After resting, we will rush back to the base before the enemy mobilizes troops to search and suppress the enemy.

This big operation can be said to have broken the enemy's consolidation of the occupied areas. Although it cannot be said to be long-term, temporary chaos can be imagined.

Moreover, the mine was severely damaged. It took not only time and funds for the Japanese to resume production, but also because the cost was too high.

If the mine is abandoned, the area will lose a lot of strategic value. Perhaps, the Japanese will shrink their defense line again and even abandon the area.

Of course, the enemy may also become angry and retaliate.

But if you don’t hit the enemy, he will come to sweep and burn and kill; if you hit him, the result will be similar.

Rescuing nearly 300 miners will not only increase troops to the army, but also some of them will also contribute to the anti-Japanese cause.

After several battles, the main battalion suffered heavy casualties and was quickly replenished, almost half of the personnel had to be replaced.

But the efforts are worth it. First, the weapons and equipment have been greatly improved, followed by personnel expansion. It is estimated that adding another company will not take too much time.

As for the guerrillas, they grew up in battle and attacked the mines, which showed that they already had the ability to stand on their own.

After a day of trekking, when it was getting dark, the people had already entered the base area and their emotions immediately became relaxed and active.

The district committee, which had long received the news, sent cadres and mobilized the masses to welcome the victorious soldiers and compatriots who suffered.

The two teams of the main force and the guerrillas went out of the mountains and forests, and the miners and the masses went to the village to rest first. Most of the guerrillas stayed and made a new arrangement.

After sneaking in from this cliff many times, who dares to say that the enemy will not be able to reconnaise, and who can guarantee that the enemy will not use this as a breakthrough, and also use the same method to cure the other person?

Therefore, the defense and early warning system must be improved, and the original small number of guards and sentries were obviously weak.

The final decision was to leave a small team here to defend. There were about thirty people, which was not too strong, but it was enough to resist and provide early warning.

The Minggang, secret whistle, fortifications, and early warning fireworks were all arranged, and Zhao Tie and Lao Zhou led their troops to Xiaoyushu Village for rest and rest.

This big operation can be said to have indirectly protected spring farming production.

The enemy who is hit hard will be slow for a while, and at the same time it will increase its troops to defend, and its defense will be hit to the heart of the heart again.

Before and after spring plowing, it is the high period of enemy turmoil. It can not only destroy the production of the base area, but also not conducive to the concealment of the military and civilians in the base area.

But judging from the current situation, if there were no foreign troops to mobilize troops, the enemy would be unable to attack with the strength of the county.

Although the time for the sweep is greatly delayed, spring is also a difficult time. Without fighting, the belly problem is not easy to solve.

The wilderness has taken off its yellow coat, and various plants spit out green buds. The willows that are most sensitive to spring are the willows. The branches that sway in the wind reveal their light green and become flexible.

Looking around, the fields are filled with the breath of spring.

On the old stubble that has been cut by people, young buds have been sprouted wildly and grow under the caress of wind, rain and sunshine.

The moist breeze blows, and the breath of wild flowers and grass penetrates into people's hearts. It makes people unable to help but open their mouths and breathe deeply inward, feeling intoxicated and refreshed like drinking nectar.

A few children ran in the distant fields, driven by hunger and new vitality. They ran all over the sky, looking, laughing, fighting, chasing and competing.

Every spring, food is scarce. In order to survive this time of incompetence, ordinary families have to eat wild vegetables and leaves.

The earliest unearthed in spring was a wild vegetable called Lao Tzujin. The children carried a knife and a small basket and went to the wild in groups to search and extract seedlings of such wild vegetable as copper coins.

This wild vegetable is very tough when you go home and sprinkle boiled water and add bran noodles to steam it.

At the same time, what was unearthed was the cherry, which is a wild vegetable with very white roots and a little bitter taste.

From then on, there was more vitality in the fields, and there were more varieties of wild vegetables.

If there are yellow beards and broom seedlings, you can eat them. When the leaves sprout, the children will strip naked, spit some saliva on their palms, and go up to the tree to make elm leaves and elm seeds. That is the best dish.

In the early morning, there was dew and frost. The children's hands were cold red, but soon after, the sun came out and they felt very warm.

The only thing that is busy with food and clothing but not feeling much sad is childhood.

Chen Chen grinned helplessly and put down his gun. The aimed rabbit had saved his life without knowing that it had saved his life. He stretched his legs far away in the field and looked here.

It’s not that I was so greedy, but that I looked at this guy with a little itchy hands. Chen Chen also knew that the bullet was precious, and he was in the base area and could not fire any guns.

In the guerrillas, Chen Chen lived a comfortable life. He did not participate in the training of large-scale luck. He gave him some guidance during shooting training and his food was better than others.

Now, he is wandering outside the village and thinking about his life.

Battalion Commander Wang began to do Chen Chen's work in a roundabout way, hoping that he could take the initiative to join the army.

But Chen Chen has never made it clear that he accepted all the canned food and biscuits he gave him.

Joining the main force, Chen Chen was worried that he would not be able to get the freedom he is now; the second was to stay away from his family, which made him hesitate.

As for the main force, it will be about to set off sooner or later, and it is hard to say wherever it goes. Even if it is still wandering around Shandong, it is not sure when it can come back.

Chen Chen thought while walking, and only then did he put away his thoughts and looked up.

After seeing the person clearly, Chen Chen smiled and raised his hand and greeted him.

The car owner held the animal, and the women's rescue club, and several young women from the district performance team jumped out of the car.

Chen Chen didn't know where these women were going, so he walked over and asked with a smile: "Where are you going?"

Li Jinxiu smiled and said, "The main force is back and resting, and the district organizes a consolation performance. Let's go to Yushu Village to prepare first."

"Main force?" Chen Chen was stunned for a moment, then he knew that he was not referring to Battalion Commander Wang and the others, "How many have you come back this time? Are you going to fight a big war?"

Sun Lianying rushed to say, "It's the Fifth Regiment. I've been here for a while a year ago!"

"You guerrillas should go too." Li Jinxiu smiled and said, "Would you like to watch a big show?"

"I'm willing, I'm willing." Chen Chen nodded repeatedly with a smile.

The news at Chen Chen’s position is relatively closed.

He didn't know that the Japanese had carried out three public security strengthening campaigns in Shandong, and their erosion of various anti-Japanese base areas became increasingly fierce.

In the fight against encroachment, the main forces suffered heavy casualties and were gradually forced to retreat to the mountainous areas.

It is now April 1942, and the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese War has arrived.

Of course, the situation of the War of Resistance in Shandong was better than that of North China, mainly due to the terrain relationship. However, under the gradual strengthening of the Japanese army's sweeping and encirclement, the plains were lost and slowly turned to the mountainous and mid-mountain areas.

However, it was very difficult for the Japanese army to set up a net in the mountains to advance. If a heavy encirclement net could not be formed, the surrounded anti-Japanese armed forces could break through their weaknesses.

Even so, it is an indisputable fact that the base areas are shrinking. For example, in Hailing District, six districts have been eroded to only two and a half left.

Chen Chen naturally didn't know about this, and he actually didn't care much. Because care could not be reversed or changed.

In this local small area, he has done his best and achieved great results, and a person's strength is only here.

Li Jinxiu and others stopped to greet Chen Chen, but they did not just tell him the news, but felt that the lineup of the performance was not strong enough and wanted to bring up several female members of the guerrilla team.

"Then I'll ask them!" Chen Chen turned around and wanted to leave after hearing the purpose of his visit.

"Damei, you agree first!" Sun Lianying grabbed Chen Chen and smiled: "When I was last visiting the show, I heard from others that you sing very well."

Chen Chen smiled and said, "No, I'm so good at killing the enemy, but I can't sing incomplete tones."

"Didn't you sing?" Sun Lianying curled her lips and said, "It's pretty eloquent. If they didn't say it, you would have been fooled by you."

Li Jinxiu also remembered and said, "Yes, the soldiers need to listen, but we can't sing, it's embarrassing!"

Chen Chen hurriedly said perfunctorily: "Yang Ye and the others can sing. If you ask Captain Zhao and Supervisor Zhou, they will definitely agree."

"Then you don't want to run away," said Li Jinxiu. "You didn't go last time, so you can't make up any more reasons this time."

Chen Chen smiled but said nothing, neither agreed nor refused, and in fact he had no final decision.

"In this way, you go to the venue to rehearse first. Lian Ying and I go to Captain Zhao and Supervisor Zhou." Li Jinxiu felt that as the director of the Women's Rescue Association, he was to welcome the main force. The introduction agreed by Zhao Tie and Lao Zhou was very high.

Moreover, during the condolence performance, the guerrillas should also release a program.

Chen Chen had no choice but to lead Li Jinxiu and Sun Lianying to the training ground and found Zhao Tie and Lao Zhou.

Sure enough, Zhao Tie and Lao Zhou agreed happily and handed over the performance task to Chen Chen and four other female team members.

The leader agreed, but Chen Chen became indifferent. Isn’t it just a song? It’s better to sing several people sing together, just make a mess!

"Let's sing!" Chen Chen was very lazy, but he didn't want to do anything difficult to explain. He also felt that this song was easy to learn and sing, so he might not have to appear on his own. Just have Yang Ye and the others.

"Okay, teach us!" Yang Ye and others also heard that it was Yu Baogen who missed it, but he had never heard Chen Chen sing it. He was also very curious and looking forward to it.

The music is desolate and tragic, simple and natural, with little fluctuations in the melody, smooth rhythm, and not wide range, sounds friendly and beautiful; it is both colloquial and national.

It is precisely because this song has the characteristics of the above melody, rhythm and structure, that it also describes the suffering of the people being forced to wander away from home, thus inspiring the people's patriotic enthusiasm for the same hatred of the enemy.

Therefore, this song was widely circulated during the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Because of this, Chen Chen didn't have much effort to teach him. After a few times, Yang Ye and others sang it in a bit, but the lyrics still need to be memorized.

"Damei, you sing so nicely." Chang Chunling exclaimed from her heart, "Why didn't you sing before? Why should you hide it?"

Chen Chen shrugged and said, "I don't like to sing, I don't want to sing. You practice hard, I may not be on stage."

"How can you do it? You are the lead singer, it's all up to you to bring the melody!" Yang Yexian expressed his objection, "Without you, we won't sing out of tune?"

Chen Chen scratched his head, and then he remembered that he didn’t have an instrument accompaniment, just singing!

It is not very difficult to find a musical instrument, so don’t think about piano or something. The folk gongs, drums, locks, and erhu can be found in the village.

But finding musicians and practicing music is not troublesome enough!

Chen Chen quickly gave up this idea and just sing! Even if you perform on stage, it’s nothing, it’s just his own image...
To be continued...