Jiang and his small band of troops had to adapt. For some forty days they hid at the side or in the rear of the most carefully monitored areas, wearing plain clothes and sticking to groups of two or three. “When the enemy settled down,” Jiang recalled, “we would suddenly attack them from all sides. We’d kill the sentry and the horses, set their weapons store on fire, and then throw a bomb into their sleeping quarters.” Another favored technique was to sneak into a watchtower in the dark, start firing, and hope that the defenders would fire back at each other in the confusion.54 These
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