Zhou Weiguo looked at Village Chief Zhao and shook his head helplessly.""Have you ever seen bandits come to rob in the middle of the night?”
Village Chief Zhao was a little embarrassed. He had never heard of bandits robbing in the middle of the night.
"Then who are you?"
Village Chief Zhao looked embarrassed and asked again.
"Us! Bandits who beat up the Japanese!"
"Eh!"
Village Chief Zhao was a little stunned. He was still a bandit, but what did this bandit say?
"Dad, Brother Zhou, it's time to eat!"
At this moment, a young man in his twenties walked out and shouted.
Zhou Weiguo knew him. He was Village Chief Zhao's eldest son, Zhao Yansong. Last night, when they came to Village Chief Zhao's house and explained their intentions, the others were very afraid. Only his eldest son was not afraid of them and even welcomed them warmly.
Zhou Weiguo smiled as he helped Village Chief Zhao into the house and sat at the table.
Sitting at the table were Village Chief Zhao's second son, Zhao Yanqing, and third son, Zhao Yanli. One was 17 years old, and the other was 15 years old. The two of them looked at Zhou Weiguo with fear in their eyes.
As for women…In this era, women were not allowed to sit at the table when guests came.
Although the previous dynasty had been overthrown for more than 20 years, the thinking of the Chinese mainland was still very conservative. The thousand-year-old mindset could not be changed in a short ten or twenty years.
After a while, Xu Hu came back and sat down to eat.
Lunch was just average, with cornbread and some pickles.
This was an era of material scarcity. The common people did not have much surplus food in their homes. As for eating meat, it was even more impossible. It was already good enough to eat meat a few times a year.
However, Zhou Weiguo didn't mind. It was fine as long as there was food.
"Brother Zhao, why aren't you afraid of us?”
Xu Hu asked Zhao Yansong while eating. In fact, Zhou Weiguo was also a little puzzled. Logically speaking, when the commoners saw bandits, there was no one who was not afraid.
Even those landowners with guards were afraid of bandits, let alone commoners. It would be strange if someone who was not afraid of them appeared here.
"Hehe! To be honest, it was impossible to not be afraid. It's just that our village's Er Dan came back from the county town yesterday afternoon. He said that many Japanese had been dispatched to the county town. It was said that they were going to encircle and suppress the Clear Wind Camp.
He heard that the Clear Wind Camp had beaten the Japanese to a pulp during this period of time, and the Japanese wanted to take revenge. Last night, you claimed to be bandits and came in the middle of the night. Besides, you came to pay for a night's rest. I reckon that you must be the bandits that the Japanese wanted to encircle and suppress. Otherwise, I've never seen any bandits pay for a night's rest in a civilian's house!”
Zhao Yansong chuckled. There was a reason why he was not afraid. Zhou Weiguo looked at him with admiration and said,""You're quite smart, kid! That's right, we are the bandits of Clear Wind Camp. But don't tell anyone about us being here.
Otherwise, not only will we suffer, but those Japanese will also not let you off.”
Zhao Village was a large village with two to three hundred households. If the Japanese found out that they were hiding here, the more than one thousand people here would probably suffer.
"Hehe! Don't worry, two heroes! This morning, I already went to tell the families. They won't tell anyone. Besides, we're happy that you're fighting the Japanese. Why would we tell anyone?”
Last year, the Japanese had caused them a lot of trouble. After this summer, the Japanese had changed their previous strategy of burning, killing, and looting to a more gentle policy.
However, the Japanese would still enter the village from time to time to loot. They had been harmed quite badly, so they hated the Japanese very much. But what could he do? They were just ordinary people. What could they do?
Now that he saw someone dissing the Japanese, he couldn't be happier. Why would he betray his own people?
Zhou Weiguo couldn't help but nod.”
After dinner, Zhou Weiguo sat in the courtyard and thought about his next move.
Currently, the alien base was still building a factory, so there was no production of weapons and ammunition for the time being. It would take a few days before weapons and ammunition could be produced.
Moreover, he also needed to pull the team together. Although the Japanese had surrounded them and caused them to lose their nest, it was also an opportunity.
It was a good opportunity to take root among the people. Laiyang County was surrounded by Japanese people. If they wanted to develop, they had to take root among the people.
Only by doing so could the alien base develop and take root among the people. Only then could they continue to recruit soldiers and slowly obtain a territory of their own.
"Brother, what are you thinking about?"
While Zhou Weiguo was deep in thought, Zhu Ziming, Zhao Shoutian, Li Wu, Sun Fugui, and the others walked over and asked.
Zhu Ziming sat down at the side and asked Zhou Weiguo. He was also born in a farming family and was uneducated.
If they really couldn't survive, they would go to the mountains and become bandits. The others were almost the same. You asked him to make a decision and how to develop, but he had no idea at all.
"Now that we've been chased out of Clear Wind Camp, I'm thinking about how we should develop our next step.”
Zhou Weiguo took out a cigarette and lit it up as he said slowly.
"How do we develop? Brother, what do you think? Tell us, we'll listen to you!”
Last night, Zhou Weiguo brought them out of the Japanese's encirclement just like that. This made them call him a god. If it was before Zhou Weiguo, they would have died if they encountered the Japanese's blockade.
"Take root among the people. They would develop with the people as the foundation and at the same time recruit the bandits from the nearby mountains. Although they don't have much strength, only a few dozen people, and don't have many guns, we can recruit them into our team.
And we can still rely on the people to develop and strengthen our own strength!”
Zhou Weiguo's eyes shone with something called ambition. In this era, there was no lack of people. And in a few days, he would also use a spear. When the time came, he would have guns and people. Why couldn't he gather an army to fight against the Japanese?
"Brother, just tell me what to do! I'm a rough person and don't know anything. Brother, whatever you say!"
Zhu Ziming knew his own limits. He knew that he was a grass patch and did not have much ability, so he directly said that he would listen to Zhou Weiguo.
This was the effect that Zhou Weiguo wanted.
"Brother, don't be anxious. Take the brothers and investigate the nearby brothers first. In addition, he had also investigated the Japanese's strongholds in Laiyang County. We don't have any food supplies now, so we can only snatch them from the Japanese!”
Zhou Weiguo had no choice but to snatch the food from the Japanese.
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