The Eighth Route Army's work behind enemy lines cannot rely solely on propaganda. Sometimes it must be carried out vigorously and resolutely.

Of course, it is impossible to kill blindly. This is not the style of the Eighth Route Army. Only the first culprits are punished, regardless of others. For some traitors who have not done much evil, punishment and education are still the main focus.

Those who are just dawdling around and are not traitors of the puppet army who are committed to the devils, there is no need to commit more crimes. Secret service organizations like those plainclothes teams and night raid teams really have no good people.

They were gangsters who followed the Japanese and became traitors. They were even more rampant and committed all kinds of evil. Many anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians were captured and killed by them. There was nothing to say or show mercy to such people.

On the contrary, there are some local puppet governments, especially low-level traitors such as township security chiefs and presidents. The most they usually do is collect grain from the Japanese.

Zhang Yunfei's attitude is still very clear. As long as they promise to serve the Eighth Route Army, they can be lenient. As the saying goes, a person's name is like the shadow of a tree.

His famous name, Zhang Yunfei, was still a bit of a deterrent in Pingchuan. For a time, he caught many traitors in the puppet army, killed them all, and dismissed them.

Zhang Yunfei, who went deep into the northern part of Pingchuan, immediately overwhelmed the Japanese and puppet troops in Pingchuan, and the puppet troops were even more panicked.

Although Zhang Yunfei had not been active in the northern part of Pingchuan during his previous guerrilla campaigns, he was quite violent in the southwest of Pingchuan, which frightened these traitors for a long time.

As the disbanded personnel spread the news, the news that he came to northern Pingchuan spread immediately. They were ignorant and fearless, but they were so familiar with Zhang Yunfei that a book could be written about his rumors.

The traitors' fear of him naturally became more intense, and Zhang Yunfei always chose some remote strongholds or township offices.

These traitors are not puppet soldiers. It would be nice to have three or two bodyguards. Moreover, no matter how strong their residence is, it is not a stronghold of artillery towers. How can they withstand the attack of the Eighth Route Army?

This gave Ichiro Maeda a headache. The place in Hirakawa had finally been calm for a while without any riots, but when his neighbors were swept away, all the 8th gangs came to his place.

What's even more deceiving is that in order to cooperate with Qingling's mopping up, all of his mobile troops in Pingchuan were mobilized. For a while, he was really powerless and could only watch the Eighth Route Army making trouble in his own jurisdiction, without any solution.

He also studied the activities of the Eighth Route Army, and after connecting the attacked strongholds and township offices in a line, it was not difficult to find that their activity area was in the northwest area of ​​Pingchuan.

One characteristic of these areas is that they are far away from the county town, close to the northern mountainous area, and relatively remote. These places are also the most favored by the Eighth Route Army.

In other words, the Eight Route Army that that fool Hashimoto cannot find is most likely spreading out in this area or hiding somewhere in this area.

The Eighth Route Army had just jumped out of the encirclement of Qingling, but they did not disappear immediately. Instead, they made a scene in their own area. There must be a purpose.

After repeated research, he felt that the stronghold here restricted the movements of the Eighth Route Army, and the empire's blockade policy still greatly restricted the Eighth Route Army.

Even in such remote areas, although the control power has been reduced, the surrounding strongholds have restricted the activities of the Eighth Route Army to a certain extent, so the Eighth Route Army will attack everywhere, cut off all kinds of ears and eyes, and give themselves greater control.

Activity space.

But what makes Maeda crazy is that he knows it, but what's the use? Now he has no extra troops on hand at all.

Although if they are forced to squeeze in, they can barely manage to form a mopping up force mainly composed of security forces.

But what's the point? There really isn't much hope for the combat effectiveness of this group of security forces. He doesn't want to be like the guy next door, who was not caught by the Eighth Route Army but made himself disgraced.

Maeda is a little different from other Japanese officers. He likes to use strategies and knows how to advance and retreat. When encountering an enemy, he will not rush forward stupidly but will calculate his own gains and losses.

At this point, he is not like a soldier, but more like a politician. Although he likes to smash things everywhere when he is angry, Ichiro Maeda has always regarded himself as a wise general, and many things must be planned before taking action.

This was all forced by the environment he was in. He did not have a strong background, nor did he have a prominent military experience, so he was careful every step he took and could not make any mistakes.

He didn't want his military career to end as a garrison captain, but it was extremely difficult for officers like them to be promoted, which also led to Maeda's cautious character.

For officers like them, military merit is secondary to their promotion, and they can only slowly gain seniority until their superiors feel embarrassed if they are not promoted.

But if you want your boss to feel this way, whether you have merit or not is secondary. If you don’t have merit, you still have hard work, but there must be no mistakes. If you make mistakes every day, how can your boss feel guilty for not giving you a promotion?

, unless there is something wrong with the brain.

Regardless of how Maeda developed his respectful and cautious character, he had already roughly mapped out the hiding place of this Eighth Route Army.

But if he doesn't have enough manpower and troops to encircle and suppress, he won't rush forward so hastily. What his boss wants is the result, not the process.

If he tracks down this group of Eight Route Army soldiers but no one eliminates them in the end, his superiors will only see failure and will not pay more attention to why he failed, let alone whether he has enough troops and manpower.

Ichiro Maeda knew very well that if you don't do something, you won't do anything wrong. When he was not sure about wiping out this group of eight-pronged gangsters, his cautious character made him decide to pretend that they were not discovered.

So he immediately reported to his superiors, because Pingchuan's troops had been mobilized, and now these eight-pronged groups were scurrying into his own area and wreaking havoc everywhere, and he had no troops at all to defend and suppress.

Since he can't do it himself, he just hands the problem over. If something goes wrong, it's not his fault or responsibility.

Maeda Ichiro's report undoubtedly gave Hashimoto another slap in the face.

What did Hashimoto Kakuichi do? Apart from causing a fuss in Qingling County, there was no sign of the Eighth Route Army at all.

The Eighth Route Army who worked hard to encircle and suppress not only attacked the defenders everywhere, but even the supervisors they sent were killed by bombs. And those Eighth Route Army just disappeared from his so-called tight encirclement without anyone noticing, and then disappeared again.

Start making trouble somewhere else.
Chapter completed!