I used the Mo Dao (a type of long-handled sword) to fight the Japanese.

Not daring to delay, Nagano Yokosuke quickly ran out of the room, got into the car, and urged the driver to speed towards Laohekou. He didn't hang up the phone until the car had driven far away and Sato Toyohiro was on the other side.

Arriving at Laohekou in a great hurry, before the car had even come to a complete stop, Nagano Yokosuke jumped out and strode to the edge of the forest. He glanced into the forest briefly and then could no longer move, his body trembling involuntarily!

That's right, the very grain transport team he feared most was in the mountains, and Yamamoto Taikawa's body was lying there on its side, its pale face staring straight at him!

"Sir, when we found out..." Xie Zhiqiang, the captain of the puppet army guarding the area, leaned over to say something, but when Nagano Yokosuke turned to face him, his angry face frightened Xie Zhiqiang so much that he took a step back and dared not speak again.

"Continue! What did you discover?" Nagano Yokoo snapped.

“Hey!... When we found them, these Japanese soldiers looked like this. Counting them, there were nineteen whose clothes had been stripped off. I guess these clothes were put on by the people who attacked them, which means that the group that attacked them was not many, only nineteen people!..." Xie Zhiqiang swallowed and said.

This discovery truly startled him; the Japanese soldiers were notorious for their ferocity! Often, it took Chinese soldiers twice as much or even more to eliminate a single Japanese soldier, so winning with fewer troops like this was almost impossible!

However, this thing that everyone thought was impossible actually happened here, how could he not be shocked?

"What? Only nineteen men?" Nagano Yoko was shocked. When did the mighty Imperial Japanese Army fall to the point where nineteen men could kill sixty? If that's the case, how will the battle ahead proceed?

"Do you know who did it?" Nagano Yokoo continued to ask.

"No... I don't know!... There is no such force in Guya County or even the entire Yudu City..." Xie Zhiqiang replied.

"Baka! Bring all those corpses out; I want to inspect them myself!" Nagano Yokogaki roared, giving the order. How could he speak carelessly about something uncertain? Nineteen people? How could that be?

However, when the corpses were carried out and neatly laid out in front of him, the old Japanese soldier trembled again! Because he saw the familiar knife marks, the same kind of knife marks as those on the soldiers in the base!

The last time the base was bombed, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who escaped from the main road had similar wide knife wounds on their bodies. Afterwards, the killer could never be found; the story was that these men, unable to endure the poison, committed suicide with a piece of metal. More than a month later, similar knife wounds reappeared, meaning these nineteen men were indeed the guys who bombed the base!

Nagano Yokosuke didn't know whether to be relieved or angry. These people had appeared again! They had even attacked their transport convoy and robbed the grain being sent to the front lines!

No matter what, we absolutely cannot let them get away with this!

"Reporting to Lieutenant Colonel Sato Toyohiro, a soldier has come to report that a grain transport vehicle has been found in the mountains outside Huluzui!" Just then, a soldier came to report.

"Huh? Goodness! Are all those flours still there?" Nagano Yokosuke suddenly became excited, pleasantly surprised that he had found his target so quickly.

"They're gone!" the soldier reported.

"...Have Sato Toyohiro lead a team to search for those people as quickly as possible and take back the flour! Tell Sato that there are only nineteen of them, and tell him to boldly pursue them and find them! I will be there soon!" Nagano Yokoo decided to personally lead a team to meet these nineteen people. Could they have three heads and six arms to blow up the base and rob the transport team?

"Yes, sir!" the soldier quickly obeyed.

"Back to the county seat!" Nagano Yokoo glanced at the corpses on the ground, immediately got into the car, and sped towards the county seat. Once the enemy was discovered, they couldn't be allowed to escape. There were only nineteen men; with so many supplies, how could they possibly escape?

Soon, Nagano Yokoo personally led two hundred Japanese soldiers toward Huluzui, even bringing mortars with him!

The Japanese were able to find the car so quickly thanks to the tire tracks on the road. Yesterday, to avoid the Japanese, Mancang and his men didn't take the highway, but instead took a country road, which was basically a dirt road! Such a heavy car would naturally leave deep tire tracks, and they quickly confirmed their direction by asking around. Finding Huluzui by following the tire tracks wasn't difficult at all!

There was no other way. It wasn't difficult for a dozen or so people to hide, but it was almost impossible for seven large trucks to disappear silently under the noses of the Japanese!

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Deep inside the mountain valley at Huluzui, the brothers were taking shifts to transport flour back. At this moment, only six people remained there: Mancang, Huzi, Qingquan, Qingshui, Manxiang, and Mangui!

"Brother! Brother! Something's wrong! The Japanese have spotted those cars and are searching this way!" Just as everyone was preparing to load the flour onto the wheelbarrow, Manxiangpao, who was on lookout duty, came over to report.

"Huh? So fast? Quick, hide here and grab your weapons, get ready for battle!" Mancang was startled and quickly pulled over branches and weeds to cover the mountain of flour. After hiding, they grabbed crossbows and rushed out of the gourd-shaped opening. The others followed closely behind, with Hu Zi and Manxiang even grabbing their light-handled rifles and grenade launchers.

"Get up the hill! If we hold this 'gourd mouth' (a narrow passage between hills), the Japanese won't be able to get in!" Mancang said, pointing to the hill on the left.

The place is called Gourd Mouth because the two mountain peaks meet here, leaving only a valley ten or twenty meters wide to pass through the foot of the mountains. As you go in, the valley widens and opens up, just like a gourd! As long as the two mountain peaks are guarded, it won't be easy for the Japanese to get in!

At this point, they only had six men left, making a two-pronged attack impossible. If they could capture this steep hill on the left, the battle would be won!

Soon, the group climbed to the top of the hill and looked down. Dozens of Japanese soldiers were already searching along the path at the foot of the hill and would be entering Huluzui in about ten minutes.

No one dared to delay; they quickly set up their weapons and waited for the Japanese to arrive.

"Uncle Cang! Why don't we send Fujimoto Huang back to inform the brothers? There are too many Japanese!" Tiger worried when he saw the chaotic Japanese soldiers on the path. There were only six of them, so this battle would be difficult!

"It's too late! Don't worry, as long as the brothers run fast, we can still fight! At worst, we can lead the Japanese in circles in the mountains. As long as we confuse the Japanese, we'll be done!" Mancang said confidently.

"Huh? Okay! Mountain kids aren't afraid of going in circles!" Tiger was relieved to hear Mancang say that; they knew the mountain paths well!

"Going in circles is good! If we don't confuse the Japanese in these deep mountains and forests, this isn't the end of the game!" Manxiang was also confident. Don't be fooled by the number of Japanese soldiers; once they enter the mountains, it's the domain of these mountain savvy guys!