Chapter 1095 The tiger fell and Pingyang was bullied by the dog
The First Company of the Yuxian Independent Battalion is stationed here, and orders from Guanshan Town to the Dawangzhuang Maintenance Committee were sent here immediately.
"Company Commander, this little devil's move is too cruel. You don't have to send any soldiers yourself, and let the people deliver food by themselves. If you don't deliver, you are collaborating with the enemy, and they will all be shot. The little devil has killed people here, and also massacred villages.
I must do what I say." The instructor frowned and analyzed.
Zhang Cheng agreed: "The last time the Japanese killed people in the blockade area, the villagers must still remember it fresh."
"Now when the Japanese come up, they will kill people. In order to save their lives, the villagers will definitely give in and hand over the food."
"No..." The instructor reacted violently and rejected it without hesitation.
"These grains were used by the villagers to save their lives. Half of them were taken away by the Japanese. Everyone would be without food for at least half a year. Even if the regiment headquarters tried to find ways to bring grains from other places, it would not be possible to solve such a big gap at once. By then, the base area
There will definitely be a famine, and people will starve to death on a large scale."
"Company Commander, we must find a way to protect this food and not let the Japanese snatch it away."
"As well as the villagers, while protecting food, we must also protect them and not let the devils find excuses to kill."
Zhang Cheng thought for a long time before speaking: "Instructor, don't worry, the order to protect food was issued by the regiment headquarters, and we must carry it out."
"I just thought about it: we not only need to protect the food, but also follow the battle plan formulated by the regiment headquarters, use the autumn food as bait, and take the opportunity to kill more little Japs to reduce the combat pressure during a major counterattack."
"The little devils have made it clear that they are using Dawangzhuang to kill chickens and scare monkeys, so Dawangzhuang must send food there, otherwise the devils will definitely take advantage of the situation and kill people in Dawangzhuang to frighten other people in the blockade area."
"We can't give the little devil an excuse to kill."
"Instructor, go to Dawangzhuang in person, do a good job in ideological work among the villagers, ask them to bring out food, stabilize the little devils in the blockade area, and avoid getting burned."
"Tell the villagers that these grains are temporarily borrowed by our garrison, and we will return them to them in half a month at most, guaranteed to be a pound."
The instructor reminded: "Company commander, don't blame me for not reminding you, this is tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, not hundreds of kilograms."
"When the time comes, what do you want to give me back?"
"Once this food falls into the hands of the Japanese, it will definitely be hoarded in the stronghold. The possibility of us snatching it back is almost zero."
"Even if we take out all the food stored in the company headquarters, it won't be enough to return to the villagers."
Zhang Cheng answered confidently: "I have already thought of a way."
"The food from Dawangzhuang must be handed over, and the maintenance committee must personally deliver the food. If we don't hand over the food, the Japanese army will have an excuse to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys."
"We can't even intercept food halfway. The little devils will think that we and Dawangzhuang Suihui acted on their own and acted in collusion to deliberately not send food to them."
"This way they still have an excuse to use Dawangzhuang to kill chickens and scare monkeys."
"So, we can only snatch food from the hands of the little devils and snatch it from the tiger's mouth."
"It leaves them with nothing to say and no excuse to trouble the fellow villagers!"
"Order the first and fourth platoons to bring a heavy machine gun and a mortar to set out for the Zhouzhuang stronghold after dark, set up a defense line 500 meters away from the gate of the stronghold, cut off the highway for the Japanese and puppet troops to enter and exit the stronghold, and blockade it
Ditch, blockade wall.”
"I want to intercept the grain openly and openly under the eyes of the little devil."
"If the little devils want food, you can do it, and it will be delivered directly to them at the gate of the stronghold."
"However, if you want to enter the stronghold, it depends on whether our Eighth Route Army agrees or not."
"The little devil will have only two choices at that time, either to break out of the stronghold and open a gap in our defense line to cover the food entering the stronghold, or to watch the food being intercepted by us."
"Second Platoon, Fifth Platoon, take a heavy machine gun and a mortar to the Zhongcun stronghold."
"The others are following me to block Guanshan Town."
"When will the Japanese and puppet troops be forced out of their strongholds and send troops to transport food to each village? When will we withdraw our troops?"
"Tell comrades that we must make the defense line stronger and dig more bomb-proof holes to avoid shelling and aircraft bombing."
At three o'clock in the morning, the guard post at the Zhouzhuang stronghold noticed a noise outside.
"Send a flare to find out what happened outside?" the second lieutenant team leader ordered nervously.
If the stronghold is still where the garrison was a few months ago, with a reinforced squad and a company of the Imperial Army in hand, the squad leader will not only not be afraid, but also look forward to the Eighth Route Army attacking.
After several months of fighting, Captain Yoshida used the excuse of forming a strengthened squadron to draw away a large number of imperial troops from the stronghold.
Although the number of troops in hand is not small, half of the imperial army has been replaced by the Imperial Association Army, and they are still recruited from the maintenance association and have almost no combat effectiveness.
As a result, the overall combat effectiveness of the garrison was greatly reduced.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army and ensure that the Imperial Alliance Army, which accounted for the majority of the points, remained calm before the battle, the squad leader had to dedicate half of the imperial army's already small number to supervise the battle.
As a result, the imperial army at hand was left with only one combat detachment.
Once the stronghold is attacked, he will not be able to send out a single soldier except to defend it.
"boom……"
The flare exploded over the stronghold, and the squad leader quickly raised his telescope and looked outside the stronghold.
Five hundred meters away, dozens of Eighth Route Army figures were vaguely visible, wielding engineering shovels to dig trenches.
"The troops are on heightened alert. The Eighth Route Army is likely to attack our stronghold." The squad leader raised his eyebrows and began to give orders.
"Contact Guanshan Town immediately. There are activities of the Eighth Route Army outside the stronghold. They may attack us. Please be prepared to send troops to reinforce us."
Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army did not launch an attack until dawn.
If they didn't attack at night, they would be even less afraid to attack during the day. The team leader's nerves, which had been tense for half a night, finally relaxed.
Just as they were about to rest, Captain Cao on duty rushed over and reported with a shocked look on his face: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army outside the stronghold has not retreated. They are still digging trenches."
"And their trenches extend directly to the blockade ditch and blockade wall next to the road, cutting off the road, blockade ditch, and blockade wall from the stronghold to the outside."
"Nani?" The team leader jumped up from the bed, grabbed the binoculars and climbed to the top of the turret.
"Bageya Road, who can tell me what the Eighth Route Army wants to do?" Looking at the prototype of the trench lying outside the stronghold, the squad leader's face instantly darkened.
Chief Cao shouted: "Sir, these Eighth Route Army troops are so arrogant that they dare to directly send troops to block the gate of our stronghold."
"If the imperial troops in the stronghold hadn't been transferred away, I would have definitely gone out and killed them all."
The team leader was silent, and the first thing that came to his mind was that a tiger fell down and was bullied by a dog.
But there is no way, who makes his own strength inferior to others?
He sighed deeply and ordered: "The troops are on heightened alert. No one can attack without orders!"
"Report to Guanshan Town: We are surrounded by the Eighth Route Army. They have blocked the gate of the stronghold and established a defense line. They seem to be preparing to besiege us for a long time."