At the Hongquan Village Independent Battalion Headquarters, He Wenlin rushed into the headquarters at dawn with a complicated expression. It was hard to tell whether he was excited or solemn.
He rushed in and reported: "Battalion Commander, from the beginning of martial law last night to now, we have captured 12 Japanese and puppet spies!"
"Now we are using these people as a breakthrough point to conduct separate interrogations and try to follow the clues to kill more agents!"
Li Hao looked puzzled and asked: "This is good news~ But I see that your face doesn't seem happy!"
He Wenlin hesitated and explained: "Batalion Commander, it's not that I'm unhappy, it's that those agents are so heartbreaking!"
"Not only is there a whole family who was bribed by the Japanese and worked for the Japanese, there are also two guerrillas and a guerrilla captain!"
"Not only that, a spy came directly from the main force and was a soldier from the Second Company's cooking squad. If we hadn't been cautious enough, we almost wouldn't have discovered him!"
"I wonder what's wrong with these people. It's not right for Chinese people to become traitors and betray their own ancestors just for the small profits they get from the Japanese!"
"Especially the cook and the guerrilla captain of the main force. They are all old Eighth Route Army soldiers, and they can be bribed by the Japanese!"
Li Hao's face became more serious than ever before.
After taking a deep breath, he replied: "Everyone has his own ambitions!"
"Since you have chosen this path, you must be responsible for your actions!"
"Director He, here is my order: Any Eighth Route Army soldier who is a traitor will be punished with an additional one level of crime. Cadres who are traitors will be punished with an additional one level of crime on the basis of soldiers!"
"Also, since the Japanese have extended their tentacles into our army, and our independent battalion has more than 2,000 people in total, there must be more than just this one agent!"
"Check it out for me right away. We must find out all these black sheep. Don't be afraid to expand the matter. If the sky breaks the truth, I will take care of it for you."
"I will give orders to several company commanders soon and ask them to cooperate with you unconditionally."
"But I also have a request. Your intelligence department must never wrongly accuse a good person. All the traitorous agents found must have irrefutable evidence recognized by several of their company commanders before they can arrest them!"
He Wenlin immediately promised: "Battal Commander, please rest assured that the Intelligence Department will never arrest anyone indiscriminately or unjustly accuse a good person!"
The atmosphere at the Japanese garrison headquarters in Lingqiu was very depressing.
The independent battalion imposed martial law and blockade on the entire base area, so Watanabe learned the news that the special agent team had been severely damaged a day late.
In the eyes of many commanders, losing a battle on the intelligence front without even fighting is definitely a sign of disaster.
Surprisingly, Watanabe not only did not get angry, but was surprisingly calm.
After thinking for a long time, he said: "If I'm not wrong, this is a conspiracy of the Independence Battalion, and we have been fooled!"
"We made the same mistake last time protecting reinforcements!"
The deputy captain looked suddenly enlightened and shouted: "Sir, what you mean is that the Independent Battalion is repeating its old tricks, deliberately imposing strict security on the base area, and then mobilizing troops to attract our intelligence personnel lurking in their base area, and then kill them all!"
Watanabe nodded and affirmed: "As expected, these Eighth Route Army troops who left their bases should return to their bases soon!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the deputy captain of the special agent team rushed in, breathing heavily.
"Sir, urgent information came from the Independence Battalion base area: Four companies of the Eighth Route Army returned to their base this morning!"
"That's right!" Watanabe was more certain of his judgment.
Then he stared at the special agent captain and asked: "Murashita-kun, I want to know: after the special agent team lost so many intelligence agents at one time, can our intelligence network in the Independence Camp base area still be used? Can the main forces of the Independent Battalion be used?
Still under our surveillance!"
Lieutenant Murashita quickly replied: "Sir, don't worry, it's all still usable!"
"In order to prevent accidents, the intelligence network of the special agent team in the independent camp base area is double-lined, and there is a more covert intelligence network that is not used!"
"I have given an order to activate this intelligence network. Every move of the independent battalion cannot escape our eyes!"
"Yoshi!"
A rare smile flashed across Major Watanabe's serious face.
Then he praised without hesitation: "Mr. Murakata is indeed an intelligence elite who came out of the special high school. He considers things carefully, which is very good!"
"Order, from now until the start of the sweep, the special agent team is only responsible for passing on information and stopping any other actions to avoid being fooled again!"
"I'm sure that the four main companies deployed by the independent battalion on the defense line will not be easily mobilized."
"Unless they have decided to give up the base they have worked so hard to establish, give up their military morale and people's morale, and prepare to go into the mountains!"
Li Hao did not release the news that the Japanese army was about to raid the base area.
However, the soldiers and civilians in the base area still noticed something strange from some movements.
The food in the army has become better. There are enough white flour steamed buns, pork and egg tubes every day. A discerning person can tell at a glance that this is a pre-war supplement.
The training volume has also been reduced to allow everyone to recover their physical strength.
More importantly, each company's cooking squad received an order to rush to produce dry food for the entire company for at least three days.
At the independent company station in Laoshu Village, a convoy of five large vehicles drove into the camp. Then they saw half-trucks of pork, baskets of eggs, and boxes of ammunition being moved from the vehicles and piled up.
Enter the warehouse.
As the news spread, the troops immediately started talking about it.
There is only one topic of discussion: what kind of war the troops will fight, how big it will be, and where to fight!
"Dududu..."
Suddenly, a rapid rallying call sounded in the middle of the camp.
The troops who were still chatting about each other just now became nervous immediately. They took their weapons and equipment on their backs and rushed outside the barracks.
In less than five minutes, more than 200 people from the independent company had gathered at the training ground.
Company Commander Zhao Wen stood in front of everyone and said straight to the point: "Comrades, in the past two days everyone has been speculating whether our independent company is going to fight. Now I tell you clearly that this is true!"
"Not only our independent company, but the entire independent battalion will fight!"
"According to intelligence, the Japanese learned about the good harvest in the base area and decided to send heavy troops into our base area to seize food!"
"Everyone should have received the good news from their families. The base area has had a bumper harvest. Excluding the public grains, the remaining food is not only enough for the family to eat for a whole year without going hungry, but there is also a surplus."
"But just when everyone was about to live a good life, the devil came!"
"They want to take away the food from our hands and eat it themselves, so that we can continue to starve and live a life worse than death. Tell me, are you willing?"
"I don't want to!"
More than two hundred people shouted in unison.
"Then what should we do?" Zhao Wen continued to ask.
"Kill him for his stupidity, defend the base area and protect the food!" Instructor Liu Wenxuan answered, holding up the box cannon.
The soldiers seemed to have been given a shot of chicken blood, and the crowd shouted angrily.
"Kill the idiots to defend the base and protect the food!"
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