Although they were lightly armed and had war horses, because the guerrilla areas were now full of devils and puppet armies, Zhang Ran and the others, with Chief Zero and You Xiaoyan and You Xiaoying, could only go out day and night.

Originally, it took more than a day to get back to the base area, but it took Zhang Ran and the others nearly four days to return to the base area.

Although the journey was thrilling, it was quite peaceful.

It's just those who saw along the way, and saw those ordinary people sweating and harvesting in those ripe crops under the supervision of the devils, puppet soldiers and traitors with knives and guns, and then with tears in their eyes, watching the grain they had worked so hard to grow being picked up and picked away, pulled away by trucks, sent to the centralized drying field to dry, and finally collected into the granary strictly guarded by the little devils, but the pictures kept coming to Zhang Ran's mind......

The desperate eyes of those villagers are simply not as good as the children who have been raised with hard work have been snatched away!

Even thinking of that look made Zhang Ran's heart twist like a knife!

The harvest in the detachment is also racing against time.

In addition to the detachment that is completely out of production, as well as the newly formed all-mechanized company, which is mainly based on the only captured tank, plus repaired motorcycles and vehicle-mounted machine guns, and the artillery company, which are still training at full strength, almost all the personnel have already joined the ranks of rushing to harvest seeds!

Everyone knows that once the little devils have robbed the grain in the surrounding guerrilla areas, they will immediately launch an attack on the base areas!

If the work of rushing to plant and harvest has not been completed in the base area before then, it will not only face the situation that once the crops are found, the detachment will have no grain for the winter, but will also face the situation that next year's summer harvest will also be lost......

There will be no food for more than a year, and it will definitely collapse any base area!

This kind of situation is something that no one in the detachment wants to see.

As soon as the leader of Zero arrived in Dongjiang County, he was sent to the Yanggou Town Detachment Hospital for treatment, but Zhang Ran stayed in the county seat, and there was still a lot of work waiting for him here......

From the grinding of his buttocks and thighs to now, in seven or eight days, Zhang Ran finally had the opportunity to treat his injuries......

It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Ran discovered that he had unconsciously become so strong - although when he changed the dressing, he was in pain and wanted to die again and again, but along the way, he finally persevered!

Just seeing the bloody injury on the inner thigh, he couldn't help but admire himself......

At least before coming to this era, he was sure that with such an injury, he would probably not be able to get out of bed for a long time, let alone still riding a war horse to fight and run long distances......

"Now the rush to harvest seeds, are going very smoothly, not only during the day, as long as the moon is good, everyone is busy working, if nothing else, in another ten days, according to the ground to grab the harvest work, can be completed......

Lu Yan said as she toggled her stomach from time to time, and her stomach was already obviously bulging.

"I'm going to give birth in two months, so I'll leave it to the people below for work!"

Zhang Ran looked at her and persuaded: "After such a long period of training, the people below should also be able to take on the big responsibility......

"Everyone is busy, you are all desperate, where can I be idle?" Lu Yan said resolutely.

Zhang Ran glared at Kang Ting, the meaning was obvious, that is, let him persuade Lu Yan.

It's just that in the face of the devil, the god-like Kang Ting, when facing Lu Yan, he is as docile as a puppy, Lu Yan said one, he didn't dare to say two, let alone persuade him......

"The mother-in-law at home can't take care of it, and I'm ashamed to be a comrade-in-arms with you!"

Shi Yuanwang Lao Gui was suddenly stunned, and they all despised Kang Ting, and then began to brag about his status in the family.

"We Sichuan people have never played this trick in the nest!"

Kang Ting was not ashamed, but proud, and then rolled his eyes in a few words......

Before Shi Yuan became his subordinate, he already had a wife and children, and Zhang Ran knew about it, but Zhang Ran didn't know about it at all......

"It's a martyr'......"

Wang Laogui said a little embarrassed: "Although her man died fighting for the detachment, I am a cripple, it is said that I should not dislike others, of course I didn't dislike it - but after all, I was a widow, so I didn't inform everyone......"

Zhang Ran can understand Wang Laogui, these days, no matter what the reason is, marrying a widow, the man's face is not very bright after all.

Therefore, he didn't blame anything, he just asked Wang Laogui to treat others and children well, and don't let the martyr chill his heart......

"Don't worry, captain, I will treat those two girls as my daughters now!"

Wang Laogui assured that the thin monkeys who had been to his house, Li Dakou and Gou Dong, also helped testify on the side, saying that Lao Gui was indeed not bad for the woman and the two daughters, and that the cow was coaxing here to earn some face in front of the brothers.

After chatting a few words, Zhang Ran got to the point.

The situation on the part of the division headquarters has also been brought together.

In order to cooperate with Zhang Ran's saturation rescue plan, in that short period of five days, not only the total casualties of the guerrillas in Yangquan, Qingping, Gaolin, and Yuanguang exceeded 2,000, but the casualties on the main side of the division headquarters were even more shocking!

In the first battle of Pingtongguan, the division headquarters from more than 8,000 people in its heyday, more than half of the personnel were directly killed and wounded, and in the end there were less than 3,000 people left!

After two months of rest and replenishment, the main force of the division headquarters was restored to about 6,000 men, but after this battle, only about 3,000 men remained......

Among them, Chen Jin and Huang Xin's regiment did not suffer too many casualties because they contained the Japanese army in the area of Trojan Horse and Yingshui, and there were only seven or eight hundred casualties each, but the independent regiment in Puyuan was terrible because of its activities in the area of Beiya, where the Japanese army was heavily garrisoned......

Of the more than 2,300 people, less than 1,000 people returned alive!

In just five days, the casualties of various departments were as high as 5,000!

On average, 1,000 people die every day......

Just thinking about this number, Zhang Ran's scalp tingled for a while—but he didn't regret it at all.

As he said, as long as the leader of Zero can be safe, then one day, everyone will understand that as long as he can be rescued, then all the sacrifices are worth it......

"Organizationally, I was furious about the heavy casualties of this rescue mission, and said that the commander would be held responsible, but they were all carried down by Liu Shi!"

This information was passed on privately by Long Xin.

As for Liu Qing, he did not say a word about the organization's accountability, and specially sent a telegram to the detachment, on behalf of the entire Eighth Route Army, and on behalf of the organization and the entire Eighth Route Army, to express gratitude to Zhang Ran on behalf of the Jindong detachment for the eventual successful rescue of the leader of Zero......

"It's too impersonal in terms of organization!"

Until this moment, Kang Ting, Wang Laogui and others remembered the information sent by Long Xin about the organization holding the commander accountable, and they were still quite dissatisfied.

Although Liu Qing took responsibility, they all knew that it was Zhang Ran who was responsible for formulating and directing the saturation rescue plan!

Organizing accountability is clearly holding Zhang Ran accountable, but it is not Liu Qing who can erase this fact if he takes responsibility.

A group of people said angrily: "So many people have died, what are we for?" The leader of Zero is a high-ranking general in the organization - the big guy tried his best to save him, could it be that he made a mistake in rescuing him? ”

"Don't think that the organization should be held accountable, that is, our kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs!"

Zhang Ran waved his hand to stop the tendency of a group of people to scold his mother, and explained: "Our Eighth Route Army is not a team like the chairman of the committee with a strict hierarchy, our Eighth Route Army talks about the equality of everyone, every soldier, and every general, are equal, and will never be superior to ......others just because a certain general holds a certain position."

Although the concept of the Eighth Route Army seems a little unrealistic, I have to admit that the kind of respect for everyone contained in this concept of equality can definitely make every weak individual have a strong sense of identity, so that the people who have been oppressed by the feudal society and the noble and low for thousands of years know for the first time that even if they are humble, they still have the meaning of existence.

In this case, because of the special identity of the leader of Zero, he sacrificed the lives of thousands of soldiers to desperately rescue, which obviously violated the core concept of the organization - after all, if it was really an ordinary soldier, then everyone could be sure that no one would go to such great lengths to rescue.

Therefore, in Zhang Ran's view, the organization is held accountable, not that he is not grateful for his Zhang Ran's behavior, but that the organization has to do it.

Hearing Zhang Ran's words, the anger in everyone's hearts disappeared a lot, and even for the first time, they had a better understanding of the concept of equality put forward by the organization.

After all, in the past, everyone thought that the words of the organization were just words, and now they realize that whether the organization believes that equality can be achieved or not, the organization has really made a practical attempt in this regard.

"Alright, let's not talk about that!"

Seeing that everyone's anger was almost gone, Zhang Ran knocked on the table and continued: "Now the situation on the division side, I think everyone knows about it - in the next autumn offensive of the little devils, the division headquarters must be too busy to take care of themselves, and on our side, it seems that it really depends on us......

Hearing this, everyone's expressions immediately became grim!

"Now, the Kudo Brigade plus the puppet army, nearly 2,000 people are stationed in Yuanguang!"

"The Jiangkou Brigade and the puppet army have more than 2,000 people, and they are stationed in the Yangquan area of Qingping......"

"Tojo Brigade and the puppet army, 2,000 troops are stationed in the Lusong area!"

Ren Haifang marked the deployment of the little devils he had collected on the military map one by one, and explained to everyone: "In addition to these three brigades, there are also our old opponents, the elite of more than 2,000 devils in the peninsula detachment, who can maneuver at any time...... The total strength we are facing now, the devil plus the puppet army, is more than 10,000 people! ”

Hearing the deployment of these devils, everyone's hearts are constantly sinking!

Even in the past, when the strength of the guerrillas had not suffered heavy losses, and the main force of the division headquarters could come to the aid at any time, the detachment would probably not be able to cope with an enemy of this size, let alone now......

Kang Ting still added fuel to the fire and said: "Everyone had better not forget that the current Dingzhou City has fallen into the hands of devils, and the communication line from Pingtongguan to Yuanguang has been opened - once the battle situation is unfavorable, the more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Pingtongguan may be pressed at any time......"

"Tarzan is overwhelming, this is!"

Hearing this, all the commanders almost fell into an ice cave!