The Cycle of Reincarnation in the Four-Courtyard House: A Journey Through the Heavens

The next morning, Li Xiao found Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, who had just gotten up, and told them about the operation that had taken place the previous night.

After listening to Li Xiao's story, both of them showed expressions of extreme shock.

"Hey bro, did you really wipe out Yamamoto's entire special forces team last night?"

Li Xiao smiled and nodded, saying, "I brought all their weapons back; they're in my room!"

He led the two men into his house and handed them over all of Yamamoto's special forces' weapons.

"Commander Li, Political Commissar Zhao, I'm getting ready to head back!"

"Okay... then!"

Li Yunlong said somewhat apologetically, "Brother, you've done us a huge favor this time. You not only brought us a lot of weapons and supplies, helped me rescue Xiuqin, but also helped us eliminate Yamamoto's special forces."

"We really don't know how to thank you enough!"

Zhao Gang shook Li Xiao's hand and said, "Old Li is right. Your help to us this time has been tremendous. Our brigade commander was even planning to meet with you after receiving the news!"

Speaking of the brigade commander, a figure suddenly appeared in Li Xiao's mind. He saw a burly man, holding a riding whip in one hand and his other hand on his hip, pointing at Li Yunlong and shouting loudly, "Li Yunlong, congratulations on your fortune!"

Li Xiao couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this scene.

Li Yunlong was fearless, but when he saw this highly decorated brigade commander, he immediately turned into a lamb.

"There will definitely be a chance!"

"These supplies are just the first batch. I'll send you the second batch in a month!"

Upon hearing that there would be a follow-up supply of materials, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang showed expressions of gratitude.

"Thank you so much!"

All the battalion commanders of the New First Regiment were mobilized to accompany Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang as they saw Li Xiao off from the village. Only then did they reluctantly watch Li Xiao's figure disappear from sight.

Jiang Hui was allowed to stay at Li Yunlong's insistence.

The new regiment's weaponry has been significantly upgraded, so he is now eager to build a special operations team for the new regiment, and Jiang Hui is the instructor for this special operations team that he has his eye on.

The next day, the brigade commander finally found the time and, accompanied by his guards, rode his warhorse to the New First Regiment's garrison.

As soon as he entered the room, his booming voice shouted, "Li Yunlong, congratulations on your fortune!"

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After leaving the New First Regiment's garrison, Li Xiao did not immediately return to Beijing. He planned to go to Black Cloud Village to take care of Xie Baoqing's gang of bandits ahead of time.

According to the original plot, Wei Heshang was ordered to deliver a message to the division headquarters. On the way, he encountered Xie Baoqing's men from Black Cloud Village robbing him. He fought back and killed several bandits, but unexpectedly, he was ambushed from behind by Shanmaozi, the second leader of Black Cloud Village, and died. Afterwards, his head was cut off by Ma Liu and hung on a tree.

He also saw Wei Heshang in the group this time. Since Wei Heshang had not yet sacrificed himself, he decided to take care of Xie Baoqing, this guy whose hands were stained with blood, in advance.

The bandits in Black Cloud Stronghold numbered in the hundreds, but these rabble were utterly insignificant compared to Yamamoto's special forces, both in terms of weaponry and individual combat capabilities.

He could take down the entire Yamamoto Special Forces all by himself, so these bandits would be no challenge at all.

That night, after making some inquiries, Li Xiao finally made his way into Black Cloud Village and wiped out all 314 bandits in less than an hour.

He also found more than twenty women, barely clothed, in this bandit stronghold. These women were all abducted by the bandits from the foot of the mountain.

After Li Xiao had looted all the valuable items in the entire Black Cloud Stronghold, he gave the women some travel expenses and food, and told them to return home on their own.

To everyone's surprise, all the women knelt down before him.

One of the older women cried as she said, "Hero, we were robbed by these bandits and taken to the mountains. We're already defiled and can't even hold our heads up in public.

The group of women begged Li Xiao to take them in and find them a way to survive.

After thinking for a while, Li Xiao decided to send these poor women to Li Yunlong.

After resting for one night at Black Cloud Village, Li Xiao saddled the more than twenty horses in the village and led the group of women back to the New First Regiment's camp.

It wasn't until 2:30 p.m. that day that Li Xiao returned to Li Yunlong's place again.

When Li Yunlong saw Li Xiao driving more than twenty horses, each carrying a group of women, he was completely stunned.

Li Xiao recounted what had happened after he left to Li Yunlong, and at that moment, Political Commissar Zhao Gang also came out.

Upon learning of the situation, Zhao Gang said he could temporarily take in these poor women, but he needed to obtain approval from his superiors.

Li Xiao naturally didn't say anything about this. Ignoring their attempts to persuade him to stay, he rode away on a horse.

......

Li Xiao returned directly to Beijing via Lu Yuan's anchor point. The reason he rushed back was that his trip to Northwest Shanxi had made him sense the system's unusual activity.

That's right, it's a kind of strange movement that's hard to explain.

Ever since Li Xiao rescued Xiuqin from Yamamoto's special forces, he felt a mysterious energy enter his body, and the system, which had been in a dormant state, seemed to emit a faint energy fluctuation.

If Li Xiao's mental strength hadn't been high enough, he probably wouldn't have been able to sense that fluctuation.

It wasn't until the day he personally led Jiang Hui to wipe out all the remaining Japanese soldiers of Yamamoto's special forces that that mysterious energy seemed to reappear.

After he single-handedly wiped out Black Cloud Stronghold last night, he once again had that mysterious feeling.

Li Xiao pondered this for a long time and then came to a conclusion—this might be the effect caused by his significant changes to the original plot.

According to the original plot, Yamamoto Ichiki led his men to launch a surprise attack on Kong Jie's Independent Regiment in Zhao Jia Yu.

During their evacuation, Yamamoto's special forces had their vehicles destroyed by Chu Yunfei's Jin-Sui Army, forcing them to change course and retreat back to Ping'an County via General Ridge, where Chu Yunfei had already laid an ambush.

During the battle, Yamamoto's special forces once successfully launched a surprise attack and wiped out a machine gun company of the Jin-Sui Army, but were subsequently blocked by Chu Yunfei's troops halfway up a cliff and bombarded with grenades.

In this encounter, not only was the traitor Zhu Ziming killed, but the Japanese special forces also suffered heavy losses. The elite force of more than 80 men was reduced to less than 60 men after this battle, and their combat effectiveness declined significantly.

That night, Li Xiao led Jiang Hui to assassinate Yamamoto Ichiki, and the final result was that only 54 of the enemy remained.

Yamamoto Ichiki, who managed to escape, led his remaining troops to seek refuge in Ping'an County. Meanwhile, Li Yunlong, seeking revenge for the massacre of the entire village of Zhaojiayu and the abduction of his wife Xiuqin, assembled the forces of the New First Regiment and launched a major attack on Ping'an County.