Pay town.
Three dark figures walked towards the town.
Along the way, the dogs kept barking.
There is a lantern hanging under the eaves in front, and the four characters of Liuren Inn can be seen.
The three of them stopped and muttered for a while, before two black figures disappeared into the darkness.
The tall, broad-shouldered young man continued toward the inn.
After looking around, he raised his hand and knocked on the broken wooden door of Liuren Inn.
In the courtyard.
The shopkeeper came to the door with a cane and said: "Who..."
Hearing the familiar voice in the house, the young man was a little excited: "Dad, open the door quickly, it's me, He Shui."
The shopkeeper was overjoyed when he heard the reply. He quickly opened the door bar and let the young man outside the door in: "Why are you back?"
"Instructions from superiors..." The young man who called He Shui was stunned for a moment when he saw the old man on crutches: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, one arm and one leg are broken..."
The young man quickly stepped forward to help him, but his body suddenly froze: "Dad, your eyes?"
The old man pushed the young man away and laughed at himself: "Your father was blind and saw the wrong person. This time he only has one eye left. He will never see the wrong person again..."
The young man's eyes were full of anger: "Tell me, what is going on?"
"Said in the house."
Broken table, oil lamp.
A half-grown girl brought out a basket of steamed buns from the kitchen and whispered to the young man who was rubbing the old man's shoulders: "Uncle, eat something first..."
The young man did not refuse. He sat down next to the old man and asked the old man, holding back his tears, "Did the reactionaries do it?"
The grown-up girl said bitterly: "Shi Renfeng, the director of the village office in my hometown, bullied the villagers and divvied up taxes unreasonably. My uncle kicked the wolf dog that was guarding his courtyard to death. Shi Renfeng held a grudge and asked his son to collude with the Lingchuan reactionaries. The county magistrate arrested my uncle and tortured him. He broke an arm and a leg and blinded his left eye..."
The young man looked at the little girl, feeling somewhat familiar and uncertain: "Who are you?"
"This is the fourth girl from your cousin's family..."
"Is it girl Ping? She's grown so tall?" Li Heshui raised his hand and touched little girl Ping's head, then took out two pieces of brown candy from his pocket and handed them to the little girl.
The little girl's eyes lit up and she turned to look at the old man: "Grandpa..."
The old man nodded: "You can accept it..."
The young man looked at the old man: "Where is Tianyi?"
"Sleep, girl, hurry up and wake up your brother..."
The young man stretched out his hand to stop him: "No, I have to leave before dawn. I'll just go and have a look later..."
The old man waved to the yawning girl next to him: "You go to bed first, and I'll tell your uncle something..."
The little girl closed the door.
The old man's eyes began to become sharp: "The Japs occupied the county a few days ago, and Li Xiren, the mayor of the second district, changed his identity directly... He remained the same as the district chief of the second district, but the blue sky and white sun flag that was hung before was replaced by the Wu Family flag. The sesame cake flag.”
"This guy is not nice at first glance. When I come back this time, I won't leave..."
Outside the inn.
Two young men tiredly muttered in the corner: "I heard that Brother Li's father's iron sand palm has a fist like a hammer and a finger like a steel fork. He once killed the gray wolf king in the mountains with one palm."
"Village Chief Li was nicknamed the Mountain Tiger. In his early years, he worked as a bodyguard for the caravan and delivered goods to the rich people in Fucheng. He was greeted by smiling faces in all the villages along the way."
"In the early years, he also served as the chairman of our county's sacrifice union. If the reactionary Yan Laoxi hadn't seen our rapid development and deliberately sabotaged it, this area would have become our base."
"This is wrong. Uncle Li will never be reduced to opening an inn, right?"
"Stop talking, I'll ask Brother Li later..."
Also, if the Japs hadn't taken over the county this time, we wouldn't have been able to come back...
The reactionaries are ruthless to us, but they are like a mouse to a cat when it comes to the Japanese. If our superiors had not asked us to unite to resist Japan, we would have taken the county seat into our hands.
Don't talk nonsense, our current strength is not enough to occupy the county. Let's let the little devils run rampant for a few days. After we develop and grow here, we will kill them all!
Not long after, Li Heshui left the inn.
The two men in the darkness quickly followed.
The sound of dogs barking once again broke the tranquility of the town.
No one came out to see what was going on.
Under the moonlight.
Three men in black hurriedly walked on the desolate dirt road outside the town.
While walking, look forward and backward from time to time.
A village appears ahead.
There are no lights.
As soon as the three of them approached, the village dog started barking.
Immediately a figure shook on the roof at the entrance of the village.
Li Heshui bent his finger and put it into his mouth, puffed up his cheeks and blew.
A sharp and dull sound sounded in the wilderness.
Three long and two short, repeated three times.
Soon, two black figures ran out of the village. One was holding a big knife in his hand, the other was holding a long spear. They looked at the wilderness warily: "Who?"
"Haha, can't you hear the whistle I blow?"
"Brother Li?" The voice was filled with joy.
"Are those weapons from before still there?" Li Heshui emerged from the darkness, and the two people following him were still hiding in the darkness.
"They are all well hidden, and the knives and spears are sharpened. But gunpowder is hard to buy, let alone bullets. The reactionaries are very strict and can't get bullets from the garrison at all! Everyone has almost forgotten Why are you shooting..."
"That's right, we usually only go into the mountains to hunt and do some physical training during our leisure time..." Another agreed.
Li Heshui was not discouraged at all: "Take me to see the old village chief first..."
A small square table was placed on the big Kang.
There is an oil lamp on the table.
Six men in short clothes, almost all with patches on their clothes, gathered around the table.
He excitedly told Li Heshui, who was sitting at the top, about the situation after the separation.
The two men opened the door curtain and entered the room one after another: "Oh! It's so lively... Director Li, I finally want you back."
Li Heshui jumped down from the kang, smiled and stretched out his hand: "Hello, Village Chief Zhang, you have worked hard in the past few years..."
Village Chief Zhang squeezed Li Heshui's hand and shook it up and down: I have been looking forward to it. Now that you are back, Director Li, now everyone has a backbone and no longer have to worry about those reactionary landlords..."
Li Heshui was equally excited: "Yes, this will be our world from now on!"
Village Chief Zhang looked solemn: "Although the reactionaries were beaten away by the Japs, the Japs are nothing like things. They simply drove away the tigers in front of them, and then came the jackals who eat people without spitting out their bones!"
"Don't worry, everything will be fine!"
"In the past, we couldn't attack the local tycoons to divide the land. Now that the reactionaries have all fled, we can finally attack the local tycoons now, right?"
"There is no rush to do this. Everyone knows our policy, and unity in the war of resistance must be implemented."
Village Chief Zhang was stunned for a moment: "The reactionaries bully men and women, collect summer and autumn grains, and claim to be Lord Qingtian. When the little devils come to clean up, they abandon the villagers and run faster than anyone else.
Moreover, since last year, God has not had a few rains, and the harvest has not been good. Everyone has been unable to survive. I have long wanted to rebel against them. "
A young man next to him gritted his teeth: "That's right, they killed our comrades before, why should we unite with them? I can't figure it out..."
"I can't figure it out either..." Another young man echoed.
"Don't talk nonsense, this time I come back with a top-secret mission."
"What mission?"
"Our superiors have instructed us to rebuild a secret base here."
"Secret base? Got it, that means we can't act in the name of an organization, but we can fight the Japanese under our own name?"
"Yes, we will be called the Southeast Shanxi Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade from now on."
Li Heshui sat in the middle of the pit and waited. There was laughter and laughter everywhere, and it was very lively.
After a while, Li Heshui was quite satisfied with everyone's enthusiasm. After coughing twice, he said: "Now that the reactionaries have retreated into the mountainous area, the situation between us and the enemy is changing day by day. We must set up the local grassroots political power as soon as possible, and at the same time organize local armed forces and carry out military training…"
"Brother Li, although our superiors have asked us to stay lurking, we have not forgotten that we have people in every village in the country. As long as our superiors call us, we can join a team of hundreds of people at any time, but...weapons are not easy to handle... "
"This time, the superior leader An Guerrilla Detachment came to support us. They have dozens of guns..." Li Heshui's expression became serious: "Also, even if there are no guns, the broadswords and spears in our hands are fire sticks. I don't believe it. I can’t get the blood of the Japanese!”
The middle-aged man was a little worried: "Wait a minute, let's fight the Japanese, but what if we encounter those reactionaries?"
"If you encounter them, as long as you don't reveal your identity, the reactionaries will take advantage of us and not retreat!"
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