The exposure of Li Dazhu, the Japanese spy Minamino Kazuo, made the villagers of Qingshan Village breathe a sigh of relief.
But the villagers would never have thought that Minamino Kazuo was just one of the spies who infiltrated into the village.
Another spy, Wang Mazi, played a great role in capturing Li Dazhu, and his usual behavior was very cautious, without revealing any flaws.
The villagers have no doubt about Wang Mazi.
Wang Mazi took this opportunity to secretly plan his next plan.
He was extremely cautious and did not ask for the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army.
After all, the old village chief let it go. Those who always want to ask about the situation of comrades in the Eighth Route Army are mostly traitors.
Therefore, Wang Mazi changed his mind, expressed himself actively, and told Uncle Zhao many times that his parents were killed by the Japanese, and he wanted to join the Eighth Route Army to fight against the Japanese.
But Uncle Zhao shook his head and said helplessly: "Mazi, don't worry, if you want to be the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese, you have to take your time. As I told you, our Eighth Route Army comrades will not directly accept us, you have to first
Become a militia member in the village, and then after a period of corresponding militia training, you will have enough experience and qualifications to join the Eighth Route Army."
"In addition, you also know during this period that Li Dazhu turned out to be a spy. He just sneaked in quietly. No one can guarantee whether there are other spies in the village. Therefore, for the sake of caution, the Eighth Route comrades took
There are many plans.”
"Right now, the only people in our village who can contact the Eighth Route comrades are the village chief and the militia captain."
Wang Mazi nodded, and in order not to arouse the suspicion of Uncle Zhao and others, he lurked patiently.
After working like this for a while, Wang Mazi, who performed well, got the opportunity to join the Qingshan Village Soldier Team.
The task of the militia is to protect the village while not being separated from production. They will still work in the fields as usual, no different from the villagers.
It can be said to be an army of peasants who are not yet out of production.
Therefore, the screening of militiamen is not particularly strict.
Generally speaking, anyone who is young and strong, has a clean family background, and is willing to join a militia team to defend the village and fight against the Japanese and puppet troops can basically join.
Wang Mazi has been in Qingshan Village for a while, and since he is a refugee who has fled, the household registration system is chaotic these days, so it is naturally difficult to find out the details.
But since they were refugees who had escaped and been persecuted by the Japanese, and there was no sign of anything amiss during this period, the villagers didn't think much about it.
In this way, Wang Mazi successfully met the militia team leader Zhang Erhu.
Seeing that Wang Mazi was very motivated to join the Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese, Zhang Erhu did not reject Wang Mazi's application to join the army, but simply said:
"Mazi, based on your conditions and performance, it's no problem to join our militia team. I've agreed to it for you.
I just turned around and saw Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao, and I had to tell him.
You will also meet him when the time comes, and if Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao nods in agreement, it will be settled that you join our militia team."
"Yes, thank you very much, Captain!" Wang Mazi said happily, vividly expressing the joy of an ordinary citizen finally being able to join a militia team that fights Japanese invaders.
Time flies like this.
Wang Mazi temporarily followed the militia team and participated in daily militia military training.
The very systematic militia military training content made Wang Mazi secretly shocked when he came into contact with these trainings.
The militia partners who trained together told him that this was because everyone had a militia military training manual as a training guide.
Wang Mazi immediately realized that these training contents were quite practical. Even these uncultured Chinese people who had never even touched a gun could, under the guidance of such military training, train for a period of time, and their own military literacy would be enough to produce a quality character.
leap.
Perhaps it is not as good as the nearly one-year-long military training that the Japanese soldiers conducted intensively in the military camp.
But it is absolutely the most suitable military guidance for improving the armed forces of these farmers.
Wang Mazi continued to think deeply, and the future scenario even made him a little frightened.
China lacks everything except people. How many people are there in the vast rural areas? There are tens of millions.
If every village has such a militia, and these militias have such systematic military guidance.
Even a peasant military force like the militia, which is not a strong combat force, can produce a qualitative change once the number becomes large enough.
Moreover, Wang Mazi knew very well that these militiamen were the reserves of the Eighth Route Army. Once the Eighth Route Army had a shortage of soldiers, these militiamen would be one of the main sources to quickly replenish the Eighth Route Army's soldiers.
This means that the new recruits recruited by the Eighth Route Army basically start from the militia.
According to what the militia captain said, everyone is conducting military training in accordance with the contents of the militia military training manual and under the guidance of Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao and others.
You must learn about air defense drills, countermeasures against Japanese invaders entering the village, and anti-traitor infiltration.
You also need to learn the structure and combat performance of the rifle, how to wipe and oil it and the rules for keeping it, as well as shooting movements and principles, assassination training, grenade training, understanding and placement skills of landmines, etc.
In addition, there are combat action training, identification and utilization of terrain and features, orientation setting, distance measurement, use of signals and codes, night education, etc.
Including how to conduct reconnaissance, how to conduct vigilance, marching, camping, etc., some training will also be conducted.
If these military theoretical knowledge and skills are well mastered, these militiamen can quickly form combat effectiveness after joining the Eighth Route Army.
That means that the Eighth Route Army has high-quality soldiers who can be continuously replenished.
This is a very terrifying thing. The Japanese Empire will fall into the vast ocean of the Eighth Route Army.
Before that, the Japanese intelligence department also knew that the Eighth Route Army had formed militia units in many villages.
Similar to the old escorts, security teams, etc.
However, the tasks and principles of combat have changed.
But what the Japanese army didn't know was that these militiamen would have such systematic military training guidance.
I didn’t even know that these militias would have corresponding militia military training manuals as theoretical support to guide training.
Thinking of this, Wang Mazi secretly made up his mind that if there was a chance, he must get the Eighth Route Army's militia military training manual.
This will play a very important role in how the empire will deal with the Chinese militia and the Eighth Route Army in a targeted manner.
It’s time for the Chinese militiamen in the vast villages to be taken seriously by the Japanese Empire.
A week later, Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao of the Eighth Route Army, whom Zhang Erhu mentioned, arrived at Qingshan Village as the single point of contact with Qingshan Village during this tense period.
After learning about Wang Mazi, deputy platoon leader Zhao met with Wang Mazi, and the two chatted for a long time.
Finally, Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao expressed his approval for Wang Mazi to join the Qingshan Village Soldier Team.
He also praised Wang Mazi for his heroic performance in capturing the traitor Li Dazhu.
In his contact with Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao, Wang Mazi knew the right balance very well.
In the subsequent training and life, Wang Mazi learned a lot about the Eighth Route Army in Qingshan Village from his fellow militiamen.
It is said that a regiment is stationed in Qingshan Village, and its name is the Fourth Independent Regiment of Zhongtiao Mountain.
This naturally made Wang Mazi secretly frightened. The Fourth Independent Regiment... This means that there are at least three to four main combat groups of the Eighth Route Army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
"This information must be passed on as soon as possible, otherwise the captain is likely to suffer a loss at the hands of the Eighth Route Army."
Wang Mazi thought secretly.
In addition, it is impossible to find a place even if you have worn iron shoes, and it takes no effort at all.
Wang Mazi inquired about another very important piece of information. It turned out that Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao, who had single-line contact with Qingshan Village, was previously the National Army platoon leader.
It is the target that Wang Mazi hopes to find during this infiltration - those original members of the national army guerrillas.
It was also the only gap that the Japanese army thought was exposed if they wanted to crack open the egg of the Eighth Route Army.
In this way, Wang Mazi continued to lurk cautiously for nearly two weeks.
During this period, he had several contacts with Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao.
Wang Mazi knew very well that Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao was the only way to obtain information on the specific hiding location of the Eighth Route Army.
At present, the Eighth Route Army has obviously increased its vigilance because of Li Dazhu's exposure.
If Wang Mazi didn't take the route of Deputy Platoon Leader Zhao, he didn't know that it would take until the Year of the Monkey to infiltrate into the Eighth Route Army.
Captain Nobu Uchida didn’t have the patience to wait that long.
After determining the follow-up action plan in private.
On this day, Wang Mazi went to the city to buy some seeds under the pretext of going to the city with the villagers. Outside the city, when no one was paying attention, he hid a note written in Japanese that he had prepared long ago under the root of an independent pine tree.
Next.
Not long after that, a guy dressed as an ordinary citizen looked alert, as if he accidentally passed under the pine tree, and then touched the note from the root of the tree without leaving a trace.
Ji County.
Nobuya Uchida led his Kwantung Army brigade to temporarily station here.
Brigade temporary headquarters.
The piece of paper written in Japanese was placed on the desk of Japanese leader Nobuya Uchida.
Content:
"Your Excellency, Captain, Nanye was exposed and arrested, but I have successfully infiltrated and joined the Qingshan Village Soldiers Squad, gained the trust of the militiamen and villagers, and contacted the Eighth Route Army liaison, former National Army platoon leader Zhao San.
It was also confirmed that the Fourth Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was stationed in the Qingshan Village area.
In order to follow up on the plan to destroy the Eighth Route Army, I prepared a risky operation to control Zhao San and confirm the location of the Eighth Route Army's garrison.
Sir, please make full preparations for the war in advance and use your main force to respond to the battle plan at any time!"
"吆西!" Uchida Nobu, who had browsed the content, was also overjoyed.
"Kurobe-kun is indeed a talented person in our empire," he immediately ordered: "Immediately order all squadron leaders and squad leaders to go to the headquarters to participate in the pre-war military meeting to annihilate the Eighth Route Army."