Anti-Japanese War Korean Crazy

At a glance, after the snow melts, the Taiyue Mountains are full of vitality. Greenery can be seen everywhere, the forests are dense, the scenery is beautiful, and the water is flowing. If there is no war, this place must be suitable for ordinary people to live in like a peach blossom garden. A good place to settle down and work. .

Another village was seen in the distance, and there seemed to be smoke rising from the kitchen.

Seeing that there were people living there, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief collectively, and finally came across a village that had not been raided and persecuted by the Japanese army.

Han Feng's mood gradually eased. He pointed to the Taiyue mountain area in the distance, which was green and full of spring, "Old Xu, what do you think of this area? Wouldn't it be the best place to use as a base?"

"This place has beautiful mountains and clear waters. As long as you don't be lazy, you can eat and drink even if you plant two acres of land. If we set up a base here, we can grow our own land and be self-sufficient."

Xu Zilin suddenly looked forward to it: "Old Han, let's go to the village and have a look. I'm looking forward to what kind of affluent and comfortable life the folks here will live."

Han Feng responded, but shook his head in his heart. Now that there are wars everywhere, there is no place where wars can be avoided. Even here, he doesn't want to hit Xu Zilin with words. He has to wait for her to see it with his own eyes.

Sure enough, as soon as the team entered the village, the villagers who could be seen everywhere scattered like mice seeing a cat. They all looked terrified, and when they entered the house, they quickly locked the door behind them.

It was not easy to meet a few children, maybe newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, but they just stared blankly at Han Feng and Xu Zilin who took the lead, with doubts on their faces.

Xu Zilin looked at the children carefully, each of them was bent and deformed like a small skull, and the whole person was as thin as a piece of paper, as if they could be blown down by a gust of wind. With vegetables, it is the result of extreme malnutrition, protruding joints, skinny, if not for the appearance of a human, Xu Zilin dare not imagine how many children these will be.

Among them was a child who seemed to be trembling when he walked. While staring at Han Feng with timid eyes, he kept fumbling for something from his dirty pocket with his dark right hand and delivered it to his mouth.

Han Feng held the child's hand like a stick of firewood. The child was a little terrified and unable to struggle, so he had to wait for Han Feng to move on.

Han Feng inserted two fingers into the child's messy pocket and squeezed out some powder.

"Sawdust, this kid actually eats sawdust!" Xu Zilin was shocked.

Han Feng stood up slowly, with a heavy expression on his face, "Old Xu, it seems that the situation is worse than what we thought, you are right, even the children are eating sawdust, look at these children, one He is as thin as a stick, except for the swollen belly, which looks like a tumor. This is the result of not eating food for a long time, but eating sawdust bark as a meal."

"Boldly, bring some pancakes."

"Yes!"

When some yellowed dry noodles were placed in front of these children, the children seemed to be a little hesitant. They hadn't seen such yellow noodles for a long time.

Xu Zilin's voice was soft, and she said to the timid child in front of her: "Don't be afraid, eat, I'll give you something to eat."

After repeating it several times, the child seemed to come back to his senses, grabbed the bread, and immediately started to gobble it up.

"Be bold, water."

"Yes!"

The five children were all given the noodles, and they devoured them together. At this moment, their mouths seemed to be a little insufficient, and they wished to stuff all the noodles into their stomachs in one go.

Xu Zilin felt distressed as she watched from the side. She was afraid that these children would eat too fast and choke herself. She knew this feeling too well. When she was begging, she almost starved to death several times.

The villagers hid in the house one by one, and actually observed the scene outside through the crack of the door. When they saw that Han Feng and his party not only did not rush in like the officers and soldiers in memory, they even distributed the bread to their children. At that time, their expressions were full of surprise.

"Folks, don't be afraid. We are the Eighth Route Army. You must have heard of the Eighth Route Army, right? We are the people's army, the people's soldiers. This time I brought the team here to protect everyone and fight against Japan.

Come out, I think you have not eaten for a long time.

We also brought some dry food with us, and I will borrow your stove and pot to cook something for everyone. "

Han Feng shouted, and all the small bags of dry food were gathered by the soldiers and placed in front of Han Feng.

Time passed slowly, and some daring villagers slowly opened the wooden door and got out of the house. They were all covered in patches, and some even didn't even have to wear pants, just wrapped in some grass. He also wobbles when he walks, and his steps are sloppy, which is not much better than those children.

Adding water to the noodles, boiled a large pot at a villager's house, and drank a bowl of thin soup into their stomachs in great excitement. The villagers gradually began to trust Han Feng and his party.

The Eighth Route Army is a good team. The villagers here have heard of it, but they have never really experienced it, so they are afraid.

Feeling the friendliness and sincerity of Han Feng and his party at this time, the villagers finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of their vigilance.

"Where's your village chief?"

The skinny old man with a dark complexion had calluses all over his hands. While licking the bowl, he said in a hoarse voice slowly: "Well, there is no village head here. Last time the soldiers came to collect taxes, but they didn't find them. The village head was taken away because of food, and the village head hasn’t come back since then.”

Xu Zilin was puzzled: "Japanese soldiers?"

The old man shook his head, "There are all of them, white dog, two devils, devils, bandits, no matter who comes, they will grab food when they see it, and catch chickens and ducks when they see it."

Han Feng asked: "Old man, I think your village is not small, why are there only a few people like you?"

The old man smiled wryly: "When the soldiers came, they arrested the young ones when they saw them, and all those who could escape ran away, and many died, so there were not many people left. If you hadn't come this time, we old bones I can’t even run, and I probably won’t last long.”

Han Feng said: "But when I came here, I saw that there were reclaimed land on both sides, and it seemed that there were still crops planted in it? Elderly people, could it be that you planted these crops? Why are you living so hard?"

The old man sighed: "There are no young people in the village, and we can only rely on our old guys and those little guys for farming.

Who are the soldiers who distribute the seeds of the banker and eat them?We have planted the land for the past few years, and we have not eaten a single rice in the field. The farmer just matured, and they were all snatched away by those people. We all rely on eating bark and wild vegetables to save some strength. Continue to work in the fields! "

"Hateful!" Xu Zilin cursed.

Han Feng stopped asking, and the more he asked, the more worried he became. He didn't expect that when he was faced with the actual situation, he realized that the life of the people was more difficult than he imagined.

Not only did he blame himself, he led the team around for so long, what exactly was he doing?So many suffering people are waiting for a people's army to rescue them!

Now that he came this time, he wasn't going to think about the consequences.

It is an insult to the soldiers that the common people suffer.

It is also the duty of a soldier to die in battle, so that the common people suffer from the chaos of war. What is the use of such an army?

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This village is at the foot of Taiyue Mountain, built next to Taiyue Mountain, so it was named Taiyue Village. I heard from the old man that there were originally 372 households in Taiyue Village, with a total population of more than 200 people. It is not a small village. .

Originally, the life of the villagers was decent, not to mention the rich clothes and fine food, and they could still eat one meal a day to barely get by. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, it was called the golden decade, but it was quite a gimmick, and the national economy was still withered. , Many supplies were in short supply, and the soaring prices led to social unrest. Even the people living in some big counties might be hungry. I heard that the professors in the universities were not full. It is conceivable that the social situation was bad at that time.

In any case, Taiyue Village is self-sufficient, but it still needs to pay taxes.

The villagers have probably never thought about a question. Taiyue Village is located in the wilderness and is not protected by the so-called Republic of China army at all. Why do they have to pay taxes?

Fortunately, the taxes at that time were not particularly exaggerated. The villagers were not only self-sufficient, but also helped the cysticercoids in those county towns to live a prosperous life.

It was only during the period of the Anti-Japanese War that this already difficult life once again plummeted.

The honest and honest villagers of Taiyue Village worked hard. Every year when the weather is good and the harvest is good, the warehouse can be full of grain, but this is not enough for the rulers to extort.

Taxes began to increase continuously, even after 20 or [-] years.

In this Taiyue village, it is just a microcosm of many villages outside the county seat. They only bear the obligation to pay taxes, but they have never enjoyed the right to be protected by the government.

The government doesn't care whether they have been bullied by bandits or raided by devils and puppet soldiers. They just focus on their own taxes. If they fail to pay their taxes, they will immediately become no different from bandits and puppet soldiers.

As a result, life became unsustainable. During the period of the Republic of China, there were many disasters, floods, droughts, and increasing taxes. Just one of them could kill many people.