Chapter Fifty-One First Contact

  "Something's wrong, there are gunshots outside." "Alright alright, little stick, it's not the first time you've heard gunfire, what's there to be nervous about? Let's go take a look." As he spoke, the squad leader stood up and was about to push open the door.

  "Alright, Squad Leader, your wound." The little stick looked at the squad leader's wound with concern. "It's nothing, it was just a bullet from those devils that bit me, look, I'm fine now." The squad leader jumped up and down in front of the little stick to prove his injury had healed.

  "Ah yo." Suddenly, Pai Zhang clutched his stomach and squatted down. "Pai Zhang, what's wrong?" Xiao Bang Zi anxiously supported Pai Zhang and asked, with a face full of concern.

  "It's okay, it's okay, I just moved a bit too much earlier. Let's go out and take a look, hopefully it's not the devils coming."

  It really was guessed by this squad leader, outside there were devils coming, if Liu He's guerrilla force hadn't arrived, now this village and these soldiers would have fallen under the devils' guns.

  "Zhang Paichang, are you going out?" As soon as Zhang Paichang went out the door, a man who appeared to be the owner of this house came up and said, "Yes, Old Man Li, I heard gunfire outside, I'm going to go take a look if it's those devils coming."

  "Don't worry, Zhang Squad Leader. The soldiers have already been lying in ambush at the village entrance as soon as they heard the gunshot. Your soldiers are all good ones, their reaction is too quick." Li Dage smiled and praised the soldiers under Li Squad Leader's command.

  "Haha, I also think these young men are not bad, once they start fighting, the devils won't have much advantage over them, they are all seasoned veterans. " Zhang Paichang said to Li Dage while walking out.

  "Zhang Paichang, your injury." "Haha, I'm fine, it's much better now." This time, Zhang Paichang didn't jump up to prove that his injury was healed.

  "Report to Squad Leader." Just as Zhang Squad Leader was about to leave, a soldier came back to report to him, "There's something going on outside, someone is firing a gun."

  "We stood in a row, gazing far away. Some people were stripping the clothes off others, but it seemed that those who had their clothes stripped off had been beaten to death. And it seemed that these dead bodies were all devils."

  "Really, let me take a look." Zhang Pailang was anxious as soon as he heard it. Who could have killed the devils at the village head? How many devils were killed? What did the devils come to do? A string of question marks emerged in Pailang's mind.

  When Zhang Pai Zhang climbed to a high place, Liu He and his men had already finished their work, even the bodies of the devils were piled together. Now it's just that there are no hand grenades in hand. If there were, Liu He would also learn from those predecessors who crossed over to make some fake landmines under the bodies of the devils. But thinking about it again, this is still not a good idea. Maybe this trick can be used once, but the second time it won't work, and the devils will let the civilians go forward to collect the bodies for them.

  "Who's there? Stay where you are. Don't come any closer or we'll shoot." "Report to the captain, over thirty soldiers are coming from that direction, look."

  "Soldier, just let them come over, they are all fellow brothers, we don't need to guard against them." However, this was only Liu He's verbal statement, because no matter whether the incoming people were from the Nationalist or Communist side, Liu He did not want to participate. He only wanted to do his part in defending the country for a few years and did not want to join any faction's army.

  They joined the army and became cannon fodder for one of the warlords, while on the other hand, to be honest, Liu He couldn't bear their ascetic life. You see, now they have more than half a kilogram of meat to eat every day, although Liu He requires all guerrilla fighters and villagers in Shangli Village to eat bran once every few days. For them, this bran is not hard to eat at all. After eating too much meat, having some bran to clean the stomach is also necessary.

  Although it is said that there is no breeding in Shangli Village, they have the skill of weaving, and their woven products are already sold in several surrounding provinces. Therefore, the income of the villagers in Shangli Village is still good. After Liu He's arrival, he adopted the cooperative farming method, and now several cooperatives have emerged in Shangli Village, which has greatly increased grain production.

  Also because Liu He often goes out to buy some meat and other food, the villagers gradually get used to following Liu He's example and occasionally buying some meat to improve their diet.

  So, if you say let the people of Shang Li Village join the army, or let Liu He's guerrilla troops join the army, they will not go. At that time, in the country, no matter which aspect of the military, none of them were as well-fed as Liu He's men, and only the Japanese army could compare with them. This can be seen from the spoils of war from the Japanese army, almost every soldier had canned goods, sugar, and cigarettes in their bags. Okay, this is a bit off topic, let's get back to the story of Zhang Pai's visit.

  "Haha, hello, we are from the 18th Army Group, I am Squad Leader Zhang Xiangzhong." "Hello, I am the captain of this troop, my surname is Liu." Liu He warmly shook hands with Squad Leader Zhang.

  At this time, Zhang Paichang was a bit puzzled. You said that this person didn't want to associate with himself, but the handshake was very affectionate. If he really wanted to be close to these people, why didn't he mention his own name, only mentioning a surname and being called "team leader", what kind of position is this? Looking at the people he brought, could it be that this is a company's organization?

  This team leader really got it wrong, the organization, Liu He and others can have what organization, this team leader is just for convenience, if you are in a foreign battle and still calling out to each other, isn't that too irregular? And listening to it, is this a team composed of small landlords?

  Suddenly, Liu He saw the guns in the hands of the approaching troops, which was really too bad. This was simply an international gun show. The squad leader had a Mauser pistol, while the soldiers behind him had Hanyang-made rifles, muzzle-loaders, and several were Type 38 Arisakas captured from the Japanese army.

  "I said, you guys won't be using these guns in your hands to fight, will you?" "Yeah, we're still pretty well-equipped. Some units don't even have as many guns as we do."

  It turned out that Liu He had indeed seen the hardships of this group, "You are really too hardworking, come on," "Yes, captain," "Those guns we captured over there, we can't take them with us, let's give them to our brother unit, and also leave fifty rifles for them, as well as some bullets."

  "Captain Liu, what's going on?" Zhang looked at Liu He with some disbelief. How could there be such a good thing? They wouldn't let them take it away, this must be just an excuse of theirs, they only gave it to him because his men's guns were too poor.