Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Unlike the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade, the enemy's division-level combat units were located around the Taiyue area. Because they were divisions, they prioritized replenishing the lost soldiers and completing the reorganization.

Perhaps unwilling to accept the defeat and losses in the Taihang area, the Japanese gathered 10 troops to "mop up" the Taiyue base in October. The troops stationed in the Taiyue area were the 2th Brigade. After knowing the strength of the Japanese troops, they once again adopted the tactic of evacuating the people, leaving the county to the Japanese, and then attacking the Japanese on the outside.

Because there was no effective resistance, the Japanese easily captured Qinyuan, but they occupied an empty city. After occupying Qinyuan County, the Japanese set up 15 strongholds outside the city and hung up a signboard of "Mountain Anti-Communist Experimental County", attempting to use this as a model to control the Taiyue base for a long time.

When our brigade commander saw this posture, he thought, can the Japanese occupy the place for a long time? That's worth considering! So he established the "Qinyuan Military and Civilian Anti-Enemy Siege Struggle Command" and decided to launch the Qinyuan siege.

Under the command of the military region, Qinyuan's military and civilians first launched a large-scale mobilization to clear the countryside. With Qinyuan City as the center, the masses were mobilized to move out within a 5-kilometer radius, fill up the wells, blow up the mills, transport the food, and empty the supplies. The purpose of doing this was to prevent the Japanese from getting even a little bit of supplies from the occupied areas, and let them consume their own supplies!

At the same time, the command mobilized the militia to cooperate with the main force and launched extensive sparrow warfare, blocking warfare, mine warfare, ambush warfare and sabotage warfare against the Japanese and puppet troops, forcing the Japanese army to abandon most of the 15 strongholds.

Does it look familiar? Does it look similar to what Li Yunlong did in Jucheng? This is the Qinyuan siege! Of course, the independent regiment blocked only a few dozen Japanese soldiers in Jucheng, but in Qinyuan, they directly besieged a large group of Japanese soldiers in Qinyuan City. Aren't you awesome? We gave up the city, surrounded the city with the countryside, and cut off your supply source. Let's see what you can do?

Well, this seemingly outrageous thing actually happened in Qinyuan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The Japanese were besieged for a whole year. This is definitely an unprecedented and unparalleled war!
The siege of Qinyuan has begun, and the independent detachment's new recruit training plan is still going on! More than 1500 new recruits, led by veterans, were divided into three groups for training, which lasted for a full month. By the time the new recruits had combat experience, it was already winter, so it was just the right time to conduct some firearms refitting training and marksmanship training before the New Year.

At the end of December, a heavy snow fell on the Taihang Mountains, covering the entire earth in white. The scene of the mountains dancing like silver snakes and the plains galloping like wax elephants appeared before people's eyes.

In Liangjia Village, the sound of brooms rubbing against the ground could be heard one after another, and then a small cart with a bucket was seen pushed out of the village, dumping cartloads of snow into the wheat fields outside the village.

“This winter the wheat fields are covered with three layers of blankets, and next year we will sleep on steamed buns!” At the entrance of the village, Zhao Danian looked at the snow-covered mountains and directed the soldiers to continue working: “Here, let’s add another blanket to the wheat fields, over there…”

Dangdangdang... Dingdingding... Outside the village, the flames of the forging furnace burned the rails red, and then under the forging of the hanging hammer, they became blanks one by one. Near the burning furnace, some children from the village gathered here, and built a small earthen stove for themselves, lighting it with cow dung picked up from somewhere.

As the cow dung was lit, the smoke gradually dissipated, and the small stove actually burned vigorously. Not long after, the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes came out of the stove. The greedy children looked at it eagerly, waiting for the time to eat... Roasted sweet potatoes with cow dung tasted great...

Crunch, crunch... A group of people wearing camouflage uniforms and white cloaks emerged from the forest in the north and greeted the sentinels outside the village. Yes, this is the hunting team this winter, and the leader is still Bai Dabao. As for Bai Dashan, no one knows where he has gone. No one has seen him for a long time. "Captain Bai, how did you get today?" The sentinels looked at the soldiers behind Bai Dabao curiously, wanting to know what they got.

"Not bad. The traps and snares we set last night caught 15 pheasants, 8 rabbits, and 23 turtledoves... Of course, these are not the main points. The main point is that we found several squirrel nests and dug up more than 80 kilograms of food! It's a pity for these squirrels. They worked hard for a whole autumn and it's a good thing for us!" While speaking, Bai Dabao took out his pipe, lit it and took a puff.

"This is a pretty good harvest, and we didn't see any wild boars?" the sentry asked expectantly.

"We found the hoof prints of wild boars. We'll chase them when we're ready!" Bai Dabao replied, and led the hunting team back to the village. The hunting team was not only responsible for hunting, but also for patrolling the mountainous areas in the base, and also for anti-infiltration tasks, so they didn't care much about the harvest of prey.

In a yard at the west end of Liangjia Village, Li Yuexuan, with Cai Xiaotian and Xiao Fengyun standing beside them, were looking at a running machine with great anticipation.

The machine looks very old, and it is driven by a small steam engine, which does not run very fast. Of course, what people are concerned about now is not the age of the machine, but what the machine produces.

As the machine kept running, long cylindrical white strips were produced one by one. Then, the workers in charge of the operation collected and packaged these long strips into boxes. Well, this is nothing new, just ordinary cigarettes.

"Director, why do we have such a cigarette-making machine if we don't produce weapons and ammunition? And these cigarettes, can they help us fight against the Japanese?" Cai Xiaotian asked as he looked at the boxes of cigarettes being stacked up.

"You don't understand this, right? Let me tell you, the profit of cigarettes is very high. If we make it well, it will be enough to feed our army!" Li Yuexuan answered Cai Xiaotian's question with a smile, and the words of people in later generations echoed again: If you don't smoke and I don't smoke, who will repair the aircraft carrier if it breaks down?
"Really?" Cai Xiaotian doesn't smoke and doesn't know the relationship between cigarettes and military spending, but he still nodded.

"Haha, I heard that the 115th Division has set up a cigarette factory in Shandong, and they named the cigarettes Big Chicken! If they can do it, why can't we?" Xiao Fengyun said with a smile.

"Is that so?" (End of this chapter)