Devil's Army

"The Japs were completely wiped out today, not a single one escaped." Leng Feng held a cigarette in his right hand, exhaled a puff of smoke and thought:

"If no one escapes and reports back, the Japanese in the county will not know what happened today. So there shouldn't be too many Japanese coming tomorrow, at most a small team of more than 50 people. Our weapons and communications are not much different from those of the Japanese, and fighting them is simply a dimensionality reduction attack. It's not a problem to deal with this small team of Japanese, and the villagers should not need to move."

"Captain, Captain Leng," He Guihua shouted and walked towards Leng Feng when he was thinking about the problem.

"Oh, He Guihua, what's the matter?"

"During lunch, I asked Sister Chunhua to arrange for a few people to clean up the ancestral hall for the troops to stay. What do you think of the arrangements?"

"Okay, let's go take a look together." Leng Feng and He Guihua walked into the ancestral hall together.

"This house is quite big and can be used for sleeping for a large group of people," He Guihua introduced.

"Sister Wanting should sleep in the small room next to it?"

"I think it's okay," Leng Feng replied.

"This room next door will be used as a makeshift hospital. He Guihua, are there any fellow villagers in the village who know how to do carpentry work?"

"Someone who knows carpentry?" He Guihua thought for a moment and said, "Uncle He used to know a little bit about carpentry, but unfortunately he was killed by the Japanese some time ago."

"Oh, I'll arrange for a few team members to chop some wood some other day, and we'll make a few beds and an operating table ourselves."

"Arrange this room. Find us a few tables and put them side by side in the middle. Put two rows of stools on either side. This will be our war room."

"How many tables and chairs do you need?" He Guihua asked.

"Four tables and twenty stools. Ten on each side."

"It's easier to find a table, but it's harder to find 20 stools of similar size." He Guihua said with some embarrassment. "How about a long bench?"

"That's fine. Let's borrow it from the fellow villagers first, and then return it to them when we have finished it ourselves."

"Add a lock to this room in the corner and make it a commissary room."

"Captain, captain, captain." Leng Feng was talking to He Guihua when a few shouts and noisy footsteps were heard outside the ancestral hall.

Leng Feng and He Guihua looked towards the entrance of the ancestral hall. He Chunhua and several women from the village came over carrying a lot of baskets.

"Captain, it's time to eat." He Chunhua called.

"Oh, thank you for your hard work, Sister Chunhua. You are pregnant, so you have to be careful." Leng Feng stepped forward and took the two baskets from He Chunhua's hands.

"It's okay. We country people are not that pampered." He Chunhua said with a smile.

"Captain, call everyone to come over for dinner."

"Wait a minute, there are still some comrades digging fortifications outside the village, preparing to deal with the Japanese invaders tomorrow." Leng Feng had just finished speaking when a noisy voice came from the entrance of the village.

Leng Feng walked out of the ancestral hall and shouted to everyone:

"Comrades, fellow villagers, wash your hands and get ready to eat. Sister Chunhua and the others have prepared dinner for us."

"Okay, let's eat. I'm so tired." A fellow villager holding a pickaxe put the pickaxe at the door of the ancestral hall and shouted.

"I say, Loach, it's better to die of exhaustion than to be beaten to death by the Japanese, right?" another fellow said with a smile as he put down a shovel.

"Come here, loach, brother, let me feel it and see if it is dead." Another villager who was a little taller than him and holding a hoe said with a smile.

"Get lost, Brother Hu, you are not angry."

"Didn't you say you were dead tired?" Brother Huzi replied.

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd!

"Comrades, thank you for your hard work, fellow villagers." Leng Feng said while eating sweet potatoes.

"Captain, it's not hard. We feel at ease with you around," Hu Zi replied.

"We are going to make dumplings for the Japanese tomorrow, big dumplings." Leng Feng said with a smile.

"The filling for the dumplings will be the group of devils we'll be dealing with tomorrow." Gray Wolf also said with a smile.

"Hahahahahaha!" Bursts of laughter came from the crowd.

After dinner, the villagers went back in groups of three or two. He Guihua asked Leng Feng:

"Should we go back and live here, or should we live with the main group?"

"Live together with the main force. You are no longer guerrillas, but the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. Living together will make it easier to manage and handle emergencies."

"Okay, then I'll live with Sister Wanting."

"Row"

"The original special forces members go to the operations room, and the other members can take a rest." Leng Feng said and walked straight to the operations room.

The special forces stood in two rows in the operations room. Leng Feng stood in the middle and said:

"I estimate that the Japanese will send at most one squad tomorrow, more than 50 people. Gray Wolf, you lead the first squad to ambush on the left hillside, and Wen Wolf will lead the second squad to ambush on the right hillside."

"Take my gunshot as a signal, the first squad of bombers..."

"Is everything clear?"

"clear!"

"Check the clock now, it's 8:13. Set the wakeup call half an hour earlier, get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning, and set off at 6 o'clock." Leng Feng ordered.

"Grey Wolf, arrange a team of two guards on the mountainside. One of them will be our special forces soldier and one guerrilla soldier. They will change positions every four hours. Also arrange a team of guards at a hidden location at the entrance of the village."

"Okay, I'll arrange it!" replied the Gray Wolf.

"Is there anything else to add?" Leng Feng asked again.

"no"

"There are only more than fifty Japanese devils, child's play," Diaolang said easily.

"If there is nothing else to add, then the meeting is adjourned. Everyone go back and rest!"