Hu Weidong just wanted to shake his head, but when he saw that the old man secretly glanced at him, he immediately understood, knowing that if he didn't give these people hope, they would only die in despair like scattered sand, and even when the butcher's knife fell, they would not resist, just like before he came, so he nodded stubbornly and replied loudly, "Yes, Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee sent me here"

"Chairman, how is he, is he well?" "Where are the Red Army now?" When will you be back? The folks can let the white dog miserably! The voices of the masses suddenly rose into an uproar, interrupting Hu Weidong's words again, but fortunately, the old man came out in time to relieve the siege, "Everyone be quiet, now I invite the commissioner comrade to speak to you!" ”

The noise of the crowd immediately stopped abruptly, and it was obvious that this old man had a fairly high prestige in the village, and Hu Weidong finally adjusted his mood and began to talk eloquently. At first, he felt that he was not right to deceive, but when he saw the hope in everyone's eyes, he felt that he should have done it a long time ago. However, after all, Hu Weidong was not specialized in political work, and he completely lost his sense of proportion without saying a few words, and actually talked about the reasons for the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, but the big guys listened very carefully, and a former family member of the Red Army was even more silent, "No wonder, no wonder, in the past, the Red Army always won battles, and the Red Army fought more and more, and became stronger and stronger, but later it suffered losses again and again, the Red Army fought less and less, and Zuihou could not even keep the Soviet area, it turned out that Chairman Mao was no longer the head of our Red Army."

"Old man, don't be sad, I think Chairman Mao will definitely resume his post and lead the Red Army again." , Hu Weidong hurriedly comforted, anyway, it is now the end of 34, and the Zunyi meeting is not long away

Although the masses reacted enthusiastically, Hu Weidong quickly ended his speech and began to count the trophies of the first battle just now, there was a total of one shell gun and 32 rifles, but unfortunately the shell gun was an old model that could only shoot a single shot, and there were only two magazines including the magazine on the bullet, and it was only ten rounds, which means that this shell gun only had a dozen bullets. Although the 32 rifles are the mainstream rifles "made in Hanyang" before the Anti-Japanese War, most of them are relatively old, and there are many old goods with smoothed rifling, and even a few are "old sleeves" produced before the Republic of China

The size of this village is much larger than the previous one, and even after more than 100 people were killed by the returnee group, there are now more than 300 people in the village. Although the loss was great, after rekindling hope, the atmosphere in the village became active for a long time, especially after the announcement of Hu Weidong's preparation to form a militia team, the teenagers in the village immediately boiled, men, how many people don't like guns? Especially in the youthful and enthusiastic teenage years

But Hu Weidong didn't pull in just a person, but conducted a screening, for which he did not hesitate to consume some precious bullets and let the applicants take a simple test

"Do you all understand the shooting method I just mentioned?" , Hu Weidong looked at the more than 50 teenagers who signed up (when the Central Red Army left the Soviet area, almost all the healthy young men in Xingguo County followed, so the age structure of the masses left behind was obviously polarized. shouted.

"Got it!" At this time, the old man came out to explain to him that Xingguo County was a model county in the Soviet District, and the young people in the county had basically received some simple military training, so they were very familiar with queue discipline or something.

"It turns out that military training has been there for a long time, so it's the best, at least you can save a month." , Hu Weidong was naturally overjoyed, and then shouted loudly, "Those who can shoot guns stand on the left!" ”

I saw that I brushed the ground, except for those who were not as tall as the rifles, almost all of the older boys ran to the left...,

Hu Weidong couldn't help but jump his eyelids and asked, "Since you know how to shoot, Weishenme didn't join the Red Army?" (There were eleven or twelve-year-old red imps in the Red Army, so age was not an issue.) ）”

"It's just two or three rounds of ammunition per person, and they are not qualified to join the Red Army, especially in the past two years, ammunition has become increasingly scarce, and there are no bullets for them to train at all, and besides, there is also a need for labor in the locality, Comrade Commissioner used to work in the White Zone, right?" , The old man hurriedly pulled the corner of Hu Weidong's clothes, and secretly gave a hint, so as not to show more of his feet

"Yes, I grew up overseas, and it wasn't until I returned to China two years ago and read Chairman Mao's writings that I was revolutionary in my heart", Hu Weidong simply fabricated a background to avoid others from being suspicious because his behavior is not like the Chinese of this era, anyway, the people who know his shell identity should be gone, even if there is, with his age, it will not be long before his appearance will change significantly, as for the temperament, there has been a significant change since the crossing, and I am afraid that after a year or two, even if it is the father and mother of this new body, I am afraid that even if it is the father and mother of this new body, I am afraid that after a year or two, even if it is the father and mother of this new body, and may not recognize him. Moreover, Hu Weidong's words also laid foreshadowing, saying that "he read the work, and he was not directly sent by him to be influenced by the ideas in it", so that when someone finds fault in the future, he will be able to quibble, and as for whether everyone can hear it now, he doesn't care

"No wonder so learned! It turned out that he had stayed in the ocean! The villagers immediately discussed, and their eyes at Hu Weidong became more and more respectful and eager, but Hu Weidong, who had a strong sense of national self-esteem, couldn't help but shake his head secretly, "It seems that in this year, the tendency to worship foreigners is much more serious than ours back then!" But at least it's not a bad thing for me now."

Hu Weidong then picked out five rifles with similar workmanship, and asked each of those applicants to test shoot three shots, and selected 35 of them as candidates for the militia team, and then screened them again according to the results of many tests such as physical fitness, strength, and skill, and finally determined 24 candidates

But no matter what, with the 25-member militia team, Hu Weidong taught everyone the important tactical inventions of the people's war in later generations, such as the message tree, and the villagers were finally no longer as worried as before, and Hu Weidong could breathe a sigh of relief. But he also knew very well that peace would not last long, and soon more militia groups and even regular troops would come here to further clean up, and only by defeating them could the militia and the villagers survive, but on the other hand, no matter which side died, it would damage China's vitality and be detrimental to the future war of resistance, Hu Weidong couldn't help but worry, "How to solve this contradiction?" ”