Hong Linfeng was already seventy-eight percent convinced at this time.
Looking at Li Hao, he asked the last question in his mind.
"Why did the little devil do this? First he detained these young men, and then deliberately released water on the battlefield to let us rescue these young men. Isn't this inconsistent and unnecessary?"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "It's not contradictory at all."
"Detaining young men, imprisoning them, and taking them to build a no-man's land. Almost all the people involved in carrying out these tasks were puppet troops. Therefore, in the final rescue stage, the casualties on the battlefield were all puppet troops, and the Japanese casualties were minimal."
"These puppet troops are all little devils who were transferred from other places. No matter how many deaths there are, they will not be heartbroken, and it will not affect their rule of the local area. Therefore, the real price paid by the Japanese army is only the casualties of more than 200 people, and the rest are
there is none left."
"And we lost nearly 500 people in the rescue operation. Simply speaking from the casualty ratio: it is equivalent to one Japanese soldier killing two of our soldiers."
"Between this dunk and release, the Japs not only made us spin around, but also caused a large number of casualties to us with very small losses. There was no loss at all. Do you think the Japs did this in vain?"
Seeing Hong Linfeng nod in agreement, Li Hao continued: "There are still nearly 20,000 young people who have been rescued by one or two!"
"The reason why the Japanese detained them in no man's land is for two reasons: one is not to let them be used by me to increase our strength, and the other is to use them as free labor force to help establish no man's land."
"Something must have changed the Japanese commander's mind."
"Let him understand: Even if these young men fall into the hands of our garrison, they will not be able to be used by me in the short term. Moreover, they have more to eat than those old, weak, women and children. It takes at least 40,000 to work for 20,000 people."
The food rations for the old, weak, women and children will consume more food after entering our base area."
"As for free labor, it is nothing to the Japanese. In enemy-occupied areas, they can get as much as they want."
Hong Linfeng understood it completely, but soon a new question popped up in his mind, and he stared at Li Hao and continued to ask.
"Captain, since rescuing people will do us no good in the short term, should we suspend the ongoing rescue plan?"
"The purpose of the little devils in detaining those young men is to create a no-man's land. There will definitely be no problem with their safety in a short period of time."
"There's not much problem in staying in Japanese hands for the time being."
"No, we must save now!" Li Hao replied firmly.
"While the Japanese and puppet troops deliberately released water, we rescued the villagers at the minimum cost."
"Otherwise, it will be difficult to save people when the little devil changes his mind."
"As for the rescued young men doing no harm to our base area, this is just the idea of little devils. They have ignored a very important point: the people's support!"
"Now that we are saving people and reuniting the folks with their families, these 200,000 people will definitely be grateful to our Eighth Route Army, and then they will wholeheartedly support our Eighth Route Army and support us."
“People’s hearts and minds are something that no amount of money can buy.”
"In addition, our opponents once again underestimated the combat potential of the garrison."
"The last time we traded with the Jinsui Army, the all-pervasive Japs Special High School must have heard about it, but they definitely don't know how much grain was traded."
"So the Japanese must not know that our garrison has hoarded more than 20 million kilograms of life-saving food."
"This food, plus the food obtained from the autumn harvest of the villagers, is enough to sustain us for several months. Even if the Japanese army drives another 100,000 people into our base area, these life-saving food can ensure the stability of the base area for at least four months."
"After such a long time, I believe that the garrison will definitely have a way to solve the remaining food gap in the base area.
The deliberate release of water in uninhabited areas and the release of garrison rescue troops and nearly 20,000 young men on the blockade back to the base area were indeed made on the spur of the moment by the Japanese military commander.
In his battle plan, two months was enough to disrupt the garrison's base area, and then take the opportunity to launch a large-scale raid to completely eliminate the garrison.
Those young and strong people are ordinary people. Because of the shortage of food, everyone is skinny and malnourished.
Even if the garrison recruits all these people into the army, it will take a month just to restore nutrition and physical strength, and it will take at least half a year to form combat effectiveness.
At that time, the imperial army had already entered their base area and wiped out the entire garrison.
Therefore, these 20,000 young men will not bring any benefit to the garrison within half a year. On the contrary, it will further increase their food gap, make the famine come faster and more severe, and then completely mess up their base area and make their military and civilians unfocused.
, morale is chaotic...
Thinking of this, the army commander decisively ordered the front-line troops to deliberately release water and let the garrison rescue the young men.
Of course, this does not mean that he doesn't care about anything and just watches the defense regiment leave under his nose.
Without affecting the security of no-man's land, each stronghold sent troops to take the initiative.
Their mission was not to recapture those strong men, but to kill and injure the garrison and rescue troops in large numbers in the name of pursuit.
After a day and night of fighting, it was clear that the commander's goal was achieved.
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the chief of staff is reporting to the commander the battle results that the frontline troops have just summarized.
"Your Excellency, Army Commander, from yesterday afternoon to this morning, we killed a large number of garrison rescue troops in this no-man's land. The number of corpses of the Eighth Route Army that we could not take away in time exceeded 300. Adding in the wounded and wounded, the direct losses must have exceeded
Four hundred people.”
"More than 18,000 strong men were rescued, and all of them have entered the garrison base area. They have further exacerbated the food shortage there."
"In addition, our newly added no-man's land can gather at least 60,000 old, weak, women and children. After driving them all to the garrison base area, the food gap there will increase, and there may be no food in a month.
."
"Very well done!" the military commander replied with satisfaction.
Then he asked: "How are the preparations for the special high school? Have they and the action team sent by the front-line troops entered the garrison base area? When will they start taking action?"
"In addition to increasing the food gap and causing famine in their base areas, I also want to make them full of violence, attacks, and death threats, so that people in their so-called base areas will be panicked and the morale of the military will be turbulent, so that we will have less pressure to kill them in the future."
The chief of staff quickly replied: "Commander, don't worry, the special high school has dispatched nearly a hundred outstanding agents, including many female agents, and the front-line garrison has dispatched more than 500 elite imperial troops who can speak Chinese and more than a thousand
The Imperial Alliance Army followed the old, weak, women and children as well as the young and strong people rescued by the garrison and entered the base of the garrison."
"As soon as you get settled you'll start moving."
"This time they have the identity of refugees as a cover, and the garrison will definitely not be able to find them."
In order to protect these special agents and the Japanese and puppet troops from entering the garrison base, the Japanese took great pains.
Many small villages were secretly massacred by the Japanese. If these agents pretended to be village survivors and entered the garrison base, even if the garrison had any doubts about their identities, they would die without any evidence.
In addition, all the people who entered the base area were deliberately disrupted by the Japanese. People from different villages, different towns, and even different counties were mixed together, making it more difficult for the garrison to identify them.
Many agents and Japanese and puppet troops took advantage of this chaos to enter the base area, and then disguised themselves as ordinary people and settled down under the nose of the Eighth Route Army.
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