The meeting held by the old village chief was very simple, and after briefly explaining the meeting to be held tomorrow, the place and time, he said:

"Tomorrow, bring the weapons captured by Comrade Xia Yuan, there is also a great shortage of weapons and equipment in the district, I have asked my superiors for these weapons and equipment, we can keep some of them ourselves, and the rest will be supported by the guerrillas in other villages."

The guerrillas and militias were not regular troops, they had no formation, no weapons and equipment, no heavy firepower, and a single gun far exceeded their lives.

Don't say that Xia Yuan captured more than 20 guns, even if he captured 10 guns, it was also a great achievement.

Because if you want to capture a gun, you often have to sacrifice three people, or even more, and it is a process from scratch.

Therefore, the old village chief attaches great importance to this, in addition to this matter, there is one more thing, that is, Xia Yuan's application for joining the party, whether it is the seizure of weapons and equipment, or the concept of tunnel warfare, is a great achievement, which is enough for Xia Yuan to complete the application for joining the party.

When it comes to weapons and equipment, the old village chief still sighs, for now, with this batch of weapons and equipment captured by Xia Yuan, their Gaojiazhuang is the first to benefit, and some of the guerrillas have their own weapons and equipment, but weapons and equipment are still very lacking, and many people do not have weapons and equipment.

Except for a few guns left in Gaojia Village, the rest of the guns had to be handed over to the guerrillas and militia in other villages, because the difficult anti-Japanese situation did not only appear in Gaojiazhuang, but also the guerrillas and militia in several nearby villages and even the entire anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines were very short of weapons and equipment.

In some villages, they don't even have a decent gun, and the guns they have captured, given them one, can even change their current predicament, and even rely on the only one gun they have, to seize more guns. Therefore, do not underestimate the more than 20 guns seized, if one village gets two, it can be divided among several villages, so that fewer people can die.

The old village chief sat on the stool, thought about it again and again, and said, "The meeting will be dismissed first, Xia Yuan will stay, and I will tell you something alone."

Xia Yuan nodded: "Okay."

Uncle Lao Zhong got up and said, "Then make a decision like this for the time being, and tomorrow you can go to the meeting with peace of mind, and the affairs of the village will be handed over to me, Chuanbao, and Lin Xia."

The old village chief nodded, "Everyone else has to work hard, the Japanese devil sweep will not end like this, sooner or later it will be our turn, we will dig the tunnel deeper, and then the safety of the villagers will be improved."

Everyone nodded in unison, and Gao Chuanbao cut the railway: "Village Chief, don't worry, we will definitely dig harder to dig the tunnel, and strive to dig the tunnel in the shortest possible time."

The old village chief patted him and said, "It's one thing to be in a hurry, but we must also ensure the safety, concealment, and firmness of the tunnel, after all, the tunnel is for comrades to fight against the Japanese devils, and our tunnels will collapse as soon as the Japanese devils' grenades explode."

Everyone nodded in unison again, everyone had a thoughtful look on their faces, everyone was thinking, thinking about how to make the tunnel safe, hidden, and firm, so that the devil's grenade could not collapse the tunnel, so that even if the devil dug up the tunnel, there was no way to pull them all out, even if it was poisoned or watered.

Everyone is thinking, and when they go, they are still thinking.

When the crowd had dispersed, the old village chief pointed to the empty stool and said, "Sit down and speak."

After Xia Yuan sat down, the old village chief took a glass of water for Xia Yuan, slowly put down the kettle, and said, "Drink some water and moisten your throat."

Xia Yuan nodded, took a sip of the water cup, and said, "Village Chief, just say anything about it."

The old village chief nodded and said, "Then I won't beat around the bush, that's the case, you have also seen the situation in Gaojia Village, don't say it's the militia, even the weapons and equipment of the guerrillas are like this, and they can only be captured little by little from the devils, and the anti-Japanese situation can be described as extremely difficult."

Listening to the words of the old village chief, Xia Yuan basically understood in his heart.

He asked, "Village Chief, do you want to take advantage of the night to take advantage of the night and come from the devil."

He added, "But it won't

It's too reckless, the tunnel hasn't been dug yet, and the superiors won't agree to such an action."

From Changjin Lake to my regiment, along the way, Xia Yuan also understood a truth, the duty of a soldier is to obey orders, any spontaneous action is not advisable, and the overall situation must not be abandoned because of the weak interests in front of him, especially in the base areas behind the anti-Japanese enemy, which has been profoundly confirmed.

It is also very profoundly reflected in the bright sword.

Therefore, even if Xia Yuan had the ability to destroy a Japanese artillery tower alone, he did not act alone, and if he destroyed a Japanese artillery tower, someone had to pay for his solo action, and there was no doubt that the people who paid the bill were ordinary people living in enemy-occupied areas.

The old village chief shook his head and said, "No, we may take joint action, the current situation is not only the situation of Gaojiazhuang's anti-Japanese resistance to the degree of difficulty, but also in the district, since the anti-Japanese war was launched on the whole front, weapons and equipment were given priority to the regular army, and the weapons and equipment allocated in the district were very few, and there were several villages in the district, and the weapons and equipment that were really distributed to each village were even less, and the Japanese army was so rampant in sweeping, we naturally could not sit idly by, and always have to take action, Therefore, in addition to the idea of tunnel warfare and the surrender of weapons and equipment, there is also a more important proposal for going to the meeting this time, that is, to seize weapons and equipment!"

Xia Yuan fell into deep thought, and then asked, "What are you going to do?"

The old village chief said, "You are more experienced than us in this area."

Xia Yuan understood and asked, "Let me lead the team?"

The old village chief said: "This plan still needs to be mentioned to the district, and it can only be implemented after the organizational consent, and besides, I heard from the bullfrog that you often train in the village?"

Xia Yuan nodded, "Training can improve personal ability, and you can appear comfortable in action."

The old village chief looked up at him, and for a moment he found that he couldn't see through Xia Yuan, which made the old village chief fall into deep thought, staring at Xia Yuan's dusty cheeks, "You can have such a mental awareness, I didn't expect it, to be able to escape from the hands of devils, you have to have a certain ability, which is also related to your regular training?"

Xia Yuan nodded, "Yes, training can enhance physical fitness, strengthen personal skills, and running regularly can improve your endurance, so that the devil can't catch up with you."

Healthy sports are something that has never existed in this society, but people in this era also know about military training.

"Training, training."

The old village chief was thoughtful, raised his head and looked at Xia Yuan with burning eyes: "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll act after getting instructions from my superiors."

Xia Yuan stopped talking, he had already guessed in his heart what the old village chief wanted to do, and after saying hello to the old village chief, Xia Yuan got up and left.

Seeing Xia's back far away, the old village chief took a sip of tea and muttered, "To have such a sense of thought and vision, his family is not ordinary."

Uncle Zhong left and returned, and asked, "How is it?"

The old village chief pushed the tea to Uncle Lao Zhong's side and said, "As you think, Xia Yuan's ideological consciousness is much higher than what we think."

Uncle Zhong smiled and said, "My eyes are very accurate in seeing people."

The old village chief smiled, and Uncle Zhong restrained his smile and asked, "Do you need to test again?"

The smile on the old village chief's face gradually disappeared, and he shook his head and said, "No need, he has already been tested, and the authentic ideas are provided by him, if he is really sent by the Japanese devils, there is no need to come to this set at all."

Uncle Zhong thought for a moment, "Village Chief, you're right, Comrade Xia Yuan has passed the organizational test!"

The old village chief said: "But it also reminds us that Xia Yuan was not sent by the devils, but I don't know if the Japanese devils will send some puppet soldiers to disguise themselves as refugees into the village in the future, so that the villagers who are investigating will keep their eyes open, especially in the recent period, the devils have swept away and fled."

There are more people."

Uncle Lao Zhong nodded: "Village Chief, don't worry, with me watching here, I will definitely not let the devil succeed."

"Hmm! After we leave, the village will be handed over to you and Chuanbao, and the tunnel will also speed up the process, and the district will write from today that the devils have completed the eastern sweep, and more than a dozen villages have suffered." The old village chief sighed.

Hearing this, Uncle Lao Zhong clenched his fists, and his eyes erupted with anger: "There are more than a dozen villages, are there any alive!?"

The old village chief shook his head: "The three-light policy implemented by the devils will not leave a single person alive, and the comrades who went came back and said that the blood flowed from the village to the entrance of the village, and the devils dug a pit, and some comrades found charcoal-burned corpses in the pits, and the remnants were left."

Uncle Lao Zhong scolded and scolded the devil for being a beast.

The old village chief said solemnly, "We must not let such a scene be staged in Gaojiazhuang!"

Uncle Zhong stood up with a determined glint in his eyes, "Absolutely not!"

The next day, the sun rose as usual, and the red sun shone through the horizon on the ground, and the shadows were stretched long and long on the ground.

Early in the morning, the old village chief, Xia Yuan, and Sanbao each prepared a day's dry food, a pot of water, and four bullets per person, pushing a small cart with straw, and set off from Gaojiazhuang.

The central Hebei region belongs to the endless plains, at a glance, there are no rolling mountains, only the uneven horizon, the rising sun will scorching the sun to the uneven plains, the eyes want to wear the hazy clouds, floating in the clear sky, the air with a fragrance, there is no heavy haze of the later generations.

The three of them carried their bags, and the carts and carts of each of my roads were moving along the dirt road with white marks faintly coming out of the ground, and more than a dozen guns were hidden under the straw, which were particularly precious due to the serious lack of weapons and equipment in the division.

There was no figure to be seen along the way, only the wind and sand as a companion, and the three of them wrapped a dirty cloth around their heads to prevent the wind and sand from entering their hair, which was very difficult to clean, and they were tightly wrapped.

After walking for a long time, they came to a col, on both sides of which there were incomplete round holes, half of the straw mats half-covered and half-buried by the sand, only one corner was exposed, some were completely broken, the straw was scattered all over the ground, and one end was buried in the sand, and the wind blew and shook irregularly.

The old village chief said: "In the past, this mountain col was still a market, and some nearby villages would take their unused things here to sell, and gradually more people came, and after the Japanese devils came, many villages suffered, and some villages became deserted villages, and people were killed by devils, so there were fewer people, and the market was gone."

Xia Yuan and Sanbao, who were pushing the cart, were all around, and the traces of the previous people's lives could still be seen here, and then they were buried by the sand, and after a long time, this place will gradually be forgotten, and the older generation of people have passed away, so no one remembers here, just like this war.

Xia Yuan suddenly felt inexplicably emotional, decades later, Japan is waiting for time to pass, waiting for people to forget this war, waiting for those old people who have experienced this war and suffered brilliant in this war to die, they think that the Chinese can forget this war, just like this ravine, and will gradually be forgotten.

Passing through the col, a gust of wind swept up a cloud of sand and slapped on his cheeks.

Sanbao said, "Let me push for a while, you've pushed all the way."

Xia Yuan stood up, exhaled slightly, and said, "It's okay, I'm pushing for a while."

The division is still far away from Gaojiazhuang, especially in this era when there is no means of transportation, it is almost a day's walk to be able to reach the destination, Rao is his physical fitness is extremely strong, and it is still a little difficult to push a small cart to catch up with a day's road.

The old village chief is very old, and it is definitely not possible to push the cart, so the two discussed walking one by one, but the old village chief stopped the two and said, "Since the three of us are together, then I also have a share of the cart, don't fight with me."

What else did Xia Yuan want to say,

Sanbao pulled Xia Yuan and said in a low voice, "The village chief is a party member, if you fight with him, he will be anxious with you."

Xia Yuan swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

Approaching noon, the temperature began to become hot, and a gust of wind swept the Jizhong Plain with gusts of wind and sand, and the three of them struggled forward, stopping behind a large rock.

The old village chief was well-informed, stopped the wooden cart, and said, "This area is a wind-blown sand area, and it will be much better after this area.

The two nodded, picked up the rope, and continued to move on, due to the peculiarity of this area, which made this area look like a desert, and the two of them had to pull in front of it, otherwise it would be difficult to walk.