Two kilometers away, the Jin Sui army set up at least ten cauldrons beside the road, and a raging fire was burning under each cauldron, and the water in the cauldron had begun to boil, and the steaming heat was rising, just waiting for the cavalry to come back with food.

The soldiers were lying or sitting, waiting for their food around the cauldron.

Everyone's stomach was growling, and they were watching in the direction in which the cavalry company had left.

The division commander will not go hungry, but he is used to being pampered, how can he stand to eat dry food every day.

He also hoped that the cavalry company would come back soon and have a hot meal.

"Division, the map shows that the village is two kilometers away from us, and the cavalry can run back and forth in five minutes, and now they have set off for almost half an hour, and they haven't come back yet, will there be something wrong?" The Deputy Chief of Staff reminded.

From the moment he entered the garrison base area, he felt a faint sense of uneasiness in his heart.

I always feel like I'm being watched by someone around me.

However, because the garrison regiment has been avoiding the war, it seems that it is really as the division commander said, and does not dare to take the initiative to provoke the war, so the division commander has not been alerted.

Now that the cavalry company had suddenly disappeared, the bad premonition in the mind of the deputy chief of staff was even stronger, and he decided to remind the division commander, who had lost his mind a little in order to reap the merits of the war.

The division commander also realized that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of what would happen to the cavalry company?

The village was only two kilometers away, and if the cavalry company was attacked, the sound of gunfire would surely be heard.

But no gunfire was fired for the past half hour, which meant that the cavalry company had not been attacked.

So where did they go?

It stands to reason that if they don't come back for such a long time, they should send a signal soldier back to report, but they didn't see the signal soldier themselves.

The deputy chief of staff continued to remind: "Division, do you want me to send a reconnaissance company over to take a look." ”

"There are still a few war horses at the division headquarters, and the scouts can ride over and run back and forth in five minutes."

The division commander decisively ordered: "Go and arrange it now." ”

Three scouts rode fast horses towards the village.

The entrance of the village was the same as when the cavalry company came, silently, and there was no human figure.

Their reconnaissance target was the cavalry company, and if they didn't see the cavalry company, they would definitely not return in vain.

Without stopping, he rushed straight into the village.

As they were about to pass through the village, the neighing of a war horse caught the scout's attention.

The sound came from a nearby courtyard, and the three scouts immediately turned over and fell off their horses, rifles in their hands, alternately taking cover, and approaching the courtyard little by little.

There was a small alley less than two meters wide in the middle, and although the three scouts were vigilant, they fell into the trap prepared for them by the reconnaissance platoon.

The captured cavalry company had all been transferred, and the reconnaissance platoon commander did not retreat.

A cavalry company disappeared for no reason, and the Jin Sui army would definitely send someone over to investigate.

The platoon commander decided to leave two war horses and give the Jin Sui army who came over to reconnoiter a lure for the enemy to go deeper.

The three scouts were too eager to find out where the cavalry company was going, and faced with the narrow alley, they did not hesitate to get in.

When the three of them walked to the middle of the alley, more than a dozen heads and more than a dozen rifles appeared on the courtyard walls on both sides of the alley.

A few Eighth Route Army troops also flashed out at the end of the alley, holding submachine guns at everyone......

In this way, there were three more Jin Sui army prisoners in the reconnaissance platoon.

What's more, they succeeded in capturing three priceless war horses.

In the camp of the Jin Sui Army, the deputy chief of staff stared at the direction where the scouts were leaving.

Time passed, and the three scouts had not yet returned, as if they had encountered the same encounter as the cavalry company.

At this time, the division commander also began to feel uneasy, and judged with a calm face.

"Something must have happened to the cavalry company, and the three scouts who passed behind also had an accident!"

"Why don't you send more scouts over there?" The Deputy Chief of Staff proposed.

"No way!" The division commander shook his head in denial.

"This is the base of the garrison regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and the sudden disappearance of the cavalry company must have something to do with them."

"It's not a problem to quietly take out a single company of our cavalry, let alone a few scouts."

"Pass my order: the troops will assemble immediately, and we will go to this village together to find out how the cavalry company is missing, and by the way, get food in the village and let the brothers have a hot meal."

The troops were so tired that they had to walk for more than 20 minutes on a two-kilometer mountain road.

The division commander stood at the entrance of the village, looking at the silent village, with a very serious expression.

A few minutes later, the commander of the reconnaissance company rushed out of the village: "Division, we have searched the entire village, and we have not seen a single living person, nor have we found any traces of a firefight. ”

"Where did the cavalry company go?" The division commander asked rhetorically with a look of disbelief.

The commander of the reconnaissance company shook his head and reported: "Judging from the horseshoe prints, the cavalry company entered the village from us, but they were not found in the village. ”

"I have scouted several other exits of the village, but I have not found horseshoe prints."

"So the cavalry company did not leave after entering the village, and disappeared in the village for no reason."

The division commander and the deputy chief of staff looked at each other as they listened.

Nearly a hundred soldiers, nearly a hundred war horses, and soldiers are also equipped with weapons, how could they suddenly disappear.

But no matter how much they think, they can't figure out why.

The deputy chief of staff tentatively suggested: "Division, there must be a mystery in the village that we don't know. Could it be that there are too few people in the reconnaissance company, and some places have not been detected. ”

"If you don't let everyone go into the village and search door to door, you will definitely find some clues!"

The division commander couldn't think of any other way, so he could only nod his head and agree.

Ten minutes passed, and the commander of the guard battalion ran over panting: "Division, there are traces left by the cavalry company rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the village to find food, but we haven't found a single one, and we haven't found any traces of firefighting. ”

"Weird then? Could it be that so many men and horses of the cavalry company really disappeared for no reason! The division commander was still a little unconvinced.

The guard battalion commander continued to report: "And we did not find a single grain in the village. ”

"It must have been the common people who took all the food with them when they retreated." Analysis of the Deputy Chief of Staff.

The division commander frowned and looked at the village and did not answer.

The deputy chief of staff was anxious, and immediately said his thoughts: "This must be a trick specially used by the Eighth Route Army to deal with us." ”

"Don't let us get a grain from here, and push us back.

"You're right!" The division commander agreed, and then said firmly: "And I am now eighty percent sure that the mountain artillery battalion and the baggage company are also under the hands of the Eighth Route Army." ”

"First disguise yourself as Japanese to eat our logistical supplies, then let us into the base area, and then clear the walls and fields on our necessary path, so that we can't find food."

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first."

"Without food, even if we get into the belly of the Eighth Route Army, we can't do anything, and we have to bear the risk that the troops will collapse at any time because of hunger."

"So from the moment the road we were going to take was destroyed, we fell into the trap of the Eighth Route Army, and then we fell deeper and deeper."

"What a ploy!"

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