By the end of 41, if according to the solar calendar, just after New Year's Day, there will be more than 20 days to the Spring Festival of the lunar calendar.

It was supposed to be a day of celebration and joy, but from the beginning of 41 to the present, the life of the Eighth Route Army in the anti-Japanese revolutionary base area in Shandong has not been easy.

Not to mention, it was just that the headquarters urgently ordered Han Feng and his entourage to send 600,000 legal dollars to Luxi, or just to buy winter clothes for Luxi's comrades, which shows the difficulty of the struggle of the comrades of the Eighth Route Army there.

Not only that, the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong has always been complicated, and this has been the case since the September 18 Incident.

As a hub connecting North China and Central China, Shandong plays a pivotal role in terms of transportation location, political influence, and even financial assistance to the central government of Yan'an.

In 1941, with the outbreak of the Soviet-German War and the Pacific War, the rapid changes in the international situation had a huge impact on the situation of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Among them, the most unfavorable impact on the situation of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is:

The Japanese army was anxious to expand the war of aggression and end the war against China as soon as possible, so it tried every means to put pressure on China, and frequently attacked China politically, militarily, and even financially, culturally.

So it was just less than two years from 1941 to 1942.

On the Japanese side in North China, the Japanese army carried out five campaigns to strengthen public order, and divided North China into "public order areas," "quasi-public security areas," and "non-public security areas," and carried out targeted "clearing of townships," "encroachment," and "sweeping" in order to shrink the base areas of the Eighth Route Army and expand and consolidate the occupied areas.

On the other hand, the stubborn faction of the fruit army made the situation worse for the Eighth Route Army.

In this part of Shandong, the Japanese army used military, political, economic and even cultural invasions to attack the Eighth Route Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Base Area.

By the end of this year, the Japanese army had drawn troops from around Shandong, and the strength of Japanese soldiers in Shandong had increased by more than 10,000 and the puppet army by more than 80,000.

When Han Feng and his entourage crossed the Yellow River south and entered the territory of Shandong.

The Japanese puppet army had already controlled almost all roads, railways, and other communications in Shandong, and they used strongholds and sweeps to continuously divide the Shandong base area, and then blockaded it, and attempted to gradually encroach on and eliminate the base area.

Coupled with the surrender of the diehards of the Shandong Guo Army, the collusion of secret collusion.

This year was again a year of natural and man-made disasters, and many places in the Shandong base area suffered from rare drought and insect plagues.

The situation in the base areas of the Anti-Japanese Revolution in Shandong can be described as a disaster that did not go alone, with internal and external troubles, natural and man-made disasters, and large-scale famine began to appear in the base areas.

Han Feng estimated that the reason why the comrades of the Eighth Route Army in the Luxi area were so mixed up that they couldn't even scrape together money to buy winter clothes was that it was possible to use all the money to buy food.

From another point of view, the life of the comrades in the Luxi base area is almost unbearable, and they can't even get together enough clothes for the winter, and if this continues to deteriorate, maybe many people will be able to survive this winter.

But why don't you ask for help from Luzhong, Lunan, Binhai, Jiaodong and other places that are closer, but you need 600,000 fiat currency from the Yuenan base to solve the urgent need?

Obviously, the situation in Luzhong, Lunan, Binhai, Jiaodong, Qinghe and other base areas may not be much better than that of Luxi.

It is said that in the Lunan base area, from the April 25 Incident in April, to the Yinchang tragedy in October, and then in November this year, the Japanese puppet army gathered more than 50,000 people and horses to wantonly sweep the anti-Japanese revolutionary base area in the Yimeng Mountains, causing a disturbance in Lunan Province.

The comrades in the Luxi base area wanted to ask for help from the Lunan, Binhai, Jiaodong and other base areas.

However, in recent years, life has not been easy in any base area in Shandong.

There was no way, and the Luxi base area could only ask for help from the Zhongtiao Mountain and Yuenan base areas, which were relatively close.

This is why Han Feng and his entourage crossed the Yellow River south and sent fiat currency all the way.

On the way to the Luxi base area, I encountered a lot of Japanese puppet strongholds when passing through several highways.

Then what else is there to say, don't eat the fat meat that is sent to your mouth.

Han Feng said with a smile: "Lu Xi's comrades are probably having a hard time these days!" Let's cross the Yellow River south and send the 600,000 fiat currency, this is our obligation, but if we come here, our commandos will have to come up with some decent gifts. ”

The members were all happy to hear it:

"Captain, what should we give as a gift?"

"I think the third brother has taken a fancy to the Japanese puppet army stronghold along the way."

Zhu Dazhi said: "This is a good idea, I'm afraid that the devils in this stronghold are also poor, and if you uproot all these strongholds, you won't be able to make up many decent things." ”

Liu Zhengdao, the old squad leader: "It is very likely that what Dazhi said, in the past two years, the little devil has been like crazy, and has established a large number of strongholds in this Shandong region, large and small roads and railways, and I can't wait to have one every few hundred meters."

But how can they have so many men when they build so many strongholds at once?

Most of these strongholds are guarded by those puppet armies whose second-rate combat effectiveness is not counted, and sometimes there is not even a little devil in a stronghold.

How good can the devil be to those puppet army dogs under his hands? The materials in the stronghold, as Dazhi said, are estimated to be not much. ”

Li Hai said with a smile: "Then add up to a lot, you can get ten catties of grain in one stronghold, and there will be one thousand catties of grain in one hundred strongholds." ”

Jiang Long was a little stunned, "Commander, there are many little devil strongholds along the way, do we really want to pull him out one by one in order?" ”

Everyone looked at Jiang Long with stupid eyes, Jiang Long was a little embarrassed for a while, and he didn't know if he had said the wrong thing.

But there is no way, in this commando, not to mention his qualifications, even if any member of this commando team is taken out, he can be abused in all aspects, of course, except for Li Jiasheng, a commando recruit like him.

Hunan guy Li Jiasheng is smarter, although he also has the same questions as Jiang Long in his heart, but he doesn't ask, just waiting for Jiang Long, a rising bird, to jump out and be laughed at!

Really......

Li Haile said: "Everyone has not looked at it, Jiang Long, this kid still hasn't been on the road, but he is so strong at him, then he must be the brother of our commando team in the future." ”

"That's that, that's."

Jiang Long said depressedly: "What are you talking about? I know what you mean, don't you just want to say I'm a tiger? I'm not wrong, isn't that what you're going to do? ”

The old squad leader smiled: "Jiang Long, what you said is right, but we can't really treat the little devils and the puppet army as mud, after all, people also have guns, right?"

I said before that this little devil's stronghold, because of the lack of troops, each stronghold is definitely not enough to defend it individually.

But the little devil is not stupid, people have already taken this into account.

Each stronghold is not far away, which basically plays a role as a guard, as long as the gunfire is fired, the surrounding strongholds can be heard immediately, and the Japanese mobile unit will quickly arrive by road as soon as possible.

If the team attacking the stronghold does not retreat in time, it is easy to be bitten by the Japanese reinforcements who arrive quickly, and they will not be able to run away if they want to.

Therefore, for the comrades in the Shandong base area, it is not an easy thing to attack the stronghold of the devils, and if they can't do it, they will put themselves into it.

It was not easy to defeat it, and if the devils followed the trail of their retreat and touched the lair of the base area, it would not be cost-effective.

Otherwise, do you think that the comrades in our base area will watch the little devils build so many strongholds under their noses? ”

Jiang Long was stunned, "If it's so troublesome to break a stronghold, then we can't break a stronghold?" ”

Han Feng said: "Of course we have to fight, the little devils' strongholds are weak in defense, and they are highly vigilant and connected with each other, but what we are most afraid of is a small combat team like ours."

Let's use blitzkrieg to quickly uproot the randomly selected Japanese strongholds, and evacuate before the arrival of the Japanese mobile troops, and continue to sneak attack the next stronghold.

This matter is very beneficial, firstly, to bring some gifts to the comrades in the Luxi base area, and secondly, when we make a fuss here, the attention of the little devils will be attracted, and the pressure on the comrades in the base area will be much less.

At the same time, it is also a reminder to the devil, don't be so arrogant, what's the use of building more of your base, it's not fat meat on our lips, let's eat it if we want. ”

Jiang Longle said: "Haha, head of the regiment, if we just do this, we have to make that little devil angry to death." ”