With the joint efforts of the traitors and the Eighth Road, everyone had a happy, peaceful, and fulfilling Spring Festival.

Even in the war years, everyone wants to be safe and stable during the New Year, Zhang Qingdong doesn't want to toss, and the Eighth Route Army also doesn't want to toss.

After the New Year, although the same cold, but there is hope, there is a trace of spring in the cold, people are looking forward to the arrival of spring, sowing new hope.

However, this world does not give you any hope at all, Zhang Qingdong specially sent the news that the devil's grain collection team will go to the countryside to collect grain.

In the past, the devils collected grain after the wheat harvest, but this year it has advanced so much, and even the last ration of the people has to be deducted.

Zhang Qingdong is not the kind of traitor who is mad, he also knows that some people in this period have no way to open the pot, there is no last meal, and I really don't know how many people will starve to death if they collect food again.

A large part of this lack of morality and smoke has to be counted on his head, and he has to find all kinds of reasons and excuses for being a traitor, so he naturally has to show face, so he was forced to pass on this matter to the Pingchuan detachment.

Zhang Qingdong was also forced to be helpless, the devil is to feed the war with war, and part of the supply is levied by the local government, and according to the news he inquired, the devil is ready to change the guard, that is to say, these devils want to loot before leaving.

This is going to be an old life, if the new ones are levied again, and let people not live, although Zhang Qingdong is the maintenance chairman of the region appointed by the devil, but it is not a parent official, it is impossible to really see a large number of people starving to death under his rule.

Zhang Yunfei still attaches great importance to the news from Zhang Qingdong, in this period of scarcity, food is life-sustaining, if it is looted by devils, it is no different from asking for their lives.

They must stop the devil's action, maybe they can't completely stop the devil's grain collection action, but it is still okay to slow down their collection trip, according to Zhang Qingdong's intelligence, the devil has to be pulled, they don't have much time to spend on grain collection, and if they can't complete the task, they will give up continuing to collect grain when it expires, and reduce the losses for the people.

Due to the sacrifice of the detachment leader who had never met, Zhang Yunfei became the acting detachment leader, and Sister Jia officially became the secretary of the county party committee.

The nature of the work of the county party committees and district committees at present is different from that in peacetime, and one of their most important tasks is to organize anti-Japanese forces.

Therefore, this kind of cadre generally serves as the captain of the county brigade and district squad, or the instructor and instructor of political work.

Sister Jia took over Secretary Zhou's previous position, and theoretically this detachment leader should also be concurrent, but the Pingchuan detachment is barely a regularized unit, so it generally does not appoint women as commanders, even nominally, so only let her serve as an instructor, and Zhang Yunfei serves as the acting detachment leader.

Even if it is a bit awkward to let her serve as an instructor, the Pingchuan detachment is not much different from the county brigade in nature, so it is not so particular that there will be such an appointment.

This kind of appointment by the superiors is really a bit crooked, the division of labor in their army has always been like this, and Sister Jia has always been doing the work of an instructor.

Although it is difficult to recruit soldiers now, Sister Jia is the secretary of a county, and it is still easy to scrape together 30 recruits, all of whom are in accordance with Zhang Yunfei's requirements, and they are all the backbone of the district team with good physical fitness.

Zhang Yunfei has been deliberately recruiting new recruits in batches, otherwise too many recruits will be recruited at once, diluting the number of veterans, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will be seriously affected.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army did not have a clear quota for the troops, but Zhang Yunfei's ideal number of people was about 100 people, and if there were any more, there would be no guns, so it would be meaningless to hold a big knife and spear.

At midnight, a group of more than 90 people left the garrison in a hurry, and they will rush to various places to block the Japanese puppet army's grain collection activities.

For this kind of hard work of requisitioning grain, it is naturally sent to the puppet army to do it, of course, there are also devils in the team, although these devils are arrogant princes in front of the puppet army, in fact, they are low-status logistics troops among the devils.

In the early morning, Zhang Yunfei and all the cadres of the detachment discussed the battle plan in a valley.

According to the news from Zhang Qingdong, it is a company of the puppet army that cooperates with them to levy grain, and there are more than 50 devils, according to him, in order to speed up the progress of the grain collection this time, they will divide the troops into three ways, that is to say, the Japanese puppet army in our ambush this time has more than ten devils and more than 30 puppet soldiers, although we are twice as many as them, but we must not take it lightly, thirty of our recruits have never been on the battlefield at all, even if the district team only participated in the battle of the last ambush convoy, As for the combat effectiveness, everyone also knows what it is. ”

Zhang Yunfei couldn't help sighing, although the number of his team was twice as large as that of the other party, as long as it was calculated, it was very discouraging, and the good guy had to cut half of it first.

As for the remaining half, many of them have only been on the battlefield, and it is really not a fully qualified veteran.

Therefore, it is not a simple matter to fight the Japanese puppet army with only more than 40 people, in the sudden attack, Zhang Yunfei was not worried that he would not be able to destroy this group of Japanese puppet army, the number of troops was doubled, but the combat effectiveness did not increase much, he was worried that there would be a large number of casualties in the troops

Although the probability of this happening is very low, their own side is temporarily put together, and the other party is not much better, not to mention the combat effectiveness of the puppet army, as long as they encounter a slightly more powerful opponent, they will definitely give up resistance and surrender.

And the devil who followed the puppet army to the countryside to collect grain, Zhang Yunfei guessed that it might be a logistics unit, of course, it was not necessarily, but the one who was sent to do this kind of miscellaneous work must not be some elite.

So in general, the two sides are half a pound and eight taels, but the only consolation is that their own side has the advantage in firepower, they have three machine guns, their detachment has two machine guns, plus the district squad has a crooked handle, this machine gun was captured when they attacked the convoy of the devil observation group last time, because their detachment has enough firepower, so it was equipped with the district team, and there are three grenadiers.

With this kind of firepower, there will be no problems in dealing with the small grain conscription team of the Japanese puppet army in theory, but if you don't think about victory, you will lose first, anything can happen on the battlefield, there are too many recruits on your side, and once there is an accident, he is worried about what chaos will happen.