Kong Jie's plan to advance southward continued.

The troops of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments moved south during the day, approached the area around Zhongtiao Mountain, and carried out certain raids and harassment operations against the 47th and 41st divisions of the Japanese army stationed in Jinnan.

In the evening, the troops would return to the base area under the cover of darkness and continue south the next day, so as to repeatedly confuse the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was indeed confused.

Judgment was completely lost.

Yoshio Shinozuka asked the headquarters of the 47th and 41st divisions on the phone what they were doing with the vigilance work.

How did a large number of troops of the Eighth Route Army successfully infiltrate Zhongtiao Mountain?

The commanders of the two devil divisions were depressed, and the alert troops of all directions obviously did not receive a breakthrough from the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

It's just that there are some sneak attacks from time to time.

So the devil's staff officer suggested that it was very likely that the troops of the Independent Regiment were pretending to go south in order to distract the imperial troops and confuse everyone.

It is also a fact that some troops of the Independent Regiment have successfully broken through and entered the area of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The Japanese army did not dare to gamble, and they were even more unwilling to sit back and watch the area around Zhongtiao Mountain evolve into a tumor like the Taihang base area, which caused them a headache.

Therefore, the 47th Division and the 41st Division of the Japanese Army, which were originally stationed in Yuncheng, did not dare to move at all for the time being.

The Japanese command even considered whether to transfer troops from other places to maintain law and order in Zhongtiao Mountain and to encircle and suppress the guerrilla forces of the Eighth Route Army in the area of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The distraction of the Japanese army's attention, coupled with the fact that the two master regiments stationed in Jinnan were completely pinned down in Jinnan.

The pressure on the Taihang and Taiyue base areas on Japan was greatly reduced.

It was only with the addition of the Japanese army that they were defeated by the first detachment.

Under multiple factors, Taihang, Taiyue and other base areas have ushered in a short and relatively stable period of development.

At the same time, the Japanese army and the troops of the Eighth Route Army, including the troops of the Jinsui Army, at this time, in addition to the confrontation between the three parties, also had a large part of the focus on the internal disaster response.

As early as the beginning of the 41st year, the drought centered in Henan Province had gradually spread in all directions.

By August, the drought in Henan had been quite severe, with dozens of counties affected, and the farmland harvest was less than half of what it used to be, or even no harvest at all.

Everywhere mourns, and the people are struggling to make a living.

The drought does not matter whether you are in the national control area or in the enemy-occupied area, and whether you are a little devil or the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army, once it spreads, there will be no area and no masses will be spared.

Mixed with the suffering that war has brought to the masses of the people.

When it is really a disaster, it is not a single line, natural disasters and man-made disasters are crowded together.

In Taiyuan, Yangquan, Shouyang, Ping'an County and other major counties, the Japanese army was also busy.

The little devil also understands the truth that you can't do a one-shot deal, and you can fish when you dry up.

Although they were harsh taxes and various exploitations, they also hoped that the Chinese people at the bottom could honestly farm and work to maintain the production of resources, and have supplied the Japanese troops to continue the invasion.

For this reason, the devil will even give some fertilizer powder and farm tools to the farmers who farm.

In the face of this gradually severe drought, the Japanese army, in line with the Huairou policy, although Sima Zhao's heart is well known, still pretended to vigorously publicize it to the outside world:

He, the Japanese Empire, will certainly help the broad masses of people in the security area to tide over this difficult time.

While promoting himself, the little devil did not forget to criticize his opponent, the Eighth Route Army.

What are the groundless words such as "the Eight Roads don't care about the lives of the people, they only think about their own food", "The Eight Roads have no ability to help the victims at all, and even they themselves are unable to sustain themselves".

However, it was said that in terms of the Jin Sui army, even Chief Yan, who had suffered defeat, began to use public opinion to buy the hearts of the people.

He said that in the face of this disaster, he will definitely stand with the masses of people to cope with the difficulties and tide over the difficulties.

For this reason, the Jin Suijun even said to the outside world that it could accept foreign refugees to solve the problems of food, accommodation, and clothing for them.

In order to become the winner of public opinion and win the hearts and minds of the people, Chief Yan fell into reality this time.

Sure enough, the various units of the Jin Sui army began to accept local, including some refugees from outside.

This has played a positive role in controlling the spread of the disaster.

Detachment Command.

After the news was passed on by the enemy's engineering department, Kong Jie held a military meeting at the headquarters.

At the meeting, the cadres were all filled with righteous indignation.

Wang Leihu, the second regiment commander, scolded: "Regiment commander, these little devils are not a thing, and the streets and alleys of the occupied areas are plastered with public opinion on how they want to help the victims.

But in turn, he scolded us for not helping the victims and only taking care of ourselves.

Isn't this something out of nowhere?

We have already started to do the work of helping and relocating some local and foreign victims, and now our detachment has already received more than 10,000 refugees, what are we talking about? ”

Shen Quan said: "The Jin Suijun has also received some victims these days, and the number is not much, but the propaganda is doing well, for fear that others will not know." ”

"Obviously, they are all thinking about creating public opinion, adding glory to themselves, and smearing our Eighth Route Army by the way!" Political Commissar Li Wenjie hit the nail on the head to express his views.

Kong Jie said: "Comrades, we have been splashed with dirty water, this is not once or twice, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will come to cover it." ”

"Nowadays, there are wars everywhere, and people are living in a very unstable and insecure life, and in such a situation, once someone instigates public opinion, it is easy to paralyze the people, which is unavoidable."

"In terms of anti-Japanese propaganda, propaganda in the base areas, and propaganda of our Eighth Route Army troops, we have never fallen behind."

"Not to mention the dirty water that the devils poured on us, there will never be people in our base areas and around the outlying guerrilla areas to believe it."

"However, we can't be like little devils who have no bottom line, only do public opinion propaganda, and don't do practical things."

"Helping the people tide over the difficulties, resettle the victims, and help the people is not just words, but to be done with practical actions."

Speaking of this, Head Kong smiled brightly.

"Speaking of the truth, no matter what public opinion the devils create or what dirty water they pour on us, if they can really do practical things, and can properly resettle some of the disaster victims in the occupied areas, including other places, so that the disaster victims can have food and not go hungry, it will be nothing for us to carry this black pot on our backs."

"Facts and time will clear everything."

"If the little devil doesn't have the determination, the ability to deal with this disaster, and the reality in place, no matter how good the lie is, it will be exposed sooner or later."

"When the time comes, will this devil and Jin Suijun lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot, who knows?"

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan agreed: "What Lao Kong said is not bad at all, these years have been disasters and wars, coupled with the vigorous consumption of the devil's army, the resources of the little devil have long been unsustainable."

The people in the county are exploited very much, and the economic situation may not be much better than that of our base areas.

As far as the Japanese army is concerned, and it is not really for the sake of our compatriots, it will be hellish if they can really deal with the disaster well. ”

Li Wenjie also smiled and said: "Regiment commander, according to what you say, the way to deal with the public opinion of the Japanese army and the Jin Sui army this time is also very simple, let's respond to all changes with the same, and sit back and see if the two of them can stabilize the disaster situation, resettle the victims, and put the cattle blown out into reality!" ”

"In addition, we still do our thing to help the people tide over the difficulties, and the so-called propaganda, if it is proved with practical actions, no one can shake it."

The cadres nodded their heads after hearing this.

Kong Jie added with a smile: "Wen Jie's method is very practical, I think it's just like that." ”

"In addition, the work of procuring from enemy-occupied areas and nationally controlled areas can help some of the disaster victims who have already been properly resettled."

"After entering the city, there is no need to do much publicity, if you see some refugees who can't live their lives, tell them to come to the base of our first detachment."

"The Japanese army and the Jin Sui army are swollen and fat, but we can't let the compatriots at the bottom die because of their stupidity."

"Yes!" The cadres responded in unison.

The meeting then discussed in detail the plan of the first detachment to expand its reception capacity and continue to accept more refugees.

Under the principle of "demographic dividend" proposed by Kong Jie.

Eventually, after a detailed analysis by the cadres, the base areas opened up by the regiments of the first detachment, as well as the vast land in the guerrilla areas, were also reclaimed and crops were planted, including the disaster-bearing capacity of the villages.

All taken together, taking into account the development of the troops and the situation of the battle against the Japanese army, the situation of keeping the entire base area stable and continuing to run towards prosperity.

The first detachment can receive more than 30,000 refugees.

If the external environment is relatively stable, the Japanese army will not invade the roots, and if the roots can be given about half a year to develop and consolidate, the first detachment can even accept nearly 50,000 people.

In addition, the concerted efforts of various departments such as Taihang and Taiyue have been rooted.

The number of victims that the Eighth Route Army can help is not small.

According to the estimates of the headquarters, about 200,000 local and non-local disaster victims can be initially received and helped......

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