In just three days, the 14th Brigade of the Independence of the Little Japan occupied most of Longkou with thunderous force. Yanjia Town, Lijia Town, Hewan Town and more than a dozen towns all fell into the hands of the Little Japan. The Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui retreated into Erlong Mountain, and even the Dragon Emperor Dang and the entire Toadjian Mountain area gave up.

After basically controlling the situation in Longkou Prefecture, Takae Fujido was not in a hurry to launch an attack on Erlongshan, but followed Okamura Yanji's instructions and used the cage policy as a killer weapon.

The cage policy proposed by Okamura Yasuji is not simply the construction of roads, trenches, strongholds and artillery towers, which divides the bases of the Chinese army into small pieces. In the true sense, the cage policy, in addition to military means, actually covers a complete set of political skills, including winning people's hearts.

Takayoshi Fujido strictly restricted military discipline, strictly prohibited Japanese soldiers from harassing the people, and even severely punished several Japanese soldiers who plagued the people after drinking. In order to win the hearts of the people, Takayoshi Fujido even took the initiative to "condescend" and invited several respectful gentry in Longkou Prefecture. They came forward to form a temporary county government and gave them enough respect.

In order to show respect for the temporary county government, Fujido Takayo even abolished the extrajudicial power of Japanese expatriates. This means that even Japanese expatriates under the rule of Longkou Prefecture Government must abide by the laws of the temporary county government. If the law is violated, it must be punished as it should.

The power of this series of measures is undoubtedly huge. After this set of combined punches, the confrontation between the people of Longkou County and the Japanese army was quickly alleviated. In just a few days, young girls even dared to show up in public in the streets and alleys of the county towns and townships.

People always have to face reality. You cannot expect every common person to be a kind-hearted person and willing to sacrifice himself for the country and the nation. In fact, in this era, many people have no country in their minds, let alone fighting for the country and the nation.

Now, Japan neither kills people nor plunders property, so the local people's willingness to resist immediately fades. After all, they just want to live a good life with their wives, children, and children.

But in this way, the 19th Detachment will be in big trouble.

The news finally inevitably spread to Erlong Mountain District.

I heard that Japan did not start a massacre, and even gave enough respect to the Chinese. The public security in counties and towns was orderly, and the people who fled into the mountains were shaken. Nothing else, life in the deep mountains and forests was too hard, and we can't hide in the mountains all the time, right? Besides, the mountains can't support so many people.

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Liu Xin dragged her tired legs and returned to the thatched hut that temporarily acted as the "county government".

After Yin Shangwen's death, the superior party organization quickly made a decision, and Liu Xin took over as the county magistrate of Longkou Democratic Government and secretary of the Longkou County Committee of the Communist Party of China. Today is the tenth day that Liu Xin has taken up her new position. These ten days are really tormenting for Liu Xin. To this day, she is physically and mentally exhausted.

However, before Liu Xin could take a break, a county government official hurried in and reported to her that more than a dozen military families were asked to go down the mountain and go home.

Liu Xin could only cheer up and dragged his tired body to dissuade him.

When Liu Xin arrived with several people from the county government, the Yamaguchi had already become a quarrel.

Dozens of old men and women surrounded the two soldiers standing guard and were constantly bombing them verbally. The two soldiers were already a little unable to resist and were forced to retreat by the old men and women. However, even so, the two soldiers still maintained restraint and did not take action.

Seeing Liu Xin coming, the two soldiers felt relieved and hurriedly dodged from a distance.

The dozens of old men and the old ladies pointed their finger at Liu Xin and surrounded them and chatted and quarreled.

"Why don't you let us go down the mountain? We want to go down the mountain"

"Yes, that's right, we don't want to stay here for a moment."

"My family still has several acres of land, and if I don't go back, I will miss the spring plowing."

"Little Japan is still free to come and go. Is your democratic government not as good as Little Japan?"

"Friends, fellow villagers, please listen to me, please listen to me." Liu Xin took a lot of quarrel before finally suppressing the quarrel. "Friends, you must not be deceived by the little Japanese. The little Japanese will definitely not be kind. They will deceive you to go back and must have an unspeakable purpose..."

"Purpose? What is the purpose of Japan? Isn't it just to let us go back to farm?"

"I heard that the little Japanese is much more civilized this time. They don't kill people or rob. When they see the big girl and the little wife, they also walk around. Just now Xiu Gu went into the mountain and told me that it was not easy for the little Japanese to see her a woman and take care of her three children, and she even helped her plant rice."

"The wife of Ergouzi in our village said the same thing."

"The little fool from the village next to us has received relief food from a young Japanese."

After Liu Xin said something, he was immediately drowned out by dozens of old men's rebuttals.

Moreover, as time went by, more and more military families rushed over and asked to go home after hearing the news. More and more village party members gathered at the mountain pass, and soon exceeded one hundred people. When the platoon leader in charge of the alert saw that the situation was wrong, he quickly transferred all the soldiers of the platoon over, formed a wall of humans to block the mountain pass, and sent someone to report to Xu Shijiu to know.

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As soon as Li Mu came back, Xu Shijiu called him over.

"Xiaomu, what are you getting to the county town this time?" Xu Shijiu asked.

"I gained a lot, and I don't know what to say at first. You should ask the captain and I will answer."

"Okay, then tell me, Li Ji, Mr. Li of Li, did he really become the county magistrate?"

"That's right, this time I went to the city, and I went to wait outside the county government. When I saw Mr. Li Ji, the little Japanese also sent a team of soldiers to protect him."

"Protection? I think it's surveillance." Li Zihan couldn't help but interrupt.

"It's not like surveillance." Li Mu shook his head, "Little Japan is quite polite to Mr. Li."

"It seems that the rumors are true. The little Japanese have really made progress this time." Gao Shenxing said to Xu Shijiu, "Old Xu, you may not know that the fourth wife has just entered the mountain."

"The fourth wife, who?" Xu Shijiu didn't understand why.

"Yan Laosi, Yan Laosi's wife is called Xiugu. She just entered the mountain and brought her three children."

"What, is this happening?" Xu Shijiu frowned and said, "Maybe little Japanese don't know that her man is from our 19th Detachment."

"The possibility is not high." Gao Shenxing shook his head and frowned, "Old Xu, don't forget that Yan Sanquan is not only the captain of plainclothes, but also the chairman of Yanjia Town. Others don't know about Yan Laosi joining the army. Can Yan Sanquan still not know about Yan Sanquan? So, little Japanese must know too."

"That's strange. It's really hard for little Japan to keep it?" Li Shuangqin was confused.

"That's right, let the people of the democratic government find a way to bring all the military families in Yanjia Town into the mountains, so as not to let our brothers in the 4th regiment be unstable because their relatives are not around." Lu Jianbang was sad because of the unstable morale of the 4th regiment, and was overjoyed after hearing the news.

"Come on, I'm still bringing people into the mountain. Don't you know that all the military families in the mountain want to go back?" Gao Shenxing said, "I heard that County Magistrate Liu Xin's voice was hoarse in order to persuade the people who wanted to go down the mountain."

"Go down the mountain? Why do they go down the mountain?" Lu Jianbang said in surprise, "Aren't you afraid that the little Japanese will harm them?"

"Isn't it?" Li Zihan said, "This time, the little Japanese is so weird. They don't kill people, they don't set fires, they don't waste big girls and widows. Even Japanese soldiers help the elderly and widows carry water and chop firewood. This is almost as good as the Communist Eighth Route Army. How come they look like little Japanese?"

"My goodness, then what can I do about this?" Lu Jianbang scratched his bald head when he heard this.

While speaking, the guard battalion commander Yang Dashu hurried in and reported that a village party had forced himself to break into the mountain pass and demanded to go down the mountain.

Gao Shenxing looked at Xu Shijiu and whispered: "Old Xu, this is the eighteenth in three days."
Chapter completed!