Spring rain is as expensive as oil. This large spring rain lasted for most of the time and covered a large area. Rain water fell across the entire Hebei plain. Even the Taihang Mountains area where Jiuzhai is located was nourished by rain, but the time was just different.

The rainwater washes the already clean air from now on, and cleanses the dust on the ground, which also allows the wheat that is working hard to replenish the joints in time, which is truly timely rain. You must know that with lightning, a large amount of nitrogen fertilizer will be generated in the air and then melt into the rainwater and fall.

However, the people in Hebei, who should have been happy about the spring rain falling, are not in good mood now.

Why? The invaders were shouting at their doorstep, who would be in a good mood? Even though the invaders put on a kind face, the bayonets that were bleeding in their hands had betrayed their hypocrisy and cruelty.

Qijia Village is just an ordinary village in Zhao County. It lives by the river and has a population of only 1,000. The people have cultivated the fields of the Zhang landlord for generations. Most of the farmers in this era rarely have their own land and can only rely on being tenants for the landlords' families to survive.

If the landlords are kinder and kind, the people can still live; if they meet a landlord like Huang Shiren and Zhou Pai, their lives will be much more difficult. The matter of selling children and daughters by being rolled by rent and donkeys is not an isolated case, but a normal situation.

If this happens, the people can survive. After all, if they really kill all the people, the landlords will have to go to the fields to work by themselves. Even if they cut leeks, they will have to let them grow longer before they can be cut again.

However, if the people want to survive, they not only have to face the exploitation of the landlords, but also the plunder of bandits, the greed of officials, various taxes, etc.

Especially during the war, various taxes increased. Not only did the old farmers who farmed had to pay the money, but those landlords who did not have a deep military and political background also had to pay, and even more.

Compared with the various warlords who control the army and the principals who control more and stronger troops, the landlords are just fatter pigs and sheep.

Of course, if you pay the money and food, your own army can truly block the invaders from your home, that's okay. How can you live? If you endure it, you will pass. After all, there will be eggs after the collapse of the nest, and only if you have a country can you have a family.

But what about? The army could not withstand the pace of the invaders at all, and even retreated like a collapse, leaving a large area of ​​land to the invaders.

This is not counting. When the defeated soldiers head south, they will never let go of villages and towns. If they really do what they want, they will never let go of every stitch of the masses.

The soldiers were helpless. They had no money and no food in their stomachs. What could they do if they didn’t rob them?

The people are also confused. Did the money and food we paid not enter the mouths of these soldiers? They were all so hungry?

It was at this time that the landlord Zhang Da from Qijia Village went bankrupt, his family's savings were gone, his food was gone, and people were beaten, and several women were dragged into the house and harmed the disaster...

Well, the defeated soldiers were defeated soldiers after all, and they left after robbing things, but they did not kill people at will.

Later, the invaders came, murdered people, burned houses, insulted women, and robbed supplies... The Zhang family also destroyed their homes, and the whole family was harmed by the Japanese...

At this time, the people truly felt what a slave in a country was like, and what a person who was not as good as a dog in a chaotic world...

However, later, the invaders went south or entered the city, and the people had some chance to breathe.

It was at this time that a team called the Eighth Route Army entered the Hebei Plain and entered this place that was ravaged by many forces.

The Eighth Route Army came, and the people were afraid to hide the only little food in their homes, hide the women and children in the caves at home, and the young and the elderly walked out of the house, waiting for the choice of fate.

However, the people found that this "Eighth Route Army" was different from other troops.

The Eighth Route Army will help rebuild the houses burned by the Japanese; the Eighth Route Army will help people who have been robbed of food and cannot survive; the Eighth Route Army will divide up some of their own small amount of food; who has more food in their family? The Eighth Route Army will pay for it; who has no strong labor at home, the Eighth Route Army will help the widow to work...

What the Eighth Route Army often said is: "We are the troops of the poor and the troops of the people. Everything we do is to fight the Japanese and to let the people live a good life!"

The eyes of the masses are sharp, and whoever is truly good to them can distinguish them; people's hearts are full of flesh, put their hearts in exchange for sincerity, and the people can recognize them clearly; without comparison, there is no harm, and who can truly lead them to live a good life and the people can argue clearly.

So, bases were established one by one on the Hebei Plain, fortress villages appeared one by one, and organizations such as county brigade and district squads were established, recruiting young people who wanted to defend their country...

Qijia Village has also become such a fortress village. More than 20 young people in the village entered the county brigade to serve in the army, and the people also actively supported the Eighth Route Army.

However, this year, the Japanese swept over again and Qijia Village suffered great damage.

The Japanese tore off their hypocritical disguise here, revealing their hideous faces, causing a heavy disaster, and then leaving only the mess and incompleteness of the ground...

What the surviving people most want to see at this moment is the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army with their own children in the army; their greatest desire is that the Eighth Route Army can help them avenge and drive them away from the invaders.

It was on this evening when spring rain that the people had been waiting for a long time and saw their relatives.

After more than two hours of difficult journey, Nangong Weiguo finally brought the county brigade and ammunition squad to Qijia Village. They decided to take a short rest here and then wait for an opportunity to attack the enemy.

However, when Nangong Weiguo saw the broken village in the rain from afar, he felt a thrill in his heart.

"Damn... the little Japanese devils have harmed Qijia Village..." Nangong Weiguo felt a little sad. Because no one wanted the things he really protected were damaged by wantonly, let alone such a fortress village.

"Captain Nan? It's Captain Nangong! The villagers, the county brigade is back..." Before Nangong Weiguo and the others entered the village, they were discovered by the people hiding in the village. So in the originally quiet village, dozens of people suddenly appeared, all the elderly in the village and surviving cadres.

"Friends, don't come out when it rains. Come back to the house to shelter from the rain. Just the village cadres will come here!" Ouyang Zhenhua walked out and said.
Chapter completed!