Chapter 1 The Sound of Gunfire

As the gunshots rang out, the Japanese soldiers on either side of Nan Batian simultaneously collapsed to the ground.

The pseudo-soldiers on the city wall were mostly bandits Nan Batian had brought down from the mountains himself.

These bandits had always followed their leader.

Seeing Nan Batian drop two Japanese soldiers with two shots,

they immediately slashed at the Japanese soldiers around them with their broadswords and bayonets.

Nan Batian raised the gun in his hand and shouted loudly at the National Revolutionary Army soldiers rushing up the city wall:

"Officer!

Officers!

I..."

Before he could finish speaking,

a bullet flew from afar outside the city and exploded on his head.

Nan Batian's head burst open, splattering red, white, and black goo everywhere.

His body did not struggle at all, and he fell on top of the Japanese soldier who had just been shot dead.

Seeing that their boss was dead,

and that the Japanese soldiers preventing them from surrendering had also been killed,

his pseudo-soldiers no longer had any reason to resist surrendering.

One after another, the pseudo-soldiers knelt on the ground, raising their guns high in both hands,

motionless, as if receiving inspection.

The tradition of the Lunan Detachment was to continue the Special Operations Brigade's policy of exterminating the Japanese.

They had never talked to the pseudo-soldiers like that.

Moreover, many of the soldiers from the First and Second Companies who rushed to the city wall today

had once been pseudo-soldiers themselves, having been converted from the ranks of the enemy.

Even their regimental commander, Shan Yecan, hadn't he been a lackey for the Japanese in the beginning?

Only dead Japanese are good Japanese!

Any pseudo-soldier who surrenders is a good pseudo-soldier!

A pseudo-soldier who can be accepted by the Special Operations Brigade.

At the very least, whether or not they could become a member of the Lunan Detachment

depended on how much bad they had done.

Although a unified national anti-Japanese front had now been established,

to unite all forces that could be united,

Lin Fan still could not accept those bandits, hoodlums, and hooligans who had committed countless evils.

He never believed that the choices made by a bad person to save their life

could truly make them lay down their butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot.

In any case, the actions of the First and Second Companies were swift.

They quickly opened the city gate, welcoming the remaining companies of the Third Regiment into Sishui City.

The Sixth Regiment was an artillery regiment.

Regimental Commander An Ping also sent the six infantry companies under his command into the city.

The infantry companies in his regiment received the most rigorous training in the entire Lunan Detachment.

They not only had to undergo all the subjects of infantry training,

but also all the subjects of artillery training.

Because they had to be ready to supplement the artillery companies at any time.

Because they did not have fixed cannons,

they had to learn about all the artillery in the entire Lunan Detachment.

At the same time, they also had to practice all the infantry subjects well.

Today, they finally had a chance for actual combat, and An Ping was naturally unwilling to let it go.

The soldiers of these six infantry companies under his command

had long been waiting for such an opportunity like infants waiting to be fed.

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga led the last mobile force in the entire Sishui City.

They descended the city wall on the west side and immediately rushed towards the east side of the city.

Thanks to the Japanese soldiers' consistent training,

this team of more than fifty Japanese soldiers ran very fast.

Rushing to the east of the city, Company Commander Ueno Hyuga ordered loudly:

"Open the city gate!

We're breaking out!"

Breaking out at this time

could definitely not be called brave.

This was what the Japanese soldiers often called "strategic withdrawal."

But this was also a desperate move.

After all, there were National Revolutionary Army soldiers fiercely attacking outside the city gate.

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga was of course clear

about how great the risk of rushing out now was.

But he understood even more that if they didn't fight desperately at this time,

they wouldn't even have the chance to fight desperately later.

The Fifth and Sixth Companies, which were attacking outside the city, watched as the city gate suddenly opened wide.

More than a hundred pseudo-soldiers rushed out.

Behind them, there was another team mixed with pseudo-soldiers and Japanese soldiers.

Company Commander Chen Juncai of the Fifth Company laughed in anger:

"They think we're easy to bully, huh?

They specifically chose this direction to break through."

There wasn't much wrong with what he said.

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga had seen the cannons that had just arrived outside the city

when he was on the west side of the city,

and that's when he decided to break through.

And at that time, he determined

that they definitely could not break through from the west side of the city.

So, let's run from the east side!

The direction of the breakthrough was decided in an instant.

The smile on Chen Juncai's face looked like excitement no matter how you looked at it.

Saying he was angry was obviously just an act.

"Install directional mines!

Leave the main road in the middle clear.

Fifth Company on the left, Sixth Company on the right,

seal off both sides,

we absolutely cannot let a single Japanese soldier escape."

The orders were issued quickly, and the soldiers moved even faster.

Nanyun, who was rushing at the front,

saw that the National Revolutionary Army soldiers in front of him had opened a path with a single charge from the pseudo-soldiers he commanded.

He was secretly delighted.

A bandit who doesn't want to be a boss is not a good bandit!

He had wanted to be a boss for a long time, but Nan Batian, that old geezer,

was still alive and kicking, getting stronger as he got older.

If there were no accidents, judging by his appearance, he could live for decades more.

But today, he should have encountered a hurdle.

How he hoped that he wouldn't be able to get over this hurdle.

If that were the case, then he would be protecting the Japanese to break through today.

This would be a great achievement, and he would definitely be the Sishui Garrison Commander next.

Nanyun had too many thoughts in his mind.

His movements were neither fast nor slow,

urging the pseudo-soldiers under his command to run faster, even faster.

He could see that the road that these National Revolutionary Army soldiers had opened up was not easy to pass through.

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga was mixed in with the team of pseudo-soldiers and Japanese soldiers.

Just now, he had brought over all the pseudo-soldier reserves in the entire Sishui City,

plus the pseudo-soldiers guarding the east of the city, cobbling together this team of four hundred people.

Now it seemed that the effect was still good.

The pseudo-soldiers in front were all from the bandit dens in the mountains.

It was hard to say how their combat effectiveness was, but at least they were brave enough.

They could fire their guns while charging.

Shooting while running was a basic skill for bandits.

For these bandits,

no one could say for sure when they needed to fire their guns.

Sometimes everyone would be drinking together, and if they disagreed,

they could pull out their guns and fire.

If they were killed, it was fate.

If they weren't killed, they would sit down and drink again.

Waiting for the next time, whenever that might be,

to continue firing when they disagreed again.

This made the bandits feel good about guns.

They had to hold their guns as if they were their lives,

ready to fire at any time.

So their basic skills were solid.

Wasn't that how they were now?

They had been charging and advancing! The National Revolutionary Army soldiers who had been attacking the city so fiercely

had been broken through by these bandits in the encirclement on the east side of the city.

The only regret was

that these National Revolutionary Army soldiers had only opened up a passage.

They had not collapsed and fled because of it.

They set up heavy machine guns and light machine guns on both sides and fired frantically,

causing the fleeing pseudo-soldiers and Japanese soldiers to fall to the ground constantly.

Many pseudo-soldiers didn't want to run anymore.

They tried to lie down on the spot, pretending to be injured or dead.

In any case, they would no longer struggle.

But this was not something that Company Commander Ueno Hyuga could allow.

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga didn't care whether these pseudo-soldiers died or were injured.

In fact, he didn't even care if these pseudo-soldiers surrendered.

It was just that whatever these pseudo-soldiers wanted to do,

they had to protect these Japanese soldiers in their breakthrough first before they could do it.

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga knew very well the role of these pseudo-soldiers and bandits:

the role of these pseudo-soldiers and bandits was to deal with ordinary people.

Use them to collect grain and taxes.

Let those people focus all their hatred on the pseudo-soldiers.

This could share some of the hatred that ordinary people had for the Japanese soldiers occupying their land.

This was what the Japanese headquarters strongly advocated: "Using the people of the land to rule the land."

He Youcai was just a child from an ordinary family.

After the Japanese soldiers occupied Sishui, Nan Batian brought the bandits down the mountain.

Feeling that the troop strength was not enough, they recruited soldiers and horses in the vicinity of Sishui.

He Youcai's family valued the prestige of those pseudo-soldiers, who could directly snatch chickens and dogs,

and no one dared to interfere.

That's why they sent him into Nan Batian's team.

Now He Youcai was running out of breath.

He staggered and fell to the ground.

Now he could take a good rest.

Just as he thought this, he received a kick in the butt.

This was a leather shoe kicking with all its might.

He immediately felt a sharp pain in his butt.

He also heard a reprimand in his ears:

"Get up!

You coward!"

He Youcai, who was tired from running, couldn't muster any strength at all.

He didn't want to move!

"Great Japanese Army! I really can't run anymore.

Please raise your hand and let me go!"

"Baga!

Your conscience is broken!"

Company Commander Ueno Hyuga cursed.

His movements were swift:

"Bang!"

With just one shot, a pseudo-soldier also lying on the ground,

saw He Youcai's head explode.

Now, not only did those pseudo-soldiers who were pretending to be dead or injured get up and start charging,

but even those pseudo-soldiers who were really injured got up and struggled to rush forward.

Ueno Hyuga was very satisfied with this effect.

If he allowed these pseudo-soldiers to play dead, and they charged dozens of meters more,

his squad would have no cover at all.

The casualties of the pseudo-soldiers were countless, as long as his squad was not damaged too much.

Every Japanese soldier in the fleeing squad was clear about Ueno Hyuga's painstaking efforts.

They deliberately kept pseudo-soldiers in front of and behind them to block them.

In this way, pseudo-soldiers could die, but not Japanese soldiers.

The plan was perfect, and the effect of its implementation was also very good.

More than fifty Japanese soldiers in this infantry squad rushed out of the city gate.

They had already rushed out more than two hundred meters.

Less than ten Japanese soldiers had fallen to the ground.

Ueno Hyuga could accept such casualties.

In fact, he also regretted it a little:

He shouldn't have dispersed the entire company just now.

If the entire company had been concentrated together,

breaking through using this method,

perhaps they could have succeeded in breaking through with the fewest casualties.

As for Sishui being lost, and more than a thousand pseudo-soldiers being killed,

these were not problems.

If Sishui was lost, they could occupy it again when the army came again.

As for the pseudo-soldiers?

That was just a number, and they could recruit as many as they wanted.

Company Commander Chen Juncai of the Fifth Company nervously watched the pseudo-soldiers and Japanese soldiers rush into the ambush circle.

Now was not the time for the final launch.

They had to wait until all the enemies entered the ambush circle.

In fact, this was just waiting for a dozen seconds more.

But this was the most nervous time for Chen Juncai.

"Detonate!"

With an order!

Rumble!

The sound of explosions was continuous.

The Fifth and Sixth Companies had all buried directional mines.

These mines were buried in a hurry.

In order to achieve the effect, the soldiers didn't have time to calculate.

They could only try to put more of them.

As soon as the mines went off, the charge horn of the Fifth and Sixth Companies sounded.

More than three hundred soldiers jumped out of the fortifications on both sides.

They rushed towards the smoke-filled area.

Now, that area was covered by the smoke and dust that had been blown up by dozens of directional mines.

It was impossible to see the situation inside clearly.

Nanyun had always been carefully hiding in the middle of the pseudo-soldiers.

When the explosion started, he subconsciously wanted to fall to the ground.

He thought of falling, but his body couldn't keep up.

One iron pellet after another was forcibly inserted into his body.

Making Nanyun's heart suddenly become bone-chillingly cold.

He knew that being injured at this time meant that the possibility of death increased tenfold.

Nanyun believed that no pseudo-soldier would be willing to carry him out.

If there was, he was willing to recognize him as a brother, a brother even closer than his own.

He wanted to fall just now, but he didn't have time to fall.

Now he didn't want to fall, he wanted to continue running, but he couldn't hold on any longer.

Nanyun had no choice but to fall.

The situation of Company Commander Ueno Hyuga was also not optimistic now.

Although he had also been carefully hiding himself in the middle of several pseudo-soldiers,

this time there were too many bombs, they were too fierce, and their power was too great.

The pseudo-soldiers in front, behind, left, and right had not been able to block all the shrapnel.

There were still some iron pellets that had hit this Japanese company commander.

Most of the Japanese soldiers in the entire Ueno Hyuga Company were like him.

Many iron pellets had hit their bodies.

The wounds the size of little fingers were not only bleeding, but also their will and courage.

The loud sound of the explosion was deafening.

The subsequent charge horn made these Japanese soldiers and pseudo-soldiers tremble with fear.

Not many Japanese soldiers and pseudo-soldiers who could hear the charge horn and feel afraid at this time.

Those Japanese soldiers and pseudo-soldiers who had already been injured had already despaired.

They couldn't hear the outside world at all, and were just immersed in their own deep despair.

Only a few dozen pseudo-soldiers and Japanese soldiers who had fortunately not been injured were qualified to feel afraid.

The Japanese soldiers in the smoke-filled battlefield tried to widen their eyes.

They tried to find the National Revolutionary Army soldiers charging up and have a duel with them.

Those pseudo-soldiers who were smart had already fallen to the ground.

They also smeared some blood on their bodies and faces.

Making their injuries more realistic.

Only those pseudo-soldiers who were more stupid were still holding guns.

They looked around blankly, at a loss.

The smoke was thick, and the breeze was gentle.

These artificial mists were nothing in the face of nature.

The soldiers of the Fifth and Sixth Companies who had rushed into the battlefield

saw that there were only a dozen enemies who could still stand on the battlefield.

The soldiers who rushed the fastest immediately rushed up.

The soldiers who rushed more slowly could only consciously start giving the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground a finishing blow.

This frightened those pseudo-soldiers who were really injured and pretending to be injured.

They watched as the National Revolutionary Army soldiers charging up,

thrust their bright bayonets into the throats of the Japanese soldiers who were groaning and struggling on the ground.

Some soldiers even kicked the pseudo-soldiers lying on the ground pretending to be dead with disgust:

"Get up! Go squat on the side."

This was because the pseudo-soldiers were pressing the Japanese soldiers down.

The pseudo-soldier quickly got up with a smile and ran to the side empty-handed to kneel down.

But his eyes could no longer leave the actions of those National Revolutionary Army soldiers.

They quickly saw it.

As long as they were Japanese soldiers, whether they were dead or alive, slightly injured or seriously injured,

these soldiers would give them a finishing blow.

This was not just one stab, but they had to turn the living Japanese soldiers into corpses.

The struggling Japanese soldiers became motionless, and then they would look for the next Japanese soldier.

How cruel!

They were more tolerant of the pseudo-soldiers.

Regardless of whether these pseudo-soldiers were dead or alive, they would not give them a finishing blow.

Even some pseudo-soldiers who were too seriously injured struggled to ask them to give them a finishing blow.

These soldiers would only fulfill their wishes under the witness of someone who was obviously an officer.

In the end, they were still people born on the same land.

They still had some compassion.

The battlefield on the east side of the city was cleaned up.

The teams attacking the other city walls had also ended the battle.

The entire regiment had already begun to search for hidden pseudo-soldiers and Japanese soldiers in Sishui City.

Today, there were National Revolutionary Army soldiers attacking the city outside the city.

The shops and people in the city all closed their doors.

They all hid in their houses, waiting for the situation to subside.

The Li family was also like this.

Madam Li murmured in the Buddhist hall: "The compassionate Bodhisattva,

bless the National Revolutionary Army soldiers outside the city to enter the city.

It would be best to take away that beast Nan Batian."

She was very resentful that her little daughter was going to marry that old geezer Nan Batian.

It's just that people have to bow their heads under the low eaves.

Now that there was a glimmer of opportunity, she immediately went to the Bodhisattva she had enshrined for twenty years to pray.

The sound of gunfire inside and outside the city had long stopped.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the Li family's door.

At first, no one dared to open the door.

But the person knocking on the door outside was obviously very patient.

The servant Lu Er had no choice but to run over tremblingly,

and peeked out through the crack in the door:

"Second Young Master! Third Miss!"

He quickly opened the door.

He ran in again to report the news of the Second Young Master and Third Miss's return to the master.

Mr. Li had been very worried these days.

On the one hand, he was worried that his children would be deceived outside.

On the other hand, he was also worried that if he waited a few more days for Nan Batian to come and pick up his bride,

he wouldn't be able to hand over the person, and he didn't know how to end it.

Now it was good, both of his children had returned.

Seeing Li Ziya, he saw that his daughter was very different from before.

She had been tanned a lot these days.

But it also added a bit of heroic spirit.

Madam Li ran out of the Buddhist hall and looked at her daughter carefully.

Then she hugged her and said, "My child! Since you ran away, why did you come back to this pit of fire?"

One sentence made Mr. Li unhappy: so his home was a pit of fire!

"You sent your daughter to that damned Nan Batian, isn't this home a pit of fire?"

It seemed to make sense! Li Jiadong said happily, "Dad! Mom! You don't have to worry anymore.

Nan Batian is dead.

He was just shot dead on the east city gate.

His bandits and pseudo-soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers in the city are all dead.

All dead!"

"They're all dead?" Mr. Li couldn't believe it.

"Are those Japanese soldiers also dead?"

"Yes! Those Japanese soldiers are also dead!" Li Ziya said.

"Daughter! You didn't suffer this time you went out, did you!"

"No!" Thinking that she had almost been captured by the bandits,

Li Ziya's face turned pale.

The mother immediately felt that something was wrong.

Could it be that her daughter had encountered something ominous?

Her face also changed.

Li Ziya quickly said, "I'm really okay.

It's just that the road wasn't peaceful.

After leaving the city, I rented a boat to Longjia Village in Teng County.

At night, the boatman parked the boat in a remote place.

He wanted to do something to me in the middle of the night.

I shot him dead with a burst of gunfire.

Later, I walked on the shore and met bandits who wanted to capture me.

If I didn't know how to shoot and didn't have a lot of bullets on my back,

I really wouldn't have been able to come back this time.

I fought and ran with those bandits.

I met a reconnaissance team from the Lunan Detachment.

They saved me.

Not only did they save me, but they also sent people to wipe out that bandit den."

"It's over! It's over!

You just came out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den!" Mr. Li stamped his feet and sighed.

"Old man, why do you say that?" His wife didn't understand.

"Think about it! Where did she, a girl, get such a big face

that people would save her.

And even wiped out a mountain stronghold for her."

The wife immediately understood.

This was King You of Zhou playing with the feudal lords to win a smile from a beauty.

This Lunan Detachment, so enthusiastic to send people to flatten a mountain stronghold,

their leader must have taken a fancy to her daughter's beauty.

Li Ziya blushed and said, stamping her feet,

"Dad, Mom, what are you talking about?

I haven't even seen their Brigade Commander Lin Fan.

Why would they take a fancy to me?"

Li Jiadong also said, "I also rented a boat to Teng County.

It was easy to find them.

I arrived even before my sister.

My sister was only saved on their way to Sishui.

It has nothing to do with Brigade Commander Lin.

Besides!

Brigade Commander Lin is the Brigade Commander of the Special Operations Brigade of the Fifth War Zone of the National Revolutionary Army.

A serious soldier.

His team is very regular.

In Teng County, not only do the people like them,

but even the Japanese soldiers and pseudo-soldiers don't dare to provoke them."

"They are with the Japanese soldiers and pseudo-soldiers?" Mr. Li said just now.

He felt that he had said something wrong.

If that was really the case, they wouldn't have attacked Sishui and killed all the Japanese soldiers and pseudo-soldiers.

"What kind of team are they?" Madam Li asked.

"They are the team of the common people, and I want to join them too.

I came back today just to tell you." Li Ziya said.

…

Lin Fan led the team into Sishui City.

He immediately began to send people to post notices in the city. The Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention were posted everywhere in the city.

At the same time, he sent people to beat gongs and drums in the city to promote that the Lunan Detachment was a regular army of the National Revolutionary Army.

All actions would be carried out according to the rules.

Please rest assured the people in the city.

Please also rest assured the merchants in the city. The Lunan Detachment would never increase taxes or rents.

The taxes and rents previously paid to the Japanese soldiers were also recognized by the Lunan Detachment.

But from today onwards, all taxes could only be paid to the Lunan Detachment.

Today's battle in Sishui did very little damage to the city.

It also reassured the people in the city a lot.

Among them, there were always some who were bold.

Especially those craftsmen, who couldn't open for business without opening their doors.

And they would have no income.

The first to open the door was the barber, He Titou.

He opened the door.

He saw teams of soldiers passing by the door.

No one came in to harass him.

He was relieved now.

The rice shop opposite saw that he had opened the door.

The National Revolutionary Army soldiers passed by,

and didn't go in to collect some tea money or anything.

They also opened the door uneasily.

With two families opening their doors, there were more people opening their doors on the whole street.

It was the time for the shops to open for business during the day.

No one wanted to close their doors voluntarily.

Now that they saw someone opening the door,

and they had not been harassed,

the news spread quickly throughout Sishui like the wind.

In the afternoon, all the shops in Sishui opened their doors.

And some shops were doing particularly well.

Especially the butcher shop.

It had already received a deposit from the Lunan Detachment, requiring them to deliver meat every day.

The Special Operations Brigade also sent people to the villages around the city to buy vegetables.

At the same time, they told the people in these villages:

Sishui City was now a liberated area, and there was no need to pay entry tax to enter the city.

Lin Fan looked at the map. Today, he had recovered Sishui.

The next place to recover was Pingyi.

Sishui and Pingyi were one hundred li apart.

The Japanese soldiers guarding Pingyi had also received the news of Company Commander Ueno Hyuga's request for help.

But they only had one company here.

They couldn't send reinforcements at all.

The other two places were the same.

Now the entire North China Front Army was organizing its forces to attack Wuhan.

This time, they used more troops than the Central China Expeditionary Army in the Battle of Xuzhou.

They attracted more than 500,000 National Revolutionary Army soldiers.

As a result, the first team to rush into Xuzhou

was still a team from the Central China Expeditionary Army.

At the same time, the entire North China Front Army,

because of the rescue of Kotani Sumi and other senior officers,

missed a good opportunity and was very frustrated.

Now, the Japanese soldiers up and down the entire North China Front Army

were holding their breath, ready to prove themselves on the battlefield.

All the troops they could use

were now sent to the front line.

This did have an effect.

Their recent attacks had been very smooth.

The North China Front Army now occupied a wide area.

The troop strength had long been insufficient.

They only garrisoned troops in the main cities and transportation hubs in the occupied areas.

Now that Sishui was suddenly attacked by guerrillas,

they really couldn't send a team to support them.

In this way, the news of Company Commander Ueno Hyuga was very concerned.

But not a single team was sent over.

While Lin Fan sent teams to the villages below Sishui to mobilize the masses,

he sent the Third Regiment to continue attacking Pingyi.

The two places were one hundred li apart.

According to Lin Fan's order, the Third Regiment marched towards Pingyi and the Fourth Regiment marched towards Mengyin.

The plan had been made. The Third and Fourth Regiments each sent reconnaissance teams to scout the roads.

All the reconnaissance companies of the two regiments were dispatched.

Each sent more than one hundred cavalry to set off.

The artillery regiment was stationed in the county seat and had no time to rest.

Observation balloons were raised.

The cannons fired from time to time, testing the pre-set locations in all directions outside the city.

Preparing for future Japanese attacks on the city.

All these test data were recorded in detail.

If the Japanese soldiers really advanced to attack Sishui,

no matter which direction they came from,

no matter which position they were in,

the artillery regiment could bomb them directly without testing.

The six infantry companies of the artillery regiment

also did not rest. Three of them were guarding the county seat.

Three companies were following those bandits who had surrendered,

letting them lead the way to suppress the bandits.

Bandits! They had to be suppressed at all times.

Lin Fan came from later generations.

He had long been accustomed to the peaceful environment in the country.

Of course, he couldn't accept the current situation where the government's power couldn't leave the county seat.

The villages outside the county seat had to pay taxes to the government and protection fees to the bandits.

How could this be allowed?

Some of the bandit dens were very secretive.

Without an insider, they couldn't be found.

The current situation was somewhat different.

In the attack on Sishui City, the Lunan Detachment had captured many bandits.

Those bandits who followed Nan Batian

had seen the combat effectiveness of the Lunan Detachment.

They also saw the body of Nan Batian.

They immediately surrendered to the Lunan Detachment.

For those bandits who had not done much evil,

Lin Fan was willing to give them a chance.

That chance was: to lead the team of the Lunan Detachment to suppress the bandits.

When all the bandits in the entire liberated area were wiped out,

these bandits could officially join the Lunan Detachment.

This opportunity was also open to the bandits of Feitian Yaozi.

After the news was announced, many bandits immediately wanted to become guides.

Even this guide was not easy to be.

First of all, at least three or more bandits had to guarantee that he would not run away.

Then, the bandit den he talked about could not be repeated with others.

If the bandit who went out to lead the way ran away, the three who guaranteed him would pay with their lives.

Of course, as long as the news was true, the credit would also be shared by the four bandits.

Otherwise, why would these bandits be willing to guarantee others without any benefits.

Those bandits who didn't have the opportunity to be guides

first repaired the city wall under the arrangement of the Lunan Detachment.

They repaired the roads in the city.

And cleared the ditches.

Then they began to repair the roads from the city to the villages.

Anyway, according to Lin Fan's arrangement,

these bandits would have work to do for another twenty years.

The reconnaissance companies sent out by the Third and Fourth Regiments

quickly completed their mission and returned.

Whether it was Mengyin or Pingyi, the situation in these two places was similar to that of Sishui.

When the Japanese soldiers attacked, the chairman of Shandong Province at that time did not organize any resistance at all.

They retreated all the way.

The cities were not severely damaged. The Japanese soldiers stationed in each city were a company,

plus a thousand pseudo-soldiers.

Most of these pseudo-soldiers were bandits from all over the place.

They immediately accepted the Japanese soldiers' offer of amnesty after the Japanese soldiers entered the city.

They went from being a bandit leader to a garrison commander.

The two reconnaissance teams encountered inquiries from many bandits on their way back and forth.

This was a problem!

Should they fight the Japanese soldiers first or the bandits first?

Lin Fan's order was simple: The army should move.

The bandits encountered on the way should be suppressed along the way.

The Japanese soldiers were the main target, but the bandits could not be let go either.

The entire Shandong bandits quickly spread the news:

A team had come to Shandong, and they were the nemesis of the bandits.

This team didn't accept bribes.

It was very different from the previous National Revolutionary Army.

Shandong Green Forest, this had a history of more than a thousand years.

The term Green Forest came from them.

During the Han Dynasty, the Green Forest heroes here were very famous.

This time, they really met their nemesis.

Lin Fan had time here, and according to the special forces training ground in later generations,

he faithfully recreated an infantry training base.

Tank training bases could only be built in Teng County for now.

Car training could still be done here in Sishui.

After Mengyin and Pingyi, the Lunan Detachment successively recovered Xintai, Laiwu, Boshan, Yishui, Linyi, Juxian, Linqu, and Zhucheng.

All of a sudden, the Lunan Detachment occupied eleven county seats.

Its momentum greatly increased, and at the same time, Lin Fan transferred all three regiments in Teng County to the newly established base area.

The six regiments were training in these counties.

Time passed quickly, and it was already July.

Lin Fan had to set off back to Jurong.

This was because Shang Yuegui in the United States had finally met Howard Hughes.

This was her only purpose in going to the United States.

To achieve this goal,

Shang Yuegui spent half a year.

But it only took her three months to become a legendary American writer.

With the manuscript paper sent by Lin Fan every day, she made the West Street Culture Newspaper the largest newspaper in the United States.

The daily circulation of the newspaper increased from three thousand copies to three hundred thousand copies now.

It also made James, the editor-in-chief of the West Street Culture Newspaper, the most famous editor in the United States.

Although Shang Yuegui was now very famous, this country did not belong to her.

It was even unfriendly to her.

Once, after she sent manuscript paper to the West Street Culture Newspaper,

she entered the bathroom on this floor and used it once.

She was stopped and wanted to be sent to the police station.

The reason, in her opinion, was so absurd: the bathroom she used was exclusively for white people.

The bathrooms for other races were in the basement.

If it hadn't been for Editor-in-Chief James seeing that her manuscript paper had brought a new opportunity to the entire newspaper,

Shang Yuegui would have had to experience the taste of American prisons.

She revealed last month that she was the best-selling author that everyone was looking for.

Then she had been making friends with all kinds of dignitaries in the New York social circle.

A few days ago, she finally met Howard Hughes.

When Shang Yuegui handed him the model airplane made by Lin Fan himself,

Howard Hughes was immediately attracted by the streamlined model airplane.

Shang Yuegui, such an oriental beauty, was very attractive to this Hollywood goddess harvester.

He very gentlemanly asked Shang Yuegui to explain this model airplane.

Shang Yuegui smiled and told him: "I don't understand either! But the person who can choose this airplane is waiting for him in Jurong."

"But this airplane doesn't have a propeller?" Howard Hughes asked.

Shang Yuegui smiled again: "I also asked this question.

The genius inventor and military strategist told me at the time:

This is a brand new engine, a brand new airplane.

He calls it a jet airplane.

The speed can reach more than 1,000 kilometers per hour."

Howard Hughes had just completed a global flight in an airplane.

Breaking all previous records.

Hearing that there was such an airplane, he immediately arranged to go to Jurong.

Lin Fan had no choice but to return to Jurong.

During his absence, the entire Lunan Detachment was temporarily headed by Gu Xiuming as the acting detachment commander.

Fully responsible for the military and political governance of the entire Lunan base area.

Lin Fan originally wanted to let Chen Sichuan come over,

But for more than a month, he saw that Gu Xiuming was growing very fast.

Thinking that he would be traveling around in the future, and Jurong also needed a stable person to guard it well.

Lin Fan already felt that it was better to let Gu Xiuming be responsible here.

Howard Hughes was still thinking about jet airplanes when he took the small airplane back to his luxury villa.

Jet airplanes, you can tell from the name that they are propelled by jet engines.

This kind of engine had been made a long time ago, and they had also wanted to install it on airplanes.

But they had never succeeded.

Howard Hughes was somewhat skeptical about this.

But the streamlining of this airplane in his