Lin Fan's firm and forceful reply left the girl momentarily speechless.

She consciously walked ahead to lead the way.

The path she chose was a small one, but not difficult to traverse.

It was much easier than any route Lin Fan could have found himself.

After leaving the town by a little over half a kilometer, they could see half the sky in that direction was red.

Considering the entire town was made up of wooden buildings, this fire would likely destroy the whole place.

The three siblings stared at the red glow in the sky, lost in thought.

Then, they silently continued walking. This silence was affecting their mood.

The sky was beginning to lighten, and they could see a little ways ahead, so they weren't as worried about running into Japanese soldiers.

Lin Fan said, "Let me introduce myself. I'm Lin Fan, and I have one hundred and thirty-seven men under my command. Our company is called the Special Operations Company."

The girl paused for a moment before saying, "He's called Ji Guochou, I'm Ji Wudi, and she's Ji Jiahen."

The boy said, "Sister!" with dissatisfaction.

Hearing these three names, Lin Fan knew they were aliases.

She wanted to make sure these three siblings remembered the national and family vendetta at all times!

Ji Wudi suddenly turned her head and said to Lin Fan, "We are burdened with shame and humiliation, and dare not reveal our true names, for fear of disgracing our family.

Please forgive us, Company Commander Lin."

Lin Fan sighed, "Don't worry! Tonight, I know nothing, I saw nothing.

I encountered those Japanese soldiers in the wilderness and ambushed them.

When we get to the camp later, just say that your house was burned down by the Japanese soldiers,

And you have been wandering outside for a month.

You were startled by the sound of gunfire during my fight with the Japanese soldiers,

And that's how you met me in the forest.

You volunteered to join me in fighting the Japanese.

From now on, there are only the three Ji siblings in this world.

Your family background must be consistent too.

Don't let anyone find any loopholes."

Since she could name herself Ji Wudi, she certainly wouldn't commit suicide.

She only gave her younger brother and sister names like 'Remember National Hatred' and 'Remember Family Hatred'!

Clearly, she didn't want her younger siblings to forget the national and family vendetta!

A girl like that!

I like it!

Lin Fan thought for a moment and said to Ji Guochou, "Young man! Do not speak of personal matters until the national vendetta is avenged!"

He was afraid that Ji Guochou might accidentally reveal what happened tonight.

If that really happened, the two sisters wouldn't know how to live.

It wasn't their fault to begin with, but they would have to bear all the consequences!

Ji Guochou said hatefully, "I'll remember that. Company Commander Lin, I saw you killing Japanese soldiers just now.

It was easier than killing chickens. Can you teach me?

I... I can pay you."

Ji Wudi had just listened to Lin Fan's words and gave him a grateful look without saying a word.

But when she heard her younger brother mention learning Lin Fan's skills,

She pricked up her ears to listen to Lin Fan's reply.

Lin Fan smiled and said, "I'm willing to teach you if you're willing to learn.

As long as you're not afraid of hardship and fatigue, you'll definitely be able to become like me.

Maybe even more powerful than me."

Ji Wudi's eyes, usually as still as an ancient pool, finally flickered.

After taking a few steps, she said, "If anyone asks where our family is from, just describe the area around our maternal grandfather's house and say the place name is Ji Jiabin!"

That's another fake place name! Lin Fan thought to himself.

Her younger brother and sister both agreed.

Lin Fan saw that the way they were walking was still a little unnatural, so he slapped his forehead.

Thinking about the bullying they had suffered tonight, he should have let the two girls ride on the donkeys.

These two donkeys were being led by the two sisters without any resistance.

Clearly, they were usually their mounts.

Now the sky was already bright.

Lin Fan simply pointed in a general direction, and the girl led the group slowly closer to the Special Operations Company's camp.

From a distance, Lin Fan could already see the hilltop where the Special Operations Company was encamped.

He said to the three Ji siblings, "Help me take a look and see if there's anyone on that hilltop?"

With Lin Fan's reminder, the three siblings focused their attention for a while.

Ji Wudi said, "It's too far away, I can't see clearly."

Lin Fan handed her his binoculars and asked her to look.

Ji Wudi looked for a full five minutes before saying, "There are people on that hilltop, quite a few."

Lin Fan was truly surprised this time, "How could you tell?"

"If you hadn't told us to look carefully, of course I wouldn't have been able to tell. Even if I saw that the grass was flattened and some branches were broken, I wouldn't have thought there were people."

Lin Fan nodded, "You're very observant. Follow me and learn well in the future.

Remember, be bold and meticulous.

When observing from a distance, you must be careful. Better safe than sorry.

Even if no one reminds you, you have to think in that direction.

You also have to deduce when the branches were broken from the degree of withering of the leaves on the broken branches.

The degree of withering of the leaves is different in each season and at different times.

Even in the same season, there's a big difference depending on whether it's raining or not;

Whether there's sunshine or not; all of these make a big difference.

In the battlefield and in life, the more you know, the greater your chances of survival.

Always remember: Living! Everything is possible!

Once you're dead, it's truly over."

After a pause, Lin Fan continued, "The ancients said: Of all difficulties, death is the only one.

But that's not true. It takes even greater courage to truly survive."

The three Ji siblings all understood what Lin Fan meant.

Ji Jiahen finally spoke, "I understand! Company Commander Lin, don't worry, I won't die until I've avenged our hatred."

Lin Fan smiled and said, "I will be strict with you. When you can't hold on anymore, think of your names."

Hearing Lin Fan's stern words, the Ji siblings' steps became lighter instead.

In their hearts now: As long as they can avenge their hatred, they can endure even the strictest training.

Back at the garrison, Lin Fan asked Wu Xiaobao and Zhao Long to settle the three siblings in a hidden location to rest.

At the same time, he summoned the seven squad leaders and his direct team leaders for a meeting.

At the meeting, he told them about his encounter with the three Ji siblings.

This wasn't the main point. The main point was that with so many people on this hilltop, anyone with a little attention to detail could have discovered them from a distance.

This was Lin Fan's biggest concern right now.

The team was exhausted, and it wasn't safe to move during the day.

Lin Fan summoned the squad leaders only to issue orders: "Squads Five, Six, and Seven, plus the Direct Team, will send out sentries in the east, south, west, and north directions, one thousand meters ahead of this hilltop. Each sentry will carry a tree branch,

And shake the branch at least ten times towards the hilltop if there's a situation, then drop it."

Sada Yuto was originally a hunter from the mountains of Nagasaki, Japan. He was drafted into the army because of his good marksmanship, and has been in the Japanese Air Force ever since.

Sada Yuto, who had no education, repeatedly made meritorious contributions in combat with his hunter's marksmanship. Over the years, he rose from an ordinary soldier to become a company commander leading more than one hundred and eighty soldiers.

It can be considered a miracle.

This year, during the Battle of Shanghai between China and Japan, the team he was in occupied Hongqiao Airport shortly after the start of the war.

He also led his squadron to become a team guarding the airport.

In the morning, he discovered that one squad of his squadron was missing.

The entire squad was missing, from the squad leader to the soldiers, all gone.

This was actually not surprising. Ever since they occupied this airport,

The officers and soldiers liked to go to the surrounding villages to pillage.

At first, they only went to nearby villages to rob chickens, ducks, and poultry; or to rob pigs, sheep, and livestock.

The first team of soldiers ran out to rob these poultry and livestock and returned without any warning or punishment.

Then a second team of soldiers ran out to rob. After all, in the eyes of these soldiers, the taste of these pillaged poultry and livestock was particularly delicious.

Of course, this also had a direct relationship with the pig feed-like meals supplied by the logistics.

As the number of times and people going out to rob increased, there were no longer these things in the nearby villages.

So these soldiers went from robbing livestock directly to becoming livestock.

They no longer simply robbed for food, but turned into robbery and **looting.

The villages around the airport were no longer places where ordinary people could live.

The Japanese commander guarding the airport discovered that these soldiers' looting had such hidden benefits.

He tacitly gave the green light to the soldiers who went out to rob.

So the range of looting by these Japanese devils guarding the airport became wider and wider.

Sada Yuto knew that Squad Leader Miyamaru Hikaru must have taken the dozen or so men under his command to go looting.

But he wasn't worried. Although military discipline was lax, since they had been stationed here, the punishment for all soldiers who did not return before eight o'clock in the morning was very severe.

The lighter punishment was being slapped dozens of times as a warning.

The heavier punishment was flogging.

Since the tacit approval of subordinates going out to rob, only one squad of soldiers had tasted this flavor in the past two months. Big Wind Novel

And the soldiers in this squad had forever lost the opportunity to go out and have fun again.

Therefore, Company Commander Sada Yuto was not in a hurry.

He was still waiting for this squad to come back and bring him what kind of surprise.

Time passed slowly, and after seven o'clock, Squad Leader Miyamaru Hikaru had not returned, nor had his squad returned.

It was seven thirty: Miyamaru Hikaru's entire squad had not returned.

It was eight o'clock: Miyamaru Hikaru's entire squad still had not returned.

Company Commander Sada Yuto was finally furious and ordered a small team of his men to ride motorcycles and search in different directions.

When they find this squad, he must let them know why the flowers are so red! The airport defense team was missing a squad of soldiers, such a small matter, although the airport commander Colonel Iyama Ryosuke did not care.

But he was not completely unaware. He only needed to punish them well when the soldiers in this squad returned.

In these days, with the reduction of the Nationalist Air Force fighters and bombers, their airport was actually extremely safe.

There was no threat from the air, and on the ground, the Nationalist troops had retreated far away and only had the power to parry, and no longer had the power to fight back.

Not to mention his subordinates, even Colonel Iyama Ryosuke himself wanted to experience the charm of the girls in the Jiangnan water towns.

Last time, after he inadvertently expressed such an idea, soldiers immediately went out to pillage and brought him back two lovely young girls.

It was just that the two girls were too fierce and wanted to join hands to kill him when he was not paying attention.

He accidentally killed them in self-defense.

Thinking of this, Colonel Iyama Ryosuke was still a little regretful. Because since then, no soldiers were willing to bring him such gifts anymore when they went out.

Should I also go out for a walk?

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke thought.

With thought comes action!

"Someone!" Colonel Iyama Ryosuke finally decided to personally set out to find his subordinates.

He wanted to see for himself how those soldiers were having fun.

The colonel personally went out to find people, and Company Commander Sada Yuto dared not hide anything: Miyamaru Hikaru's squad may have gone to Xinjing Town.

Because Miyamaru Hikaru had said that there was a rich family in that town, and the two daughters in the family were very attractive.

And the master of that family was also very interesting. He had also studied in Japan and brought back a wife who was also Japanese.

Knowing the situation, Colonel Iyama Ryosuke immediately set off with a squadron of Japanese devils.

It was only ten miles from the airport to Xinjing, and the roads in the Jiangnan water towns were muddy. At this time, riding a horse was far better than riding a motorcycle.

An hour later, looking at the houses that were still emitting green smoke, all the Japanese devils knew that there was a story here.

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke ordered the team to pass through the burned town and go directly to the mansion where Lin Fan and the others had come out in the early morning.

Looking at the large mansion that had been burned to the ground.

He coldly pointed at the collapsed houses: Search for me!

As expected of Colonel Iyama Ryosuke, who was able to become a commander, he immediately found the root of the incident.

How to search this?

In fact, there was no need to search. All the Japanese devils who came with him knew that there must be a story here.

The air was filled with a disgusting smell of barbecue.

Soon, the blue tiles on the collapsed reception room were cleared out by these Japanese devils.

The beams that had not been completely burned and the wood with sparks suddenly came into contact with fresh air and began to emit flames again.

The smell of barbecue became clearer.

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke smelled such a disgusting smell, and the excitement in his heart was a bit more than the tension.

"Finally, there's something to do." Since they arrived at Hongqiao Airport, the war that was originally expected had ended before it even started.

How could such a dull life accumulate his military achievements, how could it show his wisdom and bravery!

The truth was under those beams, no matter how many layers of obscuring objects covered them.

The truth slowly emerged.

When the shattered blue tiles and collapsed beams were slowly lifted and dragged away.

Sixteen charred corpses appeared on the messy ground.

At this time, without careful inspection, it could be known that these corpses must be the missing Miyamaru Hikaru squad.

Because there were a total of sixteen people in their squad.

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke was a careful person. He ordered the soldiers to turn over the corpses.

From the remnants of the Japanese military uniforms that had not been completely burned under the corpses, it was further confirmed that these were Japanese soldiers.

This was the sixteen missing soldiers.

The appearance of such a thing finally added some interesting things to Colonel Iyama Ryosuke's dull life.

He tried to analyze how these Japanese devils died.

The expressions of these Japanese devils could no longer be seen.

Even their corpses were all curled up, less than half the size of ordinary people.

Could the cause of death really not be found?

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke was no ordinary person. He really did find a clue from these corpses: there were no bullets in the bodies of all the Japanese devils.

Of course, he only personally dissected a corpse carefully for examination.

The remaining corpses were naturally left to the soldiers under his command to do.

What kind of person could kill sixteen elite imperial soldiers at once.

From the wine jars that still had some traces in this living room after the fire, it could be known that these sixteen people must have drunk a lot of wine when the incident happened.

Even while drinking.

At this time, a person suddenly appeared and cut off the lives of these sixteen people with one knife?

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke could imagine that these Japanese devils were certainly not shot to death, but more like poisoned.

He couldn't be sure about this, but he could be sure that the person who killed the sixteen soldiers of the empire must have escaped alive.

He must be caught!

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke sent out all of the Sada Yuto squadron he brought with him.

Let them search for traces around the town, he wanted to find the enemy who escaped.

Sada Yuto didn't understand anything about solving cases, he didn't know anything.

He heard his immediate superior say it so well, he was dizzy!

Now he finally understood: the colonel wanted to find the person who left the town.

This was his specialty. He had only been a soldier for six years since he enlisted, but he had been a hunter for fifteen years.

Sada Yuto walked around the entire Xinjing Town carefully, and then walked three hundred meters along a selected direction.

He shook his head, came back and went to another place, and continued to start such a tracking.

When he shook his head again and restarted, he couldn't help but think of Musashi the Great Master who stayed in his hometown.

Musashi the Great Master was not a great master, but one of the many hunting dogs raised by Sada Yuto.

It was just that its sense of smell was the most sensitive, and it could always find the prey that had passed by first.

It also became Sada Yuto's favorite dog.

But now he has also become a dog of Iyama Ryosuke, thinking about it is really sad!

When Sada Yuto chased five hundred meters on the fourth road he chose, he excitedly returned to report:

"Colonel, Your Excellency: I have found traces of someone leaving the town.

There are at least four people, two donkeys, and they went in the northeast direction."

The existing Sada Yuto was only short of inserting a tail behind his butt, just like Musashi the Great Master.

Colonel Iyama Ryosuke looked at him coldly: "Lead the way!"

Sada Yuto walked in the front, followed by his squadron, and in the middle of the team was Colonel Iyama Ryosuke.