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Chapter 58 ["Sweeping"]

A Japanese brigade of about 500 people, plus an equal number of puppet troops, was advancing unhurriedly towards the Eighth Route Army's base area.

The commander of the Japanese army is Major Terada Kazuta, who is riding a large Japanese horse and is surrounded in the middle. He is the supreme commander of this unit.

On the left is his adjutant Chihiro Tanaka, and on the right is Zhao Xingwang, a commander of the puppet army, who is responsible for cooperating with their brigade to "sweep".

Kazuta Terada looked at the faint village ahead and asked, "What's ahead?"

Zhao Xingwang said in a very doggy way: "Taijun Terada, the front is an unsafe area, a village called Panjiayu. According to the command of His Excellency Commander, the "Three Lights" policy can be carried out."

"Xinxi, Zhao Jun, then execute the order!"

Hearing this, Zhao Xingwang commanded his puppet army to surround the village, and began to drive out the villagers, preparing to carry out the Sanguang policy.The devils also set up machine guns in important places, waiting for orders at any time.

Ningji Okamura, commander of the Japanese North China Front, arrived in 1941.He proposed a three-year law and order plan, that is, the North China law and order war.

According to this plan, Okamura Neiji divided North China into three types, namely: "security areas, quasi-security areas" and "un-security areas".

The so-called "security area" refers to the area controlled and occupied by the Japanese army and its surroundings;
The so-called "quasi-law and order area" refers to the area where the forces of the two sides intersect, and it is also a guerrilla area where the Eighth Route Army often operates;
The so-called "unsafe area" refers to the anti-Japanese base area.

For different regions, Okamura Neiji has taken different measures.As for the "security areas", Qingxiang is the main area.

The Qingxiang Movement "takes "military and political advancement in parallel, suppression and appeasement at the same time", "three-thirds of the military, seven-seventh of the political" as the policy.

The villages with a small number of people were merged into townships, and then a puppet regime was established from the county to the township and village, and the Baojia Liansi was implemented to strengthen the rule of slavery.

In the law and order area, the puppet army was responsible for the security task, while the Japanese army was deployed to advance to the "quasi law and order area".

For "quasi law and order areas", the focus is on "cannibalization".

Its central idea is to plunder property and "turn quasi-law and order areas into no-man's land", thereby consolidating its sphere of influence.

The general approach is to gradually divide the base areas of the Eighth Route Army from the outside to the inside by relying on the transportation network, forts and trench walls, and gradually turn the liberated areas into enemy-occupied areas.

For villages that cannot be occupied, turn them into no man's land to prevent the in-depth activities of the Eighth Route Army.

For "unsafe areas", military offensives are the mainstay.

The Japanese army sent a large number of troops to carry out "sweeping" operations continuously, dismantling and destroying the facilities and military supplies in the base area.

The cruel "three alls" policy made it impossible for the Eighth Route Army to settle down and carry out construction, making it gradually develop into a "quasi-safe area".

Okamura Neiji's criterion for judging whether it is a security area is very simple. You can tell the quality of the local security situation from the eyes of the Chinese girl.

First, there is absolutely no trace of the girl.This is evidence of the fear of Japanese soldiers and "bad public security".

Second, I felt strange about the Japanese cars and trucks and looked out of the window from a distance because "the security was slightly better".

Third, under the two conditions, if you walk out of your home and look out, you will see a Chinese girl walking calmly on a street where Japanese soldiers come and go, which means "security is good."

Of course, this is just a method of classification by Okamura Neiji. Even if the common people become good citizens for the Japanese, it only guarantees that they will not be killed at will.

But once they encounter a time when their "sacrifice" is needed, the Japanese will not be merciful.They wantonly seize strong men to build gun towers, dig trenches, dig coal mines, etc.

I thought it was over, it was better to build gun towers and ditches, control your freedom of life, give me some food to survive the hunger, and let you repair until the year of the monkey.

If you go digging coal mines, you will basically have a narrow escape from death.The Japanese army frantically pursued the bloody policy of "exchanging people for coal".

The so-called "exchanging people for coal" means arresting ordinary people and sending them to mines to dig coal, making them work like cattle and horses. The intensive labor time exceeds 12 hours a day.

The miners eat steamed buns, black bean cakes and moldy "Xingya noodles" every day, and sleep in earthen caves dug along the mountain depressions, covered with sacks and cement paper bags.

Those who were sick were not given medicine, and if they could not get up, they were carried by the corpse team and thrown into the "mass graves";

It can be seen that the devil's brutal nature will not change just because the people obey, but will intensify and become more unscrupulous.

Back in this "sweep", the devils came so suddenly that the villagers of Panjiayu didn't find out in advance, and they were caught off guard when they were transferred, so they had to hide and try to avoid this catastrophe.

Several Japanese soldiers broke into the yard and searched for the hiding people with bayonets in hand.The house was empty. There seemed to be no one.

An old devil with many times of sweeping experience, saw that the house did not look like it was unoccupied, so he knew that the family was hiding.

"Search, they must still be there."

The water tank was smashed, the bedding was overturned, the windows were broken... and soon the whole yard was in a mess.

In the straw pile in the corner, an old couple was shivering.

After all, the old devil searched over and stabbed a few times, but he didn't stab anyone.

But he believed that there was someone hiding here, so how could he retreat in despair because he couldn't find it!
Especially when he was followed by two new recruits who had just been recruited from China. If the first raid was so embarrassing, how could he boss him around in the future?

"Come here, two of you, and kick all this straw down for me."

After hearing the order, the two Japanese soldiers pointed out two more puppet soldiers to join them.In just a few moments, the old couple hiding inside were found.

"Dazhi, Dadou, it's time to test your two skills, one for each." The old devil pointed at the old couple and ordered the two devils behind him.

Aoki Daito was influenced by the Japanese Communist Party since he was a child, and he was also an extremely aggressive member in school.

Seeing such an opportunity as the senior said, his heart was also extremely moved.Moreover, seeing the frightened eyes of the old couple, he seemed to see those little devils who were afraid of him in his school days,
A ferocious smile appeared on his face.

"Xinxi, the Chinese pig is dead."

Without any fear or discomfort, the bayonet penetrated the old woman's chest and hit her most fatal heart. The thin spurt of blood directly dyed his clothes and his ferocious face red.

The old devil was very appreciative and commented: "Yo Xi, Da Dou, you who killed the Chinese pig, now you can be regarded as a qualified Japanese Imperial Army."

Daito Aoki licked the blood on his lips and smiled even more happily.He kind of felt that it would be a good choice to come to this place where he could control the Chinese pigs at will.

Seeing that Moriya Dazhi hadn't acted for a long time, the old devil said displeasedly: "Dazhi, it's your turn, act quickly."

(End of this chapter)