After seeing the situation on the battlefield, Liu Hua returned to the headquarters and immediately issued a series of orders: "Order the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, retreat after half an hour, and remember our "three lights" policy when cleaning up the battlefield. Half an hour later, the troops moved to the mountains west of the village of Qigan, and the enemy's reinforcements were about to arrive. ”

It turned out that at the very beginning of the battle, the enemy commander sent a report for help to the commander of the front line pacification, Yoshio Kamitsuki, last month. When Yoshio last month learned that the baggage brigade that escorted him with ammunition was surrounded, and there were still many soldiers in the encirclement, looking at the scarce ammunition on his soldiers, Yoshio Kamitsuki immediately became anxious, and immediately ordered a cavalry brigade on the front line to take the lead, and an infantry brigade followed closely behind, running towards his own people who were surrounded.

However, after several hours of rapid marching, the captain of the cavalry brigade led the team looked at the scene in front of him stupidly, the entire road, stretching for two miles, could see the remains of imperial soldiers everywhere, and some stumps and broken arms could be seen everywhere, and the ammunition and materials transported to the front line were not found at all, and even the bullet casings on the ground were scarce.

What made the captain even more angry was that many of the Imperial soldiers' clothes were stripped down to their underwear, and the captain couldn't stand it anymore, "Yaga, damn China, I'm going to kill you all." After venting, the captain ordered the accompanying radio station to send the unfortunate news to the commander of the Yoshio Brigade last month, who was pacifying and waiting for news.

Immediately, the cavalry brigade was ordered to dismount and clean up the remains of the imperial soldiers, but unfortunately then happened to the captain's cavalry brigade, and bursts of explosions began to sound on the position, and soon, the cause of the explosion was found out. In this way, the speed of the cavalry brigade cleaning the battlefield was several times slower at once, and when moving the corpse, a rope was specially used to put a rope on the corpse, and after dragging it, it dared to collect the corpse.

After taking the remains of the fallen Imperial soldiers, the captain was furious again, and after the continuous explosions just now, his cavalry brigade was reduced by almost a squad without engaging the enemy

Just when the captain of the devil brigade was angry, Liu Hua and the Reading Brigade had already entered the depths of the mountain, and was encamped in a very hidden mountain village, preparing to be stationed for a long time.

According to the reconnaissance battalion, this village is called Zhangjiazhuang. There are a total of 200 households in the whole village, there is no landlord, because it is in the deep mountains, many people are born in Orion, the nearest county seat here is Pingding County, the nearest town is Measuring Fish Town, the nearest village is called Xizhuang, Wangquan Village, the number of people is much more than this village, there are more than 500 households each, among which there is a very large landlord, according to the explanation of the name of the village, the landlord's son was originally a battalion commander of [***], and now he has taken refuge in the devil, is a puppet army squadron leader in Pingding County. Zhangjiazhuang is a big mountain in front and back, backed by Woniu Mountain, there are a lot of mountains, the villagers usually rely on planting some dry crops and hunting for a living, but since the devil passed through here once, many women have been ruined, and a lot of food has been robbed, and now the villagers are about to fall into the crisis of running out of food.

Looking at the quiet village in front of him, and then looking at the surrounding terrain, Liu Hua couldn't help but be stunned. "Brigadier Commander, Brigadier Commander, what are you thinking?" Looking at the brigade commander in a daze, the political commissar hurriedly reminded.

"Well, political commissar, I'm thinking about the terrain here in Zhangjiazhuang."

"What's wrong with the terrain here?" The political commissar asked suspiciously.

Liu Hua smiled and said, "Political commissar, you see, the whole Zhangjiazhuang is surrounded by mountains, there is only one road to enter and exit, it can be said that it is a husband and a man, and it is not open, look at the back of Zhangjiazhuang, but the famous Woniu Mountain, if we take this as the base camp of our Reading Brigade to establish a base, you say" Liu Hua smiled.

After listening to Liu Hua's words, Political Commissar Guan Xiangying did not speak, picked up the telescope and began to observe, the smile on his face became thicker and thicker. "Brigadier Commander, this is a great place!" The commissar lamented.

"Battalion Commander Liu, now I order you to take the entire reconnaissance battalion and spread out the reconnaissance within a hundred miles of the surrounding area, and draw a sketch, all the rivers, villages, caves, etc. along the way, as long as all the valuable things must be clearly marked." ：

"Yes, resolutely complete the task" After speaking, he ran to his troops with the political commissar.

"Let's go, commissar, let's go into the village!"

In less than half an hour, the entire army arrived at the specified camp, and Liu Hua led the command headquarters to the headquarters that had been arranged. According to the village chief, the house was originally owned by an old man, but since the devil, the old man died, and the house was vacant.

Looking at the gray-haired village chief Zhang Deli in front of him, Liu Hua nodded and quickly helped him to his seat.

Wang Deli was not polite, sat down and asked: "I don't know what your army has to do here, whether it is a permanent residence or passing by, but due to the looting of the army, there is no surplus food for the army in this village, and I hope to forgive me." ”

After listening to Village Chief Zhang's words, Liu Hua knew that this place must have been plagued by the Kuomintang Party from time to time. "Village Chief Zhang, we are the Eighth Route Army led by [***], we have just finished fighting the devils, and now we are on the way to transfer, now it is dark, we want to camp here, I hope to forgive me if there is any inconvenience, our army brings its own dry food, and we don't need the people to give it together,

After listening to Liu Hua's words, the expression on Zhang Deli's face did not change, just the expression of disbelief in his clothes. Because now everyone knows that when the current squadron sees the devil, in addition to running away, it still runs away, just after fighting the devil, who believes it?

Seeing Zhang Deli's disbelief, Liu Hua patiently explained to him some of the policies of the Eighth Route Army

After a long time of explanation, the face of the village chief Zhang Deli was a little better. Seeing that Village Chief Zhang's impression of the army had changed, Liu Hua immediately handed it over to his partner and asked him to persuade and educate the village chief.

The political commissar also explained for nearly half an hour before they knew that the Reading Brigade was a unit led by [***] and would not oppress the people, and let them see some of the military materials captured by their own troops, so that they could understand that the Reading Brigade was a team that specializes in killing devils. Now the problem of troop camping has finally been solved.

After listening to the political commissar's report, Liu Hua breathed a sigh of relief. "Political commissar, I heard that the villagers have no food for the winter this year, you see that in order to unite the people, let's help them." "Well, I agree, and that's it, I'll let the baggage battalion distribute a bag of flour to each family, and give them some of the slain mules and horses, so that they will survive this winter no matter what, and then the next year's harvest." Well, that's it, do it right away.

Soon, the originally lifeless Xiaoshui Village was full of laughter and laughter, you must know that this was very difficult to see at that time, in the face of the bags of flour sent by the soldiers, pieces of mule and horse meat, many villagers were moved to cry, and even some people knelt down, and it didn't take long to see a group of people walking towards the headquarters. The person at the head is none other than Zhang Deli, the head of the village.

Looking at everyone's excited expressions, Liu Hua took the political commissar and the chief of staff to hurry out. When Zhang Deli saw Liu Hua and others coming towards him, he immediately knelt in front of them, and the villagers who followed him had to pile up in front of Liu Hua and others one after another. Seeing the appearance of the villagers, Liu Hua faintly knew the reason.

Liu Hua and the political commissar and others dared to pick up and hold on. Zhang Deli and others who want to kneel. "Village Chief Zhang, what are you doing here, stand up and say anything, we [***] don't kneel, hurry up and let the villagers get up." Liu Hua said anxiously.

Finally, with the efforts of everyone in the brigade headquarters, the villagers kneeling outside the headquarters stood up, and Zhang Deli walked into the temporary headquarters with several elders from his village with the support of Liu Hua and others.

"Benefactor, Brigade Commander Liu, I have never seen such a good team, not only do not oppress the people, but also give the people food, what a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, I can see such a good team in my life, and I have not lived in vain in this life." Zhang Deli said excitedly as soon as he entered the door, and everyone echoed excitedly.

"Village Chief Zhang, you still don't know about our Eighth Route Army, the predecessor of our Eighth Route Army was the Red Army that Chiang Kai-shek shouted every day to eliminate, the Red Army was originally the team of the toiling masses, and almost all the cadres and soldiers in our team were born poor, not afraid of your jokes, I was also born poor, so our Eighth Route Army is the team of the common people, not the team of a certain person in the national name party, and we should do these things. Let our commissar tell you about our [***] purpose in a moment, and you will understand. ”

Liu Hua said as he looked at the expressions of several old men, only to see that they nodded one after another

After a long time, Zhang Deli wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "Brigade Commander Liu, no matter what, today you saved the names of the people in our village, if there is no food you sent today, we in Zhangjiazhuang don't know how many people will starve to death this winter, these are all caused by little devils, you saved our village, the advantage of the team specializing in fighting devils, as long as we can do it in Zhangjiazhuang, we will do it even if we fight hard, I don't know if Brigade Commander Liu needs help." ”

After listening to Zhang Deli's grateful words, Vulcanized was secretly happy in his heart, "Village Chief Zhang, our army has just eliminated more than 1,000 devils, and there are many wounded in the army, and we really forgot a lot of comrades. We want to take a break here, I don't know the villagers," Vulcanized looked at a few old men next to him.

"Brigade Commander Liu, if you say such a thing, you are killing the old and decayed, that is, looking down on the people of our Zhangjiazhuang, those injured comrades are all injured by beating devils, say it farther, so that they are avenging us, we are also Chinese with conscience, Brigade Commander Liu, if you have anything to say, just say it."

"Okay, well, we are all Chinese, Chief Zhang, we want the name of the village to help us open up a vacant land in the mountains and forests, build some barracks, and then we also need some ordinary people who are familiar with the terrain to help draw maps with our soldiers."

"Okay, that's all, I'll go find someone now." After speaking, Zhang Deli walked out the door.

(To be continued)