The situation is indeed becoming more and more cruel. After the Japanese raids, the anti-Japanese base area in the central Hebei Plain turned into a guerrilla zone for a long time.
By the end of June, the headquarters of the North China Public Security Strengthening Movement was established in Peiping, and a permanent branch was established in Haigu to recommend policies to suppress the Communist Party.
By early July, the first meeting of the so-called New National Movement Promotion Committee decided to establish a youth league and boy scouts to build anti-communist awareness among young people and children and comprehensively implement anti-communist policies.
A few days later, the puppet Central Political Committee decided to universally establish youth leagues and boy scout organizations, and primary and secondary schools in Haigu were generally built.
In response to this policy of the Japanese army, the Eighth Prefectural Committee of the Central Hebei District of the Communist Party of China decided to establish a peripheral organization of the party directly under the leadership of the Eighth Prefectural Committee: the Haigu Youth Anti-Japanese Salvation Association in a private middle school in Haigu.
After the Youth Rescue Association was established, it promoted the party's anti-Japanese policy in primary and secondary schools in Haigu, alerted ordinary people, and exposed the Japanese army's conspiracy.
In August, Japan's Haigu Army Secret Service issued an order to ration food, cooking oil, coal and other daily necessities in the occupied areas of North China.
At this time, Lu Chengzhou had not received instructions from the Urban Engineering Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Central Bureau for a long time.
And one day at the end of August, he finally received the order from his superiors.
However, there are only eight words on it: "Long-term ambush, independent fighting."
Although his superiors didn't say anything, what was revealed in the intelligence meant that his superiors might not contact him for a long time in the future.
Starting from September 8, in order to further consolidate the security area, the Japanese army decided to launch the fifth security strengthening campaign in two months.
Promote the Greater East Asia Jihad, fight against communism and suppress communism, and implement a food rationing system for citizens.
In order to solve the problem of food shortage, mixed noodles were used instead of rice and flour, and people's food was plundered for military use.
The most ridiculous thing is that Wen Peishi of the Municipal Office, in order to please the Japanese army, organized a half-month-long expanded waste recycling campaign week and raided and forcibly collected waste.
This shows how poor the Japanese army's supplies were.
At the end of October, the Japanese invading army gathered seven regiments, four regiments of the puppet Manchu Army, and 19 regiments of the puppet security army, with a total of 46,000 people, to raid the Jidong Anti-Japanese Base Area.
Dig blockade ditches, build bunkers, implement the "three lights" policy, and create a "no man's land".
Most of the fatal basic area in eastern Hebei was divided and cannibalized, and the people's soldiers were forced to fight on the outside. Even the Baodi County area became an enemy-occupied area.
After Lu Chengzhou returned home in the evening, Ma Yuzhen handed him two leaflets, one of which was "A Letter to the Compatriots in the Puppet Army Organization" and "Victory is in sight, compatriots unite and move forward."
Lu Chengzhou looked at it carefully. Although the words on it were a bit radical, they made people's blood boil.
Ma Yuzhen has not seen Lu Chengzhou showing such an expression for a long time. Ever since the Japanese army began their raids, the underground party in Haigu have followed the organization's instructions, hiding and waiting for an opportunity.
Ma Yuzhen poured a cup of tea for Lu Chengzhou and after delivering it to him, she said with a smile: "How far do you think we are from victory?"
Lu Chengzhou put down the flyer, picked up the match on the table, burned the flyer, and then said slowly: "No matter when, we must have firm confidence in winning."
Ma Yuzhen nodded and said thoughtfully: "I believe that the final victory must belong to us."
Lu Chengzhou said softly: "Every small victory we have will eventually merge into a big victory and eventually become one of the forces that defeat the Japanese invaders."
After Ma Yuzhen was silent for a while, she suddenly said: "Erbu Mountain sent a telegram that food is in short supply. They want to go to the city to buy some food."
Ever since the Japanese began to dig trenches and build bunkers everywhere, Erbu Mountain has once again been in trouble.
The original blockade ditch at the foot of Erbu Mountain was dug out again, and Japanese troops were once again stationed in the captured bunker.
If the Haigu Anti-Japanese Brigade wanted to enter the city, it would have to bypass the bunker on the front and walk at least fifty miles more.
Walking fifty miles alone is very tiring. If you carry food with you, it will not only be more difficult, but also very dangerous.
Starting from June, Haigu has also been experiencing extreme food shortage. The mixed noodles eaten by ordinary people are not only mixed with a lot of leaves, but also a lot of sediment.
As for the limited food, it was all moldy and spoiled.
But even so, hybrid noodles cannot be supplied in sufficient quantities.
Of course, Haigu is not without food. As long as you have money, you can still buy it.
Therefore, the people who really suffer are the people at the bottom.
Lu Chengzhou pondered and said: "You have to have money to buy grain, right? Although Fu Qi has still stocked up on some grain, if it is provided to the Haigu Anti-Japanese Brigade, how will he do business there? You will send it to Chongqing tonight
Report and ask them to provide more funds."
Starting from this year, Lu Chengzhou clearly felt that the United Bank Notes continued to depreciate.
What you could buy for one hundred yuan last year may cost two hundred or even three hundred yuan this year.
As for food, it has increased even more. If we stocked 10,000 yuan of food last year, we could sell it for at least 50,000 yuan this year.
Fu Qi originally used all the funds to store food, which was really a good investment.
Ma Yuzhen immediately said: "Okay, but the money from Chongqing may not arrive for a while."
Lu Chengzhou waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter if we're not here for the time being. We can wait. Of course, if the brothers on the mountain are not full and the war of resistance is affected, then you can't blame me."
Ma Yuzhen nodded slightly. She now strongly supported Lu Chengzhou's request for money from Chongqing.
When I didn't know Lu Chengzhou's identity at first, I always thought that Lu Chengzhou was greedy.
Only now did she realize that everything Lu Chengzhou did was to raise funds for the organization.
The more funds reported to Chongqing, the greater the benefits to the party organization.
Ma Yuzhen added: "One more thing. Xi Jianzhong mentioned that the brothers of the Haigu Anti-Japanese Brigade are very motivated and want to go down the mountain to do some activities."
Lu Chengzhou said: "Brothers on the mountain, it is certainly a good thing to have such an idea. It just so happens that it also lets the Japanese know that the military commander's brothers are still there."
Ever since he participated in the large-scale raids in Jizhong in mid-May, Lu Chengzhou had been thinking about how to use his own power to deal a decisive blow to the Japanese.
However, after returning to Haigu, the Japanese army took a series of actions, coupled with the instructions of the party organization, which made Lu Chengzhou feel that taking action at this time would only cause huge losses to the organization.
Ma Yuzhen saw the confidence on Lu Chengzhou's face and knew that he might have a plan.
What Ma Yuzhen hopes to see most is Lu Chengzhou's confidence.
Since getting married, she found that what attracted her most to Lu Chengzhou was when he showed such confidence.
Ma Yuzhen even felt that Lu Chengzhou already had a plan. She asked specifically: "Do you have a new plan?"
