Speechless all night, Qiao Youhua dreamed until dawn, just got up and walked out of the tent, and found the village chief Xu Youcai squatting outside smoking dry tobacco, and seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

In front of people, Qiao Youhua still calls him the village chief, after all, the matter with Xu Yuer has not been made public.

"Is there anything wrong with the village chief so early?" Qiao Youhua asked.

When Xu Youcai saw Qiao Youhua, he quickly stood up and said with a kind smile: "Youhua, that's the case, most of the young people in the village have joined our anti-Japanese task force, and this sorghum is ripe, I want to ask if you can send someone to help the village collect grain, at this time, the sooner the harvest is finished, the better."

Otherwise, once the sky changes and a rain falls, it will be all over. ”

Qiao Youhua said without thinking: "No problem, I will ask the brothers to help with all their strength to harvest and grab seeds." "The people of Zheng Village have long shared weal and woe with the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, coexisting with honor and disgrace, and helping them collect food is also helping themselves to collect food, so there is no need to think about it at all.

"Great, so that we can get our food as much as we can." Xu Youcai smiled happily when he heard this, looking like I really didn't mistake you kid.

"Yu'er, you go and pass on my order, except for the guard platoon, all squadrons will go down to the field to help the villagers collect food." Seeing Xu Yu'er coming with breakfast, Qiao Youhua commanded.

"yes, okay." Xu Yuer glanced at Qiao Youhua shyly, handed her breakfast, and turned to leave.

"Then I won't bother you with breakfast." Xu Youcai said with a smile and left.

Qiao Youhua looked at the breakfast in his hand, and said in his heart, it's good to have a daughter-in-law, someone hurts.

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In Shimen City, three-wheeled motorcycles and military trucks rushed out, followed by groups of heavily armed Japanese infantry, and the trucks were also full of devil soldiers, and behind four of the trucks, there were also four Type 92 infantry guns.

The two puppet soldiers left behind at the head of the city were shocked by this scene, and one of them secretly said: "Good girl, this imperial army has been dispatched a lot." ”

"Not only are there a lot, you see that there are dozens of trucks, and there are so many large groups behind them, and the few troops must be more than 2,000." Another pseudo-military road.

The two puppet armies were right, the Shimen Japanese army, which was already in a state of complete anger, came out of the nest this time, sending a total of two fully equipped brigades and an artillery squadron equipped with four Type 92 infantry guns, vowing to wipe out the Dragon Tooth Task Force in one fell swoop.

The railroad was attacked by the Dragon's Tooth Task Force in all directions, blowing up many places, and it has not been repaired for the time being, so the devil can only take the road.

Huge convoys and processions were like a long dragon winding along the road, kicking up dust and billowing smoke everywhere they passed.

In the center of the convoy, there was an armored car, although it was a very weakly armored car, but it was used against the Chinese army, which lacked heavy weapons such as anti-tank weapons, and it was almost invincible.

However, this armored vehicle was not used for combat use, but was used as a command vehicle by Nakagawa Ichiro and Aoki Saburo, which Aoki Saburo brought from Baoding.

In the car, the two old devils, Nakagawa and Aoki, were wearing brand-new Dazuo military uniforms, with a saber hanging from their waists and white gloves in their hands, but they also looked energetic, but their faces were a little solemn.

Aoki Saburo was the first to speak: "Nakagawa-kun, I heard that the Yongding River Bridge not far ahead was blown up by the people of China not long ago, isn't our convoy unable to get through?" ”

Nakagawa Ichiro said: "Aoki-kun, please rest assured, I have already asked the sappers to repair the bridge, and it is guaranteed to be passable." ”

"Yo Xi, that's good. I can't wait to take on this cunning opponent. Saburo Aoki said with a gloomy face.

"Aoki-kun, we can't be too careless this time, when they were still very weak before, Lieutenant Sasaki, the previous garrison commander of Zhengding County, surrounded and suppressed them with ten times the enemy's strength.

But the result was very bad, nearly 500 imperial troops and the imperial army were defeated, almost all the army was annihilated, that battle also led to the loss of Zhengding County, Sichuan Zang Qingsan is a veteran with military achievements, if it is not for the lack of troops in his hands, how can he give up the county seat lightly, and end up being dismissed. Although Nakagawa Ichiro was also angry, he remained calm, after all, he knew much more about what the Dragon's Tooth Task Force had been doing these days than Aoki, an outsider.

Aoki Saburo snorted coldly and said: "I have also learned something about that battle, Sasaki only has two squadrons, and the rest are all useless imperial army, those people are just a group of rice buckets, which are overwhelmed and can only be rationed to the imperial army to escort grain, grass, and ammunition."

Moreover, it is only when the headquarters is attacked that we are defeated by a weak enemy, and these mistakes will never happen to us, because we have two full infantry brigades and an artillery squadron, and even if it is a regular Chinese resistance, we can easily defeat even one division.

What's more, they are just a company-sized rabble. The reason why we have caused so many losses to the imperial army before is that we have taken advantage of the loophole of the imperial army's paralysis and carelessness, as long as we are vigilant, we can completely crush them with absolute strength! ”

Aoki Saburo's words also made sense, and it was even more impossible for Nakagawa Ichiro to grow up to destroy his prestige, so he nodded silently.

It's just that they don't know that Qiao Youhua's Dragon Tooth Task Force has already doubled its strength, and the strength between them is not ten to one, but five to one, and the gap is even worse than the time when Sasaki encircled and suppressed Zheng Village.

Because at that time, Qiao Youhua's task force had not been formed for a long time, and there was not much combat effectiveness, and now, in just over a month, Qiao Youhua led them to suppress bandits, kill local tyrants, and attack the Japanese puppet army everywhere, and even captured a county town.

The army has already undergone a transformation, and its combat effectiveness has increased greatly, coupled with the underground tunnel network that Qiao Youhua spent countless manpower and material resources to build during this time, not to mention that the little devil only has two brigades, even if he comes to two wings, he may not be able to take Zheng Village.

The news of the Japanese dispatch was quickly discovered by the scouts of the reconnaissance platoon, who immediately sent someone to report back.

Zhengcun base area.

The monkey rode a tall horse and galloped over, bypassed the minefield, entered the camp at the west end of the village, found Qiao Youhua, and said breathlessly without saluting: "Captain, the devils of Shimen have been dispatched, with no less than 2,000 troops, as well as heavy weapons such as cannons, and now they should have crossed the Yongling River Bridge and are heading towards Zhengding County." ”

Qiao Youhua frowned, came to the battle map and said: "The little devil is really fast enough, you go and tell your platoon commander, the reconnaissance platoon will continue to monitor every move of the Japanese army and report at any time!" ”

"Yes!" The monkey hurriedly saluted and turned to leave.