under fire

Chapter 239
The devils gradually retreated from the mountains a few days ago, leaving behind sores all over their eyes. The headquarters suffered heavy losses in this raid by the devils. The head of the headquarters, who escaped by chance, ordered all departments to make preparations and make a big move for the devils after careful consideration. !Crack down on the arrogance of devils.

After Hu Yi finished speaking the orders from the regiment, everything was quiet. Originally, there were not many people there.

Finally, Xiaodou took out a small note: "This is the contact information of the surrounding ministries. In a few days, Su Qing will be transferred to the Autumn Wind Guerrilla Brigade!"

"Officer Su is going to be transferred back? What's the situation?" Luo Fugui asked in surprise.

"It's not transferred back, it's transferred to the Qiufeng Guerrilla Brigade, which was arranged by the head of the group when I left!" Xiaodou answered smoothly.

"Is the political commissar back?" Hu Yi interrupted the conversation between the two, looking at Xiaodou.

"Not yet." Xiaodou replied, "Anyway, I didn't see the political commissar back when I left."

"Have you ever been to the teacher?" Hu Yi didn't want the two of them to talk about Su Qing again, although he wanted to know very much.

"No, the division headquarter sent correspondents to Dabeizhuang, and after transferring to the wine station, half of the health team was taken away!"

Under the shade of the tree, the sun shone through the sparse dead leaves and shone on Hu Yi's resolute cheeks, revealing a trace of worry.

Although I don't know the situation of Dr. Zhou, Dr. Zhou's status in the division is definitely not low. As the second wave of evacuees, there should be nothing wrong.

Looking up, the sun was dazzlingly bright, and the sound did not stop between the ruins of the quiet village.

Li Xiang appeared at the entrance of the village with a hoe, and a small earthen pot of soup, and handed it over: "Commander, the mines you want, I don't think they are very useful!"

Xiaodou was shocked, without saying a word, snatched the landmine into his hands: "Are you planting landmines on the road?"

"do you have any opinion?"

"Where are your mines buried?"

Li Xiang glanced at him: "I saw you when you came over, don't worry, the road you came over is not buried, and you can't be bombed!" After speaking, he took the crock pot from Xiaodou's hand: "Even if there is, it is not very powerful , it can’t kill a person, at most it can cripple it!”

Xiaodou thought for a while, then looked worried: "You have to tell me, where is it safe to go?"

"You'll be fine if you don't take the road!"

"I don't know what big roads and small roads are!"

"You're so worried, you don't hang your strings if you don't see devils, as long as you run faster, the landmines won't blow you up!" Luo Fugui interjected inappropriately.

"Ah? Why?" Xiaodou was surprised.

"We don't have anything. What we use to make landmines is to add gunpowder stones around the grenade. There is a delay!" Li Xiang said seriously.

"Eh, it's just a big grenade, so I'm relieved!" Xiaodou let out a sigh of relief.

The sun was too poisonous and the weather was too hot. The generals of the Nine Company came out in twos and threes from various places in the village, carrying shovels, hanging baskets on their bodies, and gathered together covered in dirt.

Wang Xiaosan and Erniu appeared from behind a low wall carrying a wooden barrel.

The guerrilla leader followed behind, carrying a box of lunch boxes.

Everyone was in an uproar, stopped discussing, and rushed forward.

The lunch was a bit shabby, millet porridge, one cornbread per person, Luo Fugui didn't go forward in a daze.

Wang Xiaosan put down the wooden barrel, and said to the middle-aged pawn who came out from behind a broken wall and couldn't see his eyebrows and beard: "Captain Meng, you have to arrange someone to deliver food to the neighboring village."

Captain Meng ordered the two people behind him: "Come with Xiao Wang to carry things, comrades are still hungry in the southern village!"

After finishing speaking, he pulled out a lunch box, walked up to Er Niu, stretched out his hand to level the lunch box, poured a spoonful of porridge into the lunch box, closed the lid, picked a smaller cornbread from the basket next to it, turned around and went to a room. Walk in the broken house.

The light is slightly dim, and in the narrow hut, there is a broken table against the wall. The roof has obvious traces of fire, and there are some new piles of branches and dry grass. Hu Yi is looking at the faded map .

Captain Meng entered the room and stood by the table.

Hu Yi rubbed his chin with the back of his hand, looked at the map in thought, and looked up at Lao Meng who walked in.

"Captain Meng, you are familiar with the situation here. Now there is no one in these villages. Have you figured out the situation?"

"Yesterday, four groups were arranged to go to the east and south to inquire about news. I guess they will be back at night." Captain Meng followed Hu Yi to look at the map. Although he couldn't quite understand it, the village name was marked on it. I do know.

"You didn't contact the anti-Japanese government?" Hu Yi frowned.

"Most of our guerrillas used to be people from the neighborhood. They usually live in the homes of ordinary people. They are the ones who come to contact us. There is no one in the contact point they left before. We can only arrange people to go to the city. There are some hidden stakes of ours in the city." Lao Meng answered Hu Yi after taking a big mouthful of porridge.

None contacted?
"Don't say I didn't get in touch with anyone, and I didn't even see a person. It's weird. Where did these people go? Go east, that's the enemy's 'security' area, and those places are the world of devils. , We have planted eyeliner in some strongholds, and we haven't had time to contact them. The devils are very strict with these security forces in their raids this time, unlike before, they can come out at any time!"

"So the situation is serious!"

"Don't mention it. There are not many devils now, but there are many security forces. Those security forces are very bad. They are more ruthless than devils in their actions. In addition, there are detective teams everywhere, and the maintenance of the society makes our survival difficult."

"Let's build the nest first." Hu Yi said helplessly.

"I think the superior is the same. There are no people in this place. How can we develop a base?" Lao Meng still shook his head after thinking about it.

"The raiding devils will appear at some point, and the detective team may also come to inquire about the news, and they may encounter them at any time. In two days, we will go out for a walk." Hu Yi's idea was not passive defense.

"It's no problem. We are here, and we can't even see the shadows of ordinary people. Is there any way to carry out this kind of armed work and develop the base area?"

Hu Yi answered: "Let's not talk about anything else, first get the fortifications done, at least make sure our army has a nest!"

"Well, Company Commander Hu, can there be a base without the common people? I said, it's better to change places!"

"It's almost the same everywhere. You know better than me. It's impossible for us to run back to the mountains now, right?"

"Now we need to ensure water and food. You see, the well you dug used to be very deep, but now, Wang Xiaosan still has to walk two miles to get water. If this continues, he can't even drink water. It's all difficult!"

"You mean we change places?" Hu Yi looked up at Lao Meng, he chose this place.

"Change, where can I change it? It's like this everywhere here now. I thought the common people would come back after the devils wiped it out. Now it seems that my idea may come to nothing. It's hard!" Wrinkles are more visible.

"My idea is, use this as a base, we will take the initiative to attack and go north. There is a military sub-district over there. At least there are ordinary people. I didn't expect that after walking for more than a month, there is no sign of anyone here." Lao Meng sighed.

"Before you left, there weren't many people here. I think it's probably because of the devil's sweep this time, and the common people were either moved or killed." Hu Yi said unhurriedly.

"To kill devils this day, finally one day, I will kill them all. Didn't the regiment say anything else?" Lao Meng gritted his teeth. He used to live in these ordinary people's homes, but now he has not seen anyone he knows well. He was going to say that except for Jiulian and the team he led, he didn't even see anyone.

"Since the beginning of spring, there hasn't been rain in the plains, and the days are probably very sad." Hu Yi briefly explained the arrangements in the regiment.

"I can't do that armed task force either. You see, why don't you become the captain?" Lao Meng looked worried.

(End of this chapter)