Kong Jie focused his eyes on a point on the map, looking at the thumb-sized area shown on the map, and then thought of the tragic battle that was about to break out here.
This contrast between illusion and reality, magnificence and tragedy, can't help but make people wonder.
"Our plan to transfer the people of Licheng and create an empty city has been officially launched. It is carried out every night. In the past few nights, we have not missed a single night. Tens of thousands of people will be secretly transferred to our base every night."
"So far, the people who have been transferred are basically in the base area of our first team! There are already more than 100,000 people."
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan described the situation.
Kong Jie nodded, and then asked, "Is there any difficulty in receiving these people in our base area?"
The person who took over the conversation and answered was political commissar Li Wenjie. As Kong Jie's good wife, Li Wenjie was responsible for the economic development and construction of the city.
As long as it's not a war, he basically takes care of everything else.
How else could Kong Jie be such a cool and unrestrained shopkeeper?
"Brother, you have been busy directing the war during this period. I'm afraid you haven't had time to pay attention to the development of our base area, right?
I am not bragging. I can definitely say that the current development of our base area is changing with each passing day, and it is getting faster and faster day by day.
Not to mention hundreds of thousands of people, this time according to the headquarters' plan, hundreds of thousands of people from Licheng and other five cities are sent to our team. We may not be able to accept it.
Moreover, the arrival of these people will not only put no burden on the construction and development of our base area, but will actually become a boost to the rapid development of our base area.
For this reason, Lao Xu and I were thinking about whether we should go to the headquarters to apply, and we might as well arrange all the people this time to our base area! "
As soon as these words came out, Kong Jie was stunned.
"When did our team become so confident?"
Xu Guoan laughed and said: "Old Kong, Old Kong, I'm afraid you don't even know how much wealth you have now.
This old saying is indeed true, the snowball will roll bigger and bigger, the bigger it will roll, the bigger it will roll, the faster it will roll, and the more exaggerated it will be.
This is really the case!
With the growth of our team's base area, the construction of our base area, economic development, and troop building are really snowballing faster and faster.
Just like the current situation of our team's base area, just talking about the area under the jurisdiction of the base area, except for the suburbs and mountainous areas we used to have, the number of counties is relatively small, but the number of towns is quite a bit, all added together, There are hundreds of them.
Including these large and small ones, the area is quite large.
Lao Kong, are you afraid that you still don’t know this situation? "
Kong Jie was indeed a little dumbfounded, "Developed so fast?"
"Isn't that right? Especially after the Japanese army's May Day raid ended miserably, our various troops took the opportunity to expand outward and conquered many towns and villages in the base area, including some remote counties.
The little devil is now celebrating the New Year with Wang Xiaoer, and every year is getting worse.
After the failure of the May Day raids, the elite main force of the Japanese suffered heavy losses, and basically there was no spare force left to actively enter our base areas to fight.
The Japs seem to be retreating. They are only stationed in some major counties, towns and towns, holding on to some important transportation lines. As for the rest of the area, the large areas of towns and remote counties, the Japs can no longer take care of them.
So in our base area, there may not be anything else now, but there is simply too much land to accommodate these hundreds of thousands of people.
Especially Xie Baoqing, who was working like crazy with his construction team during this period. His team recruited a large number of new migrant workers. As this was not enough, he directly arranged the team into several shifts, working day and night. construction.
Since receiving the order from our detachment headquarters, this guy has been able to lead the construction team to build hundreds of houses in our base area almost every day.
Although they are all simple houses made of wood and stone, they are enough to accommodate immigrants and live temporarily. "
Xu Guoan introduced the situation.
Kong Jie nodded, feeling a little emotional in his heart, Xie Baoqing has really become a spirit now.
No wonder the old boy just gave a military salute and left in a hurry when we met last time. Now he is very busy!
After thinking about it, Kong Jie said: "Then follow this model and make preparations in advance as soon as possible. After all the people have settled down, arrange for them to put into production as soon as possible. Once there is work and income, the people will My heart felt at ease.
We can't let the villagers leave their hometowns and rush to our base area, and then they won't even be able to run away, right? "
Xu Guoan believed deeply and said: "The people's hearts are simple. When we transferred the people this time, the process was very smooth, and many villagers even helped us promote it.
The common people would rather leave their homes, take their wives, children, children, carts, and livestock with them to live in our Eighth Route Army base area.
An old man said it well!
Having the opportunity to go to the base area where our own troops are being built, and no longer having to worry about living under the rule of the Japs, is better than anything else! "
Kong Jie said: "Secret work must be done well. The immigration movement this time is so big. Once the Japs find out the situation, it is unrealistic for us to use the empty city strategy to lure the Japs over."
Xu Guoan smiled and said: "We probably don't have to worry about this. This time, the old brigade commander is personally taking the lead. I heard that Minister Li from Yan'an came over personally to participate in the guidance, and almost all the intelligence departments of our Eighth Route Army were mobilized. got up.
We first divide the area into blocks and use our radio directional detection technology to eliminate all informants and radio stations that the Japanese may hide in the area.
Then during the transfer process, all people were divided into responsibilities and team leaders, and there were basically no mistakes.
Even if there were really Japanese spies inside, he would have no chance to leave the army and report the news.
When we let go of management in the future, the battle in Licheng will have been over long ago.
In addition, we all moved at night, and night operations, including the construction of some fortifications in the city, were also carried out at night.
Nothing should go wrong! "
Kong Jie felt relieved. The intelligence chief had come to help, so what else could he say?
Time passed quickly, and all plans were carried out step by step.
Soon after, news came out from Licheng that the Eighth Route Army planned to hold a grand military parade in Licheng on August 1, Army Day.
A large number of Eighth Route Army troops appeared in Licheng for review. Not only that, but also Chief Yan, the commander of the Shanxi-Sui Army in the World War II area, came.
There was a lot of noise.
In fact, the military parade was said to be held during the day, but it was actually an air raid carried out by the Japanese Air Force.
As for the Eighth Route Army, the electrical reconnaissance troops, anti-aircraft artillery troops, and fighter jets of the aviation team were ready to trick the Japanese.
During the day, the extras came on stage - ordinary people with clean roots and bright minds who were carefully selected from the base area rushed over to help and flocked to Licheng, deliberately making a noise and cheering for the Eighth Route Army's military parade.
The electrical reconnaissance force secretly launched radio shielding. Even if the Japanese had a hidden radio station and an intelligence team, they would definitely extend their working hours due to radio interference and try to change the frequency to contact the rear.
At this time, the radio reconnaissance force will cooperate with the intelligence department to catch them all.
In the evening, when there was not enough light, some wooden tractor vehicles and other props specially built by the strategic camouflage department of a team were officially put on the scene, and they were pulled into Li City one after another under the hazy moonlight. .
It really looked like the cannons, chariots, etc. being inspected during the military parade the next day.
In fact, the real guy has already secretly moved.
What they are doing now is just to hide the truth and create the illusion that the heavy artillery troops of the Eighth Route Army are still stationed in Licheng.
It is true that the mobile artillery unit has already secretly crossed the Pinghan-Han Line to Jizhong - Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei estimate that after the victory over Licheng this time, the Shanxi side will stick to the last line of communication as the Japanese army is defeated. Basically, there is not much oil and water left in key counties, towns and towns.
In this case, it is better to change places.
"The little devils in other places, such as central Hebei, southern Hebei, and central and western Shandong, are still extremely rich! Can we tolerate this? We can't tolerate it!"
Kong Jie spoke like this in the temporary joint headquarters of the first team, the new first regiment and the new second regiment.
Not long ago, Kong Jie found Xu Qingnian, the finance minister of a team responsible for the construction of the financial system, and the two had such a conversation.
Kong Jie: "How is the current financial system in our base area doing?"
Xu Qingnian: "Led by the headquarters and remotely guided by Yan'an, our first team base serves as a pioneer experimental base, and the construction of the specially built base financial system is now on track.
Old leader, you also know a lot in this regard. Based on the establishment of the financial system, we must first consider stability.
Today, in terms of financial construction in our base area, we have our own bank, our own currency, and our own financial operating system, including some investments, loans, etc.
While ensuring that its own financial system is independent, stable and inclusive, it has also been constantly trying to engage in secret confrontations with the Japanese financial system in enemy theaters.
The result... Hehe, the current situation is, to give a vivid example, the Japanese issued a large number of daily tickets in the occupied areas to rob our supplies. If they were thrown to the dogs, the dogs would ignore them.
Everyone is so worried about wiping their butts!
Not to mention that they are not recognized at all in our base area. Even in the areas firmly occupied by the Japanese, many little Japanese are not willing to use this kind of daily ticket, or even use the border ticket issued by us openly.
Not to mention ordinary people, if someone wants to use the day pass to buy something, they will not respond at all.
What do you recognize?
We recognize silver dollars and French dollars, but the ones we like the most, trust the most, and are most willing to save in banks are the banknotes we issue!
Based on this alone, the Japanese want to destroy our existing stable financial system, which is simply wishful thinking. "
Kong Jie nodded, he had a deep understanding of this matter, especially in the past six months, when he even had private business dealings with the little Japs in the enemy war zone, such as Kawashima and Miki Ichiro of Yangquan.
Damn it, these little devils don’t even want day passes.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he said that he wanted the border area tickets of your Eighth Route Army. He only recognized the border area tickets. Without the border area tickets, he would never give materials!
Hey, now it’s interesting.
Kong Jie even heard that the leader of the main front-line regiment spent money on border tickets issued by the Eighth Route Army to buy a batch of arms from the Japanese security forces. They had everything from rifles to machine guns, and even a few small guns. caliber artillery.
Kong Jie was a little dumbfounded when he heard this. When did even the little devils become so blatantly "capitalizing" the enemy?
But turning around, Xu Qingnian said: "Old commander, I have always agreed with a point you have said before. The best way to defeat an opponent without fighting is to use the economy to crush the opponent.
Our enemies don't even have enough to eat, but we have all the food they want here. What can they use to fight us?
At present, the stable establishment of our financial system, coupled with the daily tickets issued by the Japanese military to plunder supplies, has rapidly collapsed. We can say that we have the upper hand in this economic war.
But the main area is still limited to Shanxi, especially the enemy-occupied areas around our base area.
In the final analysis, because domestic transportation is not convenient enough and economic exchanges between regions are not frequent enough, currency liquidity is poor.
The scope of the economic war we are fighting is also spatial and restrictive.
If we want to expand our economic advantages to a larger area, even to the entire North China, and even the entire Sino-Japanese battlefield, the development of the base area is still fundamental, and military strength is the core.
Only by completely moving out of Taihang and Shanxi can the scale of our Eighth Route Army's financial system spread smoothly. "
Therefore, Kong Jie proposed to take advantage of this battle around Licheng to attract the attention of the Japanese army.
Some mobile elite units and artillery units of a team will take the opportunity to move to areas outside Shanxi to fight, further expanding the results and making full preparations for subsequent battles with the Japanese army.
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Peiping, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front.
Okamura estimated that he was not far away from stepping down. He originally thought that this time would end in a disastrous defeat. After the May Day sweeps were completed, he focused on the security and stability of the existing stable occupied areas.
Make a smooth transition and hand over the big deal of the North China Front Army to the next commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army.
The turmoil in Licheng is getting more intense.
Those rampant Eighth Route Army actually wanted to hold a large military parade in Licheng. A large number of elite troops were present in Licheng, as well as heavy artillery units and armored vehicle units, all of which had to be reviewed in Licheng.
You know, just a few days ago, Licheng still belonged to the Japanese army!
This means that he did not take Okamura and the North China Front seriously at all.
This made Okamura more and more determined. This time, even if all the aviation forces of the Japanese Empire were assembled, Licheng, as well as all the damn Chinese people and Chinese troops in Licheng, would be destroyed!
"Baga, everyone deserves to die!" Okamura cursed angrily...
(End of chapter)
