Since Laba, the shops have stepped up their efforts to serve New Year's goods, and there are more stalls on the streets - those selling Spring Festival couplets, New Year's paintings, honeysmen, daffodils, etc., all of which will only appear in this season. These New Year's stalls made the children's hearts beat very fast.

In the alleys, the sounds of shouting are more and more complex than usual, and some of them only appear in the lunar month, such as those selling picture books, pine branches, barley rice, rice cakes, and so on.

The 23rd is almost a "dress rehearsal" for the New Year. In the old society, every family sacrificed to the king of the stove that night, and the firecrackers rang out from the moment they wiped the black, and the paper statue of the king of the stove was incinerated with the sound of the cannons, and the beautiful name was to send the king of the stove to heaven.

In the past few days, there were a lot of maltose and Jiang rice candy on the street, and the sugar was either in the form of a long square or a large and small melon. According to the old saying: if there is sugar sticking to the mouth of the King of the Stove, he will not report the bad things in the family to the Jade Emperor when he arrives in the sky.

After the twenty-third year, everyone will be busier, and the New Year will be here in the blink of an eye. Before Chinese New Year's Eve, families must paste the Spring Festival and clean it once, which is called cleaning the house. At this time, Han Xing greatly passed a calligraphy addiction, after all, Han Xing is a cultural person who can write a good calligraphy.

He is also a cultural person, and he can also write a good calligraphy, which has become the object of worship of the peasants.

Families must prepare enough meat, chicken, fish, vegetables, rice cakes, etc., at least enough to eat for at least a week.

At this time, the average family is poor, but it is not enough to cut two catties of pork and five catties of tofu and put them away. Where the pork and tofu were placed, they were hung in baskets, and a rope was hung on the beam. As long as the rats can't get in, the storage is considered successful. Inside the house is a natural refrigerator, and the temperature is not a few degrees different from the outside.

According to the old custom, most of the shops are closed for five days, and they do not open until the sixth day of the first month. If you don't prepare for the next few days, it's not easy to replenish temporarily. Also, the old mother theory in the old society pays attention to cutting out everything that should be cut out on Chinese New Year's Eve, saving the need to use the knife again from the first to the fifth day of the first month, and it is unlucky to use the knife and scissors.

This has superstitious implications, but it also shows that we Lusi people are indeed peace-loving people, and we don't even want to use a kitchen knife at the age of one.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, it is a paradise for children, children hold firecrackers in their hands, set off firecrackers under the leadership of adults, and when they explode in the sky, seven-colored flowers come out, like rainbows, colorful, and like fairies scattering flowers, giving people happiness. It's so beautiful! After the firecrackers, the children and their parents went to see the lantern festival in the village and township, and compared which lantern was better.

Every house is brightly lit and lively. Some families have to stay up all night.

The next morning, before dawn, Mom and Dad urged the children to get up quickly. The voice was cautious and quiet, meaning a year of purity. The kids got up.

The mother put the dumplings that were wrapped yesterday on the plate, and the children ate the dumplings with a smile and a smile. The dumplings in the morning are vegetarian-filled, indicating a year of elemental net.

After a while, it was dawn, and most of the people put on new clothes to visit relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings to their elders.

Russy's clothes are characteristic, either black or white. Because this is a cotton-producing area, every household will spin and weave cloth.

If she wears flowers, she is a girl to be married. They often boasted about how beautiful their clothes were among their peers, and some deliberately walked in front of the young man in the photo, needless to say, it was she who confessed her love for her sweetheart to the young man with her beautiful clothes.

Men go out before noon on the first day of the new year to visit relatives and friends. Women receive guests at home. At the same time, there are many temples in and out of the city that are open for people to visit, and vendors set up stalls outside the temples to sell tea, food, and various toys.

However, the first two or three days of the temple were not very lively, because people were still busy celebrating each other's New Year and had no time to do it. On the fifth or sixth day of the new year, the temple fair begins to be beautiful, and the children are especially enthusiastic to go to the city, in order to see the wild scenery outside the city, they can ride donkeys, and they can also buy those toys that are unique to the New Year.

Most of the shops opened on the sixth day of the new year, and firecrackers were set off, and from dawn to early morning, the whole city was filled with cannonballs. Although it is open, except for the shop that sells food and other important daily necessities, everyone is not very busy, and the guys in the shop can also take turns to visit the temple and listen to the play.

The New Year in the county seat is not really over until the fifteenth has passed.

According to the plan, the puppet army uprising in Wuping County began on the 17th day of the first month of 1940.

In winter, the great plains of Russi are unobstructed, except for the bare land, the dead trees that have lost their leaves, the low weeds, and the ruined villages, all of which form a yellow world. As a three-dimensional plane, the land and rivers are considered flat, and the miscellaneous trees and villages are protruding from the plane, which is a bit three-dimensional.

In addition to these, there is also the rudimentary form of industry in the countryside, that is, the kiln factory.

There is a big kiln between Sunzhuang and Kanzhuang. To build in the county seat, the landlords and rich peasants of the villages have saved enough money, and they also need to build a few tiled houses, which requires bricks and tiles. This is how the kiln factory was built.

This large kiln factory is long from north to south and short from east to west, with 300 meters from north to south and 200 meters from east to west, and it is two stories high. Inside, like the corridor, it is arched, with alleys for later brick placement. Above, a strong position was naturally formed, and there was no problem in putting a battalion.

The reason why Han Xing fell in love with this place as a base camp. Above is a natural vantage point, placed with heavy machine guns and mortars, and it is controlled within 3,000 meters. In the kiln, you can also garrison troops, and there is no problem with putting a regiment.

Just outside the kiln factory, patches of depressions appeared. It was the time of the adobe de-earth, and the soil was dug up, which made the condescension of the kiln factory even more prominent.

Another point is that it is far away from the village, and there is a battle between several sides. Try not to hurt the people in the village.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Han Xing moved the headquarters of the uprising to the kiln factory, and also stored a certain amount of fresh water and grain, and Wang Anyu and several district party secretaries entered the kiln factory at the same time. Zhang Xiaosan's guard company and Qian Yifei's mortar platoon were all pulled into the kiln factory, and sentry, heavy machine gun positions and mortar positions were placed on the top of the kiln factory.

It's just a pity that the guard company and mortar platoon have not replenished their personnel since they suffered losses in the battle with Luo Zhaorong and Xu Guanwu. What Han Xing means is that the replenishment of the guard company can only be replenished from the special operations battalion, because the special operations battalion is full of elite soldiers, and the guard company would rather be lacking than overuse. As for the artillery platoon, there is no way to replenish it, because artillery is a technical job that ordinary people can't do.

Fortunately, the guard company and the mortar platoon were replenished with sufficient ammunition, which was brought in from secret channels. It is said that there is a company plus an artillery platoon, but in fact there are fifty or sixty people.

In the winter in the north, although the sun is not particularly passionate, it is gentle, selfless and generous, and most of the time the sun can be seen.

The sun was gently surrounded by a layer of mist, perhaps from spring to summer through autumn to winter, the sunlight seemed a little weak, and it was not easy to break free from the entanglement of the mist, revealing a faint soft white light.

Most people always think that winter is bleak and bleak, but Han Xing disagrees. Needless to say, there is a little warm sunshine on this winter day, and even if there is none, winter is vibrant. If you don't believe me, just look at the sparrows on the branches, and they are chattering merrily; If you don't believe me, look at the ducks on the ice floes in the river, and they sing beautiful songs merrily; If you don't believe me, just look at the smoke rising from the village, which is a signal for parents to wait for their children to return.

The gray military uniform absorbs the winter sun, which also becomes extra lively, making the military uniform extra warm.

A team appeared from the west, rushing quickly to this side.

Han Xing stood on the top of the kiln factory, holding a pergola and looking at the team, there were about 300 people coming, running quickly in this direction. Due to the rush of the team, more than 300 pairs of feet stirred up a puff of dust and made a lot of noise.

Zhang Xiaosan and Qian Yifei were also looking over there, and at the same time, the three heavy machine guns of the guard company were also pointed there, and all the assault rifles on the roof of the kiln were pointed there.

After a while, a lookout post shouted to the top of the kiln, "It's the team of the uprising in the three districts." ”

Han Xing was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly walked down with Zhang Xiaosan, Qian Yifei and Wang Anyu to meet the uprising team.

After a while, a team had already run to the front, led by Wang Xiaoxian, a party member who returned to the shop, and Li Changjiang, the squadron leader of the puppet army.

Wang Xiaoxian first introduced Han Xing to Li Changjiang, the leader of the puppet army squadron: "This is Commander Han of the three southern expeditions, and Comrade Han Xing, the county magistrate of our Wuping County. ”

Li Changjiang was also very excited when he saw Han Xing, and saluted Han Xing and said, "Report to Commander Han, Li Changjiang of the uprising squadron has come to report to you." From now on, I will be your man, and I will be assigned work! ”

Then Li Changjiang introduced two other squadron leaders, one is Zhou Qingyu, the leader of the puppet army squadron, and the other is Wang Zilan, the leader of the puppet army squadron. The two of them also saluted Han Xing and said, "From now on, we will be the people of the Eighth Road." Everything obeyed the orders of the Eighth Route Army. ”

Han Xing held their hands tightly and said: "Thank you for abandoning the darkness and joining the ranks of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army. If you have anything to say, you don't need to see outside. ”

Han Xing asked again: "How did you deal with the original stronghold?" ”

Li Changjiang said: "We have brought everything that can be brought, and what we can't bring has been burned by fire." ”

Han Xing, Zhang Xiaosan, and Qian Yi flew to the west to look. Thick black smoke rose from the stronghold to the west, forming a slanting slant and heading towards the sky.

Han Xing nodded and said, "Okay!" Very good! There is no turning back when the bow is opened, and everything must be done thoroughly, since Fan participated in the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, he will never go back. ”

Li Changjiang said: "Then our current task? ”

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