The basic militia is engaged in engineering while training.

At the same time, the county party committee also carried out united front work in various villages south of Dabai Village and in Chi and Abian districts. It turned out that some of the people in the seven villages of Zhaoniuhe were once used by some ** bad guys, participated in the Red Gun Society, and killed our people.

The anti-Japanese district chiefs of the three districts went to work on many occasions to explain the principle that there is no blame for the past and that there is no distinction between the anti-Japanese struggle and the salvation of the country, which won the support of the masses, and the young people in all villages have changed from the Red Gun Society to the militia and joined the joint defense.

On the basis of the establishment of militia self-defense units in each village, the county party committee asked Mr. Bai Lian, head of Zhaohe Township, and Chi Kaijian, head of Xinfeng Township, Dong'achiqiao, to come forward to organize the Chi and A'an militia self-defense joint defense brigades.

The establishment of the Chi and Arab joint defense brigades marked the consolidation of the anti-Japanese base areas in Chinan, centered on Dabai and Chiqiao, and in this area, the croppers of each village took up arms under the leadership of the Communist Party and formed a powerful anti-Japanese armed force.

At this time, the project of Dabai Village was almost completed. That is, the village has a village wall, which can be used to shoot outsiders, there are turrets at the four corners of the village, which can control the village wall, and the village has a walled gate, which can only pass through the walled gate, and there is a ditch outside the walled gate, and the ditch is full of water.

The village has also been renovated to ventilate every household in the village, with a secret door, and although the alley is left alone, a small door is also installed. The main street extends in all directions, from the east gate to the west gate, but every house has a gun hole. There is a commanding height in the center of the street, and from the commanding height, you can control the surrounding area of the street.

The road between villages was dug into a ditch more than three feet deep, which the masses called a life-saving ditch, which was convenient for the masses to move when the enemy swept away, and it was also conducive to our attack on the enemy. Dabai Village is a traffic ditch outside the village wall, which can be connected to the surrounding villages.

The transformation of Dabai Village has been imitated by other villages.

There is a convention in Dabai Village, and during the tense period, the daughter-in-law of Dabai Village is not allowed to go to her mother's house, and the daughter-in-law is not allowed to go to her mother-in-law's house, let alone enter the village casually. These conventions are strictly supervised and implemented by the militia, and it is really difficult for the bad guys to enter Dabai Village.

In peacetime, the militia mainly participates in production, and the village also organizes peasant associations and mutual aid groups, and the militia is the backbone of these work, and at night they have to stand guard and sentry, and sometimes they have to tie iron cables on the road, not far away, which is called "tripping horses", specifically to prevent bad people from entering the village at night.

In addition to the guns issued by the superiors, the militia weapons in Dabai Village also include large knives, spears, and earthen guns. The explosives of the earthen guns were prepared by themselves, and the village stipulated that every five households should be a unit to roll a certain amount of explosives. The masses used willow charcoal, fire nitrate, sulfur, etc., mixed with broken iron pots, prepared and handed over to the militia self-defense forces.

The militia packed the explosives in small porcelain jars and planted them with detonators at night at various intersections. If the enemy does not come to die at night, these mines must be taken out and dried the next morning to prevent the explosives from getting wet.

The militia also put these earthen explosives into wine bottles and glass bottles that the masses had gathered, and they became homemade grenades, which made a lot of homemade grenades, enough to make the little devils drink a pot.

In fact, the explosives factory of the Eighth Route Army was near Dabai Village, but the militia of Dabaizhuang never bothered them. Of course, the members of the Self-Defense Forces could not help but mutter: "What kind of explosives do we make, and a little foam from the explosives factory of the Eighth Route Army is enough for us." "Our quality is not good, how good the explosives made by the Eighth Route Army are!"

Captain Bai Ruifeng did his work and said: "The explosives of the Eighth Route Army have the use of the Eighth Route Army, they are fighting big devils, and our explosives have the use of our explosives, which are used to fight little devils and little traitors, which is called each having its own use." ”

Wu Yawu, the county magistrate, took the lead in innovation, and personally led the militia to try out the production of earthen explosives and earthen tanks in the areas of Dabai and Chiqiao, and earthen tanks were tanks made of wheelbarrows.

The earthen tanks made of wheelbarrows are not only covered with quilts, but also have sandbags in front of them. The wheelbarrow has a low chassis, and normal carts have to be bent over, so deliberately bend over and push, and set up a helmet-shaped sandbag bunker on the top of the car, which is enough to block the bullets coming from the front.

The wet quilt on the wheelbarrow is not mainly for bulletproof, it is used to prevent bullets from being put on the side of the car, and the purpose of wetting the quilt is to prevent the car from being set on fire, because the wheelbarrow is made of wood.

The soldiers of the cart can run at high speed, and the devil grenadier and grenade are generally too late to aim, and the cart soldier is generally covered with a wet quilt, as long as he is not directly injured by the explosive shrapnel, and the bullet has no way to take this kind of earthen tank, so when attacking the devil's turret, the earthen tank is almost a piece of equipment that makes the devil incomprehensible.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the soil tanks of the Eighth Road generally rushed up to throw grenades, and then pulled the car backwards and ran back after throwing the grenades, and the regular Eighth Road also used this kind of weapon, which was replaced with explosives if it was loaded too much, and it could push hundreds of kilograms of explosives at a time, and it could directly blow up a large area of the city wall.

In the Anti-Japanese War, for the Plains Eighth Road, which lacked guns and artillery, the earth tank was once an important weapon, not only when fighting the turret, but also in other battles. For example, to fight devils in ambushes, rushing to the front is often more than a dozen wheelbarrows next to each other, using earthen tanks to form an armored group behind them, and the fighters behind them throw grenades behind the armored group, and if they can rush up, they will fight with the devils with bayonets, and if they can't rush up, the wheelbarrow will be thrown on the spot, and when the bunker can cover more people to withdraw from the battle in time.

Wu Yawu also helped Dabai Village cast an earthen cannon, named it "Huayi" cannon.

At that time, as soon as the Eighth Route Army arrived in Dabai Village, they did not need a house, and the soldiers returned to their original homes to live, fetch water, sweep the yards, and mingle with the masses. Although the Eighth Route Army had a mobile hospital, the lightly wounded were kept in the homes of the masses, and the wounded and sick of the Eighth Route Army were almost never broken in Dabai Village. At most times, I went to more than 20 people, and whoever lived in them served the wounded and sick like relatives.

The masses of Dabai Village vied with each other to make military uniforms for the Eighth Route Army, and the village cadres distributed the cloth they bought from the Xinglong Commercial Bank in Xingzhuang to each family, and within a few days, the masses handed over the finished military uniforms, shoes and socks to the village cadres and handed them over to the Eighth Route Army.

The peasants in Dabai Village are almost all honest farmers, there are very few people who do business, and there are very few landlords and rich peasants. The average of the whole village is two or three acres of land per person, but in order to resist the Japanese, the masses tighten their belts to live. At that time, the land was converted and the public grain was paid to the anti-Japanese government, and Dabai took three times the public grain per acre.

As soon as the troops arrived in Dabai, the secretary general took the slip issued by the village office to find every household to pick up grain, and every spring and autumn, the village cadres helped collect public grain and sealed it in the homes of eight reliable people.

At that time, public grain was requisitioned in the enemy-occupied areas to be sent to the base areas for storage, and Dabai Village was the center of the base areas for storing grain, and there were often masses and troops in the enemy-occupied areas who came to Dabai Village at night to deliver and carry grain with the government's slips.

The masses of Dabai Village are not distracted from the Party, and there are so many grains, cloths, and other materials buried in the village, and although the enemy has destroyed them many times, they have never suffered losses.

The Japanese invaders and the three detachments regarded Dabai Village as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and swept once a month, which was later increased to once every half month, and each sweep was aimed at Dabai, and every time they swept away, they did not look back until Dabai. The enemy's three-light policy of "killing, burning, and robbing everything" did not intimidate the people of Dabai, on the contrary, the relationship between the party and the people became closer.

The intelligence station of the administrative department and the county government often lives in Dabai, and the joint defense transmits information, which is accurate. As soon as the enemy was disturbed, the village cadres led the masses to clear the fields, bury grain, cloth, and materials, and evacuate the masses to take refuge. Due to the accuracy of intelligence and the joint defense of the militia, Dabai Village has reduced many unnecessary losses.

This time, Hirai, the leader of the devil squadron of the Jiaochang shop, also known as the bearded man, had just finished sweeping Dabai Village. Liu Zhiyuan came with a company. This was a long-distance attack by Commander Liu Zhiyuan, who had just rushed back from the enemy-occupied area to the Chinan base area.

When it was almost time to reach Dabai, due to the long march, the soldiers could not walk, and one by one they could not lie on the ground, panting for breath suddenly. Liu Zhiyuan jumped off the horse, took off his coat, carried a shell gun, and walked in front with a bare backbone.

The commander's actions were silent orders, and the soldiers immediately lifted their spirits, followed Liu Zhiyuan, and trotted forward.

Liu Zhiyuan's company had just entered Dabai Village, and Han Xing led Wu Xiaoming's company to Dabai.

Liu Zhiyuan saw Han Xing and asked deliberately strangely: "Hey, the little devil just left, why did you come to Dabai, why didn't you come early?" ”

Han Xing also sneered: "I'm also strange, you Liu Zhiyuan didn't come early or late, why did you come as soon as the little devil left?" ”

Liu Zhiyuan smiled and said: "I will calculate, the little devil is gone, and the recalcitrant army is coming, and the second sweep will be carried out." I'm waiting for them here, isn't it just right? ”

Han Xing also said-for-tat: "You can count, and I will calculate even more." We have known for a long time that the three detachments will come, and we are going to annihilate this recalcitrant army. ”

Liu Zhiyuan had no choice but to say: "It's really the same thing that heroes see, then there is only one meeting, and half of it will be divided." ”

It turned out that whether it was the advance column or the Zhuxian column, they had already figured out the law of the enemy's activities, and knew that after the devils were sweeping, the three detachments of the recalcitrant army thought that the Eighth Route Army was empty and it was just an opportunity, so they came to a second sweep, in a vain attempt to pick up fish in the dry land, and raise their heads to catch the pie falling from the sky.

Well, this time, a company of the advance column and a company of the Zhuxian column are waiting for him in Dabai. The two companies joined forces, and the militia self-defense unit of Dabai Village quickly returned to their own village along the communication ditch in the neighboring village.

As expected, the devil's Pingjing squadron had just finished sweeping Dabai Village, and Lu Zhaoming, the third detachment of the recalcitrant army, came with a battalion.