Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Li Yuexuan has understood one thing since he joined the guerrillas and tinkered with grenades in Beiyue District. That is, when it comes to equipping the Eighth Route Army, nothing high-tech is suitable. Only weapons that are easy to manufacture, maintain, and use are the most suitable weapons for the Eighth Route Army. Again, first solve the problem of whether there is one, then solve the problem of whether it is good or not!

Now, under the influence of Li Yuexuan, the infantry equipment of the Eighth Route Army has been upgraded to a level of one and a half generations, and the artillery has also caught up with the level of the Russians by a quarter. The only thing that is worse than the Japanese is the barreled artillery. Without a solid industrial foundation, it is impossible to have barreled artillery for the time being, but it is always possible to complete the mortar series!

Well, now let's see, the weapon system of the Eighth Route Army is somewhat different! The best weapons are assault rifles, semi-automatic and other good things, but on the other hand, old and modified weapons such as shotguns are also equipped, and even double-barreled shotguns are the standard weapons of the guerrillas.

On the artillery side, the more advanced ones are 120 heavy mortars, which are enough to fight an artillery battle with the Japanese mountain artillery. But the squads still have small gadgets like grenade launchers. Well, even such small gadgets are much better than the Japanese Type grenade launchers.

Moreover, because the original grenade launcher instructor was Li Yuexuan himself, and he also studied a lot of information, the grenade launchers he trained were very flexible in combat! Not to mention being able to shoot accurately, that was the most basic requirement. While being able to shoot accurately, the grenade launchers were never confined to their respective teams, and were very flexible in combat.

The Japanese grenade throwers were very old-fashioned and didn't know how to adapt. They always attached themselves to the attacking team of the infantry squad and specialized in dealing with our machine gun firepower. Occasionally, they would block our attack or retreat routes according to orders. However, the grenade throwers trained by Li Yuexuan were not so rigid.

According to the collected combat data, when blocking the retreat of the Japanese in Beiyue District, a combat team with grenade launchers quietly climbed up the mountain ridge and directly touched the vicinity of the Japanese garrison. Then, two soldiers, on the top of the mountain, fired 16 grenades at the Japanese positions under the cliff, killing a regiment commander and a group of Japanese officers.

While the Japanese were in a panic, the two soldiers slid down the mountain along the ropes and successfully retreated to their own base.

These two guys used a classic example of cold gun and cold cannon in a battle, using the grenade launcher as a sniper weapon!
This kind of battle was not an isolated case, and it happened many times when fighting in the Beiyue area. When it came to the Beishan detachment, the grenadiers' tactics were more concentrated firepower to accomplish major tasks.

Well, because they were close to the arsenal, they had the capital to spend and the ammunition supply was sufficient. Therefore, during the Sheep Head Cliff blocking battle, they dared to concentrate and carry out carpet bombing on the Japanese. Although their bombing effect was not as significant as the mortar position bombing, it was very effective in killing a heavy machine gun position of the Japanese.

This tradition was formed and consolidated during the battle of the Arsenal and the battle in Yuanzhen...

Time passed slowly, and as the weather grew hotter, the wheat stalks in the wheat fields gradually grew taller, then began to ear and fill with grain, and were about to mature.

In Ping'an County, a full month had passed since the Eighth Route Army liberated the county.

After a month of adaptation, the local people have accepted the management of the Eighth Route Army and adapted to the peaceful life without the devils. As a result, some shop owners reopened, some new shops opened, and some small businesses gradually increased, making the county town prosperous.

Fulai Noodle House is still on the same street, still in the same shop, and even the owner has not changed. Although Ping'an County has been liberated and the special forces' mission has been completed, it does not prevent the comrades of the special forces from continuing to gain experience here.

What can you learn here? When you are doing a disguise investigation, you must have some identity, right? Here you can pretend to be a shopkeeper or a servant, and you can also observe the guests coming and going and understand their behavior! Of course, the more important point is that you can find out those who behave improperly by observation!

Yes, although the Japanese tacitly acknowledged that Ping'an County and Xiyang County were occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese probably knew that they had no ability to retake them, this did not prevent the Japanese from sending some spies to infiltrate, and then carry out assassinations, sabotage, poisoning, or even spying, there will always be some people coming in.

Therefore, the special forces returned to Ping'an County and existed as a force to secretly maintain order in Ping'an County.

Not only in Ping'an County, Xiyang County also has a special operations team there, and even some comrades from the New 1st Regiment are taking them for training.

In Li Yuexuan's opinion, the special forces and the people they brought out were probably the earliest security forces of the Eighth Route Army, right? Well, probably, anyway, Li Yuexuan had never been exposed to higher-level things.

Time passed quickly, and when the wheat ears in the large wheat fields in the base turned a waxy yellow color, June came quietly!
Of course, no one paid attention to the passage of time, because now the people, soldiers, and cadres of the entire base were all focusing on the most important thing - wheat harvest!
The first thing to do after the wheat harvest is to clean up the wheat field! Well, this is not the era of combine harvesters. At that time, the wheat field was the most important place.

With the organization of the village elders, village heads, and militia captains, the largest and flattest piece of land in the village was renovated! These plots of land that were originally planted with seasonal vegetables were quickly harvested and brought home, then flattened, compacted, and dried to become large flat hard fields.

With the drying yard, the women began to twist straw ropes with their rough hands, while the men took out sickles and sharpened them on the whetstones by the river. When everything was almost ready, the men went to the fields to harvest the wheat straw, while the women bundled the wheat straw with ears behind them, and the children picked up the broken and lost wheat ears and put them in baskets.

These straw bundles will eventually be transported to the edge of the market, where they will be used to pick out the wheat ears with a special fork, cut off with a sickle with the blade facing forward, and then the straight straw will be tied into bundles again and piled up. Well, these straw piles have become a playground for children, where they play hide-and-seek. Some naughty ones will even spread the straw on the ground and build a small house for themselves with straw bundles.

After all the wheat ears have been found and cut, the most important thing is threshing!

The wheat ears that have been exposed to the sun for a day are laid flat on the ground to form a circle, and then the stone roller is pulled back and forth on the wheat ears, finally squeezing out the wheat grains. At this time, it can be seen that it is good to have livestock at home, because a donkey pulling a roller is the standard!

There is a nursery rhyme: Little donkey, little donkey loves to thresh, threshing wheat and sorghum... (End of this chapter)