Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan called the battalion commander and instructor over and asked them to start arranging immediately. Li Ziyuan's explanation was very simple, let the other captured puppet soldiers dig a big pit on the spot around the mass grave at the foot of Dongshan. Prepare to take these former traitors who can't be taken away and can't be let go, and directly solve them with machine guns.

Hearing Li Ziyuan's order, after the battalion commander and the instructor glanced at each other, both of them were quite surprised. This is the killing of prisoners, which is a serious violation of the Eighth Route Army's prisoner policy. It's easy to use machine guns to deal with these dozens of prisoners here, but what should I do if the superiors investigate them afterwards?

After hesitating for a moment, the instructor of the battalion spoke: "Chief, you are killing prisoners, which is a serious violation of the discipline of our troops, as well as the prisoner policy. If this is known by the superiors, you will be severely punished by discipline for doing so, and it will be light to remove you from your post. ”

Regarding this instructor's objection, Li Ziyuan glared and said, "Then what do you say?" We can't move right away, what are these people going to do? Let them go like the ordinary puppet army, and let them come back with devils to fight us? The two of you should understand that the dangers of these people are far from being comparable to ordinary puppet soldiers. ”

"If so, how can you march and fight with these captives? You can also see these people, and their combat effectiveness is quite good. They also know what will happen if they fall into our hands. Surrendering now does not mean that these people have no desire to survive at all. ”

"Who can guarantee that we will not encounter the Japanese puppet army when we transfer? Once we encounter a new enemy, it is easy for them to bite us back if we slack off in custody. If you stay, do you want to increase the danger and burden on the comrades in the field hospital? ”

"Anyway, with the crimes of these people, it is also a death to send to the military district command. It's better to solve it directly now, so as not to carry a big burden on our backs. We don't have as much energy to move with them now, and we don't have as many people watching them. Disposal in situ is our best solution. ”

"My position here is the highest, and my superiors are to hold it accountable, and I am also on top of it in front, what are you afraid of. In a moment, you will leave me a few machine guns and a few hundred rounds of ammunition, a reinforced platoon, and take the rest of the puppet army with you. Since you don't do it, I'll do it myself. ”

"I repeat, since you are now under my command, then I am your commander, and I will carry out the order at once. When you were in the original army, did you bargain like this for the orders of your regimental commander? Remember, you should never reveal anything until you do it. ”

Li Ziyuan's attitude was very tough, and the two of them could only helplessly do what Li Ziyuan said. After the puppet army dug the big pit, after escorting all the puppet troops with him, Li Ziyuan was left with two light machine guns, one heavy machine gun, and a reinforced platoon.

Seeing that the battalion commander and instructor had withdrawn to the village with other captured puppet soldiers. Li Ziyuan quickly explained his order to the platoon commander who stayed, and then ignored the platoon commander's equally surprised eyes. With a direct wave of his hand, he let people push dozens of bundles of tight traitors into the big pit.

The surrounding troops were all loaded with bayonets, and the bayonets in their hands were pointed at the traitors in the pit. No matter how stupid these dozens of traitors are, they understand what these eight paths want to do. There are those who kneel and kowtow in the pit and beg for mercy, and there are those who stand silent in the pit. Although their hands are tied, there are also those who want to struggle to climb out of the pit.

And the three people who were left behind were tied to the trees on the edge of the pit, looking at the people whose fate was already doomed in the pit, their faces showed a trace of disbelief at the same time, and at the same time, they also closed their eyes tightly, not daring to look at the scene of those people in the pit pleading.

In particular, the squadron leader who led the team, the former chief of staff of the Second Division of the Sixth Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Han Tiehan, who defected to the enemy after killing his comrades. After a long sigh, he closed his eyes and lowered his head deeply. Whatever was on the mind of this traitor at the moment, it was already too late for them.

Li Ziyuan, who knew that he didn't have much time to waste here, didn't give these people much time. He waved his hand downward, and then calmly gave the order to shoot. After receiving Li Ziyuan's order, the platoon commander who personally operated the heavy machine gun hesitated slightly, but he still resolutely carried out the order and pulled the plate machine fiercely.

As his hand holding the trigger of the Type 92 heavy machine gun pulled, a dense stream of bullets swept into the pit. The two crooked light machine guns deployed on either side of the heavy machine gun also opened fire almost at the same time, and the dense rain of bullets swept the traitors in the pit directly into pieces.

When several people who were slightly injured struggled to climb out of the pit, the soldiers who stood on the edge of the pit with bayonets and rifles were hesitant and couldn't do it. Seeing that the people were about to climb out of the pit, the soldier was still holding a gun and hesitating. Li Ziyuan took out his pistol, and when two shots knocked down two traitors who had climbed to the edge of the kang,

He said angrily to those soldiers: "Do you still want them to run back, turn around and continue to slaughter the civilians in the base area with the Japanese puppet army?" Or do you want to let them run back and cause harm to the base area again? Now you are soft-hearted, will they be soft-hearted when they kill you? ”

"Your heads are the capital of their promotion and wealth, will they show mercy to your subordinates? Remember, for these people who have exchanged the blood of their comrades and brothers for their own glory and wealth, as long as you and your family do not want to die under their swords and guns, then your subordinates should not show the slightest mercy. ”

Hearing Li Ziyuan's angry scolding, he remembered the traitor harm he had experienced. Several soldiers gritted their teeth, picked up their rifles and bayonets, and picked back a few traitors who were struggling to climb out of the edge of the kang. When there was no one standing in the pit, Li Ziyuan waved his hand to the rest of the fighters.

He took a Type 38 rifle with a bayonet on it and jumped into the pit to mend the knife. After Li Ziyuan stabbed a bayonet into a traitor's chest, the other fighters did not hesitate, and jumped into the pit one by one, filling each traitor with a bayonet. When it was all over, Li Ziyuan personally took these soldiers and refilled the big kang lying full of traitors' corpses.

After filling in the soil, Li Ziyuan made a certain amount of camouflage here, so that people could not see at a glance what had happened here, and then evacuated here with his troops. Rush back to the village to join the main force and the field hospital. And beside him, the warriors who had just experienced a different kind of experience were silent.

It is clear that after a long period of discipline and education, these fighters know that they must be treated favorably, and not only can they not be killed at will, but they cannot even be beaten. Although it was carried out according to Li Ziyuan's order, it was still unacceptable to kill the prisoners. No matter how much harm these people have done and what they have done, they have now laid down their arms.

As for the reason for the silence of these fighters, although Li Ziyuan knew it very well in his heart, he didn't say anything. He knew that these soldiers had been disciplined for a long time, and their military careers had been spent in strict enforcement of military discipline. Let them go and kill these people who have laid down their arms, at least psychologically, it is difficult to accept.

But whether these people can accept it or not, Li Ziyuan thinks he has no choice. These people can't be put down, and they won't choose to do anything else when they are put back, they still have to serve the Japanese army. Compared with ordinary puppet armies, and even pseudo-plainclothes teams that are good at collecting intelligence, the threat and harm of such people are much greater.

With the transfer of them to the higher authorities, it is basically impossible. The reason why these people resisted so stubbornly before was because they knew exactly what the consequences would be if they fell into the hands of the Eighth Path. They are all traitors to the Anti-Japanese Federation, and although the Anti-Japanese Federation has lost contact with the Central Committee for many years, it is under the same banner as the Eighth Route Army and has a common organization.

If it falls into the hands of the Eight Roads, it will not end well. Everyone has a desire to survive, and the reason why these people become traitors, for whatever reason, is at least the first thing to want to live. The ghost knows how many Japanese puppet troops there are around, and no one can guarantee that the troops will not encounter the Japanese puppet army when they are transferred.

Once they encounter the Japanese puppet army, these people not only need to send a large number of people to watch. And if you can't see a photo, let them break free, then the consequences will be serious. If they are taken back by the Japanese army, then these people are a serious threat. So completely letting them disappear from this world has become the only solution.

Whether the subordinates accept it in their hearts or not, that's their business. But there are some things to do and not to do, that's your own business. He is not the commander of their troops, what is the mentality of these fighters now, or let their regiment commanders and political commissars have a headache, they just did what they had to do.

As for the punishment that he might face from his superiors afterwards, Li Ziyuan didn't care much about it. And Li Ziyuan thinks that his superiors will not necessarily give him too strict punishments. After all, the identities of these people are here, and the current situation is also here. The conduct of commanders and commissars will not be fully considered.

Didn't the other captives kill any of them? That pig-like Japanese soldier Shaozuo, didn't he keep it well? The most important thing is that he solved the puppet army for more than 500 days at once, isn't the battle exploits also here? It's just a big deal that the merits and demerits are offset, and I don't want anything anyway.

Li Ziyuan doesn't regret what he did at the moment, and what happened next made him even more glad for the decision he made. As soon as Li Ziyuan entered the village to join the main force of the battalion, he had not yet had time to send someone to inform the dean and the villagers.

One of the two platoons he had left to the west to deal with the last dozen remnants of the enemy and monitor the movement in the west was in a state of confusion and rushed back from the battlefield before the west with a messenger. And at the mountain pass to the west, a dense burst of gunfire rang out.

Li Ziyuan could clearly hear that there was not only the sound of light and heavy machine guns, but also at least two 92 infantry guns and two mountain guns firing on the other side. The unique sound of the mountain shell explosion made Li Ziyuan immediately keenly judge that it was the devil's reinforcements who had arrived. On the one hand, Li Ziyuan asked the battalion commander and instructor of the battalion to immediately gather the troops and prepare for battle.

On the one hand, he turned his head and looked at the running man panting, and the hat on his head was also blown away by bullets. A wound cut by a bullet, and the blood that flowed out almost made him unable to see the appearance of the company commander on his face. He said directly: "How many enemies have come from your side, and how many miles are there from here." ”