Chapter 6: Gathering the Three Stratagems and Flying into the Web

  Liu Feng carefully put away the map. Then he tied Suzuki up with a rope, stuffed his mouth with Suzuki's own clothes, and threw him under the bed. Liu Feng also planned to deal with the devils in Qiu County and then use Suzuki to mobilize the devils in Quzhou County. So Suzuki couldn't die now.

  With the rifle slung over his shoulder, he walked out of Suzuki's room. Outside Suzuki's room, two Japanese guards with broken necks lay on the ground. Liu Feng dragged them into Suzuki's room and closed the door. He then came to a side room in Suzuki's quarters.

  Suzuki, for the convenience of playing with women, did not live in the barracks but lived in a large house in the county town. The owner of this house had fled to the south with his family when the Japanese devils came. So Suzuki occupied it. Next door, there was a squad of Japanese soldiers guarding Suzuki, but now all the Japanese were silently dead inside that room.

  Liu Feng had found some poisonous drugs in the wild and made them into poison strips on his body according to his experience as a special agent and special soldier in the 21st century. When night fell, Liu Feng climbed over the city wall through the gaps between the bricks and happened to see Han traitor Luo Sanji and one of his minions pressing down a girl while walking, followed by several restaurant partners carrying vegetable boxes and rice boxes.

  Luo Sanji and that rascal were walking down the street with their rifles slung over their shoulders, looking very pleased with themselves. It was clear that they were traitors. Liu Feng thought to himself that since he had discovered this, he should naturally rescue the girl. He followed them secretly, but unexpectedly heard the two of them say that they were going to send this young woman to be violated by Captain Taijun and also deliver food to Captain Taijun's guards.

  And these two traitors, one was the commander of Qiu County's Anti-Communist Salvation Army, and the other was his deputy. So Liu Feng followed them to Suzuki's residence. Liu Feng disguised himself as a Japanese soldier, intercepted the food, and demanded an inspection. Then he took advantage of this opportunity to put poison in the Japanese devils' food, and let those guys deliver it to the Japanese devils.

  It wasn't until the Japanese devils started eating that Liu Feng arrived at Suzuki's door, broke the necks of two guards, and kicked open the door in a flash. The poison took effect quickly, and by the time Suzuki was shouting for the guards, an entire squad of them had fallen to the ground poisoned.

  After finishing off Suzuki, Liu Feng quickly came to the side room and gave the Japanese devils who had not died yet a stab with his bayonet. A few minutes later, Liu Feng finished the dirty work.

  Then Liu Feng quickly went out and caught up with Han Jian Sanzhi who was walking on the road preparing to go home, telling him that the team leader called him back.

  Luó Sān Jì and his deputy had no choice but to follow Liú Fēng back to Suzuki's residence.

  As they entered Suzuki's room, Liu Feng followed and closed the door. At this time, Luo Sanji already felt that something was wrong, because he did not see Suzuki, but saw the bloodstains on the ground, and heard the "whimpering" sound coming from under the bed.

  Luo Sanji and his deputy immediately went for their guns, but found two icy gun barrels pointed at their heads.

  Both of them were so scared that their legs started trembling and they hastily threw down the gun. They raised their hands to show surrender.

  Liu Feng said in Chinese: "I didn't expect that I am a Chinese. Even more unexpected is that your master has already been finished off?"

  The two of them immediately wet their pants upon hearing this. They hastily knelt down on the ground, crying out: "Eighth Master, Eighth Master, spare our lives, spare our lives!"

  "Old Eight?" Liu Feng asked in surprise.

  Luo Sanji and his deputy exchanged a glance, asking: "Aren't you Eighth Master?"

  "Old Eight, what Old Eight?" Liu Feng asked.

  "It's the Eighth Route Army heroes. They are all like this." Luo Sanji thought that this person might be a hero from that road, and should admire the Eighth Route Army for their genuine fight against the devils, so he immediately flattered them and gave a thumbs up.

  "Was there a Eighth Route Army here before?" Liu Feng asked with great interest.

  If there were Eighth Route Army here, I could inform GCD of the upcoming Anhui incident next year. Even if they didn't believe it, having some defense would be good.

  However, Luo Sanji said: "There are eight roads, and a few months ago, the Eighth Route Army opened in all directions, breaking through many highways and railways, pulling out many imperial troops, uh, devils' forts. But here in Qiu County, there has never been any activity of the Eighth Route Army. On the contrary, there have been activities of the Eighth Route Army in Feixiang Guangping area. Handan also has some. However, when the devils launched a large-scale sweep, they couldn't find a few Eighth Routes and didn't know where they went."

  Liu Feng knew that Luo Sanji was referring to the Hundred Regiments Campaign. Since the winter of 1939, the Japanese army had been using railways and highways as pillars to frequently sweep anti-Japanese bases and attempt to cut off strategic areas such as Taihang, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, and others, implementing a so-called "cage policy" with railways as pillars, highways as chains, and blockhouses as locks. The Eighth Route Army headquarters decided to launch a transportation sabotage war, focusing on breaking through the Zhengtai Railway and the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, giving the Japanese North China Front Army a powerful blow. In the traffic lines of North China, the Zhengtai Railway occupies a very important position, crossing the Taihang Mountains, connecting the Pinghan and Tongpu Railways, and is one of the important strategic transportation lines for the Japanese army in North China.

  Liu Feng did not expect that there were also Eighth Route Army activities in places not far from Qiu County. Feixiang and Guangping are only over a hundred miles away from Qiu County. By doing a few things there, he should be able to get in touch with the GCD.

  Liu Feng asked again: "Commander Luo, you have two companies of troops under your command. Where are they deployed now? I've already interrogated Suzuki earlier, if you tell lies, don't blame me for being impolite!"

  Luo Sanji hastily said: "Don't dare, don't dare, at each of the four city gates there is a small team of soldiers, and another team is responsible for patrolling the county town. It's called a small team, but in fact, each city gate only has twenty or thirty people, and most of the others are mixed up in the casinos and brothels. The patrol team and the remaining troops are stationed at the Hwangkei Army barracks in the south of the city. Oh, and there is also a Japanese devil responsible for managing each city gate. The Japanese devils are all stationed at the Japanese military camp in the east of the city. There are still about 120 people inside their camp now, and Sakata's team was sent out to collect grain three days ago."

  "Why didn't the Japanese ask you to collect grain but went themselves?" Liu Feng asked.

  Luo Sanji said with a bitter face: "Now going to collect grain is a good job, the devils are rushing to go, we can't even get a turn."

  So that's how it is. There are no opposing forces outside, and going out means being killed or burned, so there's no need to worry about being attacked. It's a beautiful difference for the Japanese.

  Liu Feng made a rough calculation, the Imperial Army had two battalions, which was equivalent to seven or eight companies. Now that the four city gates were divided among four companies, there were approximately one hundred and eighty people left in the pseudo-army's barracks. The combat effectiveness of the pseudo-army could be ignored, but this pseudo-army commander must be detained to prevent any unexpected situations from arising.

  Liu Feng didn't plan to kill all the puppet troops, after all they were Chinese too, but the Japanese devils had to be wiped out. So he said: "Captain Luo, I'm planning to take out the Japanese devils' military camp tonight, hope you can cooperate."

  "Ah?" Luo Sanji had already seen Suzuki Masao stuffed under the bed when he was kneeling on the ground. He was shocked that Liu Feng could single-handedly take down the Japanese platoon leader, but now an even more shocking thing happened - this guy actually wanted to go solo against the Japanese devil's military camp, where there were still a whole platoon of Japanese soldiers! The most unfortunate thing was that he actually wanted to get himself involved. Wasn't this just asking for his own death?!

  Lu Sheng's deputy was so frightened that he trembled all over, hastily kowtowed and repeatedly said: "Good man, good man, please spare our lives... we have elderly and children at home..."

  Luo Sanji and his deputy performed with a mix of tears and snot, making Liu Feng laugh. How come all these traitors have the same lines?

  Liu Feng ignored their nonsense, gave each of them a dagger and stabbed it into the back of their heads. The two immediately fainted. Liu Feng tied them up separately with ropes and stuffed their mouths with rags. As long as the puppet army doesn't move tonight, then Liu Feng's action to clean up the Japanese devils will be fine.

  This Saturday and Sunday, I have a business trip, so I won't be able to upload. So today, I'll release two chapters in advance, making up for it ahead of time. Hope everyone doesn't mind.