When the old man asked him this, the monkey and Scarface were really a little embarrassed, and they looked at each other, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.

Indeed, what this old man said makes sense, even if they didn't kill these devils today, I'm afraid that the news that some people in the village participated in the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese resistance will leak out sooner or later.

Because there is no shortage of traitors in China at any time, these family members and relatives who participated in the Eighth Route Army will definitely be brutalized and retaliated against by traitors and devils.

This is indeed an issue worthy of attention, as the only anti-Japanese force in the Luquan and Shimen areas, we must not only think about recruiting soldiers to fight devils, but also put ourselves in the shoes of the people.

Otherwise, what is the point of fighting devils, eliminating traitors, and defending the country?

In embarrassment, Scarface and Monkey deserve to temporarily stop recruiting, and after properly disposing of the corpses of those devils and puppet soldiers, they escorted seven or eight puppet army prisoners and returned to Erdaogouzi, the first battalion station, and fed back the situation to Jiang Haidong, the commander of the first battalion.

This problem is not only encountered by Scarface's recruitment team along the way, except for the people of some villages close to Luquan County, who learned about what the Dragon Tooth Task Force did in Luquan, they would not abandon them and retreat alone, and let their young adults join the Eighth Route Army.

And took the initiative to help the Longya Task Force build a defense line without compensation, standing guard and sentry, and the rest of the villages and towns that were a little farther away from Luquan County Zhuangzi almost did not recruit troops smoothly.

They all have the problems that Scarface and Monkey encounter, and Sun Dahai, Zhou Dasheng, and Zhao Youde are everywhere they go, because it is within the sphere of influence of the Japanese theater of war, the people are afraid of the revenge of the devil and the second devil, and the progress of the recruitment operation is not very smooth.

After all, the villages that could be recruited before had been recruited by them, and it was impossible to have suitable soldiers.

In these recruited areas, it will be difficult to carry out work for a while due to the prostitution of the Japanese puppet army, and most of the individuals who are willing to join regardless of one qiē have special circumstances, either their family members have been harmed by devils, or they have enmity with some two devils.

This problem was quickly fed back to Luquan County, and Jiang Haidong, the commander of the first battalion, and Ma Biao, the commander of the second battalion, even returned to Luquan County in person to discuss a solution with Qiao Youhua.

The three of them sat around a round table, and Zheng Yunshan, the commander of the guard company, brought them a pot of boiled water, and then sat down as well.

"The specific situation, the regiment commander, you should all understand, this is indeed a problem, we had better find a way to solve it, otherwise the recruitment plan may not be so easy to complete.

If we can't recruit new soldiers, we won't be able to complete the expansion of our troops, which will directly affect our plan to defend Luquan in the future. Jiang Haidong was the first to speak.

Qiao Youhua nodded and said: "It is understandable that the people have such concerns, after all, they live in the Japanese war zone, and in these years, the most important thing is to save their lives without anything, and protecting their homes and defending the country is too vague and too distant for the vast number of ordinary toiling people."

If we can't provide them with protection, it is reasonable for many people to take a wait-and-see attitude before they are harmed by Japanese devils and traitors. ”

Zheng Yunshan suddenly spoke: "Regiment commander, two battalion commanders, I have a way I don't know if it will work." ”

"Tell me about it." Qiao Youhua looked up at Zheng Yunshan, who had rarely spoken, and Ma Biao and Jiang Haidong also looked at him curiously.

Facing the gaze of the three people, Zheng Yunshan said a little nervously: "The people lack a sense of security, I deeply understand this, when I patrolled Luquan County in the past two days, two-thirds of the houses in the development city were empty, and many people fled from home.

Maybe many of the villages where we went to recruit new recruits escaped from Luquan.

I wonder why we don't move the people who fled and the people in the surrounding villages to live in Luquan County, so that they are in the rear of our defense area, safe and secure, and in order to maintain this security, they will definitely let the young adults in their families join our Eighth Route Army.

Just like some of the people in Magou Town and our villagers in Zheng Village before. ”

When Zheng Yunshan said this, Qiao Youhua's eyes lit up, indeed, this method is not bad, Qiao Youhua glanced at Zheng Yunshan approvingly, although Zheng Yunshan is relatively young, and his combat experience is not as good as Chen Bing and others.

But he has a good brain, and he is kind-hearted and kind-hearted, and Qiao Youhua chose him to be the commander of his guard company because of this.

Jiang Haidong raised a little question: "If we want to do this, we must first solve two problems, first, a large-scale advance is likely to alarm the Japanese puppet army in Shimen and other places, and our troops must be ready to respond."

Second, these villages will become no-man's land, but the surrounding fields must not be abandoned, otherwise we will not be able to feed so many people, at least we will have to be protected by troops when we harvest the seeds. ”

Qiao Youhua said: "These two problems are easy to solve, the migration operation can be carried out from near to far, one by one, in batches, and when the devils and puppet troops react, we are almost migrated, of course, three battalions of troops can be transferred from Feiyunling to assist just in case."

The problem of grain harvesting is not a problem, one word grabs! Besides, the latest harvest season will be more than a month later, when the people are settled, and the recruitment of troops will be almost carried out.

The devil is now short of troops, where do they dare to send troops to steal food with us? We can swagger and harvest the grain, then sow and plant it, and wait until the next harvest, which will be the next year, and then we will grow and grow again.

Naturally, it is even less of a problem. ”

Qiao Youhua's words made the three of them nod in unison, Qiao Youhua took it up and said: "There is no problem to carry it out, the first battalion is responsible for moving the villages within a radius of twenty miles from Erdaogouzi, and the second battalion is responsible for Magou Town. ”

"It's good to have migrated, strong walls and clear fields! In the future, when the devils attack again, we can also throw off our arms and fight with the little devils! Qiao Youhua paused, and then said to Zheng Yunshan: "Send someone to Feiyunling to inform Wu Ming that two companies of the third battalion will be transferred as mobile troops to assist in the relocation operation." ”

"Yes!" The three of them suddenly stepped forward and immediately turned around and left.

"Oh, by the way, Yunshan wait a minute, and then the communication soldiers urge Wu Ming, and do his best to organize manpower to set up the telephone line from Feiyunling to Luquan County! This is much more convenient for us to dispatch materials and communicate with each other. Qiao Youhua suddenly stopped Zheng Yunshan and said.