Kill? Or not kill?

Chen Lisheng was dizzy by the excited fellow villagers, and in the end, Niu Lili decided not to kill.

For these puppet troops, anyone with a discerning eye can see that they will flee as soon as the war starts, and they will surrender if they can't escape, obviously they can't do their work, and their discipline in the station is okay, there is no oppression of the people, at most, it is a dog fighting people, making trouble with the people a few times, and there is no blood debt on the body.

They are different from the devils, the devils would rather die than surrender, even if they catch the devils, they will be killed, wolves are wolves, no matter how they are raised, they can't raise dogs, and in the end they still raise tigers for trouble, it is better to kill them at the beginning.

The puppet army does not need to be raised, it is a dog itself, so there is no need to kill prisoners, although it is very cool to kill prisoners, it is very satisfying to the angry crowd, but it is not conducive to war.

Once the puppet army knows that it will still be killed even after surrendering, it will not surrender again on the battlefield, even if it is a desperate fight to break the net, it will not surrender, and at that time, it is not themselves who will lose.

They are all Chinese, but their positions are different, why kill each other, and it is not the devil who benefits in the end.

The best way to deal with it is to fight for it, deal with the devil together, and kill the devil together. It took a lot of talk for Niu Gu to convince the local villagers in Baohua Mountain.

As for those soldiers, it is their duty to obey orders, and besides, veterans have long had battlefield discipline, that is, they cannot kill prisoners, not even Japanese prisoners.

This is strictly forbidden in black and white in the army, but for Japanese prisoners, in terms of execution, many of them are killed on the spot for various reasons.

Therefore, Niu Gu asked Qi Yongqing to set up a temporary political work group, and transferred a group of highly conscious and capable speakers to try these puppet armies together and defeat them individually.

In fact, many of these puppet soldiers, especially the lower-level soldiers, use being soldiers as a profession, mixing a bite of food, without any purpose, most of them follow their superiors, even if there are a few people who don't want to be puppet soldiers, they don't dare to leave for a while, or they don't have the opportunity to go.

After a political offensive by the political work group, most of the puppet army was willing to join the Baohuashan Self-Defense Brigade, and a small number of them shirked it for various reasons, but most of them didn't want to be soldiers anymore and wanted to go home.

Niu Gu's policy is very advanced, perhaps because he was born poor, and he has been eating on the rivers and lakes for half his life, and he knows the difficulties of these low-level people, so all the puppet soldiers who are unwilling to stay will be given travel expenses and let them go home.

This regulation is simply going to poke the honeycomb of Baohua Mountain, and most of the mountain people don't understand it, how can they catch it and let it go? If we don't kill, we have to be locked up, and what if they come back to beat us?

For this, Niu Gu really had no way to convince these fellows, and he didn't have the time to do this, so he took advantage of the dark night to secretly let these people go.

However, Niu Gu is not so lenient about the few leaders exposed within the puppet army, and these leaders have blood debts of the local people on their hands, and they cannot be let go or kept.

This kind of person, unlike ordinary soldiers, is also a scourge to keep, and may bewitch other soldiers to turn against the water, or escape from the battle to corrupt the morale of the army.

If they are released, it will also be a scourge, because they will definitely not go home, after all, they have a lot of resources to use, and they can continue to pull up people to become officials and continue to harm the people.

In the end, Niu Gu summoned the villagers and soldiers to hold a sentencing meeting, announced several major crimes of these leaders, and then shot them on the spot, which had the effect of warning others and calmed down the anger of the villagers.

The puppet army that stayed behind, Niu Gu did not organize them together, and after the training, they were all dispersed to various squads, and a few were assigned to logistics or other departments.

Due to the rapid expansion of the ranks, the original two companies, plus one company's reserves, were officially converted into regular companies, and now nearly 100 puppet troops have joined, and the total strength has exceeded one battalion.

In addition, some young and strong people from the surrounding townships came to maintain the quota of more than 100 people in the reserve, and the strength of the entire Baohua Mountain was close to two battalions.

The previous guard platoon also rose with the tide, and now it has expanded into a guard company, and Da Wei picked some good seedlings in the reserve team and trained with the whole training brigade.

In addition to the problem of food and ammunition, the problem facing Niu Gu is that there are too many soldiers, and the small place of Baohua Mountain exceeds the capacity.

Having to find a way to expand his territory, Niu Gu's eyes were fixed on the map captured from the puppet army, and he gradually focused on two points.

One is Tangshan and the other is Jiangbei.

To the east of Baohua Mountain is Zhenjiang, an important port city on the Yangtze River.

To the west is Nanjing, and don't even think about it, there are more than 100,000 of Japan's most elite troops there, and the few men and horses in Baohua Mountain are not enough for people to stuff their teeth.

Now only the south and the north are left, and the north is Longtan Town, where the National Revolutionary Army of the Northern Expedition and Sun Chuanfang fought and won the most critical battle in the unification war.

Longtan Town is the Yangtze River further north, Jiangbei is Liuhe, there is also a Jiangxin Island in this river, similar to Jiangxin Island, but it has a road connected with the north bank of the Jiangbei.

Niu Gu has always wanted to return to the original army, this is not only Niu Gu's mind, but also the mind of many veterans, although everyone has a good time here to drink wine and eat meat, but the destination of the heart is still in the original army.

And back to the original troops, they were stopped by this Yangtze River natural danger before, but now they have the strength and can give it a try.

You can first send soldiers from there to Baohua Mountain, let them return to the local area to develop, and provide cadres and guns and ammunition here to develop the local area.

Especially Jiangxinzhou, if Jiangxinzhou is developed, it is equivalent to having a springboard to Jiangbei, with the help of this springboard, over time, when the time is ripe, you can jump to Jiangbei.

Whether it is to continue to develop the territory of Jiangbei or return to the original army, at that time, it is not up to you to see your mood.

The Tangshan in the south is the easiest to develop, first, Baohua Mountain and Tangshan are connected together, the terrain is similar, they are all mountains and forests, as long as a detachment is dispatched, supplemented by the Tangshan people in the Baohua Mountain Brigade, it can be developed immediately.

Tangshan also has several advantages, there are the fortifications of the previous defense line can continue to be used, if you continue to the south, it is the Qinglong Mountain that was familiar with the previous defense of Nanjing, and Niu Gu is still familiar with the terrain in that area.

Tangshan also has a very important geographical location, sandwiched between Nanjing and Jiangning, Jurong, can attack these three places, retreat can defend Baohua Mountain, in the middle and Baohua Mountain together to attack, block the traffic arteries from Nanjing to Danyang.

To the south, it can invade the road from Nanjing to Lishui, and to the north, it can assist Baohua Mountain to invade the road from Nanjing to Zhenjiang.

However, the geographical location is good, it is a double-edged sword, the Japanese army is not a fool, and in their eyes, they will definitely focus on this place.

During the war years, especially in the enemy-occupied areas, there was not an inch of safe land, and Niu Gu didn't care so much, so he decided to send men and horses to the south to Tangshan to develop first.