When Xu 19 inspected the prisoner of war camp, he found that there was a heated quarrel there.

Yin Shangwen, as the county magistrate of the Longkou Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, was also the captain of the county brigade at that time, and this time he also participated in the battle, and after the battle, the county brigade became the main force to clean up the battlefield.

The main forces of small Japan, especially the officers and men of the 17 permanent divisions and regiments and the more than a dozen ad hoc divisions and regiments in the early stage, were basically die-hard militarists, and even if these Japanese soldiers fought to Zuihou alone, they would never surrender, and even if they were wounded and captured, they were still fierce and would bite people when they had the opportunity.

However, in the middle and later stages, when the C division and the D division were formed, the will to fight was much worse.

As for the mixed brigades, which are specially used to shoulder the garrison tasks, the will to fight is even weaker.

Therefore, after the end of the Battle of Erlongshan, the nineteenth detachment also captured more than a dozen prisoners.

On the issue of how to deal with these dozen or so prisoners of war, Yin Shangwen, the county magistrate, had extremely serious differences with several regiment commanders of the 19th detachment, Li Zihan, Lu Jianbang and others demanded that these dozen Japanese prisoners of war be executed on the spot, but Yin Shangwen resolutely objected, and when Xu 19 came over, the two sides were arguing fiercely.

"Captain, what do you call this?"

"These little Japan, don't kill them, do you keep them?"

"Is it difficult, only the people in Little Japan are allowed to kill us, and we are not allowed to kill them."

"I didn't say it, kill these little Japan, kill them immediately, kill them."

Seeing Xu Shijiu, Li Zihan and Lu Jianbang immediately surrounded them, and the crowd was furious.

In the previous battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Lanfeng, the 19th Brigade occasionally caught Japanese prisoners of war, and the way to deal with them was basically to shoot them on the spot.

Xu Shijiu frowned, turned to Yin Shangwen, and said, "Shangwen, what do you think?" ”

Yin Shangwen said: "Commander, the Geneva Conventions stipulate that prisoners of war who lay down their arms and surrender are no

"You don't have to tell me about the Geneva Conventions." Xu 19 interrupted Yin Shangwen, and turned his head to look at the dozen or so Japanese prisoners of war, most of these dozen Japanese prisoners of war were injured, and when they saw Xu 19's gaze sweeping over, they all avoided their eyes in fear, and none of them dared to look at Xu 19.

Xu 19 withdrew his gaze from the prisoner of war and said, "Shangwen, let me ask you, is there any other reason?" ”

"Yes." Yin Shangwen nodded without hesitation, "We will kill the prisoners of war now, we can only do it for a while, but it will not do any good to the overall situation of the entire Anti-Japanese War." ”

"Hey, that's fresh." Lu Jianbang couldn't help but shout, "Could it be that letting go of these little Japan and letting him take up arms again to kill our people is good for the overall situation of the war?" ”

Yin Shangwen said: "Of course, you can't release people, at least not before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War." ”

Li Zihan said: "So, is it good to lock up these prisoners of war?" ”

"Yes, it's good to lock them up." Yin Shangwen said, "First of all, prisoners of war are excellent free labor, they can do heavy physical work, make up for the lack of our manpower, and secondly, we can also educate these prisoners of war, through the appearance of these Japanese prisoners of war, we can inspire and rebel against more Japanese prisoners of war, and in the future, they may even turn around and become a part of our army and contribute to the entire anti-Japanese war." ”

"Yin Kesi, your mother is not sick, is she?"

"Little Japan will help us in turn, will we laugh?"

"You got kicked in the head by a donkey? What about nonsense in broad daylight? ”

Several regiment leaders were amused and sneered at Yin Shangwen.

Yin Shangwen ignored it, only looked at Xu Shijiu and said: "Commander, let me try, it's always okay to try, even if you don't succeed, you can execute them at that time, what do you think?" ”

Xu Shijiu glanced at the dozen or so prisoners of war again and asked, "Shang Wen, are you sure you want to try?" ”

"I'm sure." Yin Shangwen said firmly, "I want to build an anti-war alliance in Longkou." ”

The Eighth Route Army has already formed an anti-war alliance in the battlefield behind enemy lines in North China, and has now rebelled against more than a dozen Japanese prisoners of war, and several Japanese soldiers have even really participated in the Eighth Route Army.

"Okay." Xu Shijiu hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.

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Although the 19th detachment failed to completely annihilate the Japanese army sweeping into the mountains, it still caused a great shock in southern Anhui.

There is an essential difference between the battlefield behind enemy lines and the battlefield in front of the enemy, and the biggest difference is the scale of the battle.

In the frontal battlefield, the troops of the two sides involved in the battle are often 100,000, so the casualty figures are also very alarming, even the Japanese army, often more than 10,000 casualties, but in the battlefield behind the enemy, the scale of the battle is often very small, sometimes the total number of troops on both sides is only a dozen people, and the number of casualties is negligible.

Like the Battle of Erlongshan, more than 500 Japanese soldiers were wiped out in one battle, which really did not happen in southern Anhui.

Even if it was extended to the whole of China, such a victory was extremely rare, and the guerrillas behind enemy lines of the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and even the Nationalist Army fought almost every day, but every time they fought in battle, dozens or even a few Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded at a time, which was already an extremely rare victory.

For example, the great victory of Pingxingguan, which has left a name in history, only annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and it was not the main infantry force of the Dipei Regiment that was annihilated, but the baggage troops.

In short, on the battlefield behind enemy lines, it is extremely rare to annihilate more than 500 Japanese troops at one time.

Therefore, not long after the end of the battle of Erlongshan, the Kuomintang Third Theater and the headquarters of the New Fourth Army were alarmed.

Gu Zhutong, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang's Third Theater, was extremely shocked when he heard the news, and he must know that at this time, the Third Theater had more than 100,000 troops, but it could no longer afford to fight even a small-scale offensive operation, and the main reason was the lack of ammunition.

Also, the combat effectiveness of the army in the third theater has also declined to the point where it is not presentable.

The troops in the Third Theater were originally the strongest in the nine theaters of the Kuomintang, but after the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, the original veterans were basically almost dead, and the recruits behind were basically strong men, and these strong men did not have excellent physical fitness, let alone excellent military quality, and their will to fight was not firm

Therefore, the Third Theater is unable to launch offensive operations even on the scale of regiments and above.

Of course, Gu Zhutong never thought of counterattacking, let alone recovering an inch of land from small Japan. Isn't that a joke? Just a few hundred thousand rabble, tens of thousands of broken guns, what kind of counterattack?

Under such circumstances, Gu Zhutong suddenly heard that the 19th detachment had won a big victory, and one guy had annihilated a mixed brigade in small Japan, how could Gu Zhutong not be surprised? The more than 100,000 troops in the Third War Zone did not dare to provoke Little Japan, but the 19th Detachment only a few thousand people dared, and they also made Little Japan disgraced.

Putting down the telegram, Gu Zhutong said to Huang Baitao with emotion: "Chief of Staff, this Xu Nineteen, really has some ability, the Nineteenth Detachment is only more than 2,000 horses, and it actually annihilated a mixed brigade of Little Japan, it is unimaginable, our troops in the three theaters should be as capable as the Nineteenth Detachment, hehe, the recovery of Hangzhou is not a problem." ”

After a pause, Gu Zhutong asked thoughtfully: "The Communist Party's sparrow tactics are really so powerful?"

The high-ranking generals of the Nationalist Army, whether they were the early Baoding Military Academy cadets or the Whampoa Military Academy cadets in the first six phases, all had a strong regular army complex, and even the later Central Military Academy cadets attached great importance to their regular army honors, and the concrete manifestation was that they placed great emphasis on upright battles and despised the Communist Party's guerrilla tactics from the bottom of their hearts.

But in the decade of civil war, the Nationalist army suffered enough of the great losses of the Communist guerrilla tactics.

By now, the main force of the Japanese army invading China has shifted from the frontal battlefield to the battlefield behind enemy lines, and in this way, the activities of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army under the leadership of the Communist Party have not been weakened in the slightest, but have a tendency to become stronger and stronger.

Although Gu Zhu and the other high-level leaders of the national army were reluctant to admit it, a fact that could not be ignored was that the main battlefield of the War of Resistance had shifted from the frontal battlefield to the battlefield behind enemy lines, and the main force of the War of Resistance had also changed from the national army to the communist army.