As soon as dawn was dawn, the Japanese Operation Team set out from Nanpo Village.

Fifteen Japanese devils and two puppet troops, all wearing national rescue uniforms, advanced towards their target along the mountain road.

People who don’t know why thought they were patrols of the National Salvation Army entering the mountains, but they never thought that they were all hungry wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Many mountain people passing by along the way thought this way. Some mountain people even stood on the side of the road and called the commander after seeing the action team...

After walking five or six kilometers, the action team met two more mountain people, carrying baskets like other mountain people, and the appearance did not look different.

Seeing them standing on the side of the road immediately, waiting for him to pass first, the Japanese team leader did not realize any sense of crisis, and walked forward with his head held high, just like before.

"Hello, sir..." When the action team walked in front of him, the two "mountainists" quickly bent down to say hello.

The Japanese team leader was very helpful and was more satisfied with his outfit. He thought that the action team's disguise had reached a perfect level, and the next action would definitely not be at risk.

What he didn't notice was that when the two "mountainists" called the commander good, they kept staring at their military caps. After confirming that there were no buttons on the military caps, they felt even happier than eating honey.

But in order not to let the Japanese notice anything, they all endured it and continued to pretend to be respectful and waited for them to leave.

The two of them searched back and forth on this mountain road for several days, and were looking for the "national-salvation Army" without buttons on their military caps. They finally met today.

When the action team completely disappeared from their vision, the two could no longer bear it, and smiled at the same time on their faces and immediately separated.

One man rushed to the nearest National Savior Army for help, and one man followed behind the operation team, and had to follow him far away, leaving a mark on the road to prevent them from losing...

It turns out that these two "mountain people" are not real ordinary people, but scouts disguised by the National Saving Army.

All the mountain roads, small roads and large roads in Xiyang have all activated such scouts. They often team up with two people to find the Japanese devils who are disguised and sneak into the defense zone.

After the Japanese Operation Team walked forward five kilometers, a ravine appeared in front of them.

This is a natural ambush battlefield. Mountain roads pass through the bottom of the ditch. If someone lies on the high ground on both sides of the ravine, it is guaranteed that as many troops as they enter will be destroyed, and there is no chance to counterattack.

If it is normal? The Japanese squad leader will definitely order the troops to stop temporarily when encountering such terrain? He immediately sent someone to investigate the high ground on both sides of the ravine, confirm that there are no ambushes on it before continuing to move forward.

But today is different? The Japanese captain not only did not mean to stop? The order to strengthen the alert was not even issued.

Chief Cao, who was following next to him, felt something was wrong: "Captain, I heard that the National Salvation Army is very cunning? The pacification garrison suffered a lot in their hands, and even the brigade commander was defeated by them? This is the first time our garrison team fought with them? I am not familiar with them at all. Do you think we should be more cautious and move forward again!"

The team leader refused to comment: "The National Rescue Army is indeed very powerful, but don't forget that we are the National Rescue Army now? The National Rescue Army marched in its own defense zone? Do you think there will be danger?"

"If we stop and send people to investigate the high ground on both sides of the ravine, it will arouse suspicion from nearby mountain residents. There is no place where people are not even worried about the defense zone they walk through every day!"

"I remind everyone again that our current identity is the National Salvation Army, not the Imperial Army. Our current marching must be like everyone marching in the Imperial Army occupied area? It is not good to go with a proud and cautious attitude..."

"The troops continue to advance? Pass through the ravine in front normally."

On the high ground south of the ravine, a company commander Xiang Fengzheng stared at the action team on the mountain road with wide eyes? He was both excited and nervous.

He brought a reinforced platoon to ambush the Japanese and puppet troops. His strength advantage? Terrain advantage? Firepower advantage? All in his own hands. If he really fights, he will definitely be able to fight quickly and kill them.

The only thing that made him nervous was his identity: was the regiment headquarters talking about the Japanese and puppet army operation team?

"Company Commander, I promise I can see clearly. The military caps on the heads of the seventeen Japanese and puppet troops were not buttoned!" Seeing that the company commander was still staring at the mountain road with a worried expression, the scout who was the first to discover the operation team was very sure of the report.

"Our military caps were buttoned three days ago, and the nearby second battalion also buttoned them. Those who don't have buttons are definitely not their own."

"And our National Salvation Army usually sends people to patrol the mountain, and they usually send a reinforcement platoon, and they will not send a reinforcement squad into the mountain like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure suddenly appeared from the bushes not far away and hurried towards the peak.

He is the guard squad leader whom Xiang Feng had just sent out.

The next ambush was related to more than ten lives. It was necessary to confirm that the other party was a Japanese devil, Xiang Feng dared to act. If he accidentally hurt his own people, he would be killed.

The guard squad leader was very anxious and gasped and reported it when he crawled over, and his tone was very firm.

"Company Commander, I just looked at the dozen people on the mountain road. They are indeed Japanese devils. Not to mention that they are generally shorter than us, they are all of them. They have all the same slings. No soldier in our team has all slings."

"Company Commander, the team on the mountain road has entered the ravine..." The second row leader next to him reminded.

Xiang Feng finally put down his concerns and ordered decisively: "The army is ready for combat. The Japanese opened fire as soon as they entered the pocket formation, and tried to end the battle within one minute..."

The Japanese army did not know that they had been exposed and were heading for a path to death.

The two puppet troops who served as guides had a front, and the team leader followed behind him with his troops, lined up less than twenty meters long to quickly drill into the ravine and into the pocket formation.

"Dongdongdongdong..."

The dull strafing sound of heavy machine guns suddenly sounded on the high ground next to the ravine. The squad leader was no more than fifty meters away, and the bullets flew behind him.

The captain was shot and fell to the ground before he could react, but he did not die immediately.

His eyes were wide open, and his face was full of reluctance and confusion.

He couldn't understand why he was attacked. Everyone was obviously wearing the uniform of the National Saving Army, and the mountain people he met along the way regarded themselves as the National Saving Army. How could the National Saving Army benefit themselves? Are they not afraid of accidentally hurting their own people...

The captain couldn't figure it out, and there was no time for him to figure it out.

A heavy machine gun bullet hit his back heart and drilled into his body with huge kinetic energy. The back heart entered, the front chest came out, and a blood hole the size of a fist was left on his chest, and his heart was broken.

The consciousness blurred for only a few seconds, and the head tilted into a corpse.

The First Company is the best-equipped company among the four main battalions of the National Salvation Army.

Although Xiang Feng only brought one reinforced platoon, he was equipped with one heavy machine gun and three light machine guns.

A total of four light machine guns were fired, and the battle ended without rifles. Then I saw the second platoon leader rushing towards the mountain road first and commanding the troops to clean the battlefield...

In the battle to annihilate the Japanese and puppet army operations team in Gongjiazhuang, more than 900 acres of crops in the village were burned, and many of the crops in their homes were burned to ashes, which means that they will have no harvest in the following autumn harvest.

These ordinary people are worried about this matter and don’t know how to survive next year.

Gong Laosan is considered a wealthy family in the village. Because of his many sons, his family has planted more than 20 acres of land, of which fifteen acres are the family’s own land, and the remaining more than ten acres are the land for landlords in the village.

After a year of hard work, not only can the family not be hungry, but also save a lot of grain to buy a house business.

When the National Salvation Army was under control and pacified, Gong Laosan neither supported nor opposed it. After all, his family had a large population and had food to eat. Whoever was the boss of Xiyang had a great impact on him.

However, such good days disappeared all of a sudden last night.

More than ten acres of crops from their own fields were burned down by the National Salvation Army pretended by the Japanese, and these lands would be left unharvested.

Although the more than ten acres of land rented by the landlord were intact, the rent to be paid was too high.

If you lose the grain tax and rent, it would be great if you can have 50 kilograms of millet per acre.

This means that the more than ten acres of land rented by the landlords at home can only collect seven or eight hundred kilograms of grain.

There are seven people in the family, more than 700 kilograms of millet and the stored grain are only enough for everyone to eat for half a year, and everyone will go hungry in half a year.

As the head of the family, Gong Laosan definitely doesn't want to see his family have no food to eat and starve to death due to hunger and coldness.

After returning from the burned farmland, most of the day has passed. Gong Laosan has been sitting at the door and worried about the lack of food for the whole family for half a year.

"Boss, why don't we go to the landlord Gong's house in the east end of the village to borrow some food to support it?" The wife frowned and suggested.

Although her real age is less than fifty years old, she looks at least sixty years old because she serves crops all year round and is exposed to wind and sun.

Gong Laosan also thought about the way to borrow money, but he quickly rejected it.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will never take the path of lending.

As an old man in the village, he has seen several neighbors in the village lose their families due to borrowing money.

In his eyes, borrowing is like a bottomless pit.

I borrowed 500 kilograms of millet this year, and I will pay back 1,000 kilograms in a few months.

Even if there is a bumper harvest in the autumn harvest next year, there will be no more than a thousand kilograms of grain left after the harvested food is reduced.

If you use exported grain to repay your loan, you will continue to rely on borrowing next year.

If you cannot pay off the borrowed grain, the remaining grain may turn into two thousand kilograms, or even more. At that time, there is no other way for the family to repay the borrowed grain except for selling land.

I will sell two acres of land this year and a few acres tomorrow. In a few years, the land at home will be ruined by borrowing. Without land support, it will be not far from the family’s destruction…

So unless it is absolutely necessary, Gong Laosan will never take this path without returning...
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