Ma Dawang Village is located in the activity area of the Communist guerrillas and is a typical guerrilla area.
But now, the Japanese and puppet army's bunker front has covered Ma Dawang Village. In order to completely isolate the villagers from the contact with the Japanese guerrillas and drive the Japanese guerrillas out of the guerrilla zone, the Japanese army recruited local villagers to dig around Ma Dawang Village.
A ditch was built, a suspension bridge was built at the entrance of the village to facilitate passage, and a small stronghold was built next to the suspension bridge.
The main building of the stronghold is a small turret, surrounded by deep ditches, with only a suspension bridge connected to the outside world. It looks like a lighthouse built on an isolated island, but the turret is very solid, with a reinforced concrete structure and half of the cement wall.
Mi Hou, the 39th Group Army's rocket launchers could no longer threaten the safety of the Japanese artillery towers.
There is a squad of Japanese troops and a platoon of puppet troops stationed in the stronghold.
It was dark at night, and most of the Japanese and puppet troops were asleep. Only the sentries on the observation deck on the top floor were still standing guard.
On the other side far away from the Japanese stronghold, a group of black figures approached the isolation ditch outside Ma Dawang Village under the cover of night.
In the darkness of the night, Ma Fugui suddenly raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist. The people following him immediately stopped, and then used skilled tactical moves to evacuate to the two wings and hide.
This team is the armed work team sent to Zhao County by Yue Weihan, and Ma Fugui is the captain.
The Zhaoxian Armed Work Team has 11 people, 1 from the Propaganda Department, 1 from the Operations Department, 1 from the Zhaoxian Guerrilla Force, including Ma Fugui, and the remaining 8 people are all from the Special Forces Brigade. In order to form the armed work team, Yue Weihan
It can be said that no expense was spared, and nearly half of Liu Tiezhu's special operations brigade was depleted.
Ma Fugui ordered the troops to hide, then turned around and walked to Xie Laoqi.
Xie Laoqi had been a businessman in his early years and was eloquent. He was well aware of the major and minor affairs of Zhao County and had a wide network of contacts. He was sent by the Zhao County guerrillas to cooperate with the armed workers team in their work.
"Brother Seven, is Ma Dawang Village ahead?"
"Yes." Xie Laoqi nodded and said, "Ma Dawang Village was invaded by the Japs just half a month ago. The original security chief Ma Yaozu has now become the maintenance chairman of the Japanese and puppet government. Ma Yaozu has a sense of right and wrong.
There are still some, but they are a little timid. The *** people scared him a few times, and he became the maintenance president."
Ma Fugui asked: "Is it possible for this person to instigate rebellion?"
"It should be no problem." Xie Laoqi said, "You can try it."
Ma Fugui nodded and immediately gave the order: "Wang Zhiwu, Liu Shusheng and Bai Mei, you follow me and Seventh Brother into the village, and the remaining people will stay on guard and prepare to respond."
With the help of ropes, Ma Fugui and the other five people quickly descended to the bottom of the ditch more than six meters deep.
Then with the help of the zip line, Ma Fugui took the lead in climbing to the other side of the ditch, and then pulled Xie Laoqi and others up one by one. In less than half a cup of tea, Ma Fugui and the other five people all disappeared under the night.
Immediately, several native dogs raised by the villagers of Ma Dawang Village began to bark, but soon became silent again.
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From mid-August to early September in the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), more than 20 armed work teams sent by Yue Weihan to southern Hebei quickly worked and successfully broke the Japanese army's strongholds, gun towers, roads, and isolation trenches.
The *** network reconnected the common people in various guerrilla zones with the *** guerrillas.
With the cover of the common people, the guerrillas immediately became fish in the water.
Starting in early September, the guerrilla groups in the guerrilla zones in southern Hebei counties suddenly became active again.
With the help of the intelligence network organized by the two sides of the government, the guerrillas in each county began to have sharp ears and eyes. Often the guerrillas in each county had received the news in advance before the Japanese army's mopping up troops arrived, and they broke into pieces and evacuated urgently. The Japanese army's mopping up troops
As soon as they left, the guerrillas immediately regrouped and wreaked havoc on the Japanese military facilities.
Soon, the guerrillas in each county opened up one underground communication line after another. The Japanese army's isolation network supported by strongholds, gun towers, roads, and isolation ditches completely became a decoration. The Japanese army began to work hard. Today, the isolation ditch at the east end was filled.
Tomorrow the road to the west will be dug, and from time to time there will be cold guns and artillery fire from the barren mountains and fields, making it difficult for the Japanese and puppet troops to guard against it.
By mid-September, the Japanese army, which was pursuing a "cannibalization" policy in various guerrilla zones in southern Hebei, finally suffered a heavy setback.
Time has entered September, and the spring wheat and corn in southern Hebei have matured one after another. When the Japanese army is preparing to collect autumn grain, the spring wheat and corn in the guerrilla areas of southern Hebei counties have disappeared overnight!
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Shimen, Japanese Army Headquarters.
Lieutenant General Moritake Tanabe and Major General Hirata walked into Neji Okamura's office angrily.
Major General Hirata suddenly stopped his feet and stood at attention, and reported to Okamura Neiji: "Your Excellency, Commander, the spring wheat and corn rice in Zhun'an District in southern Hebei were completely harvested by the Chinese army overnight, and the whereabouts of all the food are unknown!"
"What!?" Okamura Neji suddenly stood up and said in disbelief, "All of them are missing?"
"Hai!" Masaru Hirata lowered his head suddenly and said in a ferocious voice, "Your Excellency, Commander, I firmly believe that food must still be hidden in tens of thousands of villages in various quasi-security areas. Why don't we send troops into the villages to search for food?"
"Baga." Okamura Neji couldn't help but slap Hirata in the face.
The core purpose of the "cannibalization" policy is to isolate Chinese people in quasi-security areas from resistance elements. Ordinary Chinese and resistance elements must be treated differently. Resistance elements are naturally killed without mercy, but ordinary Chinese
People need to be wined over in every possible way just like the good people who serve in the public security area.
If the Japanese army entered the village to forcibly search for food, burning, killing, and looting would inevitably occur.
Once acts of burning, killing, and looting occur, it will inevitably severely damage the "people-friendly" image of the Japanese army. Resistance will regenerate in various quasi-public security areas, and the guerrillas of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army will regain the support of the local people.
Then Okamura Neji's "cannibalization" policy will be in vain.
"Hai." Masaru Hirata suddenly lowered his head and accepted the beating obediently.
The little devil like Hirata is simple-minded and only knows how to kill, but the old devil like Okamura Neji is much more insidious.
Okamura Neiji pondered for a moment, and suddenly said to Tanabe Moritake: "Tanabe-kun, don't you think that the security situation in various quasi-security districts has seriously deteriorated recently?"
"Yes." Tanabe Moritake nodded and said, "Through the military network supported by gun towers, roads, and isolation trenches, the imperial army had already encroached on seventy-eight percent of the quasi-security areas, leaving China
The space for the guerrillas to move has become extremely small, and it is almost possible to completely drive the Chinese guerrillas out of the quasi-security zone."
"But in the past half month, the security situation in the encroaching area has deteriorated sharply." Okamura Neiji continued, "The Chinese guerrillas in each quasi-security area suddenly seemed to have the clairvoyance and ears in the myths and legends. The emperor
If there is any disturbance in the army, they can get the news immediately, but the imperial army has no trace of their whereabouts."
"Your Excellency, Commander, I think something must have gone wrong here." Tanabe Moritake said.
"Well, Tanabe-kun, you should try to find out the reason immediately." Okamura Neji nodded and said.
"Hai!" Masaru Tanabe and Hirata suddenly lowered their heads and immediately took the order with their sabers in hand.
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Jingxing County, 39th Army Headquarters.
The Japanese army is stepping up its efforts to encroach on the guerrilla zones in the counties in southern Hebei and has no time to attack the base areas for the time being. The Japanese army currently does not have the strength to conduct a comprehensive counterattack. Therefore, for all the officers and soldiers of the 39th Group Army, there is currently only one combat mission, and that is
Train your troops, train your troops, train your troops again, and then wait for the Japanese army to attack or make a major counterattack.
For the Taihang base area, that means accumulating grain, building more guns, and stepping up preparations for war!
The production capacity of the Taihang Arsenal has nearly doubled. It can now produce 5,000 rifles per month, 50 Maxim heavy machine guns, 100 Czech light machine guns, and 8 million rounds of bullets; 100 mortars and shells
Ten thousand rounds; 200 90-caliber rocket launchers and 2,000 rounds of rockets; 20 heartless cannons and 2,000 rounds of 300-caliber shotguns.
In terms of combat readiness of the entire army, following the Baoshan Division, the 181st Division has basically completed its equipment change.
After the refit, the 181st Division, like the Baoshan Division, has more than 18,000 combat personnel, organized into 6 infantry regiments, an artillery regiment and a baggage regiment. When performing combat tasks alone, it has a field hospital, an anti-war alliance, a propaganda team, and a special agent team.
, communications teams and other non-combat units will also accompany the army, and the total force will exceed 20,000 people.
In terms of equipment, the main division after the refit has more than 10,800 rifles, more than 200 Maxim heavy machine guns, nearly 500 improved Czech light machine guns, more than 500 rocket launchers, 108 60-meter mortars, and 60 heartless guns.
, this level of equipment is definitely considered to be armed to the teeth in terms of ***!
However, the 39th Group Army has been expanded again and again, and its official establishment has exceeded 100,000 people. Just to pay military salary every month requires 500,000 cash. Adding various expenses, it requires at least 1 million military expenditures every month. This is not a small amount.
The amount of money that Yue Weihan had robbed from Lunan and Southern Hebei has long been gone.
With no choice, Yue Weihan had no choice but to start arms trade with Commander Yan of the World War II Zone and Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.
The arms that can be sold are clearly priced. The unit price of the Maxim heavy machine gun is 2,500 oceans, the unit price of the improved Czech light machine gun is 1,500 oceans, the unit price of the medium-sized rifle is 100 oceans, the unit price of bullets is 2,000 oceans per 10,000 rounds, and the unit price of the 60 mortar is 1,000 oceans.
The artillery shells cost NT$500 per 100 rounds. The rocket launcher is not for sale for the time being. The ban will be lifted after Helen successfully applies for a patent. The heartless cannon is kept secret and will never be exported.
All arms transactions are in cash and no credit is allowed.
The Taihang Arsenal has sufficient production capacity. It only needs to export a small amount of arms every month, which is enough to maintain the military expenditures of the entire 39th Group Army. As for the wages of workers and daily administrative expenses that maintain the operation of the entire base area, the clothing factory, the match factory, the soap factory, and the firecracker factory
And the profits of factories such as cigarette factories are more than enough.
The only thing you need to worry about is the food rations for the millions of people on earth!