Regarding Yang Zhen's question, Peng Dingjie did not hesitate to answer Yang Zhen's question this time. Perhaps, in his opinion, the secret of the Japanese army in this regard is not a secret. As for the situation of the Anti-United Nations, that absolutely cannot be said. Although he knew that with the defection of his division commander, the three armies of the Anti-Japanese Alliance had almost no secrets for the Japanese army.

"Look at what you say. If it is for the devils, in their words, the shape of the bandit has always been very good. Since the beginning of this year, the devils have mobilized a large number of troops to fight against the coalition forces to encircle and suppress. In order to sever the ties between the Anti-Japanese Federation and the common people and cut off all the sources of food for the Anti-Japanese Federation, they also implemented the policy of returning the cantonments and merging households in the guerrilla areas. ”

"The little devil forcibly moved the people in the mountains out and moved them to a circle of people heavily guarded by the Japanese puppet army. While relocating the people in the mountains, they massacred the people who helped the Anti-Japanese Union, trying to intimidate the people from helping us. In vain, they tried to trap us to death and starve us to death in the deep mountains and old forests. ”

"Their hands are very vicious, so that the anti-Japanese federation in the mountains will not be able to get the necessary food, medicine, let alone soldiers. Their hands are very vicious, and we are anti-union. Speaking of this, Peng Dingjie suddenly stopped the topic.

After listening to Peng Dingjie's words, Yang Zhen secretly shook his head in his heart. He knew that the Anti-Japanese Federation had entered its most difficult period since 1938. For the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which lacked a base area, the method of merging the Japanese army on their way home was the most vicious and effective.

They cut off the connection between the Anti-Japanese Federation and the common people by returning to the cantonment and merging households, so that the Anti-Japanese Federation lost the necessary source of supplies, and could only starve to death and be trapped in the deep mountains and old forests. Summer is coming, and the rich mountainous areas of the northeast can always provide some food for the Anti-Japanese Federation to satisfy hunger. For everyone in the United Nations, the most difficult thing is the winter in the Northeast.

At this time, there is no greenhouse effect in later generations, and the winter is really cold. Especially in the northern part of the Northeast, which is now the Heilongjiang region where Yang Zhen is located, it is normal for heavy snowfall in October, and it is also common for the temperature to drop to minus 40 degrees, and the snow in the mountains is often as thick as one meter.

This kind of hardship of lack of food and clothing, and even the lack of necessary warm clothing, and the inability to light a bonfire for heating, is unimaginable for people in later generations, even today. In Yang Zhen's impression, it was during this period that the Anti-Japanese Union began to appear in large-scale mutinies. And the emergence of a large number of traitors gave the most fatal blow to the Anti-Union.

For any unit, once a large number of traitors appear, then this force has no more secrets in front of its opponents. This is the most lethal for the Anti-Alliance, which can only rely on the small reserves of the secret camp in the mountains to make corrections.

After losing the secret camp and being in the war all day, the Anti-Japanese Federation lost its last supplies under the situation of the Japanese army's large-scale implementation of the return to the cantonment and the merger of households. In the end, many of the anti-coalition forces were defeated, but were destroyed by starvation, freezing and traitors. Of course, there are also many mistakes in decision-making.

Looking at Yang Zhen, who was deep in thought, Guo Bingxun, who had not spoken all this time, pulled him and pointed to Patten Dingjie, who had fallen asleep because of his injuries and exhaustion, and whispered: "What do you believe he is anti-union?" Is there really an anti-Japanese force in the Northeast now? ”

"Yes, why not? From the 918 little devils who invaded the entire three eastern provinces to the present, in this vast black land, the anti-Japanese beacon fire has not subsided. The Anti-Japanese Federation in his mouth is the anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines led by our party, and they have been persisting in the struggle. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen sighed and said: "Originally, I wanted to know more about the Anti-United Nations from his mouth, and make some considerations for us after we get out of danger." I just didn't expect his mouth to be so strict? Vigilance is also so high? ”

"Their division commanders have all defected, and the secrets he should know are no longer real secrets to the little devil, but he still refuses to divulge them to us. You also heard the conversation we had just now, and it was basically some polite words and some basic information that everyone knows, and even some nonsense. ”

"Although I appreciate the vigilance of this person, I am not sure whether this person is really a soldier of the Anti-United Nations. Although this person speaks Northeast dialect, it does not mean that he is Chinese. The Japanese invaders had infiltrated the Northeast for a long time before 918, and in order to seize the Northeast, they trained many spies who were born and raised in the Northeast and could not even see any difference in clothing and accent. ”

"We are unarmed and detained, but we are all soldiers. For the little devil, having so many prisoners of war together is not a stable factor after all. Especially this bacteriological warfare unit, which is also top secret for little devils. And the best way to know what we're doing as prisoners of war is to put a nail in our minds. Because of the quarantined state, there is no need for them to develop spies within us. But that doesn't mean they can't insert a person. ”

"We have records of our interrogations in the hands of the little devils, and our identities are no secret to them. They knew that the two of us were the highest-ranking prisoners of war on both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and if they had mastered our movements and ideas, they would have mastered the movements and ideas of these people. These little devils have studied the Chinese army very thoroughly, especially the national army, including the troops of various factions. ”

"They know that there is a problem with the troops of any faction in the national army, when they fight alone, once the commander of the unit is killed or escapes, the only thing that awaits this force is to disperse. This is especially evident in your local troops, and this is the consequence of the soldiers. ”

"If this person is really a spy sent by the little devils, presumably they will put you and me in one cell, and the report is to control you and me, and the others who do not take the lead can only be slaughtered by them at will. So I've always been a little worried that this person is a little devil who has been planted around us to accuse you and me. ”

"If he were talking about the arrested underground party, I wouldn't be so worried, if the little devils want to know what they want from the people who are arrested, it is impossible not to punish them. But he said that I was really worried about the soldiers of the Anti-United Nations who were captured because of the defection of their superiors. These injuries on his body are so abnormal. Could it be that his words were made up to win our sympathy? Was his vigilance a defensiveness and distrust of us, or did he simply not know and could not answer us? ”

"I've been thinking that since his superiors have defected, then his unit has no secrets to the little devil, why does the little devil still torture him? It's not that I'm suspicious, but the lives of hundreds of brothers are at stake, and I can't help but be cautious. Have you ever wondered what little devils would do once they knew that we already knew their true intentions? ”

It's just that after listening to Yang Zhen's words, Guo Bingxun said with some disapproval: "No, Brother Yang, you are wrong." I've just seen all the injuries on his body, and they're all real, not only have they really been tortured, but they're also very serious. Many of them have already injured their bones and internal organs, and even if this person can get out alive, even if he can get timely and effective treatment, his life span will not be too great. The wounds on his body were too severe. ”

"If the little devil wants to plant spies around you and me, he shouldn't spend such a big money. A qualified agent is not a cabbage on the side of the road, nor is he a soldier who can be trained in three months. I think he should be telling the truth. And if the little devil really sends a spy in, he must be completely prepared. If he really made up lies to win our trust, he would have answered our questions more than he was so defensive about us as he is now. ”

"The spies that the little devils you said trained in the Northeast are no different from the people in the Northeast, but I was fortunate to see them in person when I was fighting in Xuzhou. And I was captured because of these agents. ”

"When I broke through, I was ordered to take a guard company to cover the military radio station that had fallen behind. I thought of it there, and I met a few stragglers who claimed to be the 51st Army of the Northeast Army. The commander of my guard company read a comradeship, and when he heard that their accents were no different from those of the 51st Army, he took them with him without suspicion, but he thought that these people were the native-born spies trained by the little devil in the northeast. ”

"They saw that we were carrying a radio and thought we were High Command. While we were camping and resting, at least one Japanese brigade surrounded us. Although the guard company I brought with me was the most well-equipped in the 41st Army, there were no Sichuan-made rifles, and all of them were authentic Hanyang-made rifles produced in Hanyang. Each platoon also had a Belgian-made Browning light machine gun, and a pistol platoon equipped with a German-style fully automatic Mauser pistol. ”

"But in the absence of replenishment after a long battle, this rifle only has a dozen rounds per rifle. Even the machine guns, which were relatively well stocked, had only one magazine per gun on average and were less than sixty percent of their usual number, and there were many non-combatant guard companies that did not even have guns, which were the opponents of a well-armed Japanese brigade. ”

"The company of guards ran out of ammunition in less than two hours of fierce fighting, and after several hand-to-hand fights, most of them were killed, and a few and all non-combatants were captured. Fortunately, the radio station and password were destroyed by us in time. However, good and evil will be rewarded, and those Japanese spies tried to escape when we were surrounded, but they were shot and killed by the commander of the guard company who realized that something was wrong. ”

"After we were captured, when the Japanese army found the Japanese spies who were killed by us when they were cleaning up the battlefield, the Japanese soldier who led the team looked very distressed. In addition to slaughtering all the wounded, as is customary, they also pulled three times as many of our captured personnel as those agents to assassinate them on the spot to vent their hatred. ”

"So I don't think the little devils will not fail to cherish these spies they have cultivated, and they will have such a heavy hand. For those traitors like dogs, they can care about life and death. But these carefully cultivated spies, with the shrewd character of the little devils, will not give up lightly until the last moment. Especially for those of us who don't have much ability to resist in their eyes, they won't spend so much. ”

"But I understand that he's so cautious. Brother Yang, you think, since their division commanders have rebelled, why are the little devils still tortured him? Is it just to force him to surrender? I think for little devils, if you want to break the will to resist the United Nations in your mouth, the role of a division commander is much greater than that of an adjutant of a regimental headquarters. After all, officers at the level of division commander can be said to be senior officials in that army. ”

"For those of them who refuse to surrender and don't have much use, according to the characteristics of the little devils, they won't go through such a big effort, and they can be killed. At most, he borrowed his head to show his power. I think the reason why the devils tortured him was because they wanted to know something from his mouth that their division commander didn't know. ”

"You're from a ** background, I think you should know what you're going to do inside. Your organization and division of labor are unmatched by any political party. Since you said that the Anti-Japanese Federation is also your troops, I think you should have some eyebrows on this matter. Brother Yang, since you brought us out of here, I think this snake is still useful to us. There's nothing wrong with being cautious, but you still have to know something from his mouth. ”

When Guo Bingxun said these words, there was one sentence that was not complete. The reason why his guard company commander agreed to those few soldiers disguised as Northeast Army soldiers was not because of sympathy. Instead, the loss of troops was too great, and there was nowhere to replenish them, so the idea of containing stragglers to replenish the troops was moved.

What's more, what he couldn't say was that the company commander contained these skirmishers not only for the sake of reducing the number of troops, but the most important thing was that he also took a fancy to the Belgian-made rifles that were rarely seen in their Sichuan army units carried by those so-called skirmishers.

This kind of rifle with excellent performance cannot but be said to be a great temptation for the Sichuan army troops, most of whom are equipped with Sichuan-made singles rifles, and there is an authentic Hanyang-made first-class good gun.

It was precisely with this idea in mind that the commander of the guard company kindly sheltered these stragglers who had brought disaster to him. Otherwise, according to the fact that they were running out of supplies at that time, there were still stragglers who had the leisure to contain other troops?

Except for those units with strong regional concepts, such as those of the Gui system, this is a common problem of the national army's troops, and it is also the usual method used by some units of the national army to maintain their combat effectiveness.

Even when some of the Central Army suffered heavy losses, they not only contained other people's scattered stragglers, but also swallowed up other people's formed troops in one gulp without any taboos. This kind of practice has become a habitual practice in the national army, and there is no need to go into too much detail about it now.