Devil's Army

Seeing that Commander Qin was a little unconvinced, the regiment commander explained:

"The training intensity of special forces is much greater than that of ordinary soldiers, and there is a scientific and strict training elimination method. The elimination rate is quite high. Only 20 to 30 percent of the soldiers selected can stay in the special forces."

A regiment commander was afraid that Commander Tan would not believe him, so he told him:

"Our First Anti-Japanese Army now has more than 15 troops, and no more than 1500 special forces members."

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A week later, Captain Liu, with the members of their Sixth Squadron and a Golden Eagle drone, arrived at the north bank of the Xinqiang River on two wooden boats.

"Okay, master, you guys go back first." Captain Liu said to the boatman.

"We're going back, how are you going to get back then?"

"We'll find a way to get back by boat then."

"We don't have much to do when we go back, so we can just wait here for a few days."

Captain Liu was speechless. The people of Hunan really gave their all in supporting the fight against the Japanese invaders.

Captain Liu saluted the two boatmen and quickly went ashore with his team members.

Shortly after landing, Captain Liu and his men encountered a Japanese patrol team.

The sergeant of the Japanese squad greeted Captain Liu with a puzzled look on his face.

Captain Liu calmly returned the greeting, but he caught the sergeant's doubts.

Captain Liu and his team walked along a small path and came to a small forest. Captain Liu asked the three team leaders:

"Did you see the confusion in the eyes of the Japanese sergeant just now?"

"Did he find any flaws in us?" A team leader looked at the team members and then continued:

"There's nothing wrong with our appearance, right?"

Another team leader also looked at the team members and said:

"We haven't spoken yet, so there's no way we'll be exposed, right?"

"I think there must be something wrong with our organization." Captain Liu said after thinking for a while.

The team leaders did not understand what Captain Liu meant and looked at him together.

"You see, we have 108 members now, which is not enough for a squadron, and there are too many people in a squadron."

Everyone nodded in sudden realization, thinking that this was most likely the reason.

So Captain Liu divided the Sixth Squadron into two teams, each of which acted independently and gathered in the grove at night.

Captain Liu personally led a small team, and the captain of a small team led another small team.

Before leaving, Captain Liu instructed the team leader:

"This operation is mainly to collect information about the deployment of the Japanese strongholds. After the reconnaissance is completed, we can sneak attack small Japanese troops or patrol teams. Do not attack important Japanese strongholds."

The team leader nodded, and he and Captain Liu split into two groups to investigate the Japanese army's Jiumazui stronghold.

A squad leader left the grove and headed eastwards towards the Japanese Jiumazui stronghold. Captain Liu led his troops out of the grove and headed westwards towards the Japanese Jiumazui stronghold.

Jiumazui is located in Binhu Village, Lujiao Town, at the entrance of Xinqiang River into Dongting Lake, only five or six miles away from Xinqiang River. Its strategic location is quite important. The Japanese army deployed a certain number of troops for defense here.

Not long after Captain Liu parted ways with Captain Yi, a Japanese patrol team came from a distance.

Captain Liu felt like it was the Japanese patrol team that had just passed by.

This path was often visited by Japanese soldiers, so it was not convenient to take action. He whispered to the two team members next to him.

The two team members nodded, left the team and walked towards a small path nearby.

Soon, Captain Liu and his team met the Japanese patrol team. The sergeant of the Japanese patrol team still looked at Captain Liu with a puzzled look on his face.

The Japanese sergeant saluted Captain Liu and walked towards him. But before the Japanese sergeant could ask Captain Liu a question, a Japanese voice came from the path not far away:

"Catch him, catch him..."

Captain Liu waved his hand and ordered the Japanese patrol team to rush into the grove with them to check the situation.

There were shouts in Japanese from the front of the path again: "Catch him, catch him..."

Before the Japanese patrol team could catch up to find out what was going on, the special forces members who were surrounding them had already sent them to see the Emperor with daggers.

After cleaning the scene, Captain Liu arranged for five soldiers to transport the packaged guns and ammunition onto the boat first, while the other team members continued to march towards Jiumazui.

When they arrived at the Jiumazui stronghold, Captain Liu released a Golden Eagle drone to fly over the stronghold to scout the situation of the Japanese army.

A Japanese army truck stopped in front of the stronghold. The sentry came forward to check the documents and talked to each other in whispers.

Then, the Japanese trucks successfully entered the Jiumazu stronghold.

"It seems that the Japs have passwords, so it's not easy to sneak in." Captain Liu knew that the Japanese truck that stopped at the door just now was mumbling, and they must be communicating with passwords.

"There are two circular fortifications on both sides of the gate, with two Japanese soldiers on each. There are two lookout towers inside the gate, each with a heavy machine gun and two Japanese soldiers..." The second team leader said as he recorded the situation discovered by the Golden Eagle.

After observing for a while, the second team leader suddenly discovered that the Japanese troops were gathering.

Captain Liu stuck his head over and saw that the assembled Japanese troops were running eastward.