As a result of the success of the enemy's night attack last night, the British side killed 142 German soldiers without losing a single soldier.

The Chinese workers led by Zhou Yu further gained the trust of Willemus.

Although he was unable to apply for a self-defense dagger for each of the Chinese workers of Task Force C13, he still brought twenty bayonets for use on rifles.

Zhou Yu distributed these bayonets to the twenty strongest men, and found some suitable wooden sticks to fasten the bayonets tightly to the sticks to make simple spears.

It's better to have these weapons than to pick up shovels and throw rocks.

As the sky slowly brightened, the orders from above were pressed down again, and Task Force C13 was divided into two groups, one of which remained in place to continue reinforcing the trenches, while the other group was to follow the British reconnaissance company to a small village in the dense forest to the northeast.

Here, they were to build a transit station, a barracks for wounded soldiers, and a warehouse for storing food.

Under the cover of a new round of shelling, Zhou Yu led 400 laborers and followed the soldiers of the British reconnaissance company to rush out of the trenches and march towards the forest to the northeast.

This small force of less than five hundred men looked so insignificant and imperceptible after a frontal attack by a large force.

They easily entered the forest near the north side.

Here, the sound of artillery fire gradually faded, and the tall and dense trees shaded the sun, and a rare coolness descended on them, making the pace of the people much lighter.

About two hours later, the forest in front of me suddenly became wider, and patches of wheat fields appeared in everyone's field of vision.

This is exactly what they are targeting--- Lespe, which means "ear of wheat" in French.

"Hell, we should have applied here earlier to build a warehouse and a wounded barracks, it looks like the Germans didn't garrison troops here, I'm going to find a farmer to drink a big barrel of beer and sleep beautifully~! Damn, don't even try to wake me up when the general comes! ”

A bearded soldier with a rifle looked at the village in the wheat field and shouted with joy, as if he had met an oasis in the desert and found an emerald in a pile of stones.

"Wait!"

The soldier, who was about to rush into the village, was suddenly pulled back by a hand and forced on his shoulder, almost hitting him on one knee.

The soldier turned around and saw that it was Zhou Yu, the representative of the Chinese workers, and immediately became angry, as if he had suffered some great shame.

But before his swear words squirted out of his mouth, he saw Zhou Yu squinting his eyes and said: "There are German troops stationed in this village!" ”

Zhou Yu squinted his eyes and stretched out his hand to point in a direction, but even if the others struggled, they could only see some black dots moving slowly, and they couldn't distinguish whether it was the villagers or the Germans.

"I've had good eyesight since I was a child, and I think these Germans are dressed as non-combatants, and they built a wounded barracks and supply depots here one step earlier.

So that means that there are at least one or two companies of defensive forces stationed in this village, and we people want weapons without weapons, and if we want equipment or equipment, rushing in like this is undoubtedly equivalent to sending them to death! ”

Williams took out a telescope he had with him and looked at it for a while, his face suddenly turning pale.

"Sure enough, there are German troops! So what to do? The order from above, if we can't do it, we will go to court-martial! ”

"Hell! I thought it was an easy errand, but I didn't expect it to be another death! Damn, those hateful aristocratic lords, let's fill it with our lives as soon as we touch our mouths! ”

Just now, the soldier spat fiercely on the ground, and his anger had been transferred from Zhou Yu's body to the noble officer who gave the order.

At this time, Williams, who had put away the binoculars, turned his head to look at Zhou Yu, leaned closer and whispered: "We must take this village, do you have any good way?" ”

Zhou Yu was slightly stunned, and looked back at the top boss of the task force.

"Lieutenant, if we want to take this place, we have to weigh our own strength, although we have four hundred people, but we only have more than a hundred guns combined.

And there is at least one company of armed forces on the opposite side, and that's not counting those logistical arms. With all due respect, if we forcibly attack this village, we will be hitting a stone with an egg. ”

Zhou Yu translated this famous sentence from his hometown into English, and it was obvious that Williams understood, which made him suffer from a face and was in a dilemma for a while.

"What can I do? If we don't need the enemy to do our part, the commander above will throw us into the cell first! ”

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment, thought for a while, and said: "Sir, I think we can temporarily ambush here and wait and see what happens, maybe when the frontal war is fierce, the other party will draw manpower from here, and we just need to wait for an opportunity."

In addition, we can send two clever soldiers to search east and west along the sides of this forest to see if we can encounter some scattered friendly troops, even if the other party has an internal emptiness with our strength, it is a fool's dream to take it. ”

"Wait and see? It's a good word. ”

Williams gave a thumbs up, and then a light of hope lit up in the depths of his eyes.

"You and you, look for friendly forces on both sides of the forest, if I remember correctly, the Empire's Foreign Legion should also be responsible for assaulting the east nearby, and if you see them, bring them here."

The British soldier who was ordered by Williams looked at him and Zhou Yu with a very strange expression, not understanding why his commander wanted to ask a Chinese worker's opinion.

"If you want to live, do as I say!"

Williams lowered his face and accentuated his tone, and the two British GIs reluctantly saluted and took the order.

"So what do we do next? Just hide here and observe? ”

Faced with Williams's question, Zhou Yu swept left and right, pointing to a bush not far away.

"We hid there, and the ground was higher and thick, so that we could block our tracks, and we could see a little farther."

"Okay, that's it! Everyone set off towards the bushes! ”

The Chinese Task Force and the British Scout Team all took refuge in the higher bushes.

The view was much better than it had just now, and Williams pulled out his binoculars to clearly see German medics transporting the wounded on stretchers into a makeshift hospital in a cowshed.

In addition, there were some hurried soldiers who seemed to have received some orders, and were busy running around.

It's really the best place to look at it.

The people in the bushes of the hiding capital were nervous at first and didn't feel anything, but after a while they found a big problem.

There are so many mosquitoes here! Almost everyone's exposed skin was nailed with red pustules of various sizes.

A few people even scratched the pus, and a yellow liquid mixed with blood flowed out, and it seems that the mosquitoes here are not weakly poisonous.

"Hell! These damn mosquitoes! ”

The British soldiers and Chinese laborers began to slap the mosquitoes around them, but no matter how many they killed, new mosquitoes continued to fall on their bodies.

Zhou Yu exhaled and frowned: "Everyone try to wrap themselves in their clothes, even if they feel hot, don't expose them, I'll think of a way." ”

Zhou Yu turned around and beckoned a few people to get out of this bush, looking for something in the weedy forest.

After a while, he saw a pile of green grass with seven leaves covered with plush barbs.

The unusually strong memory allows Zhou Wei to clearly reflect the knowledge he has learned before and the books he has read in his brain.

At this moment, his eyes lit up, and he said to the people around him: "Cut some of these humulus back, mash them with stones to squeeze out the juice, and apply them to the mosquito bites to relieve itching and swelling." ”

Mu Dezhu, who was following Zhou Yu, said openly: "Mr. Zhou, you look like a scholar, and you still know these things?" I can't say enough about your adoration! We have more than 100 catties in your hands, absolutely rest assured~! ”

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, I thought that only farmers like us who work in the fields all day know the efficacy of these weeds, but I didn't think that you, a cultural person, also knew this."

Liu Banxian, who traveled from south to north, added with a smile: "I also know a kind of vegetable called horse treadmill, which the poor people in the countryside often take home to make dumplings to eat, and that thing can also be crushed or boiled to relieve itching." ”

Zhou Yu nodded, knowing that Liu Banxian was talking about purslane, he instructed everyone: "A few of you and the fortune teller are looking around to see if there is any kind of horse treadmill, let's pick some back, those foreigners don't understand these at all, if we don't have them, even if we don't meet the Germans, they will be killed by mosquitoes." ”