Chapter Seventy-Three: Buying a Gun
The sweep was over, and the Japanese troops temporarily transferred to Guhuai had returned to their respective formations. Whether the troops went south, whether they participated in a new battle, or whether they were ready for the next sweep was to wait for the orders of the Japanese command.
In order to clear the Eighth Route Army, consolidate the Japanese-occupied area around Guhuai, and protect the safety of the Pinghan Line, the 110th Division left a large group of Japanese troops to strengthen the strength of the Guhuai garrison. At the same time, it was used as Gu Huai's mobile unit to deal with the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army and retaliate against the base areas and the Eighth Route Army.
Feng Tiandong's friend, Captain Kobayashi, and recruit Utada Saburo were both in this brigade.
This brigade is a reinforced brigade with three infantry squadrons and one artillery squadron, and the captain is Koji Komatsu and Tadashi Kobayashi is the leader of the third infantry squadron.
The city of Guhuai has calmed down on the surface, the tense atmosphere during the sweep has disappeared, and all levels and agencies of the government have resumed their normal work, and only the work of issuing residence permits by the police station is in full swing.
The photo studio in Guhuai City is doing a prosperous business these days, and ordinary people have to go to the photo studio to take photos of the residence permit. Each photo studio has made a small fortune, and it is estimated that the owners of the photo studios are secretly grateful to Feng Tiandong and Jiang Lin.
Nakatani Zao, the head of the special high section, was slapped in front of the Japanese commander and reprimanded. When he returned to the special high class, he was furious and untouched, and returned the treatment he received in front of the commander to Diao Yifeng, Chen Dabiao, and Hu Lifeng.
Finding out the underground party of Guhuai is the most important task of the special high school at present.
According to the arrangement of the last meeting, the task of dealing with the underground party belongs to the garrison and the action team, and Nakatani Zao strictly ordered them to uproot the underground party in Guhuai and clear the way for future operations.
Diao Yifeng's garrison and Hu Lifeng's action team began to get busy.
It can be seen from the process of this sweep that the Guhuai transport team was frequently ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and it must have been the Eighth Route Army that received accurate information.
For the next action, destroying the Guhuai underground party is a task that must be completed.
Searching for the underground party, Diao Yifeng felt that he had no way to start, so he could only step up the interrogation of the captured people. It's a pity that the people he faced were all real Communist Party members, and no matter how Diao Yifeng tortured him, how much coercion and temptation he used, he got nothing.
Diao Yifeng was at a loss, so he had to find Chen Changlin and ask him to persuade him. Chen Changlin reluctantly went to meet those former comrades, and what he got was nothing more than a scolding.
Diao Yifeng was in a great predicament.
Before the sweep, Diao Yifeng made great achievements in dealing with the underground party, cracking several underground party traffic stations and arresting several underground parties.
In this regard, Hu Lifeng has been secretly dissatisfied.
The task force has been set up for some time, and it has not caught any anti-Japanese elements. Their immediate boss, the head of the secret service, Lin Tongguang, also ignored the action team, as if he was not in his charge.
This does not complain about Lin Tongguang, mainly because the members of the action team are all transferred from the former police force, and they only listen to Hu Lifeng's orders. Lin Tongguang wanted to intervene in the action team, but he had no way to enter, so he could only wait for the opportunity.
The garrison has caught several underground parties, but the action team has found nothing, what can this mean, in addition to showing that the garrison has a certain ability, it also reflects the incompetence of the action team, and saying that the action team is incompetent is tantamount to saying that he Hu Lifeng is incompetent.
This time, Hu Lifeng is holding back his strength, and he will definitely make achievements to show the Japanese.
Hu Lifeng still had some experience in dealing with the Communists, and before the fall of Gu Huai, he, like Lin Tongguang, had the same main job in the police station of the former government as dealing with the Communists.
He scattered all the members of the task force, but still didn't find any clues.
Fortunately, Nakatani did not hold him accountable for his ineffective work for the time being, but even so, he still felt very regretful, and only by catching a few anti-Japanese elements could he show his ability.
Ishikawa Ichiro didn't care much about Gu Huai's search for anti-Japanese elements, it wasn't his job. He was concerned about the rule of the Japanese devils over the entire valley, and supervised and guided the city government to operate efficiently according to the requirements of the devils.
At present, Ishikawa Ichiro is most concerned about the work of the police station to issue residence permits, and has repeatedly instructed Feng Tiandong to pay special attention to the progress of this work, and he needs to be promoted to Nakasa through this matter.
Feng Tiandong was idle, and he just went around various departments every day, collecting some information and reporting it to the secret services, which was very boring.
He was anxiously waiting for Lu Chunming, but he never saw a signal.
In boredom, I thought of the last time Li Yonghe talked about selling guns, so I came to the second regiment.
"Brother Li, the gun you said you were going to sell last time, is it still there?" Feng Tiandong saw Li Yonghe and asked directly.
Feng Tiandong wanted to buy these weapons for the Eighth Route Army, but the devils had very strict control over all kinds of weapons and ammunition, and it was difficult to buy them even if they had money.
"The guns are still there, they were all good guns. The Japanese did not know about the existence of this batch of guns. Li Yonghe said mysteriously that these are the customs of the national army, that officer does not withhold military salaries, and that officer does not smuggle some arms.
"In this sweep, your troops have suffered relatively large losses, don't you need to use these guns to recruit troops?." Feng Tiandong asked with some confusion.
At present, the devil's appointment of puppet army officers means that as many people as you have, you will be crowned as big an official, so for people like Li Yonghe, the number of people is the most important.
"Of course, we have to recruit troops, but the Japanese have promised to provide them with the weapons they need." Li Yonghe explained.
"Where did the Japanese get so many weapons, this is not a small amount, I heard that in this sweep, the appeasement army lost tens of thousands."
"In several battles with the national army, the Japanese captured a large amount of weapons and ammunition, which were just used to equip the appeasement army." Li Yonghe said.
"That's good, Lao Qi has found a buyer, at what price will it be given to them?" Feng Tiandong then asked.
"There are 167 rifles, each gun is 20 oceans, and I give each gun 50 rounds." Li Yonghe thought for a while and said.
"The price is a bit high." Feng Tiandong frowned.
"It's not a lot of money right now, but guns are in high demand. If the buyer really thinks the price is too high, I can add 50 rounds to each gun, but the price cannot be changed. Okay, I only need oceans or gold bars, not silver rolls and fiat currency. Li Yonghe pondered for a while and said.
"That's fine, I'll go and talk to Lao Qi and ask him to inform the buyer."
"Are you hiding the goods in the city or outside the city?" Feng Tiandong asked again.
"Out of town"
"That's better, I told Lao Qi to let the buyer contact you directly and find a place to trade outside the city."
The two negotiated the gun deal and chatted casually.
"Brother Li, why haven't I seen my sister-in-law and nephews several times?" Feng Tiandong asked.
Li Yonghe glanced at the gate of the regiment headquarters, approached Feng Tiandong, and said in a rare low voice:
"I left them all in Xi'an."
"Since the Xi'an Incident, our Northwest Army has become a motherless child, and this time I sent troops to North China, I felt a little bad, and the result was really like this."
"I don't know how they're doing, and it's hard for me to contact them." As he spoke, Li Yonghe also looked a little sad.
Feng Tiandong raised his eyebrows and silently remembered the matter.
Two days later, Liang Laoqi's cronies disguised themselves as wealthy businessmen and bought 167 rifles from Li Yonghe, each with 100 rounds of ammunition.