Section 2 New Military Uniforms

On the night of the warehouse fire, Yang Bangzi sent a signal soldier, rode a big mule to the horse post, and sent a message to Hong Mei: "Come quickly, transfer the third squadron to Chuankou." ”

The 3rd Squadron was still participating in the siege of Linglai on the front line of Shuibao Township, and after receiving the order, it went south in the starry night and arrived at Chuankou Town on time.

According to Yang Bangzi's instructions, Hong Mei divided the people of the third squadron into several groups, guarding the north, south, and west sides of the town, and the east side was close to the mountain cliff, and not a single sentry was released.

The cordon, the bright whistle and the dark whistle have just been arranged, and there are 100 people on the north avenue of the town, and the sentry stopped and checked, saying that the villagers who were withdrawn from Yinfang Town and other places have no way to live there, and they want to go to the south to go to relatives and friends.

Two village cadres led the team, explaining that a few days ago, the Eighth Road attacked Yinfang Town and robbed the devil's warehouse, and later a traitor told him that the Eighth Road was from Nanshan Wangzi Village, and now the village was plagued by the devils, and the rest of the villagers were all here.

After Hong Mei listened to the sentry's report, she rushed over to understand the situation, she heard Yang Bangzi mention a little about the matter of Nanshan Wangzi Village, or when she hit Yinfang Town, Yang Bangzi asked Lao Wuzi to move the rescue soldiers, and the third regiment was found in this Nanshan Wangzi Village.

At this time, Yang Bangzi was still on the way to the horse post to escort the supplies, and the fifth son was also looking for Lao Feng There was no news, and the two people involved were not in front of him, and there was no way to verify the specific situation.

It seems that what the village cadres said is true, they ran out in a hurry, and they didn't even hit a package or anything, adults and children, the elderly and women all had nothing but clothes, and many of them were barefoot.

Nanshan Wangzi Village is seventy or eighty miles away from here! Why did these fellows get here? Hong Mei was very puzzled, and wanted to ask the village cadres who led the team, the comrade known as the village chief opened his mouth, closed it again, put Hong Mei aside, and took out a piece of paper from his arms.

The piece of paper is a letter of introduction, which is written by the person in charge of the party organization in Yinfang Town to the person in charge of the Lingman Prefecture. The letter said that there had been a group of devils recently, all wearing the military uniforms of the Eighth Road, led by traitors, and specially attacking the villages around the devils' garrisons.

In this way, a small part of these more than 100 villagers still have to be evacuated, and a large number of ordinary people are still behind.

Hong Mei discussed the situation with the special committee members of several special districts who followed her to Kawaguchi, and then called the village cadres who led the team to learn about the situation in detail.

According to the cadres of this village, since the devils who went to sweep in the mountains withdrew to Yinfang Town, the battle arranged by our military region to besiege Linglai County and Linglai County has begun, and the military region has instructed the devils in Yinfang Town to cut off their ties with Laiyuan County and strive to squeeze them out of the base area.

However, after several rounds of siege and attack, the devils in Yinfang Town not only did not retreat, but a new situation appeared. The villages closest to the town were attacked by devils one after another, and all the houses were burned.

It stands to reason that these villages close to the devil's stronghold are also veterans of the long-term struggle against the devil, but they still suffered heavy losses, and there is only one reason, the devils who came to sneak attack were all led by traitors who were familiar with the road, and they were all wearing the military uniforms of our Eighth Road, so the people didn't suspect it at first, and when the devils rushed into the village, it was too late to resist and evacuate the whole village.

In view of this situation, the branch over there decided to withdraw all the villagers who were closer to Yinfang Town, and turn the entire town into a no-man's land within a few dozen miles, so that the villagers would not be harmed, and our troops would be able to distinguish the serious and fake Eighth Route Army in time.

Hearing the devil wearing the Eighth Route uniform, Hong Mei and they all looked at each other, they have been fighting for more than 4 years, and they only heard that our Eighth Route passed through the military uniform of the puppet army and the devil to touch the artillery tower to blow up the stronghold, and this is the first time I heard that the devil also came to this trick.

After understanding the matter clearly, the letter of introduction and the cadres who led the team also confirmed that it was true, Hong Mei estimated that the villagers who arrived later would be coming, so she arranged for someone to hurry up to vacate the house, clean the courtyard, and prepare to receive the villagers.

When the village chief of Nanshan Wangzi, who still had bandages on his arm, was about to go out, he also said: "That guy is wearing a new and brand-new military uniform of our Eighth Route Army!" Others didn't care, but Hong Mei really branded the words "new military uniform" in her heart.

Sure enough, there were a lot, from the arrival of the first batch of villagers from Nanshan Wangzi Village, to the time of the lantern, seven or eight groups of people came one after another, more than two or three hundred, less than eighty or ninety people, basically all of them were villagers who had nowhere to go after the devils swept the village.

Fortunately, the people in Kawaguchi Town have almost gone in the past few years, either letting the devils scourge them, or hiding far away, and the village households who will not come back for a while and a half are rich in empty houses. After working until midnight, Hong Mei and the others finally settled down a thousand people.

Kawaguchi Town has been cold for almost a year, and now the adults are crying and the dogs are chirping, which is more lively than when the population was full!

was busy with the group, and Hong Mei didn't forget one thing, that is, the special task that Yang Bangzi gave her when she left. Seeing that the villagers had basically eaten and drunk, and had a place to sleep and rest, Hong Mei took the time to go to the south of the town to see how the special mission was going?

What's a special mission? It turned out that when Yang Bangzi left, he told that if the people of the third squadron came, they would put the cordon out, and the rest of the people would change shifts and go to the open space in the south to build a few large shacks with the remaining bricks and broken beams from the burned warehouse, and cut shrubs and jujube trees in the outer circle and build a fence.

Yang Bangzi specially explained that when he was working, he had to shout vigorously, this is to repair the warehouse, and prepare to store the important materials to be transported.

Building houses and building shacks, for these soldiers from the village, it is all homely work! When Hong Mei came, the fence had already been circled, and the nearly one-person-high fence wall was made of shrub branches, pasted with yellow mud to thicken, and sour jujube trees were erected outside.

The foundation of the fence has been dug and the wooden shelves have taken shape. The crushed wheat straw and the adobe with yellow mud were laid out on the ground, and the walls could be built when the sun dried in the morning, and the straw mats to be used as roofs were also braided in rolls and piled on the ground.

According to the progress of the project, the warehouse will be completed at noon, and there will be no delay in the storage of the materials that Yang Bangzi and they brought back.

Look at the dial, it will be dawn in three hours, Hong Mei is a little tired, turn around to greet the guards, go back to the brigade headquarters to rest and rest, there are still many things to deal with at dawn.

The newly recruited guard is also a female soldier, guess which one? The old blind man's daughter! The old blind man Zhang Desheng figured it out, no longer pretending to be blind and mixing the rivers and lakes, and said that he moved his brother and brother Ervulture, and threw eight roads together, although there was no official official and a half-job, he also carried a box gun and led the team to restore the spirit of being a soldier.

There is only one thing that can't be placed, that is, the only adopted daughter of the life-saving benefactor, and the adopted daughter Xiaojin Suo, who suffers with herself. The new Second Division and the Independent Brigade are all bald and green scoops in Yishui, all of them are old men, Zhang Desheng can't go anywhere, and he still takes his adopted daughter with him, and he is looking for something to do in the place, and he is not at ease when the army is in chaos.

After thinking about it, it didn't settle down, but Hongmei received a message from Yang Bangzi and came to Kawaguchi Town, and the insoluble knot in Zhang Desheng's heart was opened.

After talking about it, he finally left the little golden lock for Hong Mei to be a guard. The little girl doesn't look at the thin bones, but the heart is alive and has eyesight. In addition, when he was a child, he followed his father who picked herbs and dug ginseng to fiddle with knives and guns, and later Zhang Desheng taught him how to punch and kick or something, so it was just right for Hong Mei to be a guard!

Hong Mei thought about it, it was really inconvenient for her to be a woman in a gay army, leaving a little girl by her side, like a sister, and taking care of each other, looking at the appearance of the little golden lock, it was strange to find people, so she nodded and stayed.

After two days, Hong Mei was very happy, her rough and pulling personality, like a man's wife, with Xiao Jinsuo's thoughtful follow, it was really worry-free and effort-saving, and the two of them were really like sisters.

Talking and laughing, he walked back to the team headquarters along the bluestone road, and suddenly Xiao Jinsuo frowned, stopped, his eyes were wide open, and he grabbed Hong Mei's arm, flashed, and leaned against the gable on the side of the street.

Hong Mei didn't know what was going on, and just wanted to ask, Xiao Jinsuo pointed to the front with his finger, and nodded his chin to that side, signaling Hong Mei to take a look.

By the moonlight, I took a closer look with my eyes, and I really saw something! On the roof of the big smoke house, which has been closed for a long time, a black shadow is piled up on the ridge!