Zhang Yunfei was just dazed for a moment, and quickly collected his mind, no longer thinking about all these things.

After taking the lunch box Li Ergou had prepared for him, there were Japs all around him and there were Japs reconnaissance planes in the sky, so it was naturally impossible to light a fire.

The food was compressed dry food seized from the Japanese, soaked in cold water, and topped with two dices of canned meat.

Although they plundered a lot of food from the Japanese, there was not much food to share among the large population.

In addition, without being able to light a fire, some rice and noodles are naturally inedible. It would be good if each person could get some dry food and crackers to crack.

After experiencing bloody battlefields and high-intensity extreme marches, they have lost their appetite, and food is a big problem.

In order to keep them strong, some biscuits with good taste were distributed to them.

As for compressed dry food, which has a poor taste, it can only be left to these soldiers.

Those non-combatants who eat meat are even less fortunate to enjoy it. Now they have to vomit when they see it.

Zhang Yunfei was digging at the food, taking a small bite of diced pork from time to time. It was really hard to eat without the diced pork.

Although the taste of Guizi's compressed dry food is a little bad, it is still good to satisfy your hunger when paired with side dishes or meals.

He still remembered that he used to be very resistant to robbing the dead for food, but now, robbing the Japanese for their trophies has become their favorite.

No matter how you say it, no matter how bad the supplies carried by the Japanese are, they are still much better than those of the Eighth Route Army. Especially during the mopping-up period, the supplies carried by the Japanese are even more abundant.

When the Japanese were conducting mopping-up operations, half of their burdens were food supplies. To the Eighth Route Army, they were no more than fat sheep.

Unfortunately, the Japanese during the raids were very difficult to offend, and it was not easy to take advantage of them.

While eating, Zhang Yunfei was thinking about things. Now he had a serious shortage of troops. After several battles, his third battalion was now completely disabled from being semi-disabled.

The number of personnel was just over a hundred, less than the strength of a company. We really were unable to fight anymore. Even those who could barely shoot were organized and counted as combatants.

That's less than 200 people. Now their army is unable to fight anymore.

It is unknown how much the surrounding enemy situation will change during this period of time.

At present, the surrounding Japanese soldiers are conducting repeated raids on the nearby areas.

What would you do if you discovered that their non-combatant force was far more numerous than the covering force?

After continuous marching and fighting, the troops are already very tired, which can be overcome with willpower. The key is that the combat troops are insufficient in strength, and this cannot be overcome by gritting one's teeth.

"Is the situation serious now?" Zhao Min saw that he was worried even while eating, so he asked with concern.

"With such a small number of troops around us, and with so many personnel, once we encounter the Japanese and puppet troops, you know what the consequences will be. This is what worries me now. I can't fight, and I can't run. We can't either

I can only hide from the devils."

"It's okay if we really want to avoid the Japanese, but the problem is that the Japanese are repeatedly pulling out nets to sweep us away. You can't guarantee whether the Japanese will turn around and search our place again?"

"Now the surrounding enemy situation is unclear, and the location of our brothers' troops is also unknown. We are fighting alone now, basically without support. What we need to do now is to leave when we should go, and hide when we should hide. But you

See if this group of people can do it?”

Zhao Min: "..."

"I'm sorry, why am I telling you this?" Zhang Yunfei smiled apologetically, then picked up the lunch box and ate the rice vigorously, making his mouth bulge.

He swallowed the food desperately, not giving himself much time to react, because he was afraid that he would vomit. The little devil is really awesome. He is really talented to make food so unpalatable.

"Are you stressed?"

"Why do you ask that?" Zhang Yunfei said in astonishment.

"It's just that every time I see you, you act like a little old man, with a lot of thoughts on your mind. You always feel like you have to work hard at any moment."

Zhang Yunfei: "..."

After hearing these words, Zhang Yunfei was silent for a long time before he said: "You can do anything without stress, especially when every decision you make will determine the life or death of many people, you must be cautious."

After listening to Zhang Yunfei's explanation, Zhao Min nodded in agreement and sighed without any clue: "You are the only man who can truly stand up to the heaven and the earth!"

"Cough...cough..." Zhang Yunfei decided not to waste a grain of food.

I endured the nausea and wanted to vomit, and tried hard to swallow the unpalatable food, but in the end, her words stopped me, and I choked with a cough.

Seeing Zhang Yunfei's heartbreaking cough, he quickly opened the kettle and drank some water before he got over it.

Seeing how embarrassed he was, Zhao Min smiled, stood up and said, "I'm going to check on the wounded. You can think about your affairs slowly here."

Zhang Yunfei had known for a long time that she had a bit of a mischievous personality. Looking at her leaving figure, Zhang Yunfei shook his head in a funny way and said to Hu Zi beside him: "Go and inform the company commanders and instructors, as well as Tiedan and Li Dayandai.

Let them come to the meeting."

His third battalion has a total of three companies and two platoons, a total of five units. Now the so-called companies and platoons are basically equivalent to five squads, and each one is more powerful than the last.

When the company platoon leader and instructors arrived, he said: "Everyone is clear about the current situation. Now we can say that we have completely cut off contact with our brother troops, and we still have so many people with no combat capabilities at all. I think

It is not easy to avoid the Japanese raids."

Everyone was silent. Everyone was a veteran with rich combat experience. Naturally, they knew the current situation and how bad the situation of the team was.

After a long silence, He Jicheng said: "How about we send personnel to conduct reconnaissance and see if we can find brother troops nearby."

Regarding He Jicheng's suggestion, Zhang Yunfei hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded. In his opinion, it was not very likely that his brother's troops would be nearby.

During the Japanese raids, the large troops would naturally stay away as far as they could. How could there be troops still operating here? But now they can only treat a dead horse as a living horse.

Zhang Yunfei took out the map from Huzi, drew a semicircle on the map toward the southeast with their current location as the center, and then told Tiedan: "Take a squad and search the surrounding area immediately to see if you can

If you can't find our team, even if you can't find the team, let's see if we can find a local organization."

Now they have a large number of personnel, especially female soldiers and those purely civilian cadres. If some of them are transferred to local areas, the pressure on their team will be easier.

Finally, Zhang Yunfei ordered: "You can show me the bright spots with your recruits. At this moment, the little devils will definitely send some plainclothes advance troops deep into our base area."

"You must be careful, lest you lure the Japanese over without finding one of your own."

Now that most of them have broken out, the division headquarters will not ignore them. Although the division headquarters does not have the ability to send out fighting troops for reinforcements, it will certainly send out a small group of troops to look for them.

"The distance between your activities is ten miles from our location. You are not allowed to enter any villages along the way, regardless of whether there are Japs stationed there or not. We must be very cautious in our actions so that the Japs cannot discover our whereabouts.

In response to Zhang Yunfei's order, Tiedan did not hesitate at all and immediately led a squad to conduct reconnaissance to the south.

Even if they don't find the brother troops, they still need to find out the surrounding situation and provide intelligence support for their next actions.

After seeing Tiedan off, Zhang Yunfei picked up the telescope again after the meeting and came to the commanding heights to observe the surrounding situation.

In the village a few miles away where Japs were active, there is now no trace of the Japs. The Japs have evacuated, but they lit a fire while evacuating.

The entire village was ablaze with flames, echoing the sunset and reflecting the gradually darkening sky.

Although the immediate threat to them has been eliminated, Zhang Yunfei is still more concerned about the Japanese who left. Who knows whether this Japanese group of Japanese will wander around and come back again.

Since they had burned down the village, theoretically they had no intention of coming back. Even the hiding villagers in the distant villages knew that the Japanese had left and immediately rushed home to put out the fire.

As the sky gradually darkened, Zhang Yunfei felt that something was wrong with the Japanese's sudden withdrawal.

The Japs would not march or fight at night unless there was an emergency. However, the Japs stationed in the village had to leave in the evening. Logically speaking, the Japs were likely to encounter some kind of situation before they did this.

The sentry who followed Zhang Yunfei and had been observing the movements of the Japs saw Zhang Yunfei observing the situation in the village in the distance and introduced: "Battal Commander, the Japs stationed in that village are about a small team. They may have some urgent mission. They

After setting the village on fire, he left directly."

"Battalion Commander Zhang, should we send someone to follow the Japs? Maybe they will leave after they find our brother troops. If they can really find our brother troops, our current dilemma will be solved." He Jicheng, who followed him for inspection.

Put forward an opinion.

The Eighth Route Army's intelligence information was seriously lagging behind. If you wanted to keep track of your own people's movements, following the enemy was one way to keep track of them.

They just followed the Japanese and found the besieged division personnel.

He Jicheng's words still made some sense. Finally, Zhang Yunfei nodded and ordered a squad leader on the guard post: "Take your squad and follow them to see what these devils are doing. We only need to know their movements and what they are doing.

It’s done.”

"Don't stick too close, otherwise the target will be easily exposed. Just follow them from a distance. If the Japanese still don't make any move after ten kilometers, you can return."

If the Japanese retreated too far, even if they took any action, they would be beyond their reach and there would be no need to continue following them.

"Remember, you must hide your whereabouts. No matter what actions the devils take, you must not act rashly. Even if you find our brother troops, you don't need to say hello for the time being. Anyway, as long as you find them, it will be fine. You will not be lost wherever you stay.

Already."

"Maybe we can attack each other from both front and back and kill this group of devils."

After Zhang Yunfei finished explaining, the reconnaissance squad in charge took a few soldiers around him down the mountain, bypassed the burning village with thick smoke, and chased in the direction of the Japanese evacuation.

"Old He, I always feel that the Japanese evacuation this time is too strange, and I have a vague premonition of something ominous."

"You're worrying too much." He Jicheng wanted to say that you didn't have enough sleep and were suspicious.

Zhang Yunfei looked at the village in flames in the telescope and said to Hu Zi beside him: "Go back to the camp immediately and tell everyone that no one is allowed to take any action without my order."

"You are not allowed to smoke, light fires, or walk around at will, and you are not allowed to contact people in the village without authorization. In addition, call Director Yang to come over."

Before Yang Junjie and others reached the observation point where Zhang Yunfei was, gunshots suddenly rang out from the village in the distance. As expected, the Japanese who left in the evening had not gone far, and they came back to kill them.

Hearing the sound of gunfire, Zhang Yunfei raised his telescope and looked into the distance. Unfortunately, it was getting late now, and the distance was far away. Except for the darkness and the flashlight light that kept passing by, nothing else could be seen clearly.

Zhang Yunfei knew that the gunshots heard this time should be from the reconnaissance squad leader. They encountered the Japanese and fired warning shots.

Seeing Yang Junjie and the company commanders running over after hearing the gunfire, Zhang Yunfei said quickly: "Old Sun, take your Eighth Company people and immediately go around to the southeast to lure these little devils away.

Don’t fight head-on with the opponent, just lure the devils away for a while so that the people fighting the fire at the foot of the mountain can escape."

Although Zhang Yunfei knew that it was not appropriate to divide his troops with his small force at this time, he could not watch helplessly as the Japanese who had turned around blocked the people and massacred them.

The Japanese carried out a three-guang policy against the people in the core areas of the Eighth Route Army, which was inhumane. In order to dismantle the foundation of the Eighth Route Army, they adopted the method of removing wages from the bottom of the cauldron during the raids. In the entire core area of ​​Taihang, villages were massacred and plundered wantonly.

Food and other necessary supplies for survival.

The Japanese have implemented a scorched-earth policy on the entire Taihang area. They kill everyone they meet. The Japanese have painstakingly created such a situation. It cannot be a joke. The person who comes here is not good.

Their actions are likely to reveal their whereabouts, but Zhang Yunfei knows that the people at the foot of the mountain must demand it. However, this group of Japanese soldiers moved very quickly. Before Sun Zhiqiang's Eighth Company maneuvered back into position, they had already entered the village and killed them.

The whole village was surrounded.

As for the reconnaissance squad leader who led the team and the few soldiers around him, even if they were selected elites, no matter how powerful they were, they could not stop many Japanese soldiers.
Chapter completed!