Chapter 392 Brigade Commander, the situation is not good
Although the food brought back by Huang Yu was very important, Kong Jie's mind was not on it. He turned to look at the battalion commander behind him: "Captain Xu, I'll leave the handover to you. The speed must be fast. Absolutely
We cannot delay Deputy Chief of Staff Huang’s transfer of the second batch of supplies.”
After saying that, he stared at Huang Yu and asked: "What's going on at the stronghold in front? I heard that the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold are intact... You just passed through the stronghold so openly. Could it be that the little Japs in the stronghold inside are all blind, or
He’s deaf!”
"There are still Japanese and puppet troops patrolling on the top of the stronghold's gun tower. They just watch you passing through the stronghold without any reaction at all!"
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it was true!"
Huang Yu quickly explained: "Captain, the Japanese and puppet troops patrolling the gun tower are all our own!"
"You persuaded them to join the independent group..." Kong Jie seemed to have thought of something and looked at Huang Yu with a thoughtful look on his face and asked.
Li Wensheng responded: "Even if you persuade some puppet troops in the stronghold to join us... this operation is too dangerous!"
"If someone betrays us, the entire transport team will be exposed to enemy fire, and our losses will be huge!"
A trace of worry flashed across Kong Jie's face again, and he said with deep understanding: "The chief of staff's analysis is not unreasonable!"
"Even if you successfully instigate some puppet troops to join the Independent Regiment and be used by me, it would be too risky to transfer food in front of them!"
"A little carelessness will bring disaster to the transportation team!"
Huang Yu explained again: "Captain, don't worry, the people patrolling on the gun tower are originally soldiers of the independent regiment, not the Imperial Association Army that I instigated."
"In the entire stronghold, I only instigated the rebellion of the guard company commander Chen Wei!"
"Didn't I ask the regiment headquarters for an appointment document? It's for Chen Wei!"
"This guy is a good fighter at fighting Japanese invaders. He has a lot of experience in commanding at the grassroots level. He almost lost his life in order not to be a puppet soldier!"
"In order to save the brothers under my command, I had to accept humiliation and serve as the commander of the security company of the Xigang stronghold."
"After contact, he agreed to join the independent group to continue fighting the Japanese!"
"With his cooperation, we successfully eliminated more than a dozen hardcore traitors in the stronghold, and transferred 11 elite veterans from the assault camp. Duan Peng led the team and joined the guard company as new recruits and entered the stronghold!"
"This afternoon, I sent them some Mongolian sweat medicine. Except for my own people, the other Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold were fast asleep in the barracks, and they would not wake up even if there was thunder..."
"In this way, we can quietly transport food and other supplies to the base area under the noses of the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"Commander, Deputy Chief of Staff Huang's trick of concealing the truth is so powerful!" Li Wensheng admired from the bottom of his heart.
"After our operation is over and we have cleared the road traces, the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold will never know that we transported food under their noses!"
"The report to Taiyuan is that the stronghold has not been attacked, and not a single grain has flowed into our base!"
"After the troops and underground parties operating in enemy-occupied areas raised enough food, they could use the same method to transport food to the base area through the Xigang stronghold, completely keeping Shinozuka Yoshio in the dark."
"By the time he thought we were out of food, the base area had already received a large amount of food through the Xigang stronghold!"
"If the Japanese and puppet troops want to take the opportunity to attack us and annihilate us, the troops will definitely be able to attack us head-on and catch them off guard."
Kong Jie obviously had a better view of the overall situation than Li Wensheng, and he continued: "The Xigang stronghold is only the first stronghold we secretly control, not the last one."
"There are more than a hundred strongholds, large and small, around the base area. There must be many people like Chen Wei among them who are unwilling to sacrifice their lives for the Japanese!"
"We need to mobilize them all, persuade them to assist the independent group in fighting the Japanese, provide us with intelligence, and help us secretly control the stronghold..."
"If there are two or three more Xigang strongholds around the base area, and food and materials are transported to the base area once a month... In more than three months, the base area will have at least 6 million kilograms more food, which can definitely support hundreds of thousands of disaster victims.
autumn harvest."
Li Wensheng immediately supported: "I will mobilize the intelligence department to find out the truth when I get back!"
"Hundreds of thousands of disaster victims are reclaiming wasteland on a large scale in the base area. There will definitely be no problem in replanting 1.34 million acres of wasteland!"
"During the autumn harvest, these lands should be able to harvest a lot of food, and the hundreds of thousands of victims will have enough food for most of the next half year. If there is a good harvest, their food rations will be enough for a year!"
At four o'clock in the morning, the last truck of grain passed through the Xigang stronghold and entered the independent regiment base area.
Dozens of soldiers followed the large vehicle and used brooms to sweep away the wheel marks.
In this way, even if the Japanese take to the road, they won't be able to find any trace.
"Company commander... the main force's food transportation operation is over, and we can return to normal!" Duan Peng immediately reported to Chen Wei after seeing the end signal from Huang Yu.
"During the operation, were there any Japanese who woke up in the middle of the night?" Chen Wei asked while letting down his guard.
Duan Peng shook his head and said: "The Mongolian sweat medicine is better than expected... All the Japanese were fast asleep in the barracks, and no one woke up!"
"That's good..." The expression on Chen Wei's face became more relaxed!
"Ask all your people to withdraw to the guard post and continue on duty. Just pretend that nothing happened just now. I'll go to sleep too!"
The brigade headquarters and brigade commander were also worried about the economic blockade of the base area in northwestern Shanxi by the Japanese and puppet troops. They frowned for several days and did not think about food or food.
Especially after knowing that the Japanese even used no-man's land, I became even more anxious. The first thing I did when I woke up every day was to ask about the latest situation in northwest Shanxi.
Today was no exception. When I saw the Chief of Staff, I asked him a question that I always ask every morning.
"The situation is not good!" Chief of Staff Zhou replied solemnly.
"The Japanese drove all the people in the no-man's land into the base areas of the Independent Regiment, the New Regiment, the New Regiment and the Second Regiment... and they didn't even give them food!"
"The three regiments suddenly had hundreds of thousands more mouths. In order to provide relief to them, the originally small amount of food was used up as quickly as running water!"
"The Japanese's economic blockade and no-man's land have cut off the three regiments' channels for obtaining food from the outside world. Now they can only slow down the food consumption through frugality and try to survive for a few more days!"
“But if we don’t get foreign aid and rely solely on storing grain within the base area, we won’t be able to survive until the autumn harvest no matter how much we save!”
The more the brigade commander listened, the more solemn his expression became. He stared at the chief of staff and asked, "Isn't it possible for the independent regiment too?"
The chief of staff shook his head: "Their conditions are slightly better than those of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment. They have more food reserves, but they can only last one more month!"
"You haven't thought of a way to break the situation?" the brigade commander asked reluctantly.
The chief of staff still shook his head: "Not yet..."
"The Japanese blockade this time is very different from the past. No matter how provocative we are in other places, or even send troops to cross the blockade and get into their bellies to cause trouble, the troops on the blockade remain motionless. They should be determined to fight at all costs.
