"This commander of the Eighth Route Army, the puppet army and bandits are here, what are you going to do, I think there are only thirty or forty people, are you planning to transfer?"

"Linzhang County is full of puppet soldiers and bandits, now that they are coming, you must be leaving, you will definitely not care about the life or death of our people."

"There are a lot of troops like you, they say one thing, but they do another, so you better run away."

The people looked at Wen Zihan, and they said with mocking expressions on their faces, while some of the people were the people who hurriedly stopped these discussions, they were worried that Wen Zihan and the others would do something to hurt the people.

Linzhang County is full of puppet soldiers and bandits, and these people have no trust in the army.

"We will stay to protect the safety of the villagers, please rest assured, as long as we are here, we will definitely guarantee your safety."

Wen Zihan looked at the villagers, and he said with an unusually serious expression.

Some of the villagers were a little surprised by Wen Zihan's words, but most of the villagers felt that it was just Wen Zihan saying beautiful things.

The people began to return to their homes, they began to close the doors and windows tightly, in their opinion, Wen Zihan and the others would definitely evacuate immediately.

As the people began to return to their homes, Wen Zihan immediately began to lead the officers and soldiers into a state of battle.

With the new Second Brigade formally forming the Sixth Army Division, Sun Weiguo made changes to the staffing and weaponry of each department, and now there are 53 people in each platoon, under the jurisdiction of three infantry squads, one grenadier squad, equipped with 30 Type 38 rifles, three Czech light machine guns, three Type 89 grenadiers, two shell guns, one sniper rifle, and one submachine gun.

The barge gun was used by the platoon commander and deputy platoon, and there were three soldiers in the platoon headquarters, who were snipers, submachine gunners, and hygienists, and the submachine gunners also served as heralds.

When Wen Zihan made a firm hold on to Houzhang Village, the first platoon of the first company quickly began to build fortifications.

Three squads built temporary defensive positions, while the grenadier squad hid around the village to support the operation at any time.

The sniper stayed at the platoon headquarters for the time being, and Wen Zihan came to the roof with a platoon leader, and he looked out of the village with a telescope.

More than 100 officers and soldiers wearing yellow puppet army uniforms have begun to appear on the rugged road, and around the puppet officers and soldiers, there are more than 300 bandits.

These bandits have different equipment in their hands, and even some of them still have primitive cold weapons in their hands.

The puppet army and bandits drove towards Houzhang Village, and a puppet army officer with the rank of captain was still riding on a horse.

The puppet army and bandits in Linzhang County have a close relationship, and these bandits and puppet army are all related to Cheng Ximeng and Guo Dehui.

When the Japanese formed the Imperial Cooperative Army, Cheng Ximeng and Guo Dehui transferred some of their own descendants and bandits with combat power to form the Imperial Cooperative Army.

The remaining bandits continued to operate in the original area, but they obeyed the orders of Cheng Ximeng and Guo Dehui.

This time, the puppet army dispatched a company of the Second Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army and more than 300 bandits near Houzhang Village, and these more than 300 bandits belonged to two forces.

Although these three forces all obeyed the orders of Guo Dehui and Guo Qing, each of them had different thoughts in their hearts.

"The front is Houzhang Village, it is said that there are more than 30 Eighth Route Army in Houzhang Village, don't say that I won't give you a chance, you go to the village to search, if you can catch the Eighth Route Army, the division commander and deputy division commander will reward you heavily."

Seeing that he was about to arrive at Houzhang Village in front, the puppet army company commander restrained his war horse, he looked at the two men beside him, and said in a calm tone.

Hearing the words of the puppet army company commander, the two men looked towards Houzhang Village, and they had a cunning look on their faces.

These two people have their own plans in their hearts, Guo Qing wants to annihilate the Eighth Route Army troops to ask for credit from the Japanese, and these bandits want to annihilate the Eighth Route Army to ask Guo Qing for credit.

The two men were the leaders of more than 300 bandits, and they naturally wanted to put on a good show.

"Brothers, rush over for me and kill the Eighth Route Army, and you will be rewarded." One of the ringleaders immediately shouted.

More than 180 bandits with different weapons began to surge towards Houzhang Village, some of these bandits were holding Chinese rifles, some were holding Hanyang-made rifles, and they also had three light machine guns.

The puppet army began to stop moving, and the puppet army set up a Makqin heavy machine gun, which was aimed at Houzhang Village.

The puppet army company commander held a telescope to observe the village, his face showed a little hesitant expression, the village was silent, and the puppet army company commander felt that the Eighth Route Army might have already evacuated.

However, he will not let his puppet army test the real situation in the village, and these bandits are used as cannon fodder by him.

Where would the two bandit leaders think of the inner thoughts of the puppet army company commander, and the other leader saw that the other group of bandits began to move quickly towards Houzhang Village, he immediately gave an order, and the remaining more than 100 bandits also began to advance towards the village.

More than 300 bandits rushed quickly towards Houzhang Village under the cover of five light machine guns, and the bandits shouted loudly while running quickly.

The two bandit leaders stood behind, looking expectantly towards the village, waiting for news of victory.

In Houzhang Village, the people who were hiding in their homes heard the shouts of the bandits, and their faces turned pale with fright.

They naturally hoped that the bandits would not find their homes, and as for the opinion of the Eighth Route Army, these people felt that the Eighth Route Army troops must have run out long ago.

But how did they know that Wen Zihan led a platoon of soldiers to guard the head of the village.

The people couldn't imagine that the Eighth Route Army would stay in the village with such a small number of troops, and the bandits didn't take the Eighth Route Army seriously.

In the eyes of these bandits, even though there were troops of the Eighth Route Army in the village, the number of the Eighth Route Army was only thirty or forty people, but they had more than 300 people, and there were more than 100 Imperial Cooperative Army behind, and these Imperial Cooperative Army could support them at any time.

"Let the sniper kill the puppet army officer for me, it's all there, start shooting as soon as you hear the sniper shoot, and at least fifty bandits will be killed in the first round of shooting!"

Wen Zihan, who was lying on the roof to observe the situation, put down the binoculars, he looked at the platoon leader beside him, and Wen Zihan immediately gave an order.