Devil's Army

The battalion commander continued to shout at the puppet troops in the encirclement:

"I don't care whether you are from the Royal Guard or some other unit. You only have one way out now, which is to lay down your weapons and surrender."

Captain Guo was like a mouse in a bellows, in a dilemma. If he spoke, he was worried that the mission would be leaked. If he didn't speak, he might even start a war with his own people.

At this time, the battalion commander urged again:

"I'll give you five minutes. If you don't lay down your weapons and surrender, we will attack you!"

"Please don't shoot, we are carrying out a secret mission." Captain Guo really didn't know how to explain to the other party at this time.

"One more minute!" the battalion commander urged again.

"Captain, I feel like they are our troops now. They are surrounded but not panicking. Should we investigate thoroughly first?"

The battalion commander also felt that their momentum was different from the puppet troops he had seen before. But he still shouted at them:

"Half a minute left!"

"Call your Fifth Brigade Commander or Commander Tan, and he will explain some things to you."

In order to avoid misunderstanding, the commander of the first battalion immediately asked the signalman to call the commander of the third regiment and ask him to help ask the commander of the fifth brigade whether he knew about the Royal Guard unit that they were surrounded by.

When the Fifth Brigade Commander heard that the troops of the Twelfth Brigade had surrounded the Royal Guard, he hurriedly ordered the Third Regiment Commander:

"Why didn't you report your military operations? Stop the military operations immediately and withdraw to Kuancheng County."

The Third Regiment Commander was stunned by the Fifth Brigade Commander's scolding. Even if they had taken action, they would report to their Brigade Commander Du. How could they report to the Fifth Brigade Commander? However, he immediately carried out the Fifth Brigade Commander's order and asked the First Battalion Commander to withdraw his troops.

The squad leader of the Lubei guerrillas who came with a platoon leader to carry out the mission was previously a shepherd boy from a landlord's family. The landlord's eldest son was a company commander in the puppet army.

Once he lost a sheep from a landlord's house, and the landlord forced his sister to pay off the debt. Unable to bear the humiliation, his sister jumped into the river and committed suicide.

I have a deep hatred for the puppet army.

He saw that the troops released the puppet soldiers in the encirclement without firing a single shot, and asked in confusion:

"Second Platoon Leader, what's going on? Are you afraid that you can't defeat these puppet troops?"

"I don't know what's going on. Our battalion commander received an order from his superiors to withdraw to Kuancheng County."

The squad leader was so angry that he wanted to lead his troops to fight this puppet army.

The second platoon leader stopped him and asked:

"What do you want to do? Disobey military orders? I'll call your captain."

When the squad leader heard this, he had no choice but to pout and retreat with the troops of the first army.

After the commotion in the First Battalion, Captain Guo strengthened the patrols in the camp and moved the secret sentries two miles out.

The next morning, the troops continued to march towards Suizhong County.

On the way, Captain Guo noticed that the common people they occasionally met on the road either turned around and walked away, or hurried away from them with their heads down. There was no scene of smiling and greeting them as seen in the base.

At about 4:00 p.m., Captain Guo and his men arrived at Suian Village. This was already the territory of Suizhong County, and it was still more than 50 kilometers to Suizhong County. There was a Japanese and puppet army stronghold at the intersection.

In order to avoid being exposed, Captain Guo used the puppet army's usual method of oppressing the people. He forcibly occupied the village ancestral hall as a military camp. The troops who could not accommodate themselves lived in the open space next to the well in the village.

The villagers were very worried when they saw so many Er Gouzi coming, because the Er Gouzi were more vicious than the Japanese invaders in causing harm to the people.

Fortunately, these idiots only occupied their ancestral hall and did not do anything out of line.

At six o'clock the next morning, the troops were ready to set out again.

When they arrived at the intersection, Captain Guo and his men passed through the stronghold smoothly with the help of this leather suit and the documents they carried.

Captain Guo and his team walked another 30 kilometers and arrived at the foot of a mountain range in Yanshan, less than 20 kilometers away from Suizhong County.

Captain Guo and a team member came to the foot of the mountain and imitated the call of an owl.

After a while, a man came out of the woods on the hillside. He looked around Captain Guo vigilantly, and then led Captain Guo into the woods.

In the woods, Captain Guo met a battalion commander with whom he had dealt before, and hurriedly asked:

"Captain of the First Battalion, when did you arrive?"

"This is the Japanese-occupied area, and it is inconvenient to move around during the day. We arrived last night and stayed on this mountain for one night."

After that, the battalion commander and Captain Guo discussed the details of today's recapture of Suizhong County.

Everyone thought over the details of the operation and thought it was feasible. Then Captain Guo and the first battalion commander said goodbye and headed directly to Suizhong County.

The battalion commander then led his troops to secretly approach Suizhong County.