Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 627

A fast horse came galloping from the direction of Heze County, then got off the horse, and said, "Mr. Zhou, I am a secret intelligence agent for the government of Southwest Shandong Province. Characters, all the movements of today and yesterday are recorded in it!"

The visitor handed over a pamphlet while he was speaking, Zhou Weihan nodded upon hearing the words, but did not read the contents of the pamphlet.

Zhou Weihan looked around at the many cadres who surrounded him, including army personnel and ten work team cadres. Everyone present was staring at the booklet in Zhou Weihan's hand.

"What? Is the content in this pamphlet important?"

"Communist, these 35 big gentry households should be regarded as prominent figures in the Heze area. They are the largest force in the area. Most of the means of production are concentrated in the hands of these people. To a certain extent, they influence the future development of Heze! "Said the local government cadre present.

"Yes, but that was before our Eighth Route Army came. We must always be clear about our class position. The common people are our roots. Of course, on this basis, we must unite all forces that can be united!"

"I won't say much if it's superfluous, now let's go separately with people!" Zhou Weihan finally said.

"Yes!" The crowd responded loudly.

In a blink of an eye, except for the staff of the headquarters, the guard company of the new regiment, the artillery regiment, and the fifth company of the cavalry regiment of the Tainan Military Region, the rest of the main force, local armed forces, and local work teams all headed for the designated location.

After everyone left, Li Yunlong said: "Old Zhou, what is written in this pamphlet? There are no troops stationed in the county. Is Heze County in trouble?"

"You can't turn the sky, just follow the plan!" Zhou Weihan said.

"I'm going right now, cavalry company, follow me!" Li Yunlong shouted.

"Drive!" Li Yunlong gave an order, and more than a hundred soldiers headed towards Heze County.

Li Yunlong and his party set off first, and it didn't take long before they rushed to the outside of Heze County with great fanfare.

Although there are no troops stationed in Heze County, some big households in the city formed a patrol team to maintain law and order in the city.

The Dawang Banner is changed at the top of the city, but the local people still have to run around for their livelihood. There are hawkers everywhere inside and outside the city. They are all the people who come to set up stalls in the nearby villages and villages. One by one, they are pushing wheelbarrows or carrying poles. , so lively.

There was a sound of horseshoes, accompanied by shouts, and the people in the stalls were like frightened birds.

"Is the little devil back?"

"Goddamn you little devil!"

Those who reacted cleverly left the goods on the stalls and ran towards the city, while more people were reluctant to part with the belongings in front of them and hurriedly packed them up.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yunlong arrived at the south gate of Heze.

"Woo!" Li Yunlong tightened his grip on the reins, looked around at the messy scene outside the city, and ignored it.

Although the south gate of Heze County was blown up in the previous battle, there were two refusal horses at this meeting, and more than a dozen armed men with guns were fully armed and guarded.

Xu Shi saw that there were not many Eighth Route soldiers outside, so one of the people present boldly shouted: "Listen up, the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, we are the guards of the Heze Autonomous Committee appointed by the Nationalist Government. According to the order of the Autonomous Committee, no armed forces are allowed to enter city!"

Seeing this, Li Yunlong scolded immediately: "Damn, there are no tigers in the mountains, but monkeys call themselves kings. What kind of self-government committee, what kind of guard? I haven't heard of it, how did it come out?"

"Heze County was taken down by our Eighth Route Army, what are you, get out of the way for me, or else machine guns will serve you!"

Li Yunlong's words were full of arrogance and domineering posture. As soon as the words fell, the soldiers of the cavalry company who came with him directly raised three [-]-type light machine guns.

Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, the guards formed by a group of family guards stood up, you look at me, I look at you, and the person who spoke boldly before became a coward.

At this moment of hesitation, a machine gunner pulled the trigger, and a series of bullets swept under the feet of the guards.

"Run!" A group of people dispersed in a hurry.

"If you don't give them some flair, they'll really treat the machine gun in my hand as a decoration! Go to the city!"

A group of soldiers under the leadership of Li Yunlong showed off their prestige, but Li Yunlong was not satisfied. After entering the city, he first sent people to forcibly take over the four city gates, and then disarmed all the guards in the city.

"Master, something is wrong, the Eighth Route Army has made a comeback!" One of the guards who escaped from the south gate earlier hurried into a compound in the city.

"Why are you panicking? You are also the squad leader of the guards. Even in the national army, you can also be a platoon leader. Look at your flustered look!" A middle-aged man sitting on the grand master's chair was dissatisfied. scolded.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" The man picked up the teacup on the table.

"Master, the Eighth Route Army is here!" The person who came to report the letter saw that his master looked like he was holding a wisdom pearl, and he was not in a hurry.

"What? The Eighth Route Army?" The man heard the words, and the tea bowl he was holding firmly in his hand fell to the ground with a thud.

"How many people? Have you seen it clearly?"

"There are at least a hundred people from the Eighth Route Army, all of whom are riding tall horses and have machine guns. They sent us a shuttle without saying a word!"

"It's over, it's over, the Eighth Route Army is here to settle accounts!"

The person who reported the letter looked at his master in astonishment, and he really didn't understand why the master who was as stable as Mount Tai just now became like this.

Not long after, several rich and noble people visited one after another.

"Brother Lang, you have an idea. The guards formed by our family were all disarmed by the Eighth Route Army. Master Wu in the east of the city was so angry that he wanted to argue with the Eighth Route Army, but he was directly detained by the Eighth Route Army who took the lead." Come down!" said one.

"That's right, the Eighth Route Army is too daring to act recklessly in the city despite the orders of the Nationalist government!" Another person said angrily.

"It's difficult now. Who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army would dare to occupy Heze County. The Japanese did not come back, and the National Army had not yet arrived. The Eighth Route Army came back first. The Eighth Route Army cavalry is probably just the vanguard right now!" Mingren said.

The news that Li Yunlong led a cavalry company into the city made the already turbulent Heze County even more chaotic.

It was Zhou Weihan's deliberate move to let Li Yunlong lead the cavalry company into the city first. Tan Lin, as the director of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Administrative Office, has not yet arrived in Heze, so Zhou Weihan can only act on his behalf.

When it comes to fighting little devils, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army naturally fought bloody battles one after another, but the Japanese army in the Heze area has been wiped out right now.

The methods needed to govern one side are naturally different from those required to march and fight. There are some things that little devils can do and the national army can do, but the Eighth Route Army cannot.

The question before Zhou Weihan today is to boil the frog in warm water? Or to cut the mess quickly?
Right now the entire Heze area can be divided into two classes, one is the common people who live in the vast countryside, and the other is the gentry and landlords who occupy a lot of means of production.

Among them, these gentry and landowners can be divided into three factions, those who support the Eighth Route Army, those who remain neutral, and the opposition.

Among them, the squire landlords in ordinary towns and the squire landlords in Heze County are different because of their different strengths.

Prior to this, Zhou Weihan, Luo Benzhong, and Cong Hansen also discussed how to solve the problems in the Heze area quickly and well.

The Heze area is no different from other bases of the Eighth Route Army, and even different from Tainan. After all, this area will completely belong to the Eighth Route Army in the future.

The method of handling also needs to be cautious. The general public is the foundation of the Eighth Route Army's base areas. As long as the base areas can be stabilized and a stable environment can be created, they will naturally support the Eighth Route Army.

The destabilizing factors are undoubtedly the opposition and some neutrals.

In this regard, Zhou Weihan and others also reached a unified opinion. For these gentry and landlords in Heze County, they should suppress and even eliminate the opposition, frighten and win over the neutral faction, and treat the support faction well.

At that time, Zhou Weihan said to Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong, you like to show your prestige. Today I will give you a chance to show your prestige. As long as no one is killed, I will stand up for you when the sky falls.

For this errand, Li Yunlong is very happy in his heart. According to him, our old Li is not good at governing the local area, but we often do the blame, and this time is not bad.

In a blink of an eye, the main force led by Zhou Weihan arrived outside the city of Heze, and the soldiers of the cavalry company guarding the gate of the city responded early in the morning.

"Where's Li Yunlong?" Zhou Weihan asked.

"It turned out that the little devil's headquarters compound imprisoned a lot of guards, and Captain Li is sitting in the city!"

As the night approached, more than a hundred soldiers of the guard company with live ammunition marched into Heze County with great arrogance, followed by an artillery regiment pulling dozens of cannons.

Dozens of cannons swaggered through the city without any intention of hiding it. Although the ordinary people in the city were all hiding in their homes, the movement could not be hidden from the eyes of those who cared.

"Old Zhou, you are here. The food is all ready. It is all delivered by some big households in the city, and the barracks are also arranged properly!" The armed guards were also assigned the task of cleaning the barracks.

"I took the things delivered to the door, but I never saw anyone!"

"The task was completed well, it seems that the effect is still there, and the result will be produced tonight!" Zhou Weihan laughed.

Sure enough, that night, many gentry and big households in the city seemed to have made an appointment, and gathered at the entrance of the command department.

Zhou Weihan heard the words, and there was no ink, so he directly invited them in.

After everyone entered the compound, the first thing that stood out before their eyes were dozens of cannons. Hearing about it is better than seeing it once. When everyone present saw the battle, they immediately gasped.

"Communists, everyone is arranged in the conference room, no more, no less, a total of 35 people!" Luo Benzhong said.

"Okay, then we will meet them!" Zhou Weihan said.

As soon as Zhou Weihan entered the conference room, the originally noisy voices suddenly fell silent, and the people on both sides looked at each other.

"This Comrade of the Eighth Route Army, the old Dong Jinglun, is so presumptuous to visit late at night, please forgive me!" An old man in a robe clasped his hands in the crowd, and his words were extremely polite.

"That's right. I heard that your army took back Heze. I waited for everyone to be happy. I wanted to show my kindness as a landlord and reward your army. Unexpectedly, after we were fully prepared, the troops immediately withdrew, and we were able to get it today." See you!" The person who said it was Lang Mingren, and there were more than a dozen people behind him, apparently in the same group.

Zhou Weihan had a panoramic view of the situation in the conference room. The group of gentry and landowners who came was roughly divided into three groups. One group was headed by Dong Jinglun, with about seven or eight people, and the other group was headed by Lang Mingren, surrounded by nearly twenty people. , the last faction has seven or eight people.

Among them, Zhou Weihan already knew the names of Dong Jinglun and Lang Mingren in advance: "Mr. Dong, you are too polite. Our Eighth Route Army is not a little devil. Although this was originally the headquarters of the little devil, it is now the headquarters of our Eighth Route Army." Station, just come if you have something to do in the future, please sit down, please sit down!"

"Mr. Lang, you are here because of the detained guards. I'm really sorry. This is all a misunderstanding. You can take those guards away now!"

"However, I want to remind you that in the future, you still need to be more disciplined!" Zhou Weihan said, took a seat at the main seat, picked up a tea bowl, and poured tea.

Zhou Weihan's intention to see off the guests was very obvious. Lang Mingren and the group of people behind him didn't want to leave, or if they didn't leave, they had to bite the bullet and stay in the conference room.

With crutches in both hands, Dong Jinglun admired the embarrassing expressions of Lang Mingren and others with a smile on his face. Before the Eighth Route Army entered the city, Lang Mingren and his group danced with joy.

Especially Lang Mingren, in a private meeting, revealed that the Japanese would make a comeback, and tried to send people to Shangqiu to contact the Japanese, but at that time the opponents were quite angry, and more people supported going to Lubei or Liangpu area Look for the National Army.

In the end, in desperation, two groups of people with different opinions sent people to contact the national army and the Japanese respectively, and whoever came first welcomed the other.

The circle of big gentry in Heze is just that big. I am among you, and you are among me. In the blink of an eye, the news was leaked out.

Mr. Dong Jinglun is old, but he has his own arrogance. Even when the Japanese are around, he doesn't buy it. Of course, he can't see Lang Mingren's actions.

"Everyone, is there anything else?" Zhou Weihan put down his tea bowl and said.

"This, this!" Lang Mingren kept silent. He had originally planned to say something, but when he saw the dozens of cannons placed by the Eighth Route Army in the courtyard, he stopped talking.

"Oh, by the way, when our army breached the city, we confiscated the properties and shops of several traitors who served in the puppet government in the city. Under the seal, take it as your own!"

"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Weihan said coldly.

"Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, nothing!" Lang Mingren waved his hands quickly and said, and a group of people behind him also quickly echoed.

Seeing this, Zhou Weihan smiled inwardly. He thought that Lang Mingren would continue to use the name of the national government to fight to the end, but unexpectedly he gave in immediately.

Looking at the group of soft bones in front of him, Zhou Weihan understood that it would be much easier for the Eighth Route Army to fully occupy Heze.

(End of this chapter)