Chapter 16 It's no longer the overbearing imperial army it used to be
"The little devil has reoccupied Jiazhuang?"
Walking into the regiment headquarters, Zhang Dabiao knew why the regiment commander called him to a meeting.
The new little devil finally got his hands dirty.
It's just that the way the little devil did it was beyond everyone's expectations.
"Yes, the little devil reoccupied Jiazhuang yesterday."
Seeing the last Zhang Dabiao walk in, an investigative intelligence officer in charge of reporting introduced the information he heard in an orderly manner, but his tone was full of worry, and he seemed to be very unoptimistic about the situation:
"However, this time, the little devil did not send people to forcibly recruit laborers to build a turret in Jiazhuang, send some troops to station, and then find a traitor landlord to loot the people."
"Instead, I sent a few traitor administrators from North China to form a so-called law and order maintenance association with some former bully landlords, and spread the word that the little devils were here to help us and make the people not resist. also entangled a group of ruffians, and the devils issued weapons to form a new security brigade. ”
"Jia Zhuang was handed over to this group of people to manage by the little devils."
"This group of people registered all the people in several villages near Jiazhuang, and carried out the previous set of armor protection system, and everyone who entered and left the village had to report and register with them, and they also set up an interrogation station with barbed wire at the entrance of the village, and the people in the village had to explain the reasons when they left the village, and they also sent people to check on a regular basis, and they even stipulated that night traffic was forbidden."
"In addition, this group of dogs also makes all the business of the common people have to be reported, and they must pay taxes according to their shares, and once they find out that they have concealed it, they will be shot immediately."
"That security brigade is also recruiting new bullies and hooligans all the time, and some of the family members of the Jiazhuang Liu traitors who were eliminated by us last year have joined this security brigade."
As the news was heard, everyone frowned.
As a cadre at the level of a basic regiment, battalion, and company, he has been dealing with the people of various villages in the base area for a long time, and everyone still has the vision and knows very well the consequences of the little devil's hand.
Once the little devil spreads this trick in various villages, the people in the village will be completely controlled by the devil, and the independent group will completely lose contact with these villages occupied by the devil, and no news can be passed back.
Not even the intelligence officers sent out could get close to the village.
In the past, the devils were short of manpower and could not completely control the occupied areas, and the puppet army was just messing around, turning a blind eye, but at that time, the devils occupied the areas, and the people of the independent regiment were free to enter and exit.
But this time, the group of ruffians and bullies specially recruited by the devils controlled the village, and this group of people did all kinds of evil, most of them were hardcore traitors, and they were very bad with the Eighth Route Army, such as those families in the Liu family compound in Jiazhuang at the beginning, and they hated the independent regiment to death, because it was the independent regiment that killed their master, the Liu traitor family.
Moreover, this time, the devil used the puppet army traitors to control the villages, and the troops were liberated, and there was no longer the weakness of the previous situation where the territory was too large and the troops were dispersed.
"Little devil's hand..."
"Not bad."
Zhao Gang squinted his eyes, and his tone was indescribably calm:
"Alleviate the problem of manpower shortage through traitors, use traitors to strengthen the ability to rule, strengthen control over the common people by various means, and cut off our ties with the common people in the areas occupied by the devils."
"It seems that the little devils are also aware of our true source of strength."
In the last sentence, Zhao Gang said with a sneer.
Political Commissar Zhao understood the reason for the devil's hand better than everyone else.
In the past few years, the little devil has actually felt very aggrieved.
Compared with the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army obviously has an absolute advantage in military strength, after all, there is only one independent regiment, and the weapons and ammunition provided by Boss Chen are only far from enough to equip the entire army, and the overall strength, the Japanese army is far stronger than itself.
However, in the past few years, not only has it failed to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, but it has expanded its troops to hundreds of thousands all the way, and the number of troops has increased nearly tenfold.
Presumably, the little devil is also puzzled by this matter.
Now, the little devil has finally understood that the reason why the army is getting stronger and stronger, and the reason why there are more and more base areas, is precisely because of the support of hundreds of millions of ordinary people. So they began to tighten their control over the common people.
"So what are we going to do?"
Zhang Dabiao thought about it, but didn't come up with a good way for a while.
Before defeating the new devils in Shou County, they had no choice but to watch the devils strengthen their control over the occupied areas, and after the devils strengthened their control areas, they would inevitably extend further and occupy the base areas of the independent regiment step by step.
This is a Yang plot to force the independent regiment to fight a decisive battle with the devils.
The current strength of the independent regiment is that it can be one-on-one and hard against a full brigade, and it can even be defeated, but in the absence of geographical advantages, it will inevitably pay a heavy price to fight against the devils.
And the devil is more than a full brigade.
As for the attack, it is absolutely impossible, the devils in Shou County suffered heavy losses at the beginning, and the city gate that was pressed did not dare to go out, and the independent regiment had no way to take the county seat, not to mention a full permanent division and regiment brigade on the Shou County side now.
The independent regiment lacked the ability to attack fortifications.
"What should I do?"
Grand Master Li also sneered, and his tone was full of disdain:
"Let's just watch."
"The little devil also looks down on those puppet soldiers too much, and he looks down on the common people too much, and wants to use this trick to compress our base area and force us to fight a decisive battle, but what he thinks is quite beautiful."
"It's been so long, and I still haven't learned my lesson."
"However, the little devil has also learned to be a little better, and he won't take the initiative to attack this time."
"It seems that this imperial army is no longer the rampant and domineering imperial army of the past."
After staying with Chen Fan for a long time, Grand Master Li has also learned the yin and yang weirdness.
Grand Master Li's words gave everyone confidence.
Following Li Yunlong's yin and yang weirdness, several people also recalled the past years.
Sure enough, I fulfilled the old saying, if you don't get beaten, you won't be honest.
In the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War, the devils were so arrogant that a squad dared to jump around in the base area, and was later beaten by the troops several times and restrained some, but it was still very arrogant, after all, at that time, the combat effectiveness of the troops was not strong, and even last year, the new devils from Yangquan came to Dafen Army, and sixteen artillery towers were built at the same time, and the independent regiment was not taken into account at all.
Now, however, a fully formed brigade of a permanent division does not dare to directly attack the base area of the independent regiment, but the troops are firmly assembled to look for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the independent regiment.
In the end, it was Zhao Gang who explained to everyone:
"The devil's hand, other base areas have already used the devil's hand, and we have been prepared for this for a long time..."
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In the afternoon.
Jiazhuang.
Wang Daquan, who was dropped from Taiyuan, had just been appointed as the president of the Shou County Maintenance Association and the captain of the security brigade, and was scolding at a middle-of-the-road man:
"Why are there only so many people in the security brigade?"
"Didn't there be more than a hundred people in the Liu family's compound before? What about those people? ”
"You're like this, how can I make you the squad leader?"
The person who was scolded by him was also the captain of the security brigade, with a Wang Ba box just issued by the imperial army pinned to his waist, this person was also the head of the Liu family's compound before, and a famous bully near Jiazhuang.
At the beginning, Li Yunlong led the team to attack the Liu family's compound, but this person took advantage of the chaos to escape, and has been hiding near Jiazhuang, but this time he was sent by the little devil to find him.
"They won't come."
The team leader of the middle split looked at Wang Daquan, who was also split up, and responded in a weak tone.
The little devil of this dog day doesn't know what's going on, and forces all the captains of the security team to get this kind of medium hairstyle, this hairstyle, it's fucking ugly, and I don't know where the little devil likes this hairstyle.
"Won't you come all of them?"
Wang Daquan frowned.
In the past, there were more than 120 nursing homes in the Liu family compound, of which more than a dozen were killed by Li Yunlong, and more than 100 survived.
And this time, he formed a security team, and there were only three of them who came to participate.
Moreover, he personally found these three one by one.
What's the situation?
What's the situation?
He came all the way from Taiyuan and served as the captain of the security team in I don't know how many counties, but he has never encountered this situation, and the group of guys who were wanted and hid by the Eighth Route Army refused to join the imperial army?
Isn't it time to take the initiative?
"They didn't dare to come."
The leader of the middle division replied honestly.
If it weren't for the fact that he was really desperate and didn't even have a place to eat, he didn't want to come.
No, I don't dare to come.
Because this is Li Yunlong's territory.
Working for the little devil here, that's really putting your head on the waistband of your pants, and if you're not careful, your head will end up falling to the ground.
The other former Liu family nurses and family members, as long as they can find a job, no matter how bad it is, they resolutely refuse to come to work for the Japanese, although they must have a very comfortable life working for the Japanese.
But it's better to die than to live.
Lives matter.
"Don't dare?"
Wang Daquan from Taiyuan was confused.
Unexpectedly...
Don't dare to join the security team?
He had heard that he did not join the security team for the sake of the so-called righteousness of his family and country, and he had also heard that he did not like to admit and refused to work for the imperial army, but he had never heard of it, and he did not join the security team because he was afraid.
"Why don't you dare?"
The corners of Wang Daquan's eyes twitched.
Are these people stupid?
Can't understand the form?
The imperial army is so powerful, machine guns and artillery, and even aircraft and tanks, the front line beat the national government and abandoned the armor, occupied most of the territory of the Republic of China, and the rear beat the guerrillas into the mountains, the so-called battle of the hundred regiments is said to be mighty, but it only caused more than 1,000 casualties of the imperial army (the locust army itself said).
Great co-prosperity is just around the corner.
This group of people didn't dare to do anything for the imperial army?
Could it be that he was afraid that the conditions agreed to by the imperial army were empty words?
He seemed to have thought of a reason.
"Tell those people."
Wang Daquan raised his tone:
"What the imperial army promised, it will definitely be done, you are the first captain of my security team, and when the time comes, you will be asked to take your security team to manage the richest villages around Jiazhuang, this is your sphere of influence, it is your territory, as long as you regularly pay taxes to the imperial army, the imperial army will never care what you do."
"Moreover, the Imperial Army will keep you safe."
Wang Daquan's voice was full of temptation.
"Jiazhuang and a few surrounding villages are under my management?"
The leader of the middle division team licked his lips, obviously a little moved.
If you can manage these big villages, you can definitely eat and drink spicy food every day, and become a master, as for the taxes that the little devils want, these villages can easily collect them.
You can even have a surplus to save a small coffers for yourself.
At that moment, he had an impulse to persuade those people in the Yang family's compound one by one to join his security team, to confirm the identity of the leader of the security team, and to work for the Japanese.
It's just ·····
This is Li Yunlong's territory·····
As soon as he thought of Li Yunlong, who didn't know where he was, and thought of the conversation with his former subordinates today, the heart of the leader of the middle division squad was cold.
He still remembers that at the end of last summer, in the woods outside Shou County, the corpse of the devil was discarded at random.
Li Yunlong, who kills people without blinking an eye and has hundreds of imperial lives in his hands, is still near Shou County, and the devils in Shou County were so strong that they were not surrounded by Li Yunlong and the Eighth Route Army in the county, and people did not dare to come out.
Although it is tempting to be the head of several villages, it is still a small life.
I'm afraid that the village on his side has not yet arrived, and the people have been killed by Li Yunlong.
"I'm still not the leader of this squad."
Gritting his teeth, the squad leader said: "Those people under my hands in the past, I really can't persuade them, you better find the squad leader again, I'll just be a small soldier." ”
After speaking, he put the box of Wang Ba in his hand on the table.
According to the conditions negotiated before, if he can bring in more than 30 team members, let him be the team leader, and then according to the rules of this Wang Daquan sect, he will take over the management of several villages around Jiazhuang.
"You go back and think about it again, you can tell your former subordinates what I said earlier, I miss them."
The corners of Wang Daquan's eyes jumped, and finally said helplessly.
After the captain of the Zhongfen squad left with Wang Babox, he went to see another person, this is also the person he brought from Taiyuan:
"How's it going, have you recruited someone to work for the Imperial Army?"
The person who came did not speak directly, but sighed deeply, then shook his head, and then said, his tone was full of helplessness: "No one is willing to join the security team." ”
"Not a single one?"
"Well, not a single one."
"What the hell is going on here?"
After confirmation, the traitor, who was specifically responsible for training security teams for the counties, was stunned.
What's going on in this Shou County?
After arriving in Shou County, except for a group of bandits he recruited from several surrounding counties, and a few gentry who were wanted by the Eighth Route Army and had to hide in the county seat of Shou County, he only recruited less than ten people in Shou County.
All combined, there are less than a hundred people.
With this little person in his hands, he can control a few villages at most.
The task given to him by the imperial army was to recruit at least 700 people and control dozens of surrounding villages.