After the winter, the land of Shanxi fell into silence, the heavy snow has fallen several times, whether it is the Japanese army in Taiyuan or the Jin Sui army in the south of Jin, they have slowly stopped their actions, and began to prepare for the winter, waiting for the spring to fight again.

Of course, although the Japanese army did not have a large-scale operation, but the pirates who came across the sea, where would they be honest, a team of little devils went to the countryside under the leadership of the squad leader to prepare to collect money and food.

In order to have a good year and give themselves a good omen, the people will return to their homes to take out a little hard-earned money accumulated this year, buy some pork, buy two pieces of red paper, buy two catties of white noodles, make a meal of dumplings, and hope that next year can have a better life.

Although there was a big war in Shanxi this year, and farming was affected to some extent, under the rent reduction and interest reduction sponsored by the Red Party, most of the people in the base areas reduced their debts to a greater or lesser extent, and the tax collected by the poor peasants in the Eighth Route Army's policy was extremely low, which also made most of the people in the base areas have some surplus grain and can have a good year. The foundation of Yan Xishan's decades of rule in Shanxi has been slowly shaken by the magic weapon of rent reduction and interest reduction, and more and more ordinary people do not want their old chairman to come back. Although the landlord squires suffered losses, but seeing that the Eighth Route Army was really fighting devils, most of the patriotic squires still chose to support the Eighth Route Army, especially when they heard that they might also be involved in local governance in the future, and it would not become a hall of the Red Party, so the squires had fewer concerns.

Liugang Village is the nearest garrison of Hu Tian's brigade, Hu Tian's county brigade has become more and more famous through the recent attacks on the Japanese army, and folk even say that he is a descendant of Hu Zongxian, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty, and Hu Tian was dry. He clearly knew that his ancestors had been tenants who had farmed for others for several generations, and that he had defected to the Red Army because he had been beaten up for the landlord's cattle grazing.

A young man in a torn cotton jacket walked over and interrupted his memories, but it was none other than his newly appointed communications soldier Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen smiled and saluted Hu Tian and said, "Captain, the comrades who have families have already gone back." The remaining 37 comrades are on duty and have no home to go back to. ”

Hu Tian grabbed his hat and said, "I can't speak, I don't have a home, we are home here, let's go, let the comrades also prepare for the New Year." ”

Hu Tian walked to the temple where everyone was stationed, and saw that everyone was preparing to make noodles, Hu Tian wanted to intervene several times but was driven aside by the soldiers, Hu Tian had to pull Ye Zhen and said, "Yes, let's go outside the village to have a look." Be careful that the little devil doesn't give us a good New Year. ”

Ye Zhen responded, and then went out and brought a horse over, due to the results of the guerrilla war some time ago, Hu Tian's brigade had four or five horses, Hu Tian rode a horse out of the village quickly, the cold temperature froze the dirt road Bang Bang hard, but it was very suitable for horseback riding.

After a while, Hu Tian saw a few straw hats and broken baskets. It was covered by ordinary people to prevent passers-by from stepping on landmines by mistake.

In later generations, many people did not think of such tactics as mine warfare, and even came to the conclusion that most of the people killed by landmines were innocent people. This is actually a strategy to completely use their own wisdom to win others, and the common people know that this thing will explode and hurt people, and they also know that there will be passers-by from time to time, will they be stupid for people to step on it? The common people are not stupid, but have their own unique wisdom.

After the common people planted the mines under the guidance of the guerrillas, they did not leave them there. Whoever steps on it counts, the little devil does not go to the countryside every day, most of the time he nests in the town, and the common people will use straw hats when there are no devils. Broken baskets cover the mines, so that everyone will not step on them by mistake when walking, and on the road outside the strongholds of each devil, the common people will have a message tree to transmit news, once they find that there are devils dispatched, the people will immediately use the message tree to tell each other, and then they will remove the straw hat covering it, waiting for the Japanese army to step on it. The real significance of mine warfare is not how many Japanese troops have been killed or wounded, but that the Japanese army will no longer dare to go to the countryside easily, and even if they go to the countryside, they will be cautious for fear of stepping on mines, so that our troops and people have enough time to transfer.

However, it is a pity that in history, our troops were very short of iron weapons and explosives, and most of the militia mines were of poor quality, but this time and space mine warfare made the Japanese army feel more terrifying and helpless than in history.

Hu Tian walked all the way, saw that the straw hats were well covered, and ran to a news tree point, an uncle dug a soil pit, made a grass nest out of straw, and looked into the distance from time to time, which was the place of another news tree.

Hu Tian walked up, greeted him and said, "Uncle, it's okay, have you eaten?" ”

The uncle saw that it was Hu Tian, and said with a smile, "Captain Hu, I saw you from afar, look, this is the nest head that my wife made for me, I put it in my arms, and it's still hot, I just ate one, Captain Hu, have you eaten it?" Is there still a shortage of food for the troops? ”

Hu Tian smiled and shook his hand and said, "I don't eat, I'm not hungry, the army is cooking a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we will start eating immediately." When we finish eating, we will come to replace the villagers, we have few people, and we have worked hard, and we will come after a while, so that the uncle can go home for a reunion at night. ”

When the uncle heard this, he snorted and said, "My family is together every day, what is there to reunite, besides, you take us to fight devils, this is what Grandpa Yue did back then." It's not easy for you to go home once, Captain Hu, where is your home? ”

Hu Tian was about to speak, but saw the news tree in the distance suddenly fall, Hu Tian hurriedly said, "Uncle, look, the news tree has fallen!" ”

The uncle hurriedly stood up and looked at it, isn't it, looking at the number of trees that have fallen in the news tree, this is a devil with a team. The uncle hurriedly put down the message tree as well. Hu Tian took out his gun and said, "Uncle, you quickly take off all the straw hats on the road, Xiaotang, you immediately go and gather the troops, so that the villagers can prepare to hide." ”

Ye Zhen didn't want to do it when he heard it, and said, "Captain, let's go with me, you can gather the troops." You're the captain. ”

Hu Tian thought about it, nodded, and agreed. Ye Zhen quickly found the devil's troops, and waited for Hu Tian to come up with the troops. And they were ready to get ready.

Captain Kimura scolded and walked along the dirt road, and he didn't see anyone along the way, and if he hadn't lost playing cards, he wouldn't have come out to do this drudgery, not to mention the guerrillas who didn't know where.

"Boom!" An explosion came from the front. Kimura doesn't even need to look at it to know that it must be another mine of the China, and these guerrillas have this ability.

"Yaga! How's the front? Kimura stepped forward, only to see that the sappers in front of him were all black, but they didn't seem to be doing anything.

"Damn, this wooden mine doesn't seem to be of any use." Hu Tian said as he pounded the ground on the hillside. The mine was made by the militia themselves out of black powder and wood, and now it seems that it has no effect other than to make the devil black.

Kimura patted the sapper and found that it was really not a big deal. It was just a few scrapes, and I couldn't help laughing and said, "Get out of the way!" ”

"Captain, we can't seem to do it." Ye Zhen said in a low voice.

Hu Tian said with a smile, "The one in the back is what we took from the army, Soviet goods, look at it." ”

Sure enough, within a few steps, another mine exploded. This knocked down several people near the sappers.

"Hit!" Hu Tian shouted.

Although now there are only twenty or thirty people left. But after two months of development, Hu Tian's militia brigade already has forty or fifty guns. This time, most of the guns were left in the troops, and all the 38 big covers and crooked handles, due to the victory in front, the militia entered the era of Japanese weapons two or three years earlier than history, but this is also because the main forces are not willing to use Japanese weapons now.

Kimura was a little stunned by this burst of gunfire, and hurriedly counterattacked. But at this time, Hu Tian had quietly left his original position.

Kimura was just about to rush in the direction of Hu Tian, when seven or eight more guns opened fire from the west, Kimura swallowed his saliva, thought about it, and felt that this should be a suspicious soldier. Then he took the troops to continue to touch in the direction of Hu Tian, and finally climbed the hillside, not even a bullet shell was found, but he touched a strange mine, and then from another mountain there was a gunshot, a stray bullet hit the side of Kimura, although the Kimura team did not suffer much loss, but Kimura, who had already had experience, knew that it was impossible to go to the village to find supplies. These damn guerrillas must have made the people of China retreat, and God knows why those people would listen to these guerrillas so much.

Kimura scolded and walked into the barracks, and this time there were three more imperial soldiers.

A chubby Japanese officer walked in, smiled and said, "What's wrong?" Your squad looks embarrassed? ”

Kimura snorted and said, "Fukuyama, it's the same if you go, these guerrillas are so annoying, how can we report to our superiors, the superiors don't react, it's really a bastard!" ”

Fukuyama pulled out an officer wearing a pseudo-Mongolian army uniform from behind and said, "The above sent our friend, this is He Shenjun, the company commander of the North China Autonomous Army, the captain personally wrote a letter to introduce him, it is said that he has been to Japan to study, I have tried, and he speaks Japanese very well." ”

Kimura looked at him and said, "Do you have any way to deal with the guerrillas?" ”

He Shen was fair-skinned, eagle-nosed and wolf-eyed, combed his hair in the middle, and said with a sneer in Japanese, "The guerrillas are difficult to deal with because they have the common people as cover, and we can't find them, so we must have our own internal line, I suggest that the countryside be self-governing, give power to the landlords and gentry, and the guerrillas reduce rent and interest to help the peasants, we will support the landlords to increase rent and raise interest rates, win over the squires, and let these people become our eyes, and when we have the information of the guerrillas, we can hit with one blow!" ”

Kimura's mouth opened wide, as if he saw a fairy, and he slapped his face and exclaimed, "What you said is so good, let's do this!" Haha, He Jun, do it well, let's use your method to have a good time with the guerrillas! ”

Hu Tian always made sure that Kimura really retreated before returning to the station, and when he counted it, although the people were fine, more than a hundred rounds of ammunition were knocked out, which made Hu Tian feel distressed, a battle like this is not a war of annihilation, and there will be no capture at all. The battle was a big loss.

While eating noodles, Hu Tian wrote a summary of the battle.

-- Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain

Mr. Zhu and others talked about this year's war while meeting each other, Zuo Quan walked in with the documents, looked at everyone doing things, and said with a smile, "Yes, I'll read it, I don't see that you don't have the hands to look at it." ”

Mr. Peng smiled and took the dumpling wrapper and began to wrap the wild vegetable ham dumplings, and said, "We are all white now, you see, the hands are white, you should read it." ”

Zuo Quan nodded and said, "According to the latest report of the three main divisions and the Shanxi New Army, after the division of troops, we have basically established a base area, and the people in each base area are very supportive of us because of the implementation of our rent and interest reduction policy, and we also collect less industrial and commercial taxes, which makes businessmen also willing to enter our base area to do business. In terms of army building, we have established a large number of militia organizations, the army has expanded rapidly, the three divisions and the main force of the total strength of the Shanxi New Army have reached more than 70,000, the militia has exceeded 100,000, the number of Red Party members has increased by 10,000, and party branches have been established in various localities. The second is that the number of the main force has been exceeded, and new personnel need to be added. The third is that the combat effectiveness of our new units is relatively weak, especially the Japanese armament units, which are generally short of ammunition, and many of the new units have taken up spears and broadswords, but there are exceptions, and some units that have won battles with the cooperation of the main force often have a little more firearms. The last problem is that we find that some soldiers have pessimistic thoughts about the future of the war, and this pessimism is spreading, especially after the destruction of Nanjing. ”

Mr. Peng snorted angrily, threw the dumplings and said, "This old Jiang, he lost the capital, and it also affected us, it is understandable that ordinary soldiers have such wrong thoughts, but party members must not have such a situation, they must study more, by the way, didn't Lao Mao write an article recently?" I think it can be learned by the fighters. ”

Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "Well, you can send a telegram to Lao Mao, let this article be published as soon as possible, for the issue of ammunition, I think it can be like this, set up ordnance factories in each of our divisions, responsible for reloading bullets nearby, manpower and machinery can be asked from Yan'an, and a gun without bullets is not as good as a spear." ”

Zuo Quan nodded and said, "I think it's okay, but what about taxes?" ”

This is a great deal of embarrassment for everyone.

Mr. Zhu also stopped meeting each other, walked up, remembered the history that Jiang Cheng had told him, and said, "Work hard!" Self-reliance! We originally thought that the Japanese army was our biggest enemy, but now we don't see it, grain is our biggest enemy, I think we should also carry out a large-scale production campaign, so that all the troops can be an excellent soldier at the same time, but also be an excellent farmer. As for the establishment, I think we will first send a telegram to our chairman, and if he does not approve it, we will set up independent regiments and local regiments, and there will always be a way! ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod, and since then, the large-scale production movement has been completely carried out in the base area, and has become one of the important sources for the Red Party troops to solve the food problem during the Anti-Japanese War. (To be continued.) )