"There is another way to go!" the middle-aged man replied after hesitating for a long time!
"Brother Quan, which way? As long as I can survive, I will listen to you!" A man asked immediately with hope rekindled on his face!
The middle-aged man thought for a moment and replied: "In addition to using food to encourage the people to provide information about us, the Eighth Route Army also announced another policy, voluntary surrender!"
"If I remember correctly, after we joined the Maintenance Association, although we did a lot of bad things for the Japanese, we haven't killed anyone yet!"
"If we voluntarily surrender to the Eighth Route Army and follow the policies they propose, the worst outcome for us is that we will be transformed under their management for a few years, and then we can regain our freedom. We will definitely not die!"
"If we can still perform meritorious service after surrendering, and use the intelligence we know to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army to capture the captain's secret camp, the transformation time will be shortened, and it may be possible to come out in a few months!"
"Fuck!" Ergouzi, who had just spoken, replied without thinking about it!
"Reformation is nothing more than doing things. Although it will suffer a lot, it is better than death, and there is still a chance to regain freedom!"
"Brother Quan, I agree to surrender to the Eighth Route Army and then perform meritorious service for my crime!"
"In addition, in addition to the secret camp in the woods by the captain, I also know that the neighboring village maintains a secret camp hidden in the mountains!"
"When the time comes, let's tell the Eighth Route Army together that our transformation time will definitely be shortened!"
First cut off the enemy's retreat and force them into a desperate situation, and then open an opening to give them a sense of survival from a desperate situation, and surrender voluntarily in order to survive!
Many of those traitorous spies are local cowards and gangsters. They have no idea what loyalty, etiquette, justice and shame are!
As long as you give them hope of living, you can kill someone, let alone betray your master!
Moreover, their master is now unable to protect himself and cannot control them at all!
In just five days, more than a hundred traitors throughout Laiyuan surrendered!
With their help, the garrison attacked everywhere and killed more than two hundred people!
In addition, more than a hundred people were killed with the information provided by ordinary people, and the traitor agents lurking in Laiyuan were almost wiped out!
The scouts and agents sent by the Japanese army in the county were the worst!
Someone was reported by local people before he could contact the target, and was then killed by the garrison!
After someone contacted the latent agent, before they had time to carry out the task, the agent who had just contacted them sold them out, killed them directly or captured them, and sent them to the garrison to have their merits reduced and their punishment reduced!
Lingqiu Defense Regiment Headquarters, he came back after helping the Ninth Company eliminate the threat from Laiyuan City!
The base area is getting bigger and bigger, and the spread of the troops is getting bigger and bigger. As the regiment leader, he must sit at the headquarters and command the overall situation, instead of focusing on one of the battles!
"The regiment leader, political commissar, and Battalion Commander Huang sent an urgent message: After five days of operations, they have eliminated a total of 658 captured traitor agents!"
"Although the traitors and maintenance committees in each village sent the finance and food they collected into the county, they still hoarded a lot of good things in their hiding places!"
"After several days of operations, a total of 517 rifles of various types, 6 light machine guns, 98 pistols, nearly 50,000 rounds of various bullets, and more than 500 grenades and hand grenades were seized!"
“In addition, they also seized 860,000 jins of grain, 68,000 yuan, 38 small yellow croakers, and 8 jins of various gold and silver jewelry!
"Battle Commander Huang asks for instructions: What to do with these seizures and prisoners!"
Li Hao was shocked by this harvest!
I didn’t expect that those traitors would have so much left over after sending their wealth to the county!
But I quickly calmed down and figured out why!
Looking at Wang Hong, he said thoughtfully: "Political Commissar, this harvest really fulfills our old saying: A cunning rabbit has three burrows!"
"Those traitors are too cunning. Although they work for the Japanese, they don't completely trust them. This can be seen from the financial assets we seized!"
"They are also wary of the little Japs, worried that after they have given all their property and life to the Japs, if one day the Japs turn against the Japs and refuse to recognize them, they will draw water from a bamboo basket and lose everything. In the end, they will lose their lives and wealth, and get nothing!
"
So when they sent their wealth to the county town, they all kept a careful eye on it and hid some of it in the mountains outside the city for themselves to take control of!"
"If one day in the future the Japanese rebels turn against us, they will still have the capital to turn over!"
"good!"
Wang Hong happily agreed!
Following the change of subject, he continued: "However, these traitors must not have thought that their three cunning rabbit holes were originally used for their own self-reliance in the future, but in the end they all took advantage of us!"
"The little devil will definitely be very angry with these traitors!"
"The reason why these traitors are allowed to send all their property to the county before retreating is to prevent us from seizing them, and then use these seizures to continue to grow and develop!"
"After all the hard calculations, I finally miscalculated, and I still lost at the hands of my own people!"
"However, for our garrison, this is too timely than the capture!"
"There is no problem in Lingqiu, our old base. Last year's grain harvest was bumper. In addition, every household reclaimed a lot of wasteland. Our grain tax ratio is low, and every household has saved a lot of grain!"
"Not only can we last until the autumn harvest, but our folks who have family members joining our Eighth Route Army can even have a lot of food left over to hoard to deal with possible famines in the future!"
"But the three counties of Laiyuan, Guangling and Hunyuan that we just captured will not work!"
"They have been exploited by the Japanese and puppet troops, and they also pay high food taxes!"
"According to my investigation, nearly 20% of the people have begun to run out of food, and nearly 20% of the people are about to run out of food. There is surplus food at home, but less than 30% of the people can survive until the autumn harvest!"
"In the past, everyone relied on eating wild vegetables, roots and bark, and borrowing money to survive!"
“But even so, many people still starve to death every year.”
"Now that the three counties have become our base, we must not let something like this happen again!"
"Especially lending and starving!"
"Private loans are all usury. Even if they borrow money to survive until the autumn harvest, the villagers will be burdened with debt!"
“It’s hard to get some food during the autumn harvest, but it’s not enough to repay the loan!”
"In order to have food for the next year, they can only continue to borrow money, and then they will borrow more and more and cannot repay it, so they have to sell their land, or even their children and daughters, and eventually their families will be ruined!"
"In order to prevent this from happening and ensure that people in the base area do not starve to death, we must prepare enough food!"
"I was just thinking about where to get so much food! If there is really no other way, we can only temporarily use our strategic reserves! Now it seems that it is not necessary. So much food has been seized in Laiyuan. Jia Guangling and Hunyuan
Two counties can seize at least two million catties of grain!"
"Although it cannot completely solve the food gap, it can certainly greatly alleviate the pressure of food shortage in the three counties, and then we can solve the remaining food gap step by step!"
Li Hao replied firmly: "The food stored in the base area must not be touched!"
"Not only can't I move, I have to find ways to increase it!"
"Especially after the expansion of the base area, we will have to reserve at least four times the amount of grain for this autumn harvest!"
"As for the shortage of food in the newly expanded base area, don't worry, political commissar. If there is not enough, I will find a solution!"