Chapter 506: Kong Jie: Why do ordinary people avoid us first?
Chapter 506 Kong Jie: Why are the people avoiding us (first update)
Huang Yu decided to cut off all connections between the Nanzhuang stronghold and the outside world before the main force arrived at Nanzhuang, leaving them blind and deaf for more than an hour to defend the stronghold!
By the time the main force of the battalion reached Nanzhuang, the Japanese and puppet troops had no chance to retreat.
The nine snipers of the special operations team, dressed in Jaap uniforms and riding in the newly seized car, arrived at the only road leading to Nanzhuang from the county town in just over half an hour.
First cut off the phone lines, then set up pocket formations to ambush all the messengers that may be sent from the county...
Kong Jie and Liu Sen hurriedly and slowly arrived at the Pingyang stronghold at seven o'clock in the morning.
The corpses of the Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield have all been cleared away by the prisoners. The captured weapons and ammunition were piled in a barracks. The platoon leader of the third company who stayed here was shuttling among the weapons piles to tally the results...
"Platoon leader...the regiment leader and the chief of staff are here and have already arrived at the gate of the stronghold..." A subordinate hurried in to report.
"Come so fast..." A platoon leader quickly put away the statistical list in his hand, arranged his military uniforms blackened by gunpowder smoke, and ran outside.
Finally, Kong Jie was found on the ruins of the stronghold's gun tower: "Report to the regimental commander and chief of staff, I am Chen Jia, commander of the first platoon of the third company of the first battalion. I have been ordered to stay here to clean the battlefield. Please give instructions from the commander!"
Kong Jie waved his hand and said: "There is nothing to give instructions!"
"We have just arrived, and you haven't understood the situation here yet... Giving orders at this time is almost like giving blind orders, which is a taboo for military strategists!"
"Xiao Huang only told me that the troops won the battle, but did not report the specific results!"
"You should know best if you stay here to clean the battlefield. Tell us quickly."
Chief of Staff Liu Sen immediately answered: "After the defeat of the last counter-mopping campaign, the army has not won a battle for a long time..."
"Hurry up and tell us the results of the victory so that everyone will be happy..."
Chen Jia immediately took out the list of seizures he had just calculated: "Including the Lizhuang ambush, we captured a total of two infantry guns, six intact personnel carriers, a large number of auto parts, five mortars, and four heavy machine guns.
"The battalion commander took away all the captured heavy weapons and replenished the troops with some light machine guns, grenade launchers, and supporting ammunition..."
"The rest here are basically rifles and ammunition..."
"By the way, we also found a lot of food in the warehouse of the stronghold. They were all white rice, white flour, millet...the total amount was over 150,000, and there was almost no miscellaneous grains!"
At this point, Chen Jia suddenly thought of something and continued to ask: "I heard from the prisoner that there are two little Japs and hardcore traitors in the town..."
"One is the mayor of Pingyang Town appointed by the Japanese, and the other is the director of the police station... He has more than 30 policemen and thugs, equipped with a light machine gun and more than 20 rifles... He does all kinds of evil, and several people are killed.
strip!"
"I originally wanted to lead people to kill them, but there are too few troops left here, less than a platoon including the lightly wounded. We have to divide the troops to protect the loot and guard the prisoners of war. We can't allocate troops to fight them. We can only mobilize a few troops.
A veteran is watching them!"
"Now that the main force of the regiment is here, we finally don't have to worry about these two traitors escaping in the chaos!"
Kong Jie immediately turned to look at the chief of staff.
Liu Sen understood in his heart: "I asked the security company to send two platoons over...to fight quickly and try to end the battle within five minutes!"
Kong Jie nodded and immediately ordered: "Let's go to the town and have a look..."
"I've been in Yizhong for so long, and I haven't been to enemy-occupied areas yet. I don't know how the people here are living..."
Kong Jie frowned after less than ten minutes. He looked at the people around him who were avoiding him like the plague. His mind was full of questions and he asked immediately.
"Chief of Staff, what's going on?"
"This place is close to our base area, and the troops should often move here... Logically speaking, the relationship between the masses should be pretty good... Why are the villagers avoiding us..."
"Is it possible that we are scarier than the Japanese and puppet troops?"
Liu Sen didn't show any surprise on his face. He had obviously guessed that Kong Jie would ask this question and explained with a wry smile!
"Commander, it's not that our Eighth Route Army is terrible, but that the Japanese and puppet troops are more terrifying than we imagined!"
"In order to strengthen their control over enemy-occupied areas, in addition to the county seat, they also established town offices and police stations in various towns, village offices, and police branch offices in villages. They also established a security system to closely monitor the actions of ordinary people in enemy-occupied areas.
Move."
"In the past, the relationship between the common people in enemy-occupied areas and us was very good. After the troops captured the maintenance meeting, they would share some of the food with them!"
"As a result, as soon as we left, the Japanese and puppet troops snatched back the food!"
"They also used their spies lurking among the villagers to single out those people who have a particularly good relationship with us!"
"Not only must we return the food we distributed as punishment, but we must also hand over twice as much food. Otherwise, we will be caught by the Japanese and puppet troops and sent to the front lines to dig fortifications and work as coolies, regardless of life or death..."
"Over time, people began to avoid us!"
"I'm afraid that as soon as we leave, the Japanese and puppet troops will come to trouble them again!"
Kong Jie clenched his fists and cursed: "These traitors... are simply worse than little devils!"
Then he suggested to Liu Sen: "Can you find these traitors and turn the Japanese and puppet soldiers into blind and deaf people?"
Liu Sen shook his head: "These ordinary people are not real traitors, they were all forced by the little devils!"
"The Japanese force them to be security guards and kill their families if they don't do something. In order to save their lives, they can only do things without conscience!"
"Most of the security chiefs focus on the small ones and enlarge them to deal with the Japanese and puppet troops, but they still cause huge losses to the villagers!"
Kong Jie clenched his fists tighter and looked at the empty village in front of him and continued to ask: "There are many fertile fields in the Yizhong Plain and high grain yield. The lives of the villagers should be better than in other places, right?"
Liu Sen shook his head: "The grain output in Yizhong Plain is indeed higher than that in northwestern Shanxi, but the taxes on the villagers are also very heavy. In addition, the Japanese and puppet troops at all levels are extracting cards, and they are exploited at all levels. After a year of hard work, the remaining grain is
Still not enough food!"
"Especially in the past two years...not only did the food eaten by the puppet soldiers come from the common people...the Japanese also began to rely on local people to feed themselves, and they also collected large amounts of food and sent it to other places as military rations, resulting in the rations in the hands of the villagers increasing year by year.
Young..."
"In the next two months this year, many people will have to rely on wild vegetables to survive..."
When Kong Jie wanted to continue asking, the guard company commander suddenly ran towards them. Before he could stand still, he reported with joy: "Regiment leader, chief of staff, we have knocked down the town office and the police station..."
"We killed 18 traitors and captured 21 traitors..."
"The police chief is dead and the mayor is a prisoner..."
"The warehouses at the police station and the town office are all filled with grain... I estimate it weighs at least 200,000 kilograms... I have grown up... and I have never seen so much grain at one time!"
"No wonder the people in the town are sallow and skinny and have to rely on wild vegetables to survive. It turns out that all the food has been stolen by these traitors!"
"So many?" Kong Jie took a breath of cold air and asked.
Although I was prepared, I was still shocked.
In the past, in northwestern Shanxi, it was not possible to seize so many county towns even if they conquered one county!
It is really surprising that so much has been captured after just conquering one town.
After the shock comes the surprise.
I have food in my hands and don’t panic in my heart...
If there really is a steady supply of food in the Yizhong Plain, then it is no longer a dream for the Duer Regiment to expand to 15,000 men. Maybe there will be a chance to capture the Tianjin Pier in the future and seize back all the weapons and ammunition that the Japanese have hoarded there.
Liu Sen calmly explained: "Captain...this food seems to be a lot, but it's just that!"
"Not counting the surrounding villages, there are more than 2,000 people in Pingyang Town alone..."
"Five acres of land per capita can produce more than two million kilograms of grain a year... The Japanese and puppet troops took away half of it, and the villagers kept six to seven hundred thousand kilograms as rations. Officials at all levels extorted part of it, and the rest went to
The town hall and the police station..."
"In addition to the town, each village office will also provide part of the food to them..."
"I think 200,000 kilograms of grain is too little... They must have sold a lot of grain in exchange for money. Otherwise, where would they have had so much money to support the police and thugs..."
"I suggest that the troops search the town hall and police station again... There must be oceans and gold hidden by the enemy there, and we must dig deep to find it!"
"All the food was transported back to the base area..."
"Based on the crimes they have committed, prisoners should be shot or released!"
"No!" Kong Jie shook his head and objected: "These grains are the rations stolen by traitors from the villagers...I can't help but watch them eat wild vegetables to survive. Even if they are transported back to the base area, I can't eat!"
Liu Sen reluctantly replied: "What should we do?"
"If we distribute it to the common people, as soon as we move forward, the Japanese and puppet troops will take back our hind legs... Wouldn't it be a free advantage to the Japanese and puppet troops?"
Kong Jie thought for a moment and replied: "Are there any of our own people in the village?"
"Yes!" Liu Sen replied blurtly.
"There is a party group...in order not to expose its target, it has not come out for activities for a long time!"
Kong Jie shook his head again: "I don't need them to come out for activities!"
"They are very familiar with the situation in the town and know which people in the town really support us and support us!"
"Ask them to make a list... and wait until after dark to deliver the food according to the list, each person weighs fifty kilograms, and delivers it quietly..."
"Tell the villagers who got the food... We don't send food to every household. Let them hide the food. It's best to bury it underground and take it out to eat when they need to save lives in the future!"
"If there are trustworthy neighbors who are short of food, you can give them some, but the amount must be controlled and you can't let others know that there is a lot of food hidden at home!"
"Since there is no condition to feed all the people, let's first let the part of the people who support us eat enough and no longer go hungry...and then slowly expand to every common person!"
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