In the room, Zhao Zhiguo and the others saw an old man protecting two children under his arms.

"Fellow, don't be afraid. We are from the Jinsui Army, specializing in fighting Japanese Japs. We were just passing by and wanted to ask for directions." Zhao Zhiguo spoke, fearing to scare the two children.

But after Zhao Zhiguo finished speaking, the fellow villager knelt down in front of Zhao Zhiguo with a "pop" sound.

"Master, I beg you, Master, there is no food in the house anymore, and all the young people have been taken away by you. Only two children are left to depend on me. Please let them go."

Zhao Zhiguo was confused by this scene. Although the Jinsui Army had a bad habit of arresting strong men, it would not exhaust the people, capture the people and rob food, otherwise the Jinsui Army would not be able to survive on this land.

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"Fellow, get up quickly, we are not here to catch young men, nor are we here to grab food." Zhao Zhiguo helped the old man up with force.

The old man looked at Zhao Zhiguo, still trembling. There were only two young children with clear eyes, looking at Zhao Zhiguo and the others. These two children were too young and didn't know what fear was.

"Fellow, have you made it clear? Where are the child's parents?" Gao Cang asked.

"Two days ago, the child's parents were arrested. They were wearing the same clothes as you, with guns in their hands. They arrested people when they saw them and robbed food when they saw them... They have already brought disaster to our village.

"

The old man wiped his tears and cried to Zhao Zhiguo.

"The clothes are the same as ours, you can't see it wrong, right?" Gao Cang asked.

"I'm absolutely not wrong. They appeared in the yard and took the children's parents away. They said the boys were being sent to the army and the girls were being made into military uniforms."

"Captain, I have seen people catching strong men and catching men, but I have never heard of people catching women. Is there something fishy about this?"

Gao Cang whispered in Zhao Zhiguo's ear.

They had seen many cases of arresting strong men. The Jinsui Army, the Northwest Army, the Central Army, and the Japs were all hunting strong men everywhere. But this was the first time they heard of arresting women.

"I think it may be a breakout, disguised as an army, deliberately coming to the village to harm the people."

"Are you so bold to break out now?"

Zhao Zhiguo thought that even if the bandits were brave enough to kill, set fire to, and rob, they would never dare to pretend to be the army. Once someone found out, the army would definitely destroy them at all costs.

"It's not impossible. If the Jin-Sui army loses the battle, the troops are in chaos, and there is no way to check the troop organization, some soldiers will go up the mountains and become bandits. There may be bigger bandits in the mountains who will annex them.

, Anyway, the Jinsui Army is busy fighting the little devils now and has no time to take care of these bandits."

Zhao Zhiguo and the others have not learned any news from the outside world for a long time. They have no idea what the current situation of the Jinsui Army is.

"Fellow, how many villages are there around here? Have they all been robbed?" Zhao Zhiguo asked.

After some inquiries, Zhao Zhiguo learned that this village was called Huoshaogou, and it was the deepest village in the mountains. It was 70 to 80 miles away from the nearest town. It would take two days for local people to go to the town and back.

The nearest village to Huoshaogou is also ten miles away. Just yesterday, some people escaped and told them that their village had been plundered by the army.

"Captain, from the map, we have reached the edge of the Bingzhou area. If we walk more than a hundred miles to the southwest, we will really be out of the mountains. Le County is still about nine days away from us. If we walk to Bingzhou

, it will also take ten days and a half.”

Qin Dongsheng made a simple estimate.

"Even if we encounter villages that have not been robbed on the road, the local people will definitely not provide us with much food. As long as we get to the town, we can borrow some food and grass."

Judging from the current situation, the nearby villages must have been robbed, and it would definitely not be feasible for them to borrow food from the villages.

"Fellow, could I please ask you if there are any bandits nearby?"

The deeper into the mountains and forests, the more banditry there is that cannot be eradicated. Along the way, Zhao Zhiguo and the others walked through places where birds did not poop, and the bandits could not survive, because they had no place to rob, and they certainly could not hold the mountains and chew stones.

Now Zhao Zhiguo and the others have encountered villages, which shows that some people can survive on this land.

"There is indeed a group of bandits on Yao Mountain, but this group of bandits has never entered the village and robbed anything," the old man said.

This was the first time that Zhao Zhiguo heard someone say something good for the bandits.

"There are still bandits who don't steal things? This is strange." Zhao Zhiguo smiled.

"Fellow fellow, how do bandits make a living if they don't steal things? Could it be that they rely on farming?"

Gao Cang also thought it was an anecdote. They had never heard of bandits who didn't steal things.

"I, an old man, don't understand. They once came to the village to recruit soldiers, and they also preached about knocking down the landlords and dividing the land... I am old and illiterate, so I don't understand what happened. Anyway, they never robbed them.

We ordinary people sent troops to the local area to suppress them twice, but we were not able to defeat them."

Upon hearing the news, Zhao Zhiguo and Gao Cang looked at each other and nodded. They both knew who these people were.

Zhao Zhiguo was even more excited. He knew what this meant! But he didn't dare to show it. He had so many soldiers under his command, and not every soldier was of the same mind as him.

"Since it was not done by bandits, could it be that it was really done by the Jinsui Army?"

Of course Zhao Zhiguo was somewhat unwilling to accept it.

"Are there no other bandits nearby?" Gao Cang continued to ask.

"There were a few bandit troubles in the past few years, but since the bandits from Yao Mountain came, there have been no more troubles," the old man continued.

"Are there any troops stationed in the town?"

"There is a security team. It is said that there are many people. I have never seen it. They are wearing clothes like yours."

"Yeah, it's probably the security group who did it. Maybe someone in the town took advantage of the outbreak of the fighting to make money from the chaos!" Gao Cang guessed.

"I also think this is a possibility!" Zhao Zhiguo nodded, agreeing with Gao Cang's guess.

"These security groups are not as good as the ones on Yao Mountain...the 'bandits' on Yao Mountain!"

"It seems that we have to visit the nearby towns, not only for the sake of the local people, but also for the sake of the stomachs of our soldiers, don't you think so?"

Zhao Zhiguo smiled and said to Gao Cang.

"I thought so too!"

After asking about the situation nearby with fellow villagers, Zhao Zhiguo learned that the town was called Yang'an Town. Because it was located in a mountainous area, it had a small population.

As for what's going on in the town, the old man doesn't know anything.
Chapter completed!