Wang Dashan and Fang Guobin looked at each other and smiled. Fang Guobin said, "We are all materialists, and ghosts and gods are feudal superstitions. Of course, we don't believe it, and we are not afraid."

Meng Youtian looked at Yang Jingyun, and Yang Jingyun nodded encouragingly. He paused for a moment and continued, "We have very little land here, but we can't compare to the plains, and the people's lives are not rich. Tumen Village was abandoned because of feudal superstition, which is a pity. Moreover, it can be used as an outpost for expansion to the south, only twenty or thirty miles away from the county of Shexian."

Wang Dashan and Fang Guobin moved their eyes to the map at the same time. After looking carefully for a while, Wang Dashan nodded and said, "What do you mean is that we can move to Tumen Village and repair and rebuild it, and then what?"

"Then we organize the masses to go there to cultivate." Meng Youtian scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I have had such an idea for a long time, but everyone is so scared that no one can do it. Now it seems that he treats you as laborers."

"We are the team of the people, and it is appropriate to contribute some effort to the people." Fang Guobin said solemnly: "And, rebuilding Tumen Village has another meaning. Didn't the Japanese devils want to use massacre to scare the Chinese people? We insist on proving to them the tenacity and determination of the Chinese people. Tumen Village has not disappeared and has not been abandoned. Another group of Chinese people live here tenaciously and fight tenaciously with the devils."

"Lao Fang, you're saying it very well." Wang Dashan was a little excited and patted his thigh and said, "I can't tell such a deep and exciting truth."

I thought a little too much, Meng Youtian blinked. I just felt that it was a pity that the land was deserted. Your performance was exaggerated, which made the reconstruction of Tumen Village extremely high political significance. It is amazing. People who do political work are amazing. They can associate everything and raise it to a new level to understand it.

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The company of the Eighth Route Army rested for two days in Shili Village and immediately went to various villages separately. With the preliminary work of local party comrades such as Yang Jingyun and Lao Gu, and the support of the main force, the Anti-Japanese and National Rescue Movement was quite smooth in several villages with self-defense forces, and the prosperous scene was presented.

A few days later, another team also drove over. The third area team of the Western Hebei Guerrillas crossed Pinghan Road and came to this area to carry out guerrilla activities, expand the influence of Hebei Tour and develop the organization of troops.

The Hebei-Western Guerrillas are a team under the jurisdiction of the Hebei-Western Civil Training Office. The Hebei-Western Civil Training Office is nominally the product of the anti-Japanese national united front based on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. In fact, it is a semi-military and semi-governmental power dispatch agency of the National Government led by GCD. Its leader Yang XF joined the Kuomintang during the Great Revolution and later withdrew. Before the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was a well-known red professor in Ping. After the War of Resistance Against Japan, he joined the army and went to Hebei to organize guerrilla warfare. He was both a special commissioner of the Hebei Provincial Civil Training Command, appointed by the National Government, and a member of the Pinghan Line Provincial Party Committee.

The arrival of such a team of different people is extremely beneficial to opening up the anti-Japanese situation in the county. The militia organized by the landlord Zhao Kunyi was not only threatened by another major armed force, Du Shixiong, and was worried about being annexed; there were also invasion of Liulihui and a group of "invulnerable" guys; there were also fears that the newly arrived Eighth Route Army would conquer their weapons.

Ji You, who was under the banner of the National Government, came, and Zhao Kunyi found a backer and took the initiative to send people to Ji You to ask for a joint effort. After discussion, Zhao Kunyi agreed to organize the militia into the Western Hebei Guerrillas, but also put forward several conditions: the militia should not be dispersed, but should be organized into a team; the guns should not be taken away, and a part should be left to protect the villages; the team should not be far away from their hometown; after being incorporated into Ji You, they should also protect the safety of their villages in this area. After Ji You asked his superiors, he agreed to all the conditions and decided to organize the militia to be the special service area team of the Western Hebei Guerrilla Command.

As a result, a four-legged situation was formed throughout the county. The Eighth Route Army, Ji You, Du Shixiong, Liulihui and the Japanese and puppet troops in the county were either eliminated or found a backer, and gradually integrated into these four major armed forces.

The momentum of Jiyou expanded, and immediately cooperated with the Eighth Route Army to ambush the Japanese and puppet troops outside the county town to collect grain, forcing the defenders with small troops to temporarily abandon the city and concentrate along the railway. As a result, the anti-Japanese situation was completely opened up and a prosperous scene was presented.

Taking advantage of the time when the Japanese army marched south to attack Wuhan and had no time to take care of the rear, the Eighth Route Army's strategy was greatly successful. More than ten counties including Huolu, Lincheng, Gaoyi, Yuanshi, Jingxing, and Zanhuang established anti-Japanese county governments, and the establishment of the Taihang Mountain base has begun to take shape.

Spring this year came early, and just as there was a hint of spring, the climate immediately became warmer. The winter snow melted, and only in the depression, among the densely dense bushes, there was still dark residual snow left. The naked, humid, and warm land was exposed from under the snowcloth. It had been recuperating for a whole winter, and now it was full of fresh juice, full of desire to be a mother again.

In the season when everything is revived, the once yin and lifeless Tumen Village became lively. More than 200 Eighth Route Army troops entered here and began to rebuild Tumen Village. In fact, due to heavy snow, all the houses in Tumen Village were burned down and there was no plan to knock them down and rebuild them all, and repairing them was not a big project.

In just one day, the abandoned Tumen Village has a new look. At least these 200 people have houses to live in. It’s a bit more crowded, but it’s much more generous than squeezing places with the people in other villages.

In the farmland outside the village, Meng Youtian held the plow handle with one hand, leaned outward, shouting at the animals intermittently. Two big mules walked side by side, the damp soil on the bright plowboard was neatly like the waves of the spring river and the patterns carved by the carvers.

"This kid is really a good guy in farm work. The land he plowed is even more straight than the ink line!" Wang Dashan, who has been promoted to the captain of the first brigade of the ** detachment, put down his pickaxe and looked at Meng Youtian and couldn't help but praise him: "I have to be good at shooting. Yesterday I happened to see this kid shooting, and the birds flying in the sky were shot down. It seems that no one in our team can compare to him."

Fang Guobin threw out a piece of black and wet blocks of soil with great force. He had dug twelve large ditches one by one, digging deep and shoveling flat. A high earth wall was built on the edge of the ditch, like a battlement of a city wall. He stopped the shovel and exhaled a mouthful of hot steam, and sweat rose from his head, surrounding it like clouds and mist covering the mountain.

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