Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Devil Is Coming

Kaifeng is also a distance of dozens of kilometers from Lanfeng County, the army is full force, at most it takes only half a day to reach Lanfeng, on May 30, the battle of Lanfeng that should have started on May 21, because of the unexpected appearance of the 99th Army, which led to the plan of the army to move west was postponed for a few days.

But in the past few days, it has not only brought a large number of recruits to the 99th Army, but also allowed the local people to be transferred safely. Although the front line did not hold the army for too long, this has made Su Dao very satisfied, since Su Dao's debut, he has participated in dozens of battles of all sizes, and the annihilated army has been as many as seventy or eighty thousand, and it has only been less than a year.

What is the concept of the strength of 70,000 or 80,000 troops in this era? Let's take the upcoming Battle of Lanfeng as an example, the main force of the army is nothing more than a 14th division of Kenji Tuhihara, and there are only more than 40,000 people on the other side when the battle is full, and 70,000 or 80,000 troops are equivalent to Su Dao destroying nearly two divisions of the army within a year, and there is also a horse pulling division.

In addition, if Su Dao's battle plan this time can be implemented smoothly, then in just half a year, there will be more than 100,000 people in Su Dao's hands, and the total strength of the army in China is only a few people? More than 100,000 troops have been wiped out so far in a year, and in addition to the casualties caused by other Chinese armies, it can be conservatively estimated that the number of Chinese troops planted in China has already broken the 100,000 mark this year.

Of course, the results of the battle of Lanfeng are counted separately, after all, the battle has not started yet, and Su Dao is embarrassed to directly budget the next results, and he doesn't know what the real results are.

In the village of Liuzhuang in the northwest of Lanfeng, this small and poor village, when night came, no one noticed that a huge army was surrounding them, and the whole village was surrounded by water, and most of the people in the village fled for their lives, except for a few lonely old people who did not leave because they missed their home.

As the sky gradually darkened, several old people sat under the big tree at the entrance of the village, smoking cigarette pouches and chatting, lamenting the injustice of the world and regretting the crops in the field, not realizing that war was coming, and their safety would be threatened all the time.

"It's not good, I'm here, everyone run away." An old man was looking at the distance of Faleng, and suddenly saw a large crowd of people, these years can have such a large number of people come to the village, except for the army passing by, there is basically no other group, and their village is not located next to the traffic artery, but in a relatively remote place, and the troops generally do not pass through it.

After thinking about it for a while, the old man felt that the other party was very likely to be himself, so he hurriedly shouted in a panic, and then several old people scattered in a hurry, and each ran towards a house in the middle of the village. Several old people did not lock the door after entering the courtyard, and the courtyard in the village was basically unlocked, if they locked the door from the inside, it would attract the attention of the devils.

Soon, an old man ran to a bed, and the two of them worked together to lift it away, quickly removing some of the debris on the ground, and then removing a wooden board on the ground, and a half-meter-wide hole was displayed in front of everyone. Without saying a word, the two old men jumped straight in, and then the last two old men gently moved the bed that had been removed back to its original position, and then gently put some sundries on the wooden board, covered it from the inside, and everything in the room returned to calm, as if no one had ever appeared.

"Old Liu, how about our method? The devil is coming, let's drill into this hole, it's very safe, and I can't think that we will hide in the ground after killing the little devil, and we will hide the food or something, and we will not starve to death for ten days and half a month. An old man held an oil lamp and said proudly.

"Okay, old man, don't be proud here, if it weren't for the method that your tiger told you, your head wouldn't have been able to come up with this method even if you wanted to break the sky. But don't really say it, this tiger is really unusual, not only thought of digging a hole in the ground, but also let us connect this hole with the well, there is water and food, we are in a hurry to die. The other old man whispered with a smile.

This hole is after the people in the village began to flee, these old men dug together, originally just dug in their own homes, but later found that the progress was too slow, maybe the hole has not been dug yet, the devil came, so a few old guys discussed that everyone would dig a hole together, and when the devil came, he would hide there.

In the end, I chose to be at Old Man Zhang's house, for no other reason, one is because the idea was made by Old Man Zhang's son Huzi, and the other is that this old man's house is the closest to the wellhead, and it is not particularly difficult for everyone to dig it. Anyway, after living underground here, everyone didn't think about how comfortable they could be, as long as they could survive.

It's just that after Old Man Zhang's son Huzi told Old Man Zhang about this method, he left some money for the family and disappeared. This has always made Old Man Zhang quite worried. In fact, Huzi told Old Man Zhang to dig a tunnel leading to the wellhead for two reasons, one is that it can be convenient for them to drink water and will not be killed by thirst, and the other is that the hole is sealed more tightly, and digging a hole to the wellhead can also facilitate the outside air to enter the hole, so as not to suffocate several people.

Soon, the 99th Army entered Liuzhuang Village, and the military headquarters was also stationed in a family in Liuzhuang Village. Then the troops went into a state of standby, and the Zhouqiao troops first went to explore the terrain, and then began to erect pontoon bridges at dawn tomorrow, after all, with so many new soldiers, it was not very convenient to start a battle.

In addition, the boat bridge troops were asked to erect the pontoon bridge in advance, because they were worried that the skills of the soldiers of the unit were not hard, and the pontoon bridge could not be erected within the specified time.

"Stop!" A recruit wanted to enter a courtyard, but was severely stopped by the guards hiding behind the door, of course, since this village only has thirty or forty households combined, there are guards hiding behind the door of each courtyard, some of them are regarded as the military headquarters, and the other part is regarded as the division headquarters of three divisions, and the place in front of this recruit wants to enter is the military headquarters of the 99th Army.

was suddenly shouted by the guard, and the recruit suddenly yelled in fright, and after seeing clearly that the person who shouted was his own, he patted his chest violently, and then let go of his heart and gasped for breath.

"Trespassing, comrade, is there anything to say?" The guard's skillful grappler pushed the recruit to the ground and asked sternly.