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Chapter 108 Chapter 107, Keep going, the mountain road is difficult

The next morning, Li Yuexuan was awakened by a burst of crying. When he walked out of the tent, he saw an old man carrying a set of bedding, crying and walking, with two children beside him.

"Captain, what's going on?" Li Yuexuan asked Zhao Danian.

"What else can happen? It's all the evil done by the Japanese!" Zhao Danian sighed, took out a box of cigarettes from his arms, lit one silently, and smoked hard.

"Jun... Li... that Peregrine Falcon... Let me tell you about this!" Lai Fu came over, called him by two different names, and then continued, "Just after dawn, the kitchen staff went to the village to fetch water. Guess what happened? The only well in the village was filled with corpses of the people! When Luo Wei and his team found out, they searched door to door. As a result, they found only four families in a village of more than 40 people."

"Moreover, these four families were not fully populated. All their belongings were robbed by the Japanese, not even a quilt was left. For example, the old man Yang who just left had a family of eight, but he was the only one left with his two grandchildren. It was very cold, and the three of them hid in a haystack to sleep, eating grass roots dug from the mountains..."

"We can't bear to see the people suffer, so the captain discussed with the deputy captain and gave each family a quilt, a blanket, two sleeping bags, and 2 kilograms of millet. Although there are not many things, it will help them get through this winter. Later, when the working group from Division 20 arrives, they will be able to solve some problems. We just hope that the Japanese won't come to raid again..."

Lai Fu said the most serious words in a relatively relaxed tone, which made Li Yuexuan's heart sink suddenly. The devils are coming, and the people are in trouble. The Eighth Route Army fights the devils and resists the mopping-up... But there are too few Eighth Route Army soldiers, and they can't take care of all the people...

Seeing Li Yuexuan in a daze, Zhao Danian walked over, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Peregrine, this is not our fault, but we must not forget this hatred, and we will avenge it sooner or later!"

"Captain, I understand... By the way, Captain, is the situation the same in our base?" Li Yuexuan asked.

"Our base is similar! Fortunately, we are next to the Qinlai Detachment and have the support of the 386th Brigade. In the first half of the year, we fought against the th Route Siege and failed to allow the Japanese to advance any further. Now the Japanese's th Independent Mixed Brigade is stationed on the Pingliao Highway, which is the highway from Ping'an County to Liao County. Along the highway, the Japanese have built many strongholds in an attempt to separate the Qinlai Detachment from the Taihang District."

"But we are not afraid of them! From time to time, we attack the Japanese transport teams, the Japanese grain-collecting teams, and occasionally we will go to the county town for a visit... In short, the war situation is very complicated, but we can't do anything about the Japanese. Of course, we also don't have the ability to wipe out the Japanese strongholds, so we can only let them rest in the base!" said Zhao Danian.

"Then...what about the people? Have they been harmed?" Li Yuexuan asked tremblingly. "What do you think? In Yangquan alone, the Japanese have done so many evil things that I can't count them on my two hands! So, we have to go back quickly so that we can continue to fight the Japanese! As for this side, the comrades in Beiyue District will naturally take care of it." Zhao Danian looked at the sky and continued, "Hurry up and have breakfast. We still have to walk on the mountain road for a whole day today, and we have to cross the Zhengtai Railway."

The guerrillas had their meal, and the breakfast was rich, thick millet porridge with pickles and corn pancakes. This was a staple food made of pure grains, and only after eating a full stomach could one have the strength to travel. So everyone gulped down the food and quickly filled their stomachs. That was not all, the rice grains stuck to the lunch boxes were also poured with boiling water by the comrades, stirred with chopsticks, and then drunk.

What? This is dishwater? ? Do you know that a grain of food can save a life? And you are talking about dishwater. The comrades in the kitchen team drank the water they used to wash the pots. In an era of extreme scarcity of materials, having food to eat is a great blessing.

Like his guerrilla comrades, Li Yuexuan also cleaned his lunch box and drank the dishwashing water. Thinking about the waste of food in the old world, especially the frequent sightings of people wasting fruits such as watermelons on certain audio platforms, Li Yuexuan really wanted to bring those people to this world to experience what it means to have no food for the next meal.

After dinner, the New 1st Regiment also started to move, and the guerrillas also packed up and prepared to follow. Outside this nameless mountain village, there was a big grave mound. It was the dead villagers who were buried in peace with the efforts of the soldiers of the supplementary battalion. Before leaving, Li Yuexuan looked at the big grave mound and only hoped that when they were reincarnated as human beings, they would be born in a prosperous flower-growing family...

Zhao Danian obviously knew the route planned by Li Yunlong! That's right, just as Zhao Danian said, the rest of the journey today is to go up along the river valley. When you reach the end of the river valley, there are hundreds of meters of mountains and many cliffs.

The marching team was walking slowly along the mountain road on the edge of the cliff. The mountain road was winding, and it was zigzagging back and forth. So the team behind was still walking when they heard the shouts of their comrades above their heads. When they looked up, they saw their comrades walking on the top of the cliff.

"This is a short distance, but it is very different from the road we took in the past! Back then, on the snowy mountains, in the grasslands..." The road was difficult to travel, but many old Red Army soldiers in the team told their comrades about the road they had traveled. Especially Battalion Commander Niu, he told stories to the new recruits in the supplementary battalion.

"It's cold today, isn't it? But what's a little bit of cold wind? It's really cold on the snowy mountain! Not only is it cold, but there are no cotton-padded clothes! Our comrade in charge of distributing cotton-padded clothes gave the last cotton-padded clothes to the comrades, and he sat by the tree and finally died on the mountain..."

"As for those Red Devils who fell behind, our old comrades returned to the grassland to look for them. There was no food to eat! It was called grassland, but it was poisonous, not everything was edible! There was an old squad leader who traveled during the day and dug earthworms and fished at night, and made fish soup for the Red Devils. In the end, the Red Devils survived, but the old squad leader himself starved to death..."

Li Yuexuan walked in the team, listening to Niu Youtian telling stories to the new recruits, and felt even heavier in his heart. These were stories learned in the textbooks, but when these stories were told by people who had experienced them personally, they felt even heavier!
When a group of people, with a firm will, overcome the natural environment beyond human limits, endure torture beyond the physiological limit, and never give up the firm belief in their hearts, then this group of people is great! When these people have developed a poor country into the world's second largest economy in a few decades, and have always kept their original intentions. Then this group of people are the most respectable and trustworthy people!
(End of this chapter)