For the Japanese army stationed in Zaozhuang, long-term martial law across the city is naturally undesirable. The bombing of railways and coal mines in the previous period did make the garrison troops very nervous. But a few days later, the Japanese army discovered that nothing abnormal was found in the territory.

After several days of investigation and investigation, the Japanese military's special high school class still found nothing. The only thing that could be confirmed was that the two drivers of the coal truck had fled and left their residence on the night of the attack.

As for where to escape, the Japanese military's special high school class still cannot master. Based on this clue, the Japanese military's special high school class further confirmed the previous suspicion that this should be an attack on the coal mines that was specifically targeted by internal and external forces.

But who planned this attack? The members of the Japanese Special High School Class who were ordered to investigate were still confused. The only thing that could be confirmed was that the attackers and hundreds of prisoners of war were likely to have escaped and hidden.

Based on this analysis, the Japanese army also added plainclothes to Zaozhuang, hoping to find some clues. Unfortunately, Hu Biao and his party were hiding in the mountains. People in that kind of place dared not approach, and the plainclothes spies were the same.

Everyone knows that those who are hiding in the mountains these days are not good people. No one can hide, so who will take the initiative to enter the mountains? In this case, Hu Biao and his party who are hiding in the mountains are naturally very safe.

Even after the attack, the Special High School applied for a reconnaissance plane and conducted aerial reconnaissance around the deep mountains around Zaozhuang. Apart from discovering some bandit armed forces hiding in the mountains, there were basically no major discoveries.

Even ordinary bandits would know to hide when they saw the Japanese reconnaissance planes wandering in the air. As soldiers, Hu Biao and others took corresponding guards when they entered the mountain, and the fighter planes had long been hidden as soon as they took off.

The only things that the Japanese reconnaissance planes can see in the air are a few shabby buildings built on the hillside, as well as people wearing people's clothing and running around. In this case, Japanese pilots will only regard them as bandits rather than troops.

Letting the Japanese reconnaissance planes eliminate bandits is naturally a matter of killing chickens. After two consecutive days of air reconnaissance, the Japanese reconnaissance planes that have not gained any more will no longer do such useless work, and it is not too difficult to do the special high school class.

After several days of nervousness, the Japanese garrison troops stationed in Zaozhuang finally began to send troops to organize labor and start repairing the bombed railways. First, the railway transportation will be restored as soon as possible, and then find a way to rebuild the coal mine.

Just when the Japanese army stationed in Zaozhuang felt that this was another mystery, Hu Biao once again led the spies to attack on the rainy night, raiding three small coal mines one after another, rescuing the strong men and prisoners of war imprisoned in the coal mine, and then took them back to the mountains respectively.

Hu Biao broke up all the more than 200 prisoners of war rescued to the prisoner-of-war camp temporarily commanded by Qian Zhong, and reorganized the 5th and 6th companies of the prisoner-of-war company. More than 100 young and strong prisoners of war were placed in another bandit village.

This is also very simple to do, that is, to separate Min Zhuang from prisoners of war. In fact, Hu Biao even placed a combat platoon in the mountain village where Min Zhuang lived. The combat platoon was responsible for guiding and guarding the guards to prevent these civilians from running away.

Hu Biao has registered all the more than 600 prisoners of war who have advanced to the mountains. Everyone in their hometowns has registered their names. As for these powerful people, Hu Biao regards them as new recruits and plans to be personally responsible for the training of the combat platoon.

Hu Biao let the other Minzhuang who were unwilling to leave them, and even if he did this, some information would be leaked. But Hu Biao knew very well that these Minzhuang who were unwilling to join the army would barely tie them into the mountain, but they were afraid that they would not be able to stay.

But before leaving, Hu Biao said directly: "If you don't want to join the army, I won't force you. I just hope you remember that if the Japanese know that you have escaped, they will definitely not give you good results.

Locals, even if you don’t want to, must follow me. If you are from other places, you have to leave. I will arrange someone to send you out of Zaozhuang later. If you fall into the hands of the Japanese again, I hope you won’t regret today’s decision.”

In Hu Biao's view, letting the locals leave at this time will only bring disaster to their families. Once the Japanese conduct investigations or someone reports that, not only will these people and soldiers be in danger of their lives, but their families will also be unable to escape the massacre.

Most of the young and strong people arrested from other places were arrested by the Japanese without any clarification. After these people were rescued, they all wanted to go home to report their safety. Hu Biao could understand this feeling. But before leaving, he would still emphasize the consequences.

He was determined to leave, so Hu Biao naturally couldn't force it. When he sent these people away, Hu Biao also paid each of them five yuan for travel expenses. Many young and strong men who planned to leave were also very embarrassed about Hu Biao's kindness.

Some young and strong thought for a while and said, "Sir, we just want to go home to report safety to our family. After we have seen our family, can we come back to find you? We want to join the army and fight the Japanese with you."

The combat team responsible for seeing off the showdown shook their heads and said, "Sorry! We just passed by Zaozhuang and learned that the Japanese were forced to recruit strong men to mine for them, so we wanted to teach them a lesson. After fighting this battle, we were about to leave!"

"Are you guys this?"

"Don't ask so much! Some things are the more you know, the more troubles you are. If you really want to fight the Japanese, just go and find the troops who fought the Japanese in the war of resistance and fight the Japanese after you return to your hometown. If we do, the fate will end here!"

Even if the fighters have a certain deceptive nature, Hu Biao still told the team members to answer this. If these young and strong men really wanted to join the army and fight the Japanese, they would not have insisted on leaving like that earlier. What's the point of barely joining the army?

Even if the local young and strong people brought to the mountains, Hu Biao would ask for their opinions. The young and strong people who did not want to join the army would be responsible for some logistics and miscellaneous things during the period of staying in the mountains. When the time is right, they would send them home to reunite with their families.

Explain the problem clearly, and these rescued young men also understand Hu Biao's concerns. In addition, Hu Biao and others are all gunmen, and ordinary young men are naturally in awe when facing gunmen. The Japanese cannot afford to offend Hu Biao, so how can Hu Biao be so easy?

Hu Biao and his party's re-action undoubtedly once again touched the anger of the Japanese army stationed in Zaozhuang. Even though the scale of those coal mines was not as large as that of Zhongxing Coal Mine, it was still a spoil seized by the Japanese army, and they were naturally angry when destroyed.

What made the Japanese army the most headache was that these small coal mines were completely blown up by Hu Biao. In addition to the troops stationed in the coal mine and the workers sent from the country, they were all thrown into the collapsed coal mine. When they were dug out, the bodies were almost rotten.

The member of the special high school class in charge of the investigation also said with a headache after the investigation: "Damn it, I basically couldn't find any useful clues. The only thing that can be confirmed is that the attacker and the Zhongxing Coal Mine may be in the same group."

"reason!"

"The raid on a rainy night, there are few traces of fire exchange, and the methods of mine explosion are almost the same!"

"Then what do you think the attackers' team is?"

"It's hard to say! Judging from the evidence currently available, the attackers had at least one Chinese battalion-level team. If there weren't so many people, I thought it would be impossible to end the battle so soon. The three coal mines, and the total number of troops was one squadron."

"Baga! These damn murderers are really difficult to deal with!"

Just when the Japanese army in Zaozhuang were having a headache about this, Guo Ziming, who was still in Zaozhuang, was engaged in teahouse business, soon learned about the situation. After the raid on Zhongxing Coal Mine, two underground liaison officers had been sent back to the rear base by him.

As the liaison officer of the Eighth Route Army in Zaozhuang, he also gave a detailed report on the previous attack to his superiors. He even suggested to his superiors that he hoped to form an anti-Japanese guerrilla team in Zaozhuang, and only a few soldiers needed to cooperate.

For weapons and ammunition, Hu Biao had promised to give him a company of weapons and ammunition. As long as he dispatched some cadres and veterans, the Eighth Route Army might be able to pull up a company-level enemy-backed guerrilla team in Zaozhuang.

The only thing that worried Guo Ziming was that it was not enough to form a guerrilla team with weapons alone, and it also needed territory and supplies. Fortunately, there were many landlords and evil gentry in Zaozhuang who defected to the Japanese, so that the guerrilla team would attack them at that time.

I dare not cause trouble for the Japanese for the time being. I will crack down on these traitors and Japanese for lackeys. Guo Ziming thinks that the problem is not big. The most important thing is that Guo Ziming hopes that his superiors can send troops into Qilu to develop troops as soon as possible.

With Han Fuqu being executed by Chiang Kai-shek, many Han Fuqu's subordinates were hostile to Chiang Kai-shek. Some even chose to surrender to the Japanese and became traitors. Some people were unwilling to deal with the national army.

If the Eighth Route Army could enter Qilu and develop at this time, it would be a good opportunity in Guo Ziming's opinion. But he did not know that the Eighth Route Army had already implemented the suggestions on the Eighth Route Army's advance towards Qilu.

After receiving the information brought back by Guo Ziming, President Zhu also said directly: "What do you think?"

"Boss! Will it be too fast to advance into Qilu at this time?"

"Are you fast? As far as I know, Li Zongren's troops are retreating completely, and Taierzhuang is afraid that they can't defend it anymore. This also means that as the troops in the Fifth War Zone retreated, the entire Qilu was completely defeated by the Japanese.

As Han Fuqu’s nest, the remaining anti-Japanese armed forces in Qilu are probably hostile to Chiang Kai-shek. It would be better to fight for those defeated soldiers to surrender to the Japanese and others and expand our strength.

The most important thing is that I think that the boy chose to develop the troops in Zaozhuang at this time, and he should have seen this. If we were in the past, we might be able to strengthen our cooperation with him. At least, the drug trade will be more secure!”

The Eighth Route Army, who had done business with the Jinsui Army several times in the previous period, had already tasted the benefits of medicine. Unfortunately, although the medicine is good, the price is not cheap. The Eighth Route Army itself had to reserve some and had to sell it to the Jinsui Army.
Chapter completed!