Chapter 118: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada, and the Yellow Sparrow Follows (4)
It turned out that although Luo Yue decided to send troops to meet the Red Lotus Sect's army, in his heart, he still couldn't rest assured that he couldn't leave the camp, after all, the safety of the camp was too important to be missed. And there are too many coincidences in Wang Zhong and Wang Qiang, and they are very suspicious.
Although Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen took the initiative to take over the task of dealing with this matter, to be honest, Luo Yue was really a little uneasy about the two of them, after all, these two people were relatively marginal people among the elders, and they had never done anything big in their own hands before.
In addition, Luo Yue could also see that after clearing the lurking personnel in the camp, the two of them were indeed psychologically relaxed, although they still swore on the surface and were not careless, but they were not actually nervous. After all, both of them have little political and administrative experience.
Of course, if Luo Yue is in the camp, he can play a role in supervising and strengthening management, and there is no need to worry, but as soon as Luo Yue leads the army away, the camp can only rely on Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen, and if the army withdraws, the garrison of the camp will be greatly weakened. Although reinforcements from Shanghai would arrive soon, Bi Jing still had a gap of 2 or 3 days. And Luo Yue also knows that Guan Jian, the success or failure of a war, let alone 2 or 3 days, is 2 or 3 hours, or even 2 or 3 minutes is enough.
It's just that Luo Yue's position and administrative level are much higher than the two of them, and now he is also the top boss of the two, because now Luo Yue is hanging the title of deputy commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Disaster Relief Headquarters, but the social and political status of all the elders is equal, and Luo Yue belongs to the military department, while Xie Tao and Zhu Nanzhen belong to the local administrative system, not only do they not belong to the same system, but it also involves the delicate relationship between the army and the locality, so Luo Yue is not good to say anything.
So Luo Yue also thought hard that night, and finally came up with a plan to capture the old man, not only did he still lead the army out of the camp with great fanfare the next day, but also deliberately arranged for someone to say by Wang Zhong's side that the reinforcements would arrive soon. If Wang Zhong is an ordinary victim, then of course all this arrangement will be fine, but if Wang Zhong's identity is really problematic, then he will inevitably find a way to spread the news as soon as possible, so he will also arrange manpower in the camp to closely monitor Wang Zhong's whereabouts, once he is found to have taken action, whether it is to escape from the camp in person or through the contact point, he can follow the vine and pull out the forces behind Wang Zhong. And although Luo Yue led the army to set off, he didn't go far, so he stopped, and then waited for the results in the camp.
Sure enough, on the day the army left the camp, Wang Zhong fled the camp during dinner, but the people who monitored Wang Zhong kept an eye on him, and someone followed him all the time, and found the small mountain village where their group was hiding.
And after Luo Yue received this news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, his trick really worked, so he immediately led the army to set off, rushed to the vicinity of the small mountain village overnight, and completely surrounded the small mountain village, but when attacking at night, there would be a hole because of the poor line of sight, in order to ensure that all the people in the village were wiped out, not one was spared, on the other hand, it was also necessary to make sure that the small village was indeed Wang Zhong's peripheral receiving stronghold, so Luo Yue decided to wait until after dawn in the early morning to launch an attack.
After dawn, Luo Yue observed with a telescope, and sure enough, he found that although the people in the village were all civilian clothes, they were basically all young and middle-aged people, no old people, children, women, and many people were armed with weapons, which could be determined that the people living in the village were by no means normal ordinary people, so Luo Yue led the attack.
The People's Army first used 60 mortars to carry out a fierce bombardment of the small mountain village, although the power of the 60 mortar is not great, but the houses in the small mountain village are not a solid structure, basically all of them are mainly wooden, there are a few houses will add a layer of mud to the wooden structure of some walls, and the roof is all paved with thatch, which can not withstand the mortar bombardment at all, and the people in the small village are not defenseless at all, after being shelled, they are all panicked, looking for a place to hide, but the scope of the small village is not large, and there is no fortification, there is no place to hide。
Of course, some people who are still flexible can estimate at this time that this stronghold must have been exposed, so they have fled from the small village, but as soon as they escaped from the village, they were immediately hit by heavy fire, and one was killed and wounded, and the rest of the people could only flee back to the small village and find a place to hide, regardless of whether they could avoid the bombardment of the shells.
The KPA shelling lasted about 10 minutes, firing more than 300 shells at the village, and after the shelling was over, the entire village was unrecognizable, all the rooms were blown to pieces, the top collapsed walls, the remaining broken walls and masts were still burning, and the ground was full of broken pieces of wood, mud, dead bodies, etc.
At this time, Luo Yue ordered all troops to attack the village and clean up the mess. The army was not hindered, and easily entered the village from all sides, clearing the wreckage and searching for all kinds of documents, books, etc., and examining the corpses to find out if there were any alive mouths.
The whole battle was less than half an hour, but the clean-up time was carried out until more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and finally 43 Hanyang-made Type 88 rifles, 12 pistols, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, 2 mortars, and 60 shells were finally cleared from the ruins of the village. In addition, more than 100 rifle parts, at least 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and 2-3 mortar parts, about 100 shells, as well as some documents, maps, etc., most of which were written in Japanese. It seems that there is also the involvement of the Japanese.
Luo Yue couldn't help but be a little surprised, it seems that the devils will come to participate in anything, and they really can't be a little careless.
From the point of view of casualties, together with those who were killed during the breakout, a total of 116 corpses were cleaned up and 47 people were captured, but 12 of them were seriously injured, and it is estimated that they will not last long, but among the corpses, Wang Zhong's body was found, and Wang Qiang was also found among the prisoners, which also completely proved that these two people were sure to be problematic, but in the end, more than 30 people were arrested, and it should be possible to basically understand the truth of the whole thing from their mouths.
Finally, in the mountain forest about 300 meters northwest of the village, newly buried corpses were found to fill in, and after careful excavation, a total of 62 people, including 28 women and 11 children, obviously these people were the original villagers, all of whom were killed and buried. If it weren't for the People's Army's timely discovery of clues to break through this small village, I don't know how long these unjust souls would have been buried in the ground before they could be seen again.
However, although the small mountain village has been breached, there are still many follow-up matters, the seized documents must be identified and divided, the prisoners must be interrogated, the truth of the matter should be understood, and the dead villagers should also be subjected to necessary autopsies, etc., but Luo Yue has no time to deal with these things, after all, he still has to lead the army to meet the army of the Red Lotus Sect, so he can only be handed over to the camp to be responsible.
It's just that Luo Yue suggested to the camp that it was not necessary to send the materials seized here and the arrested personnel back to the camp to deal with them, but to set up a small camp in the original end of this mountain village to deal with these things. This is because it is very likely that there are still people lurking in the camp, and with the participation of the Japanese, they cannot be underestimated, and the ability of the Bijing Japanese to engage in intrigue and intrigue is more than enough to throw off the Red Lotus Sect Eight Streets, if these people are escorted back to the camp for interrogation, it is possible that the rumors will be exposed, so that the hidden people in the camp will take risks and carry out sabotage operations, so they will set up a camp on the original site of the mountain village, and arrange personnel to deal with these things, and the camp will not be aware of it. The location of this camp is not far from the resettlement camp, only a dozen kilometers away, under normal circumstances, it can be reached on foot for about 2 hours, if it is on horseback, it can be less than 1 hour, and the scope of this camp does not need to be very large, leaving 1 company of army guards on it.
After receiving Luo Yue's notice, Xie Tao, Zhu Nanzhen was also a little afraid, the two of them were indeed as Luo Yue estimated, after catching out the lurkers of the Red Lotus Sect, they felt that everything was fine, and their vigilance was greatly reduced, even Wang Qiang disappeared from the camp, and the two did not alert the two, because the two of them thought that even if Wang Qiang had a problem, it was because they saw that the hidden personnel of the Red Lotus Sect had been dug out, and they did not dare to stay in the camp, so they slipped away, and Luo Yue set up a plan to capture and indulge, and the two also felt that Luo Yue was making a big fuss and was too careful.
Now that they have received the results, the two of them know that Luo Yue's caution is not unreasonable, it can be said that he saved the camp, because there are Japanese people involved, both of them know that there are traversers among the Japanese, and the Japanese know their own details, and the Japanese know it clearly, because it is Zhu Nanzhen, before the Far East War, Gao Senhang, who was fooled and rebelled by the Japanese, had a good relationship with him, so after the terrorist attack in Shanghai, Zhu Nanzhen was also asked twice by the Ministry of Security, so as long as there is a matter of Japanese involvement, it must not be careless。 It is conceivable that if it weren't for Luo Yue's plan to capture and indulge in the Japanese stronghold, the consequences would indeed be unimaginable.
As for Luo Yue's suggestion to set up a camp on the original site of the mountain village, and arrange personnel there to deal with these follow-up matters, the two naturally have no objection, after all, they must be careful at this time, and it is not too much to be cautious, and after consultation, it was decided that Zhu Nanzhen would be responsible for the interrogation personnel, identification, and distribution of materials in the camp here.
At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhu Nanzhen rushed with personnel and tents and other materials, and quickly set up more than 20 tents on the original site of the mountain village, set up camps, and handed over to Luo Yue.