To the east of Mei County, eighty miles east, is Qixian County.
Gendarmerie Office.
A simple wooden two-story building with mottled broken windows inlaid with pieces of uneven glass.
The light came in in broad daylight, and it was still smoky and poorly lit, but this did not mean that this dark and fallen place was as noisy and bustling as before. There were five or six tables with empty benches all over the floor, and four or five guys were squirming around the innermost table. Ba Wai smoked quietly, occasionally coughing dejectedly.
Zaijiu sat in his old seat at the back, with a squinting look on his face, one elbow on the table, and one hand stroking his shiny bald head: "Where is Lao Qi? Why hasn't he been seen in the past two days?"
The police station, detective team, night raid team, county magistrate and other big and small bosses were all present.
The military police captain had a somewhat old-fashioned look on his back and a command knife was placed on the table in front of him. The atmosphere was gloomy at this time.
The detective team leader on the right is reporting: "...received a call from the Mei County Detective Team, saying that an unknown armed force had sneaked into the mountainous area of Qixian County and its whereabouts were unknown!"
The gendarmerie captain smiled slightly after hearing this: "Unknown armed forces? If you dare to come to us, they must be working for the Eighth Route Army. Very good... Now that they are under your nose, yours, immediately find out the size and movement of the team, and surround them in our Defense zone! Catch them all in one sweep!"
The bureau chiefs, captains, and county magistrates all around looked around, but did not speak. At this time, Taijun seemed happy, but in fact he was angry, and there was no need to stir up trouble.
The captain of the night attack, who was sitting down, had to report another news: "On the east bank of the Qihe River, near the Caodian area of Huaxian County, in the area where the Central Army and the Eighth Route Army were cleared by the imperial army in the first half of the year, we recently discovered that at night , and there are a large number of unknown people still operating in that area, showing signs of resurgence."
The detective team leader next to him was shocked: "What did you say? The imperial army carried out village-by-village raids in Qixian, Junxian, Jixian and Huaxian counties. Where did these people come from?"
The captain of the military police had already received the news, and was not surprised: "Humph, some of the Tubal guerrillas have been burned by wildfires and rekindled by the spring breeze. It seems that our intensity in burning, killing, and robbing them all is still high." Strengthen! Everyone, please maintain high pressure. If you find one, kill one. Please remember that you must not be soft on these guerrillas..."
"Report!" A Japanese military policeman came in outside the door, holding a folder in his hand.
"Read!" the gendarmerie captain said, not shying away from the Chinese people sitting here, since they couldn't understand him anyway.
"Anxian County Super High School Division sent a telegram and found an Eighth Route Army team. At the junction of the two counties, they showed signs of moving south and were about a battalion in size. Anxian County is mobilizing cavalry and security forces to search and contain them, and has asked the Xinxiang Aviation Army to dispatch aircraft for reconnaissance! "The military policeman finished speaking quickly in the chirping of birds, then bent down and stood solemnly to obey the order.
"Interesting, the Eighth Route Headquarters has been destroyed, and these hidden rats finally got out of the rat hole!" The military police captain looked at the Chinese people present with a smile and disdain: "This time, everyone must unite sincerely and not let anyone go. Tuba Road!"
"yes!"
"I will never let anyone go..."
The traitors expressed their opinions one after another.
"Uh, Sir Captain, how do you respond to the special high school class?" asked the standing military policeman.
"Immediately, in my name, please ask General Shigeta Tokusatsu, commander of the 35th Division, to assemble a brigade and the 4th Cavalry Brigade to assemble a brigade on standby to crush the area where Tubal Road is discovered!" The captain was unpredictable.
"Captain, the 35th Division has gone south to Kaifeng to participate in the attack on the Chinese army. It is impossible to return in a short time!" The military police cautiously approached the captain and reminded him in a low voice in the song of birds.
The captain narrowed his cross-eyed eyes slightly and glared at the military policeman. Then he glanced around and saw that these cowardly Chinese people probably couldn't understand the conversation between him and his subordinates.
The captain felt helpless and stood up with a dark face: "Please gather your troops immediately and cancel the vacation for everyone, please!"
Tubal Road has little combat effectiveness. Based on previous experience, the security forces alone can handle it.
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"Information from the division shows that in addition to the Japanese raids in the mountains at the beginning of the year, part of the 35th Division, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, carried out a frantic raid on the four southern counties, robbing, burning, and killing them all, and even more so on the plains. The villages were raided, leaving the plain almost deserted!"
When the political commissar spoke above, everyone below was frightened, talking in low voices, and shouting curses.
The political commissar looked at the lively scene below with satisfaction: "Then, everyone knows that there has been no rain in the plains this year, an unprecedented famine has arrived, and the damn locust plague has appeared again, eating up some of the remaining crops along the river overnight. Light, there is no green on the earth, dry grass is everywhere, and the ground is thousands of miles bare!”
"Down with Japanese imperialism..."
The voices of the dignitaries began to get excited: "What's more, in the years of famine, there were also man-made disasters. Every time the Japanese occupied a piece of land, they forced our compatriots to grow opium. They explicitly ordered the eight guards in northern Henan to grow opium: 30,000 acres in An County and 8,000 acres in Tangyin. acres, 3,000 acres in Junxian County, and there are more than 500 opium dens in Junxian County, Qixian County, and Huaxian County in each county, and brothels are set up everywhere to allow our sisters to serve the Japanese."
"The old Japanese devil is his grandma!"
"If I don't kill a few devils, I'm the son of a donkey..."
Finally the crowd was furious.
However, the voice of the government became deeper and deeper: "The Japanese and puppet troops also forcibly recruited strong men, and in the occupied areas, one was drawn out of every two men, and two men were drawn out of every third man! The occupied areas continued to expand, and the people lacked labor, causing the people to live in poverty. Junxian, Huaxian, and Qixian The people of Ji County fled to Shanxi in large numbers and made a living by clearing wasteland. Many people...died on the way to escape..."
A recruit couldn't help but said: "Brother Ding, there are so many of us, how about we go back to our old profession and rob the Japanese county town!"
Seeing how this guy ruined the atmosphere, the political commissar couldn't help crying or laughing, and raised his head: "Who are you robbing? Huh? Are you going to rob An County?"
"Hey, these people are so poor, so we can't rob them, right?" This guy is too disgraceful.
Luo Fugui, who was next to him, kicked him: "Grandma, is this your future? You don't know that you are now in the Eighth Route Army? Huh?"
After saying that, Luo Fugui turned his head, and for the first time there was a trace of shame in his eyes: "That political commissar, hey, I will definitely educate them."
The new recruits did not dare to say anything and continued to receive the ideological education from the political commissar.
In a broken house in the village, a soldier rushed into the house, and everyone in the house immediately turned to look.
"Captain Hu, no one has been found in the villages to the south. Cavalry scouts have appeared in the north..." The soldier panted and looked excited.
Hu Yi's face turned dark instantly.
This soldier had been chased by cavalry and had no idea how powerful the cavalry was, but now there were friendly troops from the military division in the south, and even the independent regiment that had set off first had arrived.
It is still in enemy-occupied territory, but it is no longer the same as before. The underground organization has already figured out the approximate strength of the Japanese and puppet troops in nearby counties and even towns. The situation is completely different from the last time they encountered the Japanese cavalry.
The dam of the Yellow River was bombed, and the people in the Yellow River area on the north bank were displaced. The originally desolate land became even more depressed. The Japanese had little interest in these unproductive and unproductive lands. The garrison was extremely weak, which was a helpless move for the Japanese army.
The food on the land can hardly even feed the people who farm it. Such land, after occupation, is useless and has to be invested in manpower and food.
