At more than 9 o'clock in the evening of November 3, in Xinguan Village, Puxin Township, Changhua County, Taiwan, Guo Dai and his three subordinates were walking towards a family in the south of the village. The combat missions and methods of the Taiwan Special Operations Brigade are different from those of the former Taiwan Corps, and as natives of Taiwan, their main battlefield is not on the front line, but in their familiar hometown. Three subordinates, one is a staff officer of the special operations brigade named Tu Chengli, one is his guard and orderly, named Chen Er, and one is a senior soldier named Huang Datong. And the place they are going to now is Huang Datong's home.

Changhua County is still under the control of the Japanese army. Last year, the Japanese army's frenzied encirclement and suppression caused the Taiwan Corps to suffer heavy losses and had to withdraw from the Taichung area. Under the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, the Taiwan Corps had no choice but to shrink its front, not to mention switching from offensive to defensive, and also dispersed most of its troops; in addition to maintaining its base area in Tainan, it also operated along the border line with regiments as units, and interfered with the Japanese army through raiding stations, thus achieving the goal of delaying its offensive speed.

If it had not been for the defeat of the Combined Fleet in the Hainan Campaign, and if it had not been for Yamamoto Isoroku's requisition of a large amount of supplies from Taiwan, the life of the Taiwan Corps would have been difficult now. Taiwan's supply fleet suffered heavy losses, and the large shortage of military supplies forced Kobayashi to abandon the original plan of encirclement and suppression. And the consequence of his doing so not only gave the Taiwan Corps a chance to recuperate, but also began to face endless raids and harassment wars.

Under the command of Jiang Dahe, Jiang Chuanjun, Zhang Zhiyong, and others, the Taiwan Corps has become more and more proficient in the use of guerrilla tactics. They appeared out of nowhere in areas where the Japanese army was weak, adopted the tactics of fixed-point encirclement and suppression, and broke through one by one, and little by little they encroached on the countryside that the Japanese army had recaptured through large-scale encirclement and suppression, so that the Taiwan army built by Kobayashi was exhausted, and finally had to turn from offensive to defensive, and also withdrew from many marginal areas. In this large-scale counterattack, although the Spark Brigade and many students and soldiers of the Fox Pupil and Wolf Tooth rarely participated in frontal combat, they gave intelligence and material support to the combat units by recruiting members from various places to establish the Liberation Association, and in many places, turned a simple offensive and defensive war into a people's war.

Puxin Township, Changhua County, now belongs to the front-line positions of both sides, and the Japanese army has stationed three brigades here, and if you count the three brigades of Japanese puppet troops stationed in Yuanlin Town and Erlin Town, the Japanese army's strength in Changhua has reached one division.

There is no such thing as a puppet army in Taiwan - Japan regards Taiwan as its own territory, and Taiwanese naturally become Japanese, so most of the troops mainly composed of Taiwanese are called "**** brigades" or such and such a detachment. The term "Taiwan puppet army" was coined by a cadet soldier named Lin Haomin of the Spark Brigade. In his words, since the Taiwanese are also Chinese, then those who are willing to work for the Japanese are also traitors and two dogs, and the army they form is naturally also a puppet army.

The Japanese puppet army suffered from a sneak attack in the countryside below last month, and the materials could not keep up, and they were unable to quickly concentrate their forces to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression, so they could only adopt the strategy of attacking and encircling during the day and shrinking the defensive line at night. Guo Dai and their airborne landing were successful, and after learning about this law of activity of the Japanese puppet army, they decided to open the gap from Changhua first.

Huang Datong was in front, and Guo Dai and the other three followed. The closer he got home, Huang Datong's pace slowed down. The proximity of the home, the non-immersive person cannot understand this feeling. For more than three years, from the time when he first set foot on the other side of the land, he missed his relatives and his homeland and cried lovesick every night to the fact that he only occasionally remembered his elderly parents because he had seen too much killing, and now, he suddenly found that the faces of his parents in his mind had become lighter, and his pace slowed down, and one step was like a thousand catties no longer being as fast as before.

Everyone is Taiwanese, except for Guo Dai, everyone else has relatives who have survived, they understand Huang Datong's feelings, so they did not wake him up, but just followed silently. Finally, the Huang family arrived, and Huang Datong knocked on the door tremblingly.

"Who?" An old Hokkien language came from inside, and then a light came on.

"Squeak!" The door was opened a crack, and the light fell on Huang Datong's face, and then suddenly fell to the ground. The old man's voice trembled: "Are you Tong'er?" ”

"Daddy!" Huang Datong knelt down as soon as his knees weakened.

"Let's go inside!" Guo Dai said, holding him and pushing him in. Next to him, Chen Er grabbed his hand and caught the oil lamp.

"Damn, the baby is back!" The old man was already in tears, and he stared at Huang Datong for a moment, as if he was afraid that in the blink of an eye, his son would be lost again.

"Dad, what did you say?" Inside, a hunched old woman was coming out of the back room.

Huang Datong had already burst into tears, he fell to his knees with a pop, "Woo Woo" was just a few rings, and shouted in his mouth: "Daddy, the unfilial son is back!" ”

Hearing his voice, the old woman inside was agitated and shouted violently: "Tong'er? Is it Tong'er? ”

"Mother!" Huang Datong walked over on his knees, the old woman ran over, and the mother and son looked at each other and hugged each other tightly. "Son, my mother thought I would never see you again!"

"Mother, why is your face so bad?"

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The greetings lasted for about half an hour, and during this process, Guo Dai and the others just stood quietly on the side, listening silently. Such a scene was expected. When they left Taiwan, although they were bathed in the glory of the so-called "imperial army", everyone understood that no matter how rosy the Japanese whitewashed the prospects, in the end, they would definitely not be able to return alive.

Huang Datong talked with his parents and learned that he, Guo Dai and others had already been declared dead by the Japanese. And it was this blow that made his old mother sick and emaciated like this.

Before they came, they had already done meticulous reconnaissance work, and they knew that the Japanese did not dare to come out at all during this time period. As for the puppet army, they will not come out to die at this time. Moreover, there were snipers in ambush outside, so they were not worried about a surprise attack by the Japanese.

Half an hour was enough for the second elder of the Huang family to figure out why his son would come back from the dead and suddenly appear in front of them. What made Guo Dai and the others happy was that they actually knew about the existence of the Daoist Soldiers. Knowing that his son had become a member of the Cadet Army, the old father nodded again and again and said, "Okay, everyone is Chinese, and it is time to unite to fight the Japanese." Son, your decision is correct, and your mother and I support your decision. ”

Huang Datong had returned to normal at this time, and when he heard this, he looked at his parents and said firmly: "Daddy, don't worry, this time we came back just to get rid of the little devil." The Japanese have become grasshoppers after autumn, and it won't be long before they stumble. ”

The second elder of the Huang family nodded again and again, looking at his son, who was much stronger than before leaving, and remembering the strength of the student army they had seen, the old mother said: "Tong'er, follow the commander and work hard, get rid of the Japanese as soon as possible, and then let someone help you tell you about the daughter-in-law, the mother is still waiting to hold her grandson." ”

"Mother!" Huang Datong blushed - Rao is that he has grown into a seven-foot strong man, but in the eyes of his parents, he is still a careless child.

Guo Dai and the others couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.