Chapter 1076 The second phase of the anti-sweeping campaign has begun
The atmosphere in the garrison headquarters became increasingly tense.
Ten days ago, the Japanese and puppet troops' sweep of the second round of three blockade areas was successfully completed. The troops only rested for two days before launching a new round of attacks into the hinterland of the garrison base to divide the third round of blockade areas.
At this moment, the nearest Japanese and puppet troops are less than 30 kilometers away from here. Under the cover of aircraft, they can kill them by marching in a day.
"Captain, the enemy's blockade trenches and walls have been built to separate the third round of blockade areas. The specific sweep time should be within these two days." Hong Linfeng reported seriously.
"The three independent battalion headquarters are all in these three blockade areas and have been prepared for counter-mopping up."
Wang Hong then reported: "The issue of the blockaded area maintenance committee has been resolved."
"Most of the presidents of the maintenance committee have been replaced by our own people."
"Although the little devils have captured both the vice-president of the Maintenance Association and the captain of the escort team, and secretly shunned the president, on the surface, they no longer dare to persecute and exploit the villagers in a big way like before. Everyone's life is better.
a lot of."
"In addition, under the organization of the presidents of each village maintenance committee, the villagers are carrying out self-rescue through production in accordance with the original policies of the base area, obtaining water sources by digging deep wells, and cultivating more land during spring plowing. The situation is excellent."
"The Japanese seem to be interested in these lands too."
"Not only did they not stop the villagers from producing to help themselves, they were also very cooperative."
"If this situation continues, after spring plowing begins, nearly 40% of the land in the base areas and blockade areas will be able to grow food."
"Even if the yield of these lands is reduced due to drought and the harvest is only 80% of the original, the harvested food will be enough for the villagers to last for most of the year."
"The base area will then find ways to support them, and the villagers will dig wild vegetables to support them. They will definitely be able to survive until next autumn's harvest."
Li Hao replied in a deep voice: "The Japanese will definitely not let all this food fall into the pockets of the villagers."
"Political Commissar, you are right. They are probably interested in the grain that has not yet been harvested, so they support the village presidents in organizing the villagers to carry out production to save themselves."
"However, even if they have Sima Zhao's intention, it will only happen in a few months."
"As long as we solve the current difficulties, we will naturally have a way to help the villagers keep this food."
"Political Commissar, Chief of Staff, we have two things to do now."
"First: Fully support the villagers in the base areas and blockade areas in their production and self-rescue."
"Spring plowing is about to begin. We must ensure that the villagers have water in their grain fields, cultivate more land, and reduce the food gap in the base area."
"Second: According to the original combat plan, start the second phase of counter-sweeping, knock off the offensive edge of the little devils, and block them outside Lingqiu."
"You, political commissar, do the first thing, and the chief of staff and I are responsible for the second thing."
The Yu County Independent Battalion Company lurked in the mountains less than fifteen kilometers away from the stronghold of Guanshan Town. They only trained and slept every day, and a month passed in a flash.
At the beginning, only a few platoon leaders complained to themselves that it was too frustrating to hide in the mountains and be a turtle, and hair would grow on their buttocks if they stayed any longer.
Immediately afterwards, the squad leader and veterans also began to complain.
Later, the new recruits in the company no longer wanted to stay here and clamored every day to go out and kill the Japanese.
Company commander Zhang Cheng was even more anxious than them.
He has always been in contact with the underground party outside the mountain and knows the situation outside the mountain.
After learning that the Japs had established maintenance associations in various villages and that many families of soldiers had been persecuted by them, I wanted to lead troops out several times to kill these traitors, protect the villagers, and avenge the dead villagers.
Finally, he endured the dissuasion of his instructor.
Coupled with the sudden intervention of the commando team, killing to stop the killing, knocking off the arrogance of the traitor, and replacing the chairman of the maintenance committee with one of his own, the villagers were much better off, and Zhang Chengcai completely gave up the idea of going out of the mountain and hid in the mountain to concentrate on everything.
Training troops.
But the good times did not last long. As more and more of his subordinates asked him to fight and fight the Japanese, the desire to fight that had been suppressed in Zhang Cheng's heart was aroused again, and his heart began to stir.
But Zhang Cheng did not take action. Obeying orders is a soldier's bounden duty, and Zhang Cheng still knew this.
Every day at dawn, I stare at the gate of the station, hoping that the superior's counterattack order will be issued as soon as possible.
"Company Commander, the battalion headquarters has an order for you!" The underground party who was in contact finally appeared.
"Should we fight back?" Zhang Cheng asked with eyes shining.
The underground party nodded and replied: "The battalion commander orders you to counterattack as soon as possible, find suitable fighter planes, eliminate more Japanese and puppet troops with minimal casualties, beat them painfully, and force the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line to return to the blockade area to support them."
"That's great..." Zhang Cheng immediately became happy and shouted towards the door.
"Correspondent, please notify the instructor, deputy company commander, several platoon leaders, and the squad leader directly under your command to come to the company headquarters for a meeting immediately. We can go out to fight the Japanese."
In Dawangzhuang, Wang Yuanhe successfully became the president of the maintenance committee, but he had no say in the maintenance committee.
Vice president, captain of the escort team, you should do whatever you have to do.
The only change was that they no longer dared to blatantly persecute the people as before, and allowed Wang Yuanhe to lead the villagers to dig deep wells in the fields to help themselves through production.
After dawn, the deputy captain of the escort team patrolled the three villages in the jurisdiction with three of his confidants as usual, staring at everyone passing by. As long as they found strange faces or suspicious people, they would ask questions and find excuses to extort some financial and food supplies.
, to line their own pockets.
Neither the commandos nor Wang Yuanhe could do anything about this.
After all, they are all spies and traitors, with little devils backing them up. It is impossible for them to be like the Eighth Route Army and not take advantage of the common people.
When leaving Xiaowangzhuang, in addition to the deputy captain, the three confidants carried a lot of things, including food, chickens and ducks. It can be said that they returned with a full load.
However, their good luck ended here.
"Bang bang bang..."
The crisp sound of rifle shooting suddenly sounded from behind a bush. Three of the four men fell on the spot, and then seven Eighth Route Army troops were seen rushing out of the bush, holding rifles and rushing towards the road like the wind.
"We are the Eighth Route Army, we will not kill you if we turn down our guns!"
The one Ergouzi who was still alive was frightened. He knelt on the ground with a plop and raised his weapon.
Two minutes later, silence returned here.
The food, chickens and ducks that several people brought out of the village, as well as the weapons and ammunition they had on them, were all taken away.
After confirming that the Eighth Route Army was far away, the secret agent who was kneeling on the ground dared to get up from the ground and fled towards the Dawangzhuang maintenance headquarters like a bereaved dog.
The Wanfeng Village stronghold was the closest Japanese and puppet army stronghold to Dawangzhuang. Two hours later, a report from the Dawangzhuang Maintenance Committee was received: seven Eighth Route Army troops appeared nearby, and the escort was attacked and four rifles were lost.
"Bagya Road, these Eighth Route Army troops must have slipped through the crackdown last time. They must not be allowed to resurface and destroy the good situation that was finally achieved in the blockade." The team leader garrisoned at the stronghold shouted.
Two combat units were selected on the spot, one platoon of puppet troops, and he personally commanded them to attack Dawangzhuang and kill these fish that had slipped through the net.