Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 111 Hi Wugong Team (small battle, if you don't like it, you can skip to 59)

Dabeigou Village, Heyuan.

Yao Zhihai, captain of the armed work team, led his men to work hard to reclaim wasteland. According to the order of battalion commander Zhang Dabiao, the armed work team had to spend almost all day reclaiming and farming land, except for recruiting members at night. Spring plowing ensured that each team member reclaimed at least ten acres of land.

Yao Zhihai didn't have much objection to this. He was born into a peasant family and joined the independent regiment two years ago. He fought several tough battles in the first company of the first battalion and was lucky enough to survive and was promoted to squad leader.

This time, the first company advanced into Heyuan. It was almost divided into armed work teams of 2 to 3 people who entered local villages to carry out underground armed development work. If they encountered Japanese strongholds or large local reactionary forces, they would directly notify the regiment commander and let them resolve them.

At that time, the sniper team and the artillery team were both active in Heyuan, specifically attacking the Japanese strongholds outside the city. It took more than a month to almost completely eliminate the strongholds outside Heyuan City.

This created very favorable conditions for Yao Zhihai's armed work team to carry out its work.

Yao Zhihai was assigned to Dabeigou Village near Heyuan, where more than 3 people lived. There was originally a Japanese artillery tower and stronghold three miles away from Dabeigou Village. Every autumn harvest time, the Japanese and puppet troops would come here to collect grain.

There are no big families in this local area. After all, the population is small and it is close to Heyuan City. Those who have some money here want to move to the city to live.

Therefore, the richest family here is only the family of Zhou Laoshuan, who owns more than 3 acres of good land. Old Zhou has three sons and two daughters, all of whom are adults.

Relying on his diligence, Zhou Laoshuan would take his three adult sons to reclaim wasteland every year. After gradually accumulating more than 3 acres of land, he was too busy to handle it and dared not continue to reclaim more land.

When Yao Zhihai came here, families like Zhou Laoshuan's, which had several strong young men, naturally became the focus of work. Yao Zhihai had his own way of doing things, and his own experience was also very convincing. After constantly explaining the reasons and ideals, both of Zhou Laoshuan's sons joined the armed work team and became official members.

Helped Yao Zhihai gradually expand his team to more than 30 people, which is almost the limit of the development of Dabeigou Village.

The armed work team usually trains, and in their free time, in addition to doing their own housework, they also gather together to help with the work of the widows, widowers, and orphans in the village. Gradually, they built up a good reputation in the village, allowing Yao Zhihai and his team to take root there.

At the beginning, Li Yunlong seized a lot of guns and ammunition from the puppet army and the devils in Heyuan through fighting to promote training. Yao Zhihai naturally got a lot of it as well. Everyone in the Dabeigou Village Armed Work Team had a rifle. Although they were not as strong as regular troops, they were much stronger than many local guerrillas at that time.

It would be considered good if one-third of a normal guerrilla team had guns. You should know that before Ren Zhong came, many local regiments in the base areas had only more than 500 rifles for more than a thousand people, and a considerable number of them were ammunition soldiers for machine guns.

In fact, there was not much ammunition to carry, because the main force's bullet equipment standard during this period was 10 bullets per person!
Yao Zhihai had bullets from Yangcun, and he used up more than 30 bullets just for target shooting! He was much richer than the regular troops of the local regiments outside.

By achieving the dual-pronged approach of bullet production and reloading, the independent regiment has now basically achieved initial freedom in bullets.

The abundance of these weapons also made Yao Zhihai's Dabeigou armed work team more cohesive and the work went smoothly. Now Dabeigou has been developed into a fortress village. However, due to its proximity to Heyuan City, Yao Zhihai did not openly raise the banner of the Eighth Route Army, but continued to develop quietly in the village.

However, Yao Zhihai did not expect that Li Laoyao, a lazy scoundrel in Dabeigou Village, had secretly seen their activities. After he confirmed that the Eighth Route Army had entered the village, he sneaked to the county town and informed the Japanese gendarmerie in exchange for a little reward.

At this moment, when Yao Zhihai and his colleagues were reclaiming wasteland and cultivating the fields, the squadron leader of the Heyuan gendarmerie, Fujino Taro, appeared more than a mile outside the Dabeigou Village with a squadron of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops.

When Xiao Dongzi, who was in charge of keeping watch in the village, discovered that a large number of Japanese soldiers were coming, he quickly knocked down the two message trees beside him and ran back to the village to report the news!
"Captain, there's a situation!" Zhou Shangxin, a member of the armed work team who was working together, accidentally glanced in the direction of the message tree and found that the message tree had fallen down, so he quickly said to Yao Zhihai.

"Notify everyone to return to the village to get weapons and prepare for battle!" When Yao Zhihai saw both message trees fall down, his heart skipped a beat. This was news that a large group of Japanese invaders had arrived. According to the message tree regulations, only when a team of more than 40 Japanese invaders or puppet troops arrived would both message trees be knocked down at the same time.

Although Xiao Dongzi is not well educated, he has no problem counting people.

"By the way, Shang Xin, go and inform the villagers to move to the mountain immediately. Be careful of the Japanese soldiers who may enter the village and do bad things. The Japanese soldiers' coming this time is suspicious. I'm afraid someone has informed them and the Japanese soldiers are well prepared." Yao Zhihai's thoughts turned, and he guessed most of the Japanese soldiers' intentions at once.

"Captain, I'm afraid the villagers won't want to leave." Zhou Shangxin was a little embarrassed. Before Yao Zhihai and his men came, the Japanese had also been here. The villagers were forced to hand over their rations, which were not enough for them to eat, and the Japanese just stole some food and went back.

Now everyone is suddenly asked to go into the mountains. Zhou Shangxin feels that this task is rather difficult.

"You convince your father first, and then let your father go out to convince them. I will lead the men to hold on in the front for a while, and we will retreat after you retreat." Yao Zhihai said to Zhou Shangxin while trotting towards the village.

The other team members around them jogged to catch up. Although they had not trained for a long time, they were now facing the enemy. Although they were a little panicked, they had no intention of running away.

When they arrived at the village guard headquarters, everyone picked up their guns in an orderly manner, put four grenades and 4 bullets on their backs, and followed Yao Zhihai without hesitation to a mountain at the entrance of the village, overlooking the oxcart road below.

Dabeigou is a mountain village formed by a rift valley. There is a cliff dozens of meters deep next to the main road. To enter the village from other places, one has to go around for at least several miles. Therefore, the top of the mountain at the entrance of the village is the high point that guards the only way to enter the village through Dabeigou. Yao Zhihai had already led his men to dig a half-person-deep trench on it.

They had just arrived at the position when Xiao Dongzi also ran over panting.

"Captain, captain, the Japanese are coming, there are hundreds of them! It's the same as when the villagers had a meeting, there are Japanese and puppet soldiers!" Xiao Dongzi didn't count the heads carefully, but he felt that the Japanese who came this time were similar to the villagers gathered together. The clothes of the Japanese and the puppet soldiers were different, and Xiao Dongzi could tell them apart even from a distance.

(End of this chapter)