Chapter 29 The Old Third Regiment Guerrillas

"The 1st battalion sent food to the new camp of Thunder according to the order, and found that the people of Thunder built a lot of sheds along the mountain, but we stayed in the camp for a long time, and saw the appearance of hundreds of them at most, Zhao Zhi is said to have a fever, we didn't see it, the person in charge of the camp is a big-nosed foreigner" The 1st battalion commander who was arranged by Zuo Quan to send food to Zhao Zhi and them came back, this is already the second wave of people who went to Thunder's new camp, and last time I sent bedding or something, and I didn't see Zhao Zhi's face.

"Zhao Zhi has a fever?" The news brought back by the 1st battalion commander, Zuo Quan didn't believe it, that man was as strong as a cow, and he had come all the way, how could he suddenly have a fever. "No, there is a problem here" Zuo Quan pondered for a while, and suddenly discovered the mystery, "1 battalion commander, you immediately ask the fellow to catch two chickens and go to Thunder's new camp, just say that this is for Zhao Zhi to replenish his body, but you must find out if Zhao Zhi is still in their camp"

"Lao Zuo, are you saying that Zhao Zhi is most likely not in their camp now?" Guan Xiangying was also stunned, Zhao Zhi is a master who can fight, but he is also a guy who likes to stir up the wind and rain. If Zhao Zhizhen attacked the Japanese army again, he might not attract retaliatory encirclement and suppression by the Japanese army. The Thunder gang are all mountain monkeys, and the kung fu on their legs and feet is not even comparable to those mountain people who have lived in the mountains and forests for generations, and if they can't make this mess, they will have to be cleaned up by the Eighth Route Army in the end.

"I'm not sure, I just have this hunch, Zhao Zhi is a restless guy. His 4,000 people are fully equipped with weapons and ammunition, but they lack food and things to keep out the cold, in exchange for so many soldiers under my command, they will definitely not nest in the hills and waste their days doing nothing" Zuo Quan is not very sure of Zhao Zhi's whereabouts, but according to his observation and understanding of Zhao Zhi, this person will never stay in the mountains honestly to take care of the wounded, otherwise there is no point in them coming to Jindong on this long journey To say that Zuo Quan's hunch is really accurate, Zhao Zhi, who was discussed by them, is indeed not in Thunder's new camp now, Just as Zuo Quan thought, Zhao Zhi and his Jewish soldiers were not short of weapons, ammunition and equipment, but they lacked food and things to keep out the cold. The uninjured guys wrapped in military blankets and made do in the field for a few days without a problem, but Zhao Zhi still had more than 100 wounded under him, and these people couldn't help the toss of low temperature and dew, and Zhao Zhi, who had the heart to distance himself from the Eighth Route Army, had to find a way to solve the matter by himself. When Zuo Quan and Guan Xiangying were talking about him, Zhao Zhizheng, who had a grass ring on his steel helmet, was lying on a hillside with people, and below them was a road.

"It's back, it's the third brother, they're back" The mercenaries lying on the grass on the flanks let out a birdsong, and two cat-waisted plainclothes scouts quickly rushed towards Zhao Zhi's side. "Sir, I figured it out, not far in front of me is a place called Dawangzhuang, we took a fake certificate of good citizenship and walked around, and found that the village is not big, there are only 100 households. There is a rich man surnamed Wang in Zhuangzi, who is an old man of fish and flesh, and it is said that he has something to do with the Imperial Association Army in Ding'an County, and no one in the nearby towns dares to provoke him."

"No one dares to provoke him?" Zhao Zhi looked at the steel helmet lying in the grass beside him and smiled a little meaningfully, "That's why we didn't come, now that we are here, the people who cleaned him up will arrive" Zhao Zhi said this is not without purpose, there are only some grass huts in the new camp, the wounded also need meat to supplement nutrition, the temperature in the mountains is very low at night, Zhao Zhi also needs a large number of things to keep out the cold, the big wangzhuang found by the scouts is obviously a good place to fight the autumn wind, and this arrogant rich man has naturally become the target of Zhao Zhi.

"That's, who are we" The two scouts who went to Dawangzhuang to investigate and came back were stupid and happy at Zhao Zhi, and the older San Mazi took out the short knife on the waist of the mercenary next to him and drew a sketch of Dawangzhuang on the ground, marking the location of the rich man's house to Zhao Zhi, "The people of Dawangzhuang live very loosely, and the rich man surnamed Wang lives in the east of the village, but this old boy is quite willing to spend money to build the courtyard wall of his house, I estimate that the courtyard wall of his house is made of big bluestone in the mountain, which can be about 3 meters high, It seems that he still has a family or something, I heard that there are guns."

"Yes, the people in Zhuangzi said that he had a family in his house, about a dozen, and they were specially for his family to take care of the family and collect rent, and the people in Zhuangzi did not know the model of the gun, but said that the family in his family carried a spear" Another mercenary added the omission in San Mazi's narrative. These two scouts pretending to be merchants got better in Dawangzhuang for a while, and they investigated the situation in Dawangzhuang.

"Didn't you find a Japanese puppet army in Zhuangzi?" Tang Lei, who came up from behind, interjected, it is not difficult to take Dawangzhuang, but there are more than a dozen landlords' homes in the nursing homes, Tang Lei didn't look at it, he was worried that Dawangzhuang was not far from Ding'an County, and there would be Japanese puppet troops stationed there.

"It turned out that there was a Japanese puppet army on duty in the turret outside Dawangzhuang, I heard that it was killed by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, since then, the Japanese puppet army in Ding'an City has never sent people to Dawangzhuang, ten days and a half months of joy There may be a Japanese patrol out of the city will come and go, usually the imperial army comes to Dawangzhuang to collect grain and donate."

"Tang Lei, you take one company into Dawangzhuang to knock out the rich man's yard, take away the grain, clothing, cloth and big livestock, if the people have surplus food at home, they will buy it, and I will take the remaining two companies to block the road from Ding'an City" Just do it, Zhao Zhi waved his hand, and a large number of Jewish soldiers stood up densely in the grass on the hillside, Zhao Zhi came out this time with only three companies of Jewish soldiers and 100 mercenaries for a total of 1,000 people, and the other Jewish soldiers were left by Zhao Zhi in the new camp to build bunkers.

Tang Lei didn't say much, and took 300 Jewish soldiers along the highway to Dawangzhuang, 3 miles away, the scouts they sent out just followed the road to do some reconnaissance, although they knew the location of Dawangzhuang and Ding'an County, but after all, they were not very familiar with the terrain here, and a quick decision was the right thing, and procrastination would only cause unnecessary trouble. It would be noon, and the people who had been busy in their fields all morning gathered under the shade of the trees on the ground to rest and eat, and Tang Lei's gang who rushed along the road made a big enough movement, and the people in the fields fled in a hurry, thinking that it was the Japanese soldiers again.

"Leave 100 people to surround Zhuangzi, only allowed to enter and not to leave, and the rest of the people will follow me" Tang Lei ordered his Jewish soldiers to send 100 people to guard all the intersections of Dawangzhuang, and he took the remaining 200 people to the house of the rich man Wang at the east end of Zhuangzi. The originally calm Dawangzhuang was jumped by the noisy chickens and dogs of these suddenly appeared soldiers, and the movement made by hundreds of pairs of cowhide military boots when they ran can be described as huge, Tang Lei and they did not run outside the courtyard of the rich man, they were already discovered by the gatekeeper of the rich man's house, and the scrambling family closed the door in a panic and ran to the inner courtyard in a hurry.

"Master, master, no, a group of soldiers came outside, but it doesn't look like a Japanese soldier, and it's not the Imperial Cooperative Army in the city" The family who was scared by Tang Lei and them spoke a little upside down, and it took a long time to make his words clear. The rich man Wang, who was lying on the lap of the little maid and smoking a big cigarette, heard the news, and was so frightened that he was almost turned on his back, and before he could breathe, there was already a sound of banging on the door at the gate of the courtyard.

The rich man Wang is just a rich man, and the old sleeve rifles issued by the family are just window objects, scaring and scaring those farmers who owe rent are okay, but Tang Lei and the others are not timid and afraid of croppers, just a grenade was thrown over, and the thick gate of the Wang family compound was blown open. "Heroes spare their lives, all heroes spare their lives" Tang Lei They rushed into the courtyard from the blown gate and before they had time to disperse the vigilance left and right, they were confused by the kneeling maids in the courtyard.

Tang Lei was not polite, and commanded his Jewish soldiers to search the rich man's house, and all the things that could be used and valuable were moved to the courtyard, rice and noodles, clothes, cloth covers, ocean banknotes, gold and silver, and pushed the whole yard, and then counting the mules, horses, pigs, sheep, and cattle of the Wang family, Tang Lei's harvest on this trip was enough for Zhao Zhi's 4,000 people to eat and drink for three days. "It's not enough, take this money to sell grain door to door" Zhao Zhi planned to rest here for half a month, these grains were obviously not enough, and Tang Lei paid attention to those farmers in the Dawang family.

"Who are you? What do you want to do? This is the territory of the Third Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, where did you guys come from, put down the guns for me" The mercenary with the money had not yet walked out of the Wang family's compound, and a loud voice sounded from the roof of the Wang family's main house, and dozens of black holes were exposed on the side wall, and the muzzles of the two crooked light machine guns were facing Tang Lei and them.

"Who are you? The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army? Looking at the gray-clothed man standing on the roof, Tang Lei waved his hand and motioned to the Jewish soldiers around him to put down all the guns they had picked up first. The current Tang Lei is no longer the hairy boy who was not in harmony with the world in the Sichuan Army, he has been following Zhao Zhi for a long time, Tang Lei has been careful in his early learning, this group of people claims to be from the old third regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and then looking at their miscellaneous clothes and weapons, Tang Lei concluded that this guy should be a guerrilla under the name of the Eighth Route Army.