After Liu Tianshu stayed in the district committee with the guard squad, Tang Qing found him a farmer's house not far from his residence to live in.

The owner of this family is surnamed Niu, Uncle Niu and Aunt Niu are in their fifties, and they have a 25 or 6-year-old son named Niu Dazhuang, who married a girl named Wu Cuihua in this village four years ago, and has a two-year-old son, and their family of three lives in the west wing of the small courtyard, and Uncle Niu's daughter is named Niu Yurong, who is 17 years old this year, and has participated in the women's rescue society in the base area.

Uncle Niu was very happy when he heard Tang Qing say that he would arrange for Liu Tianshu to live in his house.

Liu Tianshu's name has long been a household name in the base area, although Uncle Niu is from Houshan Village, but many villagers in Huangshi Village have now moved their families to Houshan Village, and these people have been integrated with the people of Houshan Village after living here for a period of time.

"Uncle Niu, this is Chief of Staff Liu I mentioned to you, Tianshu, this is Uncle Niu, you will live with him in the future." Tang Qing pointed at Liu Tianshu and introduced to Uncle Niu.

"Hello Uncle Niu, I'm going to cause you trouble in the future." Liu Tianshu said politely.

"Chief of Staff Liu, you can live in my small courtyard, this is my blessing for Niu Tiancheng, besides, if it weren't for fighting devils, you wouldn't have come to us, and you would have treated this place as your home in the future." Niu Tiancheng said excitedly.

Under the enthusiastic guidance of Uncle Niu, Liu Tianshu walked into the east wing of the small courtyard. This is a row of three rooms, Liu Tianshu lives in one, the guard squad lives in the other two, as for cooking and the like, they build a shed in the corner of the yard to solve it.

After Uncle Niu took Liu Tianshu to look at the east wing, he looked at Liu Tianshu and said: "Chief of Staff Liu, you live in my house, we are a family, if you need anything in the future, just look for me." You're welcome. ”

After sending Uncle Niu and Tang Qing away, Liu Tianshu immediately asked Shi Qiang to take people to clean up the house and yard, and after he put the things in the room, he took out the basic situation of the villages in Qingyan Town that Tang Qing gave him, and looked at it carefully.

He is now asked by Tang Qing to assist in the work of the district party committee, and the training of the troops and the matter of fighting. Naturally, he did not care about it for the time being, and turned his attention to the building of anti-Japanese self-defense forces in each village, the building of political power at the village level, the plan for preventing devils from sweeping up, and the vigilance system in each village.

After sitting in the room and going through the situation of the villages under the jurisdiction of the Qingyan District Party Committee in his mind, he saw Shi Qiang coming in with an iron kettle, and behind him, Lin Hua was carrying a small stove.

"Captain, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and there is no road in the village, so I have found you a stove to keep warm in the house. By the way, you can also boil some boiling water or something. Shi Qiang looked at Liu Tianshu and said.

"Stove? That's a good thing. Liu Tianshu said happily when he heard this, "By the way, Qiangzi, is there a stove in the soldiers' houses?" ”

As chief of staff, he was not only given a new military uniform, but also a blanket and a quilt, but as far as he knew, the soldiers of the guard squad. But there can only be two people in a quilt.

That's it, it's still when they hit the stronghold. Poured out of the devil's stronghold.

Hearing Liu Tianshu's words, Shi Qiang's face showed embarrassment, "I only found one, now the snow is closing the mountain, and all kinds of materials in the village are in short supply, this is the one." I found it with great difficulty. ”

Hearing this, Liu Tianshu couldn't help frowning, and said after a while: "In this way, this furnace is temporarily placed on your side, in addition." I thought I would get some charcoal, and discuss it with Uncle Niu to see if I could make a fire on the ground in the house. ”

In Liu Tianshu's hometown, there are many people who dig a hole in the ground of the house, and then put charcoal in it to light it to keep warm.

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Uncle Niu." Shi Qiang nodded, turned around and walked out.

Liu Tianshu then walked to the other two rooms in the east wing and saw that the soldiers were spreading quilts and the like on the ground. "Lin Hua, is your quilt enough?"

"Captain, Xie Fei and I brought one from home, plus Wang Feilong also brought one from home, and this time, each of them has a quilt. It's just that this quilt is a bit thin, and it's still very cold at night. Lin Hua looked at him and said.

"Well, the army is in short supply now, and I heard that the health team is still covering a quilt with two people, so it seems that we have to think of something to get some back." Liu Tianshu said thoughtfully.

Now there is still about a month before the Spring Festival, however, Qingyan Town, located on the east side of Taihang Mountain, has entered the icy and snowy midwinter season, at this time, many people are hiding in the house to keep warm, there is nothing important, will not go out at all.

But as far as Liu Tianshu knows, after the district party committee gave priority to replenishing supplies to the independent brigade, it is now overstretched.

It is said that not only will the equipment to protect against the cold not meet the needs, but there will also be a shortage of food.

Just as Liu Tianshu was talking to Lin Hua, Xie Fei and others, Shi Qiang walked in.

"Captain, Uncle Niu agreed with us to build the fire cage you said in the house, but none of us have ever seen what this fire cage is."

"I've seen others build this, come, I'll take you to build it." When Liu Tianshu heard Uncle Niu's promise, he immediately commanded the guard squad to dig pits and build fire cages under the three rooms.

At noon, the three fire cages were built, Shi Qiang found charcoal to light the fire cages, and half an hour later, as the charcoal in the fire cages burned vigorously, the whole house became warm.

Uncle Niu learned that Liu Tianshu had set up a fire cage, smoked dry smoke and ran to see the excitement, and when he found out that this fire cage was indeed a good thing for heating in winter, he immediately shouted for Liu Tianshu to help him build one in the house.

In the evening, Liu Tianshu came back from Tang Qing, and Shi Qiang brought a large bowl of wowotou and put it on his table.

"Captain, this is the meal we left for you."

Seeing Liu Tianshu eating in a big gulp, Liu Tianshu said on the side: "Captain, I'm going to go back to Huangshi Village to see if I can get some charcoal back, the fire cage you built is indeed a good thing, but we only have more than 100 catties of charcoal, which is not enough to burn this winter." ”

After the reorganization of the troops, all the family funds accumulated by the original guerrillas were handed over to the independent brigade, and now Liu Tianshu and Shi Qiang have no ocean in their hands, and besides, there are so many people in Houshan Village at once, even if they have money, they can't buy enough charcoal.

Huangshi Village was burned by the devils, and the houses and buildings were burned to charcoal, although the mountains are now covered by heavy snow, but if you look carefully, you should be able to find a lot.

"Okay, Qiangzi, you take someone to take a look, smoothly understand the situation of the devil, and see if you can make something from the devil's hands, otherwise, this winter will be difficult." Liu Tianshu turned his head to look at the gray sky outside the window and said.

Two days later, Liu Tianshu received a notice and came to Tang Qing's courtyard.

Tang Qing, Tang Jiyuan and Liu Siyuan, who were sitting around the table, all looked at him and nodded when they saw Liu Tianshu coming in.

"Secretary Tang, do you have something to do with me?" After Liu Tianshu greeted Tang Jiyuan and Liu Siyuan, he looked at Tang Qing and said.

"Tianshu, come, sit down first." After Liu Tianshu sat down, Tang Qing handed over a teacup with a warm fire.

After Liu Tianshu took a sip, she looked at Liu Tianshu and said: "Tianshu, yesterday afternoon, on the way to Lihuaping, a company encountered an ambush by devils, and more than 30 soldiers were killed and injured in a company. Just now, Captain Luo came to me, hoping that the district committee would help them solve a batch of clothes and food. ”

Hearing that a series of devils were ambushed, Liu Tianshu couldn't help but be surprised, the location of Lihuaping, Liu Tianshu knew, it was in the mountain col of ten miles east of Huangshi Village, it was a small village with only about fifty households, however, Lihuaping was very close to the road leading to Shuangfeng Ridge in Qingyan Town.

"How did the devil know that Ichilian was going to Ewhapyeong?" Liu Tianshu couldn't help but ask strangely.

"I don't know the specific situation, but now the company has withdrawn to Houshan Village. They were resting in the village, and all the wounded were sent to the Wang family compound. There was a trace of tiredness in Tang Qing's eyes.

"I'll go over and see later, by the way, how are you going to solve this problem?" The loss of cold equipment and some food in a row has sharply increased the logistical pressure on the base areas.

You must know that as soon as the company came down from the north, it only brought three days' rations, and the district party committee here because Huangshi Village was burned by devils, and the grain itself was not much.

The first company went to Lihuaping this time, originally a transportation line that was ready to wait for the opportunity to ambush the devils, and the soldiers brought ten days of rations, but they lost more than half of them at once, so how could Tang Qing not have a headache.

"Our district party committee itself has no grain in stock, and I calculated that in order to ensure that the troops have enough food to survive this winter, we must raise 8,000 catties of grain, plus the needs of the district party committee and some people for the winter, at least 15,000 catties of grain. With so much food, I really can't think of a way. Tang Qing said distressedly.

"Secretary Tang, I don't think you want to borrow some food from Tianjiazhai and Shangbao?" Liu Siyuan interjected on the side.

"Shangbao has to bear the supply of three companies, which is itself under pressure, although Tianjiazhai should have grain, but I am afraid it is not willing to lend it to us." Tang Qing thought about it carefully, shook his head and said.

Tianjiazhai is a big village, and there should be no problem with a few thousand catties of grain, but the problem is that the people in Tianjiazhai may not be willing to borrow it. After all, after people lend it, they have to worry about when the base area will be returned.

As for getting them to donate some food to support the war of resistance, I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult.

"In this way, Secretary Tang, let's think of a way to deal with food first, I believe that people always come up with a way." Liu Tianshu took a sip of water and said. (To be continued.) )