In the blink of an eye, it was 1940, and the flowers were blooming.

In the Spring Festival just past, it may be the most lively Spring Festival in the whole of China since the Japanese army occupied the northeast, and the whole country rejoiced, and all the people of the country saw the hope of defeating the Japanese army and restoring peace within a few years.

Because of the great defeat in Nakajo Mountain, Jiaozuo and other places, and the news of the joint blockade of the Pacific Ocean by Britain and the United States, the news caused a great shock on the main island of Japan, and the war maniac Hideki Tojo finally stood in the foreground, integrating military and political power, actively deploying large troops in East Asia, and at the same time sending spy troops and ship units to actively search for information related to Britain and the United States, and the posture of all-out war was unobstructed.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese Chinese Theater also took the blame and resigned in this wave of changes, and although Okamura Ninji suffered heavy losses in the attack on Trojan County, he was promoted to commander of the Chinese Theater because he was valued by Hideki Tojo.

Just after the Spring Festival, both the Eighth Route New Fourth Army and other troops in Yan'an, as well as the troops in Chongqing, all took the initiative to launch a fierce attack on the occupied areas of the Japanese army, and the war raged one after another.

Obviously, both the KMT and the CCP wanted to seize the aftermath of the big victory to seize territory and increase their strength.

It's just a pity that most of the battles with the Japanese army during this period ended in a crushing defeat, and both armies suffered numerous casualties.

If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army had lost several divisions and regiments in the battle a year ago, and its strength was quite tight, coupled with the blockade of the Pacific Ocean, the new strategic material base had not yet been opened, and all kinds of military supplies were extremely scarce.

The Kuomintang and the Communist Party could not further inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army and recover the country, and the contradictions between the two parties became particularly conspicuous.

Because of the further expansion of the base area, Yan'an's influence is also gradually expanding.

In addition, the Kawagishi Division, the Tsuneoka Division, and the Abe Norihide Division were almost completely annihilated, and the Eighth Route Army captured countless rifles, including 50,000 or 60,000 rifles alone, so that the Eighth Route Army has made great progress in terms of both numbers and equipment strength, and the number of troops has nearly doubled in just a few months, and the total number has reached more than 600,000!

Coupled with the New Fourth Army, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army and other armed forces, the available troops in Yan'an exceeded one million, not counting the guerrillas in the Japanese-occupied areas and the militia in the base areas.

Faintly, Yan'an almost has a tendency to compete with Chongqing.

Under such circumstances, there is constant friction between the troops of Chongqing and Yan'an, and although it has not yet reached the point of tearing their faces, if it continues to develop in such a situation, I am afraid that it will be fast.

Contrary to the great expansion of the Kuomintang and Communist governments, the troops who had destroyed the largest number of enemies in the previous battles and inflicted the greatest losses on the Japanese army were unusually quiet.

Although the territory of the Yongqing Pingshui detachment once again returned to Lu Yuan's hands, Lu Yuan did not continue to expand his manpower, but added up to the level of about 6,000 people in a regular regiment and two detachments in terms of personnel, which was more than enough for self-preservation, but it was obviously insufficient to attack in a big way.

After laying the tone of victory, the focus of Lu Yuan and Trojan Horse County was no longer on fighting, but on production and construction, providing assistance to the Eighth Route and the National Army.

During this period, in addition to rebuilding homes and dams, Lu Yuan only made a few relatively important measures.

On the one hand, it was to send people to the Henan region, which had been the most severely affected by the Yellow Flood Region before, to mobilize the local people to migrate on a large scale, and to carry out large-scale propaganda in the Japanese-occupied areas near Yongqing in Pingshui, absorbing a large number of ordinary people to fill the two base areas and Trojan County, and at the same time organizing all the military and civilians to open up the wasteland and tuntian fields on a large scale in preparation for spring plowing in the coming year.

At the same time, whether it is the steel industry, the arsenal, the cement plant, the fertilizer factory, the penicillin plant, the expansion has been carried out, and after the completion of the new plant, the production capacity can be at least several times larger than before.

After all, there is a famine everywhere now, and the scourge of soldiers and bandits may occur at any time, and there is now food in Trojan County, and the prestige of the devils who beat them is terrifying, as soon as they heard that the recruited people said that they were from Trojan County, the common people packed up their things in groups and followed.

The most difficult thing is to identify the people who harbor evil intentions among these recruited people, but it takes a lot of effort.

From the end of October, when the flooded Kawagishi Division and the fighting around Trojan County came to an end, the preliminary screening work was basically completed until March.

In the past few months, Lu Yuan still hasn't been able to relax.

The regiment that was almost wiped out before, the militia organization re-recruited, trained, selected elites and other work, but he didn't need to worry about it, after all, these things, Xu Yunwang Ma pole Mao Ying, the big dog bear, and the thousands of veterans who survived the rain of bullets can all share a lot.

He is usually more concerned with various aspects of production.

Although Dr. Wang, Dr. Qiu, and Dr. An were there in these aspects, and they did not need to be as hands-on as Lu Yuan was to do the various constructions in the county at the beginning, but he had to put forward some directional suggestions with all his might, and almost all the knowledge he had accidentally written down from the books he had accidentally wrote down.

Of course, although there are many things in production, there is finally someone to help, but there is another thing that cannot be faked, and that is to attend a wedding.

The previous war was too miserable, most of the people killed in the war were young and strong, and there were many orphans and widows left.

Under such circumstances, Lu Yuan specially set up a propaganda department, a mobilization group, and a new marriageable male and female organization family in Muma County and even the detachment, not only to have a large production, but also to have a large birth!

Since Lu Yuan didn't know that he presided over the first wedding for the couple, almost anyone who got married would come to Lu Yuan to preside over the wedding, and even if there were newcomers on the detachment getting married, they had to make a special trip to let Lu Yuan use the radio to bless the newlyweds over there before he could stop.

Wang Ma Pole, Big Dog Bear, Xu Yun, Luo Youcai and others have also started families, and the women they marry are the kind of women who are easy to give birth to at a glance with big shoulders and round waists, and their tastes are surprisingly consistent.

Among them, Wang Ma Zhu did not pick the yellow flower girl who came up, and picked a widow with two children, and became a father out of thin air.

Of course, the most popular among them are Su Yan and Niu Pimple, both of whom are in their twenties, and they are properly small fresh meat, but they have attracted the attention of many girls and children.

All this was not stopped until the spring ploughing was busy.

(End of chapter)