Kong Jie’s southward plan to spread suspicion is still going on.
The teams of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regiments went south during the day, moved closer to the Zhongtiao Mountain area, and conducted certain harassment operations against the Japanese 47th Division and 41st Division stationed in southern Shanxi.
At night, the troops would use the cover of darkness to return to their base areas and continue their march southward the next day, thereby repeatedly confusing the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was indeed confused.
Completely lost judgment.
Yoshio Shinozuka asked the headquarters of the 47th and 41st Divisions on the phone what the security work was for.
How did a large number of Eighth Route Army troops successfully penetrate into Zhongtiao Mountain?
The two Japanese division commanders looked depressed. The various security forces clearly had not received any information about the breakthrough of the Eighth Route Army troops.
It's just that there are occasional raids by some eight-way raiders.
So the Japanese staff suggested that this was probably the independent regiment troops pretending to go south to distract the imperial troops and confuse everyone.
However, it is also true that some troops of the Independent Regiment have successfully broken through and entered the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
The Japanese army did not dare to gamble, and they were even less willing to sit back and watch the Zhongtiao Mountain area evolve into a cancer that caused them headaches like the Taihang Base Area.
Therefore, the Japanese 47th Division originally stationed in Yuncheng and the 41st Division in Linfen dare not move at all for the time being.
The Japanese military headquarters is even considering whether to deploy troops from other places to maintain public security and stability in Zhongtiao Mountain and to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army guerrilla forces in Zhongtiao Mountain.
The Japanese army's attention was diverted, and the two major regiments stationed in southern Shanxi were completely contained in southern Shanxi.
The pressure on Japan from the Taihang and Taiyue base areas was greatly reduced.
In addition, the Japanese army was defeated by the first detachment.
Due to multiple factors, Taihang, Taiyue and other base areas ushered in a short, relatively stable period of development.
At the same time, in addition to fighting each other, the focus of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, including the Shanxi-Sui Army, was also focused on internal disaster response.
As early as the beginning of 2001, the drought centered in Henan has gradually spread to all directions.
By August, the drought in Henan was already quite serious. Dozens of counties were affected, and the farmland harvest was less than half of the previous year, or even no harvest at all.
There are mourning everywhere, and people are in dire straits.
It doesn’t matter whether you are in a Kuomintang-controlled area or an enemy-occupied area, or whether you are a Japs or a member of the Eighth Route Army or Shanxi-Sui Army. Once the drought spreads, no region or people will be spared.
Mixed with the suffering that war has brought to the general public.
It is true that misfortunes never come singly, natural disasters and man-made disasters come together.
In Taiyuan, Yangquan, Shouyang, Ping'an County and other major counties, the Japanese army was equally busy and exhausted.
The little devil also understands the principle of not making a one-time deal and fishing in the lake.
Although there are exorbitant taxes and all kinds of exploitation on weekdays, we still hope that the Chinese people at the bottom can work honestly in the fields and maintain the production of resources to supply the Japanese troops to continue the invasion.
For this reason, the Japanese would even distribute fertilizers and agricultural tools to farmers.
In the face of the increasingly serious drought, the Japanese army, which adopted a tolerant policy, even though Sima Zhao's intentions were well known, still pretended to vigorously publicize it to the outside world:
The Japanese Empire will definitely help the people in the security area overcome this difficulty.
While promoting himself, the little devil did not forget to criticize his opponent-the Eighth Route Army troops.
There are baseless words such as "The Eighth Route Army does not care about the life and death of the people, they only want to feed themselves", "The Eighth Route Army has no ability to help the victims at all, and even they themselves are unable to survive".
However, as for the Jinsui Army, even Commander Yan, who suffered a defeat, began to use public opinion to win over the people.
He said that in the face of this disaster, the Jinsui Army will definitely stand together with the general public to cope with the difficulties and tide over the difficulties.
For this reason, the Jinsui Army even stated that it could accept foreign refugees to solve their problems of food, accommodation, and clothing.
In order to become the winner of public opinion and win the hearts and minds of the people, Chief Yan is a little more realistic this time.
As expected, various departments of the Jinsui Army began to accept local refugees, including some from outside.
This has played a certain positive role in controlling the spreading disaster.
Detachment Headquarters.
After the enemy's Ministry of Industry passed the news, Kong Jie held a military meeting at the headquarters.
At the meeting, the cadres were all filled with indignation.
Wang Leihu, the commander of the second regiment, cursed: "Captain, these little devils are nothing. The streets and alleys in the occupied area are full of public opinions about how they want to help the victims.
But in turn, they scolded us for not helping the victims and only caring about ourselves.
Isn’t this something made out of nothing!
We have already started to help and resettle some local and foreign victims. So far, our detachment has received more than 10,000 refugees. What did we say?"
Shen Quan said: "The Jinsui Army has also received some victims these days, but the number is not large. It has done a good job in publicity, for fear that others will not know."
"Obviously, they are all trying to create public opinion, bring glory to themselves, and at the same time discredit our Eighth Route Army!" Political Commissar Li Wenjie expressed his views sharply.
Kong Jie said: "Comrades, this is not just once or twice that we have been slandered. Soldiers will stop us, and water will cover us up."
"Nowadays, wars are going on everywhere, and the people's lives are extremely unstable and lack a sense of security. Under such circumstances, once someone incites public opinion and builds momentum, it is easy to paralyze the people. This is inevitable."
"We have never fallen behind in terms of anti-Japanese propaganda, propaganda in the base areas, and propaganda in our Eighth Route Army troops."
"Leave it alone, no one in our base area or the outer guerrilla zones will believe the dirty water the Japanese have poured upon us."
"However, we cannot be like the little devils who have no bottom line and only do publicity and propaganda without doing practical work."
"Helping people tide over difficulties, resettling victims, and helping people is not just about words, but about actual actions."
Having said this, Captain Kong smiled brightly.
"Really speaking, no matter what public opinion the devils create and what dirty water they throw at us, if they can really do something practical and properly resettle all the victims in the occupied areas, including those in other places, so that the victims can have food to eat, no matter what
As for being hungry, it doesn’t matter if we take the blame.”
"Facts and time will clear everything up."
"If the kid doesn't have the determination, the ability to deal with this disaster, and the reality, no matter how nice the lie is, it will be exposed sooner or later."
"Who knows whether the Japanese and the Jinsui Army will shoot themselves in the foot?"
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan agreed: "What Lao Kong said is absolutely right. In recent years, there have been disasters and wars. Coupled with the heavy consumption of the Japanese army, the resources of the Japanese have long been unsustainable.
The people in the county are severely exploited, and the economic situation may not be much better than that in our base area.
It would be a shame if the Japanese army could handle the disaster well despite their little financial resources and not sincerely serving our compatriots."
Li Wenjie also smiled and said: "Commander, if you say so, the way to deal with the public opinion between the Japanese Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army this time is very simple. Let's just stay the same in response to all changes and wait and see whether they can stabilize the disaster situation."
, resettle the victims, and make the hype come true!"
"In addition, we still do what we do to help the people tide over the difficulties. If the so-called propaganda is proven by actual actions, no one can shake it."
The cadres nodded after hearing this.
Kong Jie added with a smile: "Wenjie's method is very practical, I think that's what I'll do."
"In addition, some compatriots who have been resettled by the disaster can help with procurement from enemy-occupied areas and Kuomintang-controlled areas."
"You don't need to do too much publicity after entering the city. If you see some refugees who can't survive, tell them to just come to the base of our first team."
"The Japanese army and the Jinsui Army are trying to make themselves look fat, but we cannot let our compatriots at the bottom die because of their stupidity."
"Yes!" the cadres responded in unison.
Then, the meeting discussed in detail the plan for the first detachment to basically expand its reception capacity and continue to accept more refugees.
Based on the principle of "demographic dividend" proposed by Kong Jie.
Finally, after detailed analysis by the cadres, the base areas currently opened by each regiment of the first detachment, plus the vast land in the guerrilla zone, have also been intensified to cultivate crops and plant crops, including the disaster-bearing capacity of each village.
All calculated together, and taking into account the development of the troops and the situation of fighting the Japanese army, the entire base area is maintained stable and continues to prosper.
The first detachment can receive a total of more than 30,000 refugees.
If the external environment is relatively stable, the Japanese army will not invade the base area, and the base area can be given about half a year to develop and consolidate, the first detachment can even accept nearly 50,000 people.
Coupled with the concerted efforts of various departments in Taihang, Taiyue and other places.
The number of victims that the Eighth Route Army troops can help is quite large.
According to the headquarters' preparedness plan, the number of local and foreign disaster victims who can be initially received and assisted can reach about 200,000...