"The devil is in!"

Yang Village.

The correspondent reported to Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong on the situation of the front-line investigation.

"Have all the villages been completed?"

Li Yunlong asked again.

"Including Yang Village, everything has been completed."

The regimental staff officer replied.

The staff officer then asked:

"Regiment Commander, the secretary asks if you want to blow up the warehouse behind Yang Village."

After Li Yunlong came, in order to store a large amount of materials and avoid huge material losses caused by the bombing of devils, the independent regiment built a large number of warehouses around Yang Village.

At that time, there was not much wood in the surrounding area, so it was mainly a cave-type warehouse structure.

The largest warehouse, the one on the cliff behind Yang Village, has been expanded for several months and is capable of holding nearly 3,000 tons of various materials.

Of course, it's empty now.

"There's no need to waste explosives."

"Maybe, the devils will blow it up for us."

Li Yunlong waved his hand.

Although the cave warehouse is safe, it has limited capacity, severe terrain restrictions, cannot be greatly expanded, inefficient storage and access to materials, and is prone to dampness.

Although the ammunition and weapons produced by Brother Lu are well packaged and not easy to get wet, there is always no way to avoid moisture in the grain.

So in the future, he plans to build reinforced concrete warehouses.

In the list of special materials, there are reinforced concrete.

The warehouse built of thick reinforced concrete is directly covered with a meter thick, and then covered with a layer of soil, which is not only waterproof and moisture-proof, but also can ignore the bombardment of devils, and it is convenient to manage and access materials.

Isn't it much better than, a cellar-style warehouse?

This thing, even if it is placed in the open space, is not afraid of devil bombing.

"Yes."

The staff officer immediately went to deliver the news.

···

"What is this going to do?"

Rear of Yang Village.

In an open field.

Xu Lin, a technician who came from the Xinhua News Agency and was in charge of the formation of the printing agency in the Taiyue base area, looked at the soldiers of the Independent Regiment standing in front of him to bury the printing equipment they had obsolete, and he was a little puzzled.

The devils are coming to sweep, and burying the equipment is a normal process.

But isn't this position a little unreasonable?

How can it be buried on the flat training ground, there is no turf here, the terrain is flat, it is difficult to hide the traces of new soil, and it is easy to be found by devils.

There is a truth to the truth.

The most dangerous place is the safest place.

But when the devil comes to sweep with a division, he will inevitably conduct a detailed search around Yang Village, and the devil also knows that the troops are used to burying equipment, and they will inevitably dig three feet into the ground.

But this kind of flat and open terrain, the little devil will definitely not let go.

There was even some old-fashioned newsprint, low-quality paper, and a lot of water-mixed ink.

The back is even more outrageous, and it makes Xu Lin feel even more incomprehensible.

"This is the order of the regimental commander."

"He buried it here."

The soldier in charge of burying it, in a word, made Xu Lin not express his doubts.

Since it was Grand Master Li's personal order, there is naturally a certain amount of truth.

But this doubt always lingers, and subconsciously speculates.

In fact, from the very beginning, Commander Li asked for this printing press, which made him feel very strange.

This equipment is very old, often malfunctioning, the operation efficiency is also low, the new printing equipment in the Taihang base area, in fact, can fully meet the needs of the Taiyue Taihang base area.

Why do you have to ship it here?

And in such a hurry to transport it, it is clear that the devil sweep has approached the base area, and only let him come over as a technician, and he has never turned on the machine.

But no matter how doubtful he was, Xu Lin could only be puzzled.

····

Meanwhile.

"Report."

"The reconnaissance squadron has arrived at the Xiazhuang stronghold."

"They did not have any enemy attacks along the way, including mine attacks, and did not find any ambush positions on Tubalu."

When he received this telegram, Mido Mazuo's brows furrowed deeply.

After 'capturing' Liao County and Yu County, he asked the First Army Command to send planes to reconnoiter for a day, but no obvious anomalies were found.

The next day, seeing that the weather was good, he led his troops, divided into two routes, and marched all the way along the road to Yangcun, passing through the Xiazhuang stronghold, passing through Shangcun, and then arriving at Yangcun.

All the way is from Yuxian, along the Baijin Railway, deep into the hinterland, clear the surrounding forces participating in the Eighth Route Army, and finally converge at Yangku, and then carry out in-depth sweeps.

However, no matter which way it is, it passes through dense mountainous areas and the terrain is complex, and the Tuba Road is equipped with a large number of mortars, which is highly mobile and has a long firing range, which is very suitable for launching small-scale attacks.

Shells were also plentiful.

It's completely impossible to prevent.

But the mountains had to go in again.

Mido Maneo and the General Staff drew up a detailed reconnaissance and response plan, and dispersed the entire cavalry wing as a rapid mobile force to clear out the small attacking forces that drove the Dirt Eight Road at any time.

But unexpectedly, for a whole day, neither the forward reconnaissance troops nor the rear troops were attacked in any way.

even

Not even a single mine was found.

"What do you want to do?"

The three real men were puzzled.

It has an ultra-light, long-range, and high-accuracy mortar, and it does not launch a harassing attack.

In fact, he did everything well and accepted the huge casualties caused by the continuous stream of small-scale attacks.

As a result, Tubalu didn't come.

What are they thinking?

Sandao Zhenfu doesn't think that the Eighth Route Army has no shells!

In the five days that Liao County and Yu County blocked his attacking troops, the Tuba Road artillery shells spit out one sufficiently.

"What about the surrounding villages?"

Mido continued to ask.

"No one was found, all the people who took it were transferred, including food and property, livestock, and only empty houses and fields."

"Order the reconnaissance troops."

"Continue to move forward to the upper village."

Squinting his eyes, Mido Mao spat out the order:

"Slow march, pay attention to the increased vigilance, destroy all the houses in the surrounding villages, and all... Field. ”

"Fields?"

The staff officer was stunned.

According to the information of the First Army Command, after excluding the surrounding areas of Liao County and Yu County, the area of cultivated land under the control of Tuba Road in the Taiyue Mountains is about 2.3 million mu.

If it were all destroyed, the workload would not be low.

"Yes, Field!"

"Destroy it all."

Mido Mako's tone was gloomy.

Although he didn't know what the intrigues of Tubalu were, it was July, four months before the autumn harvest, and the fields were almost full of new seedlings.

As long as all the fields and grain are destroyed, there will be no time to remedy, and there are more than two million mu of grain, but he wants to see how Tubalu can solve the problem of hunger.

Let's see how this so-called army of the common people copes with the famine of the common people!

"Let those Imperial Allies and garrisons also participate in the destruction of the fields."

"Make sure all the fields are destroyed."

"A wheat seedling, a grain of grain can't be left for Tubalu."

"Not a single house can be left behind."

Mido knew that this sabotage required a lot of manpower, so he brought a puppet army and garrison of more than 6,000 people.

Coupled with the locust army of his division, the total strength exceeded 30,000 people, and the logistics were sufficient, enough to support his activities in the Taiyue Mountains for half a month, which was why he dared to give such an order.

"Hey!"

The staff officer immediately went to carry it out.

···

"Fuck."

"Little devil, this is not a way to live!"

Shang.

Captain Jia of the former Liao County rolled up his sleeves, carried a hoe, and pulled on a piece of ground, scolding and scolding non-stop.

When the Beijing Brigade of Liao County went to the mountains to sweep, Captain Jia had a premonition that things were not good, and decisively found a reason to shirk it.

So he survived.

But his bunch of men weren't so lucky.

More than half of them died.

Some of them followed the Beijing Brigade into the mountains and were killed, and most of the rest followed the Yamashima Brigade into the base area and were then killed.

The strength has been greatly reduced.

But it also comes with a very unexpected benefit.

The rest of his subordinates are very obedient, basically, what he says is what he says.

At this time, Captain Jia didn't sigh that the devil's strategy of destroying all the fields in the base area was vicious, and it would kill many people, and it had nothing to do with him, no matter how many people died, he would care about his.

As long as it's not him who dies.

It's just that he was very unwilling, and the devil arranged the destruction of more than 1,000 acres of fields for only 20 people under him.

It literally killed him.

"Captain."

"That's unspeakable!"

Someone immediately reminded the captain.

They dare to say devils, and the locust army can kill them the next day.

"Afraid of what?"

"You think the locust army will be watching us?"

Although Captain Jia was uncompromising, he still sneered, but the title was still quietly changed to the locust army, and the movements in his hands did not stop.

Still conscientiously destroying the fields.

"If the locust army is doing this, it is estimated that Tubalu will have no way to live."

Although his subordinates were not happy, their tone was relaxed.

Those who can participate in the garrison are basically hardcore traitors, who follow the devil with an iron heart, or there is no turning back.

They all hope that the locust army can destroy the earth eight roads, the knife hanging over their heads.

"Not necessarily!"

Captain Jia narrowed his eyes.

The destruction of more than 2 million acres of fields, even if it can be completely destroyed according to the devil's plan, but the Eighth Route Army has recently put a large amount of grain into the market.

"This..."

The subordinates didn't believe it, but the two locust armies were deflated, and the captain seemed to have guessed it, so that this subordinate didn't dare to doubt it.

"What are you doing with all this?"

"Honest work!"

Seeing a team of devils coming in the distance, Captain Jia hurriedly told his subordinates.

···

"What?"

"What did you say?"

"What are the devils doing?"

Yang Village.

Niu Li'an, the leader of the militia squad, shook his ears and felt very anxious.

As Niu Wanlin's younger brother, the second child of the Niu family.

After Niu Wanlin killed the chief of staff and the deputy chief of staff of the First Army of the devils, the Niu family of five moved to the base area under the arrangement of the comrades in the base area.

The family of five was divided into three acres of land, and a mule cultivated the land, and two younger sisters and a younger brother went to school.

Niu Li'an originally wanted to join the army.

After all, counting the subsidies of his father and eldest brother, the family has two hundred catties of grain every month.

And all of them were fine grains, and lard.

Not to mention a family of five, even a few more people are enough to eat.

However, because his family needed to plant three acres of land, his mother had bad legs and feet, and he was young, only 18 years old, so he could only obey the arrangements of political work cadres and join the militia while doing farm work at home.

After a month of training, Niu Li'an quickly stood out and showed amazing talent, becoming an excellent militia fighter and promoted to squad leader, responsible for reconnaissance around the village.

This time, he and several militia vigilant groups were the first to discover that the devils had begun to destroy the fields on a large scale.

Digging up the seedlings, compacting the fields, and draining the water from the watering fields – this for the devils means that most of the fields will be harvested this year.

The grain output of the whole base area will be reduced by half.

Big problem.

But··

"Little devils destroying fields?"

"Send someone to destroy all the seedlings in the field?"

Niu Li'an outside the door was stunned for a moment.

Listen to the voice, this is the voice of Grand Master Li.

He often came to speak in the militia units, and Niu Li'an's voice was very familiar to Niu Li'an.

But how does this tone sound pleasant?

Why is Regiment Commander Li happy that the devils have destroyed the fields and destroyed all the seedlings in the base areas, so that the grain output in the base areas has been reduced by more than half this year?

Niu Li'an was puzzled.

If it was someone else, it would definitely be a traitor.

But this is Grand Master Li!

The lives of the devils in their hands, there are not a thousand, but hundreds, and there are also Sakata Daisa, the chief of staff of the devils.

Niu Li'an at the door left slowly with doubts.

But in the regiment headquarters, not only Li Yunlong, but even political commissar Zhao Gang couldn't help but smile happily.

The little devil actually spent a lot of manpower and planned to destroy all the millions of acres of land in the entire base area - this is a great thing!

The entire Taiyue base area has a total of 2.3 million acres of cultivated land, including all kinds of mountainous fields, if the devil can destroy all of them.

Then, according to the contract, Brother Lu will reimburse the base area for the grain harvested in a year on so much land.

And!

Provide adequate agricultural technology, including advanced seeds, fertilizers, etc., and exclude agricultural experts from resuming agricultural production.

"Order the troops."

Li Yunlong immediately ordered:

"Without an order from the regimental headquarters, it is strictly forbidden to attack and disturb the devils."

"I also notified the brigade headquarters and asked the brigade headquarters to cooperate."

Destroy 2 million 100,000 acres of grain!

It's a big job.

Not to mention the little devils themselves, even if they come from the Taiyue base area themselves, it is not a simple task, and it takes all the militia fighters to fight for half a month.

So be sure not to clash with the devil during this time.

Let the devil be at ease and work seriously.

"Let the political cadres tell all the people that after the devil sweep is over, we will compensate for all the lost grain."

Zhao Gang also added.

They know that this matter is safe and profitable, but the common people are not clear, and they cannot publicize it.

It is necessary to stabilize the hearts of the common people.

"Yes."

The staff officers of the regimental headquarters of the independent regiment immediately began to arrange for implementation.

In the end, Li Yunlong looked at the map of the Taiyue base on the table, and then looked at it, this time, in his rampant smile, with a thick and gloomy tone: "Hmph, let me thank you to the little devil this time"

(End of chapter)