I am a wolf warrior

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"Is it not the same as the Osaka businessman in your impression?"

Mizuhara Takuya smiled slightly, and said again: "It's right to be different. In fact, not only you Chinese, but also Japanese people have many misunderstandings about us Osaka people."

Cao Mancang's face became more and more ugly.

Could this little devil hear his heart?

Mizuhara Takuya said again: "We Osaka people really love peace and don't like to fight and kill. We Osaka people believe in problems that can be solved with money. We absolutely don't use knives and guns. If you can't kill people, try not to kill people."

"This is the funniest joke I've ever heard." Cao Mancang was completely caught in the trap of Mizuhara Takuya's words without knowing it, and sneered, "If you don't kill people, try not to kill them? Since you Japanese came to China, you killed Is there still a small number of people? Nanjing alone has killed no less than 30 innocent civilians..."

"Cao Sang, you should control your emotions." Mizuhara Takuya said with a slight smile, "Don't forget that you are a secret agent, a spy, and a spy should not show emotion."

Cao Mancang screamed in his heart, "It's terrible, but he said calmly: "I don't know what you're talking about? I'm not a special agent, let alone a spy."

Mizuhara Takuya smiled and said, "Cao Sang, this is what I dislike the most about you Chinese people. It's too hypocritical. Isn't it good to communicate openly and honestly? Unless you are worried about your identity being exposed, but please forgive me, your worry is unnecessary. Yes, if I really wanted to catch you, why did I wait until today?"

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara said again: "Of course, the open and honest conversation is only limited to today, and it is limited to my office. After today, or out of the office, I don't recognize it."

Hearing this, Cao Mancang also realized that he was a little too cautious.

When I decided to return to Taiyuan, I was already mentally prepared to feed the tiger with my body, so what else is there to worry about?

Mizuhara Takuya said again: "Don't worry, I've cleared all your records in the gendarmerie for you, and now no one in the gendarmerie knows your details except me."

Cao Mancang said in a deep voice, "So, what exactly does Suwon Taijun want?"

"What I want is actually very simple." Mizuhara Takuya said with a slight smile, "Just one word - money!"

Just as Cao Mancang wanted to speak, Takuya Mizuhara stopped him with a gesture. Takuya Mizuhara shook his finger and said, "But there must be a premise that you can't betray Japan."

Cao Mancang said solemnly: "How do you define betrayal of Japan?"

"This is a very good question." Mizuhara Takuya smiled. "It is worth discussing seriously. In order to simplify a complicated issue, we might as well discuss the Sino-Japanese War first."

"Obviously this is a war of aggression imposed on the Chinese people by the Japanese government." Cao Mancang said.

"Agree." Mizuhara Takuya said, "I also think this is a war of aggression, and I also firmly believe that most Japanese people are only blinded by those fanatical warmongers, so they support this war, but like A Japanese like me who can maintain independent thinking will not be blinded."

This answer from Mizuhara Takuya surprised Cao Mancang.

Cao Mancang said at the moment: "So, we have a basis for cooperation?"

"Of course, the basis for cooperation will always exist." Mizuhara Takuya said with a smile.

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara said again: "And to show my sincerity, I can now provide you with an important piece of information for free."

"Really?" Cao Mancang asked, "What information?"

Mizuhara Takuya smiled and said: "At this time, the First Army Command is holding a staff meeting to discuss spring sweeps. If there are no accidents, there will be a big combat operation soon."

Cao Mancang grimaced, and asked again: "Who is the target? When exactly?"

Mizuhara Takuya smiled and said: "Cao Sang, you should know the rules. There is only one free information. If you want to get more information, you must exchange it with items or information of equal value. Of course, you can also get money. Yes, but now the market has changed again, and now only gold and US dollars are accepted.”

Cao Mancang said: "Is your running dog ticket also okay?"

"I'm sorry." Mizuhara Takuya said, "Not even Japanese yen."

It must be admitted that the business sense of Osaka people is really unparalleled. Although the situation of the Japanese army is very good at this time, even Southeast Asia has been included in the bag, and the financial situation has been greatly eased, but as an Osaka native, Mizuhara Takuya has already been cooked by the fire. Seeing a huge crisis under the surface of oil.

A sharp depreciation of the yen is inevitable.

So now, Mizuhara Takuya doesn't even want to accept yen.

Cao Mancang frowned, and said again: "What's the specific price?"

Mizuhara Takuya said: "100 taels of gold or [-] US dollars for a piece of information, no bargaining."

"What did you say?" Cao Mancang's eyes widened suddenly, and he lost his voice, "100 taels of gold or [-] US dollars for a piece of information? How can there be such expensive information in this world, why don't you grab it?"

Takuya Mizuhara spread his hands and said, "If you think the price is expensive, you don't have to buy it."

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara said: "We Osaka people have always done business fairly, and we will never buy or sell by force, and I can assure you that the information I provide is definitely worth the money."

Cao Mancang said in a deep voice, "I might have to go back and think about it."

"Of course." Takuya Mizuhara said, "Just think about it."

……

Fuliang Mountain, the headquarters of the Independent Regiment.

Xing Zhiguo and Zhao Gang have come back, after a busy whole winter, they can finally take a breather after the beginning of spring.

Because the reconstruction work of Dagu Town, Qingyun Town, and Lijia Town has been almost done, and the militia reconstruction work in the entire Fuliangshan base area has also been done almost.

Xing Zhiguo is now reporting his work progress to the Youth League Party Committee.

"As of now, the local armed forces of the Ping'an County Brigade, Fu'an County Brigade, Heyuan County Brigade, and more than 20 district squads have been formed, and a group of basic militias in various villages have also been re-developed, but there is a problem. It’s just that there is a big gap in weapons and equipment, and many militiamen can only be allotted with a soil mine to act as a facade.”

Originally, the militia equipment in the Fuliangshan base area was good, but after the large-scale expansion of the independent regiment, these weapons and equipment were added to the main force, and the level of militia equipment dropped again.

Not to mention the militias in the villages, even the county brigade can only make up the numbers with old sleeves.

Li Yunlong said: "The problem of weapons and equipment will definitely be resolved by the first half of this year at the latest."

"The first half of this year?" Zhao Gang said, "Old Li, are you so sure that there will be major combat operations in the first half of the year?"

"Old Zhao, I didn't say this, but Xiao Wang." After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he said to Wang Ye, "Xiao Wang, tell us about the international situation with Commissar Zhao."

Wang Ye responded yes, and recounted the international situation after the Japanese army swept across Southeast Asia.

Hearing this, the faces of Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo suddenly became serious, and Zhao Gang said with a serious expression: "So in the next two years, we really need to be mentally prepared to live a hard life."

"This is necessary." Li Yunlong said, "But it's nothing."

After a pause, he said again: "No matter how hard it is, can it be more difficult than the Long March?"

Wang Ye said with a smile: "The leader is right. We have survived the [-]-mile Long March. There is no difficulty in this world that we cannot overcome, but..."

"But what?" Li Yunlong said, "I know there is something in your kid's words."

Wang Ye said with a smile: "However, we should plan ahead and do some preparatory work as much as possible, such as storing as much ammunition as possible."

"What do you mean? This is difficult."

Li Yunlong said: "The devils have already mastered it, so it's not easy to do this."

"That's right." Xing Zhiguo also said, "The devils are now staying in a few counties and can't come out easily. Usually they only let the puppet troops come out to operate. Now the puppet troops are also trained by the devils to look like wolves. Seeing our Eighth Route Army Don’t be afraid, and the puppet army doesn’t have much ammunition, so it’s hard to eliminate a group of puppet troops and still lose money.”

After a pause, he continued: "Recently, several county brigades didn't even dare to fight guerrilla warfare, because they lost money every time, and they would lose all their wealth if they fought guerrilla warfare a few more times."

Zhao Gang sighed and said: "It seems that relying on capture to maintain guerrilla warfare is after all just a luxury."

"Simply relying on seizure is definitely not enough." Wang Ye said, "So we have to build an arsenal. It is not compulsory to make guns and cannons, but at least we must be able to reload bullets and shells."

"Otherwise, our ammunition reserves will not last long."

"But it's different when you have an arsenal. You can continuously reload bullets and shells. Even if the performance of the reloaded bullets and shells is poor, at least they can be used."

Speaking of this, he smiled and said to Li Yunlong: "As the leader said, it doesn't matter what kind of plaster it is, as long as it can pull out pus, it's a good plaster, it's better than nothing!"

Li Yunlong smiled and said, "That's the reason."

Zhao Gang said: "Why don't you make a report to the head of the headquarters?"

What Zhao Gang meant was to ask the head of the headquarters to support a branch of the arsenal.

In the last breakout, the equipment and technicians of the Shuiyaozi Armory were completely transferred to the mountains near Liao County and Licheng with the headquarters, and a Huangyadong Armory was rebuilt.

Now the scale of Huangyadong Arsenal is quite large, and it can even produce rifles.

What Zhao Gang meant was for the Huangyadong Arsenal to set up a bullet workshop in Northwest Shanxi.

But Li Yunlong waved his hand and said: "The scale of the Huangyadong Armory is only so small, how can it be able to help our Northwest Shanxi base? In my opinion, we have to find a way to solve it ourselves."

Xing Zhiguo said: "This matter is not easy to solve."

Wang Ye said: "This matter is difficult to say, but not difficult to say."

Li Yunlong said: "Xiao Wang, you don't want to fight Taiyuan again, do you?"

Wang Ye smiled and asked Li Yunlong, "Commander, don't you think so?"

"Nonsense? Can I not think about it?" Li Yunlong said, "I want to fight Taiyuan even in my dreams."

"What? Hit Taiyuan?" Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo's expression changed upon hearing the words, and they said at the same time, "Old Li, Xiao Wang, this is not a joke, you two, don't mess around."

While talking, Cheng Yue hurried in and handed a telegram to Wang Ye.

After reading the telegram, Wang Ye suddenly got up and said: "This is really what you say. This is a top-secret information provided by the Taiyuan underground party who just transferred from the headquarters. It is said that the devils will launch a big raid soon. However, the specific time and specific mopping-up targets need to be further determined.”

"Damn it, the opportunity really came."

Li Yunlong also got up abruptly, and said again: "The last time we fought Taiyuan, our three regiments were still weak, so we could only beat the side drums and watch Chu Yunfei and Liang Gang play the leading roles."

"But the situation is different now. Now our three regiments are hardened and can play the leading role."

"Hahaha, this time I have to fight Taiyuan by myself. If Chu Yunfei and Liang Gang want to join in the fun, let them beat the side drums. If you don't want to join in the fun, then just stay where you are."

Xing Zhiguo said: "Old Li, isn't the situation still undecided? We don't even know where the devils are attacking."

Zhao Gang also said: "Yes, what if the target of the devil is our Northwest Shanxi? Old Li, we can't act rashly until we have determined the real target and time of the devil."

Zhao Gang was really anxious at this moment, worried that Li Yunlong would run to fight Taiyuan as soon as his head became hot.

Because just less than two months ago, Yan'an issued an order to cancel the final decision-making power of the chief political officer.

In other words, when there are serious differences of opinion between the military chief and the political chief, the political chief no longer makes the final decision, but the military chief exercises the final decision.

When it comes to the independent group, it is Li Yunlong who has the final say.

If Li Yunlong wants to attack Taiyuan, the regiment party committee will not be able to stop him.

What worries Zhao Gang even more is that Wang Ye is still "in the same group" as Li Yunlong. Zhao Gang is really worried that these two people will poke a hole in the sky and cause irreparable and heavy losses to the troops.

"Old Zhao, don't worry, I won't mess around."

"When it comes to fighting, I, Li Yunlong, always just take advantage."

"When did you see that I, Li Yunlong, suffered a disadvantage on the battlefield?"

Li Yunlong laughed, and said again: "Xiao Wang, analyze and analyze first."

Wang Ye replied yes, and said, "It's actually not difficult to determine the target and time of the devil's mopping up."

"Oh?" Zhao Gang changed his expression, and asked again, "Xiao Wang, can you analyze the target and time of the devil's mopping up?"

Wang Ye said: "First of all, it is time. It takes about two to three days for combat materials to be transported from Japan to China's Tianjin Port or Qingdao Port by sea, and it takes about ten days to transfer them from Tianjin Port or Qingdao Port to Peiping or Taiyuan. Therefore, This sweeping operation will not be launched until mid-March at the earliest."

"Considering the deployment, deployment, and planning of the Japanese military forces,"

"I don't think it will start until mid-April or even late at the earliest."

"Of course, if it's just a small raid of less than [-] people, it can start in late March, but I think it's unlikely that the devils will launch a small raid of less than [-] people."

In fact, there is no need to analyze this at all.

Because historically, most of the raids this year took place in May.

For example, Okamura Neiji personally directed the May [-]st sweep.

"It makes sense." Li Yunlong asked again, "Then what about the devil's target?"

Wang Ye said: "Based on the current situation, it is unlikely that the devils will attack the Jinsui Army and the Central Army, and there is a high probability that they will target us. It’s a big loss, so this time I think the devils will most likely target the Taihang Military Region in southeast Shanxi.”

After this pause, Wang Ye said again: "The head of the regiment, the political commissar, and the deputy head of punishment, do you still remember that at the end of last year, the Japanese and puppet troops launched a raid on Liao County and Licheng?"

Li Yunlong said: "Of course I remember, the Pseudo Seventh Master has done a lot of evil things."

Wang Ye said: "That means the devils are doing their homework in advance to find out the bottom of our Taihang Military Region, and at the same time carry out accurate surveying and mapping of the Liao County, Licheng and Changzhi areas. There will be sweeping operations in the Taihang Military Region, but now it’s just ahead of schedule.”

Chapter 431 Fighting Taiyuan

At the same time, at the Taiyuan First Army Headquarters.

Yesterday's quarrel was not enough, and the young officers who were eager to express their opinions continued to quarrel all morning, but after a fierce quarrel, their opinions gradually tended to be unified.

Final opinion: Instead of fighting the Jinsui Army and the Central Army, fight the Eighth Route Army.

If you don't fight Northwest Shanxi or Taiyue Military Region, just fight Taihang Military Region!

The reason is very simple. Northwest Shanxi and the Taiyue Military Region are hard bones, hard to crack, and not very valuable. Although the Taihang Military Region is equally difficult to crack, it is the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the headquarters of the [-]th Division. The value is high. If the Taihang Military Region can be destroyed, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi can be greatly weakened.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the Huangyadong Arsenal can be destroyed, the war potential of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army can be weakened by at least half, and the situation facing the First Army will be much better than it is now.