Bright Sword: Japs, times have changed

Just as Xu Lang said, the whole operation went very smoothly.

In less than ten minutes, two donkey carts loaded with various supplies swaggered out of the city right under the noses of the Japanese.

As for Xu Lang's team, except for a few men guarding the city gate, the rest of them took off their yellow skins, put on civilian clothes, and left the county one after another.

The people in charge of guarding the city gate will also leave when the Japanese go back for dinner, and Xu Lang will arrange people to meet them outside the city.

Even when they arrived at the agreed meeting point outside the city, Zhang Yuntian still hadn't calmed down.

How bold!

They didn't treat the Japanese as human beings at all!

A truckload of supplies and a truckload of weapons and ammunition were transported out right under the noses of the Japanese, and it was the Japanese who removed the roadblocks themselves.

If he hadn't experienced it himself, he would never have believed that such a thing could happen.

Xu Lang's men kept gathering together. Every time they met someone, they would take weapons from the car. No matter what time or situation they faced, they would feel at ease as long as they had powerful weapons in their hands.

There were thirty-four people in the team. Excluding the seven people guarding the city gate, there should be twenty-seven people. However, half an hour later, two people still had not appeared.

Seeing no one coming, Lin Qiang suddenly had a bad feeling and immediately said to Xu Lang, "No more waiting. We can't stay here for long. Let's leave now."

"Platoon Leader Lin, what do you mean?"

Facing Xu Lang's questioning, Lin Qiang responded bluntly: "You know what I mean. Either your two men are unwilling to join the Eighth Route Army, or they have tipped off the Japanese!"

"Do you still think they were walking too slowly? Or were they exposed and caught by the Japanese?"

These few words completely made Xu Lang give up the idea of continuing to wait. He also knew that there were only two possible outcomes as Lin Qiang mentioned.

He stood up, looked at the brothers who had taken off their yellow skins, and said, "Brothers, I, Xu Lang, do not ask you to follow me wholeheartedly. I only ask that you stop being traitors in the future. If any of you still want to leave, you can leave now. I will not make things difficult for anyone."

"Captain, I won't leave! I said I'll make the devils pay with blood!"

"Brothers are willing to come out with you, and have no intention of leaving, Captain, none of us will leave!"

"That's right! None of us will leave!"

Xu Lang raised his hand to calm the excited crowd, then pointed at Lin Qiang and said, "From now on, we will be soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. In this team, we only have one platoon leader. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

Now was not the right time to lecture him. Lin Qiang told everyone to move immediately and said to Xu Lang and Zhang Yuntian, "You two will cover the rear. Yuntian, set some tripwires."

"Yes!"

Zhang Yuntian took a few grenades and a rifle from the donkey cart and said to Lin Qiang, "Don't worry, Platoon Leader. As long as the Japanese dare to chase us, we will kill as many as we can!"

Xu Lang also pulled out his own pistol and released the safety: "Haha, that's for sure. I didn't expect that we would be fighting side by side so soon!"

"No more fighting!"

Lin Qiang emphasized, "If the Japanese pursue us, use the woods to delay them. Remember, don't fight to the death. Even if the two of you kill all the pursuers, it won't be as good as your safe return. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

Xu Lang was more formal and saluted, "Yes! Platoon Leader!"

Lin Qiang, who was about to turn around, saw Xu Lang saluting and said unhappily, "Remember, from now on, no matter where or when, you are not allowed to salute!"

Xu Lang was confused and asked, "Why?"

"why?"

Lin Qiang pointed at his head and said, "Don't you understand the principle of capturing the leader first? When killing the Japanese, shouldn't we also kill their commander first?"

"That's true."

Xu Lang chuckled: "I'll remember that, Platoon Leader."

Before leaving, Lin Qiang still warned with some concern: "Remember, don't fight too long!"

Although he was still very worried, Lin Qiang did not dare to delay any longer, lest the Japanese pursuers really catch up with him. If that happened, not only would the supplies be lost, but those who had not yet entered the base would probably suffer a lot of losses.

"be quick!"

Lin Qiang directed the crowd: "Come over here, help push the cart!"

With the help of manpower, the donkey cart moved forward much faster, and in a short while it traveled a long distance.

But the road ahead will be even more difficult to walk on, the slope will become steeper and steeper. The cart is carrying a lot of supplies, and the black donkey can easily pull it on a flat road.

As the slope became steeper, the black donkey found it increasingly difficult to move forward. Even with the help of others, its forward speed dropped significantly.

This wasn't going to work, and gunfire was already coming from the rear. Lin Qiang halted the team and shouted, "The supplies can't be lost. This is what I promised Xu Lang. Split the team in half. Ten people will help push the cart, and the rest will carry some supplies off the cart and carry them forward!"

The soldiers followed Lin Qiang's orders. When the team started moving again, the speed increased a lot, and the black donkey seemed to be less tired.

Lin Qiang didn't know what he was carrying. It was surprisingly heavy. At the beginning, he could still keep up with the team, but the further he went, the more he felt his legs were filled with lead, and it was very difficult to lift his legs every time.

The gunshots behind him became farther and farther away, until they could no longer be heard at all, and then Lin Qiang put down the box on his shoulder.

"boom!"

The box fell heavily to the ground. After taking a closer look, Lin Qiang almost laughed out of anger at himself.

There were so many boxes, but I chose the heaviest can...

This is different from the canned food boxes distributed by the system. This box contains 64 cans, while the one distributed by the system only contains 32 cans, which is half the weight.

Gritting his teeth and continuing to move forward, after arriving at the foot of the Black Cloud Village, Lin Qiang used a secret signal to call the sentry and asked him to go back and ask Hu Zi and others to bring the team down to help.

Soon, Hu Zi arrived with a large group of people, and most of the supplies on the donkey cart were quickly moved away. Now the black donkey did not find it difficult at all to go up the hill.

"Qiangzi, take your team and follow me."

Lin Qiang didn't even drink a sip of water. He took Hu Zi's gun and led the team back to meet Zhang Yuntian and Xu Lang.

The further back we went, the louder the gunshots became.

On a hill three miles away from Heiyun Village, Zhang Yuntian and Xu Lang were surrounded by Japanese devils.

At the foot of the mountain, a puppet soldier who had been Xu Lang's subordinate an hour ago shouted, "Captain, I'm Ma Zi. You'd better surrender. The locust army said that if you surrender and tell them the location of the Eighth Route Army's base, they will forgive you for what happened!"

These words made Xu Lang so angry that his teeth itched. If he hadn't had so little ammunition left, he really wanted to shoot that bastard a few times.

"Ma Zi, let me ask you, were you the one who reported the news to the devils?"

Ma Zi responded with a sense of pride: "Yes, it was me who reported the news, and it was me who brought the locust army here."

Xu Lang suppressed his anger and asked again, "What about Xu Lin?"

Xu Lin is a child he took in outside the city. He has always treated him as his own younger brother. He just turned an adult this year. This name was also given to him by Xu Lang. After his family was killed, Xu Lin became his only relative.

This name made Ma Zi's tone even more proud. He spoke word by word, afraid that Xu Lang might not hear clearly: "That little bastard didn't want to cooperate and even tried to stop me from leaking information. I killed him with a bayonet. Oh, Captain, you gave him that bayonet, and it's still stuck in his head!"

"Ma Zi, I *****! You *******!"

"Ah! Mazi, I'm *********!"

"I, Xu Lang, swear that I will use your blood as wine to pay tribute to Xiao Linzi's spirit in heaven!"

Behind the bunker, Zhang Yuntian held Xu Lang tightly, otherwise the other party would have rushed out of the trench and fought desperately.

"Xu Lang, calm down!"

"I can't calm down!"

Xu Lang tried desperately to break free, banging his body against the rocks, hoping to make Zhang Yuntian let him go out of his way out of pain.

"Calm down! Xu Lin may not really be dead!"

Seeing Xu Lang calm down a little, Zhang Yuntian struck while the iron was hot and said, "He said these words just to make you lose your mind and rush out to fight him. If you really do that, there will be no chance of you seeing Xu Lin!"

Xu Lang values this non-blood-related brother more than anything else and regards him as his only relative.

"Yuntian, if Xiao Linzi dies too, there will be no relatives of mine left in this world!"

This tall and strong man, a tough guy who had fought his way through a pile of corpses, was now crying like a tearful man.

Having never experienced the other person's pain, Zhang Yuntian could not empathize with him. He did not say anything to comfort him, but simply took out two bullets from the gun and put them into the cloth bag on his chest.

"Xu Lang, I promise you that after we break through, I will go with you to find Xiao Linzi. I believe he must still be alive, and I also believe that we will find him."

Men are like this, their emotions come and go quickly.

Wiping the tears from his face, Xu Lang took a deep breath and said, "If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body!"

While the two were talking, the gunfire below suddenly became intense, like a pile of firecrackers, exploding quickly but stopping just as quickly.

Until there was no more gunfire, Zhang Yuntian couldn't help but stick his head out to check the situation.

This sight made him stunned.

There were more than thirty Japanese pursuers, and excluding the few killed on the road, there were still twenty or thirty Japanese soldiers. Unexpectedly, they were all wiped out in just a few breaths!

"Platoon leader!"

Zhang Yuntian couldn't help but shout excitedly, "Xu Lang, it's the platoon leader! The platoon leader has come back to save us!"

"Where are the devils?"

"The devils have been wiped out!"

Hearing this, Xu Lang turned over and ran down the mountain without hesitation.

When he ran to Lin Qiang, he was already out of breath, but he still asked anxiously: "Where's Ma Zi? Where's Ma Zi?"

Lin Qiang smiled slightly and waved behind him.

Qiangzi came out with a puppet soldier and said with a smile, "Here they are! Mazi is here!"