Spring, the season of revival of all things, is also a very important season. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen once wrote that planting a grain of millet in spring will harvest 10,000 seeds in autumn.

For farmers, this spring sowing is related to the harvest of the year, and no one dares to ignore the belly of the whole family.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were scattered to various mountains and villages, also devoted themselves to farming in addition to training.

What we insist on is what the enemy opposes.

The devils also knew the importance of farming to the Eighth Route Army, so the more they arrived at this time, the more they launched a frenzied sweep.

In the mountain village, Wu Zhongliang, the leader of the third platoon, led a dozen militiamen who had just become soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, guarding the enemy on the one hand and participating in field work on the other.

Suddenly, a small tree on the hill shook three times in succession, which was a signal from the watchout militia that the enemy was coming.

"Folks, the little devil is here, hide in the tunnel."

Wu Zhongliang immediately directed the masses in the fields to move.

Every house in the village has dug tunnels and opened up to each other, and there is an exit far away from the village, which is enough to escape the sweep of the little devils.

After making sure that there were no worries, he led the warriors up the hill and disappeared in a grove of trees.

Most of the swept enemies were the Imperial Cooperative Army, and there were only twenty or thirty devils, who together formed a sweeping brigade of more than 100 people.

They stopped near the mouth of the ditch, and an officer on horseback looked up the hill with a telescope, apparently fearing an ambush.

Wu Zhongliang saw it clearly, and with a "snap" shot, he knocked him off his horse, and the other fighters also aimed at the target and fired. In an instant, there was a burst of gunfire, and five or six enemies fell.

But how could the enemy suffer such a loss, accompanied by the roar of the devil officer's attack, the enemy seemed to go crazy, relying on more soldiers and more guns, shouting and rushing towards the place where the gunfire rang out.

However, how could the hillside be so easy to climb, it took a long time to exert effort, and two Japanese soldiers were blown away by a mine buried in the mountain, but when they climbed to the top of the mountain, there was not even a single figure.

At this moment, suddenly another gunshot rang out behind them, and several Japanese soldiers fell in response.

It turned out that when the enemy climbed up this side of the mountain, Wu Zhongliang and his soldiers had made a detour and moved to the opposite mountain.

The enemy is not stupid, and he knows that if he continues to chase down, he will have to let the Eighth Route Army die here little by little, so he can only leave with a corpse in ashes.

In this battle alone, seven guns and more than 300 rounds of ammunition were captured, at the cost of only a few dozen bullets and a soldier's arm cut by a tree branch.

Nor is the enemy the one who suffers.

One night seven days later, the soldiers who went out to guard reported to Wu Zhongliang that a small squad of devils and a company of puppet soldiers passed through the mountain village and walked eastward with unknown intentions.

Wu Zhongliang took out the map captured from the devil, and after pondering, he judged that the enemy might be the superior who went to attack Liujiawan in the east, Chen Qiao's headquarters.

Since the platoons were also dispersed, the company headquarters in Liujiawan, plus the newly trained soldiers, was only about 30 people. In the face of such an enemy, if you are unprepared, you will definitely be more than lucky.

He led these dozen soldiers to take a shortcut and run towards Liujiawan, wanting to get ahead of the enemy and inform Chen Qiao to get ready.

By the time the guerrilla group arrived at Liujiawan, Chen Qiao had already taken people to transfer. At this time, the enemy was also discovered in the other direction, proving that the enemy had indeed attacked Liujiawan in two ways.

Wu Zhongliang was in a hurry, "Comrades, follow me up the mountain." ”

He immediately led a dozen warriors up a hill beside the main road and defended the mountain.

As soon as the enemy arrived, after Wu Zhongliang's gunshot, the soldiers fired at the enemy on both sides at the same time.

The enemies on both sides had no contact with each other, and they all thought that they had encountered the Eighth Route Army, so they launched a formation and attacked the mountain. grenadiers,

Light machine guns, bullets, and grenades hit the hill very densely, and flying rocks flew everywhere.

At this moment, Wu Zhongliang took the opportunity to sneak down the mountain with the soldiers, avoiding the situation of being attacked from both sides. Instead, let the enemies on both sides shoot at each other.

After fighting for more than half an hour, the two enemies found out that it was their own family and their own family, and there was a misunderstanding.

In this battle, the Japanese puppet army suffered thirty or forty casualties in a daze, and when these guys went back, they didn't know how many mouths they suffered, which can be described as extremely unlucky.

This is not the end, when the spring farming is completed, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are idle, and the enemy will suffer.

In the spirit of finding something to do if there is nothing to do, Yuan Pengfei gave instructions to the cadres at all levels of the second battalion to take the initiative to attack.

Wu Zhongliang brought out three platoons, which had doubled in size, and took a squad as a center and a group of three or five people, and adopted a scattered and concealed method to ambush the enemy's frequent haunts, see the opportunity, and kill and wound the enemy with cold guns.

On the first day they got off to a good start, and a small force of the enemy, not knowing what to do, happened to pass through the ambush area of the third platoon.

All the enemies had just passed, and three gunshots rang out behind them, and three enemies fell to the ground.

This wave of enemies has not yet suffered the loss of the sparrow war, thinking that the opponent is only three people, and they turned around and chased after it wantonly and arrogantly.

However, as soon as they had chased more than 200 meters, two gunshots suddenly rang out on their right side, and another enemy fell to the ground.

This wave of enemies had no choice but to chase after them with the sound of gunfire. But before he could run far, two more gunshots rang out somewhere, and the people around him fell to the ground again.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were like walking dogs, playing with them among the mountains. By the time they had worked hard to chase from this mountain to that ravine, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army would have long since disappeared.

When they were stunned, there would be another burst of gunfire from the side, so they had to turn around and chase again, but they ran back and forth, but found nothing.

The Japanese puppet army chased less and less, and there was only a small half left in half a day, but when they wanted to escape, it was too late. The remaining eleven or twelve fell to the ground after the last two rows of gunfire.

In this battle alone, more than 20 Japanese puppet soldiers were eliminated, and the same amount of guns and ammunition was captured, while the soldiers of the third platoon were almost unscathed because they were familiar with the terrain.

This is sparrow warfare, fighting devils like sparrows foraging for food, never in groups, most of them are one or two, three or five, more than a dozen, flickering east and west, gathering and scattering, small targets, fast speed, and flexible action. The enemy is often killed and wounded, without knowing where the bullets are coming from.

Moreover, there is also a set of enemies selected for Sparrow Warfare, a single enemy or a small number of enemies who have left the team and fallen behind, as well as sentries and guards around the enemy's stronghold. They are all targets that the warriors capture and shoot in sparrow warfare.

The former means a big harvest, often a single bullet, you can capture a rifle, and dozens of bullets.

The latter, on the other hand, consumes the enemy's vital strength, causing great panic to the enemy, so that he does not dare to be presumptuous anymore.

And for the three rows, two or three, four or five a day, although the number is not much, but it is also a big number if it can't stand up to add up to a lot.

Therefore, the independent regiment did not have a big war during this time, but it relied on small battles such as sparrow warfare and mine warfare.

The regimental staff office's statistical table of combat achievements increased every day to the number of Japanese troops destroyed, usually in the dozen or twenty, and at most in fifty or sixty.

In this way, the Japanese army was knocked out several pieces piecemeal, causing the mobile troops to be full of soldiers and trees, and even panicked when they saw the terrain conducive to the concealment of the guerrilla groups.

Become "dare not rely on the mountains, dare not cross the ditch, and dare not enter the forest".

And there is another advantage in sparrow warfare, because the enemy often can't find anyone, so the casualties of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are almost very small, plus there are many captures. This gives each platoon a chance to grow and grow.

Wu Zhongliang's third platoon, in June alone, expanded from more than 20 people at the lowest casualties to more than 80 people in seven squads in one go. This is not counting the militia organizations in each village, which add up to him as a company commander.

The enhancement of the strength of his subordinates is the enhancement of Yuan Pengfei.

He sat at home, looking at the growing data every day, not to mention the beauty, just waiting to be the head of the group.

Liu Ruonan: "Head Yuan? ”

Yuan Pengfei: "Hey! It's so comfortable. ”

Liu Ruonan: "Then don't come back quickly, Sister Xiuqin is still waiting for me!" ”

Grand Master Yuan ran back in a hurry, helped his wife carry her bags, and prepared to leave for the regiment headquarters.

There's no way, let his wife recognize such a sister! He is not at ease when he walks a long way, so he can only do it himself.