"Sir, these captives are slowing us down" Yan Wudao, who has been busy supervising the tailors in the county town to make military uniforms, finally completed his work before leaving the county seat, he is now taking Luo Ying to take care of Zhao Zhi's normal life, Zhao Zhi's movement away from the county is not small, there are not many mercenaries alone, but those soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who surrendered in Qingshiyu were also taken by Zhao Zhi and left Zhangwu County.

It's not that the Jin Suijun doesn't want these captives, but Zhao Zhi doesn't want to leave these people to the Jin Suijun at all, the captives who are locked up in the compound have been forced to work, and the content of the labor is only one - digging tunnels, saying that the big courtyard of the puppet army in Zhangwu County is close to the city wall on the west side of the county, Zhao Zhi put the captured prisoners in the compound to let them dig a tunnel that extends from the courtyard to the west city wall, Zhao Zhi sends trucks to Caoling every day to haul coal, The soil from digging the tunnel was taken out of the city by the two trucks every day and dumped in the field, and the remaining excess soil was taken out with backpacks by the mercenaries when they went out of the city for training at night.

For authentic things, Luo Lin asked Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi's answer was very simple, there were only three words - leave the back road, this Shanxi is the territory of Yan Xishan, the Jin Sui army has been operating in Shanxi for many years, and now it is only temporarily occupied by the Yue army, Zhao Zhi does not think that the Jin Sui army has been so allowed to run rampant in Shanxi, and the Jin Sui army that has entered the county one after another is about to have a regiment, and Zhao Zhi has only more than 100 people in his hands, and he can't even catch up with a company, so Zhao Zhi has to prevent the Jin Sui army from taking the opportunity to eat his own troops.

Moreover, Zhao Zhi has been calculating Chiang Kai-shek, who is far away in Chongqing, using the means of spreading news to make the Kuomintang react, even if he can't get what he wants, at least let the name of Thunder Defense appear in front of Chiang Kai-shek, the side effect of this is to completely tear off the veil of the mercenary army, Zhao Zhi will also be registered with him, once the army in Shanxi is angry, he will send heavy troops to besiege Zhangwu County, and at that time this tunnel will become a magic weapon for Zhao Zhi and them to escape.

Zhao Zhi, who didn't want to expose his hole cards to others, had to take all the Imperial Association prisoners away, and said to the outside world that he needed someone to carry the things and materials they carried, in fact, those material bags were just some dispensable things, he just needed an excuse that would not attract attention, and the prisoners wearing the torn epaulettes of the Imperial Association Army thought that Zhao Zhi was going to recruit them, and everyone was extremely hard to carry a big material bag, although they didn't know what was in these not very heavy bags.

"Go and call those new people who have joined us" Just after noon the next day, the team that had been marching slowly to the west stopped to rest, Zhao Zhi asked Luo Ying to gather the newly joined Eighth Route Army, Sichuan Army and ** soldiers together, "I will give you a task now, this is the first task for you to join the mercenary force" Zhao Zhiyi tilted his head and motioned everyone to look to his right side with the swing of his head, "Sitting over there are the Imperial Cooperative Army that we captured in Qingshiyu, and they will become a burden to us, But we can't just let them go, because they will leak our whereabouts to the army, and any of you have a good way to solve this matter! ”

"After all, they have all surrendered, let's let it go, and by the time they find the army, we will have already gone away."

"I think it's better to take them with you first, and then hand them over when you meet other troops."

As soon as Zhao Zhi's words fell, the novices talked a lot, saying everything, most of them said that they wanted to march with these captives temporarily, Zhao Zhi just kept standing there with his hands behind his back and looked at the novices silently, although there was no expression on his face, but Luo Ying, who had been following him, saw a trace of disappointment in Zhao Zhi's eyes, Zhao Zhi's mercenary troops have always been quick to fight and retreat, and they will retreat as soon as they miss a hit, and they will act together with more than 100 procrastinating prisoners, which simply weakens the advantage of the mercenary troops, So Zhao Zhi was very dissatisfied with the novices' answers.

"Sir, if it were me, I would give them no chance to expose our whereabouts to anyone" Just as Zhao Zhi was about to turn around and leave, a voice came out of the novice pile, and the person who spoke was a ** soldier in his 20s, with a hint of coldness in his dark eyes, and the whole person stood straight like a javelin.

"His name is Tang Lei, his ancestral home is Baoding, and everyone in his family has been killed by the soldiers" Luo Ying mobilized his brain cells to think about the information of this **novice, "I heard those who were with him say that this person is too murderous, and those ** don't like to go all the way with him"

Zhao Zhi looked at Tang Lei with some interest, but the latter just raised his eyebrows but did not speak, "This task is entrusted to Tang Lei, the rest of you must obey unconditionally, this task is also a test, those who do not pass will be sent to the troops of the Eighth Route Army, the road is under your feet, how to choose is your business, I will not interfere" Zhao Zhi turned around and left after speaking, this is called Tang Lei is a bit interesting, if you can exercise it, it is also a good helper.

For Zhao Zhi's trust, Tang Lei was a little excited, and took a deep breath silently, Tang Lei gathered those novices together and whispered a few words, Zhao Zhi took Luo Ying and stood still after walking a short distance, just looking at Tang Lei and the novices from a distance, looking at the expressions of the novices with different expressions, Zhao Zhi could guess what Tang Lei's idea was, Zhao Zhi was not a good person, those imperial allies should have thought that their fate would not be good when they took refuge in the army, Tang Lei's appearance only advanced the appearance of their final fate.

Sure enough, as Zhao Zhi thought, after going on the road again, Tang Lei hurriedly went to the front with a few people to survey the terrain, and when he returned to the team, those novices were gathered together by him again, "Sir, I need your authorization to temporarily change the direction of the march" Tang Lei's words were a little jerky, he just learned the word authorization from Eugene's mouth, obviously the use is not very smooth, after getting Zhao Zhi's consent, Tang Lei took the troops slightly away from the original marching route, but after ten minutes, An abandoned mine pit appeared along the route of the march, which was supposed to be left over from open-pit coal mining.

"Do it" Tang Lei shouted, the novices who had been prepared for a long time drew their bayonets and rushed into the group of captives, just a ratio of one to two, the unsuspecting captives were instantly put down by the novices, and the dozens of surviving captives shouted and scattered away, the whole process was more like a massacre, the survivors who escaped were chased and killed by the novices one by one, and those who ran fast could not escape the bullets fired by the gunners, just a few minutes later, the corpses of the captives were lying around the abandoned mine, With a little more effort, the corpses were thrown into the pit, and if one more fire was added, all the corpses would be reduced to ashes.

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