Jilin, Nomura Headquarters.

With a piece of paper in his hand, Akai Akimoto walked quickly to the door of Nomura's office and knocked on the door.

Immediately, Toshio Nomura's voice sounded:

"Come in!"

Akai Akimoto pushed open the door, walked straight to Nomura Toshio, handed the paper to him with both hands, and said in a deep voice:

"Your Excellency Dazuo, the mission has failed!"

Nomura Toshio didn't have a trace of surprise on his face, he took the piece of paper casually, looked at it, and said lightly:

"Isn't that weird? These foolish fools! Dozens of soldiers of the Imperial Army lost their lives in vain! ”

Akai Akimoto was stunned for a moment, hesitated and said:

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, I don't understand!"

Nomura Toshio looked up and sighed, and said softly:

"Akai-kun, there are some things that you really can't understand, such as the relationship between those ignorant fools in the cabinet and the military department."

Nomura Toshio seemed to be a little emotional, gently leaned his body on the back of the chair, and spoke again, looking like he was recalling:

"A few decades ago, the military began to rise, and the emperor gradually withdrew the power of the cabinet, which is now largely paralyzed.

Those people are also too old, and they have lost the fighting spirit and sharpness of the Yamato nation, so they are destined to be eliminated.

Now, as soon as the cabinet dares to influence the decisions of the military department, the corresponding officials are removed; All cabinet posts related to the military must be recommended to the emperor by the military department, otherwise they will be vacant.

And in the base camp on the other side of the Yalu River, there are some commanders from the cabinet faction, who don't know about war at all, let alone war, and everything they do is just to prove to the emperor that they are right!

I don't even have to think about it to guess who made the plan, this person has always been arrogant, so he is doomed to fail! ”

Akai Akimoto still hasn't figured out the relationship between this, but Nomura Toshio doesn't say it, so he naturally doesn't dare to ask a word.

He knows the current situation in Japan, but the grievances and entanglements between the cabinet and the military are not something that an officer of his level can know.

Nomura Toshio can know, in fact, because his brother of the same clan is in the military department, and his status is not low, otherwise, he has no right to know.

After a while, Akai Akimoto tentatively asked Nomura Toshio:

"Your Excellency Dazuo, then, what should we do about the matter of Wudou Township?"

Nomura Toshio sighed softly when he heard this, and was silent for a while before saying:

"The commander of this team is very smart, Wudou Township is located in a remote location, and the two turrets there are already under their control, if we want to attack there, we will pay a lot of price."

Akai Akimoto didn't say anything, quietly waiting for Toshio Nomura's next words.

"Our current opponent is not only that team, but more importantly, the larger team entrenched in the area of Huinan and Huadian, I heard that they claim to be independent divisions."

Akai Akimoto hesitated for a moment, and then opened his mouth to take over Nomura Toshio's words:

"Your Excellency, as far as I know, the commander of the team in Wudou Township is called Liu Cheng, this person is not very old, but he is very good at fighting, his command ability is very strong, and the combat effectiveness of his team is also very strong."

Toshio Nomura nodded, his expression unchanged:

"I know, Ono-kun was defeated in the hands of this person, his name is Liu Cheng, I remember.

But now I don't have enough troops to wipe out this team, you know? The surrendered Chinese army is simply unreliable, their combat effectiveness is weak, and they will not really try their best to fight for us, so I am not going to pay attention to this person for the time being. ”

Although Akai Akimoto had some doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to say anything more.

After he left, the indifference on Nomura's face suddenly disappeared, he took out a cigar and put it in his mouth, lit a match, and first lit a palm-sized note that had been holding in the palm of his hand, and threw it into the ashtray on the table.

Watching the jumping flames quickly turn the note to ashes, he took a few puffs of the cigar in his mouth, and spat out a cloud of pale blue smoke that blurred his gloomy face......

Rock.

Liu Cheng walked in the mountain for three days before crossing the mountain, and made a detour to rush back to Wudou Township.

When I returned to Wudou Township, it was already the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and there were two days left before the New Year.

Before you know it, more than two years have passed.

At this time last year, Liu Cheng was preparing for the battle between Taro Ono on Chinese New Year's Eve, and there were only a few dozen people under him.

But now, a year later, he has become the commander of this junior battalion, and the team has exceeded 300.

Although more than a dozen soldiers were sacrificed in the first battle of Lijiabao, counting the dogs, twenty-one young people joined, plus those who joined one after another during this time, the accurate number of the youth battalion is now three hundred and twenty-six.

Originally, it could have exceeded four hundred, but Liu Yuan, based on the principle of building elite soldiers, sent those who were not suitable to stay in the youth camp to Zhang Guanyi.

Of course, he only gave a symbolic part of the weapon, after all, his youth battalion will grow in the future, and he can't find a way to get a gun when the time comes.

One more, and most important, point.

The current independent division will be reorganized in the near future to form the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.

But Liu Cheng didn't plan to incorporate his own youth camp into it, he had to find a way to enter the customs and enter the Central Plains region before that.

The reason is very simple, and it is also very helpless.

Because after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army will lose contact with the organization and become a lone army.

Under the continuous encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, the final fate is clearly recorded in history.

Maozi, hehe, they may never have thought of really helping the Red Party......

It's not that Liu Cheng doesn't want to bring all these troops into the pass, it's that he doesn't have such ability, and he doesn't have the right opportunity and reason.

Besides, someone must stay between this white mountain and black water to continue to fight with the devils, and they can't be allowed to push all their forces to the Central Plains battlefield.

This is the inevitability of the progress of history, and he cannot and cannot change it.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Qian Lu and Sun Ping both came to Wudou Township.

Qian Lu was expected to come, but he didn't expect Sun Ping to come.

This is actually quite a dangerous practice, it is easy to attract the attention of the devil, in that case, Sun Ping will be dangerous.

Sun Ping didn't care about Liu Cheng's worries at all, and only said that he had already arranged everything and didn't need him to worry about it.

Just this sentence directly struck Liu Cheng and was speechless for a long time.

He really can't control Sun Ping, he was directly "dispatched" by Zhang Guanyi, and Liu Cheng, a small battalion commander, really has no right to point fingers at others.

Kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs, and Liu Cheng has no choice but to shut up......