Devil's Army

Leng Feng stayed in the operations room after dinner, smoking one cigarette after another.

Gray Wolf and Wen Wolf walked into the operations room and handed Leng Feng the casualty report. Leng Feng looked at the casualty report: Team One had 3 dead and 4 injured. Team Two had 6 dead and 6 injured. A total of 20 casualties. There were only 35 special forces in total, and more than half of them were killed or wounded in this battle.

"Captain, we need to rest and recuperate from now on. We cannot engage in direct confrontation with the Japanese." Gray Wolf said.

Leng Feng shook his head and took a puff of his cigarette.

"I'm afraid that the tree wants to be still but the wind won't stop." Wenlang continued.

"Coal, steel, oil, and rubber are the Japanese' important strategic resources. We have made a big mess this time. I'm afraid we have been notified by the Japanese high-ranking officials." Leng Feng said helplessly.

"Incorporate some people from He Bangzi's guerrilla team. He has made good progress recently and now has more than 30 people." Gray Wolf said.

"No, although Hejiazhai is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the place is too narrow and the room for maneuver is quite limited. I plan to go out and find a place with more room for maneuver to build a base, and let He Bangzi's guerrillas guard this place."

"Gray Wolf, tell Black Wolf to intensify the training of these thirteen miners and strive to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible." Leng Feng continued.

"Wenlang, we need to strengthen our vigilance during this period. In addition to the secret sentries, the two teams will take turns to guard the place to prevent the Japanese from making surprise attacks."

"Okay." After that, the three of them smoked together in the war room without talking.

Three days passed like this, and the Japanese still hadn't come. Everything was still the same, except that there was an extra telephone line between the mountainside sentry post and the operations room. Fox Wolf installed two telephones seized from the Japanese artillery tower and the coal mine in the mountainside sentry post and the operations room. The telephone switch was installed in a small room next to the operations room.

Thirteen miners have completed basic training and are assigned to two teams, training normally with other team members.

Leng Feng sat alone in the operations room, closed his eyes, smoked, and thought about the future of the special operations team. "The special operations team currently has only more than 30 people. The strength is too small, like a small boat in the sea, which may capsize at any time. We have been fighting the Japanese for nearly a month. Especially this time, the bombing of the coal mine must have attracted the attention of the Japanese high-level officials. Should we withdraw first to avoid their attack? How should we resettle the civilians after we withdraw?"

"Ding-ling-ling, ding-ling-ling," the phone next to me rang. It was the first time I heard a phone ring since I came here.

"Hello?" Leng Feng asked after picking up the phone.

"Captain, Manager Zhang wants to enter the village with a team of seventy or eighty people. Will you let them in?" asked Red Wolf.

"Oh? Is that the shopkeeper Zhang who was recuperating here last time?"

"Yes."

"Let them in!"

"Gray Wolf, Gray Wolf." Leng Feng walked out of the operations room and shouted to Tan Hanbo who was training team members.

Gray Wolf quickly ran over and asked, "Captain, what's the matter?"

"Manager Zhang is coming. Let's go to the door to greet him."

"Oh, you come to eat again."

"If we weren't familiar with each other, I would have thought you were really that stingy." Leng Feng said as he kicked the gray wolf on the butt.

"I wouldn't dare to joke with him if we don't know each other well." Gray Wolf replied with a smile.

After a while, Zhang, the shopkeeper, led a team to the entrance of the village. Zhang, the shopkeeper, shook Leng Feng's hand and said:

"Captain Leng, I'm here to eat for free again. But this time I'm not eating for free. I'm here to bring you an important message."

"Manager Zhang, you're welcome. If you want to eat, you're always welcome here. This is your second home."

"I'm afraid the deputy captain won't be happy." Shopkeeper Zhang said with a smile to Gray Wolf.

"That depends on whether your news is worthwhile." Gray Wolf said seriously. After that, everyone laughed.

"Come, let me introduce him to everyone. He is the captain of the devilish army that the Japanese feared, the big devil Leng Feng, codenamed Blood Wolf." Shopkeeper Zhang pointed at Leng Feng and introduced him to the leader of the army he brought.

"This is the deputy captain, codenamed Gray Wolf. Hey, what's your name? I've been here for so many days and I still don't know your name."

"It's enough for you to know my name is Gray Wolf. Why are you asking about my birth date? Do you have a daughter to introduce to me?" Everyone laughed again.

"Hello, my name is Tan Hanbo, codenamed Gray Wolf." Gray Wolf stretched out his hand and shook hands with the team leader.

"This is Captain Li Guozhu of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army," Shopkeeper Zhang introduced.

Leng Feng also stretched out his hand and shook hands with Captain Li.

"Captain Leng, we just happened to run into Shopkeeper Zhang near Tieling County. We have heard a little about your name these days, so we followed him here to bother you and learn from you."

"Hey, don't bother me or not. As long as we are on the team fighting the Japanese, we are all brothers."

"What a great saying, 'All men in the world are brothers.'"

"Let's go, brothers, let's rest in the village and chat for a while." Leng Feng noticed that the morale of this team was not very high, and their clothes were in disarray. They must have been chased by the devils and run around everywhere. But he didn't expose them.

Everyone sat under a big tree in the village. Captain Li asked Leng Feng to share his experience in fighting the Japanese. Leng Feng waved his hand and said:

"The experience of fighting the Japanese is not something that can be explained in a few words. It has a lot to do with the accumulation of military skills and training in daily life."

"Then tell us about your heroic deeds in fighting the Japanese." shouted a team member.

"Well, there's nothing heroic about it. I just won by chance."

"Captain Leng is too modest. Let me tell you about the battle in which I personally experienced to seize the Japanese ammunition depot." Shopkeeper Zhang took over the topic.

"Good!" Applause broke out under the tree.

When Zhang the shopkeeper talked about how the nineteen of them were surrounded by more than four hundred Japanese soldiers, but they managed to break out of the encirclement at the minimal cost of two dead and one injured, they were all so surprised that their mouths opened wide without making a sound. Captain Li's heart was even more mixed with mixed feelings. More than three hundred of them were chased around by less than a hundred Japanese soldiers, and in the end only these eighty-two people were pulled out.

"Captain, look what we brought?" Diaolang heard the voice before he saw the person.

It turned out that the sniper team had shot a wild boar weighing more than 100 kilograms and two wild rabbits during training on the mountain. The four members of the sniper team excitedly carried the boar and the wild rabbit and trotted to Leng Feng. Diao Lang glanced at the team sitting under the tree and said, "Oh, there are guests."

At this time, Shopkeeper Zhang suddenly slapped his thigh and said:

"You only remembered to chat and forgot to talk about business." After saying that, he leaned close to Leng Feng's ear and said something.

Leng Feng listened to Manager Zhang's words with a serious expression and said:

"What is coming will come."