Dachun and Nengzhu came to Ermashan to borrow food. After all, this was not a glorious thing. So after the purpose of the statement, both of them lowered their heads and waited for Xiaole and the others to respond to the request.

It has to be said that Tsukada, a bastard, is more suitable for the position of commander of the Japanese army in Laiyuan than his predecessor Shibuya. His first fire was perfect. The sweeping troops led by Guigu attracted people's attention, while he personally supervised it. In a whole month, he repaired all the seven watchtowers and the barbed wire on both sides of the highway connecting the watchtowers, and also set up a telephone line.

Although the Guigu's mobilization troops did not achieve substantial results in this mobilization and suffered some losses, Tsukada did not blame him. Instead, they held a banquet to entertain him and Qian Erbao, the captain of the Imperial Army. On the face, they took the opportunity to show his second move: strictly control food and salt.

According to Tsukata's arrangement, the baojia system that his predecessor Shibuya planned to implement will continue to be accelerated. He also imitated the Japanese army elsewhere and added a "good citizen certificate" that everyone must apply for. This good citizen certificate not only requires two families to be protected, but also requires guarantees from local officials appointed by the Japanese puppet officers such as Chief A or the Guardian Chief. In this way, the anti-Japanese armed forces in the past could dress up as ordinary people at any time and would be completely blocked. Seven watchtowers became seven gates of Laiyuan City. People without good citizen certificates could not even go out of the gate.

Tsukada arranged a Japanese squad to guard each watchtower, which was assigned to a platoon of the Imperial Army. Each watchtower was equipped with a heavy machine gun, and there were as many as four light machine guns. Among them, the Japanese occupied the roof and the second floor. They controlled the heavy machine guns and a crooked handle, while the puppet army was responsible for the intersection and the bottom floor of the watchtower.

On the highway, two tricycles were sent every hour, a total of six Japanese soldiers and two crooked machine guns were patrolled along the route, which prevented people from destroying the barbed wire along the highway.

Dachun and the others had not paid special attention to the watchtowers built by the Japanese before, and did not expect that these seemingly useless tricks would have extremely serious consequences for them. When the Baishishan guerrillas and the villagers they rescued began to lack food and salt, especially in the extreme shortage of salt, Dachun suddenly realized the cruelty of the Japanese.

When Captain Wu was there, he would seek help from the division when he encountered such difficulties that he could not solve. However, now, the Japanese watchtowers and barbed wire fences cut the entire Laiyuan into small pieces. Dachun had no way to contact Secretary Tan of the division, so naturally he could not get help from his superiors. He also knew that even Baishishan had encountered such great difficulties, and life in the division was not much easier. After two or three brothers sent out were captured by the Japanese puppet army as refugees, Dachun, who had no choice, finally made up his mind to come to Ermashan with shame.

"Captain Zhao, it's not that we don't want to help you, but there is really not much food on the mountain. If you give it to you, the brothers in Ermashan will go hungry." Han Qi, the second leader, was not bad at his heart, but for some reason, he always had some hostility towards the Baishishan guerrillas and the armed forces under the leadership of the Communists. Perhaps he had fought against our party's army many times during the implementation of the White Terror of the Kuomintang, but he was defeated repeatedly and many subordinates died.

"Han leader, I know that we are coming abruptly, and I know that your village is not well-off, but I really have no choice but to ask you all the leaders with a shame, and ask all the people who have been harmed by the Japanese. In order to save some food, they can only eat one meal every day, but that's the case, and the food can't be kept for a few days." Dachun blushed, and his words were very sad.

The ability to make a man lose his composure is enough to show that the Baishishan guerrillas have reached the end of their lives. Otherwise, he would never have been depressed and come to ask for help in a low voice.

Xiaole was moved. The woman was soft-hearted. When she heard Dachun say that ordinary people only had one meal a day, she immediately looked at Uncle Guo and wanted to beg him to talk to the second and third heads to give people some food, but she forgot that she was the owner of the village. She still did not really integrate into the identity of the boss.

Xiaole has a good impression of Dachun, not just because of the true feelings he showed at this moment. When he was competing in Zhaojiazhuang, he discovered that this person was a man of true nature. Of course, his good impression of him was based on appreciation of this person, and it was not mixed with any male and female relationships. It was completely different from her feelings for Wu Fei.

Dachun was not very clear about the specific situation of Ermashan. He didn't know that Xiaole had just walked to the front of the stage recently. She had not really taken care of the actual affairs on Gushan. So although he was talking to the second head, his eyes always turned to Xiaole sitting on the big chair in the middle, begging her to be kind and help to rescue the people gathered from Xiaowangzhuang, Zhaojiazhuang and other villages.

"Captain Zhao, as the saying goes, "Help the emergency but not the poor." Even if we can pull out some food and salt for you in Ermashan, we can't solve the fundamental problem in the end. You still have to solve the food, salt and the livelihoods of the people." Uncle Guo did not look directly at Xiaole. He continued Dachun's words and told the problem he was worried about. This can be regarded as giving Xiaole face and blocking Dachun's way to borrow food next time.

Xiaole is young and has been pampered since she was a child. After her father died in battle, she was taken care of by Uncle Guo in every way. How could she know some issues about her livelihood?

When the Japanese and the puppet troops were storming, it was the season of spring plowing. After being disturbed by them, the grain could not be planted at all. Moreover, the animals used extremely despicable means to search out all the grain buried in some villages, which was not for the people. Now that the blockade has just begun, you will borrow food from Baishishan. What should you do after you have eaten up the borrowed food? Without a harvest, you can't rely on Ermashan to support so many people!

This is exactly why Uncle Guo said this. He is willing to take care of Xiaole's emotions and help Baishishan and his fellow villagers. But after all, Ermashan's ability is limited, and he will never be able to support the people of all the people in the vast villages with a small village.

"Guo, we all understand what you said. The borrowed grain will not be all in everyone's stomachs. We must take out part of it as a planting grain. When the summer harvest is reached, we will return the borrowed grain." Dachun obviously expected that Uncle Guo would ask such a question, and the answers prepared were also very sufficient.

"Then how much grain and salt are you going to borrow?" Liu Yunbiao, the third leader, spoke. Compared with Han Qi, the second leader, he was much better about Bai Shishan. When he said this, it showed his attitude. He was willing to borrow grain and salt.
Chapter completed!