Stilwell originally planned to stay for only three or four days, but this time he ran a few troops and stayed for more than ten days. In the past ten days www.biquge.info he has seen the actual situation and believed Xiaolu's words.

Stilwell was intrigued by the grain currency implemented by the trail. It is a pioneering feat to use grain for disaster relief, to use grain to issue loans, and even to convert all other accounts into food.

These days, Xiaolu mingled with reporters, and the topic of repeated talk turned out to be Henan, Henan drought, and asked reporters to go and see, write articles and publicity, and call the victims to come to the Northeast, and the Northeast Liberated Area has food, work, and money.

Xiaolu also arranged for them to visit a very sporadic battle, that is, the annihilation of the pioneer group in the Sanjiang area.

More than a year ago, when the Kwantung Army saw that the vast majority of the pioneer regiments had finished up and that the army and the cities were seriously short of food supplies, they dispatched troops to forcibly protect a large number of Japanese peasants and build the pioneer regiments. The capital of the new pioneer regiment was selected in a Chinese village not far from the large army of the Kwantung Army in the Sanjiang area, and after a large number of skirmishes with the Chinese army, the large army of the Kwantung Army took the initiative and the pioneer regiment was successfully built.

The pioneer regiment in the Sanjiang area had a population of 300,000, and after the great counteroffensive, except for the urban battles, the local troops abandoned small towns and began to attack the pioneer regiment. By now, more than half of them have been wiped out.

Stilwell walked for a day in a car and a day after entering the mountains. In the morning, when I climbed over a mountain, I saw a village in a small valley, protected by a wall and a gate in front of it. It was written in Japanese characters, but Stilwell still recognized the three words of the pioneer group.

After walking to the village for about a kilometer, the man who accompanied Stilwell told them to stop.

Stilwell picked up his binoculars and observed dozens of men on the walls of the village, armed with guns, aimed at the outside of the village. There were two turrets in the village, about five or six meters high, made of wood, with guards on them.

Stilwell could see that the people on the wall were Japanese, some were soldiers, and some had no military qualities at all.

Looking around the village from the Japanese on the wall, I saw that there were several zigzag trenches around the village, and the front part of the trench was less than 200 meters away from the village. From the point of view of position, it can be seen that there are some fighters in the trenches. These people are closer, and it can be seen that their clothing is peasant, and the guns and weapons are not very good, much worse than the regular army, and there are no heavy weapons such as machine guns.

But, slowly, they had an extremely dilapidated Japanese mountain cannon. The two wheels of the mountain cannon are inconsistent, one is original and the other is new. Very primitive wooden wheels.

Stilwell didn't understand why it was spring, and the attacking militia were still wearing cotton clothes, especially cotton pants, the kind of North Korean cotton pants with an extremely wide crotch. After watching it for a while, he understood that the militia was lying in the trenches most of the time, and it was spring and it was cool.

In the distance from the village, two artillery positions can be seen, with earthen artillery inside.

Stilwell watched as someone in the trench in front of him held a tin horn and began to shout. The Japanese who shouted were in Japanese, and they couldn't stop talking. When Stilwell arrived, it seemed that he had been shouting for a long time, and the Japanese who was shouting was hoarse and was replaced by another one. The man began to read something with emotion, and after reading for a while, the group on the opposite side stopped firing their guns, and it was very quiet.

Soon there was another one, it was a woman, a little old, as if she was shouting someone, shouting and shouting and crying.

The interpreter told Stilwell that this was an explanation of the policy, and also demanded that they surrender, saying that they were armed immigrants, who had taken the land of the people with arms, and that some had killed the people. How not to surrender, how to surrender. Later, one was reading a letter from home, and the other was persuading his son to surrender.

Stilwell thought it was incredible, since there was a cannon, no matter how small the power was, it was enough to attack a small village, so why not fight? Can shouting win the victory?

After saying a dozen words, suddenly a shot was fired on the wall, and the tin horn was knocked down.

Stilwell felt that the shouting should be over, and it was time to fight.

No, the tin horn was erected again and continued to shout.

Three times, the interpreter said, "It's time to fire." Just a warning, let the Japanese near the gate get out of the way. ”

Sure enough, the Japanese near the gate of the pioneer regiment dodged.

The earthen cannon fired.

Stilwell had seen this kind of Japanese artillery, and the explosion power was not small, but the range was not far, and it could not catch up with any kind of artillery of the American army.

With a bang, the village gate was struck, and the gate and a large section of the fence were damaged.

Stilwell figured the battle should begin.

No, the tin horn stood up tenaciously again and continued to shout.

Stilwell felt that the battle was boring.

The accompanying officer said, "If you don't feel interested, let's go to the back and rest for a while, and this shouting will continue for a long time." ”

Stilwell rested for a while, visited a farm, and at about three o'clock in the afternoon, returned to the village again.

The shouting continued, and by this time, the Japanese in the village were already in disarray, and a dozen people had already thrown their guns out, ran out of the corner gate, and surrendered.

There were more than a dozen people at the entrance of the village who still didn't surrender, and Stilwell said, "Don't you attack yet?" ”

The commander said: "Tell him, we will give him another thirty minutes, and after thirty minutes, attack without surrendering." ”

Sure enough, thirty minutes later, the attack began, and there were only two stubborn people at the entrance of the village, and after only a few shots, the battle was over.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Stilwell was invited to visit inside. There were more than 30 guns and a corpse at the entrance of the village. Entering the village, Stilwell was surprised. This is a fortress-like village, and if you give yourself command, if you really attack it, at least a dozen people will die.

It's a very strange battle.

Later, the Northeast Coalition Army introduced him to the fact that the pioneer regiments surrendered one after another, and the fast ones surrendered after ten minutes, and the slow ones even shouted for four days before surrendering.

With the surrender of the pioneer regiment, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army not only increased its guns by 60,000, but also increased its working population by 200,000.

On May 2, the delegation went to the Chaoyang area.

At the end of April, spring plowing and sowing in southern Liaoning ended ahead of schedule, and preparations for war began immediately. Marshall and Zhang Zhizhong also went to the western part of Liaoning to observe the battle. Zhou Gong has already left because he is busy with official business.

Xiaolu personally commanded the battle, Zhang Shouhou served as the deputy commander-in-chief, and invited Marshall and Zhang Zhizhong to command together. The two were very interested, and although they were eager to try, they still let Xiaolu command, willing to be a staff officer, and help Xiaolu command the battle.

The headquarters was near Jinzhou, and it took five or six hours to get off the plane before it arrived.

This time, the task of the campaign is to recover Rehe, Jinzhou, Fuxin, Chaoyang, Chifeng, Tongliao, and Zhengjiatun, and open up the north-south communication line. The vast rural areas and small towns in this area were all recovered, and only these cities remained in the hands of the Japanese.

The troops participating in the war included Li Sen's railway troops, 30,000 people, attacking Zhengjiatun; Wanquan Ce Zhao Ziqiang's Yilan column of 20,000 people attacked Tongliao; Wang Wenbin and Lei Jingmin's 20,000 Jinzhou Column, Zhang Binglin's 15,000-strong Beifeng Column, and Cai Jimin's 15,000-strong Panshan Column, with a total of 50,000 people, joined forces to attack Jinzhou. Take Jinzhou, and divide the troops to seize Chaoyang, Panjin and other places.

In cooperation with the action in Jinzhou, the Rehe Column Xu Zhizhen, Zhang Qingyun, and Zhang Qingyu 70,000 people were responsible for attacking Chengde.

The goal of this campaign was to capture the above cities, and then occupy the neighboring county seats. In addition to Chengde and Jinzhou, strive to occupy various other cities permanently.

The main target, of course, is Jinzhou.

The area has well-developed railways. Since the twenties, the Pingqi Railway has been built, and the railway from Siping to Qiqihar has been built; Dazheng Railway, Dahushan Road Zhengjiatun Railway; Shenshan line, that is, the Shenyang to Shanhaiguan railway, and so on.

Because all the confidential telegrams for the mobilization of troops were sent by the advanced telegraph machines brought by Xiaolu, the Japanese army naturally could not decipher them, and did not know the details of the transfer of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and many spies of the Japanese army had already discovered the movement of troop transfers, and mobilized 30,000 Japanese troops from Liaonan, Rehe, Luda, Haicheng Yingkou and other places, plus 10,000 puppet troops, to guard Jinzhou.

Marshall and Zhang Zhizhong were already familiar with the people in the Northeast Coalition Army Command, and they first watched the anti-Japanese coalition army formulate battle plans, and later even participated.

This time, they felt that the Japanese army had strong combat effectiveness, and 50,000 people were not enough to attack Jinzhou. Xiaolu said: "Actually, although there are only 50,000 troops attacking Jinzhou, there are still 50,000 migrant workers and local troops, and in addition, I have a secret weapon that I will use at a critical time." ”