Chapter 477: Public trial meeting, division of troops and development
Luling Town in the west of Heze.
A group of more than 2,000 people surrounded the entire Luling Town. When every household in the town saw this movement, the originally bustling streets suddenly became quiet.
Before surrounding Luling Town, Zhou Weihan once again sent Dong Jiang into Luling Town to conduct a detailed investigation.
There are four goods stores in Luling Town, all of them are local tigers, relying on the mountains to rely on the mountains. On weekdays, there are many mountaineers who exploit the mountains, and they have a lot of blood debts on their hands. You can tell from the escort team they maintain.
They are not good people.
After seeing the army approaching the border, the store owners in the town couldn't sit still and sent people out one after another to inquire about the news.
However, Jing Dagang turned away all those who came, claiming that he would let the bosses of various stores come to discuss it in person.
Soon after, under pressure, the bosses of various stores came one after another.
At first, everyone thought that the Eighth Route Army was just here to fight the autumn wind. At most, they could just offer some money to buy their lives, and everyone would be fine.
They still maintained their proper harmony on the surface, but when they heard Zhou Weihan mentioning that various stores should give up their interests, the expressions of several people present changed.
"You Eighth Route Army don't be too arrogant. You don't really think we can hold Luling Town without anyone's support behind us, right? The captain of the Heze Detective Team is my brother-in-law!"
"Just to tell you clearly, the Wang family in Cao County is not someone to be trifled with!"
Seeing the words of everyone in front of him, Zhou Weihan felt happy and directly called the soldiers to bring Wang Zikui up.
"Do you know this guy named Wang Zikui?" Zhou Weihan said coldly.
"Master!" A goods store owner exclaimed when he saw Wang Zikui being pressed up, and immediately collapsed on the ground.
Of course, there is no need for Zhou Weihan to come forward to say some things. Jing Dagang said: "What I just said to you was all polite. No matter how strong your relationship is, can it be as strong as a gun? Just based on the blood debts of the few of you, I don't really think that
You can live!"
As soon as Jing Dagang said these words, everyone present turned pale with fear. They were not here to seek wealth, they were clearly here to take their lives.
"Master Jun, spare your life, Master Jun. We are willing to sacrifice all our wealth just to survive!"
Jing Dagang ignored several people's pleas for mercy and waved his hand, directly asking the soldiers to take them down.
"Detachment leader, you can take action now!" Jing Dagang asked for instructions.
"Now that the chief culprit has been arrested, the troops entering Luling Town only need to capture his minions. They must pay attention to the heat and do not implicate innocent people. Even if there are fish that slip through the net, they can wait until the public trial to settle the accounts.
!" Zhou Weihan ordered.
"clear!"
Then the first regiment entered Luling Town, and the fourth regiment took over the task of peripheral blockade. The influence of several goods stores in the town was uprooted, and the people involved were arrested one after another.
With the cooperation of local government comrades, notices have been posted everywhere in the town, and a public trial meeting will be held tomorrow. Anyone who has been wronged on weekdays can come to redress their grievances.
That night, Zhou Weihan summoned several key cadres and Cong Hansen, director of the United Front Work Department of the Southwest Shandong Region Government, to discuss future work.
"As we said before, in the next period of time, our Eighth Route Army will shrink its strength in southwestern Shandong and rely on the silent development base in the mountainous areas!"
"Now Luling Town has been occupied by us, but the financial path cannot be cut off. I will send a cargo company to be responsible for this work!"
The mountain goods business in Luling Town will be a source of income for the troops in southwestern Shandong for a long time in the future. Zhou Weihan dared to uproot it without even asking about the sales channels. It was because he had a goods store that also did this business.
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"Comrade Zhou, there is no problem for me to stay here with my comrades to establish a base, but with the more than 800 guerrillas at hand, I'm afraid I won't be able to cope with the future situation!" Cong Hansen said worriedly.
"Comrade Hansen, you don't have to worry about this, I will leave a main force here to open up the situation!"
Zhou Weihan's current plan is to focus on the Zhinan area first. After the troops have established a foothold in Zhinan, they can connect to Cixian, Linzhang, Daming and other places on the north bank of the Zhang River to the north, and to Lu to the south.
Southwest region, and can also radiate to northern Henan and other places.
After Zhou Weihan finished speaking, he looked at Xin Tiebing, the chief of staff of the regiment who was specially called. Zhou Weihan had already been angry with the person involved in who would open a base in southwestern Shandong in the future.
"Xin Tiebing, you stay with a battalion. Your future task is to stabilize the situation around Luling Town first, and then develop the base area to the Liangpu area in the north and Zhencheng in the northeast!"
"Remember, don't provoke the Japanese troops in Heze and the southeastern areas of Dingtao, Chengwu, Caoxian and other places for the time being, but you must secretly open a passage to the Huxi base!" Zhou Weihan ordered.
"Yes!" Xin Tiebing responded immediately.
Xin Tiebing is the chief of staff of the First Regiment and the former battalion commander of the First Battalion. The First Regiment is the elite of the Tainan Military Region, and the First Battalion is the elite among the elites.
There was no precedent for Zhou Weihan to mobilize troops from a regiment in an organized manner before. Such a move shows that he attaches great importance to the future development of the southwestern Shandong base area.
In addition, the Huxi base area is close to northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui and other places where the New Fourth Army is located. In other words, the New Fourth Army is not far away from the southwestern Shandong base. Zhou Weihan asked him to open a secret passage to prepare for a rainy day. His superiors may not be able to dispatch troops to the New Fourth Army next year.
A trip over there.
The next day, the public trial was held normally. Xin Tiebing and Cong Hansen presided over the public trial on behalf of the army and the local government respectively.
As early as yesterday, when the announcement was issued, people living around Luling Town and mountaineers rushed to tell each other.
Seeing the several store owners who were doing evil things on weekdays, the thousands of people who gathered there were so excited that they wanted to step forward and tear them apart.
After the victim complained, Xin Tiebing learned that these shops were not only openly engaged in reselling mountain products, but also secretly engaged in human trafficking.
In the past two years, many boys and girls at home have been snatched away by the guards.
"Damn it, you can even cut off people's incense!"
"Tell me, where did the people go?"
"Master Jun, it's none of our business to give birth to a child without sex. We are just following orders!"
Another store owner revealed a location. Xin Tiebing was not polite at the moment. After some questioning, he ordered the execution soldier to chop off the heads of several people with a big knife.
At the public trial meeting, Cong Hansen, on behalf of the local government, made an agreement with the people. After the Eighth Route Army took over Luling Town, the sale of mountain goods would proceed normally. The Eighth Route Army would set up a goods store. The sales prices would be in accordance with normal standards, and extortion would never be allowed.
The tourists who were originally worried about losing their source of income, as well as the people doing small stall business, suddenly felt relieved and everyone was happy for a while.
