Gilbert together with santi Sandoval as the commander incharge in Binalbagan troupe are wondering if the japanese soldiers will attack them, because they heard that some of their men were injured due to their encounter with Raffy and Mona's troupe.
" Still we have to be prepared, we have in our team the best in phyrotecnics maker, the chemicals engineers", Santi told Gilbert.
" Ha,ha,ha, i'm glad we research on how to make bombs, now it's very useful for us, I never thought we can use it sooner than we imagined",, Gilbert replied to Santi's claim.
" You know even my parents are wondering why I am suddenly interested in making bombs. They hate the smell of phyro chemicals in our house, but now as I think about it I know there are reasons in everything, God had prepared us for some bigtime war", Santi said.
" That's right, so now let us put this in the proper position, we have to do it ourselves this is dangerous for others who has no knowledge about this." Gilbert said.
" Let's just follow the plan we had made,
so that we know where we planted each bomb", Santi said and putting a mark at the map they are holding to be sure where they put each bomb.
" Have you informed the civilians not to roam around or pass through in this area or near here?", Santi asked.
" Yes, we informed them yesterday about the attack and about our plan to scattered the bombs in this areas, we have no idea at what time the japanese will attack us., we have to make it fast, anyway this sugarcanes are abandoned or those ricefields
we can put some in there", Gilbert said.
" Let me do that for the ricefields, just do it here in the sugarcane", Santi told Gilbert.
They are done with there placement of the bomb after two hours. There are about twenty bomb they had planted in different locations.
" Move out!.. nobody must come inside of the sugarcanes or ricefields, there are bombs planted all over ", Gilbert announce to everybody in a loud voice.
" Just stay inside within the lines we had draw, if any of them survived or incase the bomb doesn't explode we need to prepare here with our guns", Gilbert continued.
" Com, how about the civilians? what are we going to tell them?", Alvin a young soldier asked.
" Gather them inside the camp, do not allow them to come out in the open, tell the parents to guard their young children not to create any noise that will give the japanese soldiers an idea that there are people living here", Santi instructed..
" Ten of you soldiers, come with me, let's wait at the right area, they might pass there, ten others go with Santi at the left area five others assist the civilian incase of emergency in whatever cost protect the people ", Gilbert added instruction.
The japanese soldiers arrive at eleven in the morning. Maybe because of the previous encounter with Mona's troupe whom they didn't notice were hiding in the sugarcane plants, they decided to burn all the sugarcane and ricefields they hadn't been able to run away when the 'kaboom' super strong sound was heard, the japanese soldiers were astonished when their wartruck that contain bomb also exploded, because of fire that came from bomb explotion and scatter and most of the japanese soldiers who did the burning were dead some of those japanese soldiers nearby the area were badly injured, those who are in a far distance and has light injury help those who are badly injured and the dead ones they help them be loaded to their trucks they decided to leave the area, they are wondering why they have seen no one but how come there are many bombs in there? even their own wartruck loaded with bombs exploded, ahhh.. retreat is the best thing to do at the moment. They were not in the right position to fight because they don't even know how many more bombs are scattered in that area and where it had been planted by the unseen enemies. Seeing the enemies retreat, the filipino soldiers rejoice, no one among their troupe was hurt they were all safe at the moment.
" We need to be prepared and be vigilant because for sure they will attack us again in the future,we must always be prepared for the real fight, for today we just scare them", Gilbert said to his men.
" That's right, we just scare them for the meantime", Santi seconded the theory Gilbert had.
" Why do we have to let them scare us? we're like a coward hiding from afar", Amalia, Gilbert's girlfriend commented on their action.
" We're not hiding, it's a strategy! look we won because many of them were injured and some were dead but no one among us were hurt", Gilbert explained.
" Yes what's important is we shoved them away without a face to face encounter, because they have modern guns and equipments", Santi said.
".Don't be pissed off by our strategy, you see it's effective", Gilbert told Amalia.
" We have the opportunity to kill them all now you let them get away but if we kill every body no one will lived to tell what happened", still Amalia is not convince.
" You want us to kill all of them? you're a hard criminal, if no one lived for sure all of those who are in the garrison right now will come here for a rescue mission almost everybody in the garrison know where they are!", Gilbert explained.
" So right now they already know there are people in here!", Amalia said.
" Don't worry, right now they'll be busy tending after their injured and dead men attacking us will be the least of their priority", Gilbert said, while others were just listening to their exchanging of ideas.
" But for me, you have the opportunity to kill each of them, why not do that?", Amalia is not satisfied with her boyfriend's reason.
" I understand what you mean, but we are not the type that will put each of us in danger, you see there are bombs scattered in that area and I beleive there are still some who doesn't explode until now, so we still have to be careful, most of the japanese soldiers were in that area where we put the bomb, then you want us to step our foot in there? then we will be victims of our own scheme! do you get what I mean?", Gilbert explained.
" Ah,okay now I get what you mean.. You're right!..", Amalia finally agreed..
The outcome of the japanese attack with Gilbert's troupe reach the knowledge of Doni's troupe and they rejoice for the victory of the said troupe..
" What a wonderful news!", Doni said.
" Yes, they won without lifting a finger to fight he,he,he,", Mario said.
" That's a good strategy, lucky for them they're both good in making bomb", Doni said
" Yes , they won!!!...I am happy that our neighboring troupe won!.. Mario said.
" .Don't be so happy, we're next on their list to be attacked , I thought the last time because they had lost on their battle with Mona's troupe theyll delayed their attacked with Gilbert's troupe, but you see they still have men to attacked Gilbert's troupe", Doni said.
"What a hateful event,right?", Mario said.
* Sometimes it's irritating because we allow them to scare us", Doni said.
" We're only humans we are susceptible to mistake, we got scare specially if we know that our lives was in danger", Mario said.
" I am more afraid that we might failed in leading this people, they rely on us for their life,future and knowledge, most of them were too young to fight", Doni said.
" Let 's just do our part and I know nothing will go wrong",Mario said..they are very happy for the success of both Mona and Gilbert, and right now Gilbert's troupe is celebrating for their new found success Mario thought..Both Mona and Gilbert had won even just for a day.
" They had proven their leadership, that they are capable of protecting their troupe,luckily they're both good in making bomb..No one among our troupe is knowledgeable in making bomb. I imagine that is a good talent for a war like this", in Doni's opinion .
" Yes, but no one expected for this war, as for myself I had expected to be able to finish my course after this semester,then I'll take board exam then I will be the best criminal lawyer,I never thought I will be sent to this mountain and trained to be soldier to fight for our country",Mario said.
" Me too, I am excited to be called attorney Donald Lim, then all of a sudden I am here in the mountain hiding from the japanese soldiers", Doni said.
" Let's just do our part, then expect for the unexpected,everything will pass through and be intune to be in it's proper perspective then 'voila' we"re back in normal ",Mario said though he cannot understand fully what he meant Doni just smiled.
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