Lei Jian patted the shoulder of the leader of the puppet army and said, "Squad Leader Sun, you raise your head and look at me, can you still know me?" No, no, no, it was dark that night, you may not have seen my face clearly, I was the Leader Lei who ordered you to be released. ”

As soon as Sun Houzai heard that the half-grown child standing in front of him was the famous Lei Jian who was called the 'Devil of the Imperial Army' by the devils, although he was released in the city that time, he suddenly saw the real Buddha in broad daylight, and he was so frightened that his legs were weak and he was about to kneel, and the other puppet soldiers 'pounced' and fell to the ground.

Lei Jian grabbed Sun Hou Zai, the squad leader of the puppet army who was about to kneel down, and said with a playful expression: "Squad leader Sun, how can you hear my name and make such a big salute, isn't this torturing the life of me, a child who has not yet grown up?" Stand up, let's talk about it if we have something to say. ”

Sun Hou Tsai immediately stood upright, saluted and reported: "Report to the Eighth Road Leader Lei, I, Sun Hou Zai, have really not done anything bad since I was let go of you that day, and I really haven't done anything bad, and besides, a few people you hid in the courtyard in the city, thanks to the fact that I risked losing my head before following the devil into the courtyard to search, and reported to your Eighth Road brothers, or none of them would be able to escape, and they would all die." ”

"Is that really the case?"

"Report to the head of the Eighth Road Thunder, if my Sun Hou Tsai tells a little lie, there will be five thunders in the sky, that is, he will marry his daughter-in-law and have a child, I will call him not ******** good, okay, Sun squad leader is serious, I believe in you, you come here, I have something to ask you." Lei Jian pulled Sun Houzi in a friendly way, walked out of the circle surrounded by warriors, pulled him under a tree, patted Sun Monkey's shoulder and sat on the ground.

Lei Jian said to Sun Houzai sincerely for a while, then pulled him up, held Sun Houzai tightly with both hands, and thanked him again: "Thank you, squad leader Sun, for understanding the righteousness, according to the method we discussed, just proceed so carefully, and when Yecheng is attacked, you will be considered meritorious." ”

After a short time, more than a dozen puppet soldiers walked out of the woods, escorted more than 20 young adults who were tied up and tied together, and walked towards Yecheng with shouts and curses.

Passing through the village of Xu Banzhuang, walking out for more than a mile, encountering a small group of enemy puppet troops, seeing that Sun Houzai had captured so many laborers at once, the devil Cao Chang stopped and shouted: "Your great power, these laborers captured, all handed over to my troops, you go back, catch more laborers, and the imperial army will greatly reward you." ”

Sun Houzai pleaded with embarrassment: "Taijun, we have a class, and it took a lot of effort to catch these laborers, and the imperial army took them away halfway, once I can't catch the laborers again, I'm afraid I will be punished when I go back, please Taijun ......." ”

"Baga, you dare not listen to the orders of the imperial army, and your nonsense will be dead and dead." The devil Cao Chang waved his hand to the Japanese soldiers who brought in and ordered: "Take these captured laborers away." ”

Lei Jian, who was mixed in the labor team, hinted to Sun Houzai, and under the push and shoving of the devils, Lei Jian and more than two dozen soldiers walked towards the county seat.

Sun Houzai took his puppet army squad and walked into the woods again, not for a long time, and escorted out a group of laborers with guns, and the remaining soldiers in the woods at this time, under the leadership of Wang Xiaoliang, walked into the larger village of Xu Banzhuang.

Wang Xiaoliang took forty or fifty remaining soldiers, disguised as young adults from the village, and as soon as he entered the village, he was surrounded by several old people in the village, and an old man said: "You people, you are really stupid, the little devils and the puppet army are catching young and middle-aged laborers everywhere, and the younger ones in the village have escaped, and you actually sent them to the door yourself, isn't this looking for death?" Hurry up and run for your life, once you are exposed by the enemy puppet army, it will be too late to escape. ”

At this moment, a few half-grown children ran in from outside the village, shouting as they ran: "Oh no, our village is surrounded by little devils again, so let's hide." ”

When the villagers heard that the enemy puppet army had surrounded the village again, they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran home, bolted the door and hid.

When Wang Xiaoliang heard that the village was surrounded by the enemy puppet army, he smiled happily: "This time there is a chance, let's divide into a group of three or five soldiers, spread out in the village, and wait for the enemy puppet army to arrest us to repair the moat, but I will make it clear to you first, we can't let the enemy see it, we are consciously waiting to be caught, and we can't hide too tightly, let go of the rare opportunity to be caught as a laborer, act." ”

In the blink of an eye, forty or fifty warriors, separated in twos and threes, were scattered in different parts of the village.

Suddenly, chickens and dogs jumped in the village, and the enemy puppet army rushed into the village, smashed the door and set fire to it, and arrested those who could do the work, and in half an hour, they arrested fifty or sixty young adults, mixed with a few half-grown children.

The captain of the devil squad gathered these arrested laborers together, and shouted arrogantly: "You are now going to enter the city with the imperial army to repair the moat, whoever dares to resist halfway, you people, even the poor people of this village, will all die and die." ”

Under the obscenity of the enemy puppet army, he was arrested as a laborer who repaired the city moat, and was scolded by the enemy puppet army and taken out of the village, some bold old men and old women slipped out of the door, and three or five of them shook their heads together and sighed: "Hey, these descendants are so unlucky, they were arrested by this group of bastards as soon as they entered the village, and I don't know if they can come back alive this time, hey, what kind of world is this." ”

More than 20 laborers who were escorted to the north gate of the city returned to the city by the enemy puppet army who oversaw the work.

The enemy puppet army that supervised the work gathered the laborers who had just arrived, and a devil squad leader began to lecture: "You are all pigs, laborers captured by the imperial army, and you will soon receive tools to repair the moat. ”

After the leader of the devil squad finished speaking, he waved his hand and ordered the enemy puppet army around him: "Give the tools to the pigs, strictly monitor them, and tell them to start work quickly." ”

Lei Jian, who was mixed in the labor team, received a big shovel, the head of the shovel was pointed, which was larger than the military shovel in the army before the crossing, he frowned and scolded in a low voice: "The little devil is really vicious, the Japanese army's combat readiness shovel is small and flexible, who knows where to get such a big shovel, not to mention a day's work, even if you shovel soil for one or two hours in a row, your shoulders will be sore and you can't lift it." ”

Li Gang approached Lei Jian and whispered, "Boss, why haven't they come over yet?" Nothing will happen, right? ”

"Don't worry, this kid Xiaoliang is quite flexible now, he will find a way to get in." Just as the two were talking, he turned his face and saw more than 20 laborers escorted from the highway north of the city, and when these escorted laborers approached, Lei Jian now had Zhang Ting and them inside, and he immediately bowed his head and said to the soldiers around him: "Another batch has arrived." ”

The enemy puppet army in charge of overseeing the work, saw the laborers who received the tools standing still, and they all stared at the laborers who came over, and a devil captain, waved the leather whip in his hand and scolded: "Bastard, start work quickly, whoever is slack, my gun will be killed." ”

Lei Jian and them, driven into the moat that had been dug more than a meter deep by the enemy puppet army, have not been irrigated yet, and it should be called a trench more appropriately.

The trenches were full of laborers, each less than three or five paces away from the other, and the little devils were using the tactic of digging a moat with more people, forcing the laborers to keep lifting the excavated soil out of the trench.

Lei Jian took more than 20 soldiers and was arranged in a moat plot that had just begun to be excavated, and he said in a low voice: "Don't be too tired, the more you do, the more you can attract the attention of the enemy puppet army, but you can't grind foreign workers under the nose of the devil, take a good look at how the surrounding laborers are doing, and find the essentials, so that you will not be suspicious by the enemy puppet army." ”

Just when Lei Jian and the others began to dig and lift the soil, the second group of captured soldiers walked by, one by one, they didn't dare to say hello, they could only make eye contact, and they were a kind of trust and heroism between their expressions.

When Zhang Ting missed from Lei Jian's side, he lowered his voice and said, "Boss, it's up to Brother Wang and them now." ”

"Don't squeak, tell the soldiers to see what other laborers are doing, learn a little so that their identities will not be exposed, once any soldier is exposed, you must hold back, don't be impulsive, and focus on the overall situation." Lei Jian lowered his head and said quickly as he worked.

Lei Jian buried his head for a while, raised his head and looked at the road to the north of the city, at this time, how much he hoped that Wang Xiaoliang and the remaining forty or fifty soldiers would also be 'caught' by the crazy enemy puppet army? If they don't get here in time, it will delay the big thing.

(End of chapter)