After a lot of messy news such as "Let's go to sweep tomorrow", "Let's go to sweep this afternoon", and "Only start sweep in a month", the British army was preparing to send troops officially.

The British army first adjusted the defense of those soldiers. The troops originally in the soldiers, including the "Irish Security Forces", were transferred away and replaced with new troops. These troops were the British recruits who had just been transferred. Then the British divided the concentrated tens of thousands of troops into two groups and killed them towards the largest non-police area in Ireland.

Although the base area has been disturbed by too much information, it is still difficult to hide things like large-scale troops from others. In addition to relying on intelligence workers in the security and quasi-security areas, as well as the "Irish Security Forces" who are on two boats, some scouts of the Irish Independence Army, as well as county brigades, district squads, and village guerrilla groups close to the British-controlled areas, were also alert at this time and were ready to deal with the British raid.

On the edge of the base area, because the British army often attacked the place quickly (the British army used the high maneuverability of the cavalry troops to frequently harass the villages in these areas, trying to gradually erode these areas.) Therefore, the villages here are more serious and detailed in early warning than other areas.

During the day, men went to work, and women followed suit. It was the turn of the guerrilla team on duty to keep an eye on the road, while the half-aged children drove the sheep out to herd sheep, and by the way they stared at the empty paths and carried out alert tasks. (The British cavalry, led by the love of traitors, touched the base area from the path to do bad things once or twice.)

These children were also warned of the recent British army's possible large-scale entry into bases to do bad things, and the children were also alert.

Early this morning, Alice and his friends drove a few lambs to the small hill north of the village. There was a very good-growing grassland where you could also monitor nearby roads on that hill.

There is a message tree erected on the hill, and you can see it by looking at it from the direction of the village.

Of course, the message tree cannot be brought down casually, because once the people in the village see that the message tree falls, everyone will immediately move to the swamp shelter. Of course, there is no farm work on this day. If it is just a false alarm, it would be unprofitable.

So the children have a division of labor. When only one or two people come, two older boys, Michael and Thomas, will come forward to interrogate with short spears, while the other children guard the message tree. Once something happens, they will immediately knock down the message tree and issue an alarm to the village.

Of course, if there are too many people coming and not the ones who have agreed in advance, then put down the news tree without hesitation, then take the sheep with you and move directly to the swamp shelter.

When they climbed onto the ground and let the sheep eat grass on the grass under the ground, the children were all looking into the distance on the ground while talking.

This period of time in the early morning is the most dangerous line, and the time when you need to be vigilant the most is needed. Because there is dew on the ground during this period, people will not raise dust when walking on it, and it will not be easy to be discovered. When it is almost noon, the sun will dry the dew. When people come from the road, they will raise high dust, which can be seen from a distance.

While looking around dutifully, several children talked about the taste of French candy brought by the old district head last time. Michael said with longing: "The old district head told me that when we win, we can eat French candy every day. As long as we want to eat..."

Several children said, looking forward to a sweet future. At this time, Alice, who was sharp-eyed, suddenly saw something moving quickly in the distance.

"What do you think there is?" Alice shouted.

The children all stood on tiptoe and looked over there, and there was indeed something else moving quickly towards this side.

"That's the enemy's cavalry, hurry up, put down the message tree."

Several children quickly put down the news tree with all their might, and then Michael and Thomas went down to hang strings for mines on the road. The others drove the sheep, and went straight to the swamp shelter without going back to the village.

As soon as the news tree fell, everyone became alert. The villagers picked up the things at home one after another. These days, these things were packed and headed to the swamp shelter. Several young men from the guerrilla group in the village took guns and went there. They wanted to use the method of shooting black guns to interfere with the enemy as much as possible and give the villagers time to transfer.

The villagers got along with the children at the entrance to the swamp shelter. Except for Michael and Thomas, the other children and sheep were there. They told everyone that Michael and Thomas went to hang strings for the mines. Everyone left a few people here for a while and then heard the sound of mine explosions vaguely coming from there. Computer terminal::/

Everyone waited anxiously for a while before they saw Michael and Thomas running over, their faces full of excitement.

"Damn kid, where did you go!" Old Michael went up and planned to repair the naughty egg.

"We saw two British cavalry horses with broken legs. The two British guys fell off the horse, hahaha..." Michael was still proud and didn't notice that his father was about to get angry.

"Forget it, just come back, let's go in quickly." Several people grabbed Old Michael, and then everyone went to the shelter together. While walking, they also took away the wooden boards and pulled down the wooden stakes.

Several gunshots came from outside, and the guerrilla warriors were shooting cold guns at the British. They had another way to go to and from refuge, so everyone didn't need to worry about them. Then thick smoke came out of the direction of the village. You don't need to ask, it was the British who were setting fires.

"If they have the courage to chase into the swamp, we will see if we don't beat them to death!" a villager said hatefully. Although their thatched house is not worth much, it was built by himself with great effort.

Shortly after the villagers entered the shelter, a group of British troops and a group of black-skinned dogs also came to the swamp.

This time, the British army also came prepared. In order to deal with the swamp, they specially prepared a new equipment: swamp shoes.

The so-called "swamp shoes" are actually just a large wooden board that can be tied to the original boots. This thing is simple in design and the principle is also very simple: increase the area of ​​stress and reduce the pressure. When wearing such a pair of shoes, the pressure on the ground of the human body can be reduced by more than half, which naturally makes it less likely to sink. Of course, this is still not safe. If you encounter a particularly thin and deep quagmire, you will die, or die.

Since it is still dangerous to enter the swamp in this way, of course, this kind of thing must be led by the "Public Security Forces".

The black leather dogs of the security forces first put on these shoes, and then each of them took a long wooden stick in their hands and walked in front to explore the way.

If this simple design does have a good effect, they walked on the mud of the swamp and obviously did not sink down, and they walked much lighter than normal.

"No," Edward Stafford, the British officer who was supervising behind, nodded, "We are here to guard them, supervise them in and capture all the rebels!"

In any case, it is still dangerous to enter the swamp. Even with swamp shoes, the same is true. So if the British army can not go in, it would be better not to go in. Moreover, as far as they know, there are only one hundred people in the village, including women and children. There are only dozens of real adult men. They are all ordinary people. Edward thinks that although the guys in the "Public Security Force" are a little bit bad, they should be enough to deal with these people.

At this time, the guerrilla team members had already entered the swamp from another passage. They soon found black skinned dogs wearing "swamp shoes" and staggering in the swamp like a group of ducks.

"Hey, these black skin dogs have this thing too? Thompson, please report the situation to the old village chief quickly. Wade and I will stop them here first." Team leader Higgins lowered his voice and said to a team member.

The team member nodded and turned around and left.

"Wade, we two are divided into two groups. You go to the left and I go to the right. We go from the left and right..."

"We surround them from the left and right." Wade nodded, "I understand."

"Damn it! We shoot at them from both sides. Remember, shoot one shot and change the other place. After firing ten shots, we will tell the No. 1 position to get along, and then take the enemy to No. 2 position. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

At this time, the "public security forces" of more than 200 people had already gone down the swamp. The team leader Hyde was forced by the team leader O'Kelly to explore the way forward. The sight in the swamp was not good. There were high and low aquatic plants, cattails, and reeds everywhere. Occasionally, there were a sound in the reeds, and one or two wild ducks would fly out.

Hyde was walking tremblingly in the swamp. Suddenly, a gunshot came from his left, and a black-skinned dog beside him screamed and fell into the mud.

The other black-skinned dogs were suddenly in chaos. They looked to the left, and there was a dense reed on the left, and a light blue smoke seemed to be rising from there. At the same time, due to the fright of gunfire, a large group of wild ducks flew out of it.

"Rebel, the rebel is on the left, and the reed on the left is from the inside! Shoot, shoot at that side!" Hyde shouted pointed at the reed.

So the black-skinned dogs quickly turned to the left and crackled at the reeds, which made the reed poles and reed leaves fly everywhere. As for whether they hit people, no one noticed it. In fact, when everyone shot, they didn't see anyone there at all.

After this round of shooting, Captain O'Kelly took a closer look and found that two more fell down on his side.

"I didn't see the Independence Army's uncle shooting there just now. Are you pretending to be dead?" O'Kelly thought so, and planned to kick the two guys who pretended to be dead, but at this time, another gunshot came from behind them.

"Captain, captain, the rebels are there, behind us!" Hyde shouted again.
Chapter completed!