The reason why Qiu Chengzu agreed so quickly was partly because of the equipment... two thousand rifles and one hundred thousand rounds of ammunition.
What the Japanese gave them were all 38-type rifles. Even if they were retired rifles or repaired rifles, they were still much better than the off-brand rifles in the hands of the "Self-Defense Forces".
Qiu Chengzuo knows that in this troubled world, money is not as important as equipment.
Because as long as there is equipment, it means there are troops, and if there are troops, there is combat effectiveness, and there is combat effectiveness... Then isn't money flowing into your pockets like water? If you don't have money, just ask the people for it!
Therefore, what Qiu Chengzuo wanted from beginning to end was equipment.
But that's not the only reason.
Another reason is that Qiu Chengzuo looked down upon the Eighth Route Army.
To be precise, he looked down upon the Eighth Route Army in Daqingshan.
When he heard that the Third Route Army was defeated by the Eighth Route Army, he laughed "haha": "That guy Xu Degong is also like this. The Japanese gave him food and guns. In the blink of an eye, the Eighth Route Army was crippled. Now the Japanese should know this."
How cowardly is this guy?"
Qiu Chengzhuo thought that the ones attacking the Third Route Army were the Daqingshan Detachment of the Eighth Route Army that had been hiding in the mountains. He secretly thought to himself, these Eighth Route Army had been recharging their strength for so long before coming out to fight, but he didn't expect that they would still have some tricks up their sleeves! They could defeat them in one fell swoop.
The Third Route Army also captured the steel factory...
If you can help the Japanese take back the steel factory, can you replace Xu Degong's position with the Japanese?
Therefore, Qiu Chengzuo immediately issued an order to the "Self-Defense Forces" to besiege the steel plant, and he led the First Route Army to rush to the steel plant overnight to win the first victory.
At this time, the independent group was working hard to build fortifications around the steel plant.
The independent group captured more than 1,000 prisoners during their attack on the steel plant, of which more than 1,100 were from the Third Route Army of the "Self-Defense Forces" and more than 30 were Japanese.
You must know that the Third Route Army only had a total of more than 2,300 people. Several hundred people were killed and wounded in the melee. Some of them fled in the chaos, and the rest all surrendered.
Li Yunlong had a great headache with these prisoners.
Because he knew that the captives of the "Self-Defense Forces" were just outsiders, and they would immediately rebel when they saw that the situation was not right.
Therefore, his first thought was to tie them up and lock them in a prison built by the Japanese in the steel factory.
But this order was quickly blocked by Zhao Gang.
"Old Li!" Zhao Gang said to Li Yunlong seriously: "Who asked you to do this? Where did you learn the discipline of the Eighth Route Army in treating prisoners preferentially!"
"I'm talking about Lao Zhao!" Li Yunlong said angrily: "When are you still telling me about discipline?! Then what do you think we should do? This guy has more than a thousand people, and our whole group is only three
There are more than a thousand people, and the main force is outside
We are stationed on the high ground, and only one battalion of the steel factory is left as a reserve. If this battle breaks out, the enemy attacks outside, and the prisoners inside rebel... Let alone this steel factory, even the heads of me and my brothers will be lost.
I can’t keep it!”
"Then you can't do it like this!" Zhao Gang pointed his finger and said: "You are only thinking about the problem of the steel plant in front of you. Do you know how bad the impact will be on the army if word spreads about what you do like this? Everyone else knows
Our Eighth Route Army broke the rules and did not treat prisoners preferentially. Who else would surrender to our army? Even this is a matter of not keeping promises and betrayal..."
"Okay, okay!" Li Yunlong was helpless by Zhao Gang's words, so he could only wave his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, right? Then how do you arrange it?"
Zhao Gang had no idea after hearing what Li Yunlong said.
The prisoner really couldn't believe it. If he wasn't careful, just like Li Yunlong said, all his efforts would be in vain.
In the end, it was Li Yunlong who came up with a solution: "Let me say, hand over these prisoners to the care of laborers and let them pave roads and build airports. That's no problem, right? If they sincerely surrender, they can withstand this labor reform!"
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Zhao Gang thought about it and thought it was right, so he nodded in agreement.
The workers Li Yunlong mentioned were Chinese workers who were imprisoned by the Japanese to engage in production in steel plants.
Some of these workers are local people in Daqingshan, and some are captured by the Japanese from other places...
The Japs have no sympathy for the Chinese people. In their eyes, the Chinese people are not human beings, but "timber". In the Japs' words, they are "big roads", which means they can use inanimate and emotionless objects.
Anyone who talks about feelings and pity to "Ma Lu Da" will be ridiculed.
The reason why there is such an ideological orientation among the Japs cannot be simply described by words such as "cruel" or "inhumane", but is a strategy of the Japs from the national level.
Specifically, this strategy is "genocide."
To put it simply, the Japanese want to occupy China's land permanently.
There is a danger in wanting to permanently occupy the land of China, and that is that China has too many people. Even if the devils occupy the entire territory of China, one day the Chinese people will rebel, and the devils will not be able to survive.
This kind of thing has happened many times in Chinese history.
To solve this danger and escape permanently, the Japanese believe that there are only two ways:
One is to enslave the Chinese people ideologically and completely transform them into "good people".
That is to say, by learning Japanese and changing the historical rhetoric, over time they will forget that they are Chinese.
Another way is more direct and simple, that is to kill all the Chinese people.
The devil uses two methods at the same time.
Because both methods are difficult to work in a short period of time, it will take decades, decades or even longer to see results.
Especially the latter... Killing all the Chinese people cannot be done just by talking about it. If you kill them blindly, you will encounter backlash.
For example, if we kill all the traitors who intend to surrender to the empire, it will arouse public outrage and unite the Chinese people to resist the empire.
Therefore, the Japanese organized one group to fight another, planning to control one group and kill another group, and then slowly divide and disintegrate.
Under this national policy, the Japanese would certainly not treat Chinese people as human beings.
Therefore, every Chinese laborer in the steel factory was tortured to the point of becoming deformed. Not only was he skinny and boneless, but when he died of exhaustion and illness, he was directly thrown into the incinerator and burned, without even digging a hole for burial.
It is said that this is because the Japanese are worried that too many corpses will pollute the water source... There is a river next to the steel plant, and the water used for steelmaking and the water everyone drinks comes from this river.
Otherwise, the Japanese would prefer to bury the body.
Because if you throw it into the incinerator and burn it, it will waste coal, which is a useful resource for the Japanese.
After these Chinese workers were released from the factory by the Eighth Route Army, they couldn't believe this fact. After confirming it for a long time, they hugged each other in pain.