Guangou Village is a small village nearly forty kilometers northeast of Pingding. It has a population of less than 30. Because it is located at the junction of Pingding and Jingxing County, it is very remote. Few people come here to move, let alone Japanese and puppet troops.

A guerrilla team affiliated to the Third Battalion is stationed here.

Because I sent over thirty new recruits to the main force some time ago, there are currently 89 people left in the entire guerrilla team.

Although there are still many people away from a fully equipped infantry company, their equipment is very good.

Everyone has a seven-nine caliber rifle, made in Hanyang, old sleeves, and several middle-official ones that are no less powerful than the 38th large cover, but they are all in the hands of several veterans with the best gunshot skills of the guerrillas.

In addition to rifles, they also equipped two Czech-mades. The only regret is that they have a little less ammunition, and each team member is on average less than thirty rounds.

The task given to them was to lurk and stand by. The entire guerrillas had not fought for a long time and stayed in this small mountain village for training every day.

The captain of the guerrillas, Liu Shuihe, was an old Red Army soldier. Before the reorganization of the troops, he was a squad leader and became an ordinary Eighth Route Army soldier. At this moment, he was using the training methods of the Red Army period to train the guerrillas in a very good manner.

There were shouts of killing from time to time on the small training ground, which made everyone excited.

When Zhou Cheng arrived here, the troops were having supper.

The conditions were much worse than the main force of the camp, with only mixed grain cakes and wild vegetable soup, but the soldiers ate it with relish, which shows that the guerrillas' usual food was also very poor.

"Captain Liu, the soldiers usually eat this?" Zhou Cheng asked with a frown.

Although the food in your hand can be full, it does not have oil or water. If you eat this for a long time, the soldiers will definitely be malnourished.

If you can't keep up with nutrition, it means you can't keep up with physical strength. The same soldiers, the same training, and the same equipment are Japanese soldiers who eat and drink well, and the other is malnourished and breathless in running. When they meet, the guerrillas will definitely be the ones who will lose in the end.

Liu Shuihe didn't think there was anything wrong with eating like this.

The environment behind enemy lines is harsh, so it's good to have a stuttering, so there's no energy to pick and choose.

He quickly answered: "I usually eat this, sometimes wild vegetable soup, and sometimes pickles. Although the team still has some white flour and rice, they are all kept for wartime before eating!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "The food is too bad, it's okay to eat mixed grains and pancakes. The main force also eats this, but everyone's food is too simple, without any oil or water."

"The soldiers' faces are pale and thin, and they have no nutrition at all. They don't have the energy to fight with the Japanese when they go to the battlefield."

"There are no traitors and Japanese soldiers fighting nearby. If they can win one or two battles, these problems will be solved!"

Liu Shuihe smiled bitterly: "Battery Commander, we also want to pick up soft persimmons, fight two battles to improve the food standards of the soldiers, start meat, and improve the actual combat capabilities of the troops, but there are no soft persimmons around us."

"The Japanese are too cunning. Because of insufficient troops, all the troops scattered in various villages were concentrated in the town."

"The traitors in each village also gathered in the town with the Japanese. In order to enable the private armed forces in the traitors to form combat effectiveness and assist them in defending the place, the Japanese army brought all the private armed forces together to form a reinforced company, conduct training every day, and there was no need for the Japanese to pay for food and pay for food. Which traitor in the traitors paid food and pay for food."

"At that time we thought the traitors would not agree, because doing so would be a waste of money to support the Japanese."

"The result was shocking. Those traitors not only agreed, but also supported the Japanese in doing so. Just like food and wages are not money, they asked for money and food, and one was the other, and they tried their best to get people to the Japanese. Battalion Commander, are those traitors stupid?"

"The soldiers I worked hard to support were all cheaper than the Japanese..."

"Originally, there was only one Japanese reinforcement squad and one company of puppet troops in the town. Now there are more private armed forces from multiple companies, with a total force of more than 300 people. We are no match for it at all."

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "Are those traitors smart? How could they do business that cost a loss!"

"You think it's too simple. On the surface, although those private armed forces are in the hands of the Japanese and trained by the Japanese, the food and salary are in the hands of the traitors."

"This means that the private armed forces can only be stationed by the traitor. If they are too far away, their food and salary will be cut off."

"Although the Japanese are rich, they can't support so many troops, so those private armed forces are still protecting the safety of their traitor masters. They just change commanders and cannot affect the overall situation."

"There is another point. If there is no Japanese training, those private armed forces will continue to be scattered among the various traitors. No matter how long the training is, they will be a group of mobs."

"Now there are Japanese people who can help with training for free, and no matter how bad they are, they are better than the original mob."

"When the Japanese don't need them in the future, after they are disbanded, those private armed forces will return to their respective traitors, which is equivalent to their waste of time to be a well-trained force. It's too late to be happy, so how could they oppose it?"

Liu Shuihe looked thoughtful: "If you count this way, those traitors really made a profit."

"This is a win-win deal. While helping the traitors train the private army, the Japanese use those private armed forces to increase their strength and protect their defense zone security. What a powerful strategy, I thought the Japanese were exploiting those traitors and were preparing to pry the Japanese into the corner to see if they could mobilize two people to support us."

"It seems that I'm too whimsical now."

Zhou Cheng continued to ask: "Apart from those traitors who moved to the town, there is no other target to attack in the surrounding villages?"

Liu Shuihe shook his head: "Although there are still many landlords in each village, they have not surrendered to the Japanese. Now our army's policies do not allow the fight against the local tyrants. No matter how rich they are, they cannot start."

"Another ordinary people can't eat enough, let alone support us."

"The food we eat now was seized by Deputy Battalion Commander Chen took us to the transportation team last time."

"Leave half of the fine grains for spare, and find the landlords of each village to exchange for coarse grains, so that the guerrillas can eat them for longer!"

Zhou Cheng frowned and asked, "The Japanese and puppet troops and traitors have all gone to the town. How can they care about the village? Don't you want it?"

Liu Shuihe shook his head and explained: "The village does not need to be cared for at all."

"Before the devil and the traitors retreated, they agreed that each household must pay how much food they must pay after the autumn harvest. When the time comes, all of them will be concentrated at the entrance of the village. The Japanese and puppet troops will send heavy troops to collect it. If there is not enough food, one hundred kilograms will be killed in the village. Do you think that when the time comes, who dares not pay the food?"

"And the Japanese have collected a lot of food. Each household has to save food for the remaining food rations to last until the autumn harvest of the next year, otherwise they will go hungry."

"The villagers don't have food to support us, and the guerrillas can't even expand the scale. They can only stay in the mountains and make small fuss."

Zhou Cheng's brows became deeper and deeper. The Japanese's move was so powerful.

Control the food in the hands of ordinary people by killing people.

As long as the food is controlled in their hands, the Japanese will not be afraid of the development and growth of the anti-Japanese armed forces in the defense zone.

The guerrillas are already in this dilemma.

Without food, it is difficult for the troops to grow and grow.

Now the enemy is gathering together again. If the troops do not grow and grow, there will be no way to attack them, and there will be no way to use war to support war and obtain weapons and ammunition. Even if there are no troops available, they will still be impossible to grow and grow...

This is a vicious cycle...

I don’t know how long it took, but a smile suddenly flashed on Zhou Cheng’s solemn face and his eyes lit up and shouted.

"There's a way!"

"The Japanese want to control the people by controlling food and prevent us from growing stronger, so we will start from food."

"The grain collected by the Japanese from each village is fixed. If we can find ways to increase the grain output of the villagers, so that the people will have surplus grain in their hands and no longer be hungry, they will support us, support us, and even join us."

"After the troops grow, we can still grab grain from the Japanese."

"Snatching back the food handed over by the villagers to the Japanese can not only supplement the troops' consumption, but also compensate the people who are short of food."

"When the troops are strong enough, we can attack the town and kill the Japanese and puppet troops there!"

Liu Shuihe couldn't keep up with Zhou Cheng's thoughts. After thinking for a long time, Bai Ming came over, and then frowned and asked, "But Battalion Commander, how can we increase the grain output of the people?"

"There is only so much land, and I have planted all the food. I have planted it, but I just can't think of a way!"

"This year is impossible!" Zhou Cheng replied.

"But we can organize everyone to reclaim wasteland before the autumn harvest even begins."

"There must be a lot of mountain and slopes in each village. If all of them are reclaimed, there will definitely be no problem if one acre of land per capita per capita."

"This is a land that is not registered with the Japanese and does not require tax payments."

"Even if it is in the mountains, the grain output is low, you can still make more than 100 kilograms of grain in a year."

"What the troops need to do is to protect the extra grain from the people, so as not to let everyone go hungry, and to snatch back the grain taken away by the Japanese."

"But one thing you must pay attention to is that the place where food is robbed must be kept away from the military activity area, otherwise the Japanese who throw away the food will definitely vent their anger on the local people, and the villagers will suffer in the end."

"This matter is decided so. After returning to the camp, I will send people to reinforce you, and specifically mobilize the people to reclaim wasteland nearby and increase everyone's grain output."

"As for this year, the battalion department will find a way to give you some support, but the big one still depends on you to solve it yourself."

"There are no cavalry in the county town, so the garrison can only use the old methods to transport ammunition to the Japanese and puppet troops in the town."

"You find a way to contact another guerrilla team, cooperate with each other, and intercept the transport team twice."

"The Japanese eat meat in the town, so it's definitely okay for us to drink some soup."

"I bring you a heavy machine gun, a mortar, five base ammunition and ten thousand seventy-nine rifle ammunition."

"The other guerrilla team also has these equipment. Your two troops work together to operate. As long as there are no more than one hundred Japanese and puppet troops in the transportation team protecting the transport team, they can end the battle within half an hour and then retreat."

"To facilitate command, from now on, your guerrillas will be reorganized into the first guerrilla squadron, you will be the squadron leader, and another guerrilla will be reorganized into the second squadron, all of which will be organized at the company level and will be directly under the command of the battalion headquarters."
Chapter completed!