However, after all, it was still a step too late.

After enjoying more than a year of leisure, the Japanese gendarmerie did regress in business.

When the Japanese gendarmerie remembered to focus on investigating the caravans with mules and horses, Wang Yan and the others had already fled to Qingsong Town, which was more than 100 miles away from Taiyuan.

The town of Green Pine is already on the verge of a guerrilla zone.

More than ten miles further on is the defense area of the new regiment.

After receiving a secret report from the maintenance chairman of Aomatsu Town, Momoi Taro urgently ordered the devil puppet army of the Songta stronghold near Aomatsu Town to intercept it, and at the same time led the military police brigade in Taiyuan to urgently reinforce Aomatsu Town.

But as soon as he was halfway there, news came that the devil puppet army in the Songta stronghold was ambushed halfway through, not only did not intercept the robbers, but instead took another stronghold.

Momoi Taro could only return to Taiyuan in disgrace.

Because at this time, the robbers had already entered the bandit area, and if he dared to go deep with a military police brigade alone, he would definitely be swallowed up by the Eighth Route Army.

After all, the Yin Jian of the Yamazaki Brigade is not far away.

The Yamazaki brigade was also an infantry brigade, and its combat effectiveness was far superior to that of his gendarmerie brigade.

When Taro Momoi returned to Taiyuan again, it was already the early morning of the next day.

However, Yoshio Shinozuka hadn't slept yet, and when he learned that Taro Momoi had returned, he sent his adjutant Jun Nakamura over and asked Taro Momoi to go to his office immediately.

Taro Momoi knew that he couldn't avoid this level.

I could only come to the headquarters of the First Army stationed in Shanxi in despair.

When Taro Momoi came, Yoshio Shinozuka was answering the phone.

The call came from the commander of the North China Front, Okamura Ninji.

"Shinozuka-kun, there are some things you shouldn't have in your first army recently."

"First there was an accident with the Black Island United, then the Yamazaki Brigade, then the observation group, and then the freight train was actually robbed, and today it is even more excessive, even the cash transport car in Taiyuan City was robbed!"

"Shinozuka-kun, is this because after the victory of Nakajo Mountain, is it because of the slackness in your thinking?"

"Hello!" Yoshio Shinozuka bowed slightly, and took the responsibility without half a sentence of justification, "The main responsibility for the continuous problems of the First Army during this period of time lies with me, the commander, and I have indeed slackened after Nakajo Mountain!" ”

Okamura Ninji's tone immediately softened, and he said: "Shinozuka-kun, I don't mean to hold him accountable, victory or defeat in the art of war is a common thing in soldiers, and in the face of a cunning and difficult opponent like the Eighth Route Army, it is inevitable to suffer occasional losses, I just hope that the First Army can do its best to reduce losses." ”

"After all, how difficult the current situation of the empire is, you should know very well Shinozuka-kun."

"After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the empire's financial and military strength was almost exhausted."

"At this time, every imperial soldier, every weapon and even every bullet is precious."

"Hello!" Yoshio Shinozuka's waist bent deeper, and he said respectfully, "Please rest assured, Your Excellency, I will deeply review, seriously summarize, and resolutely put an end to making similar low-level mistakes again." ”

"Yo Si." Okamura Ninji happily hung up the phone.

Yoshio Shinozuka hung up the phone and straightened up again.

Nakamura Jun said to Taro Momoi outside the door, "Momoi-kun, come in." ”

Taro Momoi walked into the office dejectedly and said to Yoshio Shinozuka: "General! ”

Yoshio Shinozuka didn't pay any attention, just stood in front of the map with his back to Taro Momoi, and didn't know what he was thinking.

At least half an hour later, there was another sound of heavy footsteps outside the office, and then the head of the special high section, Yao Kamizo, also walked in proudly.

"General!"

The eight-tailed turtle was stunned.

Yoshio Shinozuka finally turned around, and Leng Jun's gaze swept over the faces of Taro Momoi and Yao Kamizo, but he still didn't speak, and the air seemed to freeze.

After a long time, Yoshio Shinozuka finally said coldly: "Momoi-kun, Yao-kun, have you heard a proverb in Shina? ”

"Please also show me the General."

"The proverb is called "Don't use a hammer to beat a drum." Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice, "Let the past pass, and I don't want to pursue it anymore, but I want to warn you that between now and the launch of Operation Plan A, I don't want any more accidents, not even the slightest accident!" ”

"Hello!" Taro Momoi and Yao Kamezo paused at the same time, their expressions awe-inspiring.

"Let's go back." Yoshio Shinozuka snorted and said, "When you go back, think about how you should do your job well." ”

"Hello!" Taro Momoi and Yao Kamezo paused again, and then left the headquarters in disgrace.

……

After coming out of the headquarters, Momoi really felt like he had the rest of his life.

At that moment, Momoi Taro said sincerely to the eight-tailed Kamezo: "Yao-kun, if I offended you before, I would like to ask you to do a lot of Haihan, I just hope that we can cooperate in the future." ”

"Hello." Yagao Kamezo hurriedly said, "Momoi-kun is too polite, I have done something wrong in the past. ”

"Yo Si." Momoi Taro nodded happily, and said, "Yao-kun, then let's first carry out a ploughing and sweeping rectification of Taiyuan City, your special high school provides a list of arrests, and our gendarmerie will come forward to arrest people, and all those hidden suspicious elements will be arrested by the gendarmerie for interrogation." ”

"No problem." The eight-tailed turtle said happily, "I'll sort out the list when I go back." ”

"I want a list of all the suspicious people." Taro Momoi said, "Don't miss a single one." ”

In the early morning of the same day, a large-scale arrest operation against underground spies in Taiyuan City and even in the entire Japanese-occupied area of Shanxi Province began.

……

That's why it is said that everything that is good must have disadvantages.

Wang Yan and his men successfully robbed the cash transport vehicle of the Taiyuan branch of the North China puppet government's joint preparation bank and robbed a huge amount of cash, which greatly alleviated the financial dilemma faced by the base areas, but in turn, it also contributed to a super-large-scale counter-espionage and purge operation of the Japanese military police stationed in Shanxi, which dealt a heavy blow to the underground intelligence organizations of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party lurking in Taiyuan.

Because this kind of dragnet-style purge action, although it costs people and money, it is indeed effective.

Of course, this dragnet cleanup will also have serious negative consequences.

One is that unjust, false and wrongly decided cases will inevitably occur, and many good citizens who have been caught in peace and security have been mistakenly arrested.

The second is that corruption will inevitably arise, and there will be an undesirable phenomenon of letting suspicious elements ransom people with money.

The third and most important impact was that it seriously damaged the good image that the Japanese army had built up with great difficulty in the Japanese-occupied areas of Shanxi, and seriously shook the foundation of Japanese rule.