Chapter 44: Suspicions

"Tai-kun Sakata, you're looking for me!" Huang Fugui took off the top hat on his head, first bowed with a smile on his face and bowed to the group of Japanese officers standing in front of the map, and then walked quickly to the side of the commander Saburo Sakata. After the gesture of Saburo Sakata in the street, Huang Fugui continued, "Ladies and gentlemen, there are more than a dozen villages around here, and there is nothing that I Huang Fugui doesn't know. But when it comes to the villages that dare to oppose the imperial army, I estimate that it is Xiaojia Village in the mountains, and their village is full of hunters, hunters with good marksmanship. ”

Having said this, Huang Fugui stopped and paid attention to the silent Saburo Sakata with the corner of his eye. Huang Fugui is not the captain of the detective team, but he is the most trusted Chinese in the Japanese army, but even so, Huang Fugui did not dare to tell Sakata Saburo to know that he had a feud with Xiaojia Village, let alone to tell Sakata Saburo that his words just now were not groundless.

"No, Your Excellency Zhongzuo, Huang Sang just said that the village is full of hunters with good marksmanship, but our people have already examined those corpses, and hunters don't have such skills." A Japanese officer under Saburo Sakata put forward a different opinion, although Huang Fugui was unhappy, but he suddenly found that these Japanese officers around Saburo Sakata didn't seem to believe what he said just now. Huang Fugui couldn't help but focus all his eyes on Sakata Saburo, but Sakata Saburo still kept a straight face, just looking at the map without saying a word.

Seeing that Saburo Sakata didn't speak, these Japanese officers under him discussed it in a low voice, and after a while, Saburo Sakata spoke. "Kameyama-kun's judgment has a certain basis, but I believe that Huang Sang's judgment also has some truth." Saburo Sakata's right hand suddenly clenched into a fist and fell heavily on the map, "Immediately organize a search force to search all the surrounding villages, and the two-day battle is definitely not something that a few people can complete." ”

Saburo Sakata's words made everyone suddenly realize that in a battle of this scale, as long as they searched carefully, they would always find some clues. The squadron quickly divided into small units, led by Huang Fugui and other local plainclothes agents, to search the villages around the valley. Like the Japanese officer named Kameyama, Saburo Sakata actually didn't believe Huang Fugui's words very much, but some hunters who used *shotguns couldn't support themselves here for two days, and they also killed and injured a large number of imperial soldiers.

The Japanese army searched for this area, and Lu Yuan, who was far away in Xiaojia Village, did not know at all, and the guerrillas sent by Xiao Haishan had no way to get close to the valley. Xu Heizi had already reported to his superiors, and according to his thoughts, if he knew that there were two Type 92 infantry guns here, his superiors should immediately send someone to assist him. Xiao Haishan, on the other hand, was immersed in the joy of Xiaojia Village becoming a base here, and if a large number of Eighth Route Army was stationed here, the villagers would no longer have to be bullied by the yellow dogs and Japanese soldiers.

Xiao Changshui, who was only slightly injured, was at Huzi's house, and when he was teaching Huzi sniper tactics, Lu Yuan had to bring Xiao Changshui with him. "Snipers are different from sharpshooters, sharpshooters just need to shoot accurately, while snipers have to judge the situation and distinguish more valuable targets on the battlefield than ordinary soldiers." As he spoke, Lu Yuan put the Japanese military rank identification he had picked up when he left the valley camp on the stone table in front of Huzi and Xiao Changshui.

"Look at it, these are the rank marks of the Japanese army, these are ordinary soldiers, this is the captain, this is the military Cao." Lu Yuan said as he divided those rank marks into several piles. First pushed the rank logos of those ordinary soldiers to Huzi and Xiao Changshui, and after both of them looked at them carefully, Lu Yuan took out a few pairs of Japanese captain's logos from the small pile at hand and arranged them neatly on the stone table. "Look carefully, these are the captain's rank marks of the Japanese army, as long as you see such a mark in the scope, it proves that he is an officer."

After Lu Yuan showed Huzi and Xiao Changshui the rank markings of ordinary soldiers, lieutenants and adjutants respectively, he took out watches, binoculars and sabers from the cloth belts under his feet in turn. "The situation on the battlefield is very complicated, if you can't confirm the opponent's rank mark in the scope, there are other ways. For example, whether the other party has a watch on his wrist, whether the other party has a telescope on his chest, and whether the other party wears a command knife around his waist. If you can't remember that, then remember the most important thing, Japanese officers rarely take the initiative to wear steel helmets. ”

What Lu Yuan said was not very difficult, Huzi and Xiao Changshui fiddled with the Japanese military rank marks on the stone table for a while, and then each nodded at Lu Yuan, indicating that they had written it down. Lu Yuan didn't believe it, so he randomly checked a few pairs of rank identifications and conducted an on-site examination to the two of them, who knew that both of them answered correctly, Lu Yuan couldn't help but think to himself, could this be the old saying that honest people have inner show? Whether Huzi and Xiao Changshui had an internal show, Lu Yuan didn't figure it out, and Xiao Haishan's arrival interrupted his thinking.

"Mr. Lu, someone from the Eighth Route Army will come over soon, Platoon Commander Xu asked, should we go and get those two infantry guns back first?" Xiao Haishan's face showed an embarrassed look, but Lu Yuan didn't feel any embarrassment about it, because he knew that after the rain last night, the traces he left in the mountains and forests could no longer be found. Xu Heizi was an anxious child, and Xiao Haishan, who was still immersed in ecstasy, was the same, so Lu Yuan did not delay much, and then took the guerrillas and Huzi into the forest.

The Type 92 infantry guns were indeed not in Lu Yuan's storage space, and when he returned to Xiaojia Village a day ago, Lu Yuan hid the two Type 92 infantry guns in a cave he found halfway through. According to the marks he left on the trunk of the tree along the road, Lu Yuan took Xiao Haishan and the others all the way to the mountain forest on the left side of the valley camp, and from time to time he also pointed out to Xiao Changshui and Huzi how to arrange * in the forest. Along the way, the group soon moved to a forest not far from the mountain road.

"You follow the direction of this arrow, and you see a stone wall with vines, and the cave is behind the vines." There was still some distance from the cave where the infantry cannon was hidden, so Lu Yuan stopped, and after giving Xu Heizi and the others directions, Lu Yuan kindly reminded the other party. "The infantry cannon is too large, although three or five people can push it, but it can't be in the forest. There are also some tools I found in the cave from the Japanese truck, if you want to get the infantry cannon back to Xiaojia Village, it is better to disassemble the infantry cannon in the cave first, it will be easier to move. ”

Knowing that the infantry artillery was in front, Xu Heizi and the others still had to listen to Lu Yuan's nagging, only to see Xu Heizi wave his hand forward, and everyone ran forward as if they were being chased by wolves. Looking at Xu Heizi and their impatient faces, Lu Yuan shook his head secretly, and stopped Huzi and Xiao Changshui at the same time. "You two don't go over, we still have important things to do, I'll take you to see what's going on in the valley."

Hearing that the guerrillas sent by Xiao Haishan came back and said that there were new Japanese troops in the valley, Lu Yuan did not dare to take it lightly, this place is not very far from the valley, and Lu Yuan planned to see with his own eyes what the situation in the valley was. With Huzi and Xiao Changshui, the two of them parted ways with Xu Heizi, and Lu Yuan, who was each carrying a sniper rifle, quickly moved to a hill very close to the valley camp, and gestured to Huzi and the two to lie down and hide, and Lu Yuan looked at the valley with a telescope hanging on his chest.

The distance is a little far, and Lu Yuan doesn't see it very clearly in the telescope, but the general situation in the valley, Lu Yuan still has a rough look. According to the guerrilla's statement, there were old and young Japanese puppet soldiers in the valley, but at this moment, what Lu Yuan saw in the telescope was almost all the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the Japanese soldiers he focused on didn't seem to be much. What's going on? Lu Yuan would not doubt the guerrilla's words, so the only explanation was that the later Japanese soldiers in the valley sent out all their soldiers.

The Japanese army was in a hurry to take back the valley camp, which showed that this valley was very important to the Japanese army, but later these Japanese soldiers sent out all their soldiers, could it be...? Thinking of this, Lu Yuan's face suddenly changed, those damn Japanese soldiers who he didn't see might have been sent out to search around the valley. After a while, Lu Yuan, who came back to his senses, turned his head to Xiao Changshui beside him and said, "You go to Captain Xiao and them immediately, just say that the Japanese army in the valley may have sent a search force, if my speculation is correct, then the villages around the valley may be in trouble." ”

In the past few days of living in Xiaojia Village, Lu Yuan already knew that there were other villages around here, and Lu Yuan, who was familiar with the virtues of the Japanese army, couldn't help but start worrying about those villages. Xiao Changshui was also very worried, and after Lu Yuan's order, he didn't delay much, and immediately got up and ran quickly in the direction of Xiao Haishan and them. Only Lu Yuan and Huzi were left on the mountain, and Lu Yuan, who was heavy in his heart, immediately took out a cigarette and lit it and smoked it silently.

"Drape this over your body, and get some bushes and grass branches to stick on it, so that it won't be easily spotted by the enemy." Lu Yuan took out two camouflage nets from the storage space, handed one of them to Huzi, and then explained the function of camouflage nets to Huzi with a gesture. Huzi can't speak, but he is an excellent student, after watching Lu Yuan get it again, he has already learned how to use the camouflage net, and Huzi's camouflage methods look much better than Lu Yuan.