After winter, the land of Shanxi fell into silence, and heavy snow had fallen several times. Both the Japanese army in Taiyuan and the Shanxi-Sui Army in southern Shanxi slowly stopped their actions and began to prepare for the winter, waiting for spring.
A fight.
Of course, although the Japanese army has no large-scale operations, how can the pirates who came across the ocean behave honestly? A group of little devils, led by the team leader, went to the countryside to prepare for the collection of money and food.
China and Japan know each other very well through long-term exchanges. The Spring Festival is here, and all the people are preparing for the New Year. In order to have a good New Year and give themselves a good sign, the people will return to their homes.
I took out a little of my hard-earned money accumulated this year, bought some pork, two pieces of red paper, and two pounds of white flour, and made a meal of dumplings. I hope I can live a better life next year.
Although there was a war in Shanxi this year and farming was affected to some extent, under the rent and interest reductions hosted by the Red Party, most people in the base areas have more or less reduced their debts. The Eighth Route Army's policy on tax collection from poor farmers
It is extremely low, which also allows the people in the base area to have some surplus food and live a good year. The foundation of Yan Xishan's decades of rule in Shanxi was slowly shaken by the magic weapon of rent reduction and interest rate reduction, and more and more people
More and more people do not want their old chairman to come back. Although the landlords and gentry have suffered losses, but seeing that the Eighth Route Army is really fighting the Japanese, most of the patriotic gentry still choose to support the Eighth Route Army, especially after hearing that there may be another attack in the future.
Allowing them to participate in local governance will not make them a party to the Red Party, and the country gentry will have fewer worries.
Liugang Village is the nearest station of Hu Tian's brigade. Hu Tian's county brigade has become more and more famous through recent attacks on the Japanese army. It is even said among the people that he is a descendant of Hu Zongxian, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty.
Damn it, he knew very well that his ancestors had been tenant farmers for other people for several generations, and he had been beaten by landlords for herding cattle before he defected to the Red Army.
A young man wearing a ragged cotton-padded jacket walked over and interrupted his memories, but it was his newly appointed communications soldier Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen saluted Hu Tian with a smile and said, "Captain, all the comrades who have families have gone back. The remaining 37 comrades are all on duty and those who have no families to go back to."
Hu Tian grabbed his hat and said, "If you can't speak, you have no home. This is our home. Let's go and let the comrades prepare for the New Year."
Hu Tian walked to the temple where everyone was stationed and saw that everyone was making noodles and preparing to make noodles. Hu Tian wanted to intervene several times but was pushed aside by the soldiers. Seeing this, Hu Tian had to pull Ye Zhen and said, "Okay, let's go outside the village."
Look, be careful the little devils don’t give us a good year.”
Ye Zhen responded, then went out and brought a horse over. Due to the results of the guerrilla warfare some time ago, Hu Tian's brigade had four or five horses. Hu Tian rode the horse quickly out of the village. The cold temperature made the dirt road
It's freezing and hard, but it's very suitable for riding horses.
After a while, Hu Tian saw several straw hats and broken baskets, which were covered by ordinary people to prevent passers-by from accidentally stepping on land mines.
Many people in later generations disapproved of such tactics as landmine warfare, and even concluded that most of the people killed by landmines were innocent people. This was actually a plan to use one's own wisdom to win over others. People all knew that this thing would explode and injure people.
People also know that passers-by will pass by from time to time, so why would they be stupid enough to let people step on them? Ordinary people are not stupid, but have their own unique wisdom.
After the common people buried the landmines under the guidance of the guerrillas, they didn't just leave them there and ignore them. Whoever steps on them counts. The little devils didn't go to the countryside on a daily basis. Most of the time they stayed in the towns. The common people didn't care.
When the Japanese invaded, they would use things like straw hats and broken baskets to cover the mines, so that people would not step on them by mistake while walking. On the roads outside each Japanese stronghold, the common people would have message trees to pass on the news. Once discovered,
When Japanese troops are out, the common people will immediately tell each other using the message tree, and then they will remove the straw hats covering them, waiting for the Japanese troops to step on them. The real meaning of landmine warfare is not to kill or injure many Japanese troops, but to make the Japanese troops not dare to act easily again.
Even when we went to the countryside, we were careful not to step on a thunderstorm, which gave our troops and people plenty of time to move.
But it is a pity that historically our troops have been short of both iron and explosives, and most of the militia mines were of poor quality. However, this time and space mine warfare has made the Japanese army feel more terrifying and helpless than ever before.
Hu Tian walked all the way and saw that the straw hats were well covered. He ran to a news tree point. An uncle dug a pit and made a straw nest. He looked into the distance from time to time. It was another tree.
Where the message tree is located.
Hu Tian walked up and said hello, "Uncle, are you okay? Have you eaten?"
When the uncle saw it was Hu Tian, he said with a smile, "Captain Hu, I saw you from so far away. Look, this is the steamed bun that my old lady made for me. I put it in my arms and it's still warm now. It was just now
Have you eaten one? Captain Hu, have you eaten? Is the army still short of food?"
Hu Tian smiled and waved his hand and said, "I don't want to eat, I'm not hungry. The troops are making New Year's Eve dinner. We will start the meal soon. After we finish eating, we will come to take over from the villagers. We are few, thank you for your hard work. We will be there in a while."
Someone will come, so that I can go home and have a reunion at night."
When the uncle heard this, he groaned and said, "My family is together every day. What's the point of being reunited? Besides, you lead us to fight the Japanese. This is what Grandpa Yue did back then. But you guys, it's not easy for you to go back."
Home is not easy, Captain Hu, where is your home?"
Hu Tian was about to say something when he saw the message tree in the distance suddenly fell down. Hu Tian quickly said, "Uncle, look, the message tree has fallen down!"
The uncle quickly stood up and took a look, wasn't it? Looking at the number of news trees that had fallen down, he saw that there was a small group of Japanese. The uncle quickly knocked down the news trees as well. Hu Tian took out his gun and said, "Uncle,
Go quickly and take off all the straw hats on the road, Xiaotang, you go immediately to gather the troops and let the fellow villagers prepare to hide."
When Ye Zhen heard this, he didn't want to do it and said, "Captain, it's better for me to go and you gather the troops. You are the captain."
Hu Tian thought for a while, nodded, and agreed. Ye Zhen quickly found the Japs' troops, and when Hu Tian came up with his troops, everyone got ready.
Captain Kimura was cursing as he walked along the dirt road. He didn't see anyone along the way. If he hadn't lost in the card game, he wouldn't have come out to do this hard work, not to mention the guerrillas who didn't know where they were.
"Boom!" An explosion came from the front. Kimura knew without even looking that it must be another China mine. These guerrillas could only do this.
"Baga! How's it going in front?" Kimura stepped forward and saw that the engineer in front was completely dark, but he seemed to be fine.
"Damn, this mine seems useless." Hu Tian said as he beat the ground on the hillside. This mine was made by the militiamen themselves using black gunpowder and wood. Now it seems that besides making the Japanese all black, the mine has no effect.
Other impacts.
Kimura patted the engineer and found that it was nothing serious, just some scratches. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Open the way!"
"Captain, it seems that what we are doing is not working well." Ye Zhen said softly.
Hu Tian smiled and said, "The ones behind are the ones we got from the army. They are Soviet goods. Take a look."
Sure enough, after walking a few steps, another mine exploded. This time, several people near the engineer were knocked down.
"Hit!" Hu Tian shouted loudly.
Although there are only twenty or thirty people left now, after two months of development, Hu Tian's militia brigade already has forty or fifty guns. This time, most of the guns have been left in the army, and they are all 38 guns.
Because of the previous victory, the militia entered the era of Japanese weapons two or three years earlier than history, but this is also because the main force is still unwilling to use Japanese weapons.
Kimura was a little stunned by the burst of gunfire and quickly fought back, but by this time Hu Tian had quietly left his original position.
Just as Kimura was about to rush towards Hu Tian, seven or eight more guns started shooting from the west. Kimura swallowed his saliva, thought about it, and felt that this must be a suspected soldier, so he led his troops and continued to shoot in the direction of Hu Tian.
We went and finally climbed up the hillside, but couldn't find even a bullet casing, but we found another booby trap. At this time, another gunshot came from another mountain, and a stray bullet hit next to Kimura. Although Kimura's team did not
What a loss, but Kimura, who has already experienced it, knows that it is impossible to go to the village to find supplies. These damn guerrillas must have made the Chinese people retreat. God knows why those people listen to these guerrillas so much.
if.
Kimura cursed and walked into the barracks. This time, three more imperial soldiers were killed.
A fat Japanese officer walked in and said with a smile, "What's wrong? Your team looks embarrassed."
Kimura snorted and said, "It's the same with you Fukuyama. These guerrillas are so annoying. No matter how we reported it to our superiors, they didn't even respond. What a bastards!"
Fushan pulled out an officer from behind who was wearing the uniform of the Puppet Mongolian Army and said, "Our friends have been sent here from above. This is He Shenjun, the company commander of the North China Autonomous Army. The captain personally wrote a letter to introduce him. It is said that he has been to Japan and read
As for the book, I tried it, and he speaks Japanese very well."
Kimura looked at him and said, "Do you have any way to deal with the guerrillas?"
He Chen had fair skin, an eagle nose and wolf eyes. He had his hair parted in the middle. He said with a sinister smile in Japanese, "The guerrillas are difficult to deal with because they have ordinary people as cover and we can't find them. Therefore, we must have our own
Insider, I suggest that we allow rural autonomy and give power to the landlords and gentry. The guerrillas can reduce rents and interest rates to help the farmers. We will support the landlords in raising rents and interest rates, win over the gentry, and let these people become our eyes. Once we have information about the guerrillas
Then, we can hit it with one hit!"
Kimura's mouth opened wide, as if he saw a god, he clapped his hands and praised, "What you said is great, let's do it like this! Haha, He Jun, do it well, we will use your method to do it well
Have some fun with the guerrillas!”
Hu Tian was always sure that Kimura had really retreated before returning to the station. After taking inventory, he found that although everyone was fine, more than a hundred rounds of ammunition had been destroyed, which made Hu Tian feel heartbroken. This was not a battle of annihilation, and there would be no seizures at all.
Yes. This battle has been a huge loss.
Hu Tian was eating noodles while writing a summary of this battle.
——Taihang Mountain Eighth Route Army Headquarters
Mr. Zhu and others were chatting about this year's war. Zuo Quan walked in with documents, looked at everyone working, and said with a smile, "Okay, let me read it. You don't have the hands to do it."
look."
With a smile, Mr. Peng took the dumpling wrappers and started to wrap the wild vegetable and ham dumplings, and said, "We are all white soldiers now. Look, our hands are all white. You better read it."
Zuo Quan nodded and said, "According to the latest reports from the three main divisions and the Shanxi New Army, we have basically established base areas since the division of troops. Due to the implementation of our rent and interest reduction policy, the people in each base area are very fond of us."
Support, we also collect low industrial and commercial taxes, which makes businessmen willing to enter our base areas to do business. Now the people's livelihood in the base areas is good, but there are also problems, which I will discuss later. In terms of troop building, we have established a large number of
The militia organization has expanded rapidly. The three divisions and the main force of the Shanxi New Army have reached more than 70,000 people. The militia has exceeded 100,000. The number of Red Party members has increased by 10,000. Party branches have been established in various places.
, Now let’s talk about the problems. The first is that our tax revenue is too low and the army is expanding too fast. Both military pay and daily expenses are becoming increasingly tight. The second is that the number of main troops has been exceeded and new establishments need to be added. The third is that
It is because our new troops have weak combat effectiveness, especially the Japanese weapons troops, which generally lack ammunition. Many new troops have picked up long guns and swords, but there are exceptions. Some troops who have won battles with the cooperation of the main force tend to have more firearms.
The last problem is that we found that some soldiers have pessimistic thoughts about the future of the war, and this pessimistic thought is spreading, especially after the city of Nanjing was broken, it became more serious."
Mr. Peng groaned angrily, threw the dumplings away and said, "This old Chiang Kai-shek has lost the capital, and he has also affected us. It is understandable that ordinary soldiers have such wrong ideas, but party members must not have such a situation.
You need to study more. By the way, didn't Lao Mao write an article recently? I think the soldiers can learn from it."
Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "Well, you can send a telegram to Mr. Mao so that this article can be published as soon as possible. As for the ammunition issue, I think it can be like this. We can set up ordnance factories in each of our divisions to be responsible for reloading bullets nearby. Manpower and machinery can
From Yan'an, a gun without bullets is worse than a spear."
Zuo Quan nodded and said, "I think it's okay, but what about the tax issue?"
This makes everyone feel embarrassed.
Mr. Zhu stopped talking to each other and walked away. He remembered the history Jiang Cheng told him and said, "Work hard! Be self-reliant! We originally thought that the Japanese army was our biggest enemy, but now it seems that is not the case. Food is our biggest enemy."
enemies, I think we must also carry out a large-scale production movement, so that all troops can be good soldiers while also being good farmers. I think the agricultural technology upgrades written in Mao’s letter are not only good news for us
Yes, it’s for us to learn from. As for the establishment, I think we should first send a telegram to our chairman. If he doesn’t approve, we will form an independent group or a local group. Is there always a way?”
Everyone couldn't help but nod. Since then, the large-scale production movement has been completely launched in the base area, becoming one of the important sources for the Red Party troops to solve the food problem during the Anti-Japanese War.
