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#111 - Hi Wugong Team (small battle scene, if you don't like it, you can jump to 59)

Heyuan, Dabeigou Village.

The leader of the Armed Work Team, Yao Zhihai, led his men in diligently reclaiming wasteland. According to the order of Battalion Commander Zhang Dabiao, the Armed Work Team, in addition to developing members at night, had to dedicate their daytime hours to reclaiming wasteland and planting crops, ensuring that each member reclaimed at least ten acres of land before spring plowing.

Yao Zhihai didn't have much of an opinion on this. He was originally a farmer. He joined the Independent Regiment two years ago and survived several tough battles in the First Battalion, First Company, by sheer luck, and was promoted to squad leader.

This time, the First Company advanced into Heyuan, and the company was almost split into Armed Work Teams of 2 to 3 people, entering local villages to carry out underground armed development work. If they encountered Japanese strongholds or large local reactionary forces, they would directly notify the regimental commander to eliminate them.

At that time, the sniper squad and artillery squad were active in Heyuan, specializing in attacking Japanese strongholds outside the city, and in more than a month, they almost completely wiped out the strongholds outside Heyuan City.

This created very favorable conditions for the work of Yao Zhihai's Armed Work Team.

Yao Zhihai was assigned to Dabeigou Village near Heyuan. More than 300 people lived here. Originally, there was a Japanese blockhouse and stronghold 3 miles away from Dabeigou Village. Every autumn harvest, the Japanese and puppet troops would come here to collect grain.

There were no big landlords here, after all, the population was small and it was close to Heyuan City. Anyone with a little wealth here wanted to run to the city to live.

So the richest household here was Zhou Laoshuan's family, which had more than 30 acres of good land. The Lao Zhou family had 3 sons and 2 daughters, all of whom were already adults.

Zhou Laoshuan relied on his diligence, and every year he brought his three adult sons to reclaim wasteland, gradually accumulating more than 30 acres, but he was too busy to continue reclaiming more.

When Yao Zhihai came here, the Zhou Laoshuan family, with several strong young men, naturally became the key target of his work. Yao Zhihai had a set of skills for doing work, and his own experience was also very persuasive. After constantly reasoning and talking about ideals, two of the Lao Zhou family's sons joined the Armed Work Team and became formal members.

They helped Yao Zhihai gradually expand the team to more than 30 people, which was almost the limit of Dabeigou Village's development.

The Armed Work Team usually trained, and when they were free, in addition to doing their own housework, they also gathered together to help the widowed, orphaned, and lonely families in the village. They gradually gained a reputation in the village, allowing Yao Zhihai and his men to take root firmly.

In fact, there was not much ammunition to carry, because the standard ammunition allocation for the main force at this time was 10 bullets per person!

Yao Zhihai's side had Yang Village's ammunition supply, and they consumed more than 30 rounds just for target practice! They were much richer than the regular local regiments outside.

Achieving a two-pronged approach of bullet production and reloading, the Independent Regiment has now basically achieved initial bullet freedom.

This wealth of weapons also made Yao Zhihai's Dabeigou Armed Work Team more cohesive and their work progressed smoothly. Now they have developed Dabeigou into a fortress village.

However, because it was close to Heyuan City, Yao Zhihai did not openly display the banner of the Eighth Route Army, and still quietly developed in the village.

However, Yao Zhihai did not expect that Li Laoyao, a lazy loafer in Dabeigou Village, had secretly watched their activities. After he confirmed that the Eighth Route Army had entered the village, he secretly went to the county town to report to the Japanese military police in exchange for a reward.

At this moment, when Yao Zhihai and his men were reclaiming wasteland and planting crops, Taro Fujino, the captain of the Heyuan Military Police Corps, led a squadron of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops to appear more than a mile outside Dabeigou Village.

When Xiao Dongzi, a member of the Children's Corps responsible for guarding the village, discovered that a large number of Japanese soldiers were coming, he quickly knocked down the two message trees next to him to the ground, and then ran back to the village to report!

"Captain, there's a situation!" Zhou Shangxin, a member of the Armed Work Team who was working together, glanced at the direction of the message tree and found that the message tree had fallen down, and quickly said to Yao Zhihai.

"Notify everyone to return to the village to get weapons and prepare for battle!" Yao Zhihai's heart skipped a beat when he saw that both message trees had fallen down. This was a message that a large group of Japanese soldiers was coming. According to the message tree regulations, only when more than a squad of 40 or more Japanese soldiers or puppet troops arrived would two message trees be knocked down at the same time.

Although Xiao Dongzi didn't have much education, he had no problem counting heads.

"By the way, Shangxin, you go and notify the villagers to immediately move to the mountains. Be careful of the Japanese soldiers entering the village and doing bad things. This time the Japanese soldiers came strangely, I'm afraid someone has betrayed us, and the Japanese soldiers came prepared." Yao Zhihai's mind turned, and he guessed seven or eight out of ten of the Japanese soldiers' intentions.

"Captain, I'm afraid the villagers won't be willing to leave?" Zhou Shangxin was a little embarrassed. Before Yao Zhihai and his men came, the Japanese soldiers had also come, and the villagers, in addition to being forced to hand over the food they didn't have enough to eat, the Japanese soldiers would just steal chickens and dogs and go back.

Now suddenly asking everyone to go into the mountains, Zhou Shangxin felt that this work was relatively difficult to do.

"You first persuade your father, and then let your father come forward to persuade them. I will take people to hold on in front for a while, and we will retreat after you evacuate." Yao Zhihai said to Zhou Shangxin while jogging towards the village.

The other team members ran after him one by one. Although they hadn't trained for a long time, at this moment when they really encountered the enemy, although the team members were a little flustered, they didn't have the idea of running away.

When they arrived at the village militia headquarters, everyone took their guns in an orderly manner, put an average of 4 grenades and 50 bullets on their backs, and followed Yao Zhihai to a mountain at the head of the village without hesitation, overlooking the cart road at the foot of the mountain from a high position.

Dabeigou is a mountain village formed by a rift valley. At the side of the road is a mountain cliff tens of meters deep. To enter the village from other places, you have to go around several miles, so the top of this mountain at the head of the village is the high point to guard the only way to enter Dabeigou. Yao Zhihai had already brought people to dig a trench half a person deep on it.

They had just arrived at the position when Xiao Dongzi also ran over panting.

"Captain, Captain, the Japanese soldiers are coming, there are hundreds of them! It's almost like a meeting of the villagers, there are Japanese soldiers and puppet troops!" Xiao Dongzi didn't count the heads carefully, but he felt that the number of Japanese soldiers who came this time was almost the same as the number of villagers gathered together. The clothes of the Japanese soldiers and the clothes of the puppet troops were different, even if they were far away, Xiao Dongzi could tell the difference.