"Bah bang bang..." The puppet company commander raised the box cannon and fired three shots again, scaring the crying villagers into silence, and then said.
"Why are you crying? The reason why the imperial army burned your house was not to force everyone to death, but to give everyone a place to live."
"There is food to eat and clothes to wear there, and no one forces you to pay for it. It is definitely a good place."
"Quiet down, everyone. If anyone cries again, I will kill him."
"Now I will take you to where the imperial army tells you to go."
"The second platoon stayed behind to guard the grain and seize it. The others set out with me to send these people away and then come back to carry the grain."
Dongshan Gang is the default dividing point between the garrison base area and the Japanese-occupied area.
To the north of the hill is a Japanese stronghold and checkpoint.
To the south of the hill is a warning position of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion, where an infantry platoon is permanently stationed.
At twelve o'clock at noon, ten soldiers from the second squad, the first platoon, and the second company of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion replaced the first squad to rest on time.
The ten people quickly dispersed and entered their respective posts, staring at the hills not far away without blinking.
"Someone..."
Several figures suddenly appeared on the hill.
The soldiers immediately became alert, loaded their bullets, and prepared for battle and early warning.
"They are all ordinary people, followed by dozens of puppet troops!" a soldier reported.
"The puppet troops stopped, and the common people continued to approach us. We can confirm that they are all common people, and they are old, weak, women and children. No one carries weapons."
The second squad leader didn't know what the little devils were up to, but if ordinary people entered the base area, the Eighth Route Army would definitely not be able to keep them away.
He immediately ordered: "Xiao Wang, go and report to the platoon leader that there is a situation in the forward position."
"The Japanese and puppet troops drove more than 300 old, weak, women and children into our base area, and asked them to be prepared to respond and screen them to prevent Japanese and puppet spies from getting mixed up in them and taking the opportunity to enter our base area and cause destruction."
"The others and I will continue to watch here to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from behind taking advantage of the chaos to invade our base area."
The same thing happened at the junction of many base areas and Japanese-occupied areas.
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, looking at the good news coming back from the front line, the military commander finally showed a long-lost smile on his serious face.
The chief of staff took the opportunity to compliment him: "Sir, this trick of yours is so powerful."
"Relocate all the people who are more than ten kilometers deep from the junction of the enemy and our defense zones and turn it into a no-man's land. In this way, the Eighth Route Army will lose its living space in this area and will be unable to penetrate into the area occupied by the imperial army and occupy it.
The district is completely isolated from the garrison base area."
"The trick of driving the common people in no-man's land to the garrison base is even more powerful."
"All the young and strong people among the common people were left by the imperial army to build fortifications, form puppet armies, and work for the imperial army."
"After those old, weak, women and children enter the garrison base area, not only can they not be able to provide them with soldiers, they can't even provide them with labor. They can only increase their burden and eat their insufficient food."
"According to statistics, the number of old, weak, women and children driven to the garrison base today by the Imperial Alliance Army has exceeded 30,000."
"Sir, there are nearly 100,000 old, weak, women and children in this no-man's land designated by you. They will all be driven to the garrison base within the next three days."
"There are more than 20,000 young people left in the areas occupied by the imperial army."
"In addition, judging from the current situation, the imperial army can still harvest at least 10 million kilograms of grain from this no-man's land."
"With this food, the Imperial Army will be able to keep the young men working for the Imperial Army, and it will also be able to feed several more Imperial Army troops."
The commander was very pleased with this flattery, but his smile did not last long. He looked at the sand table and replied seriously: "This is just the first small step in the entire combat plan."
"More than 100,000 unarmed old, weak, women and children poured into the garrison base area. In order to prevent them from starving to death, the garrison will definitely provide them with free food. The food alone consumes more than 100,000 kilograms every day."
"It will definitely expand the food gap of the garrison several times."
"So our troops stationed on the front line must strengthen their vigilance, make good use of the more than 20,000 young men left on the front line, build no-man's land, and completely isolate the garrison base area from the outside world, so that they cannot receive a little food and foreign aid."
"The purpose of this is to cause famine in their base areas. The soldiers and civilians are not united, and the more chaos the better."
"However, this is not the most deadly."
"Now is the coldest time of the year. If there is no heating in the house, these more than 100,000 old, weak, women and children will definitely freeze to death if they are exposed to the wild."
"To prevent this from happening, the garrison has only one solution: disperse these more than 100,000 old, weak, women and children to every village in the base area in the shortest possible time, and let the people temporarily take them in."
"Then their strict immigration immigration policy will be ineffective due to the arrival of more than 100,000 old, weak, women and children."
"We must seize the opportunity to infiltrate our people into the garrison base area."
"It can be an agent, an intelligence officer, or an action team."
"By killing people, attacking, creating explosions, or directing aviation to carry out precision bombing of their base areas... various methods are used to disrupt their base areas."
"I will give the intelligence services and reconnaissance forces two months to act."
"Two months later, the main force began to attack and completely wiped out the garrison."
The chief of staff had an expression of admiration on his face.
The garrison's strict foreign population interrogation policy has always been in place, and I have been thinking about it for a long time but still can't find a solution.
The military commander didn't take any action, but once he did, he solved the problem very easily, and the gap was not as big as usual.
What shocked the chief of staff even more was the commander's backhand.
If he continues to fight according to his plan, the Imperial Army's chances of winning this battle will definitely be the greatest compared to previous battles.
The more I thought about the chief of staff, the hotter his eyes became. Finally, under the gaze of the military commander, his eyes lit up as he answered.
"Sir, don't worry. I will make arrangements now to ensure that the garrison base is disrupted within two months and create opportunities for the main force to attack the garrison."
The smile reappeared on the commander's face, and he replied with satisfaction: "Just do it!"
"This time we must live up to expectations and completely solve the serious problem of the garrison."
At the garrison headquarters, the relaxed atmosphere has been replaced by tension.
Deputy commander Luo Yun, political commissar Wang Hong, chief of staff Hong Linfeng, and commander Li Hao gathered in the garrison war room, brows furrowed.
The unexpected situation sent back from the front shocked them so much, but because they had too little intelligence and news, they couldn't figure out what the little devil was up to and what conspiracy they had.
The only thing that can be done now is to wait for the latest information from the two independent battalions, the intelligence department, and the reconnaissance company.
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