Chapter 1 Hu Laoliu's Dinner Party

Hu Laoliu's dinner party was well-attended.

Those who came were all influential figures from Langxi County. Even some of the families whose heads had gone to the countryside to take refuge...

Their representatives who remained in charge of the city also came.

The grand vision that Lin Fan painted did not elicit much reaction from these people.

Lin Fan continued, "Next, we will unite all the recovered areas.

We will establish a unified chamber of commerce to deal with the outside world.

At that time, with a large chamber of commerce managing things, everyone will have much more confidence in speaking and acting towards outsiders.

Every county and town will have telephone lines and telegraph offices.

This is what we need to do first!

It will be easier for everyone to know what's happening outside and respond in a timely manner.

We are preparing to establish a bank.

We will vigorously encourage agriculture and animal husbandry. If people have difficulties with spring planting and autumn harvest, the bank can also provide some loans.

The interest rate will definitely be more than half lower than commercial interest rates, but the amount each household can borrow will not be large.

I call this micro-lending, specifically for developing agricultural production.

If any of you are short of funds for business, the bank can also provide loans.

However, the interest rate for business loans will definitely be higher than that for micro-lending.

In addition, we will vigorously develop some modern industries, whether it's ship repair or car manufacturing.

Or gun and cannon manufacturing, these are all what we need."

Although Lin Fan's words had not yet become reality, they made everyone present happy.

If everything that this Company Commander Lin said could be realized, then doing business would really be much easier.

But they were still doubtful: Would the Japanese really not come again?

Those present were not ignorant of the external situation.

They had always relied on radios to listen to outside news.

They were still very worried about the current situation of the National Army.

Someone immediately asked a question. This was the representative left in Langxi by the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Li Shanzhai.

He asked, "Company Commander Lin! We just heard a few days ago that the National Army has retreated from Nanjing.

If the National Army couldn't even defend the capital, can it really defend Langxi?"

Regarding this type of question, Lin Fan explained, "The Japanese have a small land and a small population.

They are now single-mindedly trying to occupy our entire country.

This attempt to swallow an elephant is destined to fail.

The more territory they occupy with their current forces,

the fewer troops will be allocated to each area.

Their strength will not only not increase, but will actually decrease.

And we are different. The more places these Japanese occupy, the more places we can strike them.

Just like here in Langxi, if the Japanese had not come to Langxi,

we would have to go to Shanghai or Nanjing to fight the Japanese.

They occupied Langxi, and the result is that however many Japanese occupied this place, that's how many died.

This is why the more territory the Japanese occupy now, the weaker they become.

The Japanese have completely lost the ability to come back and attack the places we have now recovered."

"Why?" Wang Jixiu did not understand.

"Because if they want to fight for such a small place again,

then they have to give up large cities like Suzhou, Wuxi, and Nanjing.

Only then can they free up their forces.

And they also need to bring back all the troops that have already crossed the Yangtze River.

If that's the case, the Japanese themselves wouldn't be willing.

Toiling for three years, only to return to before the war started!

So now the Japanese are pinning their hopes on continuing to fight like this,

until the National Army surrenders or negotiates peace with them.

But Chiang Kai-shek cannot possibly agree to the conditions put forward by the Japanese.

The Japanese will also not be willing to withdraw from our territory again.

This is like a dog that has already eaten meat into its mouth.

Is it willing to spit it out?"

Although those present did not quite understand what Lin Fan was saying,

they felt that the reasoning Lin Fan was giving was very interesting.

Everyone was of the same race and shared the same roots. In their hearts, they still leaned towards believing Lin Fan's words.

Seeing his confident demeanor, they all felt that it seemed to make sense.

It seemed to be the right reasoning!

Hu Xiushan, the owner of Defengshun Grain Store, raised a glass of wine and first toasted Lin Fan.

Then he asked, "Can those of us who do grain business sell grain to the occupied areas?"

This was a good question!

The bosses present all looked at Lin Fan.

The grain issue was a major issue!

Lin Fan said with a smile, "We will definitely have to control the grain supply.

After all, food is the paramount necessity of the people, and the army also needs grain.

If I said we wouldn't manage it at all, you wouldn't believe it.

However, as long as you complete the amount of grain we collect each year,

we agree to sell grain to the occupied areas.

After all, in the occupied areas, there are not only Japanese and traitors,

but most are still our own people.

Grain is something that is produced in the fields every year. Langxi is a blessed place.

There are many paddy fields. Everyone eats while sitting on piles of grain.

It's impossible not to let everyone do grain business."

"Are we allowed to transport grain back from the occupied areas?" Wang Yunpu of Yida Grain Store asked.

"This is absolutely allowed! In doing business, as long as you pay taxes according to the rules,

and it's a business that we haven't prohibited, you can do it," Lin Fan immediately replied.

"What kind of businesses are prohibited?" Wang Guoji immediately asked.

Everyone present held their breath and waited for Lin Fan to answer.

This question was too important. It could be considered a guide for doing business in Langxi in the future.

Lin Fan actually hadn't thought much about this question. Now he thought about it and said, "Boss Wang's question has really stumped me.

I haven't thought it through yet, but what I can answer now is:

Opium! Whether it's in Langxi or in the areas governed by our Special Forces Company, this kind of thing is not allowed to appear.

Whether you're trafficking it, opening a smoking den, or using it yourself,

we cannot allow it.

Even passing through our territory is not allowed.

Scrap iron, we only allow it to come in, not to go out.

Of course, if someone is making iron knives, plowshares, or building boats for sale,

we will definitely still allow it. However, for this kind of business, you need to first buy in a certain amount of iron before you can sell a certain amount of products to the outside world.

Oil, gasoline, and diesel, we only allow these oil products to come in, not to go out.

I haven't thought of anything else for now."

Boss Wang Guoxiang asked, "Can nightclubs, dance halls, and welcoming spring houses be opened?"

"Yes! But there's one condition: no forcing of women into prostitution.

We soldiers hate saying one thing and doing another the most, we like things direct.

We also hate those liars the most. We won't be soft on those people."

Lin Fan's tone was a bit heavy.

Boss Wang Guoxiang paused before asking, "Can gambling dens and brothels be opened?

Company Commander Lin, I'm really asking directly this time."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Yes! But we will send people to be stationed in these places, first to collect taxes, and second to supervise.

As for some people who want to win over those supervisors, feel free to try.

I always believe that things should be discussed openly at the table.

Whether it's okay or not, I'll give you a definite answer.

That way, if something goes wrong, I'll blame myself for having poor judgment.

It's none of your business.

But if you do one thing at the table and another thing under the table,

then we won't accept it."

Wang Jixiu suddenly asked, "Company Commander Lin! Is it possible to sell guns?"

"Yes! But selling guns requires completing a procedure with us.

The person buying the gun must have a guarantor."

After Lin Fan finished speaking, everyone present was stunned.

Seeing everyone so surprised, Lin Fan smiled, stood up, and pressed his hands down:

"The reason everyone is so surprised is because they don't understand why we would relax gun control.

What time is it now?

It's the time when the Japanese are invading our territory.

The more guns the people have, the more strength we have.

Imagine: if when the Japanese entered Langxi,

the entire Langxi County, with a population of hundreds of thousands, had guns,

would the Japanese dare to come in?

If everyone in our country had guns, would the Japanese dare to enter our country?

Therefore, in places where the Special Forces Company is stationed, this will not be prohibited.

And we will even take the initiative to sell guns to the outside world.

If any of you are interested in buying, you can contact us.

Quality guaranteed."

The representative left behind by Li Shanzhai quickly said, "Company Commander Lin! Our chamber of commerce has its own guard team and some guns.

Is this considered legal?"

Such armed chambers of commerce would definitely have been illegal in the past.

But no one in the county town cared. Everyone turned a blind eye and let it pass.

Having seen Lin Fan's eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth methods this afternoon,

this person felt that it was better to ask.

Lin Fan smiled, "Have your chairman report the names of these guards, the models of each gun, and the gun numbers.

Then it will be legal.

Secretly hiding it is illegal.

And tell the chairman: if your weapons are not good or your ammunition is insufficient,

we also have new guns and ammunition captured from the Japanese.

But they have to be bought with money."

Lin Fan's words made everyone present breathe a sigh of relief.

Lin Fan then said, "If anyone has guns at home, please also make a quick count and report the actual number.

What we register is legal.

In the future, no matter what means you use or where you get the guns from, you must register them immediately.

Then it will be legal.

But private armed forces can only have guns, not artillery."

Regarding guns and artillery, the merchants in the county town were very concerned.

In this chaotic time of war, having guns at home, like having grain at home, could bring peace of mind.

Lin Fan continued:

"Regarding this point, I actually have some ideas.

During the slack season, each village and township should organize a militia, and have men and women over the age of ten learn how to use firearms.

We can provide some training, training guns, and ammunition.

This can also improve the self-defense capabilities of the hometown."

Lin Fan thought about whether he had missed any questions that these merchants were concerned about.

Suddenly thinking of grain, he immediately said:

"I understand that you only sell the rice after you harvest the rice and grind it.

I think, shouldn't everyone think of a way to process these rice again?

So that it can be sold for more money.

Just like Wang Yixin Pastry Shop, turning wheat into flour, and then making pastries.

The profit is not just increased a little bit.

The boss earns more money, and also adds several employed workers to Langxi County.

The taxes paid are also increased a lot. This is a win-win situation for everyone."

The merchants who attended the banquet understood.

This Company Commander Lin didn't mean he didn't want money, he wanted money! But he only collected taxes, not other money.

What Company Commander Lin meant was: as long as you pay taxes according to his rules,

even if he feels he has lost out afterwards, he will accept it and not cause trouble for the merchants.

If someone doesn't follow his rules, then he won't follow the rules either.

At this time, instant noodles from later generations came to Lin Fan's mind.

The production process of this thing is simple, and it can be completely produced in this era.

Several bosses laughed: although this Company Commander Lin's words never left the topic of development, it ultimately came down to taxation.

Of course, they also wanted to do some deep processing projects, but they didn't know what kind of deep processing should be done.

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Everyone can think about it and brainstorm."

In Langxi County, most of it is plains, with many paddy fields. This is a major grain-producing county.

Controlling this place can solve the problem of food for the entire team.

At this banquet at Hu Laoliu's house, people from various business firms guaranteed that they would resume production as soon as possible.

Those owners who had returned home to avoid the war also expressed that they would immediately write letters to tell their owners about the situation here.

In fact, the lively situation in the entire county town this afternoon had already allowed the owners of grocery stores and pastry shops to earn a lot.

Even Hu Laoliu's meat shop, after selling five pigs to Lin Fan today, killed two more pigs and sold them all.

And the officers of the Eighty-third Army and the Sixty-sixth Army also paid a deposit,

asking Hu Laoliu to reserve fifty pigs for them each tomorrow.

Wang Jixiu also received two orders, each for a thousand catties of fish.

They all sent people to the countryside to collect these materials.

The boss of Tongji Pawnshop was not present for the Japanese uniforms brought by the Special Forces Company.

Their old shopkeeper couldn't make decisions. However, two stores that sold both north and south groceries were interested in taking some.

They were all businessmen. They would definitely have to recolor these clothes before they could sell them.

Otherwise, if the Japanese saw them, they would definitely be confiscated and people would be arrested.

They had this intention, but had not yet made a formal decision.

In any case, it was a good start.

On the way back to the command post, Lin Fan looked at some of the ruins in Langxi County that had been cleared.

Broken bricks and tiles were piled up, waiting to be pulled out and thrown away.

Those bricks and tiles that could still be used were neatly stacked.

There were also those wooden materials that could continue to be used.

They were also properly placed on the foundation for the original owners. Those that could not be used were also piled aside.

These things were definitely used to win people's hearts.

But wasn't this also beneficial to these ordinary people?

Lin Fan thought of a sentence he had once seen: The collapse and new establishment of an empire is the best time to make money.

He had now given these merchants an opportunity.

However, Lin Fan was definitely not a pushover. He already had the idea of building his own commercial empire.

Wars are fought with logistics and technology.

Now he had the technology in his mind, and he was working hard to improve logistics.

It's just that these technologies in his mind, on this land of Langxi, without the support of related industries, could only be castles in the air.

Now, the best place for these things in Lin Fan's mind to develop, experiment, and research was, of course, the United States.

Unfortunately, Lin Fan didn't have time to go now.

He couldn't abandon what he was doing now, run to do some advanced weapons, and then come back.

However, what Lin Fan was thinking in his heart was: since I can't go to the United States, then I'll let those capitalists from the United States come here.

With this idea, Lin Fan had already filtered in his mind: which company should I find that has the financial resources and willingness to help me build a complete industrial chain.

Lin Fan was just walking around the county town casually.

Behind him followed Zhao Long and Wu Xiaobao.

There was no curfew in the county town. The military police arranged by Lin Fan were still on duty.

The thermal power plant had also started generating electricity.

Not far away, there was a street lamp emitting a dim yellow light.

The soldiers of the Special Forces Company had not seen such a sight much.

Under such a dim street lamp, when Lin Fan passed the hospital, he specially walked in to see Di Binshi.

Now Di Binshi had completely woken up. He heard that his innocence had finally been proven,

and that Lin Fan had also made that family pay him three cuts. Now, when he saw Lin Fan,

he said to Lin Fan gratefully, "Company Commander Lin! If it weren't for you, I would have been dead this time.

I would have been wronged to death.

You are my re-born parents!

After my injuries heal, I will definitely work like a dog under you

to repay your kindness."

Lin Fan was a little helpless, "Actually, at that time, I could have suppressed it.

It's just that this matter would never have been cleared up.

But you wouldn't have been cut."

In fact, Lin Fan could have chosen to settle the matter peacefully at that time.

But a bowl of noodle money was given to the Zhou family, which was not a big loss, but a big grievance!

Di Binshi said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if I get cut. Just consider it a knife wound from the Japanese on the battlefield.

Life and death are small matters, but innocence is a big matter!"

This smile pulled at his wound again, and he couldn't help but show a painful expression on his face.

Lin Fan comforted, "You rest and recuperate now! The doctor said that it will be seven days at the earliest, and half a month at the latest.

Then you will be lively and energetic again."

Walking out of Di Binshi's ward, Ji Wudi was waiting outside.

She looked at Lin Fan, "You knew he was wronged from the beginning, right?"

Lin Fan nodded, "Yes! At first, I wasn't sure.

Later, I was able to confirm it.

In fact, most people present knew this.

They just wanted to watch the fun, they didn't mind things getting bigger."

Ji Wudi wanted to ask, "Are you still going to do this?"

But she looked at Lin Fan and finally didn't ask.

Lin Fan said softly, "What I hate the most are those who fake injuries to extort money.

They think that wronging good people will not be punished.

I want everyone to know that people are watching what you do.

If the heavens don't punish him, I will punish him!"

Ji Wudi said with a smile, "I like it like this. If the heavens don't punish him, I will punish him.

When the Zhou family was crying and howling there while holding their stomachs,

there weren't many people around who sympathized."

Lin Fan said, "They won't live for a few days. They weren't cleaned, they weren't stitched up.

I believe that in the future, those who want to tell lies and extort money will think of the fate of the Zhou family.

They will restrain themselves a bit!"

Ji Wudi said, "It's just that after this matter spreads, I'm afraid it will damage your reputation!"

Lin Fan laughed, "I'm just a soldier, what reputation do I need?

I just need to be able to drive the Japanese back to their hometown and make them atone for the crimes they have committed on this land, and that's enough."

Hearing his last sentence, Ji Wudi nodded heavily, "We must make them atone for all the crimes they have committed.

My family is all waiting for this day."

Lin Fan said with a wry smile, "Don't bring your national hatred and family hatred to this road.

When we drive the Japanese back, they still have to live their new lives."

Ji Wudi thought for a while, and finally said nothing.

On this day, at the Qian Youcai's house in Jurong...

They already knew from the telegram sent back by Lin Fan that the Special Forces Company had successfully recovered Langxi.

But this didn't make them happy for long.

Mr. Qian had a radio, and he always had to listen to it when he had nothing to do.

These days, he always heard on the Japanese radio station that after they occupied Nanjing,

they were so good to the citizens of Nanjing that the citizens of Nanjing felt like they were in a spring breeze.

The Qian family came out of Nanjing this time. It was a large family, not only Qian Youcai and Qian Jiao,

but also Qian Youyuan, Qian Youzhi, Qian Yin, and Qian Cha.

They had really been doing nothing in Jurong these days.

Listening to the Japanese radio every day, hearing them say that they had organized Nanjing in an orderly manner, without violating any laws or disciplines,

everyone was urging the helmsman of the Qian family, openly and secretly, to take everyone back to Nanjing City.

Today, they received an American broadcast in Shanghai. Although this was an all-English broadcast, most of the Qian family still understood it.

After listening to the broadcast, Qian Youyuan, Qian Youzhi, Qian Yin, and Qian Cha turned pale and trembled all over.

When it came time to eat, Qian Youyuan even dropped his chopsticks on the ground.

Mr. Qian was really angry this time. He said, "We should think about how difficult it is to get every bite of food and every drop of water, how can we be so wasteful?

What's wrong with you guys today?

You all look lost and dejected?"

Qian Yin finally couldn't help it, "Daddy! Today we heard the American broadcast, they said that the bodies on both sides of the streets in Nanjing City were five feet high.

There is a bridge built with corpses in Xiaguan, used to cross the river.

It also said that the Japanese were burning, killing, and looting day and night in Nanjing City.

They killed surrendered soldiers, killed ordinary people.

If we hadn't run out, we would have definitely suffered a poisonous hand.

Fortunately, we didn't go back these days. As long as we think that we were still thinking about walking back,

we feel scared!"

Hearing this news, Mr. Qian put down his bowl and chopsticks and said, "You believe it?"

"The Westerners have five reporters who took their own warships to Shanghai.

That's how the news got out.

What those Westerners say is probably not wrong!" Qian Youyuan said.

"The country is weak, to this point!" Mr. Qian no longer had the mood to eat.

Qian Jiao glared at these older brothers and sisters hatefully, "Aren't you guys clamoring to go back to Nanjing City every day?

Even if you hear such news, you have to wait until Daddy finishes eating before you say it."

Qian Cha said, "The broadcast said that Nanjing is now forbidden to leave! Forbidden to enter!"

Lin Fan had known about such things for a long time.

It's just that neither the domestic nor the international community would believe his words now.

But when American reporters reported it, and they also had many photos taken,

they suddenly revealed the true face of the Japanese to the world.

World opinion was in an uproar, but in the country where such a tragedy occurred, the mood was stable.

The Chinese people did not know the tragedy that was happening in Nanjing.

Commander Prince Asaka Yasuhiko returned to Nanjing and just participated in the ceremony of entering the city.

He gave the order: "Kill all the prisoners! I always feel that there are troublemakers who want to harm me.

You must increase the punishment of troublemakers."

His headquarters was completely wiped out, and he felt uneasy!

Now he wants to kill prisoners to vent his anger. In his own words, "If we don't kill these prisoners, are we going to use our own food to raise them?"

For his so-called troublemakers, if Nanjing City was not too big, Commander Prince Asaka Yasuhiko would really order all the people in the city to be killed.

Although Commander Prince Asaka Yasuhiko was already a phoenix whose feathers had fallen out,

he was still the commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, and the various divisions under his command did not dare not listen to him.

Even the division commanders of the Tenth Army could not but listen.

Besides, increasing the punishment of ordinary people in Nanjing was like giving money to all the imperial soldiers.

No one would not be willing!

The Japanese army's bestial acts in Nanjing City aroused strong protests from the foreigners.

Under the strong protests of the foreigners in Nanjing City, Iwane Matsui finally decided to rectify the military discipline of the soldiers in Nanjing City.

The Central China Army posted a notice at the gate of the Army Headquarters, and at the same time sent out a inspection team of only seven people

to manage more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers in Nanjing City.

The inspection range of this seven-man inspection team was within 50 meters of the gate of the Central China Army Headquarters.

For the Japanese army's behavior, Nanjing, which had become an isolated island, had no power to resist.

They didn't even have a chance to voice their opinions to the outside world.

However, today Iwane Matsui was furious in his office.

Because the Central China Army's bestial acts in Nanjing were exposed by American reporters.

Although he immediately issued a "impossible! doesn't exist! we didn't do it!" triple denial.

Anyway, whether the rest of the world believed it or not, he himself and the citizens of the Empire believed it.

Now these people in the Qian family at this time finally began to understand why Lin Fan insisted on taking their family out.

Especially after Qian Youcai came home at night and heard the descriptions of these people in the Qian family,

he realized that after he sent Lin Fan ten mortars and three thousand shells,

Lin Fan said that he must thank him.

These days, although Qian Youcai has been working with the Special Forces Company every day,

he has always thought that he was helping Lin Fan!

Tonight he realized that Lin Fan had always been helping him.

And because of himself, he had saved the entire Qian family out of love for his house and crows.

Mr. Qian sighed, "Youcai! It's okay for this old man to stay in Nanjing and die.

If the entire family had really stayed in Nanjing, our Qian family would probably have been exterminated.

Company Commander Lin saved our whole family!

Next time he comes back, invite him to our house for a meal, I want to treat him to a meal."

When they left Nanjing at the beginning, Mr. Qian didn't want to leave no matter what.

Qian Jiao said in a low voice, "Do you think Lin Fan knew that the Japanese would massacre the city?"

Mr. Qian thought for a moment, "He should have known.

Throughout history, foreign invasions have always been bloody.

The massacre of cities has happened in many dynasties.

It's just that the whole world has been deceived by the Japanese propaganda.

They believed that what they said was civilization, that they really did civilization.

I believe that there are still many Chinese people who are being deceived by the Japanese.

This Lin Fan is able to clearly recognize the essence of the Japanese, he is not simple."

Qian Jiao suddenly said, "Since we know, we must announce these things and let everyone know."

Qian Youcai said, "Okay! After Lin Fan comes back, we will discuss a way to do it."

While the Qian family was grateful to Lin Fan, he was holding a military meeting with the commander of the Eighty-third Army, Deng Longguang, and the commander of the Sixty-sixth Army, Ye Zhao,

plus the six platoon leaders under his command.

At the meeting, it was determined that the Eighty-third Army and the Sixty-sixth Army would rest in Guoli for one day and depart on the morning of the 21st.

The Special Forces Company would still depart on the 22nd, as before, to attack Guangde.

After the three parties agreed, they dispersed.

The story of a bowl of blood-stained wonton noodles this afternoon has spread throughout the Eighty-third Army and the Sixty-sixth Army.

These soldiers were spreading the word to each other: "Don't mess around in the territory of the Special Forces Company."

Company Commander Lin could even do things like cutting open stomachs to see how many bowls of noodles were eaten.

But they also felt relieved that as long as they didn't mess around, Company Commander Lin would still protect them.

Didn't those three people who extorted money also get cut open afterwards?

Now, when you walk past those people's yards, you can still hear their wailing.

The Zhou family of three were carried back by their neighbors on wooden boards.

But everyone knew that they wouldn't live long.

The commander called Company Commander Lin only sewed up the stomachs of those who had been wronged.

But he only cut open the Zhou family of three, and didn't sew them up.

In the county town, the city gates were still closed after dark tonight.

The four platoons of the Special Forces Company were stationed on all four sides.

The news that Langxi had been recovered by the National Army has spread to all parts of the Langxi countryside.

The news spread so quickly because Hu Laoliu was sending people to the countryside to vigorously buy pigs.

These pig buyers brought the latest news from the city: the Japanese have been driven away.

The National Army is in the city, starting to clear the ruins and bury the bodies.

And they open the city gates every day, and the shops in the city have also opened.

This allowed those people in the countryside who had long wanted to enter the city to exchange goods

to finally have the courage to prepare and go into the city tomorrow to exchange some oil and salt.

Early in the morning of December 20, 1937: this was the first morning that the Special Forces Company spent in Langxi.

It was also the first time that these ordinary people in Langxi heard the neat and powerful shouts of "kill" coming from near the city gates early in the morning.

The soldiers of the Special Forces Company were training strictly according to the usual requirements.

The soldiers of the Special Forces Company now had a special love for assassination techniques.

During these days, when they fought the Japanese with bayonets, there were very few casualties.

This made all the veterans like this training even more.

Those new recruits were only starting to learn assassination today for the first time.

Chen Sichuan's First Platoon, First Squad, and Liu Laopao's Second Platoon, First Squad...

They were all old teachers. A few days ago, they had taught Ding Tuanzhang's regiment of soldiers in Moling Pass how to assassinate.

Now teaching their own second squad was, of course, familiar and skilled.

Ready position!

The veterans of the first squad had standard, powerful, and precise movements.

They could see the problems of the new recruits at a glance.

They could immediately propose targeted training methods.

These new recruits were different from Ding Tuanzhang and the others. The new recruits could train together for a much longer time.

Therefore, Chen Sichuan's requirements for their basic movements were much stricter.

Everything must be done with consistent steps, perfect and flawless.

If the new recruits developed the wrong movements when they first started practicing, they would not be able to change them in the future.

The more standard they were, the more efficient they would be at killing the enemy on the battlefield.

The fewer mistakes they made, the more chances they would have to survive.

In this morning's battle, five soldiers from the Special Forces Company were also injured.

However, with the field hospital, those wounded soldiers received treatment from doctors on the battlefield.

Although they couldn't accept their nationality, the level of these doctors was really good.

A soldier who had been stabbed in the chest by a Japanese was stitched up by them, front and back, like sewing a quilt.

When that soldier went to see him in the afternoon, he was still alive.

It was even simpler for the soldier whose arm had been pierced through. He was still participating in training this morning.

Now those doctors and nurses could also speak a little Chinese.

They also really wanted to communicate with these soldiers, especially the young nurses in the field hospital.

They took especially good care of these wounded soldiers from the Special Forces Company who were full of muscles.

Because of this matter, Ji Wudi had said something to those young nurses under her command several times.

Unfortunately, she herself was also a young girl, and after being with these doctors and nurses for a long time,

they were no longer as afraid of Ji Wudi as they were at first.

Ji Wudi gave these doctors and nurses ideological lessons every day.

From the corruption and power of the high-level National Army imperialists to the difficult lives of ordinary people.

Slowly, she made these doctors and nurses under her command think of the current state of their families' lives.

These people began to calmly look at the empire they had once struggled for and been crazy about from the perspective of outsiders.

Only then did they realize that such an empire brought nothing but disaster to ordinary people.

Before the empire launched the war, the lives of the people throughout the country were already good.

Since the launch of the war, the letters sent home, in addition to asking for money to be sent back, only imagined how the empire would be in the future.

No one wanted to mention the present.

Ji Wudi also had strict training requirements in the field hospital.

In addition to the fifty guard soldiers, although these doctors and nurses were not equipped with weapons,

it had long become a must-follow rule for these doctors and nurses to get up, run, and work with those guards every morning.

Ji Wudi remembered Lin Fan's words: it's always good to run fast.

Xiyang Village is less than three miles west of Langxi County. When the county town was shelled in the morning,

the people in Xiyang Village all ran to the wilderness to hide.

Some bold people also quietly sneaked to the edge of the county town and personally saw the National Army entering the city.

Yang Yingyan was the one who personally saw the National Army entering the city. He also saw the fate of the Japanese on the city wall.

Although the National Army quickly reopened the city gates after entering the city,

he didn't dare to continue to go into the city, but only watched from afar outside the city for a while.

Seeing that those National Army soldiers had no intention of leaving the city, he returned to the outside of the village and greeted the villagers who were hiding in the wilderness: it's time to go home.

The old man Yang Heyi sighed as he walked towards his home: "How can the common people live this life!

Fighting every day, you can't even live in peace at home."

These words made the fellow villagers who were returning home together feel that life was becoming more and more difficult.

Originally, every family here had a few acres of paddy fields, and they lived a decent life.

Now, they have to run out to avoid the disasters of war every now and then. Although, until now,

their village had only been rushed into the village by Japanese soldiers some time ago.

They led away three cows, ten pigs, and dozens of chickens and ducks,

causing the owners of these pigs and cows to feel miserable.

Since then, the villagers have been worried every day, afraid that the Japanese would come again at any time.

They didn't know what the situation would be with the National Army that had fought back today.

In the afternoon, Hu Jianyuan, the guy from Hu Laoliu's pork shop in the county town, came.

He was here to buy pigs. Xiyang Village was close to the county town.

The boss asked him to go there first to buy pigs, which were needed in the afternoon.

Three miles was a short walk, and soon he arrived. The people in Xiyang Village immediately surrounded Hu Jianyuan and began to inquire about news.

Most people in the village knew Hu Jianyuan: he used to come down to buy pigs.

But today, Hu Jianyuan only bought seven pigs.

Everyone in Xiyang Village now wanted to sell the fat pigs they had raised at home.

It was already the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the fat pigs that had been raised for a year were now ready to be slaughtered.

Every household had fat pigs to sell. Everyone wanted to sell these fat pigs first and exchange them for cash.

Otherwise, like those pigs and cows that were taken away by the Japanese some time ago, they didn't get a penny.

Those who lost pigs and cows not only lost their money, but also felt