After erasing his tracks, Geng Tianlong immediately rushed back to Houshan Village to send someone to answer him, while Liu Tianshu, Hao Mengxuan and Shi Qiang stayed in the cave where the medicine was hidden.

This time, they got back twenty-two boxes of Western medicine equipment from the devil's field hospital, so many medicines and equipment, just a few of them, but they couldn't get back to Houshan Village.

Although the location of the Tibetan medicine is very hidden, and all the traces on the road have been erased by Liu Tianshu and them, but now that the heavy snow has stopped, the nearby villagers will inevitably come out to move, or hunt or something, if they accidentally find these treasures that they have finally gotten back, it will be troublesome.

Besides, the devils in Wuyang County were by them and lost so many medicines at once, it must be fake to say that they are not crazy.

As for what will happen after going berserk, no one can predict.

Therefore, the safest way is for Liu Tianshu and the three of them to stay there, and Geng Tianlong runs back to inform people.

Soon after Geng Tianlong left, it was dawn.

Liu Tianshu, who was hiding in the cave, was eating baked cakes while observing the movement under the mountain through the branches in front of the cave. At about ten o'clock in the morning, a crowd of people with guns began to appear at the foot of the mountain, and there were still faint devils and imperial allies, these people searched along the road blocked by heavy snow at the bottom of the mountain, and some even looked into the distance = to the undulating mountains and forests from time to time.

It seems that the devils who reacted sent troops to search along the footprints they left behind. After all, a car is something that can't move off the road, and it's so loud that it's impossible not to attract attention.

So it's normal for the devils to find out that they go out of the north gate and go around to the southwest.

Liu Tianshu quietly watched the enemy's movements at the foot of the mountain, knowing that it would be a matter of time before the devil found the car that fell under the cliff. It's just that according to common sense, the devil should have speculated that he ran south. I don't think I'm actually hiding in the mountains here.

The devil and the Imperial Allied Army, who were chasing and searching along the highway, found the maintenance chairman of the villages along the way, and after some inquiry, they knew that a car passed by this side last night, so they searched carefully along the road under the command of Yokota, the leader of the devil's squad.

The snow on the road has long since melted. The car prints were easy to recognize, and at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Yokota led people to find the place where the car prints had disappeared, and then directed the soldiers to search in a fan shape, and finally found the car that had fallen apart in a deep ravine.

Unfortunately, the drugs on the car have long been lost.

Inoue received the report and sat behind his desk sulking for a long time before walking to the map. Began to speculate about where the gang of men who attacked the field hospital would go.

The two nurses who had been released by the attackers and the doctor who had been knocked unconscious were personally interrogated by the captain of the gendarmerie, Sakata. Sakata already knew that there were three attackers, disguised himself as imperial soldiers and entered the field hospital, removing most of the hospital's medicine and equipment. If it weren't for the hapless doctor who came forward to interrogate him, I'm afraid that the hospital's medicines would have been wiped out by the attackers.

Rao is like this, after the fact, according to the statistics, as many as 22 boxes of medicine and equipment were lost in the field hospital.

I thought that under my own rule, I would find such a big thing. A great shame welled up in Inoue's heart.

He stared at the map for a long time, judging that the gang had attacked the field hospital. It is very likely to be the dirt road in the direction of Cheongam Town.

For when they had gone out of the north gate, they turned southwest.

However, it was found that the location where the opponent had dropped the car had not yet reached the Shiquan stronghold, and from the time calculation, they were only six hours out of the city, judging from the investigation of the villagers along the way. The car passed by the area at about 3 a.m. last night.

In other words, the time it takes to walk without a car and a medicine on these dirt roads is, so far, no more than six hours at most.

Now that the snow is covering the mountains, they dare not take the avenue. According to this calculation, these dirt roads should not have traveled far.

After staring at the map and thinking for a long time, Inoue gritted his teeth and ordered Yokota to command the Japanese army and the Imperial Allied Army to search carefully, make sure to find clues to the escape of Dohachi, and at the same time report to the wing commander about the attack on the field hospital.

The wing commander scolded Inoue on the phone, but in the end, he asked the brigade commander to send an airplane to search the area around Shiquan Town.

Now the mountains are covered with heavy snow, and people are walking in the snow, which is easy to spot on the plane.

Besides, the men who attacked the field hospital and the north gate were at least thirty or so according to the reports of their subordinates.

It is simply impossible for such a team to walk on the snow without being detected by aircraft.

After Liu Tianshu saw that the devil and the Imperial Association Army found the car that he had thrown down, after an hour, he began to fan-shape the search with the car as the center, and couldn't help but pout.

However, at noon, a devil plane suddenly appeared in the sky, and this plane roared and circled around the stone spring. He immediately understood that the devil had been furious this time, and he actually sent a plane to search for them.

It's a pity that in the afternoon, the devil's plane didn't find anything unusual in the surrounding mountains and forests, although there were sporadic human activities in the mountains and forests, but in terms of scale, there were only three or five people at most, and there were no cardboard boxes or anything like that, so it was obviously not the person they were looking for.

Inoue was stunned when he received a report that aerial reconnaissance had not discovered the whereabouts of this group of people at all.

Could it be that these dirt eight roads will not be able to stealth the technique?

The search force searched for five or six hours, but searched 10 kilometers south of the found car. In order to conduct a thorough search, Yokota also asked the Imperial Allied Army from the strongholds along the way to participate in the operation, and at the same time forcibly recruited many civilians to participate in the search.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Inoue had to order the troops to stop the search, and the Yokota squad withdrew to the county seat. The troops from the remaining positions also returned to their positions.

Geng Tianlong came to answer with the people of the second company, and it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. When Li Shu arrived at the cave and saw the twenty-two boxes of medicines piled up in the cave, his eyes immediately lit up, and he looked at Liu Tianshu and said excitedly: "Chief of Staff, so many medicines, now it's okay, our wounded have been saved." ”

"Hehe, Li Shu, the devil lost so much medicine, but he was mad, you don't know, even the plane was sent out today, and the hills in front of him were thoroughly searched by the devil. It's no longer safe here, so we'd better move the medicine back early, and the wounded fighters are still waiting to use it. Liu Tianshu responded with a smile.

"Okay, listen to you, let's go." When Li Shu heard this, he waved his hand, instructed the soldiers to bring the medicine, and then walked in the direction of Houshan Village overnight.

After ordering the troops to withdraw, Inoue sat in the command post, and his mind couldn't help but speculate about where these dirt roads would go, and why his troops searched for a day, but found nothing.

Thinking of this, he stared at the map on the wall, thinking about what he would do next if he threw the car down.

He imagined seven or eight possibilities in his head, and in the end they were all rejected.

Finally, when his eyes were fixed on a hill called Niutouling to the north of the car, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

"Eight grids, cunning Chinese, originally hid here." His finger nodded at Niutouling.

Yokota led his troops to search in the southeast and west directions of the ravine where the car was found, but he only briefly searched the Niutouling two kilometers behind him, and did not send anyone up the mountain to search at all.

And the surrounding villages were even more searched by his people.

Within a radius of twenty miles, if there is anything missing, it is this somewhat steep Niutouling.

"Someone." Inoue shouted out the door, and a devil lieutenant walked in.

"Captain."

"Immediately notify Captain Sakata of the gendarmerie to come to me."

More than ten minutes later, Sakata rushed in.

"Sakata-kun, how is the investigation of the attack on the field hospital?" Inoue looked at Sakata and asked coldly.

"Report to the captain, after investigation, last night in a bathhouse in the east of the city, three imperial soldiers were stolen military uniforms, and two imperial soldiers in the south of the city were killed in an attack, with guns missing. It was preliminarily determined that the three Tsuchihachi infiltrated the bathhouse and stole our costumes, and then disguised themselves as imperial soldiers and infiltrated the field hospital to steal medicines, and killed the military doctor, Mr. Fujino, ...... "Sakata wiped the sweat from his forehead and reported the investigation of the gendarmerie for a day to Inoue.

"Yo Xi, Itada-kun, I suspect that these damn dirt eight roads abandoned their cars and hid their medicines here after escaping from the county seat. Tonight take advantage of the darkness to transport away. If this group of Tubalu is really from Qingyan Town, Yexigou will be the only way for them. So, we're here waiting for these damn dirt roads. Inoue stared at the wild stream ditch on the map, his eyes glowing like a wolf.

"Wild Creek Gully?" When Sakata heard Inoue's words, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Captain Inoue, Yexigou is forty kilometers away from the county seat, and it is getting dark at this time, and when we get there, I'm afraid those dirt roads have already passed." Sakata voiced his concerns.

"Bantian-kun, you are too worried, according to my judgment, those Tuba Road did not dare to act before it was dark, our troops took a car from here through Shiquan to this location to get off, and it only took six hours to rush to Yexigou at most, if those Tuba Road left Niutouling after dark, then the time for them to arrive at Yexigou should be after four o'clock in the morning. Therefore, unless the Tuba Road has now left Niutouling. Otherwise, you will not be able to escape the palm of the imperial army. Inoue said with confidence.

As a Japanese army stationed in the county seat, he has nearly 20 cars in his hands, and a small team of troops, at most three cars, can complete the transportation.

As Inoue's order was given, Tada's team immediately prepared, and when it was just dark, four cars galloped out of the south gate of the castle and drove quickly in the direction of Shiquan.

For the success of this ambush, Inoue personally led a squad of the machine gun squadron to cooperate with the Tada squad in action.

At the same time, Inoue sent a telegram to Aoki and asked Aoki's brigade to send troops to attack Shipan Village in order to contain the forces of the independent brigade. (To be continued.) )