Hong Linfeng had already believed seven or eight points at this time.

looked at Li Hao and asked the last question in his mind.

"Why would the little devil do this? First detained these young people, and then deliberately released water on the battlefield, so that we could save these young people, isn't this inconsistent, redundant? ”

Li Hao shook his head and replied: "It's not contradictory at all." ”

"Detaining young people, imprisoning them, and taking them to build no-man's land, almost all of the people involved in these tasks are puppet soldiers. Therefore, in the final rescue stage, the casualties on the battlefield were all puppet soldiers, and the casualties of the devils were minimal. ”

"These puppet soldiers are all transferred from other places by little devils, and no matter how much they die, it will not hurt their hearts, and it will not affect their rule over the local area. So the real price paid by the Japanese army was only the casualties of more than 200 people, and nothing else. ”

"And we lost nearly 500 people in the rescue operation, purely in terms of casualty ratio: it is equivalent to one devil killing two of our soldiers."

"In the middle of this deduction, the devil not only played us around, but also caused us a lot of casualties with a small loss, no loss at all, do you say that the little devil did this too much?"

Seeing that Hong Linfeng nodded in agreement, Li Hao continued: "There are nearly 20,000 young men who have been rescued by one or two!" ”

"The reason why the devils detain them in the no-man's land is nothing more than two reasons: one is that they don't want them to be used by me to increase our strength, and the other is to treat them as free labor to help build a no-man's land."

"Something must have changed the mind of the Devil Commander."

"Let him understand: Even if these young men fall into the hands of our garrison regiment, they will not be able to be used by me in the short term, and they will eat more than those old and weak women and children, and 20,000 people will have to eat at least 40,000 old and weak women and children to do things, and after entering our base area, they will consume more food."

"As for free labor, it's nothing to the devils, and in enemy-occupied areas, they can have as much as they want."

Hong Linfeng completely understood, but soon a new question popped out of his mind, staring at Li Hao and continuing to ask.

"Regiment Commander, since saving people will do us all kinds of harm in the short term, so are we suspending the ongoing rescue plan?"

"The purpose of the little devils to detain those young people is to build a no-man's land, and their safety will definitely be fine in a short time."

"There aren't too many problems with staying in the hands of the Japanese for the time being."

"No, it must be saved now!" Li Hao replied firmly.

"Taking advantage of the Japanese puppet army, the puppet army deliberately released water and rescued the villagers at the lowest cost."

"Otherwise, when the little devil changes his mind, it will be difficult to save people."

"As for the rescued young people, this is just the idea of the little devils, and they ignore a very important point: the people's heart!"

"Now save people and reunite the families of the villagers, these 200,000 people will definitely be grateful to our Eighth Route Army, and then support our Eighth Route Army with all their hearts and support us."

"People's hearts are something that can't be bought with more money."

"In addition, our opponents have once again underestimated the combat potential of the garrison."

"Last time we traded with Jin Suijun, we must have heard of the pervasive little devil special high class, but they definitely don't know how much grain was traded."

"So the devil must not know that our garrison regiment has also hoarded more than 20 million catties of life-saving food."

"This grain plus the grain obtained from the autumn harvest of the villagers is enough for us to support us for several months, and even if the Japanese army drives another 100,000 people into our base area, those life-saving grains can ensure the stability of the base area for at least four months."

"For such a long time, I believe that the garrison must have a way to solve the remaining food shortage in the base area

The deliberate release of water in the no-man's land and the release of rescue troops of the garrison regiment and the return of nearly 20,000 young men to the base area on the blockade line were indeed a temporary decision made by the Japanese army commander.

In his battle plan, two months was enough to disrupt the garrison base area, and then take the opportunity to launch a sweep to completely eliminate the garrison.

Those young and strong people are ordinary people, because of the shortage of food, everyone is skinny and malnourished.

Even if the garrison regiment recruits all these people into the army, it will take a month just to recover nutrition and physical strength, and it will take at least half a year to form combat effectiveness.

At that time, the imperial army had already entered their base area and wiped out all the garrisons.

Therefore, these 20,000 young men will not bring any benefits to the garrison regiment within half a year, but will further increase their food shortage, make the great famine come faster and more fiercely, and then completely mess up their base areas, make their soldiers and civilians distracted, and their morale will be chaotic......

Thinking of this, the army commander decisively ordered the front-line troops to deliberately release water and let the garrison rescue those young men.

Of course, this release is not nothing, watching the garrison leave from under his nose.

Without affecting the security of the no-man's land, each stronghold sent troops to attack on its own initiative.

Their task was not to recover the strong men, but to kill and wound the garrison regiment rescue troops in large numbers in the name of pursuit.

After a day and a night of fighting, the commander's purpose was clearly achieved.

The chief of staff of the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan is reporting to the army commander the results of the battle that the front-line troops have just summed up.

"Your Excellency Army Commander, from yesterday afternoon to this morning, we killed a large number of garrison regiment rescue troops in this no-man's land, and the corpses of the Eighth Route Army that were too late to take away exceeded 300, plus the taken away and wounded, the direct loss must be more than 400 people."

"More than 18,000 strong men have been rescued, and all of them have entered the garrison base area, and they have further exacerbated the food shortage there."

"In addition, we can still gather at least 60,000 old and weak women and children in this newly added no-man's land, and after driving all of them to the garrison base area, the food shortage there will increase, and there will be no food in a month."

"Very well done!" The commander replied with satisfaction.

Then he asked: "How is the preparation of the special high class, have they and the action team sent out by the front-line troops entered the garrison base area, and when will they start to operate." ”

"In addition to increasing the food shortage and causing famine in their base areas, I also want to make them full of violence, attacks, and death threats, so that the people in their so-called base areas are panicked and the military is in turmoil, so that we will have less pressure to kill them in the future."

The chief of staff hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, the army commander, the special high school has dispatched nearly 100 excellent agents, including many female agents, and the front-line garrison has dispatched more than 500 elites of the imperial army who can speak Chinese and more than 1,000 imperial cooperative troops. ”

"As soon as you settle down, you'll get moving."

"This time they have the status of refugees as a cover, and the garrison will definitely not find out."

In order to cover these special forces and the Japanese puppet army from entering the garrison base area, the devils took great pains.

Many small villages have been secretly slaughtered by the devils, and these agents have entered the garrison base area disguised as survivors of the village, and even if the garrison has any doubts about their identity, they will die without proof.

In addition, all the ordinary people who entered the base area were deliberately disrupted by the devils, and the common people of different villages, towns, and even counties were mixed together, making it more difficult for the garrison regiment to screen them.

Many agents and Japanese puppet soldiers took advantage of this chaos to enter the base area, and then disguised themselves as ordinary people to settle down under the noses of the Eighth Route Army.

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