Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

"Comrade Gao, doesn't Japan have its own land? Why do their farmers come here to farm?"

The fact that Japanese farmers were going to come to China to farm made many people dissatisfied.

Land is the root of farmers.

They had just been allocated land, what would happen if it was taken away again? Of course, some people were skeptical, so they stood up and asked Gao Wei.

"This fellow has asked a good question. Why do Japanese farmers come to China to farm? It's because Japan is a small country and they don't have enough land to farm. China, on the other hand, is vast and rich in resources, with arable land everywhere. That's why Japan sent troops to attack us, to occupy our territory, and then to send their farmers to farm. In a few years, all the land in China will be inhabited by Japanese farmers, and our Chinese farmers will have no land to farm. Do you think you can agree to this?"

"If anyone dares to take my land and prevent me from farming, I will fight him to the death."

"That's right."

"These Japanese are despicable. They don't have any land of their own, so they come to farm our land."

Everyone was filled with righteous indignation.

They actually want to seize our land.

Gao Wei pressed his hands together, urging everyone to quiet down. Then he said, "Do you think this is the end? No, this is only the second step of the Japanese. The third step is that the Japanese will forbid us from speaking Chinese. From now on, we can only speak Japanese when we go out. All children can only learn Japanese when they go to school, not Chinese."

"You won't let us talk?"

"These people are worse than robbers."

"That's it."

Gao Wei saw the crowd's excitement and glanced at Huang Hao. Huang Hao stared at Gao Wei in amazement, having never expected a man as reckless as Gao Wei to stir up such emotions. Gao Wei, feeling quite pleased with himself, continued, "Of course, this isn't the end. The Japanese still have one final policy in the Northeast."

They have imposed mandatory regulations that all Chinese people can no longer have their current surnames and given names and must change their gender and given names.”

"How to change?"

"It means that people can no longer use Chinese surnames and must change to Japanese surnames. Chinese people can no longer use their ancestors' surnames. They must worship the Japanese as their ancestors and use their surnames."

"How is this possible?"

“This is forgetting one’s roots.”

"How can we change our ancestors' surnames?"

Gao Wei aroused great emotions, and many villagers were filled with indignation.

Huang Hao saw that the situation was good, so he stood up and said loudly: "The Japanese want our land and want us not to use our ancestral surnames. They are burning, killing and looting everywhere, killing our brothers and kidnapping our sisters. Can we agree to this?"

"I don't agree! I don't agree!"

"If the Japanese come to our place, should we fight them?"

"beat!"

"Kill them!"

Although they had never seen the Japanese, they hated the Japanese just by hearing what Gao Wei said.

They want to steal our land, our women, our ancestors’ names.

It is unbearable.

"The Japanese army has now reached Shanxi. There are Japanese troops in the county town not far from us. They can attack us at any time. Shouldn't we organize an army to defend our hometown and prevent the Japanese army from destroying our Gaotian Town?"

"Should! Should!"

Huang Hao's staff, all of whom had years of experience, immediately stood up and shouted, "Join the army and kill the devils!"

"Join the army and kill the devils!"

Chapter 078 Gaotian Town Anti-Japanese Base Area 2

The mobilization meeting was very successful.

After the mobilization meeting, Huang Hao announced the establishment of the Gaotian Town Anti-Japanese Base Area, with the Xining County Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association as its leading body, Huang Hao as its director, and Gao Wei as its military minister.

The subsequent recruitment work of the Xining County Advance Brigade was also very smooth.

Soon, 200 men were recruited, and the size of the Advance Brigade reached 280. They had 64 Type 167 rifles, 10 Hanyang rifles, 46 Zhongzheng rifles, Mauser pistols, and two light machine guns.

In addition to the regular advance brigade, the Takata Town Self-Defense Force was also established.

There were more than 300 Self-Defense Force participants.

"Captain Gao, what you just said was very good."

"Not bad right?"

"That's really good. The villagers' spirits have been mobilized immediately. You are the primary contributor to the successful establishment of our Gaotian Town Anti-Japanese Base. I never imagined that Captain Gao had the potential to be a political commissar. I don't think the commander and political commissar have anything to worry about. You can definitely serve as the political commissar in the future."

Huang Hao really admires him very much.

I really didn't expect it.

I thought Gao Wei was just a military cadre.

Gao Wei laughed heartily, then said, "My political commissar. With my limited skills, how could I say such words? Back then, our troops were dispersed and mistakenly entered Sheng County. The commander was injured and unconscious at the time, so the political commissar decided to establish a base in Sheng County. Later, many people in Sheng County did the same. They supported rent and interest reductions, but had no enthusiasm for resisting the Japanese. Or perhaps, for many local farmers, the Japanese were too far away from them. That's how the political commissar persuaded them at the time. The political commissar later said that what farmers in rural China care about most is land. Besides land, what they care about most is their ancestors."

"Ancestor?"

"Yes. The political commissar gave us an example. He said that after the Qing Dynasty came to power in the Central Plains, many landlords and common people had already accepted the fact of the change of dynasty. They were ready to welcome the new emperor and the new court. Just as many people thought, changing the emperor was just a matter of paying taxes to the new court. But when the Qing Dynasty issued the order to shave the hair, the landlords and scholars who had been preparing to welcome the Qing emperor immediately rebelled. Because this violated the ancestral family law."

"That makes sense."

"So the Japanese wanting them to speak Japanese and change their surnames to Japanese is an insult to their ancestors for the Chinese."

"well."

Huang Hao wrote these words in his notebook.

Then he nodded and said, "Many farmers in remote areas have never seen the Japanese. They have no experience of the cruelty of the Japanese army, so they can't empathize with them. When you tell them how cruel the Japanese army was, they just listen to stories. Therefore, it is very difficult to promote anti-Japanese resistance to them. Now it seems that it is because we miss the point."

"Commissar, you said that we can't really be considered as standing firm in Gaotian Town."

"of course."

Huang Hao said affirmatively: "We have taken a solid first step in Xining County. Although Gaotian Town has a small population, it is surrounded by mountains, making it a very suitable place to be a base. Moreover, Gaotian Town is not far from Baicao Town and Beishuigou Town, so we can cooperate with the special forces battalion at any time. With Gaotian Town as a base, we can expand into the surrounding mountainous rural areas."

"That's good. When I came here, I promised the commander and the political commissar. By the way, political commissar, I have something I want to discuss with you."

"Captain Gao, you go ahead."

"As for the box guns we captured, I plan to send thirty to the detachment."

"Box gun?"

"Before I arrived, the commander and the political commissar were planning to form a pistol brigade. However, the detachment has a limited number of pistols. If we send them thirty box guns, I think they will have enough pistols and can form a pistol brigade."

Huang Hao looked at Gao Wei in shock.

During these days of partnering with Gao Wei, Huang Hao's opinion of Gao Wei has been changing.

"Captain Gao, you have a great perspective."

"What's the big picture? I don't understand that. I just know that we seized a lot of gold bars in Sheng County, and later the commander and political commissar handed them over to the division headquarters. The commander and political commissar both said that the better the military region and the division headquarters develop, the more we can strike the Japanese army on a larger scale and protect Sheng County at the same time. If there are problems with the development of the military region and the division headquarters, the pressure on Sheng County will increase. Because the Japanese army can withdraw more troops to sweep Sheng County. I thought about it, isn't it the same as me now? The faster and better our independent detachment develops, the less pressure we will have. And the detachment can also help us more."

Gao Wei shrugged.

The big picture?

Although Gao Wei also reads books, he has not read many.

So he doesn't really understand those big principles.

But he could understand some simple things. Thirty Mauser pistols, leaving them on his side, would only arm thirty men. What use would these things be when facing a real Japanese raid?

Only when the independent detachment develops better can we get more support.

This is Gao Wei’s idea.

Huang Hao smiled.

It was precisely because of this that Huang Hao considered him even more precious. No wonder the commander and political commissar valued Gao Wei so highly and kept polishing him. It turned out that Gao Wei was truly a rough diamond.

"Director, Captain, we have contacted the underground party organization in Xining County.

"Oh, how are they doing?"

"Not very good. Before the Eighth Route Army's siege, the Japanese army in Xining County carried out a large-scale sweep of the underground party and local guerrillas. The local party organization and guerrillas suffered heavy losses. However, they still retained a lot of strength. Recently, due to the lack of manpower in Xining County, they have become active again. However, their main strength is on the west bank of the Sangti River, while our Gaotian Town is on the east bank of the Sangti River."

"This won't work."

Huang Hao frowned.

Gao Wei, standing next to him, said bluntly, "Political Commissar, we are already weak in Xining County. The Sangti River runs through the entire county, and we are on the east bank and the west bank, respectively. We cannot cooperate at all. When we fought in the past, we always concentrated our forces to fight the enemy. Dispersing our forces is the worst taboo."

"Correct."

Huang Hao nodded.

But he still frowned and said, "Dispersion is not conducive to fighting. But they are not affiliated with us."

Although underground Communist Party organizations existed in Shanxi and Chahar, their strength and influence were limited. The few Party organizations and guerrilla units currently in Xining County date back to late October and early November 1937, when the powerful Independent Division briefly captured half of Xining County.

This territory is mainly on the west bank of the Sangti River, and the independent division's troops did not reach the east bank.

Therefore, the party organizations and guerrillas in Xining County are currently on the west bank of the Sangti River.

Moreover, they were the remaining strength of the early independent division, while Huang Hao was a cadre affiliated with the Pingxi Prefectural Committee. The two sides were completely in different systems. Not to mention Huang Hao, even the independent detachment, although affiliated with the independent division, had no power to command them.

"This won't work. Without unified command, how can we defeat the enemy?"

"This matter still needs to be reported to the higher authorities for resolution."

It was a very happy thing to contact the Xining Party organization.

But in the current situation, since they are not subordinate to each other, they can only do their own things. Gao Wei said, "I will send someone to the detachment immediately. Since the military district has allowed us to independently establish the Xining base, everything here should be under the command of the detachment."

"It's just right to send the box gun over as well."

"it is good.

Chapter 079: Flourishing

February 2st was the Spring Festival in 1.

However, this period was not a happy time for the whole of China, because the Japanese army had been advancing rapidly since the July 7 Incident, occupying important places in China one after another.

From the occupation of Pingjin, to the subsequent capture of Jinan and Shandong, they won the Battle of Xinkou in Shanxi but lost Taiyuan. Meanwhile, they lost the Battle of Shanghai in the south and lost Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist government.

Both sides are now concentrating their forces and fighting the Battle of Xuzhou.