Zhao County, Ma Dawang Village.

Madawang Village is located in the area of activity of the guerrillas, and is a typical guerrilla area.

However, now, the puppet army's bunker battle line has covered Ma Dawang Village, in order to completely cut off the contact between the villagers and the [***] guerrillas, and drive the [***] guerrillas out of the guerrilla area, the army recruited local villagers to dig a blockade ditch around Ma Dawang Village, and set up a suspension bridge at the entrance of the village for passage, and built a small stronghold next to the suspension bridge.

The main building of the stronghold is a small turret, surrounded by deep ditches, only the drawbridge communicates with the outside world, it looks like a lighthouse built on an isolated island, but the turret is very strong, reinforced concrete structure, the cement wall is half a meter thick, and the bazooka of the 39th Army can no longer threaten the safety of the artillery tower of the army.

In the stronghold were stationed a squad of soldiers and a platoon of puppet soldiers.

The night was dark, and most of the puppet soldiers were asleep, and only the sentries on the lookout on the top floor were still standing.

Far away from the other side of the army's stronghold, a group of dark shadows approached the isolation ditch outside Madawang Village under the cover of night.

In the night, Ma Fugui suddenly raised his right hand, and then clenched it into a fist, and the people who followed behind him suddenly stopped, and then evacuated to the two wings with skillful tactical movements.

This team is the armed team sent by Yue Weihan to Zhao County, and Ma Fugui is the captain.

The Zhao County Armed Forces Brigade has 11 people, 1 from the Propaganda Department, 1 from the Operations Department, and 1 from the Zhao County Guerrillas, including Ma Fugui, and the remaining 8 people are all from the Special Operations Brigade.

Ma Fugui ordered the troops to hide, and then turned around and walked to Xie Laoqi's side.

Xie Laoqi was a businessman in his early years, he was able to speak well, he knew all the major and minor affairs of Zhao County, and he had a wide range of people, and he was sent by the Zhao County guerrillas to cooperate with the military engineering team to carry out the work.

"Seventh brother, there is Ma Dawang Village in front, right?"

"Hmm." Xie Laoqi nodded and said, "Ma Dawang Village was just blocked by the little devil for half a month, and the original chief Ma Yaozu has now become the maintenance president of the pseudo-political axe, Ma Yaozu still has the concept of right and wrong, but he is a little timid, and he scared him a few words, and he became the maintenance president." ”

Ma Fugui said: "Is it possible for this person to rebel?" ”

"It should be fine." Xie Lao Qi said, "You can try." ”

Ma Fugui nodded, and immediately ordered: "Wang Zhiwu, Liu Shusheng and Bai Mei, you and Seventh Brother will enter the village with me, and the rest of the people will be on guard in place and ready to respond." ”

With the help of ropes, Ma Fugui and the other five people quickly went down to the bottom of a ditch more than six meters deep.

Then with the help of the zipline, Ma Fugui took the lead in climbing to the other side of the blockade ditch, and pulled Xie Laoqi and others up one by one, less than half a cup of tea, Ma Fugui and the other five people all disappeared into the night, and then several earth dogs raised by the villagers of Ma Dawang Village began to bark wildly, but soon they were silent again.

………… From mid-August to early September of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), more than 20 armed work teams sent by Yue Weihan to southern Hebei quickly played a role, successfully breaking the blockade network supported by strongholds, artillery towers, highways, and isolation ditches, and reconnecting the common people in various guerrilla areas with the guerrillas.

The guerrillas, under the cover of the common people, immediately became swimming fish in the water.

Beginning in early September, the guerrilla units in the guerrilla areas of various counties in southern Hebei suddenly became active again.

With the help of an intelligence network constructed by two political axes, the guerrillas in the counties began to be deaf and clear-sighted, and it was often before the sweeping troops of the Chinese army had arrived that the guerrillas in the counties had already received the news in advance and had already been evacuated in an emergency.

Soon, the guerrillas in various counties opened up one underground line of communication after another, and the isolation network supported by strongholds, artillery towers, highways, and isolation ditches by the army became completely an ornament, and the army began to be exhausted, and the isolation ditch in the east was filled in today, and the highway in the west was dug tomorrow, and from time to time there would be cold guns and cold artillery coming from the barren mountains and wilderness, so that the devils and puppet army could not be guarded against.

By mid-September, the Japanese army, which was carrying out the policy of "encroachment" in the guerrilla areas of southern Hebei, had finally suffered a heavy setback.

When the army was preparing to collect autumn grain, the spring wheat and bud rice in the guerrilla areas of southern Hebei counties disappeared overnight!

………… Shimen, the headquarters of the army.

Lieutenant General Moritake Tanabe and Masashi Hirata walked into Okamura Ninji's office in a rage.

Major General Hirata Masashi suddenly retracted his feet and reported to Okamura Ninji: "Your Excellency, the spring wheat and bud rice in the Zhun An districts of southern Hebei have been harvested by the Chinese army overnight, and all the whereabouts of all the grain are unknown!" ”

"What!?" Okamura Ninji Huo Ran got up and said in disbelief, "All the whereabouts are unknown? ”

"Hello!" Hirata Masaki bowed his head suddenly, and said in a cruel voice, "Your Excellency Commander, I firmly believe that the grain must still be hidden in tens of thousands of villages in various quasi-security areas, so why don't you send troops into the villages to search for food?" ”

"Yaga." Okamura Ninji couldn't help but say that he slapped Hirata's slap.

The core purpose of the "encroachment" policy is to isolate the Chinese in the quasi-security zone from the resistance, and for ordinary Chinese and the resistance, it must be treated differently; for the resistance, it is natural to kill them, but for ordinary Chinese, they need to be encompassed in every possible way like the good citizens of the security zone.

If the army enters the village and forcibly collects grain, it will inevitably burn, kill, and plunder.

Once there is an action of burning, killing, and plundering, it is bound to seriously damage the image of the "pro-people" of the army, then the quasi-security areas will once again breed a sense of resistance, and the guerrillas of [***] and the Eighth Route Army will regain the support of the local people, and then Okamura Ninji's "encroachment" policy will be wasted.

"Hello." Hirata suddenly bowed his head and was beaten obediently.

Hirata, the little devil, is simple-minded and only knows how to kill, and the old devil Okamura Ninji is much more insidious.

Okamura Ningji pondered for a moment, and suddenly said to Tanabe Moritake: "Tanabe-kun, don't you think that the public security situation in the quasi-security districts has seriously deteriorated recently?" ”

"yes." Tanabe Moritake nodded and said, "Through the blockade network supported by artillery towers, highways, and isolation ditches, the imperial army has already encroached on seven or eight out of ten quasi-security areas, leaving very little room for the activities of the Chinese guerrillas, and it seems that the Chinese guerrillas can be completely expelled from the quasi-security area." ”

"But in the past half month, the law and order situation in the encroached area has deteriorated sharply." Okamura Ninji continued, "The Shina guerrillas in the quasi-security districts suddenly seem to have the clairvoyance and ears of the wind in myths and legends, and the slightest disturbance of the imperial army can immediately obtain information, but the imperial army has no trace of their whereabouts. ”

"Your Excellency, I think something must have gone wrong." Moribuchi Tanabe.

"Well, Tanabe-kun, you should immediately try to find out the reason." Okamura Ninji nodded and said.

"Hello!" Tanabe Moritake and Hirata Masato bowed their heads suddenly, and immediately took the saber and took the order.

………… Jingcheng County, Headquarters of the 39th Group Army.

Therefore, for all the officers and men of the 39 th Group Army, there is only one combat task at present, that is, to train and train troops and then train troops, and then wait for the army to attack or counterattack.

For the Taihang base area, that is to accumulate grain, build more guns, and step up preparations for war!

The production capacity of the Taihang Arsenal has nearly doubled compared with the original, and now it can produce 5,000 rifles, 50 Makqin heavy machine guns, 100 Czech light machine guns, and 8 million rounds of ammunition per month; 60 mortars 100 guns with 10 thousand shells; 90 rocket launchers, 200 rockets, 2,000 rockets; 20 guns without conscience, 2,000 rounds of 300-caliber shotguns.

In terms of combat readiness of the whole army, following the Baoshan Division, the 181st Division has basically completed the rearmament.

The 181st Division, like the Baoshan Division, has more than 18,000 combatants, organized into six infantry regiments, an artillery regiment and a baggage regiment, and when carrying out combat missions alone, non-combat units such as field hospitals, anti-war alliances, propaganda teams, special service teams, and communication teams will also act with the army, with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops.

In terms of equipment, the main division after the refitting has more than 10,800 rifles, more than 200 Makqin heavy machine guns, nearly 500 improved Czech light machine guns, more than 500 rocket launchers, 108 60 mortars, and 60 guns without conscience.

However, after the 39th Group Army has been expanded again and again, the official establishment has exceeded 100,000 people, and 500,000 yuan is needed to pay military salaries every month, plus various expenses, at least 1 million yuan is needed every month, which is not a small amount, and the little family foundation that Yue Weihan snatched from southern Lunan and southern Hebei has already bottomed out.

There was no way, Yue Weihan had no choice but to start the arms trade with Commander Yan of the Second War Zone and Chairman Jiang.

The unit price of the Makqin heavy machine gun is 2,500 oceans, the unit price of the improved Czech light machine gun is 1,500 oceans, the unit price of the medium formal rifle is 100 oceans, the bullets are 2,000 oceans per 10,000 rounds, the unit price of 60 mortars is 1,000 oceans, and the shells are 500 oceans per 100 rounds.

All arms are traded in cash and not on credit.

The Taihang Arsenal has sufficient production capacity, and only a small part of the arms needs to be exported every month, which is enough to maintain the military expenditure of the entire 39 th Group Army, and as for the wages of the workers and the regular administrative expenses to maintain the operation of the entire base area, the profits of the clothing factory, the match factory, the soap factory, the firecracker factory, the cigarette factory, and other factories are more than enough.

The only thing to worry about is the food ration for millions of people on the ground!

(To be continued)