Kong Jie's plan to advance southward is still going on.
The teams of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments moved south during the day, moved closer to the Zhongtiao Mountain area, and conducted certain raids on the Japanese 47th Division and 41st Division stationed in southern Shanxi.
At night, the troops would use the cover of darkness to return to their base areas and continue their march south the next day, thereby repeatedly confusing the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was indeed confused.
Completely lost judgment.
Yoshio Shinozuka asked the 47th and 41st Division headquarters on the phone what the security work was for.
How did a large number of Eighth Route Army troops successfully penetrate into Zhongtiao Mountain?
The two Japanese division commanders looked depressed. The various security forces clearly had not received any information about the breakthrough of the Eighth Route Army troops.
It's just some eight-way raids that occasionally make sneak attacks.
So the Japanese staff suggested that this was probably the independent regiment troops pretending to go south to distract the imperial troops and confuse everyone.
But it is also true that some troops of the Independent Regiment have successfully broken through and entered the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
The Japanese army did not dare to gamble, and they were even less willing to sit back and watch the Zhongtiao Mountain area evolve into a cancer that caused them headaches like the Taihang Base Area.
Therefore, the Japanese 47th Division originally stationed in Yuncheng and the 41st Division in Linfen did not dare to move at all for the time being.
The Japanese military headquarters was even considering whether to deploy troops from other places to maintain security and stability in Zhongtiao Mountain and to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army guerrilla forces in Zhongtiao Mountain.
The Japanese army's attention was diverted, and the two major regiments stationed in southern Shanxi were completely contained in southern Shanxi.
The pressure on Japan from the Taihang and Taiyue base areas was greatly reduced.
In addition, the Japanese army was defeated by the first detachment.
Due to multiple factors, Taihang, Taiyue and other base areas ushered in a short, relatively stable period of development.
At the same time, in addition to fighting each other, the focus of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, including the Shanxi-Sui Army, was also largely focused on domestic disaster response.
As early as the beginning of 2001, the drought centered in Henan has gradually spread to all directions.
By August, the drought in Henan was already quite serious. Dozens of counties were affected, and farmland harvests were less than half of what they used to be, or even none at all.
There are mourning everywhere, and people are in dire straits.
The drought does not matter whether you are in a Kuomintang-controlled area or an enemy-occupied area, or whether you are a Jaap or a member of the Eighth Route Army or Shanxi-Sui Army. Once it spreads, no region or people will be spared.
This is compounded by the suffering that war has brought to the general public.
It is true that misfortunes never come singly, natural disasters and man-made disasters come together.
In Taiyuan, Yangquan, Shouyang, Ping'an County and other major counties, the Japanese army was equally busy and exhausted.
The little devil also understands the principle of not making a one-time deal and fishing in the lake.
Although they usually imposed exorbitant taxes and various kinds of exploitation, they still hoped that the Chinese people at the bottom could work honestly in the fields and maintain the production of resources to supply the Japanese troops to continue their invasion.
To this end, the Japanese would even distribute fertilizers and agricultural tools to farmers.
In the face of this increasingly serious drought, the Japanese army, which adopted a soft policy, even though Sima Zhao's intentions were well known, still pretended to vigorously publicize:
The Japanese Empire will definitely help the people in the security area overcome this difficulty.
While promoting himself, the little devil did not forget to attack his opponent, the Eighth Route Army troops.
There are baseless words such as "The Eighth Route Army does not care about the life and death of the people, they only want to feed themselves" and "The Eighth Route Army has no ability to help the victims at all, and even they themselves are unable to survive."
However, as for the Jinsui Army, even Chief Yan, who had suffered a defeat, began to use public opinion to win over people's hearts.
He said that in the face of this disaster, the Jinsui Army will definitely stand together with the general public to cope with the difficulties and tide over the difficulties.
For this reason, the Jinsui Army even stated that it could accept foreign refugees to solve their problems of food, accommodation, and clothing.
In order to become the winner of public opinion and win the hearts and minds of the people, Chief Yan was more realistic this time.
As expected, various departments of the Jinsui Army began to accept local refugees, including some from outside.
This has played a certain positive role in controlling the spreading disaster.
Detachment headquarters.
After the enemy's Ministry of Industry passed the news, Kong Jie held a military meeting at the headquarters.
At the meeting, the cadres were all filled with indignation.
Wang Leihu, the leader of the Second Regiment, cursed: "Regiment Commander, these little devils are nothing. The streets and alleys in the occupied area are full of public opinions about how they want to help the victims.
But in turn, they scolded us for not helping the victims and only caring about ourselves.
Isn’t this something made out of nothing!
We have started to help and resettle some local and foreign victims. So far, our detachment has received more than 10,000 refugees. What did we say? "
Chen Quan said: "The Jinsui Army has taken in some victims these days, but the number is not large. It has done a good job in publicity, for fear that others will not know about it."
"Obviously, they are all trying to create public opinion, bring glory to themselves, and at the same time discredit our Eighth Route Army!" Political Commissar Li Wenjie expressed his views sharply.
Kong Jie said: "Comrades, this is not the first time or twice that we have had dirty water thrown at us. The soldiers will stop us and the water will cover us up."
"Nowadays, wars are going on everywhere, and people's lives are extremely unstable and lack a sense of security. Under such circumstances, once someone incites public opinion and builds momentum, it is easy to paralyze the people. This is inevitable."
"We have never fallen behind in terms of anti-Japanese propaganda, propaganda in the base areas, and propaganda in our Eighth Route Army troops."
"Leave it alone, no one in our base area or around the outer guerrilla zones would believe the dirty water the Japanese have poured on us."
"However, we cannot be like the little devils who have no bottom line and only promote public opinion without doing practical work."
"Helping people tide over difficulties, resettling victims, and helping ordinary people is not just about words, but about actual actions."
Having said this, Captain Kong smiled brightly.
"Really speaking, no matter what public opinion the devils create and what dirty water they throw at us, if they can really do something practical and properly resettle all the victims in the occupied areas, including some in other places, so that the victims have food to eat, no matter what As for being hungry, it doesn’t matter if we take the blame.”
"Facts and time will clear everything up."
"If the little devil doesn't have the determination and ability to deal with this disaster, and fails to put the facts in place, no matter how nice the lie is, it will be exposed sooner or later."
"Whether the Japs and the Jinsui Army will shoot themselves in the foot, who knows?"
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan agreed: "What Lao Kong said is absolutely right. In recent years, there have been disasters and wars. Coupled with the heavy consumption of the Japanese army, the resources of the small Japanese have long been unsustainable.
The people in the county are severely exploited, and the economic situation may not be much better than that in our base area.
It would be a shame if the Japanese army, with its little wealth and not sincerely serving our compatriots, could handle the disaster well. "
Li Wenjie also smiled and said: "Commander, if you say so, the way to deal with the public opinion between the Japanese Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army this time is very simple. Let's just stay the same in response to all changes and wait and see whether they can stabilize the disaster situation." , resettle the victims, and make the hype come true!"
"In addition, we still do what we do to help the people tide over the difficulties. If the so-called propaganda is proven with actual actions, no one can shake it."
The cadres nodded after hearing this.
Kong Jie added with a smile: "Wenjie's method is very practical, I think that's what I'll do."
"In addition, some compatriots who have been resettled by the disaster can help with the procurement work from enemy-occupied areas and Kuomintang-controlled areas."
"You don't need to do too much publicity after entering the city. If you see some refugees who can't survive, tell them to come to the base of our first team."
"The Japanese army and the Jinsui army are trying to make themselves look fat, but we cannot let our compatriots at the bottom die because of their stupidity."
"Yes!" the cadres responded in unison.
Then, the meeting discussed in detail the plan for the first detachment to basically expand its reception capacity and continue to receive more refugees.
Based on the principle of "demographic dividend" proposed by Kong Jie.
Finally, after detailed analysis by the cadres, the base areas currently opened by each regiment of the first detachment, plus the vast land in the guerrilla zone, have also been intensified to cultivate crops and plant crops, including the disaster-bearing capacity of each village.
All calculated together, and taking into account the development of the troops and the situation of fighting the Japanese army, the entire base area is maintained stable and continues to prosper.
The first detachment can receive a total of more than 30,000 refugees.
If the external environment is relatively stable, the Japanese army will not invade the base area, and if the base area can be given about half a year to develop and consolidate, the first detachment can even accept nearly 50,000 people.
Coupled with the concerted efforts of various departments in the root areas such as Taihang and Taiyue.
The number of victims that the Eighth Route Army troops can help is quite large.
According to the headquarters' preparedness plan, the number of local and foreign disaster victims who can be initially received and assisted can reach about 200,000...
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