It's already early morning.

A team formed a circle of encirclements from afar, surrounding the village where Ma Liang was staying in the south of the Blockade Grotto. It was late at night.

The enemies in the village actually lit a fire, and several houses were still smoking. Needless to think about it, the puppet army demolished the house and burned the fire to keep warm.

Captain Geng's eyes were on fire, and with a wave of his hand, the two working team members crawled on the ground and slowly approached the village.

Ma Liang next to him immediately stopped him in a low voice: "Wait for a moment, something is wrong, the whistle walking around is a dummy!"

Captain Geng asked the two team members to park in the ground and turned to look at Ma Liang: "Wang Sanzhu said he would send someone to contact us in the evening, but he has not seen their people come here yet!"

Ma Liang handed the telescope to Captain Geng.

After Captain Geng took it, he looked at the sentry of the puppet army at the entrance of the village carefully: "These guys who are afraid of death can really think of it... But since the dummy is moving back and forth, someone should be hiding beside him and pulling the dummy moves!"

Ma Liang said smoothly: "You just said that Wang Sanzhu's people didn't come out to contact us. Maybe there were ghosts and puppet troops in the village, so they couldn't come out..."

Captain Geng shook his head: "The hearts of the Wang family father and son are as dark as the coals in the West Mountains. I cannot believe them all. Who knows if they have any conspiracy?"

Ma Liang nodded... How could such a large village accommodate puppet troops and so many bandits: "When you say this, I think something is wrong. Tian Sanqi said that the number of enemies we evacuated was four or five hundred and five hundred different from the number of enemies we estimated on the battlefield. If all those who stayed were in the village... but why didn't there be any movement at all?"

"When the enemy retreated, our people followed. It is absolutely true that there are puppet troops in the village, but we don't know how many of them are..."

When Ma Liang saw the fire in the village, he suddenly thought of a solution: "That's not simple. Just throw a grenade in and try it?"

Captain Geng was stunned for a moment: "Who else can throw grenades so far... can he throw the grenades into the village at a distance of two or three hundred meters?"

"The puppet army is afraid of death, so the sentry they arranged will never dare to stay outside the village. I will try to launch a feint attack first."

"Forget it, I'll think of a solution..."

...

Li Huanzhang led the team and left Zhaozhuang Village at noon and headed southeast.

The vast team occasionally stopped to rest temporarily, changed bandages for the wounded, and added some food.

It took me more than ten hours to walk less than sixty miles.

Until midnight, the team was still walking in the wilderness.

The situation here is slightly different from the situation in the north, and this is a severely affected area of ​​drought!

The rivers flowing through each village were directly dried up, and the cracked land seemed to be covered with wrinkles on the faces of the weathered old man. Most of the wells in each village were not watered, and the water in a very small number of deep wells was only for people to eat and drink, and where could it be provided to livestock and crops.

Most ordinary people on the plains had no choice but to escape from famine. Without people, the Japanese had no interest in these barren lands, so that some artillery towers built in a few years were not guarded by puppet troops.

The Eighth Route Army had difficulty developing bases on the plain where the Japanese were too lazy to sweep them.

If a person wants to survive, he has to eat and drink. He can still hold on without water for a day or two. How can he hold on after ten or half a month? Who would have thought that the Yellow River, which has been relying on for generations, would change its course, and what followed was the plain, which had almost rained for a year and was already suffering from war disasters, turned a thousand miles of fertile land into a desolate land in a short period of time due to lack of water!

Li Huanzhang kept stopping in front of the team, and waited for the team to pass before running to the front of the team, constantly reminding the team to pay attention to safety along the way.

A bandit saw Li Huanzhang on the roadside again and stopped: "Report to the chief, I have something to say!"

Li Huanzhang looked around and cursed, "What's the matter? I've only had less than an hour of rest. If you tell me about shit and pee, I'll kill you!"

The bandit soldier was very loud: "Hehe, how can you trouble you for those trivial matters? I think you have a lot of hard work. Can we discuss it? Didn't the Eighth Route Army say that we would send two oceans when we leave? We don't want oceans now, can we let us go first?"

The soldier next to him interrupted: "If you don't want to join the Eighth Route Army, of course we will release it. We agreed that two oceans will not be missing! However, we must study in our base for three days..."

The bandit soldier still cried at Li Huanzhang: "Oh, I follow you and you have to take care of us. When you stay in your base for three days, you have to take care of us food and accommodation, and you have to pay two dollars in vain? I said you are not stupid?"

The warrior behind the custody stabbed the stopped bandit with a gun: "What are you talking about? Go away quickly!"

"Hey, don't be anxious. If it's really not possible, I'll give you five oceans. Please give me a sensation. I have eighty mothers above and…"

The soldier next to him had already shot his gun and was ready to beat him up at any time: "You'll say it? I'll give you two stocks! Our Eighth Route Army keeps our word, do you think it's business?"

"Stop!" Li Huanzhang immediately stepped forward to stop the movements in the warrior's hands, and the three of them mixed together as if they were trying to persuade the fight. Li Huanzhang's voice was not small: "Don't worry, as long as we have verified that you have never done bad things, you can consider letting you home in advance!"

The bandit soldier looked around and suddenly lowered his voice: "You must pay attention, some of the bandits left secrets along the way, and some will rob the Tao tonight!"

After saying that, he pushed the soldiers escorted beside him and followed the captive team in front.

Li Huanzhang frowned. He had already agreed with the work team. Unexpectedly, the bandits were still in dispersed and would release them after they arrived at the base for review. They couldn't wait for these three days? Which one did they play?

Could it be that they really have a conspiracy? But what can the bandits be attracted to in the barren land that was sieged by the puppet army?

The team continued to go southeast in the dark, and walked ten miles ahead. After passing the long-dried Jindi River, it entered the edge of the base area of ​​the sand area, where there were militias responsible for the response.

Half an hour later.

A soldier gasped heavily and rushed into the tired team from the darkness behind him in a panic, shouting anxiously: "Party Leader Li, where is Platoon Li? Platoon Li..."

Li Huanzhang on the roadside grabbed the running soldiers: "What a panic... I'm here!"

The soldier looked around and lowered his voice: "A group of bandits followed behind! There are at least two or three hundred, so we must not be able to stop it!"

Li Huanzhang was stunned. Most of the prisoners taken away this time were bandits. Combined with the insider's statement, do they really want to rob these prisoners?

These guys choose to do something when the team is most tired. It seems that they are going to be bad this time!
Chapter completed!