In just three days, the 14th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade of Little Japan occupied most of Longkou with a thunderous force, Yanjia Town, Lijia Town, Hewan Town, and more than a dozen townships all fell into the hands of Little Japan, and the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui fully shrank into Erlong Mountain, and even Longhuangdang and the entire Toad Jianshan District were abandoned.

After basically controlling the situation in Longkou County, Fujido Takaei did not rush to attack Erlongshan, but carefully followed Okamura Ningji's instructions and sacrificed the big killing weapon of the cage policy.

The cage policy proposed by Okamura Ninji is not simply the construction of roads, trenches, strongholds, and artillery towers, and the division of the Chinese army's base areas into small pieces.

In order to win the hearts of the people, Fujido Gaoying even took the initiative to "condescend" and invited several highly respected squires in Longkou County to come forward, and they came forward to form a provisional county government, and gave them enough respect

In order to show respect for the provisional prefectural government, Fujido Takaei even revoked the extrajudicial jurisdiction of Japanese nationals, which means that even Japanese nationals under the jurisdiction of the Longkou prefectural government must abide by the decrees of the provisional prefectural government, and if they violate the law, they must also be punished as they deserve.

The power of this series of measures was undoubtedly enormous, and after this whole set of combined punches, the antagonism between the people of Longkou County and the Japanese army was quickly eased, and in just a few days, there were even young girls who dared to appear in public on the streets and alleys of the county town and various towns and villages.

People always have to face the reality, you can't expect every ordinary person to be a person with lofty ideals, willing to sacrifice themselves for the country, for the nation, in fact, in this era, many people do not have the concept of the country and the nation in their minds, let alone fight for the country and the nation.

Now, Little Japan neither kills nor plunders property, and the willingness of the local people to resist is immediately weakened, in the final analysis, they just want to guard their wives and children and live well.

But in this way, the nineteenth detachment will be in big trouble.

The news finally and inevitably reached Erlongshan District.

I heard that Little Japan did not go on a killing spree, and even gave enough respect to the Chinese, and the security of the county town and various towns was also orderly, and the people who fled into the mountains were shaken, nothing else, life in the deep mountains and old forests is too hard, and besides, you can't hide in the mountains all the time, right? What's more, the mountains can't support so many people.

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Liu Xin dragged his tired legs back to the thatched hut that temporarily served as the "county government".

After Yin Shangwen's sacrifice, the higher-level party organization quickly made a decision to take over as the county magistrate of the Longkou Democratic Government and the secretary of the Longkou County Committee of the Communist Party of China.

However, before Liu Xin could sit down and take a breath, a member of the county government hurriedly ran in and reported to her that more than a dozen military families had asked to go down the mountain and go home.

Liu Xin could only cheer up, and dragged his tired body over to dissuade him.

When Liu Xin arrived with several officials from the county government, Yamaguchi was already arguing.

Dozens of old men and old ladies surrounded the two soldiers standing guard, and they were constantly verbally bombarding, and the two soldiers were already a little overwhelmed, and were forced to retreat straight back by those old men and old women, but even so, the two soldiers still maintained restraint and did not move.

Seeing Liu Xin coming, the two warriors were relieved and quickly dodged far away.

The dozens of old men and old ladies pointed the finger at Liu Xin one after another, and they chatted and quarreled non-stop

"Weishenme won't let us go down the mountain? We're going down the mountain."

"It's, it's just, we don't want to stay here for a moment."

"I still have a few acres of land at home, and if I don't go back, I will miss the spring ploughing."

"Little Japan is still free to come and go, isn't your democratic government as good as Little Japan?"

"Folks, fathers and fellow villagers, please listen to me, please listen to me." Liu Xin spent a lot of words before finally suppressing the quarrel, "Folks, you must not be deceived by Little Japan, Little Japan is definitely not at ease, they tricked you to go back, they must have ulterior motives......"

"The purpose? What purpose can little Japan have? Isn't it just for us to go back to farming? ”

"I've heard that little Japan is much more civilized this time, they don't kill people, they don't rob, they see the big girl and the little daughter-in-law also walk around, just now Xiugu went into the mountain and told me, little Japan saw her a woman's family, with three children, it's not easy, and help her plant seedlings."

"The second dog daughter-in-law in our village also said the same."

"The little fool in our next village also received relief food from Little Japan."

Liu Xin said a word, and was immediately drowned out by the rebuttals of dozens of old men and old men.

Moreover, as time went by, more and more military family members rushed to hear the news and asked to go down the mountain to go home, and more and more township parties gathered in the mountain pass, and soon more than 100 people, the platoon commander in charge of the vigilance saw that the situation was not right, and quickly transferred the soldiers of the whole platoon, formed a wall to block the mountain pass, and sent someone to report to Xu 19 to know.

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As soon as Li Mu came back, he was called over by Xu Shijiu.

"Xiao Mu, what did you gain from entering the county seat this time?" Xu 19 asked.

"I've gained a lot, and I don't know what to say at once, the captain still asks you, and I'll answer."

"Okay, then you tell me, Li Ji of Lijia Town, Old Man Li, is he really the county magistrate?"

"That's right, this time I entered the city, I deliberately went to squat outside the county government, and when I saw Old Man Li Ji, Little Japan also sent a team of soldiers to protect him."

"Protection? I think it's surveillance. Li Zihan couldn't help but interject.

"It's not like surveillance." Li Mu shook his head and said, "Little Japan is very polite to Old Man Li. ”

"It seems that the rumors are all true, and little Japan has really grown up this time." Gao Shenxing said to Xu Shijiu, "Old Xu, you may not know that the fourth daughter-in-law has just entered the mountain. ”

"The fourth daughter-in-law, who?" Xu Nineteen didn't know why.

"Yan Laosi, Yan Lao's fourth daughter-in-law is called Xiugu, she just entered the mountain, and the children also brought it."

"What, is there such a thing?" Xu Nineteen frowned, and said, "Maybe Little Japan doesn't know that her man is a member of our Nineteenth Detachment." ”

"It's unlikely." Gao Shenxing shook his head, frowned, and said, "Lao Xu, don't forget, Yan Sanquan is not only the captain of plainclothes, but also the chairman of Yanjia Town, others don't know about Yan Laosi's joining the army, can Yan Sanquan not know?" So, little Japan must know it too. ”

"That's weird, little Japan really doesn't have any difficulties?" Li Shuanggun was confused.

"That's right, hurry up and let the people of the democratic government think of ways to get all the military dependents in Yanjia Town into the mountains, so that the brothers of our 4th Regiment will not be unstable because their relatives are not around." Lu Jianbang was sad because of the unstable heart of the 4th Regiment, and he was overjoyed when he heard the news.

"Come on, you still get people into the mountains, don't you know that the military families in the mountains want to go back?" Gao Shen said, "I heard that the magistrate of Liuxin County was hoarse in order to persuade the people who wanted to go down the mountain. ”

"Down the mountain? Are they weishenme going down the mountain? Lu Jianbang was stunned and said, "Aren't you afraid that Little Japan will harm them?"

"Isn't it?" Li Zihan said, "Little Japan is evil this time, one does not kill people, two does not set fires, three does not spoil the big girl and little daughter-in-law, and even, there are Japanese soldiers who help the lonely old man carry water and chop wood, which is about to catch up with the style of the Communist Eighth Route Army, how is this like Little Japan?" ”

"My goodness, what is going on with this?" Lu Jianbang scratched his bald head when he heard this.

While talking, Yang Dashu, the commander of the guard battalion, hurriedly came in and reported that some township party had forcibly entered the mountain pass and asked to go down the mountain.

Gao Shenxing looked at Xu Nineteen and said in a low voice: "Old Xu, this is already the eighteenth case in three days. ”

Xu Shijiu sighed and said gloomily: "Those who want to stay won't leave, and those who want to leave, you can't stay, since they insist on leaving, then let them go down the mountain, we can't forcibly confine the fathers and villagers in the mountains because of the possible conspiracy of Little Japan, so what have we become?" ”