In the blink of an eye, winter has begun. There is a rare heavy snow in recent years under the concave and convex mountains between the Jianghuai River, and the mountains are vast outside the mountains, and the world is not divided. A few feet of snow blocked the road into the mountain and blocked the pace of the Japanese army's "sweep".

As early as the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, Liu Hanying and a group of middle and high-ranking officers' dependents respectively traveled from Nanjing, Luzhou, and other places to enter the Bump Mountain, and other female students from Luo'an Prefecture, Emei Prefecture, Ruyang City, and other places came to join the army. In this way, it added a little atmosphere of peace and contentment to this uneven mountain range hidden deep in the hinterland of the Great War.

There were not many officers of the 79th Regiment who were married, and the only few dependents were also in the north, so the officers' lives were relatively hard. Shi Yunbiao and Mo Ganshan were ingenious and presented a hunting plan to the brigade commander Liu Hanying, and it was actually approved.

Due to the long-term blockade of the Japanese army, it was very difficult to provide supplies, and it was only supplemented by hundreds of thousands of people in Bump Mountain, and the five or six thousand men and horses of the two armies in Shannan and Shanbei were divided and eaten. Although the troops on both sides were unified under the Supreme Command, the Nanjing government only recognized the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and it was difficult for those local armed forces to grow on their own to obtain material support. Yang Tinghui's troops have long been engaged in production self-sufficiency activities, and it is not enough to talk about food and clothing, but the problem of food and clothing has basically been solved, which makes Liu Hanying's heart overflow with some indescribable feelings. Liu Hanying has always regarded himself as an orthodox professional soldier, and he despised the mud-legged guerrilla style of Yang Tinghui's troops. Although the existence of Yang Tinghui's troops can be said to be dependent on him, and it is an extremely important guarantee for him to support half of the rivers and mountains of Bump Mountain, but when he saw Yang Bu sitting bigger day by day, he still felt uneasy, like a soft needle piercing his back, constantly piercing back and forth. This mindset is complex and nuanced. He did not want to lose this national partner who had resisted the Japanese army together, nor did he really want this partner to grow fuller, and if one day he found that this partner had become stronger than him, it would probably not be just unwanted.

The goose feather snow fell for four days in a row, and a few feet deep snow gullies accumulated in the mountain passes. On the fifth day, the snow stopped, but the sharp north wind howled incessantly, and the bumpy mountain appeared to be cold with dripping ice that had not been seen for many years.

When Shi Yunbiao reported to Liu Hanying that he would take advantage of the opportunity of the heavy snow to close the mountain to hunt, Liu Hanying was naturally able to figure out Shi Yunbiao's true intentions. Shi Yunbiao just wanted to find a reason to pull the team out and practice coordinating tactical moves. However, Liu Hanying had no reason to veto this request, not to mention that the meat supply of several thousand troops really needed to be replenished urgently, and it was not a good thing to have the 79th Regiment to serve. However, Liu Hanying laid down a principle for Shi Yunbiao: hunting is okay, defense must not be slackened, and although the mountain roads have been covered with snow, they should not be taken lightly. It is advisable to divide the troops into rotations, not to scatter them all, and the hunting ground should not be too far away from the key points of defense.

If the above arrangement was due to the meticulousness of the commander, then he proposed to send a group of officers from the brigade headquarters and the officer training team to the 79th Regiment to participate in the hunting, which was more or less a different consideration—he was still a little worried, afraid that this team would be pulled away from under his nose.

Shi Yunbiao naturally obeyed his orders respectfully. So, one day in the middle of the month, the 79th Regiment began a huge hunt.