I fought guerrilla warfare in the Yimeng Mountains during the Anti-Japanese War

It was New Year's Eve. After lunch, Chen Feng took Li Ergou to post couplets. Li Ergou was very happy. He had not celebrated the New Year properly for several years since his parents passed away. He felt the warmth of home in Chen Feng's house and realized that Chen Feng and Chen Weiping did not treat him as an outsider.

After returning from Qingdao, Chen Feng taught the experience of raiding behind enemy lines. Only then did he know that the captain slaughtered four Japanese like slaughtering pigs and dogs at Mitsubishi that night. At that time, the bodies were hidden in the duty room by Chen Feng. He thought that Chen Feng just crawled in and opened the door. From that day on, Li Ergou made up his mind to learn the skills of killing the enemy and kill more Japanese to avenge his parents. He was the most hardworking in the team. Although he started later than others, his skills have surpassed Heiwa and others, and he is on par with Wang Hanqiang. I don’t know when I can kill the devils. Li Ergou can’t wait. Seeing Chen Weiping go out, he secretly asked Chen Feng:

Captain, when are we going to kill the Japs?

Chen Feng did not look back:

What? Can't wait?

Li Ergou was a little embarrassed:

You've learned these skills for several months, and now you want to try your hand on the Japanese.

Chen Feng sighed:

Have a good New Year! This should be the last good year. After the New Year, continue training. In less than two months, you will definitely have the opportunity to go to the battlefield. Although you have no problem going to the battlefield now, our team is fighting the heart of the enemy. With your current skills, you are still a little lacking. Have a good training after the New Year! The Japanese invaders will not occupy China for a year or two. As long as you learn the skills well, there will be endless Japanese invaders to kill in the future. If you don't learn well, you may be killed by the Japanese invaders one day.

Li Ergou was very excited when he heard that they could fight the Japanese in two months at most. He assured Chen Feng:

I will not be lazy or slack off. I will practice well with the captain and become a qualified sniper.

Ever since Chen Feng taught them sniper tactics, several of them have become very interested in it. Li Ergou has learned the best. Knowing that team members all have code names, he gave himself a code name, "Sniper God". After training, he couldn't let go of his 98K and would practice aiming whenever he had time. His understanding of wind speed, air pressure, and air humidity is even better than that of medical student Liu Caiyun.

During this period, there was no New Year's Eve dinner in the north. The food was almost the same as usual. The most important thing was to make dumplings after dinner. After distributing paper horses on the first day of the new year, even the poorest families had to make sure they had dumplings for the first meal, otherwise they would be poor for the whole year. Families with better conditions would make enough dumplings to last the whole day, and the landlords and rich people could even eat until the third night of the new year. This is why many young people in later generations don't understand: when there was plenty of food and a wide variety of dishes, why would their mothers make dumplings that could be eaten for two or three days? Some young people even complained that they wanted to vomit after eating them. How could they know that these dumplings were what the older generation had been dreaming about day and night when they were young?

Li Ergou turned out to be an expert at making dumplings. He did not use Chen Feng, who was a mediocre one, and together with Chen Weiping, he made four-lidded dumplings. After making the dumplings, he and Chen Weiping stayed up all night to welcome the New Year. He felt a little contempt for Chen Feng who was snoring. He thought that if he did not stay up all night during the New Year, he would not be able to sleep in the next year.

At around three o'clock in the morning, Chen Feng was woken up by Li Ergou. He didn't know which gentleman Chen Weiping asked to look at the almanac, but he knew that paper horses must be sent out at four o'clock. He got up from the kang reluctantly and prepared the materials for sending out paper horses. The three piles of sesame straw represented the respect for the three gods. After the dumplings were cooked, they had to be weighed out into three bowls, and then the sesame straw was lit. Then paper money was burned, firecrackers were set off, and people kowtowed.

Chen Weiping muttered something and asked Chen Feng and Li Ergou to kneel down and kowtow respectfully. After a busy schedule, they began to eat the first meal of the New Year. It was not known whether his father had not slept or had gotten up early. Four stir-fried dishes were still steaming on the table by Li Ergou. The cooked dumplings were placed on the ground in a bowl with a lid on. Whoever wanted to eat could use chopsticks to put the dumplings into his own bowl. The pork was fat and lean, and it was served with radish and cabbage. Such dumplings were the delicacy that everyone pursued at that time. Chen Feng ate two large bowls before putting down his chopsticks, and Li Ergou ate four large bowls. His eyes became a little red as he ate. It was easier to think of family members on the days of reunion and excitement. Li Ergou thought of his parents who had died tragically, and his mind was filled with hatred for the Japanese devils.

It was still a while before dawn after dinner. Chen Feng had just laid down to take a nap when Heiwa arrived with a group of children. The first day of the New Year is the happiest time for children. When they saw Chen Weiping, they called him Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen, and even Grandpa Chen, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed. Some gave him money, and some gave him candies if they were really poor. The children never complained. They were naturally happy to get pocket money, and they would put candies or melon seeds in their pockets and save them for after the third day of the New Year, when there was less delicious food at home, and they would slowly eat them.

Chen Weiping was very generous this year. He gave each of the more than ten children a dollar tied with a red string. It seemed that it had been prepared long ago. Even Li Ergou was not left behind. The children were naturally happy to get the dollars. At Ergou's encouragement, they kowtowed for a while. Li Ergou also joined the team. Heiwa saw that Chen Feng was still on the kang, and he started a commotion and asked a group of children to pull him down. In the past, Chen Feng was the one who led the kowtow. Could it be that he had been injured and even forgot this? Chen Feng could only smile bitterly and let the naughty kids put on his shoes before being dragged out to pay New Year's greetings.

After a busy morning, Chen Weiping went out to pay New Year's greetings. Heiwa and Liu Caiyun stayed at Chen Feng's house. The four of them simply ate some dumplings and leftovers from the morning. Chen Feng said:

Everyone should take advantage of these few days to spend time with your parents and relax a bit in training, but don't neglect Baguaquan. You will start collective training on the sixth day of the New Year. The training will last for a maximum of one month, and then you will have to enter the battlefield in advance to familiarize yourself with the environment. I hope everyone will think about it carefully. You cannot be sure of life or death on the battlefield, so it is not too late if you want to quit.

There was a long silence. Li Ergou thought that he would never quit, so he said nothing. Heiwa looked at Chen Feng seriously and said:

Brother Feng, I, Heiwa, am eighteen years old this year and have become an adult. Today I will make my own decision and follow Brother Feng to fight the Japanese invaders. No matter what the time is, I will never back down.

Liu Caiyun ate some melon seeds and glanced at Chen Feng:

What else is there to think about? My blood boils when I think of the Japs. If they hadn't arrived yet, I would have wanted to see their pig brains exploding through the sniper scope.

Chen Feng felt that Sister Caiyun was becoming more and more manly. She kept saying "I" or "I" all the time. Alas, he was so sorry to Landlord Liu! It would take another eight years for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. By then, Liu Caiyun would be thirty. I wonder if she could find a husband. I wonder if she would be in trouble! It's hard to say. With Liu Minggui's cleverness, he could let his daughter fight with him. Who knows, he might set a trap for him in the future.

Liu Caiyun noticed that Chen Feng's eyes were a little strange, and suddenly she inexplicably remembered the awkwardness of the two of them riding horses on the way to Qingdao. Her face turned red, but she immediately became angry:

What are you looking at? I'll dig your eyes out.

At Chen Feng's house, Liu Caiyun always had an inexplicable sense of power and just wanted to bully this usually cold and strict team leader.