The War of Resistance

"How can you work like this?" A farmer was complaining in the wheat field under the sun.

"Then what do you say?" The man who was working next to him asked him back.

"I've lived so long, but this is the first time I've seen wheat harvested like this!" the man said angrily.

"You're so nosy! Don't you get paid?" A third person spoke up.

"You're the only one who talks too much, and we're not the only ones doing this. Don't you see that there are so many soldiers cutting wheat like this over there?" The fourth person also joined in.

They couldn't help but glance at another piece of land, right? There were also dozens of soldiers in a row on that piece of land, pulling racks and cutting wheat ears!

"Damn, even if it's just cutting wheat ears, we have to be better than those soldiers!" someone said.

This is right, although they are facing new problems now.

But cutting wheat ears is still cutting wheat, so if they are outdone by those Northeast soldiers who are also cutting wheat ears with racks, they will be so embarrassed!

So the people who had set up the racks in the wheat field stopped talking and just focused on cutting wheat ears!

In fact, deep down in their hearts, everyone has their own professional dignity.

Many of those who cut wheat like them were specialized in cutting wheat for wealthy families during the wheat harvest season, and they all had their own skills.

For example, if you do the same work all year round and cut one mu of land in an hour, but someone who only comes here occasionally to do odd jobs cuts one and a half mu of land, do you still have face? Who will ask you to cut wheat in the future?

But this year is different from previous years. As that person complained, they are cutting wheat ears instead of cutting wheat!

Yes! That's right!

They are cutting wheat ears with sickles, and the Northeast soldiers in another field are also cutting wheat ears!

Is there any difference between cutting wheat and cutting wheat ears? Of course there is.

According to the normal harvesting method, people harvest wheat by holding the wheat growing in the field with one hand and using the other hand to cut down the wheat with a sickle, leaving the wheat stubble.

But this time, the owner of the wheat harvesting, Chen Laocai, asked them to only harvest the wheat ears and leave the wheat stalks behind!

Everyone knows that the way to harvest wheat from ancient times to the present is to cut the wheat stalks together and then transport them to the drying yard or threshing ground, beat the bundles of wheat or use stone rollers to grind them, so that the wheat is left for grinding into flour later and the wheat stalks become firewood.

But who would have thought that Chen Laocai used a new harvesting method this time.

Then the problem comes.

You can't throw a lot of wheat ears on the ground after cutting them? That would be a waste of harvesting!

After cutting a handful of wheat ears, you have to put them in the specially sewn big bag on your chest, and then cut another handful.

When the big pocket on the chest is full of wheat ears, they have to be poured into a uniform sack.

Even the old farmers who have been farming for a lifetime have never cut the land like this!

But what are the benefits of doing this? That is to save transportation capacity and shorten the wheat harvesting time.

At this time, Chen Laocai, who was on the road in the field, looked at the busy harvesting scene with mixed feelings.

Not only did the workers not expect to harvest wheat in this way, but even the owner like him did not expect that he would do such a thing one day!

And the reason why he did this was entirely Shang Zhen's idea.

This matter was really not Shang Zhen scaring him.

Born in troubled times, according to Shang Zhen's words, everyone with a gun is interested in your wheat!

Then Shang Zhen counted on his fingers for him, the 51st Army is the Northeast Army, the Japanese devils and the second devils, the security division, the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, everyone is rushing for your wheat!

Then why don't you hurry up and collect it? If you pull the wheat back with the ears, you have to use a fork to load the cart, right? Even if you pull a large cart with a horse, how much wheat can you harvest?

Besides, it will waste time!

You have to use a fork to pick up the bundles of wheat on the cart, and someone has to stack them, right? You have to unload the cart when you go back, right? This will waste a lot of time!

So in my opinion, you might as well just cut the wheat ears, so that you can save a lot of time, and when the troops from other families arrive, you will have already collected the wheat!

No matter whether it is our 51st Army that helps you, or the Communist Army, or who helps you, at least you can rely on your Gaoqiang courtyard to hold on in the village!

Shang Zhen's idea of ​​collecting grain as soon as possible sounds so absurd and feels like a child's nonsense, but Chen Laocai can only do this after thinking carefully.

In yesterday's battle, more than 30 people were killed in their village protection team, and more than 70 Japanese and puppet troops died in Shuiquan Town.

Even though it is sunny and the harvest is going on, Chen Laocai shudders when he thinks of the bloody scene.

There is no other way!

In special times, such a simple matter as collecting grain must be handled in a special way!

And after the grain is collected, how much more of it should be given to Shang Zhen?

When the two were discussing, Shang Zhen did not say it clearly.

But Shang Zhen said that you don’t have to give me wheat. We are also ordinary people. We don’t have to eat fine grains. You can convert it into corn flour or sweet potatoes and potatoes. We are not you, Chen Laocai, who are destined to eat coarse bran!

Shang Zhen said so. Do you think Chen Laocai can refuse?

He really can’t refuse!

If Shang Zhen's men had not appeared in Shuiquan Town in time, his family's farm would have been taken down by the Japanese.

Once the farm was destroyed, it would not be a matter of only more than 30 people dying. His great grandfather, his grandfather, his father, and all the property he had saved over the years would be looted by the Japanese, and there was no need to mention how miserable the whole family would be.

The Japanese devils were already notorious. How cruel were they? How to say it? There is a saying called "There is nothing you can't think of and nothing they can't do!"

So even if Chen Laocai was smart, he knew that he had no room for maneuver. From the moment Shang Zhen and his men helped him, he was tied to Shang Zhen's camp!

"Everyone, hurry up!" Chen Laocai shouted with his hoarse voice, and then he shouted again, "Chen Fu! Chen Fu! Bring me a sickle, I will also cut wheat!"

Chen Fu was his housekeeper.

At Chen Laocai's call, Chen Fu ran over breathlessly and said, "Master, where do we have sickles? This is the first time we have so many people to harvest wheat!"

Chen Fu was of course telling the truth.

In previous years, why did we need so many people to harvest wheat? Time was not so tight, but now, Shang Zhen asked one company to provide cover on the periphery and transferred the other company to help him harvest wheat.

"Sickle, sickle, sickle, what kind of sickle?" Chen Laocai said angrily, "Captain Shang, do they have sickles? Aren't we just cutting wheat ears? Even if you have a knife or a pair of scissors, can't you cut wheat ears?"

"Okay, master, I'll find it for you right away!" Chen Fu bowed and responded hurriedly.

At this time, Shang Zhen was also in the fields, listening to the soldier's report.

The soldier was sent back by Chu Tian to inform him.

"The Japanese sent a squadron with more than 500 puppet soldiers, but they were ambushed before they reached our company.

Our company commander sent someone to inquire, and they said that the Eighth Route Army was the one who fought against the Japanese.

But our company commander said that the Japanese were only blocked by the Eighth Route Army for a period of time, and they will soon reach our company.

We can only delay for one day at most.

Also, the people sent by our company found that there were other large troops, which seemed to be from our Northeast Army, but we haven't found out which group they are from yet." The soldier reported.

Shang Zhen responded with a sound to indicate that he knew, and then he cast his eyes on the golden wheat sea and stopped talking, and no one knew what he was thinking.