Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The days without fighting are dull and boring, but also full of vitality. For the people in the base area, being able to live a stable life year after year in this war-torn era is a kind of happiness.
While the Japanese were busy opening up the transportation lines, the counties under the Ninth District had another bumper harvest. That's right, the wheat harvest season had arrived, and all the irrigated land, one piece after another, reflected the waxy yellow color in the sun, waiting for people to come.

For wheat, the best time to harvest is when the ears are yellow. At this time, the wheat has finished filling, the grains are full and firm, the ears are still standing upright on the straw, and the wheat bowl is tightly wrapped around the grains. At this time, it is not easy to thresh the wheat, whether it is baling or picking the ears, so as to store as many grains as possible in the warehouse.

Unlike the natural disasters in previous years, the climate in North China is relatively good this year, with no drought or floods, so the harvest is exceptionally good!

At this time, both Zhao Danian and Xing Weiguo were very busy.

The Ninth District had no targets to attack. The Ninth District's troops had completed their training. The Ninth District's five-level military system was only implemented in the original Beishan base area and had not been promoted throughout the district. However, the Ninth District's militia system and village government were fully established, and the people were effectively organized.

Therefore, this time the wheat harvest was carried out by the people of the entire district under the attention of the district leadership.

Well, having said so much, in fact, in the Ninth District, there are only a few large areas and the riverside areas of the rivers where wheat can be grown. The real crops here are drought-resistant sweet potatoes and millets. But wheat is the staple food, and its importance is the first. No matter how much attention is paid to wheat harvesting, it is not too much!

Not only in the Ninth District, but also in the entire Taihang District and the entire North China, the focus of work during this period is wheat harvesting, wheat harvesting, and wheat harvesting!

In order to ensure the wheat harvest, even the new recruits from the first division who were receiving training in Xiaodouling put aside their training and devoted themselves to the wheat harvest!
In order to ensure the smooth progress of wheat harvest and to ensure that the people harvesting wheat would not be harmed by the Japanese invaders in the city, the comrades of the special forces were not idle either.

In Zanhuang City, due to the siege and propaganda work of Division 1, there are not many people living in the city. In the past month or so, all the people in the city who have relatives outside the city have received messages from their relatives, urging them to move out of the city. Sometimes, the staff of Division 1 will also enter the city in disguise to distribute leaflets, inform the situation outside the city, and persuade the people to leave.

Up to now, the only people left in the city are the civilians who are unwilling to move out and the die-hard traitors and their relatives.

Of course, the Japanese puppet troops were still there. Although their number was small, they were guarding the city tightly, as if they were determined to fight the Eighth Route Army to the death. The Japanese puppet troops and puppet troops in the city were the ones that Yuanshi came to reinforce some time ago. At that time, the Japanese had two reinforcement armies, and Gaoyi's was completely wiped out, which made Yuanshi's reinforcements dare not leave Zanhuang. They were also afraid that they would be wiped out after leaving...

Faced with such a county town which is not a deserted city, the comrades of the special forces naturally have a place to use their skills.

Outside the east gate, Tian Chuan took 10 special training team members and hid in a field ridge, and then assigned them a task: "Your training content today is to snipe the Japanese puppet troops on the city wall and at the city gate from 600 meters away! Now the people are busy harvesting wheat, and they are about to reach the city wall. We need to ensure that the Japanese puppet troops dare not show up! Okay, let's act!"

Those who could receive Tianchuan's personal instruction were all soldiers who were undergoing sniper training. At this moment, they were using the puppet soldiers and the devils as live targets. The comrades here dispersed, and in the other three directions of the county, the special forces also separated and hid, then pointed their guns at the city gates and walls, and shot anyone who dared to show his head.

Then, in the next few days, gunshots were heard outside Zanhuang City, and sometimes grenade launchers or mortar shells landed on the city gates or walls. This caused the Japanese soldiers in the city to not dare to climb the city walls, or dare not show their heads after climbing the city walls. As for the city gates, the Japanese soldiers did not even dare to open them, because they were worried that if they opened the city gates, the Eighth Route Army would break into the county town.

That was it. Division 1 was also worried that the civilians would be targeted by the devils while working during the day, and if one person was killed or injured, it would be a huge loss. So on the fourth night of the special operations team's blockade of the county town, more than 3,000 new recruits appeared at the edge of the farmland around Zanhuang, waving sickles in their hands and with straw ropes hanging around their waists.

After a low command, the soldiers swung their sickles and harvested the wheat fields. Behind the sickle team, soldiers with straw ropes tied around their waists quickly bundled the wheat and carried it, and then handed the wheat bundles to the soldiers pushing carts behind them. In just the middle of the night, the wheat fields within 600 meters around the county town were harvested, leaving only the wheat stubble exposed to the air.

Do you think that's the end? We have to continue the next night! But this time, three soldiers cooperated with each other. They pulled a single-wheeled plow, one was responsible for leading the way, one was responsible for pulling the cart, and one was responsible for supporting the back... In this way, a furrow of corn was planted in one trip!

It was still the middle of the night, and the same comrades were planting corn seeds in the wheat fields around the county town. Everything happened so quickly.

Then, on the third day, there were fewer soldiers this time. They sorted out the scattered wheat ears and ridges in the wheat fields. Then someone opened the sluice gate at the water source, and the cool Huai River water flowed into the fields, bringing moisture to the corn seeds...

Faced with all this, the Japanese in the city could only wait or watch from the high-rise buildings in the city. They could do nothing at all! What could the Japanese do? Deploy troops? The troops were either in Southeast Asia or the Pacific, and the rest were opening up major roads. Use firepower to attack? The Japanese puppet troops didn't even dare to climb the city walls, so how could they attack?

Shooting in the city? How could they do that? As a result, just after firing two shots, two mortar shells fell and blew the shooters to pieces!
In short, in this harvest season, the Japanese in Zanhuang were so suppressed that they dared not show their heads, make a sound, or even flap their wings.

Do you think Zanhuang is an exception? Wrong, this situation is not limited to Zanhuang. In the entire North China, all the counties around the base or those deep in the base have suffered such treatment!

The most dangerous ones are actually in Jiaodong! Maybe it’s because it’s the birthplace of mine warfare? Anyway, the guerrillas and militia in Jiaodong are very good at playing with mines and making explosions! In order to ensure the wheat harvest, the militia directly blocked several counties with mine arrays, making the Japanese dare not step out of the city gate, for fear that they would not be able to come back!

The same goes for the county town and the stronghold, just block it with mines!
Now it gets interesting. Many of the strongholds were severely blocked and had no food. When the Japanese soldiers inside couldn't stand the hunger anymore, they bravely escaped and found some landlords to ask if they wanted to work for them. They would just give them a full meal. (End of this chapter)