The Japanese army wanted to swallow up China.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army encountered stubborn resistance from the National Army troops on the frontal battlefields in Songhu, Nanjing and other places.
From north to south, the arrogant plan to destroy China in three months completely failed.
As the front lines between China and Japan continued to be stretched, Japan's domestic supplies gradually became scarce, and logistical supplies became increasingly difficult. The Japanese were gradually exhausted and had to adopt a protracted strategy of supporting war with war.
For example, in North China, after the Japanese army captured a certain place.
For some remote villages, the Japanese army would not choose to station for a long time, but would directly carry out armed plunder.
All the farmers' supplies and food were robbed.
What's more, they even directly implemented the inhumane "Three Lights" policy and carried out violent acts such as burning, killing, and robbing remote villages.
Regarding the major counties and towns where they have been stationed for a long time, the Japanese have a completely opposite attitude.
Mainly adopting a soft policy, the Japanese military government even formulated a series of land enforcement laws to encourage Chinese people to help the Japanese army grow crops and supply military food.
Therefore, in the occupied areas where the Japanese army had relatively stable control, there was also a large amount of farmland cultivated by the common people under the management of the Japanese army.
certainly.
After all the crops in these farmlands are harvested, the food obtained basically belongs to the Japanese army.
The exorbitant taxes imposed by the Japanese on the Chinese people in the occupied areas can be regarded as a disguised form of labor exploitation and material plunder.
In quite a few occupied areas, the Japanese army aimed to quickly build agricultural groups and agricultural environments in a short period of time.
To stabilize the relative stability of the occupied area over a long period of time.
It even provides relatively tolerant land policies.
It also came up with conditions that are very tempting for farmers:
For example, one of them provides a loan of 30 yuan to each farmer, which can be used for expenses such as purchasing seeds. After the loan is repaid within three years, the land will be completely owned by the farmers.
Therefore, many farmers who want to have enough to eat have responded to the policy.
But when the policy is actually implemented, this is not the case.
Since the Japanese and puppet regime had no intention of investing funds and materials, the so-called loan policy was basically nothing more than thunder and no rain.
In the end, they first deceived the people into reclaiming wasteland, but were unwilling to give them any loan assistance or material support.
The farmers who were looted by the Japanese army were already impoverished, and they had no power or funds to improve the wasteland they opened up.
Even crop seedlings, vegetable seeds, etc., farmers cannot afford to buy.
Under such a vicious cycle, not only the existing wasteland cannot be improved, but also a large amount of farmland and cultivated land have gradually become abandoned due to the war.
There are fewer and fewer crops grown in this way, the burden on people everywhere has become more serious, and the people are miserable.
The Japanese army also could not get the expected food and supplies, and then came up with various ways to maintain the continuation of the war by continuously plundering the occupied areas.
The most typical one is the Japanese's homemade monetary policy.
What does it mean?
In the areas occupied by the Japanese army, the Japanese created controlled currency.
Issuance and production of currency by oneself is limited to the currency of the occupied areas, and corresponding currency rules are formulated to force the common people to circulate and use it.
The Japanese military government can print and mint them at will, using so-called daily tickets with no actual value to "rob" the materials in the hands of the people.
And the Japanese did this without fear of the collapse of the monetary system.
There is no need to worry about affecting Japan’s domestic monetary system.
Because the little devils are not using the same currency at all.
At worst, it will collapse and start over!
This is why, taking the enemy-occupied areas around the team in front of us as an example, the credibility of the border tickets is much more reliable in the hearts of the people than the daily tickets.
Through this series of means, the Japanese army actually transformed the occupied areas into colonies that continuously provided war energy for their aggression.
But as time goes by, the Japanese army will surely suffer the consequences.
In the occupied areas, the supply of materials that could be provided to the Japanese troops continued to decrease sharply.
Coupled with the severe drought in recent years, the Japanese First Army in Shanxi has become increasingly short of logistical supplies.
Because after learning that a team had reclaimed a large amount of farmland and planted a large number of crops, the Japanese First Army immediately shifted its attention.
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Taiyuan City.
The headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.
The old Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka, who was staring closely at the farmland in the Eighth Route Army base area, was asking about the situation:
"Are the crops planted by the soldiers and civilians mobilized by the Eighth Route Army in the areas targeted by various ministries almost ready to mature?"
Beichuan, the Japanese chief of staff, who was informed of the situation, looked at the map and replied: "General, according to our intelligence, recently, the millet, corn, sorghum and other crops planted in the Eighth Route Army's reclaimed wasteland are all ready to be harvested. when."
"Besides, Balu is very experienced in farming. Their farmland does not seem to be greatly affected by the drought. The crops in the farmland are growing vigorously. I think the harvest will definitely be good!"
Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, and after hearing the facts, he actually said with emotion: "These Eighth Route Army troops are really difficult to deal with.
Their fighting will is extremely tenacious. Under the double military and economic blockade of our army, even though their lives are more difficult, they still insist on being the enemy of the Japanese Empire.
Now Balu has reclaimed wasteland and planted farmland by himself.
Once harvested successfully, the problem of eating can basically be solved.
And once these eight groups are fed, will there be peace in the occupied area? "
Beichuan said: "Therefore, general, it is imperative to attack the Eighth Route Army's autumn harvest operation. Our army has recently been short of military food supply. We can take this opportunity to plunder the Eighth Route Army's autumn harvest food to fill the shortage."
"That's exactly what I meant!" Yoshio Shinozuka said.
The two old devils then got down to business, making plans on how to plunder the Eighth Route Autumn Harvest grain this time.
The capabilities of the Japanese intelligence department should not be underestimated either.
The map presented in front of the two old Japanese at this moment marked the distribution of farmland in the Eighth Route Army base areas that the Japanese army had discovered during this period.
Even in detail, some only have one or two acres of land.
"General, the above is the distribution of farmland where the Eighth Route Army planted crops in the entire Taihang region, as discovered by the National Army Intelligence Department.
Among them, the Eighth Route Army troops have reclaimed the most wasteland, and the one with the best crop growth this year is the Eighth Route Army’s Northwestern Shanxi Anti-Japanese Independent First Detachment.
In addition, the area of the guerrilla zone of this Eighth Route Army unit is now expanding, and it has even covered the entire northern gateway to Taihang.
If our army wants to destroy the autumn harvest of the Eighth Route Army troops, the defense area of the Eighth Route Army's first team cannot be bypassed. "
"Go around? Why go around?"
Yoshio Shinozuka's expression turned cold, "The First Anti-Japanese Detachment in Northwestern Shanxi led by Kong Jie was an inconspicuous ordinary combat regiment of the Eighth Route Army two years ago.
Kong Jie is also an ordinary general whose name is unknown.
But then, less than two years later, starting from the Battle of Cangyunling, the headquarters of the Bantian Regiment was destroyed with one shot, combined with multiple main regiments of the Eighth Route Army, and even the Jinsui Army was involved, and finally defeated the Bantian Regiment.
This Kong Jie began to appear in our army's field of vision.
Then it was like a flood that burst a dam and got out of control!
Our First Army fell into the hands of Kong Jie countless times.
Even Yamamoto-kun fell into the hands of Kong Jie. This person's difficulty was really a headache.
I also conducted many combat operations against Kong Jie's troops.
As a result, not only did Kong Jie fail to be eradicated, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army grew stronger and stronger, until today's First Anti-Japanese Detachment in Northwestern Shanxi.
Even the Zhongtiao Mountain area was infected by a detachment of the Eighth Route Army. "
“These setbacks again and again confirmed what I had suspected.
If Kong Jie is not eradicated as soon as possible, sooner or later he will become a serious problem for our Japanese Empire! "
Kitagawa immediately understood what Shinozuka Yoshio said, "General, what you mean is that this time you will not only target Kong Jie's team and destroy the autumn harvest of a team of the Eighth Route Army, but also take this opportunity to destroy a team in one fell swoop and eradicate Kong Jie?"
In response, Yoshio Shinozuka did not answer, but the determination in his eyes already showed his answer.
The two quickly began to plot a battle plan against one of the teams.
Finally, Beichuan, the Japanese chief of staff, said: "General, Kong Jie is extremely cunning.
This is not the first time that our army has destroyed the Eighth Route Army’s autumn harvest.
With Kong Jie's caution and cunning, the Eighth Route Army must have arranged corresponding defenses for the farmland and crops of his team to deal with our army's surprise plunder.
In this operation, if we march rashly and go straight to the crops in the farmland, we are very likely to fall into the trap set by Kong Jie, so we must be careful! "
Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course.
He even immediately thought of the battle at Dafeng Village, where he was actually tricked by the abominable Kong Jie twice in a row.
"In this way, this operation is divided into two parts. One is the harvesting force. After quickly capturing the target farmland, the harvesting force is responsible for quickly harvesting the crops and loading them for transportation.
During this period, fortifications were built around the area to cover the seizure operations.
The other is a combat unit responsible for fighting with the Eighth Route Army.
In addition, each combat unit's tactics of luring the enemy are also divided into two parts: the luring enemy unit and the enemy-annihilating unit.
Lure the enemy troops into attacking the farmland and draw out the defending Eighth Route Army troops. Try to hold back the Eighth Route Army, waiting for the enemy troops to be annihilated, and destroy the entangled Eighth Route Army along the way. "
"In this way, the Eighth Route Army's autumn harvest can be harvested, and one team may also be able to take the opportunity to eliminate them. The general is wise!" Beichuan complimented.
Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Remember, although this time we are robbing food, the focus can be on destroying a detachment of the Eighth Route Army.
Once the harvesting operation is lawful, we can directly destroy all the farmland and crops on the Eighth Route Army. What we can’t get will not be left to the Eighth Route Army! "
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the other side.
A team headquarters.
Kong Jie, Xu Guoan, Li Wenjie, as well as the heads and political commissars of the various regiments who came over, were also discussing how to win the battle to defend the autumn harvest.
When Kong Jie proposed "use offense as defense, when the Japanese army attacks the farmland in our base area, our army should also attack the farmland managed by the Japanese army in Jizhong in the enemy-occupied area."
This combat idea was put forward and was immediately echoed by the generals.
"Old commander, this is a good idea! It's quite similar to changing tactics. If the devils hit us, we will also beat their little devils.
Let’s see if this little devil can take care of it! "
"Yes, there is a lot of farmland in the areas occupied by the Japanese. I heard that the Japanese even planted opium husks, and the opium they produced has harmed many of our compatriots and robbed China of so much material.
When we fight this time, we must destroy everything for him! "
Xu Guoan said: "We will rob the Japanese's crops, but we must also protect our own crops.
This time, if we want to attack farmland crops in enemy-occupied areas and seize crops, too few troops will definitely not be enough.
If it is just our main force, we will defend the base area, invade enemy-occupied areas to harvest crops, and also carry out autumn harvest defense operations.
I'm afraid it's not enough.
Lao Kong, what are your plans for this? "
Before Kong Jie could answer, Shen Quan, Wang Leihu and other group leaders laughed.
Chen Quanle said: "Chief of Staff, we are lacking everything now, except for soldiers!
Do you know what happens most frequently in our groups these days?
Those were the figures of militia captains, comrades from county brigades, district squadrons, and district brigades, rushing to call for battle.
Good guy, the threshold of my regiment has almost been kicked down. "
He continued: "Although they are militiamen and local armies, we know that the militia and local army units surrounding our team are developing rapidly.
Let’s not mention the equipment. Going back two years, even the main force of our independent regiment had far less equipment than our current militia and local army.
In military training.
With the guidance of the militia training manual, and the fact that the soldiers were well fed and well trained, there was not a single day left behind. "
In actual combat, Kong Jie has always been interested in training militia troops and local troops. During battles, the independent regiment eats meat, and the militia troops and local troops follow suit.
Kong Jie even ordered that the main force should not take over everything.
It is even necessary to deliberately set aside some enemies, and hand them over to the militia and local military units for training within the range that the militia can deal with.
Therefore, a team of militia and local army does not lack actual combat experience at all.
"...With the addition of the militia and local army, the team is definitely sufficient."
Wang Leihu even smiled and said: "Old commander, you just don't agree to let our militia and local army comrades participate in the war. Believe it or not, these comrades dare to take the initiative to fight against the Japanese county!"
Kong Jie said: "Of course I have to agree, why don't I agree?
Our large amount of equipment was not given to the surrounding main forces, but was left to our militia and local army troops.
Why?
Don’t you just think that at this critical moment, our militia comrades can also be of great use!
Nowadays, our militia and local army are well-equipped and well-trained. If they were to be dragged out to fight and mixed with our main army, even the little devils might not be able to tell them apart. "
Talking and laughing.
The battle plan was decided like this:
Each regiment left part of its main force to coordinate with the militia and local army units. As the Japanese army moved closer to the farmland in the base area, they deployed in echelons to block the Japanese army's advance.
The main force of each regiment followed the specific combat plan designated by the staff department and the detailed intelligence information at hand, divided the troops into multiple routes, brought along the transportation troops, and raided the farmland in the Japanese-occupied areas in one fell swoop.
Seize the enemy's crops.
For this reason, this battle was particularly special. In addition to the guns and ammunition they carried as usual, the soldiers also carried a handful of farm tools.
Or a sickle, or a hoe, or a shovel, or a pickaxe...
At first glance, it doesn’t look like a fighting team, but more like a team doing farm work.
In the joking words of the soldiers:
This time! Our main job is to collect grain, and our side job is to fight Japanese invaders!
