Devil's Army

The team members quickly tied the puppet soldiers into three groups of four, and the other two team members quickly picked up the guns on the ground.

Uncle Laogen changed his usual shaky gait and walked quickly into the room.

I saw Tian Xiuli humming a little tune at the table and combing her hair in front of a small mirror.

Uncle Lao Gen looked at the neatly dressed Tian Xiuli for a long while before asking:

"Lili, are you okay?"

"Dad, what's wrong? Slow down. What can happen to me?" Tian Xiuli asked puzzledly.

"Uncle Lao Gen, Tian Xiuli is fine. We were just acting." Mao Lang said with a smile.

Uncle Lao Gen let out a long breath and sat down against the door.

"Dad, you don't have it?" Tian Xiuli was a little flustered.

"It's okay, I was just scared by you." Uncle Lao Gen said with a smile.

"Uncle Lao Gen, you can't escape the fifteenth day even if you can't escape the first day. Miss Xiu Li is so pretty, aren't you afraid that she will be harmed by the devils?"

"Alas, what's the point of being afraid? There's chaos and war everywhere these days. Where can we hide?"

"Let Xiu Li serve as a soldier and go with us to the tribe. It is relatively safe there."

"It's not good for a girl to learn how to dance with guns and sticks."

"You don't have to wield guns and sticks to be a soldier. You can ask Xiu Li to join our anti-Japanese drama troupe. I saw that Xiu Li was a good performer just now." Wang Zhuangfei said with a smile.

"Anti-Japanese Drama Troupe?"

"We used performances to spread the message of resistance to the villagers and guide them to join the army."

"Perform a show? Dad, I want to go."

"Uncle Lao Gen, when the Japanese withdraw their troops, will you come with us?"

"I'm old and useless. Just take Lili away."

"Oh, Daddy, if you don't come with me, I won't be able to leave you alone."

"Okay, okay, we'll talk about it then."

At this time, a team member came to ask Wang Zhuangfei how to deal with the twelve puppet soldiers.

Wang Zhuangfei walked up to the group of puppet soldiers. They cried and begged for mercy:

"Sir, please spare our lives. We are just trying to make a living."

"Why are you here today? Did you come here specifically to search?"

"We didn't come here specifically to search. We were patrolling on the main road. It's all his fault." A puppet soldier pointed to another puppet soldier next to him and said, "He said there was a village here and asked us to come over to get some food. So those devils came with us."

"Let's deal with them all, otherwise they will bring the Japanese here to harm the villagers." Wang Zhuangfei said to a team member next to him.

"Sir, please spare us, please spare us. We will never bring the Japs here."

"Those five devils are dead. How are you going to explain this to them?"

"We were patrolling on the highway, and we were attacked by the devil's troops on the road. Five imperial soldiers were killed in the battle. The people from the devil's troops let us go because we are Chinese." The puppet army squad leader said quickly.

"Well, that makes sense. You will definitely not bring the Japanese here." Wang Zhuangfei asked again.

"We swear that we will never bring the devils here." The puppet soldiers rushed to express their opinions.

"Forget it, they are all Chinese, let them go. If the common people here are harmed in any way, we will hold them responsible," said Red Wolf.

Wang Zhuangfei nodded. The team members untied the ropes and released the twelve puppet soldiers.

The puppet soldiers hurriedly rushed towards the village entrance, fearing that Wang Zhuangfei and his men would suddenly change their minds again.

On the fourth day, the Japanese in Hujia Village had not yet withdrawn. Wang Zhuangfei decided that since he could not leave, he might as well develop his troops on the spot.

In order to prevent the situation of yesterday from happening again, Wang Zhuangfei set up three secret checkpoints from the village entrance to the small road intersection so that the troops could hide in the cellar in advance if any situation occurred.

During the day, after training, the troops helped the villagers with firewood chopping, water fetching, etc. The lightly injured members did not hide in the cellar, but were moving around on the ground, occasionally helping the villagers with some light work within their capacity.

In his spare time, Honglang would tell the villagers the truth about the Liutiaohu Incident; how the Japanese bombarded Beidaying and the elite troops of the Northeast Army retreated without a fight; how the Japanese carried out brutal and inhumane acts of killing, burning and looting on Chinese soil...

Gradually, the villagers loved to gather around Red Wolf when they had nothing to do, and listen to him tell them things they didn't know. Red Wolf also timely united the villagers and stimulated their bloodiness. They shared the same hatred and fought against the brutality of the devils.

Gradually, more and more villagers were willing to join their troops. Wang Zhuangfei distributed the 17 guns he seized the day before to them, but it was not enough. Wang Zhuangfei asked people to go to the cellar to take out the guns that were stolen from the checkpoint at the intersection in front of Tieling County a few days ago and distribute them to the new members.

Wang Zhuangfei trains team members in the village every day.

Of course, live-fire training was not conducted because of the fear that the Japanese would hear the gunshots.

Tian Xiuli also brought three sisters to join the army. In addition to teaching them some military skills, Red Wolf also taught them how to rescue the wounded on the battlefield and what they should pay attention to when treating the wounded.

The anti-Japanese activities in the small village were developing in full swing without being known to outsiders.