Ma Qian'an heard Zhang Xiaohua's request and began to blink anxiously. Judging from what he learned, Xiaohua has not experienced a cruel battle. As a bandit for more than a year, he only fought some local self-defense forces in the "Manchukuo" country, railway police guards, other small bandit armed forces, etc. These battles are not fierce and sometimes like a joke. If an elite Japanese fights fiercely, I don't know how Xiaohua's survival ability is on the battlefield. If something goes wrong, how will Zhang Fugui and his wife face Zhang Fugui in the future? The old couple will blame him for not feeling sorry for his wife, right? Besides, Ma Qian'an himself strongly opposes women going to the battlefield.

But look at Xiaohua's appearance, she was determined to go. If she didn't let her go, it would be difficult to solve the problem of the Oroqen people's territory and the problem of the ship.

Ma Qian'an scratched his head and asked Zhou Yucheng, "Old Zhou, do you think this is true?"

Zhou Yucheng nodded and replied, "I think it's OK. Comrade Xiaohua has a high awareness! Xiaohua and her brothers have just joined the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. I think they must be trying to make a contribution. Don't slam the enthusiasm of the new comrades!"

Ma Qian'an has no objection anymore, OK! Let's act according to the opportunity. After crossing the river, we will kill the donkey and let Xiaohua come back.

Zhang Xiaohua was overjoyed.

In the second half of the night, Zhang Xiaohua led her brothers out, not only taking away their own horses, but also taking away six pack horses. The purpose of leaving early and taking away the pack horses was very simple. They had to enter the forest area in advance to open the passage for the team behind, and they could not go empty-handed when they met their Oroqen tribe's "friends". These six horses were to "shangfeng" to prepare things at a secret contact point in Tieli County.

In order to make things go smoothly, Zhang Xiaohua prepared to take out the hard currency that had been reserved for a long time - tea bricks, salt, pepper and star anise, wine, brown sugar, and some 79 rifle bullets.

Through Zhang Xiaohua's description and some broken information in the guide's memory, Ma Qian'an roughly understood this Oroqen tribe living on the southern foot of the Little Xing'an Mountains.

The Oroqen people belonged to the Tungus people. Many of their ancestors were captured by the Jurchens, which was called the birth of the Jurchens and merged into the Manchus. The Oroqen people who were not captured gradually moved south from the vast areas of Baikal to Sakhalin Island and were scattered in the Xing'an Mountains. In the early days, safaris used reindeer and bows as vehicles and hunting tools. Later, they had contact with the outside world, reindeer and bows and arrows with horses and guns instead of reindeer and bows and arrows.

The Oroqen people were brave and good at fighting. During the Beiyang government, the government organized young and middle-aged people who were strong and skilled in riding and shooting into "Defense Corps" and "Shan Forest Guerrillas". While patrolling the mountains and hunting, they fought against the invasion of Tsarist Russia and defended the border. "Since the Republic of China, the Northeast has been in the sphere of influence of Japan and Russia. The Russians coveted the Zhonglin Mine of Xing'an Mountains and sent one thousand of the bravest Cossack soldiers to suppress them. In less than half a year, eight hundred died. Russia was shocked and was afraid of the bravery and strength of the Oroqen people, and they would not go deep into the forest area anymore."

After the September 18th Incident, the Japanese adopted a policy of "not enshrining their culture, continuing their primitive life, not allowing them to return to farming, and isolation is implemented when special ethnic groups constitute their life path, and excluding their dependent living habits". They also forced all Oroqen men aged 18 to 45 to be incorporated into the "mountain forest team" in the name of the Manchu government to be responsible for clearing out anti-Japanese armed forces.

The Japanese created **** and stipulated that this tribe was not allowed to interact with the Han people. Those who have already interacted will be severely punished. The deputy county magistrate of Mulan County Keiichi Sato once said to them: "Don't be afraid of the Han people, we will make the decision for you!" He encouraged them to go against the Han people. He also said: "It is much better to kill a Han person than to kill a wild animal. A wild animal has a skin and two clothes for people.

This tribe called Husuo is still at the end of the primitive society. This tribe has a common ancestor maintenance, consisting of five "Wulileng" ("Wulileng" is Oroqen word, which means "descendants", which refers to the descendants passed down by the same father's line. One "Wulileng" is a paternal family,) has more than 150 people, the oldest patriarch is called Wunakan, which means upright people in Chinese. This tribe still maintains the ancient custom - that is, prey is divided equally, and everyone is "Aobu". Wild beasts are hunted in deep mountains and dense forests, especially large prey such as bears, deer, snatch, wild boars, etc. After being carried back to the base, each person will get an equal share of one, regardless of gender, age, and young. Among them, the freshest and most nutritious snatches must be given to the highly respected old man and "Ayamoregan" (hunting expert, hero).

But since the previous year, life in the "Housu" tribe became more and more difficult. The Japanese also ruled the hunted goods, and stipulated that all pesticides would be bought by the Japanese "Mankai Company". It is illegal for others to buy them. When buying pesticides, they would be sold into grain or daily necessities at a low price, delaying the repayment time. Starting from 40 years, the food and daily necessities of the Hosus tribe were also rationed. All pesticides, mountain goods, and even some animal meat and fish caught by the Hosus tribe must be sent to the "Mankai Company" and a fishery company run by a traitor. In this way, the Hosus tribe had to go to the economic deadline. The precious antlers, deer fetus, bear galls, and furs they captured were no longer valuable when they arrived at the Japanese, and they could not even get the most basic food security back. The Japanese with ulterior motives also provided opium to young and middle-aged people over 20 years old to poison their bodies.

There is also a forest team in the Husuo tribe with more than 60 people. The captain is Wuresong, who is a smart and intelligent man. In order to exchange items or collect 2oo bullets from the Japanese every quarter, Wuresong often goes down the mountain to the county town, which is "very knowledgeable". Gradually, he realized that the Japanese are unfair to them. After several comparisons, Wuresong, who woke up, understood that the Japanese were simply plundering them. A good tiger skin full-fledged animal company actually gave him twenty yuan.

, ten times lower than the market price, which made him very angry. He began to contact some Han people in secret, hoping to exchange items fairly. The one who contacted the most was the "Shunfeng" Han bandit gang set up by the old camp on the edge of their territory. He got familiar with it after a while. Since they had contacted each other, both sides had force and could not avoid showing off. After several "contests", both sides became friends with each other, and Wuresong also became sworn brothers with Zhang Fugui according to customs.

Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Fugui have no malicious intentions or discrimination against the "Housu" tribe. Every time she goes to "visit", she has to bring a large number of urgently needed supplies from the tribe and exchange them for valuable medicinal materials or precious furs at fair prices. Sometimes Zhang Xiaohua also reluctantly gives them some bullets. Last month, Zhang Xiaohua seized a lot and gave Wuresong 3oo79 bullets.

In the dark night, Ma Qian'an watched Zhang Xiaohua lead her horse team gradually fade away. Until the faint light of the flashlight completely disappeared into the foot of another mountain, Ma Qian'an returned to the command center and dormitory with great worries. He sent two soldiers from the communication squads to the team, brought a radio station, and made an appointment to send telegrams every morning and evening.

Zhou Yucheng glanced at him mockingly and joked, "Don't worry? Tsk tsk! Don't worry, I see that Xiaohua is smart, smart, smart and fickle, and there will never be any problems. You must know that she has been in this territory for more than a year. What do you have to worry about?"

"Oh..." Ma Qian'an sighed heavily and said, "It seems that it is necessary for me to have a deep understanding of the local military and civilian situation. Since I want to gain a foothold here, it is really not possible to take it."

Zhou Yucheng smiled slightly and did not speak up. He just came to the local area more than a month earlier than Ma Qian'an and had never come out of the mountain. He was not as familiar with the local situation as Ma Qian'an who came back from the mountain.

"What after you understand? Should you do some work for some people who are likely to fight against Japan?"

"This..." Ma Qian'an hesitated again, and after thinking about it, he refused. "You can have contact for the time being, but you can't clarify the word "anti-Japanese". The Japanese and puppet secret agencies are everywhere, and their control is still very strong. The time is not ripe at all. Now, people are inclined to be eager to achieve success. Ordinary people don't see hope and will not come. Most of the people who can come are grass-headed kings. They come with various purposes. It is too complicated and easy to be infiltrated by the enemy."

"When can we encourage those innocent ordinary people?" Zhou Yucheng knew that Ma Qian'an wanted to build an elite soldier. He looked down on the bandit team with all kinds of bad habits and local armed forces in Manchukuo. Except for a few, ordinary bandits are "oilers", most of whom are idle people, employed everywhere and "spawning" everywhere. Not only do they eat and drink, but they are also very complicated. He believes that instead of attracting these people, they are better off attracting them. These people will cause much less trouble than their contributions.

The most combat-capable and determined elite soldiers have always been from good families. Not to mention the distant ones, the new Dian Army of King Longyun of Yunnan abandoned their soldiers and all the soldiers conscripted were peasants. Not only did no one smoke opium, but there was no ordinary social bad habits. Therefore, the Dian Army had a new look of "reborn" and its combat effectiveness increased sharply. Its bloody battles in Taier and severely damaged the Japanese army. During the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Yunnan Army participated in more than 20 major and large battles, with 100,000 casualties, and none of them surrendered to the enemy.

"Don't worry, if these high-quality soldiers take the initiative to join the anti-Japanese team, they must see that our team is really powerful and really fights the Japanese. Otherwise, why would they come over with their heads?" In history, the main force of the Fourth Field Army was also the peasant children who had obtained land without bad habits, bandits, former Manchus, or local armed forces, etc., who had mostly defected to Chiang Kai-shek.

Zhou Yucheng was a little disappointed. He was holding back his energy. He wanted to achieve results as soon as possible and expand the team to consolidate the existence of Anbin Column in this area. What is the key to completing this task? It is to expand the team.

Ma Qian'an continued: "Grand Political Commissar, I promise that after we win several great victories, what you want will come. At that time, I am afraid that you will not have enough weapons and food! I am afraid that you will not accept the recruits anymore, so I beg me not to accept the recruits anymore."
Chapter completed!