There is a man named Xie Pengnian in the team, an old comrade who has joined the party for 30 years, his hometown is in Fenghuangji, Tangyi County, and his family is a famous landowner in Fenghuangji. Xie Pengnian took advantage of his legal identity and social status of his family to ask the Tangyi County Government for more than a dozen broken guns, and as the exiled students were all captains and attendants, each of them had a stipend of 20 yuan as a fund, and asked Fan Zhuxian for the number of the 10th guerrilla detachment of the 6th District of Shandong, and this anti-Japanese guerrilla force led by *** was developed.

In order to facilitate the expansion of the ranks, this contingent propagated the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country to the local peasants, and mobilized some young intellectuals and old soldiers scattered in the countryside to join the first detachment. There were many people, but there were no guns and bullets, so they had to "borrow" guns from local landlords.

And Xie Pengnian's family is a big landowner, his family has four spears and a box gun, so Xie Pengnian decided to "borrow" the gun from his own house first.

The gun was kept by Xie Pengnian's second uncle, Xie Pengnian first circled around the second uncle, and came to attack the heart, he saw that the second uncle often carried a box gun and patrolled around his own earthen fence, so he followed the second uncle and said with a smile: "Second uncle, if the devil comes, with this box gun of yours, can you resist the devil?" ”

The second uncle glanced at Peng Nian and said vigilantly: "What do you mean, if you can't resist it, you have to resist, you can't help but fight the devil!" ”

Xie Pengnian smiled and said, "Second uncle, do you know what your nephew has done now?" ”

"Why don't I know, aren't you just a waiter, and you have organized a team and carry a gun?"

"Second uncle, this team is different from other teams, but it specializes in fighting devils. Now there are a lot of us, but we lack guns, can you give your guns and let us fight devils! ”

"It's really a dream to marry a daughter-in-law, and it's beautiful to think about. The guns are all carried away by you, what about us? ”

This sentence stopped Xie Pengnian, thought about it and said: "Second uncle, I see that you can't run and wipe, we still have to carry the gun, you just guard your home." ”

"That's not going to work!" The second uncle said categorically, "That's not good, do you think this gun just beats devils, there are bandits, bandits are coming, do you bite with your teeth or kick with your feet, or you have a gun in your hand and your heart is strong." ”

Xie Pengnian was anxious, and yelled at the second uncle: "Second uncle, if you really don't lend us the gun, we will rob it." ”

The second uncle also roared: "You dare! You eat things inside and out, and when you grow up, your wings are stiff, and you have calculated on the head of your own family. If you mess around again, you can't break your dog's legs. ”

failed to borrow a gun, Xie Pengnian went back to talk about it, and there was something to say. Some said: "The landlords here are so hateful, he really doesn't borrow it, so we really rob it, surround his house, force him with a gun, and see if he takes a gun or not." ”

Some said: "This is called toasting without eating and drinking, so if you can't talk about it, then you can only move hard." ”

Captain Hong Tao is an old Red Army in the end, with a strong policy, he said to everyone: "The landlords don't borrow guns, and there are reasons for them, this is because we don't know much about our team, how can we borrow guns lightly." Besides, if the bandits come, they can indeed hold their guns to resist for a while. If we can't borrow a gun, we'll have to take it from the devil. ”

In any case, the gun was not borrowed, and everyone's hearts couldn't help but feel a little depressed, plus it was the cold winter wax moon, the north wind was blowing, and it was finally borrowed in a big empty house, there were neither doors nor windows in the house, and the temperature was not much different from the outside. Not to mention that there was no quilt, the comrades didn't even have a piece of cotton clothes, so they could only light a fire, and everyone roasted each other to keep warm, and they were really sleepy, so they lay down by the fire and slept for a while, and woke up after a while, either they were awakened by the cold, or they found that the single clothes were burned together.

Because I don't take a bath all year round, my body is full of lice, take it off and squeeze it, it's too cold, don't squeeze it, and it's itchy all over my body, plus I eat wowotou, dried sweet potatoes and old pickles for a long time, many people suffer from malnutrition.

Many of them were captains and waiters, and most of them were children of rich families, where had they suffered like this, and a few people complained: "What kind of team are we, it's just too offended." "If you want to eat or not, if you want to drink or not, there are no cotton clothes and cotton pants, let alone fighting devils, the cold also froze us to death."

Most people are confident, and the waiter Zhou Leting said: "It's a little hard at present, but how can it not be hard to fight devils!" Everyone bear with us, and the situation will always get better and better! ”

Xie Pengnian also blamed himself and said: "They all blame me, at my doorstep, but everyone can't eat, wear, or have guns, until tomorrow, I will go again, I can't borrow a gun, it's good to borrow a few quilts!" ”

Hong Tao said to everyone: "How about you guess a riddle?" Who guessed that I have a prize here! ”

As soon as I heard about the riddle, many people came to love, and some people stimulated Hong Tao and said: "What other prizes do you have, don't fool us!" ”

Hong Tao took out five peanuts from his arms and said: "Today I picked up five peanuts, and the top five who guessed the riddle won a prize." ”

Everyone burst into laughter. Xie Pengnian said mockingly: "It's just five, and one for each person?" Alright then, you just say, we guess, it's better to have a prize than no prize. ”

Hong Tao said: "Born in Meat State, grew up in Yizhou, sick in Eye State, and died in Yazhou and Squeeze State." What do you think it's a thing? ”

"Isn't that lice?" Everyone said almost in unison.

Hong Tao was embarrassed, and said with his hands open: "Everyone has guessed, but I only have five prizes here, everyone said, what can I do!" ”

"Then you can only rob it!" Xie Pengnian shouted, and everyone rushed up, grasping hands and breaking fingers, and it was a mess. In this kind of joke, everyone temporarily forgot about the cold, forgot about the hardship, and brought a burst of laughter.

The next day, Xie Pengnian found the second uncle again, and when they met, they sneezed a few times, and the snot also flowed out of the elder. The second uncle smiled and said, "Silly boy, it's cold and cold, I think you better go home, don't suffer foreign crimes in that team." ”

Xie Pengnian said: "If you fight Japan, you have to pull a team, can you beat Japan just by staying at home?" We are willing to suffer, and our hearts rejoice as long as we are willing. Second uncle, if you don't borrow a gun, you have to lend us a few quilts, as well as cotton and cloth, we don't have cotton clothes in winter, so let's make a few, and it's warm! ”

The second uncle thought for a while and said, "I definitely won't borrow others, but you, I can't watch you freeze!" When you go to the house, you can see the broken quilts that can't be used, and the cotton that you don't use for the time being, so you can get some! ”

Xie Pengnian returned home, got some quilts, cotton and cloth, very happy, the man did it, made some cotton clothes, cotton pants for the weak to put on first, and finally solved part of the difficulties.

There are already fifty or sixty people in the team, but a team with only a dozen broken guns is not a huqin! Everyone was in a hurry. Xie Pengnian couldn't bear it anymore, so he said to everyone: "I think, we can't wait any longer, when will it be a head!" ”

Zhou Leting also said: "That's right, I don't think I can borrow a gun, so I robbed his mother." ”

Everyone said babblingly: "Yes, if you can't borrow it, you can grab it, just a team without a gun is what's going on!" ”

One day, Xie Pengnian and Zhou Leting went to the area of Liangshui Town to promote anti-Japanese salvation, and when they walked to the northwest estuary of Liangshui Town, they saw a person coming from a distance, carrying a cloth bag, which seemed to contain several long things. When the man walked over, Xie Pengnian touched it for a while, and felt like three spears.

Xie Pengnian gave Zhou Leting a look, and the two intercepted this person. Xie Pengnian shouted and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

The man still lowered his head and was about to move forward, Xie Pengnian suddenly held a gun against him, and asked loudly: "What are you doing, why are you still leaving!" Have you spoken? ”

The man had no choice but to stand still, and said cowardly: "I am also a long-term worker of Liu Laosan, no, Liu Laosan asked me to help him transport something, so I will send it to him." ”

Xie Pengnian said to him: "Open the cloth bag and see what is inside." ”

The man said that he would not open anything, but he stubbornly guarded the mouth of the cloth bag and said, "Nothing good, nothing good, that is, a few sticks for work." ”

When he said this, Xie Pengnian and Zhou Leting were even more suspicious, and grabbed his cloth bag and tore it off. Zhou Leting opened it and saw that it was indeed three carbines, or was it new! The two of them couldn't help but be overjoyed, they really had nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get them. I couldn't find a gun everywhere, but it turned out that the gun was here!

But that person was frightened, and he cried and said: "I also shipped the goods to Liu Laosan, if the goods are gone, can Liu Laosan spare me!" ”

Xie Pengnian said to him: "That's it, you just said that the goods for Liu Laosan, who knows if it's true or not, we thought you were a gun for the bandits." You go back and open the letter, if it is really Liu Laosan's goods, then you can go to the big empty house east of the Phoenix Set and bring the gun back, we will not force it to stay. ”

There was nothing the man could do, so he had to walk away.

But that night, trouble came, more than 1,000 landlords armed, broke through and surrounded the house of the 10 detachments, at that time it was a shout that shook the sky, the torches were bright, hundreds of fast guns forced the members of the 10 detachments, and the rest were big knives and red tassel guns, looking at the formation, it was as if they were going to eat the 10 detachments.

The members of the 10 detachments lined up in battle formation, dozens of rifles were loaded with bullets, and those without rifles were also holding large knives and red tassel guns, and it seemed that a cruel battle in which the enemy was strong and we were weak was about to begin.

The person who left him with the gun in the morning pointed at Xie Pengnian and Zhou Leting and yelled at a chubby, middle-aged man in a horse coat: "It's the gun they robbed, it's them!" ”

Their team shouted, "Give us back our guns!" Return our guns! ”

Xie Pengnian said to Hong Tao: "In the morning, we thought this person was a bandit, so we left his gun, but we didn't expect him to lead Liu Laosan's militia to come." It seems that you can't fight it, right!? ”

Hong Tao said to the members of the 10th detachment: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, these ** parts are ordinary people, if anyone kills a civilian, I will not finish with him." ”

Hong Tao immediately shouted to the landlord armed forces: "The Chinese do not fight the Chinese, what do you have to say, we are an anti-Japanese team, we do not fight the common people, and I hope you will not fight the anti-Japanese team." ”

There was a gossip shouting: "What an anti-Japanese team, it's a bunch of bandits." "They robbed us of our guns, and they were clearly a gang of bandits." "Rush! Kill! Kill them all**. ”

The troops armed by the landlords gradually approached this side, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at these dozens of people, the large blades were dangling brightly, and the tips of the red tassel guns were also shining in the light of the torches, and a massacre was about to begin.

Suddenly, at this time, Xie Pengnian's second uncle led dozens of people to run over with a box gun, shouting as he ran: "Don't shoot!" Don't shoot! No one is allowed to shoot!! ”

Some of them heard his shouts and stopped attacking. Xie Pengnian's second uncle panted and ran over to everyone and said, "Anyway, they are also Fan Zhuxian's people, and their detachment leader was also appointed by Fan Zhuxian. ”

A landlord shouted frantically: "But they are **, treat **, they have to be killed!" ”

Xie Pengnian's second uncle hurriedly explained to them: "Now, the Kuomintang and *** have already united, and *** has become legal, and it is impossible to kill *** again." ”

The views of Xie Pengnian's second uncle were also agreed with by several enlightened landlords, and the landlords' armed forces stopped attacking.

Hong Tao, the captain of the tenth detachment, hurriedly shouted to them: "Now that the Japanese devils are about to fight, we must unite with the outside world and fight Japan together." If there is any disagreement between us, can we send a representative to negotiate? Is there anything between the Chinese that can't be properly discussed? ”

Several landlords over there discussed it and decided to send representatives to negotiate with the 10 detachments.

Xie Pengnian's second uncle and the other three landlords, Liu Laosan and Wang Laosi, were recommended to be negotiators. The three men came to the house of the 10th detachment with box guns menacingly, and the box guns were all open in the nose. The ten detachments were also-for-tat, the grenades were all hung on their chests, the middle fingers of their right hands were covered with fire rings, several team members were holding weapons and aimed at them, those with bayonets on their rifles were all bayonets, and the rest of the team members were aiming their guns at the landlord arms outside.