The afternoon sun was exceptionally bright, and now the weather has warmed up, and the sun is warm with a slight heat.

In a small flat land surrounded by mountains, everyone of the Pingchuan detachment was resting here, and everyone was leisurely and lazy without the tension of being pursued by the Japanese puppet army.

In the past, the anti-Japanese forces in the Pingchuan area were relatively weak, so the Japanese puppet army did not have much experience in fighting with the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

And now the new Maeda garrison captain, they have all just come to the battlefield from the devil's country, and they are all new recruits, and they haven't even been on the battlefield, let alone the experience of fighting with the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, it is difficult for these Japanese puppet soldiers to catch guerrilla experts like them, but the only thing to worry about is that the Japanese puppet army will chase the transferred villagers.

However, based on the current investigation information, these devils have not given up chasing them, and there is a lack of interest in those anti-Japanese people, which is rare good news, and it makes them feel very good.

The vast majority of the people in their team are sons and daughters of the mountains, and their familiarity with the mountains and forests is not comparable to that of those devils, and it is not so easy for these Japanese puppet soldiers to block them in the mountains.

Therefore, in their feelings, the intensity of the Japanese puppet army's sweep this time was not as great as expected.

Although the warrior felt relaxed, Zhang Yunfei felt more and more pressure, and he didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive.

When the devils were fighting, they had to carry more than ten catties of food, which was only enough for them to consume for several days of fighting, and as for the Eighth Route Army, they naturally didn't have so much food to carry.

Therefore, they will soon run out of food, and the amount of food consumed by more than 100 people every day is not a small amount, so they have to worry about food.

If they had food and drink to go around with the Japanese puppet army in the mountains, they would naturally not feel any pressure, but it would be difficult to get food.

The blockade of the devils is no joke, and the devils' sweep this time also covers the whole county, but other places are mainly responsible for the puppet army.

That is to say, the local organizations are also like them, all of them have run away, and if they want to raise some food, they will naturally not find anyone.

As for directly looking for the people's families to borrow and buy grain, it is impossible, hundreds of them, even if they are half-full, keep in a state of starvation, they have to consume dozens of catties of grain a day, how can the people in this era have so much food.

The common people don't have it, so they can only go to the market to find a way, but it is even more difficult for them to go to the market to buy, not to mention that now during the sweep, even in peacetime, the Japanese puppet army is very tightly blocked, and not a single grain of grain is allowed to flow to the base area, so the difficulty of going to the market to buy grain is very high.

Zhang Yunfei and the people in the cooking class held a meeting to discuss how to deal with the impending food crisis.

"Let's save a little more, and there are a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains now, maybe digging more wild vegetables can deal with a few more meals." Squad leader Wang spoke first.

"It's not a long-term solution, we can't let the soldiers go hungry." Chen Youquan saw Zhang Yunfei frowning and sitting there silently without speaking, so he had to put forward his own point of view first.

What he said is also reality, why is the quality of the Chinese army not as good as that of the devils, the lack of training is on the one hand, and the physical fitness on the other hand, everyone is short and strong, and our people are basically skinny, and they can't even eat enough grains, melons and rice, how can they have strength.

To tell the truth, their current food standard is really not as good as the pig food of later generations, how can you grow fat with this?

"That old ...... Cadre, can I say a word. Li Ergou, who was sitting in the corner, interrupted everyone's words and interjected, he felt that if he didn't speak again, he would probably have to eat leaves and wild vegetables every day in the future, and he was not a donkey, so he couldn't eat that thing.

"We're talking about it, what are you talking about?" Squad Leader Wang frowned when he saw Chen Youquan displeased, and reprimanded Chen Youquan before he spoke.

"Tell me, what can you do." Zhang Yunfei, who had not said a word, suddenly spoke.

Li Ergou saw everyone looking at him in unison, and said worriedly: "We can go to the market to buy it." ”

Hearing his words, everyone immediately looked disappointed, thinking that he had some good idea, it turned out that this was the most impossible way to go to the market to buy grain. The Japanese puppet army was very tightly controlled, and the bulk grain trade was closely monitored.

"I'm talking about buying on the black market." Li Ergou saw that everyone was kicked in the head by a donkey, and stared at it with stupid eyes, so he immediately retorted with a stiff neck.

"Black market? Tell me about it. Zhang Yunfei became interested.

"I know that there is a mountain temple in this place, and there is a black market in that place that is not controlled by the local government, and basically everything can be bought." Li Ergou explained.

The so-called no buying, no killing, uh, no blockade, no black market. Regardless of that era, smuggling was a profiteering industry, and the blockade of devils also exacerbated the prevalence of smuggling.

You must know that it is not only Balu who cannot see the light, in fact, there are many other people in the industry, who are also within the scope of the devil's crackdown, such as bandits and so on.

Even if the devils are blocked, although the Eighth Route Army is difficult, at least there is a base to support it, and like those bandits, etc., their lives are even more difficult.

Therefore, their need for those controlled materials is much more urgent than that of the Eighth Route Army.

The so-called demand has a market, and the black market was born in this way, this is the trading place of the thieves and grass bandits, of course, with the arrival of the devil, there are more characters who can't see the light, and the black market is also bigger and stronger.

Gradually, some ordinary people who were a little gray also joined in, after all, in this era, no one is much clean.

Businessmen seek profits, and the black market is inherently shady, so naturally the benefits are very huge, and some businessmen with good hands and feet are also involved.

In this era of strict control, when everyone has a shortage, there is also a shady business, even ordinary people will come here to trade.

Li Ergou was not a serious person before, and he was engaged in the transportation industry, and sometimes he also helped people pull black goods and so on.

In these days, serious business is actually not easy to do, and these places are his main source of customers, so he knows that this kind of place is not strange.

As the saying goes, there are also available talents for chicken and dog thieves, and Li Ergou really helped them a lot this time.