Chapter 396: Not Allowed to Join the Army
Chapter 396: Not Allowed to Join the Army
"What else is there to say? Just beat him up!"
"Yes, just do it!"
"Kill as many as you can. The worst that can happen is that I'll die with them!"
All the brothers started shouting.
Perhaps they were blinded by anger, and these guerrillas had only three words in their minds - kill the Japs.
But no one put forward any substantive suggestions.
Guerrilla leader Xiao Liangcai could only look at Yuan Shuai and ask.
"Brother Yuan Shuai, do you have any good suggestions?"
"I'll do the same as my brothers. We'll just beat them. If the Japs concentrate their forces together, it might be a little difficult to deal with them. But now they're in small teams, so we can fight a guerrilla war with them and defeat them one by one!"
"However, the Japanese are probably looking for us and are using these people as bait. They need to find our camp first! So, when we evacuate after the battle, we can't just go back to this camp..."
"Also, gather the people around us and recruit as many of them as possible to join the anti-Japanese team. Similarly, don't bring them here. Otherwise, once the Japanese know the location of our camp, it will be easy for them to surround us..."
After a brief talk.
Yuan Shuai began to assign tasks.
This time, Yuan Shuai left behind a platoon and a cooking squad to guard the camp.
Other guerrillas moved quickly in platoons.
Yuan Shuai's team has a total of eighteen brothers, divided into two classes.
One class is led by Yuan Shuai.
The other class was led by Hu Dacai, and each class brought a local guerrilla to lead the way to prevent them from getting lost.
All combat units acted separately, and started fighting the enemy as soon as they saw them. After the battle, they quickly collected the spoils and moved on to the next target.
Soon, Yuan Shuai and Hu Dacai each found a small group of Japanese devils.
Gunshots soon rang out.
Other guerrillas had also begun to find their targets and opened fire on the Japanese.
After all, there are many local guerrillas here who are quite familiar with the terrain.
After climbing up the mountain and seeing the Japanese from a distance, they immediately took a shortcut.
For a moment, the entire mountain area was filled with gunfire.
However, this made the Japanese regiment commander so angry that his face turned pale and he cursed.
Originally, he wanted to provoke the guerrillas, and after luring them out, he would have his troops hold them back so that they could be surrounded. If he couldn't hold them back, he would send people to find the guerrillas' camp to facilitate their encirclement and suppression.
But he forgot that what the guerrillas are best at is guerrilla warfare.
His troops were dispersed and organized into squads.
The Eighth Route Army guerrillas were basically organized into platoons, and their number was almost three times that of the Japanese squad.
Moreover, the guerrillas had previously defeated a battalion of Japanese invaders together with the Black Wolf Army, and were well-equipped with weapons and ammunition.
These teams were eliminated one by one.
By nightfall, the Japs not only failed to find the Eighth Route Army's camp, but also lost two squadrons, more than 400 people.
The Japanese regiment commander must quickly gather the separated troops back and make plans.
Yuan Shuai and others also returned to the guerrilla camp in the dark.
Back at the camp, all the returning brothers were extremely excited.
Because this operation was no longer a matter of the few against the many, but the many against the few, and almost every platoon had a Czech machine gun and two Type 99 light machine guns.
When they were on the move, they would lie in ambush on the enemy's roads.
So, everyone from every platoon came back.
All were still alive, with only a few minor injuries.
Not only that, along the way, Yuan Shuai and some guerrillas also found some ordinary people hiding in the mountains.
They then settled these people down, and when it got dark, they sent people to pick them up.
As a result, this operation brought back more than 300 civilians.
When many villagers heard that they had killed so many Japanese devils, they signed up to join the guerrillas.
Even children and women signed up, wanting to kill the Japanese and avenge themselves.
The guerrilla leader only selected strong young and middle-aged men, and did not accept children, women, or people who were a little older.
Because he felt that the reason why Yuan Shuai's team was so good at fighting was because of their great strength and speed.
However, children, the elderly and women were far behind in strength and speed. They would definitely not be able to defeat the Japanese in a bayonet fight, so they simply refused.
These children, women and elderly people in their fifties and sixties all ran over to Yuan Shuai, shouting.
"Brother, please give us some justice. Why can't we go to the battlefield? Is it just because we are old?"
"That's right. Even though I'm over 50, I can still work in the fields and carry logs and trees!"
"I'm sixty years old, and I can still go down to the river and cast a net to fish!"
"Although I'm already sixty years old, I was also an old hunter before. This musket has been with me for decades!"
"We women also want to join the army. Why can't women go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese?"...
The bursts of shouting made all the brothers of the Black Wolf Army cover their ears with their hands.
Especially the women's voices, which are louder than the men's, just like a shrew scolding in the street.
The fat man couldn't help but whispered to the monkey.
"My Lord, these Hunan women are so hot!"
"Nonsense, people in Hunan eat chili peppers all day long, how can it not be spicy!"
"Cough cough!"
At this time, Yuan Shuai walked out of the room.
He had gone to bed early and wanted to have a good rest, but was woken up by these people.
In fact, in the entire Black Wolf Army camp, except for the three brothers on guard, everyone else had already fallen asleep and was woken up by the noise.
"What are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you yelling at me so late at night instead of going to sleep?"
Yuan Shuai walked while shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Whoever yells another word will be dragged out and shot!"
Yuan Shuai’s voice was so loud that it could be heard throughout the entire Black Wolf Army camp, and it directly drowned out the shouting noises.
For a moment, the noisy crowd shut up.
No one expected that this official would be so powerful. If someone said something wrong, he would be dragged out and shot. Is this still a guerrilla?
Aren’t guerrillas all reasonable?
Yuan Shuai walked up to these people, glanced at them, and then shouted loudly.
"Who takes the lead!"
"Sir, I, I'm the leader!"
An old man carrying a musket on his back raised his right hand and said.
"Sir, if you want to execute someone, just shoot me. It has nothing to do with these young men. It was me, an old man, who brought them here! But before I die, I want to say one thing: the Japanese have come to our doorstep. Is it wrong for us to want to join the army and kill them?"
"Yes, of course! If you want to join the army, just go find Lao Xiao. He is in charge of recruiting soldiers, and I am in charge of sleeping. You have found the wrong person!"
"But they didn't want us, saying we were too old, too young, too female, and they wouldn't let us join the army at all!"
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