The battle in Caijiayu Houshan was uneventful, and the first squadron under the Xicun Brigade suffered huge losses, and finally broke through and left with heavy firepower.

Although this once seemed a little critical, it was nothing more than a few vicious battles in Yue Siliang's career.

In general, the gains of the 424th Regiment in the First War of Caijiayu were still very large, and there were a lot of more captures from the logistics Wang Shuangyin. However, when Yue Siliang returned to the Wuguliang regimental headquarters, bad news followed.

In the middle of the regiment headquarters, in the dim light, Yue Siliang was listening to Di Hanming read to him the messages sent below.

On the same day that a squadron of the Japanese army invaded Caijiayu, a group of jackals were driven out of Lingqiu County, and a number of security teams were dispatched. The squads also unexpectedly pounced on the village in the base area.

The banner of the security regiment is to protect the territory and the people, and to eliminate local bandits. But the actual purpose of these squads is only one, which is to collect food. Since they were not Japanese troops, the intelligence from various places did not raise their vigilance at first. When the security team entered the village, the people of the village did not take shelter at all.

This time, the security regiment continued to put forward the order of requisition of grain in the county, and the people in the base area naturally would not agree. What I didn't expect was that the security team actually started robbing and beating in the villages! Unlike when Fan Jianwen first gave the order, the security regiment that came out to collect grain this time did not only bring a paper order, but went down the mountain with a loaded gun.

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"So, we have lost a lot of militia in the villages below?"

Back at the regiment headquarters, Yue Siliang's face was very ugly after receiving these reports, and now he was absolutely sure that the enemy in Lingqiu County wanted to strangle their necks.

"That's right, although the weapons of the security regiment are varied, our militia has almost no thermal weapons to equip. In some villages, the militia suffered heavy losses, and in others, the militia did not choose to resist hard. More village militias have not yet been formed, and the damage caused by the security corps to those villages is even greater. On this day, dozens of villagers were killed in our base area. ”

As he spoke, Di Hanming handed over the file folder in his hand and asked Yue Siliang to see the details by himself.

"Bang!"

The more Yue Siliang looked at the report on the document, the more angry he became, and after holding back his anger after reading it, Yue Siliang slammed it on the table.

"The enemy has provoked us! We attacked their baggage troops; They want to carry out a retaliatory massacre of Caijiayu, cut off our food sources, and destroy our base areas! It seems that the devils in Lingqiu County really want to fight with us. ”

Di Hanming was completely twisted into a pimple in his eyebrows.

"Commander, I don't think it's that simple. Fan Jianwen's grain requisition order is by no means just to interfere with our food sources.

Judging from the situation between us and us, the overall strength of the Japanese army is stronger than ours. However, our advantage is that we are flexible, broaden our intelligence channels by opening up base areas, and unconsciously complete the strategic idea of 'encircling the city from the countryside'.

Now it seems that what Fan Jianwen is doing feels more like the purpose of squeezing our living space. This time it was indeed our negligence, and we did not consider ways and means in the process of struggle. Before, when Fan Jianwen first requisitioned grain, he should not have let everyone in the base area passively resist.

In this way, it exposes where our base areas are and how big our living space is. ”

Speaking of this, Yue Siliang also sighed.

Fan Jianwen...... We really think about this pseudo-county magistrate simply. Soldiers have clouds, know themselves and know their opponents, and do not slack off in a hundred battles. However, we are now confidants and do not know each other. Without understanding what kind of person our opponent is, we make subjective assumptions to dwarf our opponents...... It was our mistake. ”

Yue Siliang said here, and Di Hanming next to him also nodded. At the beginning of Fan Jianwen's appointment as the pseudo county magistrate, they did collect information about Fan Jianwen, but the information they learned is now quite thin.

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Just as the two of them were talking here, Wang Shuangyin came back with several soldiers who had entered Lingqiu County with him today.

"Commander."

Wang Shuangyin's face was not very good as soon as he came back, he took off his turban and began to pant when he sat on the stool.

"Double Seal, what's wrong? Didn't find a seller in Lingqiu? Not going well? ”

As soon as Yue Siliang asked, Wang Shuangyin let out a long sigh.

"Commander, we miscalculated! There is no food to buy in the county! ”

"Why do you say that?"

Head Yue raised his eyebrows, and from Wang Shuangyin's tone, he read that it was not simple.

"We asked around the county town today, and the smaller grain merchants couldn't get enough grain at all, and the amount we asked for was too large, and people didn't dare to do our business at all.

Later, I went to Heng Ji, the largest grain merchant in the county, to ask, good guy! They have food, but guess what price they offered? White noodles 30 yen a stone! Stick noodles, millet, and millet are all 20 yen per stone! ”

"Isn't this a fucking money grab?!"

Yue Siliang's mouth usually rarely splashes dirty words outside, but he also jumped angrily when he heard the price of grain reported by Wang Shuangyin. At present, the exchange rate between the yen and the fiat currency issued by the government in Nanjing is basically 1:1. In other words, the price offered by Heng Ji is about 30 fiat currency per stone. And the normal market price of white flour is only 6 to 7 yuan a stone! They are five times the normal market price!

Wang Shuangyin lowered his head with a gloomy face.

"Where are they robbing money, they just don't want to sell to us. Originally, I wondered how there could be such a shopkeeper in this world, didn't he bombard customers by doing this? But later I found out that the big boss behind this Heng Ji turned out to be Fan Jianwen! ”

"What?! Fan Jianwen?! ”

Yue Siliang and Di Hanming were shocked by each other, and they both read the shock in each other's eyes. When they investigated Fan Jianwen, they never found out what connection he had with Heng Ji, and now Wang Shuangyin suddenly said that the other party was the head hook among the big grain merchants in the county, and there was a trace of uneasiness in the hearts of both of them.

"At first, I didn't think about it, there was no news about it before. But now this matter is no secret in the county. I heard in the county town that on the day the Japanese army entered Lingqiu, Fan Jianwen took the initiative to contact the captain of the brigade, Nishimura, and personally moved half of the grain from Hengji's warehouse to the Japanese. It was from that night that everyone knew that Fan Jianwen, who spent a lot of money on weekdays and couldn't spend enough, was the big boss of Hengji. ”

“…… This Fan Jianwen is not simple......"

Yue Siliang was speechless for a long time, and it took a long time to say such a sentence. Judging from the two things of Fan Jianwen hiding behind the scenes and offering food to the sun, this person's scheming is not ordinary. Deliberately hiding his business on weekdays, although he can't completely hide it from those who are rich and powerful, he can also save himself a lot of trouble.

But on the day when the Japanese army entered the city, he, as a nouveau riche and a rich man in the county, dared to take the initiative to meet the Japanese army, and was willing to give up money to change himself into an official body, which shows that this person's courage and courage are not small. Maybe he won't be an official and can't govern the place, but this person must not be stupid.

"Commander, what now? Our food crisis has not yet been resolved and cannot be postponed any longer. When the seizure is finished, we really have nothing to eat. ”

Wang Shuangyin's face was full of bitterness, he knew how much food so many people in the regiment had to consume every day, and the logistics would really be unable to hold on for a few days. Fighting a war hungry will really affect combat effectiveness.

"I am afraid that quite a few problems have been exposed in the base areas now, and although militia units are being formed in various places, it is still very debatable what the real combat effectiveness is. Like this battle of Caijiayu, although the militia team resisted hard, in front of a squadron of the Japanese army, it was like a blister, which burst when poked. If the last battalion had not arrived, it would have been difficult for the militia to ensure that the village would not have been burned down. Moreover, in addition to Caijiayu, today's invasion of our base area by the county security regiment has also exposed the problem of the weakness of the militia. ”

Di Hanming also said the problems he found.

Yue Siliang frowned, now it seems that Fan Jianwen seems to be the cancer they need to eradicate the most, the food crisis in the regiment can be said to be caused by him, and the security regiment in the county is also formed by this Fan Jianwen.

"This Fan Jianwen must be eliminated!"

Yue Siliang clenched his fists and slammed it on the table. Subsequently, he said something that shocked Di Hanming and Wang Shuangyin.

"Tomorrow, I'll take the soldiers of the guard squad to Lingqiu to have a look. I want to see what kind of goods this Fan Jianwen is! ”

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