Chapter 28

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  As expected, not long after, in the district team, you could faintly hear the sound of hand grenades exploding. As for gunshots, they were too far away to be heard. But if someone were to look down on the battlefield from the air at this time, they would see that this battle was shrouded in mystery.

  On the battlefield, two groups of people were separated by a small ditch. On the south side of the ditch, there were nearly a hundred devils and puppet soldiers wearing yellow uniforms, all fully armed, with machine gunners lying on the ground and loaders constantly loading bullets into their guns. On the north side of the ditch was a group of guerrilla fighters dressed in multicolored clothing, also fully armed. The small ditch separated the two sides, both of which were filled with murderous intent, busy firing their guns and throwing hand grenades, but none of them aimed at each other. Some gun barrels pointed at the ditch, causing the water to splash up into strings of water droplets, while others pointed at the sky. In short, they had one goal in mind: not to cause casualties on either side.

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  Behind these devils and puppet troops, a person wearing a guerrilla uniform is chatting with a devil, while two puppet troops are killing chickens beside them. Two chickens that have been killed are being plucked, and next to the puppet troops is a pile of bonfires. A devil is roasting the cleaned chicken over the fire.

  That's a sweep, clearly an armed excursion plus a picnic!

  About half an hour later, the gunfire and grenade explosions stopped.

  I'm probably tired, after all this work for a whole day, I've been sweating a bit.

  At this time, the devil officer in charge was eating roasted chicken with the guerrilla uniformed man by the bonfire, chatting friendly.

  Some fake troops even threw down some guns and ammunition, and even left a few hand grenades, which were prepared for the guerrillas.

  That's right, this guerrilla team is the temporary seventh squad, and the devils are here to coordinate with them and increase their merits. And these thrown guns and ammunition are Wang Jia Sheng's "letter of introduction" to the Eighth Route Army.

  Several guerrilla fighters dripped chicken blood on their bandaged arms or thighs, although these places were only scratched by bayonets and the thick bandages did not seep out any blood, so they used chicken blood instead.

  The sky was getting dark, Wang Jia Sheng and the leading devil had eaten and drunk enough, Wang Jia Sheng let out a satisfied belch, stood up and bid farewell to the leading devil. The guerrilla fighters tied up several stretchers, carrying those who were "injured" in the legs, while others picked up the guns and ammunition dropped by the fake army, and proudly headed towards the district team's residence.

  When they returned to their base, of course, they were warmly welcomed.

  Playing a role thoroughly, the captain of the Second Dog District is no fool, on the contrary, he's quite astute.

  At the celebration meeting in the evening, Er Gou District Captain announced to the comrades present that the temporarily formed 7th squad was officially renamed as Meng County District Squad 7th Squad. The district captain is Wang Captain. Under Wang Captain's proposal, District Captain appointed Wang Jia Sheng as deputy captain. After the meeting, everyone asked Wang Captain to talk about the battle process and expressed their regret for not being able to participate in the battle.

  At the meeting, Captain Wang spoke with great fanfare, saying that his soldiers were incredibly brave and not afraid to sacrifice themselves. He said that the enemy was very powerful, but he had led the troops fearlessly against them, engaging in a fierce and extraordinary battle. As he spoke, saliva and spittle flew everywhere, and the air was filled with boasts and exaggerations. Everyone around him felt a chill run down their spine.

  Finally, Captain Wang stopped, and Li Tie timely handed over a thermos of cold water. Not boiled water, just drink some cold water, do you still want to drink chilled boiled water? No way.

  Captain Wang took it over and gulped down a few mouthfuls.

  Wiping away a mixture of saliva and cold sweat from the corner of his mouth, Captain Wang finally spoke up:

  "In short, in this battle, our squad did their best and also saw their own shortcomings. Hope everyone can give more guidance in the future. Thank you, thank you!"

  Finally, Captain Wang ended his combat process speech.

  Everyone has given affirmative comments on his commanding ability, especially the secretary of the district team, Xiao Ma, who represented the district team to extend warm condolences to the Seventh Team and expressed that they would ask for credit from their superiors and called on everyone to learn from the Seventh Team.

  A small clerk, just a little kid who runs errands in the district team headquarters, can represent the district team? Can have the right to ask for credit from superiors? And can also issue a call to study to everyone? But the devils don't understand, they still think this is the usual practice of the Eighth Route Army.

  For the time being, the Seventh Squad was stabilized, and Li Tie returned to the mountain cave base, came to the arsenal, and explained the process of this new weapon test in detail to the comrades in the arsenal.

  When everyone heard that their researched weapons had inflicted massive casualties on the enemy, they couldn't help but cheer and jump for joy.

  After everyone calmed down a bit, Li Tie told them about the shortcomings of these weapons and introduced the principle of modern rocket launchers. Although he couldn't make rocket launchers now, they could learn from some of the principles of rocket launchers to improve their existing weapon equipment.

  Li Tie shared his idea with everyone, which was to create a homemade rocket launcher by increasing the volume of the "Drilling Heaven Monkey", adding more explosives, installing tail wings and other methods. If this succeeded, then the enemy's artillery towers, strongholds, armored vehicles, and even tanks would all be under their control. Not bad, give it a try, see if you can still be arrogant?

  Everyone came up with plans and strategies. In the end, everyone agreed that this was feasible and that with the current technical strength of the ordnance factory, a prototype could be produced quickly.

  Haha, this way, I'll have a guy with the reputation of a lone soldier's cannon, and the devils will be in trouble.

  After staying in the arsenal for two days, Li Tie returned to the district team headquarters again.

  Although there were people from the Fox unit watching over the seventh squad, it was still not as reassuring as watching them himself. After all, this was a highly unstable and unpredictable bomb; if they weren't careful, they might end up blowing up the entire squad, or even the whole base.

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  Returning to his own dormitory, he had just sat down when news about the latest intelligence on the Seventh Squad arrived.

  It was still personally delivered by Li Qian, and the intelligence was still in Japanese characters.

  After Li Tie's careful identification, he finally understood the basic meaning: The Army General Headquarters confirmed that there was no Cherry Blossom King agent!

  Also coming with the letter is an instruction: you may have been exposed, be prepared to cooperate with the troops at any time.

  I knew it, I finally didn't get fooled. I was wondering why I could just make up a name and it would work. Now I've stirred up trouble.

  In the county town, in the office of the devil, Watanabe stood motionless in front of Itai, both of them being short and stout.

  "Colonel, since the Eighth Route Army has already seen through Inoue's plan, I think we should take immediate action and wipe out the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop."

  Originally, Wang Jia Sheng's Japanese name was Inoue.

  "Watanabe, since the Eighth Route Army has already seen through Inoue's plan, why didn't they take any action? I think they want to use Inoue to make us misjudge and make mistakes in our strategy, so that they can reap the benefits. If that's the case, why don't we play along with them on this aspect?"

  "Colonel, you mean to say that we use Lieutenant Inoue to pass on false information and lure the Eighth Route Army out?"

  "Yo." Itoda blew his small mustache and clearly let out a breath.

  "I will not rest until I have annihilated this band of Eighth Route Army."

  "One move to wipe out this Eighth Route Army, Major Kato is indeed clever. However, in the intelligence report that Inoue mentioned, it said that this Eighth Route Army has an arsenal, I don't know if it's true or not."

  "Whether it's true or not, as long as we destroy this band of Eighth Route Army, then this arsenal will also lose its protective shield. Wouldn't that be just what we want?" Taita clenched the paper in his hand into a tight ball, as if it were the Eighth Route Army's arsenal itself.

  In the following days, the Seventh Squad acted more and more like the Eighth Route Army. In their free time, they would occasionally go to help the local villagers with tasks such as carrying water and sweeping yards. Wang Jia Sheng, also known as Jing Shang, behaved very obediently during this period and did not contact the devils (Japanese).

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  A week has passed like this.

  Li Tie was always running back and forth during this period, sometimes still at the troop headquarters at noon, but by afternoon he would already be in the mountain cave. By evening, he might again be in his quarters at the troop headquarters. Now that the research on the rocket launcher had reached a critical stage, the first prototype was about to be born. How could Li Tie not be excited? How could he rest easy? As long as he had this powerful weapon, the enemy's artillery and tanks would be nothing but paper tigers in front of him, unable to withstand a single blow.

  That evening, after dinner, the weather was sultry like a steamer, and the distant rumble of thunder could be heard, a heavy rain was coming soon.

  It's not even the usual time for nightfall, but the sky has already darkened like it's nighttime, and you can't see people just a few meters away.

  Li Tie returned to the dormitory, lying on the bed thinking about why the devils had been quiet recently. At this moment, a loud clap of thunder sounded, and raindrops fell down, hitting the mud and splashing up small clouds of dust. Soon, the raindrops became silver lines, and water quickly accumulated on the ground, starting to flow towards lower areas. In a short while, the ground had become a river.

  At this time, the black shadow rushed towards Li Tie's dormitory and came to the door of Li Tie's dormitory after answering the password.

  To prevent the seventh squad from secretly sabotaging, Li Tie set a password for each squad. Every night after dark, the password is randomly generated and told to the sentries and team members by Li Tie himself. Each squad has a different password. It is strictly forbidden to visit other squads at night, and violators will be severely punished. All sentries who fail to answer the password correctly will be shot dead without exception. Moreover, each shift of sentry duty consists of two people, one visible and one hidden. The hidden sentry finds their own position, while the visible sentry stands guard in a designated area.

  The black shadow knocked gently on the door.

  "Come in."

  Knock on the door without reporting, this is the style of the intelligence team.

  It was Li Qian who came in, every time there was an important matter, it was always this kid. But it had to be said that this kid's mind was indeed quick, almost catching up with his own, which was Li Tie's feeling.

  The intelligence was wrapped in a small piece of oiled paper, with only one message: recently, a team of supplies would pass through the local area to the front line, and let Inoue think of a way to hold up the Eighth Route for half a day on the 18th.