The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 497 Dog bites dog

...On the second day after Shen Wenyue and his party left the base of the Independence Regiment.

As the main force of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi set out to fight in the south of Shanxi, the new first regiment and the new second regiment of the independent regiment took the lead in launching sneak attacks on various Japanese strongholds, as well as sabotage operations on highways, railways and other transportation lines. .

On the other side, what is going on secretly is the expansion and control of the vast villages.

The soldiers cooperated with the comrades of the armed forces team to continue to build a double-sided government in the village, and to create a hidden nail village and a fortress village.

In fact, the Japanese army in Shanxi followed the main force of the First Army to fight in southern Shanxi. Yoshio Shinozuka, who expected this battle to last a long time, didn't make any preparations for the security of the rear county town?

Shinozuka Yoshio has always been very wary of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area.

Especially the three regiments of the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army near Yangquan and Ping'an counties.

For this reason, before the outbreak of the Jinnan Campaign, Shinozuka Yoshio specially strengthened the defense forces of the garrisons in the surrounding counties of the three Iron Triangle regiments.

All the strongholds also turned from offense to defense. According to Yoshio Shinozuka's plan, they temporarily turned to defense. When the Battle of Jinnan was over, the imperial troops took advantage of the victory and wiped out the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

In addition, especially in response to the recent continuous raids by the three iron triangle regiments, Yoshio Shinozuka ordered to strengthen the defense forces around the base areas of the three iron triangle regiments. , Reinforcements were sent to the vicinity of Yangquan and Pingan County, specifically to deal with the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and the New Second Regiment.

Yoshio Shinozuka, an old devil, is very interesting. He realized that the intensity of the Eighth Route Army's ambush against the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army's troops was completely different.

If the ambushes were imperial troops, the Eighth Route Army would never hold back and fight fiercely until all the imperial troops were wiped out.

But if the ambush was from the Royal Association Army troops, the Eighth Route Army would often fight and intimidate them until they forced the Imperial Association Army troops to surrender.

That's why Shinozuka Yoshio came up with this shady trick, letting the elite troops of the empire disguise themselves as puppet troops and go out to raid in the clothes of soldiers of the Imperial Association Army.

In this way, if they encountered the Eighth Route Army halfway, if the Eighth Route Army fought against the imperial elite as a third-rate fighting power of the Imperial Association Army, it would definitely suffer a big loss.

In addition to these methods, Yoshio Shinozuka also left Kazuki Yamamoto as a dark hand to infiltrate and counterattack against the independent group.

Shinozuka Yoshio understood Kong Jie's temperament too well in this regard, and active offense is the best defense against the independent group.

……

Nine days.

A Japanese army disguised as the Eighth Route Army, more than 20 people, suddenly touched some villages in the middle line area where the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army competed for the village.

The role of this Japanese army, according to Yoshio Shinozuka's plan, was to test whether some villages were secretly connected.

The temptation here is simple.

The Japanese troops entered the village disguised as troops of the Eighth Route Army. On the one hand, we could see how the villagers treated these "Eighth Route Army".

If the common people didn't have secret connections with the Eighth Route Army, the devils could check to see if there were militia units or guerrillas hidden in the surrounding areas. It would be best to catch these guys out and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Chenjia Village, this is a village closer to the Japanese army county.

On the surface, the people in the village are very honest, paying taxes and food on time, and often accepting inspections by the Japanese and puppet troops entering the village, and implementing the Baojia Liansi system, and nothing has happened.

But the Japanese army has always been worried, always suspecting that the village still has secret connections with the Eighth Route Army and has secret contacts with the Eighth Route Army in secret.

So this special unit disguised as the Eighth Route Army was sent to test it out.

These guys are all members of the advance team specially prepared by the First Army to deal with the Eighth Route Army.

These members have lived with Chinese people for a long time, and learned Chinese language, Chinese language, customs and other aspects of culture.

In the end, to what extent do these guys understand Chinese and Chinese culture?

Throw them in the pile of Chinese, you can't even tell whether he is Japanese or Chinese.

"Remember, change your identity to me from now on. We are ordinary Chinese people. All behaviors and habits are changed according to the habits of the Chinese people we have learned. We must not let those villagers find any flaws. "

When the team was not far from Chenjia Village, Shigeo Hiramatsu, the leader of the advancing team who was in charge of this trial, explained in authentic Chinese.

There was even some Shanxi local accent in his words, let alone Chinese, even the little devils pretending to be the Eighth Route Army beside him couldn't hear the flaws in it.

At this moment, these devils were wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army.

There are almost no flaws in the equipment or clothing it carries.

I also deliberately made the general's uniform old, trying to be as similar to the images of those tuba roads I have seen on weekdays.

Coupled with these pretenders, their acting skills are quite good. They pretended to be the Eighth Route Army and appeared secretly in the evening. When they saw some villagers in the village, they looked around vigilantly.

Hiramatsu Shigeo said to some of the villagers who met, "My fellow villagers, we are part of the guerrillas. It's too late and there are no houses around. Can we stay in your village for one night?

By the way, there is no Japanese spy in your village, right? "

Because the disguise of Hiramatsu Shigeo and his party was in place, the villagers who came into contact with them didn't realize it at first.

The old village head of Chenjia Village (the current generation of Baojia Liansi system has not been fully implemented) even came forward to receive him personally, and stayed secretly with Hiramatsu Shigeo and his party disguised as guerrillas in the village.

Everything was going well at first, and some villagers talked with some pretenders with a little vigilance, and found that these pretenders spoke fluently and with local accents, so they didn't think much about it.

Until dinner, a pretender accidentally revealed some flaws when talking with the old village chief—perhaps because he wanted to know the answer too much and was too urgent, the pretender suddenly inquired about some news about the independent group .

The propaganda cadres of the independent regiment had already vaccinated the villagers in the surrounding and outlying villages.

However, most of the units that have nothing to inquire about the details of the Eighth Route Army have problems, and the villagers should be more cautious in dealing with them.

The old village head became suspicious, so he made a fool of himself and dealt with it, saying that he was not too clear about the issue of the independent group.

Then, the old village head temporarily stabilized Shigeo Hiramatsu and his party, and found some villagers in the village who had contact with comrades of the Eighth Route Army to discuss the matter.

"Village chief, do you mean to suspect that these eight-way comrades are fake?"

"But we haven't found any flaws?"

In the darker dusk, in the remote earthen house, there were a few confused faces, the old village chief and the villagers, discussing with each other sentence by sentence.

"It's hard to tell the truth from the fake. They still speak with a local accent. What if they are really comrades of the Eighth Route?"

"But they took the initiative to ask about some things about the independent group." The old village head said, "Have you forgotten what some propaganda officers of the independent group said a few days ago?"

"The guerrillas from outside are more or less interested in inquiring about the details of the independent regiment. Earlier, they tentatively asked me if there is any militia organization or armed forces team in our village."

When the old village chief said this, several villagers who had been in contact with the pretenders before also hesitated.

"Village Chief, if you want to say that, there is indeed a possibility. If it is really a devil or a traitor in disguise, it will be bad."

"What should we do now? How about we try to find out, are they really eight ways?"

"How to try?"

"Have you forgotten the pamphlet sent by Comrade Eighth Route? There are many ways to identify if it is a devil or not. Let's try it and find out."

The old village chief said: "I'm going to prepare some coriander. It's mentioned in the picture book that Little Japan generally hates coriander. Let's try it."

A villager said: "Village chief, let's split up and talk to those eight-way comrades to see if we can find any problems."

After discussing the countermeasures, everyone acted quickly. The old village chief quickly prepared a handful of coriander and sprinkled it in the rice soup served to those eight-way comrades.

in the hall.

The old village head brought rice soup sprinkled with coriander to the "Eight Routes", and Shigeo Hiramatsu, the leader of the guerrillas, quickly thanked him.

A few villagers who came to investigate the situation were chatting with Maoxiong and his party in Heping Village without saying a word.

These "Eight Ways" seem to be very talkative, and they think that they have not revealed any flaws in their conversations with these villagers.

However, the occasional eye contact between several villagers and the old village head showed more and more hesitation.

Everyone chatted for a while, and there were only some scraps left on the table. The old village chief and the villagers left the house, leaving Shigeo Hiramatsu and his party to rest for a while.

A corner of the backyard.

The faces of the old village chiefs who regrouped were ugly.

One said: "There must be something wrong with these people. I guess most of them are not comrades of the Eighth Route."

One said: "When they answer the question, they really hesitate for a moment, and if you look closely at the expressions on their faces, they always seem to be a little bit closed and can't let go, and when they laugh, they feel fake.

These are very similar to the situation of the false eight roads pictured in the brochure. "

The other said: "There is a problem. I have noticed that many Eight Routes deliberately left the coriander in the bowl, or picked it out. This may not mean that these Eight Route comrades are fake, but there is definitely a problem. , there are some leftovers on the plate!"

"The Comrades of the Eighth Route Army fought against Japan under difficult conditions, and they may not even have enough to eat, so how could they leave leftovers?"

"That's right, there are even some rice grains in the bowl!"

"I don't look like a soldier when I eat. How should I put it, it's a bit too refined, as if I've never been hungry before."

……

"Village chief, now we can basically be sure that these eight roads are fake, what should we do next?"

The old village head thought for a while and said: "These fake eight roads appear here, there must be some ulterior motives. If we secretly inform the comrades of the martial arts team to help, if the news gets out, the devils will definitely believe it. Our village is secretly connected."

"Well, Ah Min, let me stabilize these fake Eighth Route Army first, and you guys immediately rushed to Tangyuan Town to report the situation to the Japanese, saying that a group of Eighth Route Army appeared in our village, and we have already stabilized them. They hurried over and wiped out the Eight Routes."

Several villagers were startled, and then gave the village chief a thumbs up.

"Village chief, this trick is powerful, let's let the little devil dog bite the dog!"

……

Inside the hall.

The partner next to him whispered in Japanese, "Captain, the people of Chenjia Village are so enthusiastic about the Eight Routes, they must have secretly communicated with the Eight Routes, or we can just..."

He made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Hiramatsu Shigeo cursed in Chinese: "Bastard, speak Chinese."

"Yes!"

"Remember, our task is to infiltrate the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment's base area and take the opportunity to steal information. If we find the opportunity, we can carry out the task of ambush and assassination. These ordinary villagers are not our target and are not worth shooting. As for the villagers here secretly We pass the news back to the eight-way matter, and naturally someone will deal with it."

"Yes!"

"Captain, what should we do next?"

"These villagers are very cunning. They have been going round and round. We will think of a way later to see if we can get useful information out of their mouths and find out where the troops of the Independence Regiment in the surrounding area are stationed." Shigeo Hiramatsu said.

"Yes!"

……

Around eight o'clock in the evening.

It was completely dark, Shigeo Hiramatsu thought, it was not easy to continue to act in the dark, so let's stay in Chenjia Village for one night first.

The old village head continued to warmly entertain Hiramatsu Shigeo and his party, and even set aside a compound for Hiramatsu Shigeo and others to settle down.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, when Shigeo Hiramatsu and his party were about to rest, out of usual habit, a companion who was serving as a secret whistle outside the house suddenly noticed some movement not far away.

The battle broke out quite suddenly, and someone directly threw a grenade into the yard.

A few loud bangs completely broke the dead silence of Chenjia Village at night.

Saburo Aoki, the captain of the Japanese army who led the team all the way over, was full of excitement. Sure enough, eight routes were hiding in this village.

The two sides fought for a while, and Shigeo Hiramatsu, who had an ugly face, also realized that it was the imperial army who came to attack him suddenly.

Now it was embarrassing, there was a big misunderstanding, and my own people beat up my own people.

The old village chief's voice sounded outside the house.

"Taijun, Balu is in the house. There are 25 people in total. They all have weapons in their hands. You have to be careful."

Hiramatsu Maoxiong was dumbfounded, the people of Chenjia Village didn't have secret connections, but secretly reported to the imperial army?

In the dark night, the battle between the two sides intensified.

That Aoki Saburo originally wanted to capture these eight groups alive so as to get some important information, but after a long exchange of fire, it was fruitless, he gritted his teeth, and he directly ordered the use of grenades, preparing to blow up the entire courtyard.

Shigeo Hiramatsu in the room was speechless, he heard Saburo Aoki's Japanese password.

But right now, even if he yelled out loudly to show that he was also Japanese, he would probably not be believed.

Hiramatsu Shigeo hurriedly led the team and fled out through the back door of the yard.

As a result, he had just rushed out from the backyard and was ambushed by fire again.

The old village chief who was accompanying Aoki Saburo said: "The gunshots came from the backyard, Taijun, I guessed it was right, these eight people will definitely escape from the backyard."

"Yaoxi!" Aoki Saburo was overjoyed, and led the team to outflank the backyard.

In the end, the battle lasted for another ten minutes. Shigeo Hiramatsu broke out with the remaining eight people, leaving behind sixteen corpses, which were taken away by the proud Saburo Aoki as evidence of his brave fighting tonight and the elimination of the Eighth Route Army...

(End of this chapter)