On the eighth day of coming to Shimen Village, the villagers began to slowly accept the Eighth Route Army, and they began to believe that the Eighth Route Army was their own team, and it was a team that sincerely fought for the poor people.

From company commanders to soldiers, those who are officers have no official frames, and those who are soldiers are not ruffians, and they treat the people like family.

On this day, Shao Fei and Zhao Fei were discussing something in the conference room, and suddenly Qiangzi rushed in from outside the door in a hurry.

"You kid, I'm going to criticize you, I don't know how to report when you enter the door."

Shao Fei said jokingly at the strong son who had not even straightened out his anger.

Hadron pointed out the room, gasped and said: | Squad leader, something is wrong! ”

Zhao Fei hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Qiangzi replied: "Village Chief Li has brought us food with the people. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Fei was surprised and his face was full of joy, and he turned to look at Shao Fei.

"I said, it will come naturally." Shao Fei smiled with satisfaction and walked up to Zhao Fei: "Let's go, go and have a look." ”

Shao Fei and the three of them came to the compound where the logistics team was located. It was crowded with villagers and logistical fighters.

Zhao Fei and Shao Fei walked into the courtyard and came to the village chief, Zhao Fei looked at the grain on the two wooden carts beside him, and said to the village chief with a smile: "Village Chief Li, what do you mean by this?" ”

Li Dashun pointed to the grain and said: "These are all voluntarily donated by each family to the Eighth Route Army, so that you can eat enough to fight devils." ”

"But when we first entered the village, we said that we would not levy food."

Zhao Fei was a little conflicted at this time, he explained that he would not collect grain from the people, but the army would face the crisis of running out of food in two days.

"Don't say it." Village Chief Li sighed in his heart and said to Zhao Fei sincerely: "A team like yours, I have never seen it in most of my life. It's to help build a house, it's to help the villagers do farm work, and those girls help the villagers see a doctor for free, what a team! ”

Zhao Fei was very excited, his team was so loved by the masses, so he held Li Cunzi's hands and said excitedly: "These are what we should do." We are the people's soldiers, we are all the sons and daughters of the people, and the Eighth Route Army and the people are one family. ”

Li Dashun was also very excited after listening to Zhao Fei's words, and said: "You said that you will not levy the grain of our people, these are all voluntary donations from us, and they cannot be counted as levies, so you have to accept them anyway." ”

After Li Dashun finished speaking, he shouted at the surrounding villagers: "Right, folks! ”

"yes, we all volunteered."

"You help the elderly and children in the village to see a doctor, you don't charge money, and you also give us medicine for free."

"He also helped my family repair the house."

“……”

The villagers kept saying some words of gratitude, hoping that the Eighth Route Army would accept their kindness.

Zhao Fei gestured with both hands to be quiet, and then said excitedly: "I am very grateful to everyone, our Eighth Route Army has nothing to repay, we can only go to the battlefield to kill more devils and repay the villagers!" ”

After Zhao Fei finished speaking, he ordered loudly: "So people listen to orders!" Salute! ”

All the soldiers present quickly stood up and saluted the villagers as a sign of gratitude.

The food crisis is considered to be completely resolved. Afterwards, Shao Fei and Zhao Fei discussed, and only accepted the specified amount of grain, and returned the excess to the people.

At the headquarters of the Yanbei detachment, the detachment commander and political commissar are discussing the dispatch of a working group to go deep behind enemy lines and launch the masses to develop guerrilla warfare.

"Report! Emergency! ”

A fighter walked in with a telegram in his hand.

The detachment commander stepped forward to take the telegram and looked at it, and said happily to the political commissar beside him: "The regiment headquarters should organize an ambush against the Japanese transport team in Dai County, south of Yanmen Pass. Ordered us to send nearby troops to cooperate in blocking reinforcements. ”

After hearing this, the political commissar was very excited and said, "Okay! We are in great need of a big victory to boost morale. The people of Jinxi have confidence in our Eighth Route Army. ”

After the political commissar finished speaking, he began to be silent, and said: "All ministries have returns, and the people still don't know about the Eighth Route Army, so it is a little difficult to carry out political work, so this is timely rain." ”

After thinking about it, the detachment commander said: "We have now sent several companies behind enemy lines to the west of the Tongpu line to develop guerrilla warfare and establish base areas behind enemy lines. The south can only send Zhao Fei's company. ”

After the detachment leader finished speaking, he quickly walked back to the conference table, carefully observed the battle map, and then got up and said: "Zhao Fei, they are in the Pingxian area, after the battle starts, the main Japanese army will inevitably send a large number of reinforcements over, and Pingxian and the surrounding counties will also send a certain amount of reinforcements." ”

"I can only leave it to them." The political commissar suddenly laughed and said to the battalion commander: "You seem to have a different attitude towards Zhao Fei's company than towards other companies. ”

"You can see it, hehe" The detachment leader stepped forward to explain: "I personally took care of this company, but I personally asked for it. Why I value them so much, you will know after this battle. ”

After the detachment commander finished speaking, he pointed to a road on the map with a pen and said: "Pingxian is only the strength of a brigade, and the reinforcements are only a squadron." said that he asked Zhao Fei to block the attack, and it was impossible for him to turn the blocking battle into a war of annihilation. ”

The political commissar shook his head incredulously, and said in disbelief: "A company annihilated a Japanese squadron, you are joking with me." A squadron or a regiment of the national army may not be able to hold it, let alone us with backward equipment. ”

The detachment leader put down his pen, got up and said, "Don't believe it, let's see." Zhao Fei's ability is very strong, but there is a Shao Fei by his side, this person is not simple, I have heard a lot of rumors about him, and I have always wanted him to stay in the detachment headquarters, but unfortunately~ I don't like the difficulty of strong people. ”

In the evening, the order of the detachment immediately reached Zhao Fei's company. Zhao Fei immediately convened an operational meeting. At the meeting, in addition to the platoon commanders, there were also Liu Ying and Qiangzi.

Shao Fei had already made a battle plan a few days ago, and on the combat conference table, a sand table for the ambush site was arranged.

Shao Fei stood in front of the table and said first: "The superior ordered our company to block the attack on this road at noon on the 18th, and we must hold out until dark before evacuating. We have to face a squadron of Japanese troops this time, maybe less, after all, Pingxian is not big, and only one brigade is stationed. ”

The second platoon leader said excitedly: "Captain Shao Fei, you can assign tasks." Our warriors are dying. ”

After Shao Fei and Zhao Fei looked at each other, they said with a smile: "What I'm most afraid of is seeing your expressions like this. This is our first battle in Jin, and I hope you are mentally prepared that the enemy is very strong. ”

Shao Fei's words made these platoon commanders excited and serious, they had already had a deep understanding of the Japanese army, equipment configuration, individual combat ability, etc.

"That's the right expression."

Shao Fei smiled and began to deploy.

The ambush site was set on the dirt slope west of the road, with a slope of 30 degrees, and the dirt slope was only 60 meters away from the road.

In the eyes of the average person, this is the worst ambush point, but it is suitable for a company of troops to fight. If it was a conventional operation, a squadron of the Japanese army could annihilate Zhao Fei in less than half an hour, relying on the cover of artillery fire.

But Shao Fei still chose the most unsuitable ambush point to ambush, because he had already planned to annihilate the devil's squadron.

The great victory at Yanmen Pass is the history that Shao Fei knows, and the location of his company is the southernmost part of the Yanbei detachment, so they will inevitably be sent to block the Japanese army, so Shao Fei went to survey the terrain and detailed battle plan a few days ago.