Looking back, I stood in the night like a giant beast. The dark artillery tower in the distance stood tall. Lao Zhou's fist that had been clenched tightly finally let go. He breathed a sigh of relief and said goodbye to Hu Yi and Lao Qin who came to pick him up: "Company Commander Hu, Instructor Qin, I will leave these young men to you. Don't worry, just train to death!"

"You won't be disappointed, I will definitely ensure the safety of Director Su and the others." After Hu Yi said that, he loosened his hand tightly clenched with Lao Zhou.

"The situation is special, I won't nag you today!" Lao Qin and Lao Zhou also let go of their hands.

Watching Lao Zhou go down the blockade ditch, climb back to the opposite ditch, waved again: "Take care!"

"Take care of yourself?"

Not long after the sun rose, the ground became hot.

The uninhabited village finally became lively. There was a well in the village that had not been used for a long time. The well water was a little smelly. A group of new recruits were busy washing the well. Buckets of water were raised from the well. The soldiers from the Ninth Company next to them were excited to wash their faces and wipe their bodies. No one cared whether the water was clean.

The recruits who had been walking all night were puzzled.

The company commander ordered that no one could drink the water from the well.

In the dusty house, Hu Yi and Lao Qin sat opposite each other at the broken table.

"Why haven't the girl come back?"

"There are too many things on the side of Director Su, and the scope of work needs to be expanded. The girl stayed there and helped. Lao Zhou had a wide relationship there, so there should be no problem. I am here to come back this time and I am going to bring some people there. You have to worry more about the training of recruits." Hu Yi said the plan that he had already thought of.

Su Qing did not have a blockade line with him. Seeing that Hu Yi and the new recruits passed the blockade ditch without any danger, when Lao Zhou slowly came back, he led Li Xiang, Xu Xiao, Luo Fugui and the girl, followed Lao Zhou and the militia who sent the new recruits back to Zhou Village overnight.

"It's time to go out. In our place, there are so few people around you. The Japanese and traitors come to catch people every now and then?" Old Qin was a little anxious.

"Are all the things that are trained at the resident ready?" Hu Yi frowned.

"We have been ready. The playground was built by the training ground according to the national military standards. We lacked the hemp rope for climbing, so we found some mountain vines to deal with it."

"Did the political commissar say when to leave?"

"I didn't say that, I guess you will return to the mountains after you meet these recruits."

"A few days ago, you sent someone to send news that the Japanese have stormed this area again. How is the situation?"

"In some villages, Lao Baiwa, who escaped by chance, secretly ran back. The Japanese didn't know how to get the news. A squadron of Japanese soldiers led a company of puppet troops and divided into multiple routes to around ten miles near the blockade ditch, conducting a network-style search from north to south. Fortunately, the sentry discovered the situation in advance and organized the villagers to return them to the west and avoid the search."

“Are these villagers’ identities reliable?”

"Old Meng is familiar with the feelings here, so he directly organized the villagers to dig a canal at the foot of the western mountain. Even if there are spies, they can't make a big wave."

"I think the work is difficult to do when I go out, and it is too complicated to identify the enemy and me!" Hu Yi stared at the tea jar on the table, a little discouraged.

"Take it slow, it's our first time when we get into the sedan chair. Fortunately, Lao Zhou and the others have experience and the basic strength is still there. In addition, I have sent someone to call Boss Du and the others out of the wine station. As for how to identify spies, they have experience. In addition, many ordinary people have also come to the blockade ditch."

"Our station is so poor, and there are still people coming? Don't they know what's going on here?" Hu Yi frowned.

"The Japanese arrested the trench near the blockade ditch. I heard that the trench was to continue to expand the blockade ditch to the west. Some villagers' strong laborers were arrested at home and dug trench and repaired artillery towers. They only worked but had no wages. They left orphans and widows at home. They couldn't live a life, so they simply ran west together."

"The devils have momentum to develop westward?"

"Yes, not only that, Meixian County in the south also organized thousands of people to start digging and blocking the trenches. The political commissar secretly selected a group of people and sneaked into the trenches digging team."

“Is it useful?”

"Now the Japanese are powerful, we can't stop them at all. We can't just watch them, so we decided to put a few nails in first. When the ditch is dug, the Japanese will definitely have to draw people from the civilians to form a security team to guard the stronghold. The Japanese have built so many artillery towers. As long as we can control a few, the enemy's blockade line will be in vain."

"We must not only destroy the Japanese blockade line, but also develop and strengthen the armed forces. We must open up the traffic line. It is not safe to rely on one location alone. The best way is to directly mix the soldiers who have been educated with ideological to join the security team." Hu Yi was thinking that he passed the blockade ditch last night, and having an insider was easy to do.

"We have suddenly added so many people, so we can find Li Youde's food. There is no big problem. The well dug in the village has been watered out. It has been very deep. It should be enough to eat and drink, but the problem of water is really difficult to solve." Lao Qin spit out a mouthful of smoke, a little worried.

Hu Yi felt that it would be a good idea to fight those guarding the artillery tower. It was unwise to fight with the Japanese head-on, so he did not think about actually going to fight the artillery tower.

The list of hardcore traitors has been counted and will be handed over to the political commissar, the captain of the title of the title.

It’s not that Jiulian does whatever he wants. The current situation is very bad, but the work of the anti-Japanese government has not stopped.

Many people who seem to be traitors on the surface are entirely possible intelligence personnel inserted into the enemy by the Eighth Route Army or the National Army.

In the past, the list had to be sent to the National Army Liaison Office for verification. After obtaining the approval, the list of hardcore traitors to be eliminated will be sent to each work team layer by layer. Only then can the work team directly eliminate this part of the confirmed hardcore traitors, and some traitors who are extremely guilty have to find ways to arrest them for public trial.

Until the National Army deliberately provoked trouble and launched a large-scale friction with the Eighth Route Army, the intelligence systems of both sides no longer crossed.

However, the National Army's anti-traitor team usually stayed in the city, either joined the police, puppet army, security team, or was a local gentry, maintained the president, and the real people as intelligence personnel, and the National Government simply looked down on it.

Most of the staff of the Eighth Route Army are ordinary people, so even if they kill traitors, they rarely kill the Eighth Route Army people. However, this identification procedure still has to be done.

There is water source near the mountains and hilly areas, so you can eat and drink, but it is not enough to water the land.

The people have a difficult life, even if they want to escape, they don’t know where to go. The requirements are not high. If they can survive, they can fill their stomachs. It is purely a luxury.

After so long after coming out, the Ninth Company did not have a major conflict with the Japanese puppet army. The biggest move was to attack two grenades in the Japanese armored vehicle.

Fighting with the Japanese in the mountains has terrain advantages, and you can run if you can't beat them, so a small group of Japanese invaders dare not enter the mountains at all.

Ambushing the well-trained Japanese troops on the plains. Even if the Eighth Route Army is similar to the Japanese military equipment, it will have to be at least two or three times the Japanese military force before it can take action. Otherwise, if you are entangled by the Japanese, you will be seeking death.

If there are fewer people, you can't beat it, let alone win. The well-connected highway network and the electric network between the artillery towers on the plains is very fast. If any artillery tower is attacked, the nearby reinforcements will basically not exceed half an hour.

To ambush the enemy on the plain, you must first understand the whereabouts of the Japanese and arrange people in advance to dig out the possible reinforcements of the Japanese.

The workload is quite large, and there is no room for activity on the Ninth Company alone. The work team usually looks like a commoner, and the main work is to attack traitors. As for the conditions being ripe, it may also be a ruthless person for the Japanese.

There is no way to engage in large-scale battles. The book about guerrilla warfare given to Hu Yi by the political commissar is in line with reality.

Hu Yi actually had no clue or even direction. He always aimed at living, mostly fighting and doing mass work, and he was simply helping Su Qing.

"Who?" the frontier asked,

"Da Qingshan."

The visitor was arranged to be a secret whistle in the north. At this time, he came over to show that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Hu Yi had not seen the figure clearly, and had already started asking.

"A team appeared in the north and came here."

No need to guess, this is a search team arranged by the Japanese. This place has been emptied by the Japanese, but the Japanese will also arrange for people to check whether there are people at each time.

“How far is the distance, how many people?”

"About five or six miles, there are about one hundred."

Hu Yi, carrying a rifle, stopped on a small high ground, quietly looked at the team moving forward next to him, reached out to take out the pocket watch, and with a crisp and faint metal sound, the case bounced.

The reflection is very strong in the sun. I tried hard to see the time clearly and habitually put away the pocket watch.

No one spoke, only the sound of footsteps heading west.

Since most of the Japanese in the squadron were attacked by the training team, the Japanese no longer dared to go into the village casually.

Even small troops dare not go to the junction. When they have operations, they usually maintain a squadron's strength, and lead the puppet army, and then divide into several teams to support each other's actions.

Most of the tasks of searching in the village were handed over to the puppet army and security team, and they followed them into the village after confirming that there was nothing to do.

The common people who escaped the Japanese siege by chance returned to the village with sadness, most of them were old, weak, women and children. Young people were either arrested by Japanese or killed by Japanese.
Chapter completed!