The village next to the county seat was the first to be burned down by the Jinsui Army.
In just one day, ten villages were burned to rubble by the Jinsui Army, leaving nearly 4,000 people homeless.
Yesterday, various units showed weakness and lured the enemy to penetrate into the army and consumed a large number of Shanxi-Sui troops. When the good news came, everyone in the headquarters was very happy.
But the good mood lasted until this morning when it was interrupted by the bad news that the Jinsui Army began to burn the village.
Especially the battalion commander Huang Sheng was very anxious. He didn't expect the Jinsui Army to be so ruthless.
In order to force out the common people, they even used the Japanese tactics of exterminating households.
"Commander, must we find a way to stop the Jinsui Army from continuing to burn houses?" Huang Sheng said anxiously.
"If the villagers knew that the Jinsui Army had started burning houses outside the mountains, they would definitely be anxious and want to go home and save their homes."
"When the villagers are in chaos, local troops and guerrillas will have management loopholes. If a villager takes the opportunity to come out of the mountain and is caught by the Shanxi-Sui Army, they will definitely follow the clues and find the hiding place of the villagers, and then our previous efforts will be in vain.
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"Why are you panicking?" Li Hao reminded calmly.
"The Jinsui Army took the risk of being poked in the back by the villagers and burned down the house, which shows that they are getting anxious. Once people become anxious, they can do anything crazy."
"Let the troops tell the folks hiding in the mountains that our Eighth Route Army will be responsible for compensation for all the houses burned down by the Jinsui Army. When the Jinsui Army leaves and everyone is safe, we will restore it to what it was like before, and we will definitely restore it to what it will be like."
I won’t let everyone suffer.”
Huang Sheng was shocked by Li Hao's generosity and quickly reminded: "Captain, please don't be impulsive."
"In the past, when the Japanese burned down houses, we asked the villagers to help each other, then mobilized local troops and captured puppet troops to produce bricks, and then built the burned houses. The base area only needed to use some money to purchase raw materials."
"I think we should do the same thing this time."
"We moved the people to the mountains to protect them. Now that the house has been burned down, it stands to reason that everyone should bear the loss together, rather than us, the Eighth Route Army, suffering any losses."
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "This time is different."
"In the past, to deal with the little devils, it was a national war of resistance. Everyone who had money contributed money and those who had the strength to contribute."
"Now it's a land grab between us and the Jinsui Army. It doesn't involve fighting the Japanese. The safety of the people will definitely not be affected. So they are innocent. The burning of the house is an unreasonable disaster. We can't let the villagers suffer regardless of emotion or reason.
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"It's really like that." Huang Sheng was convinced by Li Hao.
But when I thought of the huge price that the base area had to bear, the worry between my eyebrows was obviously thicker than before, and I continued to remind.
"Captain, if the base area is allowed to fully compensate the villagers for their losses, can we get so much money out?"
"If one family compensates 20 yuan, today we will compensate the villagers 20,000 yuan a day."
"If the Jinsui Army continues to burn houses tomorrow, even one hundred thousand oceans may not be enough to compensate. Can we come up with so much money?"
Li Hao answered confidently: "Don't worry, the regiment headquarters doesn't need to take an ocean."
"There is a saying that the wool comes from the sheep. I will definitely make the Jinsui Army regret their decision to burn down the house today."
"Let the army count the losses of the villagers, and promise the villagers that all losses will be fully compensated by the Eighth Route Army. We must not let everyone leave the mountain without authorization."
"Send a telegram to Xiao Yuan: Without killing people or engaging in a direct exchange of fire with the Jinsui Army, organize the Jinsui Army to send food to Hunyuan City for a second time at all costs."
"As long as the Jinsui Army in the city completely runs out of food, they will be finished, and all their previous efforts will be in vain."
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. The three-pronged attack by the Jinsui Army burned down 26 villages. However, the people hiding in the mountains seemed not to see anything, and there was no movement.
The teacher became anxious.
The food delivered by the chief of staff for the first time has run out.
Two days ago, he had the idea of halving the army's rations, so that the limited food could be eaten for two more days.
However, this order was opposed by all battalion and company commanders before it was issued to the troops.
If the troops stay in the city and do not have missions, they can survive even if their rations are halved.
But now everyone has to go out of the city to burn villages every day, walk dozens of kilometers of mountain roads back and forth, and have to be vigilant at all times. At this time, the rations have been halved. How should we go out of the city to do things.
As soon as day broke, the division commander stood at the gate of the city and looked into the distance, hoping that the chief of staff's grain transport team would arrive soon.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, when the division commander was already a little hungry, someone finally appeared at the end of the official road.
"It's the army, the chief of staff is here!" the deputy division commander shouted expectantly.
As he watched, the expression of expectation on his face was replaced by doubt, and he frowned and muttered to himself.
"Why are there so many stretchers in the queue?"
There was also a trace of doubt and worry in the teacher's brows. This was also a question that he couldn't figure out.
The team was getting closer and closer, and there was no end in sight. After looking for a long time, the division commander couldn't find any soldiers carrying food. All he could see was a stretcher team of two people.
"What happened to the Chief of Staff? Why are there so many wounded?" the deputy division commander once again asked the question in his mind.
The division commander's face has darkened. Although he hasn't seen the chief of staff yet, he has a feeling that the food transportation this time must be very difficult.
When they were about to see the end of the team, everyone finally saw the soldiers carrying food.
Some people carry it on their shoulders, while others use poles and baskets to carry it...
"Master, I did not complete the task, please punish me!" the chief of staff ran all the way to the division commander, lowered his head and reported.
"Tell me, what happened to you on the road? Why are there so many wounded in the army?" the division commander asked solemnly.
The chief of staff lowered his head and replied with frustration: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning."
"They planted mines densely at the mountain passes and checkpoints we had to pass through. They also claimed that they were arranged by the Japanese and puppet troops. They were clearing the mines, but it took time, forcing us to take mountain roads to bypass the minefields."
"The mountain roads are rugged and there are traps everywhere. We couldn't guard against them, and that's why there were so many wounded in the army."
The division commander clenched his fists, anger welling up, and he wanted to get angry at the chief of staff.
But in the end he endured it because he might not be able to do it so well if he was asked to do it.
He stared at the chief of staff and continued to ask: "How much food did you send?"
The chief of staff quickly replied: "Originally, we could only send more than 6,000 kilograms. By increasing the weight of the brothers, we were able to deliver a total of more than 9,000 kilograms."
"Too little!" The division commander was very disappointed: "This amount of food is not enough for us to eat for two days. How can we survive until the food transport team delivers the third batch of food."
After saying this, the three of them fell into silence.
This is a really big problem. Without food, the troops will starve.
If the troops are really allowed to go without food for two days and two nights, the troops will definitely collapse, and they will not be able to stop it by themselves.
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