Zhao Hanjie was originally a stevedore at Xingang Wharf, but because he burned 3,000 tons of Japanese ship Yingkou Maru, he was arranged by Lu Chengzhou to Dahongqiao Wharf.

After Zhao Hanjie arrived at Dahongqiao Wharf, he quickly united a group of stevedores.

The 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 2,000 rifles, 300 boxes of shoes, and 2,000 military blankets that he had previously obtained from Yoshio Akiyama were transported to the base area of the Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Border Region through the Dahongqiao Wharf.

Gan Dejun, who is in charge of the Dahongqiao Wharf, also hates the Japanese.

As long as it is an anti-Japanese thing, they will secretly help each other.

Zhao Hanjie has a high prestige among the dock workers of Dahongqiao.

Zhao Hanjie was also very surprised when he saw Lu Chengzhou, because he now felt that he and this "Mr. Fire" were no longer all the way.

In Zhao Hanjie's eyes, Lu Chengzhou was from Chongqing, and he came into contact with communism at Dahongqiao Wharf.

Knowing the proletariat is the most powerful force in the world.

Moreover, Zhao Hanjie has joined the Communist Party, and the Dahongqiao Wharf has even set up a party branch.

Zhao Hanjie shook his head and said firmly: "Mr. Huo, I know your intentions, but I have to go." Because I have a lot of friends, and they were all arrested. I didn't want to go to Japan to work as a Chinese laborer, but to bring them back. ”

Lu Chengzhou was surprised and said, "On the boat, how can you save them back?" ”

Japan has been grasping all kinds of laborers in North China, and every year they are transported from Haigu to Manchuria and Northeast China, and hundreds of thousands of them are being transported from Haigu.

Many people who flocked to Haigu, thinking that they could beg for food, were induced by them to send them to Manchuria and even Japan in the name of work.

And now, the ferocious Japanese army is directly arresting laborers on the streets.

As long as there is no proper employment and the person is in good health, he may be arrested at any time.

Haigu is short of food, fuel, and supplies, and the more people are arrested, the more the problem in Haigu can be alleviated.

Zhao Hanjie said firmly: "At least, I can fight with them!" ”

Lu Chengzhou asked in surprise: "You already have a plan?" ”

Zhao Hanjie nodded, didn't hide it, and said: "Anton Maru is a merchant ship, if we can organize it well, we can take this ship over." ”

Lu Chengzhou asked: "Even if you can take it, where are you going to park the boat?" You can't go back to Haigu, right? ”

A boat is no better than a car, and it has to be docked.

Zhao Hanjie said firmly: "There will always be a place to go." ”

In fact, he already had the bottom in his heart, and the matter had been reported to his superiors, and if he could successfully seize the ship, he would sail to Penglai, Shandong, which was already a liberated area.

Lu Chengzhou didn't ask me again, and said slowly, "Do you need any help?" ”

Zhao Hanjie immediately said: "It would be nice if I could provide two short guns." ”

Sailing out to sea, incendiary bombs can no longer be used, after all, they are also on board.

However, if there were guns, it would be much easier to subdue the Japanese devils on the Anton Maru.

Lu Chengzhou groaned and said, "No problem, I'll send it to you tomorrow, will you use it?" ”

Zhao Hanjie nodded and said with a smile: "That thing is very easy. ”

The next day, Lu Chengzhou sent Zhao Hanjie two small brownings, a shell gun, and two grenades.

Each Browning was equipped with thirty rounds, and the shell gun was rotted with fifty rounds.

As for grenades, just in case.

A grenade is simpler to use than a pistol, and it's hugely powerful.

After Anton Maru sailed out of Haigu, one night, Zhao Hanjie contacted other Chinese laborers, tied up the Japanese crew, and occupied Anton Maru.

Subsequently, Zhao Hanjie threw all the Japanese crew members into the sea and sailed to the liberated area of Penglai County, Shandong Province in Andong Maru, where he joined the Eighth Route Army.

Lu Chengzhou heard from Akio Ishida that Japanese merchant ships were hijacked by Chinese laborers, which had never happened before.

By the time the Japanese found out, Anton Maru had already sailed to Shandong, and all the Chinese workers on board had joined the Eighth Route Army.

After Haigu entered February, it became more and more difficult to ration various materials.

In order to obtain supplies, the authorities went so far as to seal up 95 firms' cotton cloth, cooking oil, wood, light bulbs, paper and other goods.

On April 28, 1944, the Haigu Anti-Japanese Federation printed and distributed about 1,600 leaflets entitled "Welcoming May, Preparing for a Counteroffensive" in the city.

They were lowered through the roof of the Zhongyuan Company, or by train, and radiated out from the window of the toilet, which had a great impact.

The pistol team of the Jinnan detachment, which is active in Haigu, has been active on the railway line from Haigu to Yangcun, Tanggu, and Jinghai after training.

In just four months, they were able to obtain more than 300 bundles of tarpaulin, more than 200 boxes of paper cigarettes, more than 1,800 bags of flour, more than 3,000 bags of rice, and a large number of guns and ammunition.

This time, in addition to some of the materials being transported to the base areas, a considerable part of them were distributed to the local poor people.

The pistol team's approach not only made the Japanese panic, but also let the people of Haigu know that there was such a unit of their own.

The Japanese army fantasized that it would attack the Central Plains region and urgently needed a large number of bicycles for the military.

However, the Japanese army's military spending has long been unable to make ends meet.

In order to solve the bicycle problem, Japan's Haigu Army secret service dispatched a large number of military police to seize the inventory of several large bicycle dealerships, such as Chunlide, Hualicheng, Tongfeng, and Xinglide, and forcibly requisitioned 15,000 bicycles.

The Japanese army, on the other hand, only hijacked one percent of the payment.

Such an act is tantamount to public robbery.

In June 1944, the Haigu Grain Distribution Office divided the city into five groups and began to distribute them: each person was rationed 1 city jin of flour, 2 jin of sorghum and 7 taels of cornmeal, 1 kg of millet and 8 taels, 3 jin of mung beans and 9 taels, and 1 kg of black beans and 14 taels, a total of 12 jin and 13 taels.

Even this little bit of food is actually not enough.

However, in reality, ordinary people simply cannot buy these rations.

At the same time, each household is allocated 200 catties of coal, each household has a piece of cotton cloth, and each household has half a catty of sugar per month.

Of course, these rationed things can only be bought by those powerful people, and the real people can't buy them at all.

The authorities' actions have further aroused public indignation.

Ordinary people can be oppressed and exploited, but they can't go hungry.

Whoever makes them hungry, they will rebel against whomever they want.

In late June, dozens of leaflets in the name of the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared in the National Hotel in the French Concession: "Clench your fists, rise up to kill the enemy, puff up your chest, and prepare for a counterattack."

And Lu Chengzhou and Ma Yuzhen also received a new task in the organization: to solve the problem of professional cover for comrades.

In June, three comrades from the Urban Work Department of the Central Hebei District Working Committee entered Haigu and were active in the area east of Beima Road and from Beidaguan to the northwest corner.

Based on the fact that they had a Muslim cadre, Lu Chengzhou arranged for them to sell beef and mutton as a public identity.

At the same time, arrange for them to live in the northwest corner of the young man's lane.

There, too, they established party branches.