Fern Third Republic, Eastern Jungle.

Cassie Lonergan sat against a large tree, gasping for air. Beside him, Yarrow Lynch, Tara and Hansen, on the left and right, sat by a tree not far from Cassie Lonergan, looking equally tired. Around them, the soldiers who had followed Cassie Lonergan out of Evadron were scattered to the ground, sitting or lying.

"We ...... Should get rid of them, right? ”

Cassie Lonergan took a moment to catch his breath and ask her own question. Ever since deciding to fight guerrillas, he and his team abandoned Rawadren and found an opportunity to leave the city and enter the jungle. For some time, they first wandered around the jungle for two days, escaping the initial enemy's tracking, and then began to look for a relatively fixed and hidden resting place in the jungle. Later, they found that they were running out of food and had to walk out of the forest. These people are workers and don't have much money on them. They went into the countryside and tried to ask for some food, but they were repeatedly refused. The guerrillas who fought for the rights and interests of the working class could not be recognized by the peasants, who were not very enthusiastic about supporting the revolution, and most of the peasants had to see money to give them some food. Cassie Lonergan and his team were mocked several times by these ignorant peasants, and then lost the idea of begging for food from them. The escaped workers scraped together money and bought some food from the peasants to survive the initial food crisis.

After all, the food that could be bought with money could not last long, and as the time of guerrilla in the jungle and the mountains increased, Cassie Lonergan's team faced a food crisis again. As a last resort, they began to search for food in the forest while planning to attack one of the government's granaries. However, the attack was detected by their enemies, and the army in charge of the local defense set up an ambush to catch the guerrillas who were carrying grain from the granary. Cassie Lonergan and his team fought desperately, and only with the courage to defy death, did they escape most of the time. However, the government's will to eliminate their guerrillas was very resolute, and the pursuers followed them closely, and could not get rid of them. Cassie Lonergan took the rest of his team around the forest for half a day before he was able to temporarily escape his pursuers.

"I don't know", Yarrow Lynch's voice was a little weak, because of the shortage of food recently, several of them have not eaten much, "This forest is the most familiar to us, even if we can't get rid of it now, if we run again, we should be able to get rid of it." ”

"At that time, we should have taken out the coffers of those two banks, so that we didn't have to worry about the problem of grain, and I didn't believe that those farmers would give it if they used the money to buy grain!"

Tara and Hansen saw Cassie Lonergan open her mouth and began to complain. When they were evacuating Evadrun, they had the opportunity to take the banknotes and gold from the vaults of the city's two banks. But Cassie Lonergan, out of some insistence, didn't bring it. This also led directly to the economic strain of the guerrillas.

"The food is fine, and the medicinal herbs are not easy to buy", Yarrow Lynch supported Cassie Lonergan's practice of not taking bank property at the time. But the guerrilla life during this period had obviously changed him. His hair was unkempt, his beard was unkempt, and his face was still a little yellow, revealing a noticeable malaise.

"It's ...... too", Cassie Lonergan heard the two companions mention it more than once, and he regretted it a little in his heart. At first, he thought, how can proletarian revolutionaries kill people and steal things like those robbers? He did not take away the contents of the bank vault. But the facts have ruthlessly hit his innocence, in this country, even if it is a guerrilla war, it is not possible to do it without money.

"We have to find a way to find money", Cassie Lonergan suggested, "find a way to find a stable source of income so that the guerrillas can continue." ”

"But where do we go to find the money?" Yarrow Lynch sat up straight, "We are all workers, so we can only work and get paid. Now we don't have a job, we cats in the woods every day, where do we get the money? Without money, what do we use to buy medicine and food, and what kind of revolution do we take? ”

"yes, let's rob it? Isn't that exactly the same as banditry? If we really want to mix like that, we might as well not rebel in the first place. ”

Tara and Hansen also moved over, "Chairman Lonergan, you are our leader now, you tell me, how do we fight?" And how to overthrow the government of this capitalist country and establish a proletarian regime? ”

Cassie Lonergan frowned, not knowing how to answer. The problems they encountered in guerrilla warfare were so specific that a few articles in the "Fluorite" were far from being able to give them answers. And in the absence of answers, they can only look for the right direction little by little.

"But you can't do it without guerrillas", Yarrow Lynch turned around again, "At that time, we could only die by defending Evadron, the enemy was too strong, and our soldiers died quickly, if we didn't run at that time, it is estimated that we would have either been captured and killed, or we would have completely lost the uprising and were wandering around." Although our current state is not good, the ranks of the revolution are still there, the people are still there, and we have not lost yet. If we hadn't fought guerrilla warfare at that time, we would have lost! ”

"There are some mountain treasures in the forest, let the soldiers collect some, can you sell them for some money?" Cassie Lonergan is still thinking about making money, "Or if we open up some land in the forest and grow our own food, won't we not have to buy food?" ”

"How much can you earn?" Tara and Hansen were a little unimpressed, "And isn't it to fight guerrillas, if we plant the land, we won't be tied to the ground." If the enemy discovers the land we planted, won't we be in vain? ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you have a way?" Yarrow Lynch was a little dissatisfied, and along the way, Tara and this person kept complaining, "There's no way to just complain, can you eat enough if you complain?" ”

"You!"

Tara and Hansen suddenly stood up and glared at Yarrow Lynch, "You have a way, do you want to find a way?" ”

"I'm not as dissatisfied as you are!"

Yarrow Lynch also stood up, and his voice became louder. The surrounding soldiers also began to gather when they saw that the two leaders were about to have a conflict.

"Okay, okay, it's the first time, take your time, take your time", Cassie Lonergan stood up and separated the two, "This kind of thing, we are all first, it is inevitable that there will be some thoughtlessness. After all, revolution is not a dinner party, it is not so easy, the key is to unite, only by unity, we can find a way, right? ”

Tara, Hansen, and Yarrow Lynch glared at each other and sat down. Both of them were still angry and did not speak. Seeing that the two of them did not speak, Cassie Lonergan spoke to herself.

"We thought simply, thinking that as long as there was a revolution, we would be victorious. But I didn't expect there to be so many details. Now our goal, I think, should be adjusted from gathering enough troops as soon as possible to overthrow the capitalist regime of Aziva Rand to a simpler goal. ”

Cassie Lonergan paused at the simpler target, and sure enough, he caught the attention of his two companions. They all looked at Cassie Lonergan, waiting for him to finish.

"—that is, to live."

Hearing Cassie Lonergan's goal, Yarrow Lynch, Tara and Hansen froze for a moment, and just wanted to complain that Lonergan's goal was too simple. But it only took a few seconds for them to understand what Cassie Lonergan meant.

"Indeed, survival is the most important thing", Yarrow Lynch nodded, "Now that we can't even eat enough, what can we say about overthrowing the capitalist regime?" The most important thing is to live first and fill your stomach. ”

"That's right, isn't that coming back again, how can I find money?" Tara and Hansen frowned, "If you don't rob, you can only go find some wild game to sell as the head said, and then farm your own land." ”

"Let's settle this for now, and then we'll slowly improve", Cassie Lonergan temporarily ended the discussion with a sentence, "There is a more urgent task today, we have to get rid of the enemy's pursuit, and after that, we will talk about other things." ”

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Two days later, Cassie Lonergan's guerrillas found a relatively secluded cave on a mountain known to the locals as Bald Peak. They simply settled down here and began to cultivate a small area of arable land around the area and collect wild game from the mountains. However, the progress of these efforts was much more difficult than they expected. First, most of the comrades who participated in the revolution were workers and did not have much experience in various fields, and second, the collected mountain treasures and game were inconvenient to store and would soon spoil. The comrades who were sent out to sell could not find a stable market, and they managed to sell some of them, but the prices were also very low by those merchants, and they were completely unable to meet the needs of the guerrillas.

"In the past two days, more than a dozen people have run", sitting at the small stone table in the cave, Tara and Hansen are naked, holding half a glass of water, "and if it goes on like this, everyone has run out." ”

"It's hard time in the mountains, and if someone doesn't want to, I think it's acceptable," says Cassie Lonergan, sitting across from Tara and Hansen, rubbing his wrist. In the past few days, he has been trying to sow rye, but he has not learned the essentials, and he has injured his wrist, which is very painful.

"But the team can't stand it anymore, now we have less than 2,000 people in total, and if we run away a few more, there will be no more people", Tara and Hansen frowned, "and there are so many people, there is no food to eat, I see that some comrades have begun to eat grass and leaves these days, we will definitely not wait for this batch of grain to be planted." ”

"It would be nice to have a few experienced hunters," Cassie Lonergan sighed. He always remembered the teachings of "EZVIZ" about the revolution, that the leaders of the revolution must not engage in specialization, and must take the lead in order to unite comrades. In the past few days, he has followed his comrades in farming, hunting, and picking, and has put a lot of effort into it, but he has also realized that it is not easy to survive. The summer forest was supposed to be a treasure trove, but their inexperienced reckless men had difficulty filling their stomachs.

"Orion......", Tara and Hansen hesitated for a moment, deciding to tell Cassie something, "Yesterday we caught two Orions, and they found our land. We were afraid that they would go out and say that they would attract pursuers, so we locked them up. ”

"Really?" , Cassie Lonergan was a little excited, saying that Orion really came to Orion, and it seems that his luck is not so bad.

"Check it out!"

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In order to prevent the cave from being discovered, the two hunters were tied to a tree near the newly cultivated farmland, and when Cassie Lonergan and his two companions found them, they were napping against the tree. The one on the left was gray-haired and noticeably older, and the one on the right had only a few sparse beards on his chin, and he looked to be less than twenty. Although Cassie Lonergan knows the living habits of Orion too well, he can also see that these two are probably father and son.

"Fellow, fellow?"

Awakening the two hunters softly, the older one looked warily at the people standing in front of him, and elbowed the young man behind him, interrupting the man's thoughts.

"Master Bing, we are hunters who live in the mountains, and we revolve around the mountains and forests every day, with neither money nor property. A few soldiers look like good people, I don't know if we can let our father and son go back? If you don't go back for so long, the mother-in-law at home should be in a hurry. ”

"Uncle", Cassie Lonergan bent down and ordered the people around him to untie the ropes between the two of them, leaning over to help the old man pinch the tied blue wrists, "We are not bandits, we are a revolutionary team, and we will not bully people." If you want to go back, you can, and we're always ready to let you go. However, we were also forced to get to this point, and there were many people outside who wanted to kill us, so we hid in the mountains and escaped. If you want to talk about the poor, everyone is the same. ”

The old man moved back vigilantly when Cassie Lonergan approached him, but when he found that the middle-aged man had actually helped him pinch his wrist, the vigilance in his eyes turned into surprise. He gently pushed Cassie's hand away and continued to plead.

"Master Bing, they are all poor people, so it will be better for everyone to talk", he pulled his son and looked at Cassie with pleading eyes, "You just let us go, we promise not to say it." ”

"I'm sure you won't say that," Cassie Lonergan helped the old man up, "you can go back whenever you want." But it's so late, I'm not familiar with the mountains and forests, isn't it safe to go back so late? It just so happens that we are about to eat and rest, you and this young man, why don't you rest here for one night and leave tomorrow?" ”

The old man wanted to refuse at first, but after looking at his son, he still couldn't make up his mind. The forest at night is even more dangerous, and even old hunters have to tread carefully. His son is not very experienced, and it is really not safe for the two of them to travel back at night. Moreover, they had not eaten much for a day of being tied up, and both of them were a little hungry.

Cassie Lonergan saw that the old man did not speak, and knew that it was almost done. He led them to a makeshift camp not far away, brought them food, and then began to talk to the two old men about the origin of their team. From how the workers were exploited, to how they resisted, to the sacrifices and battles of the comrades. The old man and the young man didn't expect the team in front of them to have such a past, and gradually listened to it. Occasionally, there would be a small exclamation for their sacrifice and the difficulties they encountered.

Gradually, the night was dark, and the workers and hunters around the small campfire were still chatting in a low voice. The starry sky in the night is dazzling, and the bright moon is bright, like a beautiful painting.