Thanks to Xu Yuer's energetic kiss, Qiao Youhua, who is full of fighting spirit, is determined to be a diligent hero and completely solve the problem of food shortage before the autumn comes.

Of course, this is just a joke, Qiao Youhua understands that if you want to maintain the progress of tunnel excavation and construction, then food is indispensable, and this tunnel fortification will play an unimaginable role in resisting the Japanese attack in the future.

Therefore, the tunnels must be dug persistently, and the grain must be built, and at any cost.

For the sake of the safety of the base area, Qiao Youhua left Wu Ming with a main infantry platoon, plus a machine gun platoon without shells and half of the sharpshooter group, that is, ten sharpshooters, who were responsible for the security of the base area.

With more than 100 people from the reconnaissance platoon and the main force of the task force, he left the base area and embarked on a journey to collect military rations.

In these troubled years, there are only three kinds of people who have grain in their hands, the first is the Chinese people and some large and small landlords.

The second type is some robbers and bandits who occupy the mountains as kings, and they will also have a lot of money and food looted from the hands of the poor people, which is ill-gotten gains.

The third type is the Japanese puppet army.

However, at present, the devils in Zhengding County can't hold out, they have been replenished before, and when the devils' logistics and material transportation fleet will appear, the law is difficult to grasp. Qiao Youhua naturally couldn't attack the county seat at this time with an egg.

And it is impossible for Qiao Youhua to go to the hands of the common people to grab food, after all, not all landlords are as evil as the Ma family, and he can't just raid his house because people are taking the initiative to destroy them, right?

Therefore, Qiao Youhua targeted the bandits and robbers within a radius of 100 miles, which not only cracked down on local criminals, eliminated harm for the people, but also obtained military rations, military salaries and even weapons and ammunition supplements, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Another point is that most of the new recruits of the Dragon Tooth Task Force have just been expanded, and it is less dangerous to attack bandits and robbers with relatively low combat effectiveness.

But it can achieve the effect of refining the rapid growth of recruits, which should kill three birds with one stone.

In order to facilitate contact, Qiao Youhua rode the war horse of Ma Ermao that he had captured before, and as long as he had a harvest, he could let his subordinates ride the war horse club base to inform Wu Ming to organize a convoy to come and carry materials and loot.

As for why he didn't just drive the captured military truck to fight the bandits, Qiao Youhua rolled his eyes helplessly, gasoline doesn't cost money?

In this period when there are no import and logistics supply channels, and the source is basically robbed, Qiao Youhua, a military material such a precious one, can't use one liter as eight liters, of course, it can be saved.

The land of China in the thirties was the most **** moment, and the warlords and civil wars over the years led to the poor livelihood of the people everywhere, and the scattered soldiers and the people who could not survive occupied the mountains for the kings and fell into the grass for the innumerable.

Especially in the Zhengding generation, backed by the Taihang Mountain Yumai Mountain Range, in front of the Taihang traffic artery and the Zhengtai railway and highways, these important traffic lines, the bandits and robbers who occupy the mountains are more than a dozen large and small.

Because it is not only convenient to hide here, but also guards the traffic arteries, some of which are past merchants and tourists for robbery, and of course, there are countless surrounding civilians for looting and squeezing, so there are not only many bandits here, but also live quite nourishingly.

This time, Qiao Youhua was determined not to return it if he didn't get enough food, and at the same time, he was also determined to sweep away the bandits who were doing evil within a radius of 100 miles, so as to lay a good foundation for expanding the base area in advance in the future.

Therefore, he led the main force of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force to set out from Zhengcun to the west, and asked the people of the villages along the way, and soon locked on the first target of encirclement and suppression.

In this year, being a bandit and a mountain king, it is impossible to stand without some fame, which also makes it easy for Qiao Youhua to get the information he wants.

The bandits who were selected as the first wave of encirclement and suppression were entrenched on the top of a mountain called Cangyunling, sixty miles west of Zheng Village, according to the accounts of the nearby people, the number of this group of bandits was about twenty or thirty people, and it was rumored that the bandit leader was an ordinary hunter under Cangyunling Mountain.

Once hunting in the mountains, the small landlord in the village took advantage of his absence to rape his daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law hanged herself in shame, and after the angry hunter returned, he washed the small landlord's family with a knife and gun that night, and then in order to avoid the pursuit of the county government, he pulled a few like-minded people to Cangyunling to do the banditry.

may be the reason for his background, after this Orion became the king of the mountain, he did not do too much evil, especially never robbed ordinary people, but specialized in guns, rich and powerful but rich and unkind landlords, local tyrants and inferior gentry, bloody means, almost every robbery is a bloodbath, the old and the young are not left!

This also created his prestige within a radius of dozens of miles in Cangyunling, and under his deterrence, some of the remaining landlords within dozens of miles of Cangyunling Fangyuan did not dare to do too much evil, but often did some good deeds.

This is a kind of irony of the current season, where the landlords and gentry, who have most of the wealth of money and grain, are instead intimidated by a blood-stained bandit leader who is king of the mountain.

On the contrary, those corrupt officials and corrupt officials who bear the name of the national government have done nothing, allowing the local tyrants and inferior gentry and other strata to oppress and exploit the poor people at the bottom.

After listening to the people's narration, Qiao Youhua became interested in this bandit, to be honest, as a modern soldier with a strong sense of justice, Qiao Youhua still admires this Orion bandit's style of killing the rich and helping the poor.

Therefore, this time it is said that it is encirclement and suppression, but in fact, it is with the intention of forced landing, if such a person can be used for his own use and guide him to the battlefield of resistance against Japan, he will make the best use of his resources and talents.

There were only twenty or thirty bandits in Cangyunling, and they didn't have any heavy weapons they wanted, plus they had the intention to surrender, so Qiao Youhua didn't engage in any sneak attacks, but took more than 100 people from the Dragon Tooth Task Force to kill the bandits in Cangyunling Cottage.

There were already small bandits patrolling the mountain who rushed back in panic.

The cottage of the Cangyunling bandits was built on a high platform halfway up the mountain, and there was a cave behind the platform, and a simple gate and some wooden houses were built on the platform.

With such a building, the defensive ability is simply vulnerable, if Qiao Youhua has the heart to attack, he only needs the cooperation of grenadiers and machine gunners to easily break through this place.

In the cave on the mountain, Liu Yidao, the leader of the bandits, was drinking with several brothers who had died, and a frightened voice disturbed their interest: "Big brother! Eldest brother! Oh no, a group of people came down the mountain and surrounded our cottage! ”

"What?" Liu Yidao and several bandit leaders were shocked when they heard this, and they all stood up.

"How many people? Do you see clearly whether it is the official army or the peers? Liu Yidao asked.

"At least no less than two hundred, the unified military uniform, and the guys in their hands, are all serious and eighty-eight big covers, all of which are equipped with bright bayonets! Looks like it's supposed to be a regular army! "The little bandit said this.

Several of Liu Yidao's brothers who passed away changed color one after another, and a scarred face said to the side of the guts: "Big brother, it seems that he is here to encircle and suppress us, what should we do?" Did you fight with them? ”

"Yes, big brother, you say, what to do, it's a big deal to fight with them!" Several others chimed in.

Liu Yidao pondered for a while and said: "Since they are not in a hurry to attack, it means that there is some talk, monkey, tell the brothers to bring their fellow affairs, follow me to meet them, and see where they come from?!" ”