Sun Liang and his brothers in the company had been hiding in the leeward ditch of this hill for two days, and in order to avoid being exposed, all their eating, drinking, and Lazar were in this ditch.

But as time went on, they did not see even the shadow of the enemy, and many of the brothers began to grow impatient.

"Could it be that the enemy has retreated?" The deputy company commander was worried.

If it was really the enemy who retreated, even if they hid here for as long as they wanted, it would be fruitless.

"No, they disguised themselves as us to make the fathers and villagers hostile to us, so since they drove us away, they must jump out and take over this area, otherwise everything they did was meaningless." Company commander Sun Liang firmly believed in his own judgment.

"But we've been hiding here for two days, and we haven't even seen a ghost, so maybe they saw through our plan?" The long platoon said with a solemn face.

Company Commander Sun Liang still shook his head: "We returned at night this time, and we still walked on a remote path, and the whole operation was very secretive, they shouldn't know that we have returned, so let's wait patiently." Sun Liang comforted everyone.

The deputy company commander couldn't help but remind: "Our dry food will last for two more days at most."

"I know that I will settle the matter of dry food when the time comes, and I will definitely not let the brothers go hungry."

Although Sun Liang was also anxious in his heart, his face still showed a confident look, and he was slowly maturing towards a qualified grassroots commander.

Just as Sun Liang and several of his officers were talking together, a bird's cry suddenly came from in the distance.

Hearing this bird call, Sun Liang and the others all grabbed their guns and became nervous as if they were facing a great enemy, because the bird call was an observation post signaling that someone was coming.

Soon, a brother draped in a sack and covered in branches and grass came running from a distance.

"It's our investigative brother."

Looking at the brothers who rushed back, Sun Liang faintly looked forward to it, and beckoned everyone to put away their guns.

"What's going on?"

When the brother who had gone out to investigate ran to the hidden ditch behind the hills, Sun Liang couldn't wait to ask.

"We heard several gunshots, coming from the cotton stacks." The brother in charge of the investigation was relieved of his breath when he finished speaking.

"Gunshots?"

Hearing the report of the investigating brothers, Sun Liang's face showed joy: "Can you tell what kind of gunshot it is?"

The scout replied, "There is the sound of a seventy-nine rifle, and a crooked machine gun."

"It should be the enemy!" When Sun Liang heard the scout's description, he immediately judged.

The brothers of several of their companies were responsible for each area in each company, and they were responsible for the areas of Fanjiawei, Yangjiagou, Mianduo, and Huangjiazhuang.

Other companies will not run back without saying hello, after all, they have to squat, so it must be the enemy who appears in the direction of the cotton stack.

Sun Liang and the others were originally ordered to come over to encircle and suppress the infiltration of the devils, but as soon as they came, they carried a big black cauldron, and they had grievances that they could only swallow in their stomachs, saying that they were not aggrieved, it was false.

But they can't blame the people, because there are more or less dead people in every village, and it's normal for people to be angry.

And the reason why they killed a horse gun was that they wanted to catch the enemy who had planted the blame for them, and the painstaking efforts were worth it, but now there is finally news of this enemy.

"Everyone is ready to fight!"

Hearing that the enemy was on the cotton stack, Sun Liang was already a little impatient to go over and kill them, and let out a vicious breath.

Soon, the brethren, who had been hiding in this ditch for two days, were loaded with bullets, their bayonets unsheathed, and a forest of bayonets was erected in the cold light.

Under the leadership of the company commander Sun Liang, the brothers were murderous and wanted to go straight to the cotton stacks where the gunshots came.

The brethren were very fast, and in a short time they reached the perimeter of the cotton stack.

In the face of this group of traitors who are about to shoot and kill people at every turn, although the villagers are extremely angry, they have to kill pigs and sheep to entertain them.

Now the villagers in the cotton stack are very sorry in their hearts, regretting that they were carried away by anger at that time, wronged the officers and soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and drove them away.

If the officers and soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Corps were here now, these traitors would never dare to be so arrogant.

Seeing these enemies eating and drinking in the village, the villagers missed the officers and soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Corps even more, they were so good.

These traitors are now a little unscrupulous, they rely on their own people to have guns, they don't take anyone seriously, and now in this neighborhood, they are the boss, and no one can disobey them.

"When we're full of food and drink, let's clean up their bullshit joint defense militia self-defense force by the way."

Now the only threat to them is the joint defense militia self-defense forces in each village, so Liu Heitan is ready to attack them first.

"It's just a few mud legs, we can kill them with a raise of our hands!" The traitors shouted arrogantly as they drank.

The militia joint defense and self-defense forces have them in every village, sometimes there are more than 20 or 30 people, and there are more than 10 people at the few, and the main thing is joint defense and self-protection, and in the event of an attack, they will only support each other.

Although there is also a militia joint defense and self-defense force in Yangjiagou and Cotton Stacks, the organization is loose and the training is insufficient.

Compared with the Lao Batou Joint Defense Self-Defense Force led by Xiao Yan in the further north area, and the Sungoutou Joint Defense Self-Defense Force led by Zhang Baozi, it is more than one grade behind.

Usually, these members of the Joint Defense Self-Defense Force hold guns to scare and scare bandits, and if they really fight, they are not much stronger than ordinary croppers, which is also Liu Heitan's willingness not to take them seriously.

But what Liu Heitan didn't know was that the Joint Defense Self-Defense Force, which he looked down on at the moment, received a report from the villagers who slipped out of the cotton stack, and after learning that the cotton stack had been attacked by traitors, they hurriedly assembled and rushed to the cotton stack.

Although they drove away the Northern Jiangsu Army, they also hated the traitors very much, and now more than 100 joint defense militia members were quickly assembled in the surrounding five or six villages, armed with a variety of weapons, to eliminate the traitors in the cotton stacks and defend their homeland.

Although the militia is inferior in weapons and not strong in combat, it is better because of its high morale, after all, it is to defend their homeland.

Because the traitors were all in the village, and there were sentry posts around them, Sun Liang, who rushed to the cotton stack, did not know the situation in the village, so they did not dare to act rashly, for fear of accidentally injuring the villagers, and prepared to send someone to sneak into the village after dark to find out and then do it.

But before they could do anything, more than 100 babbling militia joint defense self-defense units rushed to the outside of the cotton stack.

"The descendants of the villages, the traitors have already entered the cotton stack, what do you say!"

The leader of the joint defense team was a respectable squire, wearing a thick cotton coat that still could not hide his erect belly, but at this moment he was holding a shell gun in his hand, and his face was full of anger.

"Rush in! Kill them all! ”

The members of these militia self-defense units are all young people from various villages, and they are young and vigorous, and now there are many people, so they are emboldened.

"Rush me!"

The squire was very satisfied, and with a wave of his hand, he rushed to the cotton stack village with the young men.

Seeing this group of militiamen rushing towards the village in such a mess, Sun Liang, who was hidden in the distance, secretly shouted badly, where is this war, it is completely nonsense.

"Prepare for battle!"

Sun Liang pulled out his shell gun and ordered coldly behind him.