Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Creak... The door of the conference room was finally opened, and then a puff of smoke from the Sakura cigarettes poured out from the door. In the smoke, red-faced cadres walked out one by one, and then rushed directly to the cafeteria of the detachment headquarters...

A few days later, in a village called Yanjiayu under the jurisdiction of the Pingdong District of the Beishan Detachment, the people felt something unusual. Yes, 15 soldiers suddenly came to the village, which was something that rarely happened before. In particular, there were two female comrades in the team, which was something that rarely happened before.

Before the people could react, the gong that was usually used to recruit people in the village was struck! With the sound of the gong, the people came to the threshing ground at the entrance of the village.

Yanjiayu has a population of more than 500 people and occupies a large area, which can be seen from the fact that there is a special threshing ground in the village! The key is that the threshing ground is a special one, covering an area of ​​five mu, and the ground is paved with bluestone, which is rarely seen in other villages. Looking at the traces of trampling on the bluestone ground, you can tell that there are people practicing martial arts here all year round.

"Ahem, folks, please pay attention. The comrades in the team have something to say!" The gong stopped, and Yan Jingli, who was in his 50s, shouted loudly, trying to maintain order.

"Village chief, are the troops recruiting again? Our son Tingdong is just 18 years old now. It should be the time for one of our children to join the army, right?"

"Yes, village chief, our Tingqing is also 18 years old, it's time for him to join the army!"

"Village Chief, Village Chief, our Tinghai didn't make the selection last year. He has been training for a year this year, so it's time for us to get a share, right?"

The women obviously did not give face to the village chief Yan Jingli, and they shouted at the top of their lungs.

"Ahem..." A light cough sounded in the crowd, and the woman who was speaking immediately stopped talking as if she had been cast under a silencing spell.

"Okay, Jingli, you continue..." In a steady but old-fashioned voice, an old man with an upright posture paused for a moment while holding the stick in his hand.

"Ahem, aunties, grandpas, uncles... this is what's going on! The brigade held a meeting these past few days and made some regulations for us to use as a pilot! Now we are implementing the regulations. The first one is that starting today, all villagers will be drafted into the military service. Everyone, including the elderly and children, are first-class militiamen of the Beishan Brigade and need to be registered! And receive military training."

"Secondly, based on the size of our village's militia and the ratio of men to women, we need to select 50 second-level core militiamen to form the Yanjiayu militia platoon, which will be composed of four combat squads and receive new weapons and ammunition. To be clear, the core militia platoon will be equipped with two light machine guns, four shotguns, and shotguns and semi-automatic weapons will be determined based on training conditions."

"All the core militias must be men between the ages of 16 and 40! Pay attention, when the team needs to recruit soldiers in the future, select them directly from the core militia. Once they join the team, they will be ready-made soldiers! For example, your Tingdong is not old enough to be a soldier, but he is an accurate shooter! He is now a core militia, give him a semi-automatic gun to use."

"When the team needs people, we will send Tingdong to the team. We will use semi-automatic weapons and directly assign him to the combat squad, so that he can fight the Japanese invaders when he goes out!" "Third, a mutual aid production group should be established in the village, and everyone will help each other with work. Please note that this production group is linked to the militia team. The comrades of the militia team usually do farm work for each family together, train, and then select the backbone militia from them! In addition, the superiors will allocate a batch of farm tools and livestock, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese to our village."

"We helped to feed this batch of livestock. The pigs are fattened, the sheep are grown, and the chickens, ducks and geese are laying eggs. We can keep some of them! We will talk about the specific situation in detail later. But let me just say that these livestock and property belong to the public, that is, the detachment. We can use them, but we can't take them home!"

"For example, Brother Jingshan's family. Your family is assigned to the militia squad. Your squad can get two oxen, one male and one female! In normal times, your squad selects people to feed the oxen. During the busy farming season, each family can use these oxen to plow the fields! When the oxen are well raised and give birth to calves, everyone can raise them too. When four calves are born, one calf will belong to your squad, and no longer to the detachment..."

"Okay, let's talk about these first. Now let's talk about the fourth point. That is, the village has set up a women's committee. The higher-ups have assigned a women's director, who is mainly responsible for the health and eugenics of the girls and wives in the village! Ahem, having children is a big problem. Every year, many children die within a few days of birth. This has something to do with the fact that people don't know how to raise them!"

"The job of the women's director is to manage these sisters-in-law and daughters-in-law, teach them what to eat, what to pay attention to, and how to take care of their children. And those who are not married have to take care of themselves, learn some cultural knowledge from the women's director, and they will be able to marry into a good family in the future!"

"Fifth, in order to better train our village's militia and manage the normal operation of the village, our superiors will send two military representatives to our village to work with our village committee. There will also be accountants to manage the extra property in our village."

"The sixth point is also a relatively important one. That is, our superiors have arranged for us to have a barefoot doctor live in the village to treat the villagers. Specifically..."

"Seventh, the Taohua River outside our village, the team plans to build a dam at the entrance of our village, raise the water level, and build a canal to divert water to our land..."

There were many things to discuss, and it took more than half an hour to finish talking about them one by one. Then, the meeting was adjourned, and the people went home to discuss things, or gathered together to discuss things. The working group also followed the village committee and the prestigious elders in the village to the courtyard where the village committee was located to discuss specific work matters.

Even though the regulations and systems are well established, there are still many obstacles to their real implementation, such as whether the elders are willing, whether the people will understand, etc. Fortunately, the detachment has a good reputation in the hearts of the people, and Yanjiayu itself is the village with the most military dependents. After knowing that the military dependents have various preferential treatments, they also support it in various ways.

The current military dependents policy has been significantly improved! First of all, the sacrifice pension is a one-time compensation of 200 kilograms of millet, and then every year 20 kilograms of millet is given to the spouse or parents of the sacrifice. Spouses, children, first, parents last. Then, the military dependents can see a doctor for free. This time, the superiors allocated livestock, and the military dependents' families were directly allocated two laying hens, and they only need to give 50 eggs to the troops every year.

Similarly, military dependents have more priority options. For example, during the busy farming season, the fields of military dependents are harvested first, followed by other families. If they are all military dependents, the martyrs’ families are given priority, and those with more children in the military are ranked last… A family with three children in the military is given priority over a family with two children in the military. This does not depend on the children’s military positions, but on the number of children. (End of this chapter)