Chapter 55

  Estimated his own troops need how many, see a package has about how much, Li Tie also very not greedy each person according to two sets of calculation, five into four not spare and got some.

  Everyone enlarged the entrance of the cave, and it was easy to throw big bags down. Then, let one person go to other comrades to report the news, and they will drive the car over, relying on their military uniforms, I guess it's not difficult to deceive the city gate.

  Then the remaining people started moving things frantically, and bags of cotton military uniforms were thrown into the tunnels. The people in the tunnel immediately pulled the big bags like mice pulling wood blocks to the other end, and the people above quickly picked up the big bags and transported them to the courtyard. In less than an hour, the courtyard was filled with cotton clothes, overcoats, and military shoes. At this time, a sentry outside reported that there were devils' cars on the street outside. Li Tie heard it and thought his own car had probably arrived.

  I sneaked out to take a look, and indeed it was the case. The car stopped, the soldiers on the car got off, wearing Japanese military uniforms standing guard everywhere. Originally there were not many people on the street, but when they saw so many "devils" coming, the street almost disappeared from view.

  Apart from the guards and those in the tunnels, the rest were quickly loaded onto trucks. Four cars weren't going to be filled in a short time, fortunately there were many people, with many hands making light work, piles of military uniforms in the courtyard were quickly loaded onto the cars, and then transported out of the tunnels, and reloaded outside. By around 11 o'clock at night, the four cars were finally fully loaded, except for a small space that could fit the remaining soldiers, there was no empty space left.

  During the loading process, the devil's patrol team came over three times. Even once wanted to come and take a look, but were all blocked by the vigilant warriors: "Military police on official business, bystanders leave".

  After loading the car, he saw that there were still a lot of supplies in the warehouse. He had only loaded about one-fifth of them, or even less. Since he couldn't take them away, he also couldn't leave them for the devils. So, Li Tie brought a few people to put some hand grenades made into delayed incendiary bombs in the military uniform packages. These hand grenades would explode after the incense sticks tied to them were burned out, and then ignite the gasoline in the bottles outside, and then it was up to the fire god, not Li Tie's business anymore. Li Tie also tied two hand grenades on the door. If someone opened the door, these two hand grenades would definitely make a sound, reminding the devils to be careful, but whether they could understand or not, that was beyond the control of the hand grenades, after all, hand grenades couldn't speak devil language.

  Daybreak, the devils opened the city gate and saw four cars rushing out.

  The car cover is tight and can't see what's underneath at all.

  Before long, the devils on the city wall saw black smoke rising from the direction of the foreign firm, accompanied by two not-too-loud explosions and some chaotic noises. It seemed that something had caught fire. Poor people! All day it's just these rotten things, either fires or deaths!

  But this devil didn't have time to sigh, because an order from his superior came: the whole city was put on high alert! Search and capture the Eighth Route Army!

  My god, when did the Eighth Route Army arrive at Yicheng? How come I didn't know?

  Just as the devils were blockading the whole city and searching everywhere for the Eighth Route Army, Li Tie had already brought four carts of cotton-padded clothes back to their base.

  Not mentioning Li Tie pulling four carts of cotton clothes back with a swagger, let's just talk about the devils in the foreign firm.

  These military uniforms have just arrived in the past few days and are winter clothes prepared for the devils in this area. Due to the scattered location of the devils, they are temporarily stored in the foreign firm, waiting for personnel from each unit to come and pick them up or send a car to deliver them.

  The devils in the foreign concession attached great importance to this matter, fearing that the Eighth Route Army guerrilla troops would find out, and specially put these military uniforms in the innermost warehouse. They didn't even let Chinese people get close.

  In recent days, the nearby devils who received the news have begun to come and pick up their military uniforms one after another. This is the scene that Yang Qing saw with cars coming and going.

  This morning, as soon as it got light, the devils came to take away our military uniforms. The foreign devils led by the devils went to the warehouse to fetch the uniforms, but before they even reached the warehouse, several loud explosions were heard from inside the warehouse where the uniforms were stored, followed by a burst of black smoke and even flames.

  The Western-style military officer was secretly complaining, afraid of what might happen, and it seemed that there was a problem with the uniform.

  He hastily ran all the way to the warehouse, wanting to see what had happened. The devils behind him also followed closely.

  Arriving at the warehouse entrance, he saw that the large door was tightly closed and the iron lock was still firmly locked. The thick smoke was coming from behind the warehouse, and he thought it was a fire in one of the civilian houses outside the warehouse, so he let out a sigh of relief. He took out his key to unlock the door.

  One side opened the iron lock, and the other beckoned the devils outside to come over.

  As soon as the door was pushed open a crack, a thick smoke came out from the gap, and at that moment, this devil was choked to tears, with snot and tears coming out together.

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  The devils next door were stunned! How could a perfectly good warehouse catch fire? They were at their wit's end.

  Just as they were stunned, another loud explosion occurred, and the devil at the door was blown to pieces by two hand grenades that exploded together, and some flesh and blood even splashed onto the roof of the opposite warehouse.

  Similarly, the devils not far away were also affected by the fish in the pond, and many were injured by shrapnel from hand grenades.

  It wasn't until then that the devils realized that there was indeed a problem with their own warehouse! And it can be confirmed 100% that it was done by the Eighth Route Army.

  The Eighth Route Army raided the military uniform warehouse of the foreign firm!

  The foreign firm was in a state of utter confusion, with people rushing to put out the fire and rescue the injured, everywhere was crowded and filled with shouting.

  The devils poured bucket after bucket of water into the warehouse, but just as everyone was working hard to put out the fire, another explosion occurred in the warehouse. Although no casualties were caused to the devils, the intimidation was enormous: the Eighth Route Army had set up explosives in the warehouse!

  There are bombs in the warehouse! There are still unexploded bombs! This is what all the devils on the scene were thinking. It was precisely because of this idea that no one dared to rush into the warehouse to put out the fire anymore. Because they just stayed outside, trying to pour bucket after bucket of water into a relatively safe place, the efficiency was much lower.

  Li Tie probably didn't expect that by temporarily connecting the remaining incense stick to another one to extend the explosion time, he thought that after the other hand grenades exploded and the military uniforms were blown everywhere, he would detonate this hand grenade to achieve a greater effect. Who knew it was a lucky mistake, scaring the devils so much that they didn't dare to go in and put out the fire.

  As time went on, the flames in the warehouse where the military uniforms were stored gradually subsided and were finally brought under control by the devils.

  Of course, most importantly, there was no explosion for a long time, and the devils finally believed that this was the only remaining bomb. Only then did they put out the fire with all their might.

  The fire was put out, but all the military uniforms in the warehouse were ruined.

  Many military uniforms were burned to ashes, only a few corners of clothes were left, the remaining ones lacked pants legs and sleeves, and some had several large holes, which could no longer be worn. Only one or two unburned pieces were left, but they had been soaked in water and were covered with mud. Even if they were dried again, it was estimated that they would have lost their warmth retention function.

  The Kempeitai in the city, at the first sound of the explosion, had already determined that it was an enemy raid, so they first sealed off the city gates and imposed martial law, then searched for the attackers within the city.

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  After the fire was extinguished, the Kempeitai entered the warehouse and saw that the military uniforms inside had been burned to ashes. They then looked at the entrance where a Japanese soldier had been blown to pieces, and finally they saw the tunnel dug by the Eighth Route Army.

  He could only squeeze out a sentence "Ba Ge Ya Lu" from between his teeth, and then he couldn't say anything else.

  Commanding the devils, they quickly surrounded the small courtyard where the tunnel was located, but there was nothing left in the small courtyard, only some worthless or deliberately left broken tables and chairs, no valuable intelligence at all.

  All the residents near Xiaoyuan were arrested by the gendarmerie, and after being whipped with a whip, tiger bench, chili water, and red chromium iron, everyone confessed: Last night, a group of imperial soldiers came and blocked the gates of everyone's courtyard, prohibiting anyone from leaving. Then they heard footsteps outside, and later, just before dawn, they heard the imperial soldiers leave in cars. Everyone had the same account, although not word for word, but with exactly the same meaning!

  In addition, the fake military report at the city gate said that at dawn, four cars of the Imperial Army were fully loaded with supplies and left the city.

  "Ah-ha!" The captain of the garrison troops cut the office desk in half with one knife, and it was certain that the Eighth Route Army had disguised themselves as imperial soldiers, stolen military uniforms, and then taken a car out of the city.

  Since the Imperial Army's uniforms were looted by the Eighth Route, it was obviously impossible to take them back. Winter was approaching soon, and even sentries on duty at night would be frozen stiff. So how could they solve their winter clothing problem?

  Because the big boss of the firm had already "died for the empire", the second and third in command were unlucky, first being taken away by the military police for a training session, although they didn't get pepper water poured on them, but still suffered a lot. Before they could even catch their breath, they heard that the upper-level leader who had been robbed of his cotton-padded jacket by the Eighth Route Army gave them a scolding, almost ordering them to commit seppuku. However, considering that if everyone committed seppuku, there would be no one left in charge at the firm, which could directly lead to their own economic situation being affected, so under someone's "request", they allowed these two managers to "redeem themselves through meritorious service" and solve the problem of winter clothing for the garrisoned imperial army before winter arrived.

  The two managers who narrowly escaped death returned to the foreign firm and began to purchase large quantities of cotton, buying cotton cloth from elsewhere, and placing orders with all the tailor shops in the city to produce a large number of cotton military uniforms.

  As the silver dollars were scattered in the foreign firms, truckloads of cotton and truckloads of cotton cloth were transported from all over the country to the city through highways. At the same time, various tailor shops also worked at full capacity, striving to make cotton clothes for the imperial army.