After arranging the commander-in-chief to rest, Yang Zhen, who was eager to understand the changes in the enemy situation around him, found Li Mingrui and Huang Dali as soon as possible. Looking at Li Mingrui, who had not been seen for more than 20 days and had lost a whole circle of darkness, Yang Zhen said: "Mingrui, what did you find this time?" This telegram is not as clear as what you have reported. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's question, Li Mingrui hurriedly said, "Commander, this time we will go north first according to the plan you formulated, and then go south to operate on the west side of the entire blockade circle close to the devils. After more than ten days of activities, many suspicious characters were indeed found in the mountains and forests. Among them, we killed more than 10 people and captured more than 20 people. And had more than ten contacts with the small troops who entered the mountains by the Japanese puppets. ”

"After interrogation, we can be sure that except for two or three people who secretly went into the mountains to get some mountain goods for the New Year, the rest of the more than 30 people were Japanese puppet spies disguised as mountain merchants and hunters. Especially the more than ten people who were killed, all of them were Japanese pseudo-spies in makeup. ”

Among these people, there were more than 20 puppet Manchu spies, and the rest were Japanese spies born and raised in Manchuria. Commander, although the puppet Manchurian spies are a little more cunning, they are more afraid of death, and it is easy to pry their mouths open. The hardest ones to deal with were the Japanese spies. ”

"Most of these Japanese spies are from the Northeast where they grew up, and they speak very authentic Northeast dialect. Even every move in words and deeds is no different from the Northeast people we have come into contact with. It's extremely difficult to tell the difference from the language alone. If you hadn't taught us to take off our pants to see if they were wearing underwear, what kind of underwear they were wearing, and the compass they carried, we would have almost fooled them a few times. ”

"When we were about to leave, you repeatedly explained that although the Japanese are very similar to the Chinese in appearance, especially those Japanese spies who have lived in China since childhood and have been deliberately trained by them, whether it is language, dress, or even habits, there is almost no difference from the Chinese."

But there is one thing that they think they can't change if they keep their traditions, and that is the habit of making diapers that they have developed since childhood. And Chinese, rich and noble people are used to wearing underwear. As for the poor, they generally don't wear underwear, and no one chooses their diapers that are both expensive and can't hold anything. And this season, there must be no rich people who enter the mountains to have this leisure. Therefore, for the identification of Japanese pseudo-spies, we will follow your method, almost a hundred tests, and none of them are missed. ”

Regarding Li Mingrui's report, Yang Zhen nodded and said, "You did a good job." However, your mission is not only to clear out the spies entering the mountains, but also to turn the attention of the Japanese puppet army to the mountains north of Dunhua, how has the mission been completed? ”

"Commander, don't worry, we won't forget your explanations. We focused our crackdown on the Japanese puppet spies, because although these people did not have much combat effectiveness, they were the greatest danger to us. Therefore, when we encounter a small group of Japanese puppet troops, we almost try to avoid encountering them unless necessary. Instead, the focus was on these agents. ”

"In front of those few people who could be sure to be ordinary people, our seemingly unintentional words also pointed our secret camp to the mountains north of Dunhua. In order to play the role of deceiving the enemy, we adopted various means, and even deliberately let go of a few puppet Manchurian spies. However, in order to appear more realistic, we executed several captured Japanese agents in front of those puppet Manchu agents. ”

"If it weren't for the telegram from you, the commander-in-chief would have already crossed the Mudanjiang River for us to answer, and it is estimated that at this time, I think we should have done almost everything for this mission. However, in order to better complete the task, when I took over the commander-in-chief, I only took two squads. The rest of the personnel were handed over to Huang Dali and Dong Ping to continue to deal with the Japanese puppet army. ”

"It's been five days since we've been apart. If there is no accident, they should now follow our predetermined plan, spread out near the first line of Laobaishan near the blockade line in the north of Dunhua, attack in small formations, and consciously take the initiative to find contact with the small troops of the Japanese puppet army entering the mountains, and put the last stone on our plan. ”

After listening to Li Mingrui's report, Yang Zhen nodded with great satisfaction and then turned to Guo Bingxun beside him and said: "It seems that they have done a good job, not only strictly implementing the tasks assigned by their superiors, but also adapting according to the changes in their shape, and not rigidly implementing the battle plan assigned by their superiors." It's good, there's progress. ”

Hearing this, Guo Bingxun also nodded: "I see that their task is almost completed, and I think they can be notified to withdraw in a few days." Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, and they are far away from supplies, it is better to withdraw early to rest. ”

"If they do this, if the little devil believes, then judging from the complex terrain of the upper reaches of the Mudanjiang River in Dunhua to the Hailang River, which has both high mountains, dense forests, and large swamps, even if they mobilize heavy troops to take a dragnet type of clearance, it will not be completed in a month and a half. This area is not the shallow mountain terrain of Wuchang and Acheng, but is really high and densely forested. Combined with the time it takes for them to mobilize enough troops, it should buy us two months. ”

"If they do this, the little devils still don't believe it, I can only say that it is better to let them withdraw as soon as possible. If their small forces remain there, they will not be able to contain the enemy, cooperate with us in combat, and they will not be able to guarantee their own safety. On the contrary, it distracts our own strength. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Bingxun turned the topic to Li Mingrui and said: "Are there any casualties in your outings this time, and how is the supply situation now?" ”

"There were no casualties except for two minor injuries. Because we agreed not to make contact with the Japanese puppet army entering the mountain before arriving at Mt. Biwa, and to avoid them as much as possible. During the activity, the spacing between the squads was strictly in accordance with the commander's requirements, and the opponent was a Japanese puppet spy with poor combat effectiveness, so except for two soldiers who were slightly injured, the rest of the people had nothing to do. ”

"One of the two wounded was also arrested by the agent, who did not expect that the agent who was deliberately hiding would resist stubbornly and was cut in the arm by a knife. The other one was when he was camping, he was almost not touched by the little devil spies, and was injured by the grenades thrown by the little devil spies when he counterattacked, and he received a few shrapnel on his buttocks, but the injuries were not serious, and it did not affect the march and combat of the troops. ”

"It was a dangerous night, and six agents took advantage of our campfire to get to the camp of a squad. If it weren't for the fact that when the commander gave us special training, he specially taught us how to camp in the mountains and forests at night, and this squad used grenades to set up tripping mines around us to serve as an alarm, and we would have really suffered a big loss. ”

"However, although the casualties are not large, the supplies are almost exhausted when I break up with Huang Dali and Dong Ping. Commander, chief of staff, you two have just said that the day is as cold as a day, and in the field, in order to maintain the body of the soldiers, although many ways have been thought of, the supplies are consumed quickly. ”

Speaking of this, Li Mingrui took out a notebook from his satchel, walked to the map hanging behind Yang Zhen, looked at Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, and said, "Commander, chief of staff, let me report some of the information we got during the interrogation of the Japanese puppet spies. ”

After seeing Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun nodding, Li Mingrui pointed to the map and said, "Commander, you estimate that the southern edge of the devil's blockade line is in the upper reaches of the Mudanjiang River. Maybe the devils don't leave us too much room for activities, so the southern edge of their blockade line did not choose the Mudanjiang River, but placed it in the north of the line of Emu Town and Qinggouzi. Their western blockade line is not on the line of Wei'an Mountain, but on the line of the Ant River. ”

"This time, the Japanese puppet army mobilized the troops to encircle and suppress us, including two mixed brigades of the Fourth Military District of the puppet Manchukuo Army, as well as four military police companies stationed in Harbin, the Ning'an Military Police Regiment, plus the two regiments of the Ning'an Forest Police and the Binsui Road Protection Police stationed in Wuchang and Maoershan, as well as part of the Japanese Army's independent Fifth Garrison."

"Moreover, with the completion of the Japanese puppet army's clearance of the Xiajiang area, in recent days, the Japanese army has decided to transfer a wing of the Japanese Fourth Division from the Japanese troops in the Xiajiang area to clear the North Manchurian area to strengthen the blockade of the area where we may be hiding, and prepare to participate in the encirclement and suppression of us."

"The two mixed brigades of the puppet Manchu army are stationed in Changting Town in Ning'an and Emu Town in Dunhua respectively. Its troops were mainly distributed on the southern and eastern fronts. The thin line is composed of the so-called two regiments of Binsui Railway Road Guard Police, which were originally stationed in Wuchang and Maoershan. The blockade of the northern front was carried out by the two squadrons of the Japanese Army's Independent Fifth Garrison, as well as the Ning'an Military Police Regiment and the Ning'an Forest Police.

However, in order to strengthen the monitoring of the puppet Manchu army, the Japanese army strengthened. Although there were no large Japanese units stationed in the rest of the directions, almost every puppet Manchu army had at least one squad of Japanese troops. All the radio stations of the puppet Manchurian military and police were all in the hands of the Japanese army. Moreover, the Japanese puppet army sent a large number of so-called Xuanfu classes in almost all the group tribes around us, as well as in the market towns. ”

"According to the confession of the captured puppet Manchurian agent, in order to eliminate us, the Japanese army specially transferred Lieutenant General Sasaki to the First Lieutenant General from Kannai who was originally the top adviser of the puppet Manchurian military and political department to serve as the commander of the independent Fifth Garrison, specifically responsible for the elimination of us."

"However, these spies are some of the lowest level of small spies, and most of the spies who have a certain understanding of the upper echelons except for a puppet Manchurian gendarmerie company commander do not know anything. The composition of the devil's blockade line this time was confessed by the company commander. But it doesn't know much about the details of this Sasaki to one. ”

"It's just one thing for sure, the devil's large-scale seizure of civilian guns to cut off the source of weapons and ammunition for the anti-United Nations was brought up by this guy when he was an adviser to the puppet Manchurian military and political department. The transformation of the puppet Manchu army was also made by this guy. Sending some of the little devil retired officers to serve in the puppet Manchurian army was also made by this guy. He even personally commanded the puppet Manchu army's encirclement and suppression operations in the Xiajiang area and South Manchuria. ”

"Is that him?" Hearing Li Mingrui's report on the name of the supreme commander of the Japanese army who attacked him this time, Yang Zhen's face changed slightly. The face that was calm just now was unusually strict in an instant, and even his expression showed a hint of hideousness from time to time.

Looking at the change in Yang Zhen's face, Guo Bingxun said with some curiosity: "What, the commander has heard of this guy?" ”

"It's not just that I've heard of it, it's like thunder. Let's not talk about the huge losses that this guy has brought to the Anti-United Nations in the Northeast. Just saying that this guy committed a crime in Nanjing last year when he was the commander of the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army was enough to shoot him a thousand times. ”

"In the Nanjing Massacre, there were two divisions of the Japanese army that killed the most people and committed the most crimes. One was Tani Toshio's 6th Division, and the other was Nakajima's 16th Division. What these two divisions did in Nanking was even called the beast army by their ally Nazi Germany. ”

And the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division was one of the most criminal and murderous units in the Nanjing Massacre among all the Japanese troops who participated in the Nanjing Massacre. This Sasaki and his subordinates committed heinous crimes against our Chinese nation in Nanjing. ”

"It's not just Nanjing, it's in the Northeast. The so-called "Three-Year Public Security Rectification Plan," which brought great losses to the Anti-Japanese Federation, was formulated by this guy when he was the top adviser to the puppet Manchurian military and political department. The so-called "Group Tribal Construction Plan", which brought endless danger to the Anti-Japanese Federation and even affected the survival of the Anti-Japanese Federation, was also made up by this guy. ”

For this Sasaki to the first lieutenant general, whether it is in the past life or in this life, Yang Zhen is deeply impressed by him. Not only him, but even every Chinese with a little bit of blood, will never forget this name.

However, he gritted his teeth with hatred for this guy, but Yang Zhen was not carried away by hatred. He knew that this Sasaki Zhiichi was able to train the scattered puppet Manchurian army into the most effective during the entire Anti-Japanese War when he was an adviser to the puppet Manchurian military and political department, and brought huge losses to the Anti-Japanese Federation, and even the puppet army whose combat effectiveness could compete with the middle troops of the Guannai National Army, was definitely not a good man.

It was also the so-called vicious plan of the group tribe that he proposed to cut off the lifeline of the Anti-United Nations, which brought a fatal blow to the Anti-United Nations. This makes it increasingly difficult for the Anti-Japanese Federation to survive, and there is nowhere to replenish. Even for every grain of grain to pay the price of blood and lives. single-handedly forced the Anti-United Nations into a desperate situation.

The plan he formulated against the Anti-Japanese Federation in the puppet Manchurians was even strictly implemented by the Kwantung Army until the end of the Anti-Japanese War. It was precisely these plans of his that made it possible for the remnants of the anti-coalition forces to no longer be able to gain a foothold in the northeast after suffering huge losses, and could only retreat to the territory of the Soviet Union to preserve their strength.

Not to mention anything else, just from the fact that the Kwantung Army, which has always been conceited, even did not hesitate to break the convention in order to deal with itself, and transferred back to the Kwantung Army this person who had not yet been hot in the post of commander of the military police of the Chinese garrison, it already shows that this guy is not a simple character. For such an opponent he was about to face, Yang Zhen didn't dare to be careless.

Strategically, you can despise your opponent, but tactically, you have to pay attention to any of your opponents, and Yang Zhen still understands this truth. After pondering for a long time, Yang Zhen said: "This new opponent, judging from his past experience, will be a tough opponent for us, and it can even be said that it is difficult to deal with. ”

"With no friendly support, no regular supplies, and no intelligence support, I don't think it's better to be still. The only thing that is good for us now is that we are in the shadows and they are in the light. ”

"I think we're going to rely on the fortifications for the time being, and we're going to be in the right position to put the brakes on the ground. If the enemy does not move, I will not move. If the enemy moves, we will move again. As much as I don't like to be passive, the best thing for us right now is to continue to stay hidden. When the devils are dispatched, we will look for fighters in the middle of the movement. ”