The destruction of the Korean advance team in broad daylight shocked the Japanese army in the entire Yangcheng.

At the same time, they smelled the danger signal: the Eighth Route Army had infiltrated Zhongtiao Mountain.

Unfortunately, after a vigorous search in the area of the north gate of Yangcheng, the Japanese army in Yangcheng found nothing, so the matter had to be stopped.

But since then, Yangcheng's defense has become tighter.

Qi Village.

This village is quite far from Yangcheng, it is located in the middle of nowhere, and it is surrounded by mountains, and the sweeps of the little devils rarely affect here.

The villagers live here, often rely on alertness, smart villagers set up an observation wooden platform in the village, every day whether it is wind or sun, send people to guard, once you see the devil, the puppet army, or bandits close to the village, hundreds of villagers in the whole village will immediately carry out the transfer of personnel and materials.

When Xu Zilin and Wu Li first came with the team, the people moved around because of this, hiding in the mountains and saying nothing and refusing to return to the village, until Xu Zilin sent someone into the mountain to explain to the villagers that his party was the Eighth Route Army, the people's team, only fighting devils, not harming the people.

However, even so, the vigilant people here still inspected Xu Zilin and his party for a long time, and then slowly chose to believe, and the villagers returned to the village one by one.

This gave Xu Zilin a bit of a headache, and they all said that the reason why Zhongtiao Mountain blocked the outside world caused the people here to be somewhat isolated, and when the fruit army extended here in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the people here had not even heard of the little devils, and they had not heard of the Anti-Japanese War.

Now it seems that the people do not have a deep impression of the Eighth Route Army, and they probably stay on the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army who came here in the third or ninth year and later had to withdraw from Zhongtiao Mountain for some reasons.

When they saw Xu Zilin and his entourage of hundreds of people this time, the people were quite shocked.

In this Zhongtiao Mountain, it was the first time they had seen such a large-scale Eighth Route Army.

"Old Han, it seems that the analysis we made before we came to Zhongtiao Mountain earlier was not bad, and it is difficult to do mass work here."

When the temporary Youth League headquarters held a meeting, Xu Zilin, the political commissar at the meeting, sighed with emotion.

"In the past few days you have been in Yangcheng, I have inquired about a lot of things with the people here, although the people have limited knowledge, there are many things that we may not know yet.

In the Qi village in front of them, the lives of the people are very difficult.

If the people in the village were self-sufficient by farming and growing some food without outside interference, they would not be able to starve to death.

But now you look at these people, all of them are yellow-skinned and thin, and they have not eaten for many days, and I can't bear to look at them, so I divide part of the grain we brought with us to those depositors who are more difficult. ”

Han Feng said: "The food problem will be solved soon, the people of Qi Village are living hard, we are just temporarily stationed here, we must not take a stitch from the people, in addition, we borrow the houses of the villagers to live, more or less to give the villagers some money or food." ”

Xu Zilin nodded, "On the one hand, it is the Japanese puppet army, and it will wander around the surrounding area every three or five days, and the villagers of Qi Village are alert, every time the little devil and the second devil come, they can find it at the first time, and then hide in the mountains with supplies and children and the elderly."

But this is not always the solution, especially when the crops are ripe, the villagers can run the crops in the field and pretend not to run! The devil and the puppet army came with a sickle at this time, and directly cleaned up the crops in the field.

The villagers said that these hateful devils had come to a good time.

Later, in order to survive, there was no way, the crops in the field were not yet ripe, maybe only four or five medium ripe, so the villagers hurriedly harvested the crops.

The second is banditry, which is a more headache than the Japanese puppet army.

These bandits are native-born snakes, but they are more cunning than the Japanese puppet army, and when they come to the village, they often disguise themselves as ordinary people, even if the people in the village have a special observation platform, it is difficult to detect their arrival.

The bandits don't talk about human nature, in order to survive, they will do murder and arson, they robbed food and materials and drilled into the mountains, even the little devils can't take them, it is very troublesome for the large army to enter the mountains, and it is not so easy to find out these bandits.

So if you really talk about what the people in the village hate the most, it may be these bandits. ”

However, hearing this, Han Feng laughed, "Old Xu, when you talk about this bandit, I think all the problems you said before have been solved." ”

"What do you mean?"

Han Feng said: "The first one, the reason why it is difficult to do mass work is nothing more than these points, one is that the villagers here are too hard, they can't withstand any toss, coupled with the continuous harassment of the Japanese army, the puppet army, the stubborn fruit army and some bandits, they no longer have any trust in those armed teams, which is why they will hide in the mountains in fear when they see us."

But now that they see that we have not committed any crimes, they have slowly trusted us.

But that's not enough, I think we should be able to rid the people of the cancer of banditry.

The bandits' equipment is not very good, the sense of battle is not very good, and the organization is not very good, it is nothing more than being familiar with the mountain roads, and if they can't fight, they will run, and the mountain roads will run a lot, and the feet will have to be trained, such a bandit organization is a headache for the Japanese puppet army.

But our Eighth Route is specialized in guerrillas, and this is the nemesis of bandits.

Eradicating bandits is not a problem.

The horizontal distance of this mountainous area is very long, and the devils have a lot of control over the county seat, but the control over the scattered villages around it is much smaller.

This time, we must also follow the spirit of the organization, surround the cities with the countryside, and first deal with the large and small bandit forces for the surrounding people, so that we can win the trust of the people and promote the smooth progress of the mass work, and second, we will be able to fight the bandits, not to mention that we can get some equipment, and there will be a lot of oil and water, and it is estimated that the food problem of the contingent will be almost solved.

Wait until we gain a foothold in the countryside in the future, and then slowly infiltrate the county town controlled by the devils. ”

"Good way, it's just that these bandits have been in Zhongtiao Mountain for a long time, so it can be said that their forces are intertwined, and they are not so easy to deal with!" Xu Zilin was a little worried.

Duan Peng didn't think about it and said, "Political commissar, you don't have to worry about this, we are here!" ”

Xu Zilin was stunned and said with a smile: "I forgot about your commando." ”

Han Feng said: "Fighting with bandits is just a small fight, it is not wise to use a large army, I am going to take Duan Peng and them into the mountains to suppress the bandits, and it is enough to bring a platoon of brothers with flexible legs and feet, Lao Xu, the team still has to be handed over to you for the time being, and try to get in touch with Dong Chenghai and them to strengthen team training." ”

"Okay, you can leave it to me!"

Han Feng said again: "In addition, Lao Hei, Jingyou, Shen Ping, this time you go into the mountains to suppress bandits, don't go to the three of you."

We have to divide the troops into two ways, time must be used, you have another task, Lao Hei is in charge, select some people from the three companies to form an intelligence team, and infiltrate Yangcheng for me.

After the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the little devils did not run this place less, the hand of the puppet regime established by the devils stretched out very long, and the spy organization spread a wide net throughout the city.

There is only one goal for you, to investigate the Japanese spy organization hidden under Yangcheng before we finish suppressing the bandits.

After the suppression of bandits is over, there is no need for us to delay and waste time, instead of intriguing with these so-called Japanese spy organizations and wasting time, it is better to directly investigate their root causes, and directly uproot and destroy them with lightning speed. ”

Han Feng smiled: "We can call this kind of action Operation Storm!"

In addition, as far as I know, in some county towns in Zhongtiao Mountain, it is very likely that there are some of our comrades of underground organizations who have been active here, and you should try to see if you can get in touch with them, because these comrades have risked their lives and have been dealing with the enemy behind enemy lines for so many years, and it is not easy to ensure their safety as much as possible. ”

"Yes."

The three of them took the order.