification complete. Your birthplace: Little Japan; Nationality: Wa Country; Surname: Half-public, not mother; Full name: Yamashita Jirō; Blood type: Pig blood, no type."

  The little devil let out a hum and abruptly turned his face to one side.

  "You really are shameless! Don't know how to show respect!" Li Tie saw that this little brat actually treated him as if he was nothing, not giving him any face. He immediately cursed two sentences.

  "I said, is this a mute?! Come on, let's chat."

  "We, the Eighth Route Army, do not kill prisoners of war indiscriminately. The Eighth Route Army strictly abides by the Geneva Convention. Although you little devils did not sign the Geneva Convention, we still treat you as human beings. What's it called? Ah yes, humanitarianism! I almost forgot." Li Tie spoke nonsense with a straight face and a unchanged heart, his words were spoken but forgotten in his mind.

  "You Japanese are so small in number, China is so big and has so many people. Even if you mobilize your entire country, you can't occupy that much land. Chinese people will eat you up. When there were no people on the Japanese islands, Chinese people had already started rebelling and fighting wars. The war experience of Chinese people is the strongest in the world. Don't look at China being backward now, our weapons and equipment are changing every day. Whatever you have, we also have. What you don't have, we also have."

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  This little devil's lungs were almost bursting with rage, yet as a captive, he could only suffer extreme depression, his chest constantly heaving.

  "I heard that in your country, because of the war, many men died, and to increase the population, the emperor or something issued an order allowing people to do it anywhere. Your women would carry bedding with them when they went out, and after giving birth, they would name their children after the place where they did it, like 'Under the Pine Tree', 'Watanabe', 'Yamamoto', 'Tanaka', 'Inoue', 'Kondo', 'Yamaguchi' etc. If they did it multiple times in the same place, they'd be called 'Jiro', and if even more, 'Saburo' or something like that, right?"

  "I say, you've come all the way to China, what about your elderly at home? What about your brothers and parents?! It's been such a long time since you've returned home, don't you care about how things are back home?! If your family members were to lose their livelihoods and starve to death because of your participation in war, wouldn't that break your hearts?! Now, Japan is pouring all its efforts into the military, don't think there will be any economic security for your families. Don't think this is someone else's land where you can do as you please. If one day we Chinese were to fight our way to Japan and blow up your... shrine? And then have another Tokyo massacre of 3 million people, turning all of Japan into a scorched earth, wouldn't that make you very happy?!"

  Li Tie looked at the little devil's face with a mixture of red and green expressions, and sneered maliciously.

  This little devil seems to be more profound than the previous one. After talking for half a day, he didn't say a word and just sulked in silence.

  Seeing Xiao Guizi still not speaking, Li Tie simply went out and moved a stool, sitting in front of Xiao Guizi.

  "It seems like you're not in a good mood, let me tell you a story, maybe you can relax a bit."

  One day, a Japanese came to China for hunting. He shot a swan with his gun, but the swan didn't fall down immediately. Instead, it flew for a while before landing in a farmer's yard.

  The farmer picked up the swan, and just then the Japanese man also followed the swan into his yard.

  "This Japanese said to the farmer: 'This swan was shot by me, it should belong to me.' But the farmer said: 'The swan fell into my yard, it should belong to me.'"

  The two men continued to argue, and finally the Japanese man said: "Let's settle this in the way of warriors. We'll each kick the other in the butt until one gives up." The farmer agreed, but he insisted on going first.

  So the Japanese agreed

  The farmer used all his strength and kicked the Japanese man's buttocks, causing him to roll around on the ground in pain for at least half an hour. Finally, he got up, eyes blazing with anger, and said to the farmer: 'Now it's my turn to kick you.'

  "But the farmer said: 'Never mind, take the swan away, I give up.'"

  "Baga, you Chinese people don't keep your promises."

  "Why don't we talk about credit?"

  "You..." The little devil couldn't go on.

  The Chinese farmer gave up, so he didn't have to take a kick. From the rules point of view, the farmer did not break any rules.

  The little devil finally spoke up, which could be a breakthrough point.

  "What's your name and what do you do?" Li Tie pretended not to understand Japanese.

  "How did you know our password?"

  "Hmph!" The little demon's mouth closed again.

  This time no matter how Li Tie teased him, he just wouldn't budge, coming was to go all the way to the end.

  The ghost won't speak, and Li Tie is also helpless. It seems that the problem of finding out who the traitor is can't be solved for now, let's talk about it later.

  Leaving the interrogation room - the woodshed, Li Tie returned to the battalion headquarters. It just so happened that the company commanders of each company were there, arguing and making a pledge to the battalion commander, unanimously requesting to give the little devils some color to see.

  Everyone stopped talking when they saw Li Tie coming and turned their eyes towards him.

  "What are you looking at? I'm not rich, and I haven't done anything bad." Li Tie felt a bit guilty, but he couldn't quite put his finger on why. Probably it was because every time he always kept the best weapons for himself, and only gave others things that he didn't want.

  "Little Li, the big captain listens to you the most, hurry up and tell the big captain, let's give those little devils some color, we can't just be bullied by them like this."

  It turned out to be this, Li Tiesong let out a sigh of relief.

  "How can we give color to this, with less than 200 of us going to attack the enemy's county town? Wouldn't that just fall into the devil's trap?"

  "So you're saying we've been bullied like this? In the past, we didn't have guns or bullets, we couldn't beat the devils.Now we have guns and bullets, and even cannons, I don't believe we can't defeat those little devils."

  Chen Hai said in a row.

  "We've got the stuff in our hands now, we're not afraid of those little devils." Everyone chimed in.

  "It's going to be a fight, but let's see how it's done." Finally, Second Dogzi spoke up. "Let Little Li say something."

  He had long seen that Little Li also wanted to play a trick on the Japanese guy.

  "Hehe, it's been seen through by Lianzhang. Actually, I was thinking this way. Although we currently have a battalion-sized force, to be honest, it's still relatively weak. We should actively expand and strengthen ourselves, store up war materials for future big battles, rather than making a big fuss over small matters, without giving the enemy a significant blow, while wasting a lot of resources. As for training the troops, we can take turns to harass the enemy a bit. This way, everyone gets familiar with combat, saves energy, and doesn't waste resources."

  "As for giving the little devils a show of strength this time, I think we should take an independent regiment as the main force, and each regiment will send out one squad to follow and give the little devils a show of strength. The others will continue to train troops, learn, and patrol as usual. What do you all think?"

  Li Tie said it to everyone, but his eyes were on Er Gou's squad leader.

  "Right, Little Li makes sense. There will be plenty of opportunities to fight, not just now. Each company will take out a squad and give it to Little Li, the rest will do what they need to do." Second Dog Battalion Commander slapped the board, and everyone was speechless, each person returned to their post.

  Only Er Gou and Li Tie were left in the office.

  "Little Li, tell me about your ideas."

  "Commander, I think this way. This time to avenge the devils, the main purpose is to warn them. I plan to bring some new gadgets from the arsenal and fire at Meng County City. If the devils run away, we'll chase after them. If they don't run, we'll retreat. In short, this time it's just to give the devils a wake-up call, not because we're afraid of them. Our patience has its limits, if they push us too hard again and destroy our small county city."

  "Then can't we concentrate our forces and take down the county town?" Er Gouzi still wanted to make a big move.