"Fellow fellow, we are the Eighth Route Army, fighting the Japanese—"
"Bang!"
Before the Eighth Route Army could finish speaking, the fellow's door was slammed shut.
This kind of thing has happened more than once. The Second Company has been occupying Fengshuping Town for several days. There has been no progress in mass work at all, and the villagers' houses cannot be entered. This makes the comrades of the Second Company feel very aggrieved!
They were obviously here to help them fight the Japanese, but the fellow villagers were just as scared when they saw them as they were when they saw the Japanese.
"Folks, don't be afraid. Our Eighth Route Army only fights against Japanese soldiers and does not bully ordinary people!"
Liu Lei, the instructor of the Second Company, shouted loudly, but unfortunately no fellow villager was willing to open the door.
"You go away. We won't help them or beat them. We just want to live in peace. Bosses, please go away. Otherwise they will be angry with us when they come back!"
Liu Lei wanted to explain, but Yan Song stopped him and said to Liu Lei:
"Obviously the villagers are afraid of the Japanese's revenge when they come back. They lack confidence in our Eighth Route Army. The villagers in the town have their own livelihoods and can barely survive after paying the Japanese's taxes. Therefore, they dare not resist the Japanese and are easily fooled by the Japanese's false masks. To deceive them, it will be easy to activate them again only after they have completely seen the true and cruel face of the Japanese!
Let’s go to the countryside first, to the village. Most of the villagers are tenant farmers, who have to endure the double oppression of the Japanese and the landlords. They struggle on the edge of death every day. They are the real proletarians. Instead of starving to death, Why not follow our Eighth Route Army to fight the Japanese? "
Liu Lei thought about this and couldn't help but praise his partner:
"Old Yan, I didn't expect you to be able to carry out political work better than me, an instructor. We still have to take the correct path of surrounding the city from the countryside!"
"Instructor, this is nothing. We have seen many such things in Hubei, Henan, and Anhui before. Since the work in the town is difficult, let's put it aside first, take the seized equipment and materials, and go directly to the vast countryside!
The old rule is that the main force of the company is concentrated in one village, and capable military workers are dispatched to surrounding villages to mobilize the masses, publicize the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese policy, carry out rent and interest reduction campaigns, suppress bandits, and eliminate the influence of Japanese and puppet troops in rural areas. Let the peasant brothers have food to eat, have dignity, and not be bullied by devils, puppet soldiers, bandits and bullies;
Slowly establish local organizations, militia companies, women's rescue societies..."
Liu Lei nodded. Isn't this just copying the model of establishing a base area? This is what he is good at as an instructor.
"Lao Yan, I agree with your plan. Let's go to the vast countryside to establish base areas!"
The Second Company chose to advance into the vast rural areas, carry out guerrilla warfare and establish base areas in the Japanese security areas. The Japanese simply did not understand that once the Eighth Route Army took root, it would be impossible to deceive the Chinese people with hypocritical tolerant policies.
The first company continued to besiege the Japanese "chain". They targeted the majority of the puppet troops and waged psychological warfare.
In a blockhouse to the west of Zhangzhuang, a few Japanese soldiers stared fiercely at more than thirty puppet troops. The loudspeaker outside the blockhouse kept shouting:
"Brothers of the puppet army, stop working for the devils, you have already been given up by the devils like artillery fire!
Look at it, we are surrounded by the Eighth Route Army! It's not that we can't shoot down your gun towers, we have cannons, it's just a matter of one or two cannons!
Do you really want to accompany a few devils to meet the King of Hell? Brothers and sisters of the puppet army, after being surrounded for several days, it’s time for you to run out of food! Is there any water to drink?
Are they all eaten and taken over by the Japanese? Brothers and sisters of the puppet army, the Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially and will give you—"
"Ta-ta-ta..."
"Ta-ta-ta..."
"Bagaya road!"
A Japanese machine gunner fired wildly in the direction of the loudspeaker. They already felt that something was wrong with the puppet soldiers' eyes when they looked at them.
"Puff puff puff puff puff..."
The rain of bullets made the dust fly. Apart from venting dissatisfaction and knocking down a few flowers and plants, that was all it did!
"Brothers of the puppet army, you have also seen that it is useless! This is your last chance. Kill those devils and count on your uprising before the battle, and the previous accounts will be wiped out.
If you are willing to join the Eighth Route Army, then join the Eighth Route Army. If you don't want us to pay you travel expenses home! "
In the gun tower, the Japanese corps commander cursed murderously:
"Bagaya Road, you are not allowed to work if you listen, otherwise you will die!"
More than thirty puppet soldiers were frightened by the six Japanese soldiers. No one dared to resist them, but something had grown like poisonous weeds in their hearts, and they just had no chance to break out.
Two hours later, at three o'clock in the morning, the Japanese and puppet troops in the artillery building were about to eat. Since they had been besieged for seven or eight days, their supplies had been cut off, and they were left to their own devices. Especially the drinking water was running out visibly to the naked eye.
You can survive for a week without food, but you can't survive for three days without water.
The weather in August is extremely hot. Unless it is dry food, other cooked food will go bad within two days, and the Japanese rice balls will go rancid in one day.
They are all supported by dry food, but the dry food wastes water, or they cannot be swallowed at all, and even the dry food has changed its taste.
At noon, there was another hard cereal steamed bun for each person, which was not enough to fit between the teeth. The key point was that I couldn't swallow it and my throat hurt!
The Japs were different. Each of them was given a can of beef. When the lid was lifted, the greedy puppet soldiers drooled...
"Bagaya Road, what are you looking at? Look at the dead ground again!"
The Japanese are now relying on their old power to suppress the puppet troops in the artillery towers. As long as the puppet troops cannot be assigned to a grain hut, they still dare not resist the Japanese;
Some people have been kneeling for a long time and it is difficult to get them to stand up!
Of course, it's a different matter if someone is trying to make a fuss...
"Brothers of the puppet army, it's time for dinner again, is there any food left?
Did you share the Japanese canned beef with you?
They are all working for the Japanese. Why can they eat canned beef and you can only smell it and drool? "
"Brothers of the puppet army, our Eighth Route Army is also ready to eat!
I just submitted it a few days ago, and today we are eating meat buns! The white flour is so fragrant and oily comes out when you bite it!
Don't hesitate! Kill them, just a few Japs, and kill them. Not only will they have canned beef to eat, but they will also have meat buns to eat, the ones stuffed with meat! "
…
In the artillery building, while the Japanese soldiers were busy eating cans, the puppet platoon leader winked at a few veterans. A veteran walked towards the Japanese team leader in a mean manner, staring directly at the canned beef in the hands of the Japanese soldiers;
His back just blocked the hand of the puppet platoon leader who was pulling out the cannon...
"Bagaya! Get out of here and work, or you'll die."
After saying that, he put down the can in his hand and prepared to use his hands to pull out the tortoise box on his body. Several other Japanese soldiers also touched their own three-eight cans...
The arrow is on the string!
The puppet platoon leader was so cruel that he took out his cannon and shot the Japanese corps leader twice, and then he went back to his hometown.
"Bagaya road!"
"Pah! Pah!"
The puppet platoon leader killed another Japanese with two consecutive shots, and several other veterans pounced on the remaining Japanese.
"Poof! Poof!"
The Japanese bayonet stabbed the puppet platoon leader to death. He still overestimated the reaction speed of the veteran, but he did not regret it. He finally took action before he died!
Kill one to save money, kill two and earn one!
After a bloody battle, the puppet troops in the artillery building finally killed the remaining four Japanese, but they also paid the price of 5 casualties, killing 3 and injuring 2, including the puppet platoon leader.
More than 30 puppet troops took the lead in taking action, and even after paying such a heavy price, there is no one left. It is not that the Japanese are powerful, but that people are not straight, and they all have their own agendas, and they all want others to take action!
A few minutes later, a white flag was hoisted on the blockhouse. Under the Eighth Route Army's uninterrupted political offensive and psychological warfare, the puppet troops in another blockhouse chose to revolt.
The "chains" on the Japanese blockade were removed step by step...
