Chapter five hundred and forty-ninth lessons and revenge
Two days later, at the 386th Brigade Headquarters, the chief of staff in charge of intelligence rushed into the headquarters and shouted excitedly: "Brigade Commander, political commissar, good news! The Japanese have retreated!"
"The counter-encirclement and suppression campaign is finally over!" Brigadier Chen said with a sigh of relief.
The political commissar was also very happy: "I can finally breathe a sigh of relief! Brigadier!"
"We seized more than 2.4 million kilograms of grain in the past two days. Because the Japs dominate the place during the day, and all kinds of planes are very rampant, we can only transport grain into the mountains at night. It only takes two nights to bring back a fraction.
It's good now. Once the Japanese retreat, the food won't need to be transported into the mountains, but can be distributed directly to the people on the spot!"
"You, the political commissar, are responsible for making arrangements. You must send all the food back to the people, every grain of it!" Brigadier Chen's face immediately became serious.
He continued: "Once this matter is done, the people's support will come back. There should be no problem if we establish a base here. So, political commissar, you must pay attention!"
At this time, Wang Ping next to him suddenly interrupted: "Brigadier, you plan to give all this food to the people!"
"Food is snatched from the hands of the people, of course it must be returned to the people!" Before Brigadier Chen opened his mouth, the political commissar answered matter-of-factly!
"I decided it's not necessary!" Wang Ping retorted, shaking his head.
"Among the more than two million kilograms of grain we seized, it is undeniable that most of the grain was seized by the devils from ordinary people. But there is still a large part that the devils stole from the homes of those traitorous landlords. After all, the devils don't care if they go crazy.
Is the target of our robbery the traitor who worked for them? We definitely cannot return this part of the food to them!"
"As for the Japanese stealing food from ordinary people, they can't exchange all of it back."
"We must teach the common people a lesson through this incident, letting them know that the Japanese are not as friendly as everyone thinks. They do all kinds of evil, burning, killing, looting and torture. Only by driving them out of China can everyone live a good life!"
"If we snatch all the food back, over time they will forget how strong the Japs were this time, and they will be robbed again the next time they encounter a Japanese raid. By then, it will be a good thing that our Eighth Route Army can help them snatch the food back.
If they can't get it back, they will say that our Eighth Route Army is incompetent and useless!"
"So I think that all the food cannot be returned to them. And even if the food is given to them, it cannot be said to be a return, but to be said to be life-saving food that we, the Eighth Route Army, stole from the devils and distributed to them!"
"Only in this way will they learn a lesson, know the brutality of the Japanese, and know that our Eighth Route Army is the people's team and the team that fights the Japanese!"
When the political commissar frowned and fell into deep thought, Brigadier Chen had already made a decision!
"Just do what Wang Ping says!"
"There is another advantage of doing this. Not only do we win the hearts and minds of all the people in the Taiyue area, but we can also have at least half a million catties or even a million catties of food left. With food, we can expand our troops and have more food.
Confidence to establish a base!"
Seeing the political commissar hurriedly leaving the headquarters to make arrangements, Wang Ping continued: "Brigadier Commander, the Japanese raids are over and the task of the special operations brigade has been completed. I plan to lead the team to the headquarters in two days and report back to the headquarters!"
"Brigadier Commander, you want me to train the special operations team directly under the brigade headquarters. I have taught many things that I should teach. Next, we have to watch them train on their own. I plan to select one of the old special operations team members I have brought to stay.
Come down and serve as the deputy captain of the special operations team and let him lead everyone in training!"
"As for the special operations teams that each regiment asked me to help train, they are still far from a real special operations team. However, they can train with the special operations squadron directly under the brigade headquarters. They are all veterans and have fought against Japanese special forces.
I have a lot of actual combat experience. It should take at least three months to initially form combat effectiveness!"
Wang Ping's role in this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign was so great that Brigadier Chen really wanted to keep him in the 386th Brigade.
However, Wang Ping is from the headquarters after all, and he is also a talent that the boss attaches great importance to. If it were not for his mistakes, he would have become a brigade commander on the same level as himself.
Thinking of this, Brigadier Chen swallowed back the words he wanted to save, and then said: "Captain Wang, if you have any needs, just ask them, as long as the 386th Brigade can meet them, you will definitely be satisfied!"
Just after the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the 386 Brigade not only suffered heavy losses in troops, but also in supplies and equipment. It could be said that everything was lacking.
Although the losses of the special operations brigade were also very high, compared with the 386th Brigade, it was obviously much easier to obtain equipment supplies by oneself. Therefore, Wang Ping directly refused Brigadier Chen's kindness.
When we arrived, there were more than fifty people in the special operations team. After nearly two months of fighting in Taiyue, when we returned, there were only 26 people left in the entire special operations brigade.
But Wang Ping is confident that these twenty-six people are the seeds of the Eighth Route Army's special forces. As long as they are there, the Eighth Route Army's special forces will definitely grow larger in size and stronger in combat effectiveness!
After the special operations brigade left, the battle of the 386th Brigade did not end.
Although the main force of the Japanese army retreated, the county towns and traffic arteries within the garrison were still in the hands of the Japanese army.
Moreover, there are many traitor troops and Japanese stragglers within the base area who are working with the Japanese.
Several main regiments quickly returned to their bases, eliminated these traitor armed forces and Japanese stragglers, and helped the people resume production.
Colonel Matsumoto and more than twenty Japanese special forces have not returned to the county seat yet.
In the past ten days, they had been fighting no less than ten times in the Eighth Route Army base area, and in each battle they had wiped out no less than one platoon of the Eighth Route Army.
Because the scale of the battle was small, these Eighth Route Army units that were wiped out belonged to different main force groups.
Although the 386th Brigade lost hundreds more people, it did not attract the attention of Brigadier Chen until something happened.
"Captain, we have found out clearly, the headquarters of the new regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is ahead!" A Japanese second lieutenant who was out for reconnaissance reported as soon as he touched Matsumoto!
"The New Regiment suffered very heavy losses in this sweep launched by the imperial army, with only a little more than one battalion remaining in total strength. Now that they have returned to their original station, and they have brought back so much food, they must be here to recruit and expand the army!
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"Kill them! Burn the food they brought back!" Colonel Matsumoto ordered with a stern face.
"With so many troops lost, many imperial troops must have died at the hands of this new regiment. I will not only leave them without food to expand their army, but also kill their headquarters and cripple this so-called independent regiment. From the establishment of the 386th Brigade
Erase it!"
After saying that, Colonel Matsumoto held the submachine gun hanging around his neck in his hand, checked the bullets, loaded the bullets, and then walked towards the village a few hundred meters away.
In less than half an hour, the quiet village was enveloped by gunfire, which lasted for ten minutes before it ended. Then the whole village burst into flames, and the fire did not go out until dawn!
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