Yangquan Japanese Army Brigade Command and Brigade Command were finally waiting for the latest news about pacifying the garrison.

"General, the investigation force reported that the National Salvation Army captured Pingding City around the early morning of last night and retreated this morning. Major Asakawa had led the garrison to re-control the county... But..." Speaking of this, the Chief of Staff had directly showed a hesitant expression on his face, not knowing how to report the following content.

The brigade commander was anxious: "But what? Say it quickly!"

"It's time now, there is still any bad news that can't be said. I can withstand the blow!"

“Hayi…”

The Chief of Staff nodded and continued to report: "The entire pacification garrison, including the troops left behind in the occupied areas, was hit with a devastating blow in this battle and was almost completely wiped out."

"Now, there are only 63 Imperial Army below the Grandpa Asagawa and less than two companies of the Imperial Army remaining. All ammunitions are lost, all heavy weapons are lost, and only three light machine guns are left. The troops urgently need reinforcements. If the Eighth Route Army guerrillas find that Pingding City is empty and launch a sudden attack, Grandpa Asagawa will definitely not be able to defend the county."

"How could it be so badly?"

Although the brigade commander was ready to hear bad news, he did not expect that the loss of the pacification garrison was so great. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as the word "destroying the entire army".

He stared at the chief of staff and asked with disbelief: "If I remember correctly, it was only two guerrillas that had been pacified by the garrison, and they were not even the main force. How could the loss be so great?"

"And they did not fight head-on with the National Salvation Army. What does Asakawa do for food? So many soldiers were consumed by him, but where did they go? I can't figure out?"

The Chief of Staff couldn't figure it out, but he still reported: "Master Asakawa reported that they were raided by Eighth Route Army guerrillas on the way back to the county seat. These guerrillas were very powerful, well equipped and sufficient ammunition. On average, each main platoon was equipped with at least two light machine guns, and some guerrillas were equipped with heavy machine guns. The retreating troops would lose a lot of troops and equipment every time they were raided."

"When we were still ten kilometers away from the county town, we were ambushed by at least two companies of the National Salvation Army. These two companies were also equipped with mortars and heavy machine guns. The garrison was not an opponent at all? We had to choose to split our troops and break through? In the end, less than fifty people were left successfully retreated to the county town."

"The troops left behind in the occupied areas were attacked by the National Salvation Army last night, and suffered heavy losses? Only a few grain collection teams were left to survive? After dawn, they returned to the county town to meet with Asakawa Major..."

"General, their experience is similar to that of the Yangquan Guard?         There is a vague feeling: the National Salvation Army will not attack and pacify it, but we will not come after we attack the Eighth Route Army two days later."

"At that time, the troops were fighting with the Eighth Route Army? Both sides were in a state of anxiety? Any side voluntarily withdrawing from the battlefield would be subject to fierce counterattack from their opponents. The most important thing is that the Eighth Route Army was able to arrange ambush in advance on the way our army retreated. This is so strange."

The brigade commander answered very affirmatively: "What are you thinking about about this matter? There must be a connection between the Eighth Route Army and the National Salvation Army."

"The Eighth Route Army knew in advance that the National Salvation Army would attack the blockade line and Pingding City last night, so they were ready for a counterattack? Otherwise, why could our troops launch a counterattack when they retreated at the beginning? This reaction speed is too fast, and we can't compare to it ourselves."

"Contact the garrisons immediately and we must recover the losses we suffered in the Eighth Route Army on the National Salvation Army. Even if we cannot seriously damage the National Salvation Army, we must tear off a piece of fat from them. The advantage of the Japanese Imperial Army is not so easy to take."

"In addition? After the battle is over, report your real losses with the garrison as soon as possible."

Until this time? The Japanese brigade commander still did not know that the National Salvation Army had retaliated and sent a large number of operation teams to their occupied areas? And their other huge losses were all caused by these operation teams.

At this moment, Zhou Cheng had already seen the battle reports sent by various battalions.

If you want to use one word to describe his mood at this moment? Except for being shocked? Zhou Cheng could not imagine other words.

"Regiment Commander? This is the battle report sent back by the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion. After reading the results they achieved, I think Deputy Company Commander Zhang of the 2nd Company can be transferred to a regular position!" Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu walked in with a smile on his face.

The results of being favored by the Chief of Staff must be very different. Zhou Cheng became interested as soon as he heard this.

Chen Zhengyu quickly reported: "Dong Fei reported that the Second Company Operation Team not only completed the task successfully, but also distributed most of the seized food to the people. Several public trial meetings were held in the enemy-occupied area, and dozens of vicious spy traitors were executed, and the land in the hands of the traitors was distributed to the people to cultivate."

"Through these things, Deputy Company Commander Zhang successfully made the people there remember our National Salvation Army, and greatly inspired the enthusiasm of the villagers to join the National Salvation Army to fight the Japanese."

"In order not to disappoint the villagers, Deputy Company Commander Zhang took the initiative to accept all the new recruits that met the requirements, with a total of more than 60 people. In addition, more than 100 two Japanese prisoners were captured and more than 20 Japanese killed."

"There is another thing that surprised me: he actually told Dong Fei to lead the main force of the company to raid more than ten kilometers to capture a Japanese stronghold, and finally returned to the defense zone before dawn."

"I seized nearly 400,000 kilograms of grain from that stronghold alone, and more than 40 boxes of bullets and artillery shells were seized. I suffered less than one squad and I was killed or killed. It was a great victory..."

"This is a list of spoils. The battle against traitors and the strongholds last night seized a total of 700,000 kilograms of grain, ocean, gold, gold and silver jewelry, which together exceeded 5,000 oceans, and a large amount of weapons, ammunition and other materials were seized..."

"Not to mention anything else, food alone can make the more than 2,000 people from Pingding City survive until next year's autumn harvest!"

Zhou Cheng was very satisfied with his hearing: "He fought really well. He was able to seize the opportunity and respond flexibly to the battlefield. He not only took the opportunity to expand the influence of our National Salvation Army in the enemy-occupied area, but also brought back so many new recruits!"

"From this perspective, Deputy Company Commander Zhang is already better than several company commanders in the regiment."

"Dong Fei has been the battalion commander for several months. During this period, the affairs of the second company were basically controlled by Deputy Company Commander Zhang. Since he used facts to prove that he had the ability to be the company commander, then go and let Dong Fei concentrate on managing the first battalion."

Tang Yufeng said, "I support the transfer of Deputy Company Commander Zhang to a regular basis!"

Chen Zhengyu continued to report: "The first battalion's results are unbearable. In addition to capturing a gun tower on the blockade line, it also took down a gun tower in the Japanese occupied area. In addition, the results achieved by the operation team, by the time they withdrew from the defense area, a total of 98 Japanese and 213 puppet troops were killed, including 159 puppet troops, and 5 traitors who were extremely guilty were executed..."

"The spoils are also very rich. The food and land distributed to the local people were reduced, and a total of 380,000 kilograms of grain were sent back, 2,158 pieces of the ocean, worth 1,500 pieces of gold from the ocean."

"In addition, 138 livestock were seized and the 13 major trucks of other materials..."

After a while, Chen Zhengyu handed the battle report to Zhou Chengbian and took out another battle report.

"This is the battle report of the Third Company of the First Battalion. Although there is no particularly outstanding place, 210,000 kilograms of grain and 11 other materials have been seized..."

It took Chen Zhengyu twenty minutes to finish all the battle reports of the six companies, and finally took out the already summarized battle reports and continued reading: "In addition to the spoils we seized in pacification, this time we attacked the enemy-occupied area, we seized a total of 2.68 million kilograms of grain, 12,365 yuan of oceans, and worth 16,300 yuan of oceans of gold..."

"If the food distributed by the operation team to the local people, the total food lost by the Japanese invaders this time was more than 7 million kilograms, and the losses were given to them by 38 traitors of all sizes. Almost all the traitor leaders around us were cut off by the operation team, and the foundation of the Japanese rule in the local area was completely destroyed by us, which severely shocked other traitors in the enemy-occupied areas around us."

"In this case, if the Japanese want to restore the rule of more than ten towns around us, it will take a lot of effort to choose an agent and to draw a large number of troops from other places. It will definitely not be completed in less than a month or two."

"And even if the Japanese restore their rule over these places, those traitors dare not work hard for the Japanese as before. The villagers and the local anti-Japanese armed forces will definitely be much better."

"As for the food lost by the Japanese, if nothing unexpected happens, I can only make up for the loss with the benefits I have obtained in this autumn harvest."

"The Japanese are so cruel. One acre of land asked the villagers to collect 80 kilograms of grain. The puppet army traitors did some tricks on the scale. The villagers had to pay at least 85 kilograms of grain to cultivate a mu of land. The remaining grain and wild vegetables were barely enough for everyone to survive until next autumn harvest."

"If the Japanese asked the people about food to make up for the deficit, the enemy-occupied areas would definitely cause famine, officials forced the people to rebel, and more anti-Japanese armed forces would appear."

"As long as the Japanese commander is a little sensible, he will not do that kind of digging his own grave!"

Tang Yufeng also showed an expression of agreement: "The Japanese want to rely on the occupied areas to support the war, of course they will not dig their own graves!"

"According to information, the Japanese North China Front Command issued a grain collection task to Yangquan's Japanese army of 15 million kilograms. Somehow, after arriving at various strongholds, the grain collection task directly doubled to 30 million kilograms, so they asked the people for such high grain taxes."

"I estimate that the 15 million kilograms of grain that I have added must be the benefit that the Japanese mixed brigade and the puppet army are preparing to reap from it. Now, more than 7 million kilograms of grain are reduced, which is equivalent to nearly half of the benefits they want to reap!"

Zhou Cheng doesn't think so.

Although the Japanese commander was very smart, he was also cruel and greedy.

How could the meat you eat in your mouth be spit out?

So they would never pay out of their own pocket to make up for the deficit of 7 million kilograms of grain, and in the end it must be the wool that comes from the sheep.

As for the officials forcing the people to rebel, the two partners have not really experienced the Japanese's cruelty.

In real history, there were many tragedies and massacres created for food. As long as they could grab food and gain benefits, it had nothing to do with them whether there was a famine in the occupied areas. Anyway, the people who starved to death were all Chinese.

After the real officials forced the people to rebel, they not only would not worry, but would look forward to it, because this incident just gave them a reason to kill.

In their opinion, China's most deficiencies are people. Massacre of several villages will not only not affect the stability of the occupied areas, but will also intimidate other Chinese people, eat less food and gain more benefits.

Therefore, although this operation has won a great victory in the National Salvation Army, it also brought great pressure to the people of the enemy-occupied areas. Many people will definitely die in the revenge of the Japanese.
Chapter completed!