It's late August.

Although the weather is still hot, the breath of autumn has gradually arrived.

Not only is the hot weather gradually flooding with autumn coolness, but also because the sorghum rice in the field is gradually bending the branches, and the buds on the high corn stalks are bulging, like the belly of the new daughter-in-law gradually bulging......

Obviously, as long as nothing happens, in a few months, this land will usher in a harvest season again.

For farmers who depend on the land for their livelihoods, there is nothing more joyful than a good harvest.

Even if the previous war, which lasted for nearly three months, made this land full of scorched earth, even if because of that war, there were corpses almost everywhere, and almost every village had to face life and death, and taste the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war......

But a good harvest can dilute the sentimentality of death and bring new hope to people......

If there were no watchtowers that gradually spread in the guerrilla zone, if there were no devils who carried the sun flag and shouted, if there were no barbed wire.

The appearance of these devils and watchtowers not only replaced the joy of the imminent harvest with fear, but also made the faces of the people full of sorrow!

The devil is coming, who can have a good life?

This is the most sincere thought in the hearts of all the fathers and villagers, and it has nothing to do with how cruel and unkind the little devils are and how wolf-hearted they are as the little devils advertised by the detachment, nor do they have anything to do with the atrocities of the little devils before......

Even, at this stage, the little devils in the guerrilla zone are even more gentle than before, and when they meet the villagers on patrol, not only are they not as arrogant and arrogant as before, but they don't even say anything about the eight-grid tooth road on their lips, but greet them with a smile on their faces......

But so what?

The villagers don't think it's a good phenomenon for the little devil to be so kind, and they are even more vigilant than when the little devil showed off his might before, and they all feel that the little devil is like this now, obviously he was afraid of being beaten by the detachment, and he had to be angry!

In fact, behind the scenes, I don't know what is bad, this is a hidden knife in a smile!

"The Jindong detachment, like all the Eighth Route Army teams, was able to smash this side and take root here, entirely because they adopted a policy of wooing the people, fighting local tyrants and dividing land, reducing rents and taxes, all in order to let those short-sighted people of China taste the real sweetness, so as to support them with all their hearts!"

Yoshikawa Sadazo said: "If we want to completely solve the cancer of the Jindong detachment, we can't rely solely on force, just defeating the Jindong detachment militarily is far from enough, and it is absolutely impossible to achieve the final victory!"

If we want to uproot the Jindong detachment, our only hope is to follow the advice of Lieutenant General Gangcun, first implement the Huairou policy, and like the Eighth Route Army, buy the hearts of the people first, and destroy the foundation of the Jindong detachment's survival here!

As long as they disintegrate their mass base here, as long as the local people no longer support them, then no matter how strong the armed forces of the Jindong detachment are, they will only be rootless trees, and it will not be ......long before they become arrogant," Yoshikawa Sadasa said eloquently.

"Your Excellency Major General Yoshikawa!"

A large group of Japanese generals looked sad and indignant when they heard this: "I don't know if you have read the battle report of our army at Pingtongguan?" Do you know how many imperial soldiers died because of the Jindong detachment? ”

Those data, as the head of the intelligence department of the five provinces, Yoshikawa Sadasa, of course, are clear!

Yoshino and Harada two brigades, more than two thousand elite of the Imperial Army, under the siege of the Jindong detachment, no more than three hundred came back alive, and the battle damage was more than sixty percent!

Attacking the long gang of Kurasui, the Yano squadron, the whole army was annihilated, and the Matsui Sakata squadron, only about 200 people fled back in embarrassment!

There is also the Golden Immortal Temple, more than 5,000 imperial elites, just because of that damn Zhang Ran blew up the dammed lake, drowning more than 3,000 imperial warriors in one fell swoop, and even Major General Xiaolin Zhai died in the raging torrent......

In the first battle of Pingtongguan, the elite of the empire who died directly in the hands of the Jindong detachment exceeded 6,000 people!

If you add in the casualties caused by the Jindong detachment running around and delaying the imperial fighters countless times, the number is even more shocking - according to the estimate of the military department, I am afraid that there will be nearly 10,000 casualties of the imperial soldiers, all of which will be on the head of the Jindong detachment!

These 10,000 people are all the elite of the empire, not counting the Imperial Cooperative Army!

If you count the Imperial Army, the number is probably close to 20,000!

In the entire Pingtongguan War, the empire, including the Imperial Army, died less than 50,000 in total, and the elite of the empire died less than 20,000......

In other words, almost ordinary people died in the hands of the Jindong detachment!

"It turns out that His Excellency the Major General knows, I thought you didn't know!"

Eguchi Shaozo sneered and said: "Since Your Excellency the Major General knows, then you should understand that there are more than 10,000 imperial warriors who can't be blinded and are waiting for us to avenge them - but you proposed to be gentle with the Jindong base area, do you want these more than 10,000 imperial heroes to die without turning a blind eye?" ”

"Bloody Jindong base area, avenge my tragic death in the hands of the Jindong detachment, this is one of them!"

Kudo Shaoza also interjected and said angrily: "More importantly, our army's current supply is becoming more and more tight, and the military department not only requires us to supply on the spot and solve the military food problem on our own, but also to hand over the military rations for the needs of the frontal battlefield - we are gentle with the pigs in China, who is gentle with our soldiers?"

I guess Your Excellency will not know that in order to prioritize supplies to the frontal battlefield, the imperial soldiers of our department have to eat pig food every day, while gritting their teeth and starving to fight those Tubalu guerrillas, right? ”

Of course, Yoshikawa Sadazo knows all these situations.

But he did not refute the reproach of Kudo Eguchi and the others, but only looked at the new commander of Lingjiang, Akira, who had just been appointed as a major general.

Akira knew that the reason why Kudo Eguchi and others dared to refute the plan of Major General Yoshikawa Sadazo with the title of Shaosa was because they were their cronies and wanted to stand up for themselves and ensure the authority of the new commander in the Lingjiang area......

If it were in the past, Zhao Ming was afraid that he would secretly praise the behavior of the two of them who challenged Yoshikawa Sadasa, and hoped that there would be more such subordinates.

In this way, it will be easier for him to gain a foothold in this Lingjiang, and at the same time, he will be able to better fight the Jindong detachment!

But now, Akira had to scold the Kudo Eguchi and the others, and seriously asked them to apologize to Yoshikawa Sadasa!

Because once, he thought that the Jindong detachment was becoming more and more arrogant, completely because Okada's ability was limited, and he was incompetent and tired of the three armies!

But after Zhang Ran expected the enemy plane to blow up the dammed lake, at the cost of hundreds of casualties, a wave of flash floods wiped out more than 3,000 imperial elites, and even Major General Kobayashi Zhai had no bones......

Zhaoming deeply realized Zhang Ran's terribleness, and truly understood that the rising of the Jindong detachment was not Okada's incompetence at all, but that Zhang Ran was too treacherous and vicious!

Just by himself, I am afraid that not only will he not be able to exterminate the Jindong detachment, but there is a great possibility that Bu Okada will face the Jindong detachment here, and he will be led by the Jindong detachment step by step!

The worst situation may even be the same as Major General Kobayashisai, who lost his life because of the Jindong detachment before he figured out what was going on!

Zhaoming doesn't want to end up in such a tragic end!

Unless, Sadasa Yoshikawa can help him!

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