Chapter 1749: Fire at the City Gate Affects the “Fish in the Pond”

The information Qian Chuan'er brought back is this.

The Japanese and puppet army brigade has begun to launch a grain collection crusade against the guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army and the 113th Division.

The Eighth Route Army still followed its usual style of attack and carried out various obstacles and delays against the Japanese and puppet troops to ensure that the people could smoothly receive food home.

The weapons of the Eighth Route Army are not as good as those of the 113th Division, but the Eighth Route Army can bring the essence of guerrilla warfare to the extreme.

After all, the Eighth Route Army is the ancestor of guerrilla warfare nowadays, and Shang Zhen and the others can't compare in this regard!

why?

The Eighth Route Army has the unparalleled mass advantage of Shang Zhen and others.

Not only would the masses inform the Eighth Route Army, but some would even form a stretcher team to help rescue wounded soldiers and lead the way for the Japanese. They could even lead them to the wrong ones on purpose, and then lead them into the Eighth Route Army's ambush circle!

Qian Chuan'er heard that once the Eighth Route Army had to cross a river during a battle.

In order to ensure the marching speed of the Eighth Route Army, local people jumped into the cold river and used human piers as piers and door panels removed from each house as beams to build a temporary pontoon bridge, which ensured the smooth passage of the Eighth Route Army.

Second, the Eighth Route Army had rich experience in guerrilla warfare and used various methods to delay the advance of the Japanese and puppet troops.

Third, because the Eighth Route Army was fighting guerrilla warfare, its weapons were not as good as those of the National Army, but it was able to develop and grow. What does that mean?

That can only mean that people think of more ways to fight ghosts and are not afraid of death.

To put it bluntly, the toughest combat environment creates the strongest troops!

Because of this, the Japanese and puppet army brigade did not move very fast.

However, the Japanese army was not stupid. Seeing that Mingming was walking too slowly, they formed some kind of advance team, disguised as Chinese, and headed in the direction of the 113th Division.

According to Qian Chuan'er's analysis, the Japanese and puppet troops wanted to cooperate with their advancing team inside and outside.

According to the information obtained by Qian Chuan'er, this Japanese and puppet army was disguised as bandits. There were only seventy or eighty people in total. The weapons they carried were all light weapons. Box cannons, rifles, and light machine guns had to be Czech-style. .

Among these light weapons, there is no Type 92 heavy machine gun of the Japanese army, which Shang Zhen and others jokingly called pheasant eggs.

Because the Japanese Army's Type 92 heavy machine gun has a heat dissipation pipe on the barrel, it looks weird. It has a slow rate of fire but can fire in short bursts.

The guerrillas called this kind of heavy machine gun "Pheasant Neck", so the veterans in Shang Zhen camp simply gave the machine gun the nickname "Pheasant Laying Eggs". Pheasants always shoot short and burst their necks. Isn't that like just now? A hen that lays eggs? It's always clicking there.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun was too bulky and required three or four people to carry it. It would not only expose the identity of the Japanese troops but also be conducive to covert marching.

After Qian Chuan'er introduced the enemy's situation, Shang Zhen's new combat idea was formed, which was to destroy the so-called advancing team of the Japanese army, and then exchange the prisoners and weapons of the Japanese and puppet troops for food with the Eighth Route Army.

The ranks of the Eighth Route Army are growing day by day, and they now have no shortage of soldiers. The slogan put forward by people is to join the Eighth Route Army to protect their hometown and territory. When the people around them heard that the Eighth Route Army was recruiting troops, they enthusiastically joined the army.

This situation is like a principle said in later management science: What do you ask me to do and what I want to do, can the enthusiasm be the same?

With more soldiers, the Eighth Route Army naturally lacks weapons. If Shang Zhen and the others trade guns and ammunition for food, what would the Eighth Route Army not want?

On the other hand, since they eliminated the Japanese advance team, they protected the common people.

Then we don't rob your people of their food, and we protect you, and we don't want any reward. Then we use cash to buy your people's food. Can you always sell this to me?

Shang Zhen's move can also be called "saving the country through curves"

Although Shang Zhen and the others have not seen the food yet, everyone thinks that Shang Zhen's idea is feasible. They also seem to have seen Zhao Tieying's ugly face when their battalion handed over the food to the division headquarters.

For a moment, everyone was full of hope. Chen Hanwen even said, "We are destined to move from one victory to another!"

But before the veterans could ridicule him after he finished speaking, Shang Zhen glared at him fiercely, because when he heard this sentence, it was not from the National Army, it was clearly from the Eighth Route Army. !

Now that a plan has been formed, Shang Zhen asked the cooking teams of each company to make dry food and horse carriages to prepare for the expedition.

Shang Zhen was also helpless. He had never thought that his battalion's guerrilla warfare would turn out like this.

The military discipline of his own battalion is good, but the military discipline of the entire 113th Division is not good, but it has brought trouble to them. Now when they go out for activities, it would be fine if they meet the common people they know, but if they meet the common people they don't know, When people hear their Northeastern accent, they really shun them like jackals and tigers and leopards!

For this reason, Shang Zhen's men even mentioned the original numbers of their battalions. We soldiers from the Northeast are different from other soldiers from the Northeast. They are really different! We are the original third battalion of the 583rd Regiment!

Common people have said so, yes! It was your 583 group that robbed something from someone’s house in our village.

Some people said, yes! It was you, the 583rd group, who harmed someone’s daughter!

The soldiers of Shang Zhen's camp thought after hearing what they heard. They thought that the common people must have only heard the 583rd Regiment in front but not the 3rd Battalion in the back. So they emphasized that we are from the 3rd Battalion and we are different from other battalions!

But are we really different? Another commoner said, yes, it is from your 3rd Battalion. Last time, the people from your 3rd Battalion robbed my family and slapped me in the face. One of my teeth was knocked out!

The people of Shang Zhen's camp were also stunned at that time.

There are hundreds of people in a battalion. Just because they didn't beat or scold the common people doesn't mean that other people in their battalion didn't harm the common people!

They had no choice but to return and report to Shang Zhen.

But Shang Zhen, the battalion commander, was not sure about this kind of thing. What if his men really harmed or bullied the common people? Who harmed the common people? He knew that his battalion was different from other troops and it was forbidden by his own order. Who could say anything?

So Shang Zhen asked Qian Chuan'er to check it for me! I will kill him if I find out!

Shang Zhen was really angry about this matter. A merciful army cannot be run!

Qian Chuaner did investigate, but he did not find any harm to the people in their camp.

However, after a while, by chance, Qian Chuan found out that there were people from the Third Battalion of the 583rd Regiment who harmed the people, but the Third Battalion was not the Third Battalion. It was the people from other battalions of the 583rd Regiment who were called the Third Battalion!

When Qian Chuaner learned the news, he could only report it to Shang Zhen.

Even though Shang Zhen had always had a good temper, he was still angry. Wouldn't this ruin the reputation of our camp? He wanted to go to Zhao Tieying to argue, but when he calmed down, he found that it was useless!

Not to mention that the violation of military discipline was tacitly approved by the superiors, even if it was not tacitly approved by the superiors, Shang Zhen had no way to deal with Zhao Tieying!

Because their camp has now been separated from the 583rd Regiment and renamed as a direct battalion, then the Third Battalion of the 583rd Regiment is only a flip number.

His own battalion left, but Zhao Tieying could legitimately reorganize the Third Battalion of the 583rd Regiment. If he did something bad outside, he could say that he was from the Third Battalion. There was nothing wrong with that!

In this way, how could the common people distinguish the old Third Battalion from the new direct battalion? This kind of thing is getting worse and worse, and there is no way to explain it at all!

Zhao Tieying's move is really insidious!

As the saying goes, "a fire in the city gate affects the fish in the pond", Shang Zhen's battalion is now the "fish in the pond"!

And this is one of the reasons why Shang Zhen really doesn't want to stay in the Northeast Army anymore!

What's the saying, society is a big dye vat, and it's basically impossible for you to stay out of this big dye vat!

Well, Shang Zhen and his people were divided into several small teams and set off the next day.

But Shang Zhen didn't know that as soon as they set off, Zhao Tieying got the news that Shang Zhen and his people were taking action.

"Our people will follow, not many, just to 'help' them at the critical moment." Zhao Tieying said expressionlessly.