under fire

Chapter 379
To the east of Meixian County, Bashidongli, Qixian County.

Office of the Gendarmerie.

The quaint wooden two-story building, the mottled broken windows are inlaid with pieces of uneven glass.

The light penetrates in broad daylight, but it's still smoky and poorly lit, but this doesn't mean that this dark and depraved place is as noisy and lively as it used to be. There are five or six tables full of empty benches, and four or five guys are twisting around at the innermost table. Bawai smokes quietly, occasionally coughing in frustration.

Chop Jiu sat in the old seat at the back, squinting his eyes, leaning on the table with one elbow, stroking his shiny bald head with one hand: "Where did Lao Qi go? Why hasn't anyone been seen these two days?"

The police station, detective team, night raid team, county magistrate and other big and small leaders were all present.

The captain of the gendarmerie had a somewhat old-fashioned military fortune behind his back, and a command knife was placed on the table in front of him. At this time, the atmosphere was gloomy.

The detective captain on the right is reporting: "...received a call from the Meixian detective team, saying that an unknown armed force has sneaked into the mountainous area of ​​Qixian County, and its whereabouts are unknown!"

The captain of the gendarmerie smiled slightly after hearing this: "Unidentified armed forces? If you dare to come to us, it must be the work of the Eight Routes. Very good. Now that you are under your nose, you should immediately find out the size and movement of the team and surround them in our defense zone." ! Catch them all!"

The surrounding chiefs, captains and county chiefs looked at all directions, but did not speak. At this time, the Taijun seemed to be happy, but in fact he was angry, so there was no need to get into trouble.

The captain of the night attack, who sat down at the head, bit the bullet and had to report another news: "The east bank of the Qihe River is close to the Caodian area of ​​Huaxian County. In the first half of the year, the central army and the Eighth Route Army's activity area that the imperial army cleared, we recently discovered at night. , and a large number of unidentified people are still operating in that area, showing signs of resurgence."

The detective captain next to him was shocked: "What did you say? The imperial army carried out a village-by-village campaign against the four counties of Qi County, Jun County, Ji County, and Hua County. Where did these people come from?"

The captain of the gendarmerie got the news a long time ago, so he was not surprised: "Hmph, some of the Tuba Road guerrillas, the wildfires are endless, and the spring breeze is blowing again. It seems that our burning, killing, and looting are still strong. Step up! Everyone, please be sure to maintain high pressure, find one, kill one, please remember, you must not be soft on these guerrillas..."

"Report!" A devil gendarme came in from outside the door, holding a folder in his hand.

"Read!" Niao Yu, the captain of the gendarmerie, didn't care about the Chinese sitting here, since they couldn't understand anyway.

"An County Special High School sent a telegram and found an eight-way team. At the junction of the two counties, they showed signs of going south, with a size of about one battalion. An County is mobilizing cavalry and security forces to search and contain, and Xinxiang Air Force is also invited to dispatch aircraft for reconnaissance! "The gendarme quickly finished speaking in the language of birds, and then bent down and stood in silence to listen to the order.

"Interesting, the Eighth Route Headquarters has been wiped out, and these hidden mice finally got out of the mouse hole!" The gendarmerie captain smiled and dismissed, looking at the Chinese present: "This time, everyone must be sincere and united, and not let a single one go." Tuba Road!"

"Yes!"

"Never let one go"

The traitors expressed their views one after another.

"Uh, Your Excellency Captain, how can I reply to the special high class?" asked the standing military policeman.

"Immediately, in my name, please ask the commander of the 35th Division, General Shigeta Tokumatsu, to assemble a brigade, and the [-]th Cavalry Brigade to assemble a brigade to stand by and crush the place where the Tuba Road was discovered!" The captain was unpredictable.

"Captain, the 35th Division has gone south to Kaifeng to participate in the attack on the national army, and it is impossible to return in a short time!" The military police carefully attached to the captain and reminded in a low voice.

The captain squinted his cross-eyed eyes slightly, gave the military police a hard look, and then glanced around, seeing that these cowardly Chinese people probably couldn't understand what he was talking to his subordinates.

The captain was a little helpless, and stood up with a dark face: "Please gather your troops immediately, everyone will cancel the holiday, please!"

The Tuba Road has no combat effectiveness. Based on previous experience, only the security forces can handle it.


"Information from the division, the Devils raided the mountains at the beginning of the year. Part of the No. 30 Fifth Division, together with the Fourth Devils Cavalry Brigade, raided the four counties in the south, looting, burning, and killing them all. They swept village by village, leaving the plains almost uninhabited!"

The political commissar above said that the people below were frightened, discussing in a low voice, and secretly cursing in their hearts.

The political commissar looked at the lively scene below with satisfaction: "Then, everyone knows that there has been no rain in the plains this year, an unprecedented famine has come, and the damned locust plague has reappeared, eating up some of the remaining crops along the river overnight. Light, the land is not green, withered grass is everywhere, and the land is red for thousands of miles!"

"Down with Japanese Imperialism"

Natural disasters plus man-made disasters naturally have to be blamed on the devils.

The voice of the political commissar began to be passionate: "What's more, in times of famine and man-made disasters, the devils force our compatriots to plant opium tobacco every time they occupy a piece of land. Mu, [-] mu in Junxian County, and in Junxian, Qixian, Huaxian, and Jixian counties, there are more than [-] opium dens in each county, which poison the people's bodies and make our compatriots sell their children and daughters and wives for this. Then go to the opening to set up a brothel, let our sisters fall into the devil's den, and serve the devils..."

"Old devil, his grandma!"

"If I don't kill a few devils, I'm raised by a donkey"

Finally, the crowd became angry.

The voice of the government has become low and low: "The devils and puppet troops are still forced to recruit strong men, and in the occupied areas, two men are drawn for one, and three men are drawn for two! The occupied areas are constantly expanding, and the people lack labor, causing people to live. Qi County, Hua County, Xun County The common people in Ji County fled to Shanxi in large numbers, relying on land reclamation for a living, and many died on the way to escape.”

A recruit couldn't help saying: "Brother Ding, there are so many of us, why don't we go back to our old ways and rob the devil's county town!"

Seeing this guy destroy the atmosphere, the political commissar couldn't help crying and laughing, and raised his head: "Who will be robbed? Huh? Go to Jie'an County?"

"Hey, these ordinary people are jingling poorly one by one, we can't rob them, can we?"

This stuff is too ugly.

Luo Fugui who was next to him kicked over: "Your grandma's, this is your future? You don't know that you are now in the Eighth Route Army? Huh?"

After finishing speaking, Luo Fugui turned his head, and a trace of shame flashed in his eyes for the first time: "That political commissar, hehe, I will definitely educate them."

A group of recruits did not dare to speak out, and continued to accept the ideological education of the political commissar

In a broken house in the village, a soldier rushed into the house, and the people sitting in the house immediately turned to look.

"Company Commander Hu, after searching the villages in the south, no one was found. Cavalry scouts appeared in the north." The soldier was panting, his face excited.

Hu Yi's face darkened instantly.

This soldier was also chased by the cavalry, and he didn't know how powerful the cavalry was. Now there are friendly troops from the military division in the south, and even the independent regiment that set off first has arrived.

But now it is still in the enemy-occupied area, but the Ninth Company is no longer comparable. The underground organization has already figured out the approximate strength of the devils and puppet troops in nearby counties and even towns, and the enemy's situation is very clear. The situation is very different.

Because the dam of the Yellow River was blown up by some people, the people in the yellow flood area on the north bank were displaced, and the devils attacked, the originally barren land became even more depressed.

The devils had little interest in these uninhabited and unproductive lands. The garrison was extremely weak, which was a helpless move for the Japanese army. The flooding of the Yellow River did delay the Japanese army's southward offensive.

The grain produced on the land in the Yellow River Flooding Area is even difficult to feed the common people who cultivate the land. Such land is useless after the devils occupy it, and manpower and food have to be invested in the occupied area.

Devil Command has nothing to do.

(End of this chapter)