"It's not over yet!" Li Hao replied, shaking his head.
"The Japs still have a dozen seriously injured people alive along the way. If we don't take care of them, we will suffer a big loss!"
"There is also the equipment of an infantry squad of the Japanese army. These are not just a few rifles. There are only a few of us. If we don't hurry up, we won't be able to clear the battlefield until dawn!"
"I will go over now and kill the seriously wounded soldiers to prevent them from fighting with the trapped beasts. I will drag our soldiers to die with them!" Hong Linfeng replied immediately, picked up the machine gun and prepared to kill them.
"Why are you so anxious? We won't kill anyone this time. I will keep these dozen seriously injured people for my use!" Li Hao replied with a mysterious look on his face.
"Don't be polite if you meet any seriously wounded who resist. Kill them directly. For seriously wounded who are unable to resist, clean their equipment first and then tie them to a stretcher. They can neither threaten everyone's safety nor commit suicide!"
"Start taking action now. Carry all the seriously injured people deep into the forest and hide them. Then clean the battlefield. Finally, strip away all the useful things from the little Japs and bring them back!"
"Hong Linfeng, please arrange for two recruits to set off now, go to the two villages closest to here, and call the two recruit squads there!"
"There are too many seriously injured people captured, and there is also a lot of equipment and ammunition seized. We will definitely not be able to handle it!"
At three o'clock in the morning, Zhou Xuan led a group of people to rush over first.
Facing the corpses of Japanese soldiers, seriously injured people, and piles of weapons and ammunition all over the ground, I was stunned on the spot.
"Platoon commander, how many Japanese have you killed?"
Hong Linfeng answered excitedly before Li Hao: "No more, no less, an infantry squad plus two combat detachments, more than seventy people, including two second lieutenants and squad leaders!"
"hiss!"
Zhou Xuan, who took a breath of cold air, was frightened. He stared blankly at the corpses piled on the mountain road and didn't react for a long time.
"Why are you still standing there?" Li Hao ordered angrily.
"Clean the battlefield immediately and bring all the captured equipment, ammunition, and usable materials back to our secret camp. The main force must leave here before dawn and erase the traces of our retreat!"
"What to do with those seriously wounded Japanese soldiers? There are 16 seriously wounded soldiers in total!"
"Find a place to hide. When daybreak, I will use them to make a deal with the little devil outside the mountain!"
"Transaction, how is it possible..." Hong Linfeng was stunned on the spot when he heard these two words.
He couldn't understand that the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army were life-and-death enemies. Could it be that transactions could also be made between life-and-death enemies?
Li Hao nodded and replied: "As long as we work hard, nothing is impossible!"
"After the main force withdrew, although there was a lot of medicine left for us, it was not much in the hands of each seriously injured person!"
"I asked the health workers who stayed behind. We are most in need of anti-inflammatory drugs that are necessary for the seriously injured. All of them combined can only last for the next five days."
"The world outside is now dominated by the Japs. Medicines, especially the anti-inflammatory drugs we need, must be closely watched by the Japs and will be difficult to obtain."
"And those seriously injured people can't do without those anti-inflammatory drugs, so I was thinking about whether I could use the dozen or so seriously injured Japanese soldiers to exchange for some of the medicines we urgently need from their main force outside the mountain!"
"Impossible~" Hong Linfeng objected on the spot, with an expression of disbelief.
"The Japanese are not fools. How could they exchange precious medicines for a dozen seriously injured people who might lose their lives at any time?"
"I don't believe the Japanese can be so stupid!"
A mysterious smile flashed across Li Hao's face, and then he answered confidently: "The Japs are indeed not stupid, and they are very smart. But they have one shortcoming, they are good at saving face, and they are very good at saving face!"
"I thought about it seriously. As long as we make good use of this, we will definitely be able to get medicines!"
"I remember that among the items seized were notebooks and pens. Find them here. I want to leave a letter to the Japanese!"
At the Japanese military station in Hongquan Village, the squadron leader on duty stood in front of the battalion leader, like a child who had made a mistake, lowering his head and not daring to say a word.
"Are you a stupid pig?" The captain was still angry and continued to curse.
"If the enemy has the ability to kill two of your combat units, then he is very likely to have the strength to kill one of your infantry squads!"
"The infantry team you sent out is not for reinforcements, but for death!"
The squadron leader's face turned red after being scolded, and he answered bravely: "Sir, that's what you were taught!"
"Now there is no news about the reinforcements. Not even a single gunshot was heard. I am worried that something happened to them too!"
"But I don't believe that they were really killed by the enemy. After all, there are more than 70 imperial troops in one squad and two detachments. How could they be killed so easily? Not even a single soldier who came back to report could escape!"
"There is indeed hope!" the captain slowly calmed down.
"Order Captain Murata to take his squadron and set off to find them immediately. The gunfire is no more than two kilometers away from the station. Let him fight two kilometers into the forest. Whether he finds them or not, he must come back. Go now!"
"Hi~Thank you, sir~" the squadron leader replied with a grateful look on his face.
After his subordinates left, the captain lost his sleepiness and paced back and forth in the small tent, waiting for news.
Within an hour, Captain Murata broke in, followed by another squadron leader with a more solemn expression.
"Sir, we found 63 Imperial Army corpses in the woods!" Captain Murata reported in a low tone.
"The weapons, ammunition, equipment, and even military uniforms of the imperial army were all taken away by the enemy!"
"There are still sixteen people missing, but we found a letter among the corpses, which was written by the enemy and is related to the missing sixteen people!"
The team leader once worked in the intelligence department. He is half a China expert and knows Chinese characters. He scanned the contents of the letter and it became popular.
"On Bageya Road, it was the Eighth Route Army that attacked us, and they also wanted to use the missing sixteen seriously injured people in exchange for medicines from us!"
"This is simply wishful thinking. Not only will I not give them medicine, but I will also find them and kill them!"
The translator on the side quickly translated the content of the letter. The two squadron leaders were also angry after reading it, but it didn't last long before they calmed down.
"Captain, calm down!"
"I think we should agree to the Eighth Route Army's trade request!"
The captain fell silent and took the threatening letter written by Li Hao and read it again. Finally, the anger on his face disappeared and was replaced by a trace of helplessness.
Seeing that Captain Murata seemed ready to explain, he waved his hand and said directly.
"I know what you want to say?"
"Sixteen seriously injured members of the Imperial Army must be rescued and cannot fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, otherwise our brigade will become a shame to the entire Imperial Army!"
"Since the beginning of the war, there has been no incident of the Imperial Army being captured by the Chinese army. Although those sixteen people were all seriously wounded, prisoners are prisoners. Once the Eighth Route Army exposes them, it will definitely have a huge blow to the morale of the Imperial Army."
"When the time comes, not only will our superiors reprimand us, but maybe even the military headquarters will know about us!"
"The Eighth Route Army is so hateful. They even threatened us with this matter!"
"If we don't agree to the deal, we will make public the fact that they captured sixteen prisoners of the imperial army, which will embarrass us! Bagya Road!"
After he finished cursing, he stared at Captain Murata and asked: "Can our brigade collect the medicines that the Eighth Route Army requires?"
"Okay, there are not a lot of these medicines!" Captain Murata replied quickly.
"Then go and make arrangements. In exchange for those seriously injured people, you go and make arrangements yourself. This matter must not be leaked, especially not let the people in the company know!" the captain ordered with a stern face, feeling very bad.
Captain Murata nodded and accepted the order, and then asked with an idea: "Sir, do you want to arrange for troops to ambush near the trading point, or wait until the transaction is completed and send someone to follow them and find their hiding place!"
"Don't make matters worse!" the captain shook his head and refused.
"The performance of the Eighth Route Army tonight reminds me of the reminder telegram sent to us by the Front Army yesterday. They are not as easy to deal with as we imagined. All of us have underestimated the enemy!"
"Think about it, since the Eighth Route Army dares to propose a deal with us, then they will be on guard. I don't want this to cause a big fuss and let the commander know that as long as we quietly replace those seriously injured people, we can do it without any scruples after dawn.
Attack them, annihilate them all, and take revenge!"
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