The dense gunfire in the bungalow area did not reach the city of Harbin, which is 20 kilometers away. But the large and small puppet Manchurian police stations scattered around are clearly heard.

If it weren't for the Kwantung Army's early start of construction here, it had issued an order that all military, police, and gendarmes in the area, especially the so-called Manchukuos, would not be allowed to enter the area without the special requirements of the Ministry of Water Supply or the Kwantung Army.

The reason why Yang Zhen has been able to support it until now is due to the Shiro Ishii who was poured a whole bottle of strychnine by him. If it weren't for the sake of saving face, Shiro Ishii, who didn't think that those timid Shina people would pose a threat to him and refused to ask for help, reported to the surrounding police station, and the Harbin gendarmerie called haha and did not tell the truth. I am afraid that according to the consistent reaction speed of the Japanese army since the start of the war, Yang Zhen will not be left with such a long time at all.

When the gunfire died down until it subsided, but the phone calls here could no longer be reached, the Japanese who were in control of the surrounding puppet Manchurian police stations immediately sniffed out the abnormality and immediately reported to the Japanese military police in Harbin again.

The Japanese military police in Harbin, which has always been responsive, seemed a little sluggish this time for some reason. Even after receiving reports from several puppet Manchurian police stations in the Pingfang area, there has been no action. It was not until the two geisha who had fled from the eastern village to a nearby Manchurian police station reported that the gendarmerie, which had been a little slow to react, rushed directly to the scene of the incident as quickly as possible.

Actually, it wasn't that the gendarmerie had lost their sense of smell this time, but after receiving the first report from the police station below, the gendarmerie knew the importance of the place and called Shiro Ishii to ask about the origin of the gunshots. But Shiro Ishii, who answered the phone himself, just told them that they were dealing with a batch of redundant or sick roads, and nothing else.

Because of the incident, he had a lot of contact with this arrogant and even somewhat arrogant military doctor Osa, and also knew the true inside story of this unit under the direct jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army Command under his jurisdiction, and when he saw Shiro Ishii answer him like this, he did not dare to ask deeply. Just ordered the surrounding police stations to keep an eye on the movements there.

After receiving the report that there was a change in the eastern village, the captain of the gendarmerie didn't care about Shiro Ishii's face, and immediately led people to the epidemic prevention and water supply department. It's just that when he arrived, he was greeted by no living person except for a corpse.

Seeing the corpses in one place, especially the corpses of several quite famous experts who had worked at Manchuria Medical University, the captain of the gendarme, who personally led the team to the scene, could not help but feel a chill at the root of his neck. When he saw Shiro Ishii, who had become a ghost eunuch, the gendarmerie captain had a heart to cry. He couldn't even imagine what awaited him.

The captain of the gendarmerie, who did not dare to delay, let alone conceal it, quickly reported the situation here to the Kwantung Army Headquarters while ordering the whole city to immediately hunt down these bold and damned roads. and asked for help from the 2nd Division and the 5th Independent Garrison stationed in Harbin. Request to send planes to cooperate with the cavalry in the search.

The reason why he asked the garrison for help was because the captain of the gendarmerie did not know the whereabouts of these 500-year-old prisoners of war, and he needed a large number of people to search for them. In the heart of the gendarmerie captain, he also thought that the more than 500 former prisoners of war who had looted enough to equip the equipment of two squadrons were not something that his more than 100 gendarmes could handle.

He was sure that all the weapons and ammunition here had fallen into the hands of the rioters, because after arriving here, except for two damaged rifles, there was not a single item of weapons and ammunition that was enough to equip a squadron and the equipment of the garrison.

Another key problem for him to ask for help was that although the garrison here had only one squadron for the time being, it was a field squadron drawn from the independent Fifth Garrison. In terms of combat effectiveness, he focused more on cracking down on the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese underground organizations, and on arresting those gendarmes who were keen to resist the Japanese Imperial Army.

According to the officers at the surrounding police station, it took less than an hour from the time the shots started to the time the gunfire completely subsided. In such a short period of time, the garrison composed of more than 100 elite field troops was all thrown down here, and none of them were spared. What does this mean? It shows that the combat effectiveness of these thugs is still relatively strong.

According to the combat effectiveness of these gendarmes under his command, who are not police, and who are spies or not, if they really meet those thugs, their more than 100 gendarmes will not be sent to others to get meat in their mouths.

Besides, Harbin is so big, relying on its own more than 100 armed gendarmes and some Manchukuo police to search for thugs equipped with a large number of weapons and ammunition, isn't that tantamount to finding a needle? Even if all the policemen who are in their hands are added, they will not be able to completely seal off the Harbin area.

Fortunately, although the main force of the Second Division was still participating in the battle in China's Guannei, and the garrison area was also large, it could not mobilize too many troops to assist for a while, but the movement of the independent Fifth Garrison was still quite fast.

Although the new commander had not yet taken office, under the coordination of the former commander Yasui Toji, who had just been promoted to the commander of the Second Division, he immediately mobilized all the troops he could to assist the gendarmerie in arresting these bold Shina men after receiving a request for help from the gendarmerie. The 2nd Division also dispatched part of the cavalry to assist in the search.

After learning that the 2nd Division and the 5th Independent Garrison had agreed to send troops to assist in the search, the captain of the gendarmerie, whose heart had always hung in the air, breathed a sigh of relief. After the anger subsided, he had been feeling a little lucky. I hope that if I can annihilate all these thugs and not cause too strict leaks, the Kwantung Army Headquarters may open the net and let itself go. Although he also knew that there was little hope.

As the head of the gendarmerie tasked with eliminating the so-called threats to law and order in the area, he knew many secrets that the general population knew. He knew that the Kwantung Army's epidemic prevention and water supply department was attacked and killed, and it was not only those who died in the epidemic prevention and water supply department. He also knew that there were at least a dozen or so people from the Kwantung Army's chemical weapons squad specializing in chemical weapons. There are even a few who are well-known experts in poison gas warfare in Japan.

Whether it is the arrogant people in the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply or the chemical weapons squad of the Kwantung Army, they can be regarded as Japan's top experts in these two aspects. The death of these people was not only infuriating the Kwantung Army. Someone must take responsibility for this matter, and the person in charge of the local law and order rectification is the best scapegoat for this matter.

Although there are transcripts of the call with that damn Shiro Ishii to testify to themselves, no one can guarantee whether the enraged emperor and the military department will see this. Although he is also a big sa, in the eyes of Tokyo, his big sa is far less valuable than the dozen or so big sa who have now become corpses.

However, even if the 2nd Division and the 5th Independent Garrison agreed to send reinforcements to assist the gendarmerie in imposing martial law on the area around Harbin. But the lost time is already lost, and it is not easy to recover it.

After estimating the time of departure and arrival of the reinforcements at the designated position, the captain of the gendarmerie suddenly and sadly discovered that by the time the reinforcements promised by the Second Division and the Fifth Independent Garrison arrived, I am afraid that the thugs would have slipped away without a trace.

After reaching this conclusion, the commander of the gendarmerie, who had disappeared without a trace, could only pin his hopes for finding out the whereabouts of these people on the policemen of the Manchukuo police stations scattered all over the northeast and on the planes dispatched after dawn.

Although Yang Zhen was mentally prepared for the pursuit methods that the devil might take, he still felt worried. He was not very worried about aerial reconnaissance, and now he was all in the uniforms of the Japanese army's military dependents, and from the sky, he was a normal marching team.

But what Yang Zhen is most worried about is the cavalry of the devils and the military and police gendarns all over the Northeast, especially the minions who speak Chinese and eat Chinese food, but resolutely do not do Chinese things. These talents are the biggest danger to this team. Without the assistance of these people, Yang Zhen believed that the devil alone would never really defeat the Anti-Union.

In the 14 years since the fall of Northeast China, it is these people who have really brought the greatest and heaviest losses to the Anti-Japanese Federation. How many heroic anti-union generals did not die under the butcher's knife of the devils, but sacrificed in the hands of these people.

If he really met these people, Yang Zhen knew that although these people were wearing devils' military uniforms, it would be difficult to hide them for a long time. There are very few Chinese military subordinates in the devil army, and most of them are in hospitals or some high-level institutions. There were basically no field troops.

Not to mention the Chinese, even ordinary devil soldiers, except for hospitalization, can rarely be seen. It is simply impossible for so many groups to appear together in this wilderness, armed like this, and many of them have blood and even wounds.

Look at the people around me who are in different postures during long-distance marches, and even some people directly use guns as crutches, which can be compared with well-trained devils. Not to mention compared with the devils, even compared with the elites of the puppet Manchurian army trained by those devils, they are much worse. These are all sophisticated and abnormal dogs who have been fighting the Anti-Japanese War for so many years and have already exercised their vision.

In order to avoid the sensitive sense of smell of these dogs, and also to enter the mountains as much as possible, Yang Zhen refused to rest several times along the way, but kept urging to speed up the march. It wasn't until he entered the territory of Acheng that Yang Zhen agreed to take a temporary rest.

However, he was worried that the devil cavalry would catch up at any time, so he only agreed to rest for fifteen minutes. If it weren't for the fact that there were still wounded in the team, Yang Zhen would not have agreed to rest.

After nearly four hours of rapid marching without rest, except for those soldiers of the former Eighteenth Group Army, who could barely support them, those soldiers of the former National Army were tired enough, and when they heard the order to rest, they staggered to the ground.

It's no wonder that these human bodies can't support it. These people have not had a full meal since they were captured. When they got here, in order to save their worries, the devil would not have nothing to do to feed these former soldiers. In addition, they lack the training to forcibly march, and after a period of fighting, their bodies have not been able to fully recover, and it is normal for them to have a situation where their bodies cannot keep up.

As for the Eighteenth Army, this army has not known what it means to have enough to eat since the day it was founded. For them, who have never had any means of transportation, long marching is themselves what they are good at. So I was tired, but I could barely make it up.

Looking at these people who were lying on the ground tired, after Yang Zhen took care of the wounded, he personally led his comrades of the Eighteenth Group Army who still had energy to set up a guard post. If it weren't for the small number of mines seized in the bungalow, Yang Zhen really wanted to lay out a minefield around the fence.

After arranging the guard, Yang Zhen did not rest. Instead, he came to a slightly higher place than the surroundings, held a telescope and followed the morning light to carefully observe the surrounding situation. Although he was also tired.

In fact, Yang Zhen, who has been rushing to the front line, can be said to be the most tired of these people, whether it is mentality or body, Yang Zhen has reached the peak at this time. If there was a little possibility, Yang Zhen didn't want to do anything now, he just wanted to lie on the ground and sleep.

At present, this kind of long-distance march after a fierce battle is nothing to Yang Zhen, who has been trained in professional long-distance running in later generations, and can even be called commonplace. But for his current body, it is really a little unsupportable.

But the grim facts made Yang Zhen clear in his heart that no matter how tired he was, he could only persevere. It's far from safety, and it's not time to rest. Needless to say, once you are slightly negligent, the devils and puppet soldiers around you will want to smell the smell of blood and pounce on them like flies. In this kind of plain area, surrounded by dense enemy forces, it is not even a strategy to fight hard with an enemy who has an absolute advantage.

Although I can't guarantee that I will never be exposed, I have to try to delay the time so that I can get as close to the mountains as possible, but I have to find ways to do it. "Enemy situation" is what Yang Zhen wants to know most now, and it is also what he needs to know the most. But what was in front of him was a black eye, and he didn't know anything. How can this not make him anxious, so that he can rest assured and bold?

While carefully observing the surrounding environment, Yang Zhen kept estimating how to take these people safely to the mountainous area with a lot of room for maneuver in the shortest possible distance and without alarming the enemy as much as possible.

Yang Zhen, who was immersed in thinking, was interrupted by a kettle handed over. After taking Guo Bingxun, who handed over the kettle, Yang Zhen shook his head, only to find that his throat was already smoking with thirst.

Looking at Yang Zhen, who took the kettle and drank water, Guo Bingxun said, "Old Yang, you should also rest for a while." No matter how good your physique is, you can't stand it if you toss it like this. You haven't rested at all since yesterday. ”