Li Yuan and Lao Shen were sitting at the Miaoshan guerrilla headquarters. It was a small room surrounded by bamboo and mud. From the outside, it looked like an earthen wall. There were two wooden doors on the front, which were a little crooked. The one on the south side flipped upwards.

The window was held up by a thin bamboo stick, and there was a small table under the window in the house.

Li Yuan briefly told Lao Shen the process of going out this time.

Lao Shen suppressed his heart beating wildly: "You may be brave. Forty or fifty people dare to fight against the Japanese in Wuzhen, where a small team and a platoon of puppet troops are stationed. It is still an attack. This must be reported to the organization."

Li Yuan: "There is no way I can't afford to wait, otherwise I would have to wait several days before I can come back."

Lao Shen: "A lot has happened in the two days since you left. Wu Xing changed hands several times between the Japanese and the National Army. There are basically no people in the city now. Today it is the National Army, and tomorrow it becomes the Japanese. Fighting every day

Ordinary people can’t live in the city.”

Lao Shen paused and calmed down for a while: "Now in this land, the national army is already distributing weapons to guerrillas everywhere. As long as you go to the local government to open a letter of introduction and have a local gentry as a guarantee, you can go

The national army set up a supply point in Tianmu Mountain to collect guns and ammunition. Captain Lang and Wang Wen have already gone to Tianmu Mountain, and it will only take a day or two to come back."

Li Yuan: "Then the national army should have established a lot of local armed forces here?"

Lao Shen: "The intelligence organization should know, but our level did not pass the information to us. It seems to be to keep it confidential, but as far as we can get from our own intelligence channels, now there are armed forces in every county.

There are dozens of armed forces, and preliminary estimates suggest that there are no less than a few thousand armed forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

Li Yuan: "The Nationalist government just sends out some guns and expects others to sacrifice their lives for them. It is destined not to last long."

Lao Shen: "This result is much worse than you imagine. On the surface, large organizations listen to the dispatches of the national army, but secretly, armed forces in many places compete for each other's territory. Some of them fight each other because of the uneven distribution of weapons.

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Li Yuan: "When I went to Nanxun this time, I heard from people in the Changchao Volunteer Army that the weapons were not good, and usually they could only rely on manpower to attack single soldiers and replace the Japanese and puppet troops. However, they still couldn't defeat the small Japanese in groups.

But they also did a good job. A few days before we went, between Wuxing and Nanxun, they mobilized thousands of people to destroy more than ten kilometers of the road from Huzhou to Nanxun. It is said that the road along the Japanese transport line was basically paralyzed."

Lao Shen: "The National Army has been fighting with us for so many years, but they have come up with some methods and are learning from us to fight guerrillas. However, they have deep pockets and a different height. They are now the actual controllers of the country, but they lack the ability to do so.

The stragglers here are unified and organized, and they are still relying on the landlords and gentry who have vested interests. They only carry out a single military attack, which cannot really provide protection for the old people and will not do much damage to the Japanese."

So our main task now is to establish base areas and recruit some advanced anti-Japanese troops?"

Lao Shen: "If you think like this, it means you have a high level of consciousness. Why don't you come to our place?"

Li Yuan: "I listen to the organization's arrangements for this. I should be more suitable for fighting the Japanese. If you say so, we can leave earlier today. Most of the areas here are still in the hands of the national army and us. The Japanese only come out occasionally.

We don’t need to be afraid of them since they are few in number.”

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At the foot of Tianmu Mountain.

Now was the period of cooperation between the two parties. After Li Yuan and others left, Wang Wen led more than 30 Wuxing guerrillas to Tianmu Mountain overnight to collect firearms and supplies from the Wuxing County Republican Government.

The Wuxing guerrillas who had successfully obtained weapons and ammunition from the national army supply point were very excited. Although the guns and ammunition were not good, everyone at least had a gun in their hands, with thirty rounds of bullets per person.

On my way back through the night.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky. The soldiers of the Wuxing guerrillas are in high spirits. It is already midnight.

In fact, not long after the moon rose, it passed through one village after another. The village was quietly located in the darkness with silky moonlight before dawn. The moonlight was not bright, but it made the village feel more quiet. Occasionally, distant sounds could be heard.

With the sound of dogs barking, the group of people divided into three groups: vanguards, small groups, and large groups, as if they were walking in a cloud of smoke.

A vigilant figure, constantly looking around, gradually seeped out from the mist in the west. He walked hurriedly and quietly through a village to the south. The black shadow did not stop until it reached the road to the east of the village.

After coming down, he walked to a clump of bamboo forest and turned around, carefully observing the village which was still silent in the smoke. A figure crossed his position and walked towards the east, with two pointed soldiers crossing each other.

The guard who stopped here discovered that the village was quiet, and even the dogs didn't make a sound.

The sharp bayonet under the muzzle of the rifle he was carrying was pointed diagonally at the ground. As his body swayed rhythmically, his bright eyes scanned the upcoming route left and right, from left to right, and then from right to left.

He has walked this road many times before. Since the Japanese came, walking on this road is no longer so peaceful. There are more than thirty comrades behind him, so he has been following the reconnaissance instructions taught by the new instructor.

I turned my head back and forth regularly, trying to see the road ahead more clearly.

Not long after, another dozen figures appeared on the road behind them, and they slowly followed them to the position of the vanguard. Behind them were another twenty figures, and they walked quietly like this.

Going from west to east, slowly passing through the smoke in the dark night, we are about to pass through the village.

"Secretary, look at the situation here. This village is very quiet and nothing unusual."

The leading soldier walked to Wang Wen and stopped. He did not salute like before, but just whispered.

Wang Wen frowned slightly and did not speak. He found that this village was too quiet and a bit abnormal. It was different from other villages he had walked along the way. It seemed that if he wanted to understand the specific situation in this village, he must

Go into the village to have a look, but entering the village will delay your trip and continue walking east? No matter there is nothing here, but I always feel that something is wrong here.

Wang Wen knew that all of this was based on his own guesses, based on his own feelings from so many years of underground work. He didn't know the specific situation, so there was no need for him as a guerrilla soldier to take more risks.

Wang Wen was about to order a reconnaissance to the east. There was another leading soldier in front of him. He had already confirmed the news and planned not to interfere with the village's business. The leading soldier pointed to the east and whispered: "Secretary, something seems to have been discovered ahead. Liu

Er seems to be back!"

Liu Er was the leading soldier with him. The two of them were crossing each other to serve as the leading soldier. When Liu Er came back, he quickly ran forward. Although he was running, he didn't hear any footsteps. It turned out that his feet were outside his shoes.

Wrapped in a towel.

Wang Wen didn't even turn around and directly ordered in a low voice: "Everyone hide and enter the bamboo forest!"

This is an enemy-occupied area, where plainclothes detective teams run rampant. These people themselves are not scary. What is scary is that they can report to the Japanese at any time, and then the Japanese soldiers will lead the puppet troops to carry out raids.

In the dim light, Liu Er stood on the roadside and was reporting to Wang Wen: "A large number of corpses were found in the village ahead. I originally took the road south of the village to pass, but the bloody smell coming from inside was very pungent.

Very soon, I walked in from the forest and took a look. There were at least sixty or seventy corpses on the threshing floor. Judging from the situation, it must have been the work of the Japanese."

"Is there anyone alive in the village?"

"No one was found, not even a dog. Maybe they were all killed by the Japanese."

"You continue to reconnoiter to the east, and then arrange for two people to reconnoitre to the south and north. Let's go to this village to have a look. I don't think something is right here."

Wang Wen looked at the village to the north, and arranged for a leading soldier to go around the village to the north, and then asked three soldiers to go into the village. One soldier walked on the main road in the middle, and the other two scouted the village from the soil.

After a while, the three of them came out of the village and were shocked: "Everyone in the village is dead. It must have happened yesterday. Most of the men were on the threshing ground at the entrance of the village. Many girls were naked."

It must have been done by a dog-like devil or a bastard."

Wang Wen's blood rushed to his head and his eyes turned red: "Take us there."

The threshing floor at the entrance of the village was like a hell on earth. There were corpses everywhere, many of them stabbed to death with bayonets, and a few had their heads cut off. Only the Japanese could be so cruel!

The soldiers held back tears and their hearts were bleeding...

Wang Wen didn't think much about it, and arranged for the soldiers to gather all the corpses at the entrance of the village, and let the soldiers go to the village to find hoes. Time was urgent, so they could only simply dig them up. Chinese people pay attention to the idea of ​​​​burying them in peace.

The number of corpses was counted. This was to be settled with the little devil, and was also explained to the National Military Government this time when they went to collect supplies.

Wang Wen felt heavy in his heart. If this village is like this, the villages in front of it must be similar to this one.

More than 30 people went to the village in front and saw almost the same situation. Wang Wen just wanted to cry. Why? Why?

The people are suffering and losing their lives, but where is our protection? Organizations want to come here, and the National Government keeps setting up obstacles.

Now here we have to arm the people first and make up our minds to build the base first.

Not just here, since the Battle of Songhu in Shanghai last year, the Japanese attack Nanjing, Nanxun, Wuxing, Changxing, and Yixing on the central line through Taihunan, and have committed countless murders.

Only the blood of the Japanese can cleanse the blood of our compatriots. Blood debts must be repaid with blood!

He buried the body again, wiped away his tears, and ordered the soldiers to set off. He planned to return to the Miaoshan station first and join the guerrillas in Changxing and his own people before making plans.

When daylight was about to break, the soldiers found a grove sheltered from the wind under a mountain to rest.

The sun was about to rise, and there was a ray of light in the distance in the east. The snoring soldiers were still sleeping.

Wang Wen, who couldn't sleep, felt a little heavy, so he stood up and moved his body.

The surrounding woods and bamboo forests began to slowly become clearer. This is just a small forest sandwiched in the bamboo forest, just on the south side of a hill. In this forest, there are a few taller eucalyptus trees, and most of them are mulberry trees. They are sparse.
Chapter completed!