Tian Sanqi, who was sleeping on his tummy, opened his eyes and wanted to move his body, but he found a piercing pain coming from behind.

After a moment of confusion, I remembered the scene before I fainted, and my eyes slowly opened.

Thinking slowly returns to normal.

It was pitch black everywhere around, and a noisy sound of people calling and neighing.

He tried to endure the pain and prepared. As soon as he moved, the pain came from his back and felt heart and lung pain, and he grinned his teeth and cracked his mouth: "Ah?"

However, when he touched the familiar loose turning block beside the kang, he finally realized that he had returned to the base.

In the darkness, there was a creaking sound, and someone pushed the door in.

Chi... The visitor ignited a match in the darkness and flashed a dim light.

A lighted up an oil lamp.

"Platform leader, are you awake?" A strong young man with barefoot and bare hands approached the bed and looked at Tian Sanqi who was turning his head. He looked excited. Without waiting for Tian Sanqi to answer, he continued: "I'll go and have you eaten for you. Wang Xiaosan also left you stewed pork for you?"

"Hey? Zhu Er? Come back for me?"

"What's the matter? Platoon leader..." Zhu Er stopped and turned his head.

"How about we deal with casualties in the evening? Uh... where did the stewed pork come from?"

"We have twelve dead balls and injured more than 30 times? There are two seriously injured brothers. I wonder if we can survive?" Zhu Er's tone became quiet.

In the dim light, the two of them suddenly fell silent.

He brought seventy or eighty people to pretend to be a security army and even sneaked into the Japanese nest. He suddenly stabbed the Japanese in the back. Two people dealt with one, but the casualties still exceeded the Japanese!

Zhu Ercai remembered the platoon leader asking about pork and quickly added, "Well, that pork stew, Lao Qin received the news that Lao Meng sent someone to bring back the Ninth Company today, and specially sent someone to ask the security army in the artillery tower to find a way to get a few kilograms of pork. Unexpectedly, the security army directly brought half a slice of pork from the enemy war zone!"

"Are all the soldiers seriously injured?"

"Hehe, platoon leader, don't be sad about this. Most of our injured brothers are fighting with the Japanese and bayonets. They seem to be seriously injured, but they are not injured. They are men again for ten days at most!"

"How about Lao Meng and the others were attacked by the Japanese?"

Captain Meng and his team had more than 200 people, more than 120 people died and more than 50 injured. If the company commander had not been reinforced later, they would have almost wiped out all their troops! If they hadn't brought the people to dig a trenches, I think they wouldn't even carry stretchers?"

The company commander and the others suffered little losses, right? Tian Sanqi intended to ask the company commander in the end because he thought the company commander was invincible!

"The spy platoon lost two soldiers and injured several times. The Tang Da Dog Squad suffered more than half of the casualties! The mule squad injured five, and one of them did not die!"

"Why is it so noisy outside?"

"The company commander and his friends came back after burying the sacrificed comrades and were having dinner. I heard from the instructor that they were going to Gaoping overnight?"

"Go back to Gaoping overnight? Go back to the security team? What happened?" Tian Sanqi suppressed the pain and struggled to stand up. His eyes turned dark and he almost fainted again.

"Platform leader, don't move, you're not hurting very much... I heard that there are a large number of bandits in the north attacking Commander Sun, wanting to grab the territory?"

"Hurry up!" Tian Sanqi was anxious.

"No, Comrade Liu said, your injury is not serious, you can't get up and move, you need to rest!"

"Damn it, my words won't work?"

"Why should I call the instructor?"

"Old Qin? Let's forget it!" Tian Sanqi was shocked. If Lao Qin arrived, he would not have to chat until dawn in the middle of the night: "Are all the Japanese killed?"

"Hehe, I caught a prisoner! When the company commander and others rushed to Lao Meng's hillside, the Japanese ran away while it was dark... Listen to me..."

Lao Qin sat opposite Hu Yi at the table: "I have done everything, so don't you rest for a while before leaving?"

"You can also take turns sleeping in the carriage. I have to thank you for so many wounded people!" Hu Yi did not look up and made a gesture on the map under the oil lamp.

"The station has not been peaceful for this period. I will set off overnight after you leave. I have to find a way to send the injured back to the wine station!" Lao Qin spit out a mouthful of smoke, which filled the light.

When he went out, he had more than 100 spies lined up. He accidentally encountered more than 100 security teams led by Lao Zhou and the girl. More than 30 people were sacrificed and more than 50 people were injured. The Ninth Company still suffered nearly half of the casualties when he went out this time!

Lao Qin smoked the cigarette that the girl brought to him specially, and the fire on the cigarette butts flashed and disappeared.

After a while, Hu Yi did not look up and continued to ask: "Are you sure there is no problem with this group of new recruits?"

"The people who cannot survive in the enemy-occupied areas have investigated their backgrounds and are innocent. Many of them have relatives at home and die at the hands of the Japanese, hating the Japanese."

"Have you shot all?"

"Everyone hit three shots!"

Hu Yi was silent, and he was a new recruit again. Every time he fought, he was the first to sacrifice.

Seeing that Hu Yi didn't say anything, Lao Qin continued: "There were a pair of cloth shoes for everyone in those bags, and whether they fit the feet... I don't know. Anyway, I just need to change my clothes. They were driven out by the women who escaped. Although they were a little rough, they were made thick..."

Hu Yi interrupted Lao Qin's nagging: "I saw a lot of villagers in Jiuzhan Village at the base, why did they all run away from the mountain?"

"Some time ago, I cut nine and sent a batch of supplies. This time they are here to help transport them back to the mountains."

"Transport into the mountain? Didn't we cut nine and send it to the artillery tower at the foot of the mountain before?" Hu Yi took his gaze back from the map on the table, and looked at the oil lamp and fell into deep thought.

"Is there any problem?"

Hu Yi always felt something was wrong, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure it out: "When the military division was divided, the Japanese approached a cavalry brigade, but gave up the pursuit of the military division, and just sent a security army to encircle and suppress it! The division leaders analyzed that the Japanese must be carrying out some conspiracy..."

Lao Qin was shocked: "The military sub-district is so far away from us, can it be related to us?"

"After the military sub-district withdraws from this place, the Japanese seemed to have forgotten this place. Do you think this is possible with the Japanese's temper?" Hu Yi finally grasped some unusual points.

"What you said... I don't feel at ease... By the way, a few days ago, the militia found that many strangers appeared in this area. They pretended to defect to relatives to find someone. Could it be...we were targeted by the Japanese?" Lao Qin suddenly remembered something.

Hu Yi's eyes fell on the map again: "The blockade line in the east, the new blockade ditch was dug in the south, and the Japanese in the hills were unable to dig the blockade ditch in the west, but the artillery tower was built at the foot of the mountain. The county government and district brigade defense zone in the north, and the county government was also there... There is a problem with this!"

Lao Qin pointed to the map with red circles and blue lines: "With our station as the center, the people have reclaimed a lot of wasteland, and Zeng Nansheng has sent a lot of seeds and finally planted the crops. But I don't know if these crops can be in a cold winter."

"Have you solved the water problem?" Hu Yi looked at Lao Qin, a little surprised.

"How else can I solve it? That is, close to the blockade line, I arranged for people to dig a few deep wells, and carried people to carry the water back to the base area with their shoulders. However, there were too many lands that were reclaimed. A few buckets of water were poured into the ground in the morning, and it was gone before it was dark!"

"Can't you dig a canal?"

"There is no way, the terrain of the well that can produce water is, and the water cannot flow to a high place..."

"Then just reclaim places with low terrain and can be drilled wells?"

"That's not the case. In those places with water, less than ten miles from the artillery tower built by the Japanese, we can only transport water to the ground in the middle of the night."

"This is too expensive. Since there are too many people, you have never thought of transferring all of these people to the mountains!"

"Go to the mountains? Why? We finally developed a base in the plain, but it would be impossible to retreat to the mountains!"

Another silence.

Hu Yi suddenly spoke again: "I feel... the situation is not good. The Japanese are definitely not so kind to let the people come to our base for crises on all sides. Most of them want us to think that there is not much danger on the plain, relax our vigilance and take the initiative to come out of the mountain, and then catch them all in one go."

"What you said seems to be unreasonable... As you said, there is really a possibility..."

"No further ado, in just a few days, start with the villages in the west, and send militias to surround the villages, and move the villagers away from each village. They stay here and have no output in farming. Just leave some trustworthy ones in there!

"But there are too many elderly, weak, women and children in the village now. Many of them have their husbands, brothers and fathers arrested by the Japanese, so they are not willing to leave at all!"

"Don't they believe that the Japanese will come here sooner or later?"

"But the Japanese just didn't come! It's just that they all live in the west! It's difficult to persuade them to leave..."

"Don't be fooled! There is only such a big place here. Even if it is on the periphery, can't they convey information through these villagers? I understand that the Japanese knew that there were not many people here, so they didn't do it. Cutting the nine people to successfully send back this batch of food was probably a trap set by the Japanese, who wanted to capture all the troops coming out of the mountains in one place!"

"Ah? Is the situation so serious?"

"I'm just a guess. The specific situation must be found in the insider!"

Hu Yi suddenly thought of another thing: "If you send the wounded into the mountain, there should be no problem. After you go back, you told the regiment commander and political commissar that you should not send troops out of the mountain easily!

"All right."

Hu Yi was silent again, looking at the map, constantly connecting the only clues in his hand, but never finding a breakthrough.

The Ninth Company learned the method of the work team. After dispersing, put on the black clothes of the reconnaissance team. Even if they fight guerrillas in the enemy-occupied area, there is no problem.

But the people who came here are just a burden now...

During this period when he was not here, Lao Qin was like an old hen, looking for food and having to protect his cubs. During the day, the veterans of the Ninth Company, who were recovering from injury, took the new ones to train, held ideological meetings at night, and had to take care of the daily life of the soldiers, inquire about the enemy's situation, and solve the trivial family affairs of the villagers. Fortunately, these recruits regarded water carrying as part of the training, which allowed these women, children, elderly and weak to see hope.
Chapter completed!