If you count Sanqiao County and its surrounding three counties, including Baoyuan County, which is occupied by little devils, all together, and select which village supports the army the most, I am afraid that no village will obey others.

However, if there is a selection of which village is the toughest among these four counties, it is definitely Kaiping Village in Baoyuan County, and no one dares to disagree.

Originally, the village had 98 households and nearly 400 people.

Since the little devils occupied this place, many young people in this village initially organized militia resistance on their own, and then the guerrillas came, and many of them joined the guerrillas.

The reason why it became famous is because for the first time, the little devils came to this village to track down the wounded partisans. When the militia found out, they reported it to the villagers in time, and the villagers hurriedly moved. However, because there were eight families who did not believe that the little devils could be so cruel, and because there were many elderly people in the family, they could not be transferred out in a short time, so the thirty-nine people of these eight families were caught by the little devils on the flat dam at the entrance of the village, and they were forced to explain where the wounded guerrillas were hidden.

However, none of these eight families spoke up from beginning to end, and in the end, they were all killed by the little devils...... Among them were four children under the age of six.

This aroused the anger of the villagers of Kaiping Village.

More than half a month later, the little devil sent a team and came again.

However, this time, because the guerrillas were stationed in the village, everyone was in the mountains to block the little devils, and the little devils were negligent, so that the guerrillas not only succeeded in blocking the little devils outside the village, but also killed seven or eight little devils.

Although it is a temporary victory, everyone knows that the little devil will definitely come to take revenge.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that this time, the little devil not only sent a brigade, but also an artillery squadron...... Looking at the posture of the little devil, it is obvious that he wants to kill chickens and set an example for monkeys. Served Kaiping Village in a pot, so as to scare other villages.

It was precisely because of the addition of this artillery squadron that the guerrillas did not have the geographical advantage they occupied, but the guerrillas and the villagers still desperately blocked the attack and hurriedly organized everyone to take refuge in the deep mountains and old forests.

It's just that I didn't expect the little devils to use tactics when they hit a village.

On one side, they fought the guerrillas head-on, while on the other side they sent troops to bypass from behind and raid the village.

Under the sound of the east and the west, everyone could not resist and could only retreat.

Subsequently, the little devil also searched the mountain and shouted...... Anyway, a total of hundreds of villagers were caught.

The little devil also asked the villagers to tell the news about the wounded guerrillas and the hiding place, but as a result, none of the more than 100 villagers, from beginning to end, did not say a word, and even if an old man was stabbed to death with a bayonet in public by the little devil, not one of them spoke.

In the end, all of the more than 100 villagers were slaughtered by the little devils.

A few days later, the villagers returned.

After buying the bodies of the dead villagers and crying a lot, everyone wiped away their tears and made up their minds to fight the little devil to the end.

Then, the villagers* asked the assault regiment for guns through the guerrillas, and at the same time bought guns on the black market, and the children were equipped with red tassel guns and resolutely beat the little devils.

Soon, the little devil probably heard the wind and knew that the villagers of Kaiping Village were not convinced, and he suddenly came again in anger.

The villagers, who had suffered two losses, learned to be obedient this time, not only hid their grain in the forest early, but also began to run up the mountain as soon as they heard the gunshots, leaving the young and middle-aged to fight the little devils with the guerrillas. The most awe-inspiring thing and the most reflective of everyone's fight with the little devil to the end is that without waiting for the little devil to repeat his old tricks, he sent troops to attack from behind, and the villagers themselves set their houses on fire. It shows that everyone would rather destroy their homes than leave a grain of food for the little devils.

The little devil saw that there was nothing to grab, so he couldn't fight guerrillas with the guerrillas all over the mountains, but the little devil had no choice but to retreat.

When the little devil was gone, the villagers went down the mountain one after another to rebuild their houses.

Then there were three more times, all of them were sneak attacks, and the villagers took the initiative to order their freshly repaired houses, and when the little devils retreated, everyone rebuilt the houses. The little devil came, and then took the initiative to set fire to his newly repaired house...... It wasn't until the assault group launched an attack on Baoyuan County that the little devils in Baoyuan County focused their energy on dealing with the assault group, and relaxed the burning, killing and looting of Kaiping Village, so that Kaiping Village never took the initiative to set fire to their own houses again.

Not to mention anything else, just burning down their own house four times, how many people can do such a thing? What's more, anyone who is caught by a little devil, from a grandfather in his seventies and eighties to a child in his third or fourth year, even if he dies, he will not say a word, and there will not be a traitor in the whole village...... This kind of spirit of preferring to die and not yielding, and would rather destroy the family than fight the invaders to the end, makes anyone who has heard of these things admire them from the bottom of their hearts.

It is precisely because of the hardness of the villagers of Kaiping Village that Luo Yingjie, the captain and instructor of the armed engineering team behind the enemy line, led the team straight to Kaiping Village in Baoyuan County as soon as he received the appointment, and set up the headquarters of the armed engineering team behind the enemy in Kaiping Village. It is precisely because of the strong support of the villagers of Kaiping Village that the work of the Baoyuan County Armed Forces behind enemy lines is in full swing in this area.

At present, it is not only the headquarters of the military engineering team behind enemy lines, but also the headquarters and temporary hiding place of the special assault battalion composed of the third battalion of the assault regiment, the assault company, the artillery company, and the military engineering team behind enemy lines.

This special assault battalion was commanded by Qi Zixuan, commander of the third battalion, and Zhang Qingshan was the commander-in-chief. Originally, there was only such a team, but after the main force completed the task, it went straight to Qinglong Mountain, and wanted to support the battle of the fourth battalion of the assault regiment in Qinglong Mountain, but it was a step too late, and when the main force arrived, the army of the little devil in the middle of the road had all arrived in Sanqiao County.

Subsequently, the main regiment and the fourth battalion wanted to go to Sanqiao County to help, but as a result, the order of Zhang Qingshan, the commander-in-chief of the enemy before the battle, the fourth battalion went to the city of Sanqiao County to ambush and repair by the way, and the main regiment went straight to the county seat of Baoyuan County.

However, because it had not received Zhang Qingshan's order, the main force did not dare to take action against the county seat first, so it had to follow the previous order and lay dormant in a village called Xiaomazhuang more than 20 miles northwest of the county seat.

Kaiping Village is located in the mountains of more than 50 miles southeast of the county seat, surrounded by mountains and rivers, there is a mountain road in and out of the village, and it is relatively rugged and difficult to walk, which is why everyone will set up an ambush on the mountain road, although the little devil has a large number of troops, but it is still difficult to capture one of the important reasons.

It has been seven or eight days since everyone came to Kaiping Village, which is equivalent to seven or eight days of rest.

Not to mention, for people who have been marching and fighting for a long time, this suddenly stopped, and they rested for seven or eight days with nothing to do, and everyone really couldn't adapt to it, just like going to work for a long time and suddenly stopped, and they were really not used to it: in the first day or two, everyone was very happy that they didn't have to go out to exercise, they didn't need to train, and everyone did rest well in the past two days. However, in the next few days, everyone was not very comfortable, just because they were not used to resting like this.

Want to train?

Nowhere to go!

Kaiping Village itself is not big, and it is located in the mountains, where can there be such a large flat land for everyone to train. Besides, more than 1,000 people have poured in at once, and in addition to the need for special rooms for storing food and ammunition, how can there be such a large space for these more than 1,000 people to eat and chew? At present, the lawn is already full of simple straw huts, and just like that, each straw hut has to be squeezed into three or four people, barely enough.

If you want to walk around, you can't do that!

Although everyone admires the hard-boned folk customs of Kaiping Village very much, and they also know that there will be no traitors here, the question is, who can guarantee that when you wander around in the mountains, you will not meet a few people who collect medicine or chop wood?

Want to gamble?

Hey! The party, government, and military regulations clearly stipulate that gambling is not allowed, and who dares to violate it.

So, in the past few days, everyone has nothing to do, at most listening to the stories of the veterans and the like. However, there are more and more people attending night classes in the evenings, and the reason for this is not that they are too boring.

In the words of the soldiers, in the past few days, like a pig, half a catty of meat grows every day, and in another month, everyone will not have to fight devils, because they are too fat to run, it is better to sell them all as pigs.

Everyone says that they grow half a pound of meat every day, which is indeed an exaggeration, but it is true that they grow meat every day.

Because the people of Kaiping Village are really good to the Eighth Route Army, they are so good that they would rather sleep in their own shacks than give their houses to the Eighth Route Army to live in. The Eighth Route Army naturally wouldn't do this, and in the end, the village chief discussed with Qi Zixuan and reluctantly accepted to live in four houses temporarily: one for night school classes, one for storing food, weapons and ammunition, one for office, one for the medical staff who came with the army to rest and treat the soldiers and villagers, and one of them was specially reserved for Peng Tiejun, a demolition expert who came with the army - to be honest, in this era, intellectuals and professionals, whether they are soldiers or civilians, are very respectful to them. In terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, they will give the greatest help within their ability. In this respect, it is also a manifestation of everyone's thirst for knowledge.

Seeing that the soldiers would rather sleep under the eaves than go to the house to sleep, the people were very moved, and the next day, under the leadership of the village chief, the whole village was counted as one, and all went up the mountain to help the soldiers cut wood, and even the dolls went to cut thatch under the leadership of their mother and sister.

Hearing that the soldiers had brought only food and no food for dinner, the people took out everything they had...... Qi Zixuan politely refused at first, but he couldn't bear the enthusiasm of the people, so he had to buy it with money in the end, but the people left the bacon, live chickens and ducks and left, where are you going to give them money? So, Qi Zixuan decided that when he left, he would give some money to each family of the villagers, not much, but the courtesy was light and affectionate.

The soldiers stood guard, and many children helped to herd cattle and sheep on the one hand, and whenever they found any disturbance, even a snake swimming in the grass, they would immediately report it to the soldiers...... More active than the soldiers, but also vigilant, as if the fighters are not serious enough, it is both touching and funny.

In this warm atmosphere of the military and the people being close to each other and fighting devils together, Zhang Qingshan sent an order to act, and the soldiers who had rested enough immediately became energetic and prepared to do a great job......