Li Ergou had this ability. He controlled the psychology of these puppet soldiers very accurately, and with the help of his words, all these puppet soldiers stayed voluntarily.

These prisoners of the puppet army are all veterans. After being released, many of them turned around and joined the puppet army again.

Telling them about the country and the nation and asking them to join the Eighth Route Army is overthinking and is basically a waste of effort.

Most of them were willing to serve the Japanese because of the treatment they received from the motley crew. In their eyes, the Eighth Route Army was definitely a motley crew. How could they impress those soldiers?

Therefore, Li Ergou naturally did not bother with this aspect. He started from the situation of these puppet troops and blocked the escape route of these puppet troops in a few words.

These puppet troops are all soldiers. They fight against the Eighth Route Army and follow one principle, that is, fight if they can fight, run if they can't fight, and surrender if they can't run. Anyway, the Eighth Route Army generally does not abuse prisoners, as long as there are no evil deeds.

It will still be let go.

After they are released, they can go back and continue to work as puppet soldiers to get military pay, and their superiors will generally not embarrass them too much. After all, the puppet army needs more numbers to build momentum. These experienced soldiers are naturally more popular. After all, recruits are recruited.

, but I don’t have the energy to retrain, and the cost is a bit high.

Therefore, there is room for maneuver. When many puppet troops are fighting, they usually choose to remain useful and surrender casually.

Generally speaking, the Eighth Route Army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners also contributed to the decline of the puppet army's combat effectiveness in a sense, allowing them to be harvested one after another like leeks and becoming an important part of the Eighth Route Army's supply line.

Of course, the low combat effectiveness of the puppet army does not mean that they have no combat effectiveness. These guys are still very fierce when fighting against the wind and bullying others.

Naturally, Li Ergou didn't want to run back to Jian immediately if he let them go now, so he used words to scare them.

Of course, it's not all about scaring them. These veterans can't be frightened by just a few words.

Li Ergou naturally knew what they were worried about. Normally, their behavior was nothing, but now that many Japs had died, things were not that simple. With the Japs' character, how could they not pursue the matter or take revenge?

The Japanese are angry now. If you go back at this time, you may bump into the Japanese's guns and become the target of their anger.

Li Ergou carried out the corpse of the Japanese commander and reiterated that the effect was impressive.

Even if we let these guys go now, they won't dare to run back in a short time, and they will at least have to wait and see for a while.

In this way, if they are released, at least in this counter-mopping up, they will not be incorporated into the mopping up force, so there will naturally be no harm.

As for their willingness to stay, just listen. Li Ergou knows exactly what these veterans are thinking.

They don't dare to go back now, they just want to find a temporary place to stay, and they will escape if they have the chance. With them causing trouble in the middle, it will be difficult to subdue the new soldiers.

After all, new recruits are much easier to educate and reform, and they are much more obedient than these inexperienced veterans.

It's not that these veterans can't teach you a lesson, it's just that the timing is wrong. If there are only one or two, they won't be able to make big waves, but if there are too many, it will be difficult to manage.

With them among the prisoners, it's no wonder nothing happens. Many of them are not angry at being defeated by their own side, so they can only be guarded with heavy troops, but they don't have that many manpower.

So it is better to eliminate those unstable factors in advance and get rid of them once and for all.

Of course, all the weapons and ammunition of these released officers and veterans have been confiscated. As for the travel expenses, it is up to them to find a way. Li Ergou has no money to give them.

While Li Ergou's Sixth Company was handling post-war affairs, Zhang Yunfei led the main force to the battlefield where the First Company was located.

Just as Li Ergou said, Zhang Yunfei will naturally not get dizzy just because of Tiedan or the continuous destruction.

In war, people will die. When he decided to let Tiedan and Li Ergou take the rear, it was inevitable that the two companies would pay some casualties.

If the earthen pot is not broken outside the well, the general will inevitably die on the battlefield. There are too many accidents on the battlefield. No one is surprised if he dies, but Zhang Yunfei is still a little surprised.

In Zhang Yunfei's estimation, Li Ergou's Sixth Company might suffer more casualties, while the First Company's situation should be better. Unexpectedly, the situation was exactly the opposite.

I came here now not for rescue. After all, this is not the era of cold weapons. It is normal for a battle to last ten and a half days.

Zhang Yunfei just hoped that he could kill the Japanese and puppet troops fighting with Yilian and further weaken the strength of the Japanese mopping up troops this time.

And when he approached the battlefield of the First Company, he was pleasantly surprised. It was not the Japanese and puppet troops who were cleaning the battlefield, but the soldiers of the First Company.

However, it can be seen that the continuous battle is not easy. Now there are only forty or fifty people in the whole company, which can only be regarded as a strengthened platoon. Their victory can only be regarded as a tragic victory.

In previous battles, they blocked several rounds of Japanese attacks in succession. The puppet troops performed very tenaciously. Under the command of the Japanese, they used the standard mountain offensive tactics of the Japanese. Although the blocking firepower of Tiedan Company was very intensive, in the first few rounds,

The puppet troops did not achieve much success, but they did not retreat to their starting position.

Instead, he stuck to his frontline position, used ravines and even the corpses of his companions to build simple fortifications on the spot, and continued to shoot at Tiedan.

They were like nails, inserted in front of the position of the blocking troops, while the subsequent troops continued to advance under the cover of the puppet army's forward positions.

When launching the attack, the puppet troops followed closely, and each echelon cooperated with each other to attack alternately. After a wave of attacks were defeated, they persisted on the spot, and the subsequent echelons crossed their positions under the cover of their firepower.

Continuing to squeeze forward, the puppet troops took advantage of their numbers to the extreme.

The squeezing tactics that the Japanese asked the puppet troops to adopt put a company of forward blocking troops under tremendous pressure. Although the puppet army's front line was a little slow and suffered heavy casualties, it was advancing bit by bit.

The puppet army's offensive troops gradually squeezed the company around the main position. The small defensive depth originally established by the company has naturally disappeared long ago, and it has become a standard highland battle.

Although the soldiers of the first company fought very tenaciously and relied on the advantageous terrain, they also made the puppet troops pay a considerable price. The more they fought, the more courageous they became. When they reached the rear, they were unable to fight against the puppet troops.

However, judging from the overall situation, they are becoming more and more passive, and the Japanese have also seen this. The Eighth Route Army, which has been completely besieged by them, is at the end of its war effort.

The Japs on the flanks did not need to be polite and launched a general attack.

Seeing that the Japs finally took action, Tiedan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If these little Japs didn't take action, they might not be able to hold it anymore.

The machine gunners and grenade launchers who had been waiting and hiding for a long time poured out firepower on the attacking Japanese troops with intensive crossfire regardless of the consumption of ammunition.

The Japanese were also shocked by this. They didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army, which was at the end of its war effort, actually hid its firepower. But now that it had launched a general attack, it was difficult to get down, so it had no choice but to bite the bullet and attack upwards.

This kind of real battle was more fierce than the fierce battle. The Japs were really not afraid of anyone. The continuous fierce attacks only aroused the Japs' ferocity. The two sides fought to the death on this small hilltop.

However, because the number of Japanese soldiers was small and the attack was from bottom to top, the terrain was very disadvantageous, and they were deliberately targeted by the company, so the Japanese casualties were particularly huge.

However, once the Japanese went crazy, they started to launch a desperate charge and attack regardless of casualties. In their view, the Eighth Route Army only had one breath left. As long as they could break through the Eighth Route Army's position, it would be worth paying some casualties.

However, this group of Japanese soldiers overestimated their abilities. Although they caused a lot of casualties to the First Company, they failed to break through the First Company's defense line. Instead, they were launched into a counter-charge by the First Company, and one of the Japanese squadrons was almost wiped out.

According to general logic, even if the Japanese flank attack troops are destroyed, the puppet army still has an advantage in strength.

However, this battle was also very brutal for the puppet army. They had long been frightened. Now that their backbone was gone, their courage was completely exhausted. Seeing this opportunity, they started to counterattack. The smaller side launched a charge towards the larger puppet army.

Back then, the Japanese would often use a small number of troops to boldly launch attacks on these precursor troops of the puppet army. In the past, they could not stop the Japanese attacks.
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