After the meeting, the cadres left the regiment headquarters one by one. When they saw Shen Wenyue outside the yard, their eyes lit up, and then they left the regiment headquarters with some curiosity.
The battalion commanders have not heard about Reporter Shen.
"Reporter Shen, I told you that you have been waiting for more than an hour. Let's go quickly. The leader really doesn't have time to see you now." The monk was very embarrassed. After a while, the leader came out and he should scold himself for being such a bitch. Undecided.
Shen Wenyue said with a sly look: "Captain Kong has said that I have freedom in your independent regiment. Captain Wei, you don't have to make it difficult. I just want to see more here."
While the two were talking, Kong Jie walked out of the yard. He originally wanted to take a breath, but suddenly saw Shen Wenyue and was stunned for a moment.
"Reporter Shen!"
Kong Jie smiled and said hello. Since we bumped into each other, we couldn't pretend not to see him, right?
The monk explained on the side, rolling his eyes, "Captain, she insists on waiting here, it's useless even if I say it!"
Kong Jie smiled and scolded: "You kid, didn't I tell you that Reporter Shen can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants. This is the freedom of reporters. Our Eighth Route Army is a democratic place, let alone restricting others. Freedom."
Monk: "..."
I was complaining like crazy in my heart, Captain, didn’t you say that before?
Seeing that Kong Jie was easy-going and approachable as she saw in the photos, Shen Wenyue tried to ask: "Captain Kong, I came here just to interview you. Is it convenient now?"< /p>
Kong Jie smiled and said: "I'm sorry, Reporter Shen, I'm afraid it's really inconvenient now. The Japanese's big sweep is already under our noses. There are still many things we need to prepare in advance."
"Then can I ask you a few simple questions? Don't worry, it's just a few words to spare a moment." Shen Wenyue said.
Kong Jie said: "That's no problem, just ask!"
Shen Wenyue smiled and said: "Thank you, Commander Kong. I would like to ask Commander Kong, generally speaking, what is the focus of your Eighth Route Army's response to the Japanese army's raids on the base areas?"
"The center of gravity?" Kong Jie said: "There is more than one center of gravity. Let's divide it into priorities. The first priority is naturally the safety of the people around the base. Our Eighth Route Army is an army of the people. We must put the safety of the people first at all times. One person."
"Once we are aware of the Japanese army's mopping up operations, we will immediately move the people around the base to a safe area."
"Then the next focus will be on how to deal with this major sweep and smash the Japanese sweep plan."
"Commander Kong, do you have confidence in this large-scale raid by the Japanese army?" Shen Wenyue asked again.
Kong Jie laughed, "Of course I have confidence. Our Eighth Route Army will never lack the confidence to defeat the Japanese invaders."
"In the war of resistance behind enemy lines, if we cannot successfully break the Japanese raids, it means death. Even if we are to survive and continue to fight against the Japanese, we must have confidence."
"Haha, Reporter Shen, let's just say this for now. If you really want to interview me, I will make time for you after this counter-sweep is over. You can interview me for as long as you want.
As for now, I’ll excuse you, monk, arrange for someone to take good care of Reporter Shen. After the Japanese’s mopping up troops arrive, move Reporter Shen and the people to the rear as soon as possible.”
"Yes!" the monk replied.
Just as he was talking, there was a sudden roar in the sky, faintly heard.
Everyone was holding their breath in curiosity. When they heard the sound, Kong Jie was the first to come to his senses. His expression changed and he shouted: "It's an air raid! Monk, please order the communications troops to sound the air defense alarm immediately and notify the soldiers." And the people quickly moved into air-raid shelters to hide."
The monk who came back to his senses quickly responded: "Yes!"
In order to cope with the Japanese air raids in the Niukou Village base area, under the order of Kong Jie, the repair shop set up an air defense alarm.
The alarm bell driven by a hand crank suddenly sounded, and the loud sound soon spread far and wide in the quiet Niukou Village.
Regarding the military common sense of air defense, the cadres of the Independent Regiment will from time to time popularize the knowledge to the villagers in each village.
The villagers of Niukou Village are the closest to the base of the Independent Regiment, so they are no exception.
As soon as the air defense siren sounded, coupled with the roar of aircraft engines in the sky, the people still didn't know what was going on. They hurriedly followed the usual emergency evacuation drills and moved to the nearest air raid shelters in an orderly manner.
Kong Jie also hurriedly greeted everyone.
"Put away the map and some important documents. Don't worry about the others. Human lives are at stake. Evacuate immediately."
"Reporter Shen, it seems that you came at an unlucky time. You happened to encounter a Japanese air raid. Please follow us into the air-raid shelter immediately to take shelter."
"Okay!"
Shen Wenyue responded, and quickly followed Kong Jie and his party towards the east of the village, jogging all the way, and soon arrived at the air-raid shelter that Kong Jie mentioned.
It was an air-raid shelter dug underground. The interior was quite strong. Shen Wenyue even found concrete structures on the walls inside.
This is an air-raid shelter dug and reinforced with nearby concrete fortifications specifically for the regimental headquarters' emergency evacuation.
The internal space of this air-raid shelter is not small, like a large cave, and it will not be a problem to accommodate two to three hundred people.
It wasn't until everyone retreated and came in that they breathed a sigh of relief after being stunned. Not long after, a deafening explosion sounded outside the village.
Under the violent impact of the explosion, everyone seemed to feel the earth shaking even while hiding in the air-raid shelter.
A few hundred meters above Niukou Village, more than a dozen Japanese bombers were roaring back and forth. Bombs were dropped round after round at Niukou Village. The bombing sound lasted for about ten minutes before gradually stopping.
The air-raid shelter gradually became quiet.
"Captain, this stupid little devil came directly to bomb our base!" The monk couldn't help but cursed.
Kong Jie said: "This little devil really thinks highly of our independent group. It seems that he wants to bomb our base area to demonstrate before the big sweep."
After a while, the sentry sent out to investigate the situation returned and reported to Kong Jiehui: "Report to the commander, the Japanese bomber has flown away."
Kong Jie nodded and said: "It seems that the little Japs are coming for our regiment headquarters. It is unlikely that the bombers will come again. Let's get out!"
"Yes!"
Everyone began to evacuate outside the air-raid shelter. When they arrived outside the village, they looked around the regiment headquarters and saw that they were all furious. Many houses had been blown up.
After the bombing, everything was in ruins.
Even the courtyard where the regiment headquarters is located had a house destroyed by the bomb.
Kong Jie also felt a little heavy in his heart. He didn't expect the little devil to be so heartless. He was just a small village, and he was worthy of such a massive effort.
"Signal Corps, immediately count the casualties in the whole village, focusing on the situation of the villagers."
"Yes!"
When the communications corps went to convey the order to investigate the situation, the monk said with relief: "Captain, our village has air-raid shelters dug in advance and we have sounded the air-raid alarm in time. The villagers should be fine."
"I hope so!" Kong Jie said.
After waiting for more than 20 minutes, the signal corps soldiers returned and reported to Kong Jiehui: "Report to the regimental commander, the Japs seem to be coming towards our regiment headquarters. Not many bombs were dropped in the middle of the village, and the villagers hid in time.
After entering the air-raid shelter, there were no deaths. Only two fellow villagers were scratched by the debris thrown by the shells and suffered minor injuries."
Kong Jie breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: "What about the troops stationed at our regiment headquarters?"
"It's okay, everyone escaped in time."
"That's good!" Kong Jie let out a long sigh of relief.
Shen Wenyue, who had also listened to the report on the side, was a little surprised. Looking at the houses in the village that were blown up, the Japanese probably dropped a lot of bombs. Such a large-scale bombing, looking at the situation of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, not even a single person was killed.
No sacrifice.
The execution ability of these Eighth Route Army soldiers is really amazing.
"Captain Kong, it turns out that you still have air defense construction in the base area!" Shen Wenyue praised.
Kong Jie said with a smile: "Be prepared. Originally, it was unlikely that the Japanese would use bombers to deal with one of our regiment-level combat units. I didn't expect that the Japanese planes would actually come."
Shen Wenyue said: "Fortunately, Commander Kong made advance preparations, otherwise our sacrifice would have been inevitable once the Japanese bombers arrived.
In fact, Commander Kong, the situation of your independent regiment is very surprising. It is even better than the air defense measures in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and the execution ability is also very powerful.
Take the Kuomintang-controlled area in southern Shanxi as an example. Every time a Japanese plane makes a sneak attack, it will cause a large number of casualties.
If the Kuomintang-controlled areas were like your independent regiment and had air-raid shelters nearby, and could sound the air-raid alarm as soon as possible and evacuate the people quickly, they would not have been harmed by Japanese bombers."
Kong Jie smiled and said nothing more.
Shen Wenyue knew that after the Japanese bombing, the Independence Regiment must still have a lot of things to do, so she stopped disturbing her. After saying goodbye to Kong Jie, she left accompanied by two soldiers.
On the way, Shen Wenyue sighed: "The environment in which your Eighth Route Army fought behind enemy lines was indeed difficult. Do sneak attacks like this happen from time to time?"
A soldier replied: "There are not many sneak attacks by planes, but since we are behind enemy lines, little devils will come to raid us from time to time."
After returning to her residence, Shen Wenyue immediately took out her notebook and the pen she brought with her and started recording.
It's like writing a diary. In the first line, she writes like this:
On April 11, the weather was fine. At 4:55 pm, the Niukou Village base of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment was attacked by Japanese bombers.
The independent regiment detected the air raid in time and sounded the air raid siren. Villagers and soldiers quickly hid in the air raid shelters, thus avoiding the loss of personnel.
This is a miracle. Under the surprise bombing by the Japanese army, no one died in the entire independent regiment base area.
I witnessed with my own eyes the rapid response, timely avoidance, and complete air defense construction of the Eighth Route Army soldiers when faced with Japanese air attacks.
The Eighth Route Army's ability to build such air defense facilities in the difficult and dangerous environment behind enemy lines is simply amazing.
After writing another paragraph, Shen Wenyue temporarily put down the pen. After pondering for a moment, his face suddenly became happy. He started writing again and wrote quickly:
Moments before the Japanese air raid, I formally met Commander Kong.
This approachable and kind-hearted leader gives people a feeling of spring breeze. His eyes are very bright, and they seem to be full of wisdom and confidence.
When his subordinates looked at him, their expressions were full of reverence and trust.
This is a regiment leader who can always make people feel at ease with every gesture. If this troop is full of vigor, confidence, bravery, and fearlessness...the source of all these beliefs and spirits seems to come from Kong.
On the head of the group.
……
In the last sentence, Shen Wenyue wrote this:
This army seems to be full of magic. I am eagerly waiting to gradually unveil the mysterious veil of this army...
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Yangquan.
After the aircraft bombed Ushikou Village, the news reached the headquarters and Haraichi Ishii and Shube Yamaguchi, who moved the temporary headquarters to Yangquan, laughed together.
"Xinxi, Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, I think this bombing must have caused considerable damage to the area where the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment Headquarters is located."
Yamaguchi Shubian joked: "Perhaps Kong Jie, the leader of the independent regiment, could not escape in time and was directly bombed to death in the village. Who can say this kind of thing well?"
Hahahaha——
"Ishii-kun, by the way, is this Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment really so troublesome?"
Ishii sighed bitterly: "This is indeed a difficult opponent. Regarding the latest intelligence summary of the independent regiment, the brigade commander should also have read it.
Compared with the Tubal Road teams that we usually encounter with backward equipment and scarce ammunition, this independent group has a very powerful firepower configuration.
They even have sharp weapons like artillery.
A few days ago, during the battle between Zhangjiazhuang and the Independent Regiment, they even used a new weapon that can throw ten kilograms of explosive packets to a distance of one to two hundred meters.
The power of those explosive packets is amazing. Once thrown, the Empire warriors will be killed in a large area."
"In addition, this independent regiment has a large number of small-caliber artillery. Take grenade launchers as an example. In the past, our grenade launchers could easily suppress the Eighth Route Army's important firepower points.
However, the small-caliber artillery possessed by this independent regiment seems to have a longer range and greater power than our single-barrel cannons. Their gunners are very capable of operating guns and can even fire on our exposed grenade cannon fire points.
Targeted cleaning.
This means that in the confrontation with the independent regiment, the grenade firepower advantage our army relied on in the past will be greatly reduced."
"In addition, Kong Jie, the leader of the independent regiment, is a master of military command."
"During the battle between our troops and the independent regiments, these Eighth Route Army independent regiments fought in a very organized manner. Whether it was offense, defense or ambush, the coordination between infantry and artillery was quite close."
"They can make perfect use of the surrounding terrain, either to defend themselves or to take advantage of the opportunity to attack."
Yamaguchi listened carefully, nodded, and said with emotion: "It's surprising that there are such elite combat troops in the Eighth Route Army."