"You know what? The county town has passed the soldiers this morning, and the cannon has been rumbling for a while, and the ash accumulated on the beams of my house has fallen off" Dashi Village, which is the closest to Zhangwu County, got up early and talked about it, and a group of people gathered under the old elm tree at the head of the village, and everyone was talking about the morning burst of gunfire.

"That's not for sure, maybe it's the Japanese soldiers in the county town who are panicking, and they're playing" Some people don't believe that the county town is a soldier, and anything can happen in these years. While the people were still talking, a few fast horses came running from the dirt road outside the village, and the people on the horses they all knew, the stewards of the rich king's house in the city, and the three guards. The rich man Wang has hundreds of acres of land in Dashi Village, and most of the families in Dashi Village rent his family's land, so everyone knows the housekeeping style of the rich man.

"Village Chief Wang, my lord said, the county is recruiting people to work in Qinglongping, and the people who go to work are each in charge of three meals a day, and they will send a piece of ocean in three days to manage the place where they live, and the construction period will not delay you coming back to farm for a month" The housekeeper conveyed the original words of the rich man Wang, and he was not willing to ride a horse early in the morning to come to this big stone village, but the guns over there were already on his master's head, and he couldn't do it if he didn't come.

"Steward Pang, what do you mean by Master Wang? Didn't he want all the men in our village to go to Qinglongping to work? But the Japanese money is not easy to take, and I haven't heard of anyone who can take wages from the Japanese" The village chief Wang Mantang complained with a hint of complaint in his words, the rich man Wang is also a good person, how could he do such an unreliable thing, they are just a bunch of ordinary people, can they come back alive when they go to Qinglongping?

Steward Pang was amused by Wang Mantang's words, and slapped Wang Mantang on the shoulder with a smile, "Village Chief Wang, who did you hear say that the Japanese recruited the people, the Japanese in the county town and those yellow dogs have long been cleaned up by the troops of the national government, this time the people in Shili and Eight Townships are all paid by the rich families in the county, as long as you go, Guan Bao can get the salary, you don't believe me, don't you still believe my master?" "Although the rich man Wang does not return to Dashi Village often, he has taken great care of everyone in terms of land rent over the years, so the people of Dashi Village are still willing to believe Steward Pang's words.

"Village chief, you said that the little devils and yellow dogs in the county town were really all cleaned up?" Looking at the backs of Steward Pang and their departures, the people of Dashi Village still stood under the big elm tree and did not leave for a long time. There is a young man in the village who has already asked the three guards in private just now, and it is indeed what he said to Steward Pang, early this morning, there was a force that attacked the city and killed all the Japanese soldiers and the Imperial Association army in the city, and now the county seat of Zhangwu has been taken over by that army.

Taking Zhangwu County is only the first thing Zhao Zhi handed over to Tang Lei and Adam, Zhao Zhi wants to use Zhangwu County as an advance base and material distribution center for the army to the north, the movement of hundreds of thousands of troops, once the logistics support cannot keep up, the army may collapse. After killing all the Japanese soldiers and the Imperial Army, Tang Lei took the mercenaries to join forces with Adam and sent troops to control the entire county, this is the third time that Zhao Zhi's people have taken Zhangwu County, and the people in the city are no strangers to the military uniforms of the mercenary troops, and the influence left by Zhao Zhi on them the first two times is too great.

As soon as the gunfire stopped, the rich families in the city saw the mercenaries under martial law through the cracks in their doors, so they all sent people to the barracks in the west of the city with their names. Zhao Zhi didn't come this time, it was one of Zhao Zhi's subordinates who came, the same youth, the same bravery, the same murderous spirit, the gifts they sent to the door, Tang Lei accepted them, but the people they sent to the barracks brought back an order, summoning people from ten miles and eight towns to work in Qinglongping.

The rich families who had already scraped the land twice by Zhao Zhi could no longer withstand the toss, so after receiving the order from the barracks in the west of the city, they all sent their respective housekeepers or guards to gather the people everywhere, hoping that the murderers in the barracks would let them go. It was for this reason that the rich man Wang sent his housekeeper to Dashi Village early in the morning with a few nurses, all of whom were from the villagers, and he knew that as long as he opened his mouth, the villagers would definitely help.

"You Chinese really can't understand things" Adam, lazily nestled in a chair, comfortably drank freshly brewed tea, and choked him on the way from Kunming to Shanxi, fortunately his First Army made a lot of effort in mountain training, otherwise I don't know how many soldiers would be left behind and hidden in the mountains and forests. Before leaving, Zhao Zhi only told him that he would send a report to contact Tang Lei when he approached Zhangwu County, but he did not tell him about the tunnels in the west of the city.

"Sir naturally has his arrangement, but your legion is too many, there is not enough place for you to garrison troops in the county, you might as well rotate a group of people into the county seat in a few days, so that the rest of the people are stationed in Qinglongping, anyway, it is going to be built into an airport, and troops are also needed to garrison" Adam's complaint was directly ignored by Tang Lei, the same road Tang Lei has already walked twice, naturally knows the hardships involved, this Jew can take 20,000 people to Zhangwu County 10 days earlier than the scheduled time, and he can be regarded as a guy with a little ability.

Before the materials for the construction of the airport arrived, Tang Lei only needed to gather the people to level the wasteland in Qinglongping and prepare for the airdrop of materials by the transport plane. Only after the arrival of sappers and the cement and machinery airlifted from Xi'an, the full construction of the airport can begin, and what Tang Lei and they have to do now is just stick to Zhangwu County and wait for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements and Zhao Zhi. The Japanese and the Imperial Concord Army are gone, the county town is back to its former bustle, shops are still open, and people from outside the city are still entering the city, the only difference is that now the guards at the city gate have been replaced by dozens of tall foreigners.

There are also a lot of foreigners in Shanxi, and there are also foreigners in a small mountain town like Zhangwu, so the people here do not surround those dozens of foreign soldiers to judge. It's just that a large number of foreign soldiers suddenly appeared in the county, which still made the residents of the county panic, but fortunately, just after breakfast, Tang Lei raised the blue sky and white sun flag of the national government in the west of the city barracks and the city gate in accordance with Zhao Zhi's meaning, and the foreign soldiers who guarded the city gate and inspected the streets also wore armbands with the blue sky and white sun logo, and the people in the county town were at ease.

The news that the county seat was breached this morning was also transmitted to Xie Jiaping, and Zhang Lan, who was left in Xie Jiaping to recuperate, couldn't sit still when she heard the news, and hurriedly asked Xie Changyou to go to Luoyan Mountain to find guerrillas to come to Xie Jiaping to pick her up. Luoyan Mountain is the place where the guerrillas settled, Zhang Lan is the instructor of the guerrillas, in the dark, Zhang Lan guessed that the group of people who saved themselves were the people who broke through the county seat, looking at the weapons and equipment of those people, they are by no means bandits, nor are they national troops, who are they, Zhang Lan is eager to get the answer, she wants to go to the county seat to see what is going on.

Just after dinner, the people from Luoyan Mountain arrived at Xiejiaping, and the guerrilla leader Sun Jinren personally went out and brought dozens of good fighters from the guerrillas and the only light machine gun. "Instructor, you said that the group of people you have seen are the ones who attacked the county seat? No, according to what you said, they are only 100 people, and there are 300 people in the county town alone, and there is also a squadron of Japanese soldiers, I don't think it's possible" Sun Jinren has never seen much of the world, but this does not prevent her from having a peasant-like cunning and way of thinking.

"Isn't it them, won't we all know if we go to the county seat tomorrow?" Zhang Lan still insisted on her own judgment, Xie Jiaping also received the news that the county town had summoned the people today, which proved that the county seat was indeed broken by an army. Uniting all the anti-Japanese forces is the first task personally assigned by the superior leaders when Zhang Lan left the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, as a political cadre, Zhang Lan knows what it means to unite an army that can break through the county in a few hours.

Early the next morning, the guerrillas escorted Zhang Lan, who was disguised as a patient, straight to the county seat, and dozens of people and an ox cart were mixed in with the people who went to the county seat, but they were not conspicuous. Even after a day, Zhang Lan and the others could still smell the smell of gunpowder left by the battle at the city gate, and there was a faint smell of blood wafting in the wind. The inside and outside of the city gates had long been cleaned, and the only difference in normal days was that the guards were replaced by dozens of sturdy foreign soldiers. "Look at the blue sky and white sun logo on their arms, are these guys all from the national government?" Zhang Lan's mind was messed up, and all her previous guesses in Xie Jiaping were wrong.

"Call Tang Lei out, we are from the guerrilla detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Luoyan Mountain, my name is Zhang Lan" Zhang Lan's eyes were good, she found a person who appeared with Tang Lei that day among those foreign soldiers. But the guy standing among the foreign soldiers didn't pay attention to Zhang Lan at all, and he also turned a blind eye to Zhang Lan's comparison, and Zhang Lan, who seemed to be dressed as a little daughter-in-law, was completely ignored by him.

"Tang Lei, tell Tang Lei to come out" Zhang Lan gestured to the Jewish soldiers guarding the city gate over and over again, but the tall Jewish soldiers didn't even blink an eye, and the rather boring Zhang Lan had to wait outside the city gate with the guerrillas who came with him, waiting for Tang Lei to appear. The ignorance of those foreign soldiers made Zhang Lan burst out of the long-suppressed stubbornness, the ox cart was parked at the city gate, and Zhang Lan, who had not recovered from her injuries, had been nesting on the ox cart, she didn't believe that Tang Lei would never enter and exit the city gate for the rest of her life.