After the Japanese raids in May, the tightening of security in the occupied areas did not relax, and they even carried out frantic purges.
The Eighth Route Army came to the Public Security Model District for activities. The Japanese Special High-Tech Department immediately attached great importance to it and sent many more personnel to An County, vowing to dig out the Eighth Route Army.
On the vast plain to the east of the second blockade outside the mountain, the roads that had been built on a large scale before the sweep were connected in a network. There were gun towers at the intersections of the big roads, and strongholds and bunkers were built on the small roads. They were densely packed. You can just walk from the village. On the highway, you can see the turrets in the distance.
Maintenance committees were organized in most villages, and traitors from the detective team joined the anti-communist regiment. They vigorously recruited idle second-rate men in the villages to serve as liaisons and intelligence agents. Boundary trenches were dug between counties and boundary walls were built between districts. People were sent to stay between the village and the village.
A network of telephone lines was set up in all directions between the blockhouses. The landlords, wealthy people, and gangsters who had oppressed the people in the past all appeared again. For a time, traitors were in power.
The traitors, along with the Japanese, puppet soldiers, and policemen, rode their own cars and motorcycles in various villages, searching and running around everywhere.
The situation was unprecedentedly bad, and most of the guerrillas and regular troops had to move into the mountains.
The people's homes were so poor that they had to provide grain. Young girls and women cut their hair short and smeared their faces to prevent being raped by the Japanese, and they did not even dare to go out. The plains were somewhat depressed, and there were activities of armed workers everywhere. The Eighth Route Army actually returned to the plains again, even using machine guns and small artillery at the same time.
It really frightened the gang of traitors who came to reinforce and stayed in the artillery tower. The imperial army said that it had eliminated the Eighth Route Headquarters, and the news might be inaccurate.
Zhou Bapi is determined to become a traitor, although his mouth is as tough as a duck's.
But he was also extremely frightened. He planned to send people into the village to arrest people at dawn and dig another blockade trench in the east.
Li Xiang's two grenades really taught the traitors a lesson. The second grenade landed on the moving armored vehicle without any deviation.
Half of the armored car was blown up, and the heads of the Japanese who poked their heads out to observe from the roof of the car were blown off. The armored car was covered in brains. The three Japanese in the car were fine. They were only injured, but The injury was not light either.
The Japanese captain of the Anxian Special High School who was celebrating the victory heard that the armored vehicles were bombarded by the Eighth Route Army, so he ordered a lieutenant to lead a squadron overnight, motorcycles to clear the way, seven or eight cars, with infantry guns hanging from the back, patrolling back and forth for most of the night. After tossing the three Japanese soldiers out of the armored car and searching around to no avail, they returned angrily.
The nearby security forces, puppet troops, guards and black dogs also listened to Zhou Papi's and his gang's embellished stories, and they were all thinking about how to live their lives in the future.
The very next day, two police black dogs asked for sick leave. Another day later, a security team member said there was something going on at home and disappeared after leaving the blockhouse. The two puppet soldiers went to the toilet in the middle of the night and started playing. Missing.
The atmosphere was very depressing. Su Qing sat at the table and listened to Lao Zhou copying the information he had gathered around on paper and preparing to send it to the regiment headquarters and then to the division, and then assigned new tasks to Lao Zhou and the others.
Not long after, all the members of the Ninth Company who were attending the meeting sat sparsely at the door.
"It's great if we take over the artillery building directly. We can also save a lot of bullets. You can see that we have done some loss-making business these days." Luo Fugui knew from the monkey's boast that the two daring guys had touched a puppet army artillery building.
"That's a beautiful thought. Do you think that even if he has a turret, he would dare to sleep at night while on duty in the turrets behind him?" The girl was dressed like a commoner, with her pigtails tilted back.
“In addition to finding ways to win over Zhou Papi, we also need to find out the situation of the people in other blockhouses. If these traitors really refuse to change their ways, we must find ways to get rid of them and open up transportation lines. These gun towers must be taken down." Su Qing sat at the top and wrote while discussing with everyone.
Vice-captain Hu Yi was sitting at the door cleaning his gun. He was not interested in the meeting. A dozen people crowded into Zhou Lan's relative's house.
Lao Zhou had also heard about Zhou Lan's family affairs. Speaking of which, they were still distant relatives. However, the Zhou family clan was too big and too far apart. The Han Dynasty had never moved around, and the specific situation was not well understood.
Zhou Cheng rested for a day and then left here and returned to where he should go. Although his identity has not been confirmed, there should be no mistake that he is a member of the underground organization.
Zhou Lan was naturally not involved in such a meeting, but it was attributed to the activist category.
"Do we have to go after Zhou Papi, the artillery tower?" Lao Zhou asked doubtfully.
"There are troops stationed in the small town to the north, there are a large number of Japanese troops stationed in An County in the southeast, and there are also heavy troops stationed in Mei County in the south to the west." Luo Fugui is more familiar with the area west of the blockade.
"Okay, we still have manpower deployed in the turret, but if that doesn't work, let the insider look for opportunities inside the turret to knock him to death." Lao Yiyi gritted his teeth.
Su Qing carefully analyzed the intelligence collected from Lao Zhou: "Don't worry, our armed workers must also abide by the laws of the anti-Japanese government, and we can give him some time to repent."
"The man surnamed Zhou was a bandit. I think staying here will be a disaster after all." Lao Zhou has no good impression of Zhou Papi, the family member.
"Bandit? He may have become a bandit to fill his belly. Director Su is right. Give him some time to repent." Luo Fugui spoke quickly.
"You talk a lot, go ahead." Su Qing glared at Luo Fugui.
"We were asked to attend the meeting. If we don't say anything, we won't say anything." Luo Fugui did not dare to resist Director Su. He complained a few words out of habit, got up and sat on the stool next to Hu Yi.
"Hey, Boss Hu, why do you think we should implement a lenient policy towards our enemies?"
Hu Yi raised his head: "When did you become concerned about this matter?"
"Why else? Anyway, I just have nothing to do."
"Really free?"
"It's so leisurely."
"Then you go back to the village."
"Then forget it." Erniu was still in the west.
"It's not just to win over the puppet soldiers and traitors to change their minds and fight the Japanese, but to use policies to inspire them not to go against our Eighth Route Army!" The girl next to me said it briskly and familiarly.
"That way? The same goes for landlords and rich people? Do hardcore traitors also give them a chance?" Luo Fugui asked another question.
"What do you know? There are limits to leniency policies. Hard-core traitors who refuse to change despite repeated admonitions must be severely punished. Kill them ten or eight times. This is called killing chickens to show to monkeys."
"Girl, you called me, what are you looking at?" The monkey, who was wiping Shi's iron claws with a piece of cloth, looked up and glanced at Luo Fugui and the girl who were muttering.
"What kind of harsh law? Light a sky lantern or soak a pig cage?" After yawning, Luo Fugui leaned against the door panel next to Hu Yi.
"Anyway, you can do whatever you want to make them die miserably. If you don't like it, just break their jaws open." The girl looked at Luo Fugui's cowardice with pride.
"You mean those traitors have gold teeth in their mouths, so that's good!" he muttered with his eyes closed.
Su Qing closed the document in his hand, put away his pen, and looked at Hu Yi, who was cleaning his gun all day long at the door: ""Now let's talk about the establishment of a militia team, and ask Captain Hu to explain it to everyone. "
There was warm applause around the table in the room, and then Jiulian beside the door came back to his senses and sparsely followed suit.
Even though he was chasing a duck to get on the shelf, Hu Yi had to bite the bullet, even though he was the vice-captain.
He had no idea how to deal with the people. Apart from using guns and bullets, Hu Yi was a little nervous!
Fortunately, the political commissar had a long talk with him before he came out. Hu Yi listened very carefully and knew something about it.
"Captain Hu, please don't hide your secrets." Lao Zhou admired the Ninth Company sent here by the Independent Regiment. The guerrillas who used to operate in this area had mostly old sleeves, blunderbuss, and homemade single-shot weapons. First, broadswords, shuttlecocks, even hoes, shell guns, etc. are all only available at the captain level.
The Ninth Company that came back this time was really long-lived, with machine guns, rifles, small cannons, and a shell gun in each hand, with shiny bayonets, which was an eye-opener.
Naturally, I am more confident in fighting the Japanese.
Hu Yi stood there: "Before we came out, the political commissar said that the first step is to mobilize the masses. Instructor Su has already said that, I won't talk about this. I just want to talk about the militia training. In two days, we will Someone will come here to provide special guidance.”
After Hu Yi finished speaking, he looked at everyone around him looking at him, still waiting for his next step.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Hu Yi smiled awkwardly: "I'm done."
The people around were a little dumbfounded. Before the Japanese raided the troops retreating into the mountains, which leader didn't give a lecture for half an hour? From the glorious development history of the Eighth Route Army, how the Japanese occupied our land and insulted our sisters, let’s talk about our common responsibilities and our firm belief that we can win...
Captain Hu is done with these two sentences? What does the captain named Hu mean?
Hu Yi really wasn't interested in the new recruits who had just been organized after training, so he planned to ask Ma Liangtian Sanqi to bring people over, and he would be the hands-off shopkeeper.
Another group of people will be dragged to the west of the blockade for training. If it is not too far away, they will be packed directly into the mountains, giving Hao Ping a headache.
