Devil's Army

After hearing the suggestion from Captain Li, the Second Captain said happily:

"This is a good idea. With everyone being a soldier, it won't be easy for the Japanese scouts to sneak in."

"So you go and make the arrangements, or should I?"

"You will definitely arrange the suggestions you made. Our brigade commander said that your troops have many political cadres and rich experience in managing county towns, so the management of county towns and villages will be handed over to you. Our troops have arsenals and sufficient ammunition supply, so we will be the main force in fighting the Japanese, and you will be the auxiliary."

At that time, Gui Brigade Commander instructed Li to consult with the other commanders of the Jidong Independent Brigade and avoid conflicts. He was also worried that he would not get along well with the second commander. He did not expect that the second commander did not have the habit of a warlord who occupied the mountain.

Now that the new base in southern Hebei had just been established, he still had a lot of things to do. After eating a few mouthfuls in a hurry, he said goodbye to the second regiment commander and went down to make arrangements.

The Eighth Route Army has a very good mass base in Jizhou City, Shenzhou City and Hengshui City in southern Hebei.

Members of the Hengshui County Brigade and the Shenzhou County Brigade were quickly assigned to the counties and towns that Gu had just recovered to organize joint defense teams.

Guerrilla units were also organized in each township and village. Guerrilla squads and guerrilla units were formed according to the number of members, and they were under the jurisdiction of the county brigade.

The guerrillas' main task was to discover strangers entering their jurisdiction and report them immediately to the county brigade.

After the county brigade completes the screening, those with problems will be handed over to the troops.

The guerrillas in the villages all received military training during their spare time from the busy farming season, but they were troubled by the shortage of bullets.

The commander of the second regiment learned about this and arranged for soldiers to deliver ammunition from time to time for the county brigade and the guerrillas to practice with, so that the soldiers of the 25th regiment envied the guerrillas and the county brigade because they had more ammunition than they did.

Not long after the joint defense network of the guerrilla county brigade was established, it immediately achieved results.

Three guerrillas from Bingcao Township captured two suspicious persons who spoke broken Chinese.

The inexperienced guerrillas had no way to interrogate the two men, so they handed them over to the Shenzhou City County Brigade.

The captain of the Shenzhou City and County Brigade personally participated in the interrogation, but the two men insisted that they were businessmen who went to Hengshui City to explore business opportunities.

Since the two men lived in Yangquan City, which was currently occupied by the Japanese and guarded by a large Japanese army, the county brigade had no way to send people to Yangquan City to check the situation. They had to send them to the 25th Regiment Headquarters.

At that time, the second regiment commander happened to visit the headquarters of the 25th Regiment, and he participated in the interrogation of the two suspects by Commander Li.

The political commissar of the 25th Regiment had been promoting the party's policies to the two suspects, asking them to confess and be lenient. However, the two men insisted that they came from Yangquan City and wanted to go to Hengshui City to see if there were any business opportunities and to do some small business.

The second regiment leader got angry when he heard these two people speaking poor Chinese. How could a native Chinese speak their mother tongue so poorly? It was obvious that there was something wrong with these two people.

Finally, the second regiment commander couldn't stand it anymore, and he asked that the two men be handed over to their regiment for interrogation, and he guaranteed to find out who was behind them.

Captain Li warned: "Don't resort to lynching."

"Don't worry, I will treat them as VIPs."

The two suspects were taken back to the camp of the Second Regiment by the guards brought by the Second Regiment Commander. Their good days were over.

When the Second Regiment Commander was the battalion commander, he had carried out missions with the special forces and interrogated Japanese prisoners of war with the special forces members.

Back in the barracks, the second commander detained the two suspects separately, and then personally participated in the interrogation of a thinner suspect.

The thin suspect remained stubborn and insisted that they were there to look for business opportunities.

The second regiment commander didn't talk to them about any policies, he just applied the special forces' methods here.

The skinny suspect had both of his big toe nails picked off, and he gritted his teeth in pain and said:

"You, the Eighth Route Army, cannot mistreat prisoners."

The second captain took a sip of water, cleared his throat and said to him:

"Unfortunately, we are not the Eighth Route Army. We are the devil army you are talking about."

The thin suspect broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. The Devil Army has always been an indelible nightmare for their Imperial Army.

The skinny suspect had eight of his ten toenails picked off. He was sweating coldly and his whole body was wet as if he had been soaked in water.

At this time, a soldier entered the interrogation room and whispered something in the ear of the second regiment commander.

The second captain said to the thin suspect:

"He has some information to tell me. I'm leaving now. You stay here. If he tells me everything I want to know, I will execute you."

Seeing the thin suspect looking like he wanted to die, the second captain said to him:

"Do you think I'm going to kill you with one shot? You're overthinking. I'm going to pick out all the nails on your hands and feet, and then remove your bones piece by piece until you die of pain."

The thin suspect broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.