Chapter Twenty-Eight Eve

  Remember in one second

  Time is always moving forward, regardless of human will, but the feeling in one's heart is different. When you want time to pass slowly, it feels like it's flying by quickly. When you want it to pass quickly, it feels slow. Now Liu He has both feelings. Why? Because now it's already early July in the Gregorian calendar. At first, Liu He felt that time was passing too quickly, wanting to slow down and make more preparations, but now he wants time to speed up, come on, devils, come and taste the big meal Liu He has prepared for you over the years. But these past few days feel like a year, it's so urgent.

  Looking back on the preparations of these years, first and foremost is that the cave was dug very well. After several years of effort, under the earth mountain, in deep places it's over 150 meters away from the ground surface, and in shallow places it's also around 40-50 meters high. In short, even if several shells were to hit this place, the cave wouldn't be blasted out.

  The entrance to the cave is in a small valley where people rarely visit. To protect this entrance, Liu He also prepared several spare sentry posts on the side. Once someone enters, there will be personnel stationed at the sentry post. If there are only a few enemy soldiers approaching, they will be eliminated directly. If there are many people coming over, someone will blow up the entrance to the cave so that it can be abandoned and exit through another entrance.

  Inside the mountain cave, Liu He has accumulated a large amount of food over the years, including non-perishable food, all stored in the auxiliary caves. There is enough to feed the entire village for more than five years. In addition, there are many auxiliary caves that can accommodate the entire village population, which can be used as a hiding place if they were to provoke the Japanese devils. However, Liu He still hopes not to use this function, and the main purpose of the mountain cave is still to serve as a storage place for goods and an emergency passage.

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  At the end of the mountain cave, once you go out, it's the railway. If something is taken from the railway, it can be quickly put into the mountain cave, which can shorten a long distance.

  Especially the cave exit on the side of the railway, Liu He designed it very well, using large machinery and mechanisms. If someone unfamiliar with this place comes here, they won't be able to find the entrance even after searching for several months.

  Now looking at the personnel, Liu He's subordinates have more than 100 people, and most of them are still converted from bandits. These are combat personnel and logistics personnel. There are more than 50 combat personnel, and everyone is a sharpshooter. They have fired thousands of bullets in these few years, and even changed guns several times. The logistics personnel's marksmanship is slightly worse, but they can also hit fixed targets with 100% accuracy. These people also number around 50, and after going through several battles, they can quickly transform into combat personnel. In addition, among the combat personnel, there are 10 scouts who were carefully selected by Li Lu. These 10 people have received special education from Zhang Zhen, and each person's literacy is over 2,000 characters. They can even understand some simple Japanese, which is also thanks to Zhang Zhen's teaching. It was not until three years later that Liu He knew that Zhang Zhen understood Japanese. Originally, Zhang Zhen had learned two foreign languages in college, one was Japanese and the other was English.

  Also, the children in the village, their marksmanship is also impressive, and they are no worse than combat personnel. Several older ones have even automatically converted into combat personnel. Now there are more than 60 children, half of whom are boys and half of whom are girls.

  Liu Xiucan also organized a 50-person security team, which was considered the village's regular defense force. The guns were naturally those that Liu He and others had exchanged for. Liu Xiucan still looked stingy, the guns were given by Liu He, but the bullets were bought by themselves, which were purchased together by several wealthy households in the village.

  Two years ago, Liu He himself began to participate in the weaving industry. Liu He also specially planted some rattan for weaving on the mountain. Now, as long as Liu He gives an order, all the old and young people in the village can quickly weave various utensils. Weaving is a skill that everyone in the village has mastered.

  Liu He also added a special guard team to the whole village, which is the local dogs. Almost every household in the village raises a dog. Once someone who is not from the village or not a long-term worker of Liu He's approaches within two miles of the village, all the dogs in the village will start barking. Moreover, Liu He even gave these dogs special training, requiring them to sacrifice themselves when necessary.

  Someone once asked Liu He, "Master, you see that our children have been living well in recent years. Do we need to add some chickens, ducks and pigs?"

  "Ke Liu He finally did not agree, in peacetime it's nothing, but if the devils come, you say the devils want to take them away, can you not let them take them away? Moreover, if you hide these chickens, ducks, pigs and whatnot, there will still be traces of these animals, naturally the devils will know that you have hidden things, naturally it will be bad. So, it's better to go out and buy meat and eggs than to raise them yourself."

  As for the large animals such as horses and cattle, Liu He had already released them to the mountain a year ago. There were special children herding them. When they were needed, people would be sent to bring them down. If not, the children would lead the horses and cattle back up the mountain.

  "Hurry, everyone follow me." This was Liu He's last drill with his men. The 500-mile journey had to be completed in ten days, and everyone was fully armed and advancing. Even this time, each person brought a disguise, which was just a camouflage made of branches and grasses on their heads and bodies, as seen in movies from later generations. This was specially requested by Liu He for the village's skilled seamstresses to sew many strips of cloth onto their clothes, which were used to fix the camouflage. However, they were not required to wear such clothes normally. At first, they were unwilling to disguise themselves, but after someone caught a wild rabbit with their bare hands after disguising themselves, they began to like this kind of camouflage.

  The troops marched because there were no modern communication facilities, so they still used the old method. The reconnaissance team scouted ahead for dozens of miles and ran back to report on the situation ahead, also using hand gestures to coordinate.

  This time, Liu He's requirement was that they must not encounter a single person and not let any villagers discover them. This was really difficult on the 500-mile journey, but scouts were an exception as they needed to gather information. Naturally, this wasn't just limited to daytime marching; sometimes, in order to pass through villages, they had to march at night and rest during the day, arriving at remote areas, and even needing to go without rest for extended periods. Cooking also had special requirements: every meal had to be hot, and after eating, they had to eliminate any traces of cooking. This added a lot of difficulty, but everyone was used to it. Over the years, Liu He would often come up with strange ideas, and everyone had to think of ways to solve them. If they didn't do well, Liu He would kick them out of the team, and no one wanted that - what a loss of face!

  In the end, they still completed their mission ahead of schedule. On the evening of the seventh day, everyone returned, and Liu He discovered that if he let everyone go out for a walk again, it would be fine, which means that the training over the past few years was still very successful.

  Just as they were returning, Liu He received news that the July 7th Incident had occurred as scheduled.