Twenty-seventh.

After receiving orders from the Japanese headquarters, the defenders of the Japanese puppet army such as Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tanxian quickly launched operations in order to deal with the dilemma that the three cities were besieged by a detachment of the Eighth Route Army from the outer line, the granaries and material warehouses were burned down, and the logistics were shortage.

Take Yangquan, for example.

A large number of devils of the gendarmerie in the county, as well as the two devils of the puppet army garrison, including some traitors, were divided into multiple groups and quickly dispatched.

The target goes straight to the residents in the county.

According to the meaning conveyed by the Devil Command, these little devils are quite well prepared.

The devil is also cunning, worried that if the news is revealed in advance, those Chinese people will hide the food and materials in advance, and it is difficult to search.

Therefore, the Japanese puppet army engaged in a "surprise war".

Notices to raise food for the defenders of the city were not posted in advance.

Instead, those hardcore traitors and puppet soldiers were the vanguard, leading a temporary grain collection team to directly break into the people's homes door to door.

A certain household.

"Boss, what are you doing here?"

The middle-aged man who spoke was the owner of this house, which can be regarded as a big family in this area, and in order to gain a foothold in the city, he usually curry favor with the Japanese and the puppet army.

It's just that he never expected that at this critical time, the devil said to grab the food, and no one would let it go.

"Master Qian, the situation is like this, at present, the Eighth Road is besieging our Yangquan County, and he has taken the opportunity to send a team to burn down the food and materials that were originally hoarded for our people in our county.

As a result, the logistics supply of the imperial army is difficult, so I want to borrow some food from our people. ”

"But please rest assured, Taijun said that these grains were borrowed by Taijun, not robbed of you.

Taijun is willing to make an IOU, and when the follow-up reinforcements are delivered, the military rations collected from you will still be returned to you! ”

"Roar!" The devil lieutenant, who accompanied the requisition, nodded.

"No, Taijun, you don't know me anymore? I'm Qian San'er! Normally, I don't send food to our imperial army, you can't do this kind of thing of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge! ”

Qian San was stunned, he was not stupid.

What kind of IOU is this to levy grain, if this grain is taken by the little devil, how can there be any reason to return it?

After repeated prevarication, the devil lieutenant was furious, "Baga! ”

He kicked Qian San to the ground and shouted: "Pay all the grain, don't give the grain, die and die!" ”

In this way, a group of Japanese puppet soldiers forcibly snatched hundreds of catties of grain from Qian Sanjia.

Now the devil has tasted the sweetness.

Good guy, this household has grabbed hundreds of catties of grain, and the entire Yangquan County is only in the center of the county, and there are tens of thousands of households, so how much grain do you have to grab?

Speaking of which, wouldn't the problem of food shortage in the entire Yangquan garrison be solved all at once?

After leaving Qian San's house, this grain collection team composed of Japanese puppet soldiers continued to search from house to house.

It's just that the next action doesn't seem to be as smooth as the little devil imagined.

A big account like Qian San is a different story.

Ordinary people, as soon as the door is opened, the house seems to be surrounded by four walls, and there are not even a few pieces of furniture to be seen.

"Levy food? Taijun, usually we collect a lot of taxes, but we pay them all off, and this year there is a famine, how can there be any food in the family? I can't open the pot for a long time!

We are still waiting for the Imperial Army to be able to help our people and distribute some relief food! ”

The old lady who took the lead cried with tears in her eyes and was sad and in love.

The sudden scene made the devil lieutenant unable to fix it.

The puppet army squad leader led people to search back and forth in the dilapidated house a few times, but they didn't find any food, so they had to return with a bitter face, and said in the ear of the devil lieutenant: "Taijun, let's change the next one, right?"

This family is poor and has no food! ”

Lieutenant Devil nodded and gave the order to leave.

After the Japanese puppet army left, the old lady hurriedly stabbed the outer door to death, for fear that the little devils and the puppet army would make a comeback.

The Japanese puppet army's grain collection squad continued to collect grain.

It's just that the next seven or eight households entered in a row, and what made the devil and the puppet army dumbfounded was that just like the old lady, the house was surrounded by four walls, and there was not much food found in the house.

The so-called collection of military rations, seven or eight households levied it, only less than half a catty of black beans, and nothing else.

The devil was dumbfounded.

"Bastard, how can this be?"

The squad leader of the puppet army said with relief on the side: "Taijun, it's no wonder that they are poor, so many people are already poor, didn't they just encounter a drought again this year?" They also don't have a surplus of food. ”

The devil lieutenant scolded and scolded, so he had to be patient and continued to search from house to house.

But what he didn't expect was that in the next grain requisition operation, the people of every family seemed to be infected by a poor disease.

Every household can't open the pot!

All of them are so poor that they jingle loudly!

In the morning, they went into hundreds of households to collect military rations, but in the end, only some wealthy businessmen and big families who were close to the devils found some grain in their homes.

In addition, ordinary households basically do not receive any food in their homes.

The first grain collection team led by the Japanese lieutenant and a squad of puppet soldiers returned like this.

It took a whole day to collect less than 2,000 catties of grain.

When Lieutenant Devil returns, report to his superiors about the requisition of food.

Only then did I find that the other Japanese officers who were responsible for collecting grain were all sad.

The situation reported seems to be similar to his first path.

"Sir, except for some large families, ordinary people live in poverty, we have forcibly searched several times, and indeed we have found no excess food!"

The Japanese officers in charge of the grain collection reported one by one.

Nanbu Toshio, the captain of the devil's gendarmerie who was in charge of the grain requisition, listened to the reports of the grain requisition teams from all walks of life, and said with emotion: "I don't know that our people in Yangquan have been impoverished so far? ”

There is a devil officer's brain turned quickly, "Sir, I wonder if these Diao people deliberately hid the food at home and did not want to hand it over to the imperial army?" ”

Nanfang Lixiong suddenly realized, and then his face turned cold, and he ordered: "In this way, send me out the plainclothes team and keep an eye on every household for me."

Especially at noon, when the smoke came out of their smoke, they broke into the house directly, I wanted to see if these people had anything to eat? ”

"Hey!"

At noon, many households, as usual, curled with smoke rising from their chimneys.

The plainclothes team of the Japanese puppet army, which had been lurking in the dark early in the morning, immediately rushed to the house of the person who was raising the smoke of the cooking, and then forcibly broke open the door and broke in.

"Boss, boss, what are you doing here?"

"Don't nonsense, good you Zhang Laosan, when you came in the morning, you and Taijun said that there was no food at home, and there was smoke coming out of the chimney at this time, I want to see how bold you kid are, dare to coax the imperial army!"

A group of Japanese puppet army plainclothes teams couldn't help but say something, and broke into the stove room directly.

I thought that these Diao people were hiding the food and secretly cooking it themselves.

As a result, the devil and the puppet army broke into the stove room, and when they looked closely, what was the fragrant food they thought was in the pot?

There is only a small black half pot of paste, which seems to be tumbling out of the miscellaneous smell of sauerkraut and wild vegetables from time to time.

"What's this, what is this? Is this human food? ”

The old man who replied had a bitter face: "Boss, there are many miscellaneous taxes in the imperial army, and you don't know the situation."

How can we, ordinary people, have any food?

Some black beans are boiled into porridge with some wild vegetables and leaves, and it would be good to be able to deal with them for a few days without starving to death! ”

It turned out that there was only a small amount of black beans in the pot, plus some wild vegetables and edible leaves, and put them together to make a messy porridge.

In the eyes of devils and puppet soldiers, this kind of thing may not be eaten by pigs.

The devils and the puppet army can only return disappointed.

And the other investigations are basically the same, I thought that under the rising smoke, it was these cunning people who were secretly eating good food.

The result is mostly some black beans, bran, wild vegetables, leaves, etc.

Raids were in vain.

After the news was transmitted back to the gendarmerie, the devil officers, who originally thought that these Diao people in Yangquan County had deliberately hidden food, stopped talking.

Nanfang Lixiong is also helpless, this time according to the clever plan given by His Excellency the commander, if enough food can be collected from these people, it will definitely be able to solve the problem of food shortage for the defenders.

But who would have thought that the people of this Yangquan would be so poor.

It's good not to expect their imperial army to help, how can there be extra food?

In the end, there was no way, and Nanbu Toshio, who had broken the jar, settled down and ordered: "It's a little bit if you can make do with it!"

Tomorrow will continue to levy military rations, ordinary people are too poor, how much can be collected, and the target is on those big households, rich businessmen. ”

The devil officer hesitated: "It's just...... Sir, most of these big families are close to the imperial army, so wouldn't they all be offended? ”

Nanfang Lixiong snorted coldly: "In the special period, I can't care so much, it's a big deal to give them an IOU first!" ”

"Hey!"

"Also, put the notice on me, and put all the sins on the head of the dirt road.

It was clearly written to me in the notice that it was because their Eighth Route Army burned the grain that the imperial army had hoarded for the people, so the imperial army had to collect military rations from the people to defend the county and the land where the people lived. ”

"Hey!"

In the end, the grain requisition action proposed by the Devil Command in the three cities of Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan County was mostly from those pro-Japanese factions.

Ordinary people did not suffer much from the disaster.

Night soon fell......

It was about twelve o'clock in the morning, and the entire Yangquan County fell into a dead silence.

Only the cold snap was surging in the dark.

The entire land covered in snow seemed to be lifeless.

Suddenly there was some rustling sound in the room, and the old lady took advantage of the night to skillfully find a match from the shabby drawer, and then struck it, and the faint light of the fire dispelled the darkness around her, and lit a bright light in front of the old lady, and she lit a kerosene lamp at the foot of the table.

"Father, tell the babies to get up, ready to open a small stove!"

"Huh!"

The old man answered, got up from the bed, quickly got dressed, and then went to the side room to wake up his grandson and granddaughter.

With the faint light of a kerosene lamp, the family quietly touched the windowless stove and lit the fire.

In the snowy night, smoke rises slowly from the chimney.

The eldest lady took out half a scoop of millet from the grain hidden in the cellar, and then boiled some millet porridge and some pickles, so that the children could fill their stomachs again.

When drinking millet porridge, the old man sighed: "Old woman, thanks to the comrades of the Eighth Route Army who told us the news in advance, or we finally saved some food at the end of the year, I'm afraid all of them will be snatched away by the little devils!" ”

The eldest lady echoed: "That's it, these black-hearted little devils, they have no food to eat, so they come to rob us!"

When I went to the market during the day, I saw signs posted all over the alley!

A gentleman who knows how to read read, but I also listened to some words, and the little devil splashed all the dirty water on the head of the Eighth Route Army!

It is strange that the Eighth Route Army burned the grain that their little devils stored for our people in the granary, and they asked our people for food.

Listen, is this like human language?

When will it be our people's turn to eat the grain in the warehouse that the little devils put in the warehouse? ”

"That's it, the little devil is fooling the fool!

Ghost believes!

Let's not talk about this, hurry up and eat your stomach, let's go back to bed. Tomorrow, continue to take out the black beans and rotten sweet potatoes, boil them in the pot, fool the little devils, and can't let the devils know that we still have food! ”

It turned out that the little devil's forced conscription of military rations was a slow step after all.

Guessing in advance, Kong Jie, who guessed that the devil dog jumped over the wall in a hurry and might rob the grain stored in the people's homes, let the comrades lurking in Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tan County secretly pass the news to the people.

also gave the common people the "guerrilla" tactics to deal with the little devils:

Hide all the food and supplies at home in the most hidden place in advance.

There is a hidden cellar for the cellar, and it is really impossible to dig a pit in the yard and bury it.

When the devil puppet army came, he called them poor, what can't be opened, and the poor jingle sounded...... The more miserable, the better.

Leave a little less food at home, let the devil puppet army rob it, and then make trouble with them, howl with them!

The devil puppet army didn't grab the food, and most of them will still be suspicious after leaving.

So at noon, I got some wild vegetables, leaves and roots, etc., to fool the little devil, so that the little devil completely believed that there was no extra food at home.

In the dead of night, the devils were out of guard, and the people secretly took out the food to eat.

So in the dead of night, what happened in the eldest lady's house was just a microcosm of the thousands of ordinary people in the entire Shouyang, Yangquan and Tan counties.

With this special guerrilla tactic, the common people succeeded in keeping their precious food stocks......

(End of chapter)