According to the work regulations, major letters should first be examined by the organization before being forwarded to the person, and although a Japanese reply letter cannot explain the problem, since Kobayashi Mitsuhide is his comrade, he cannot but trust him. In the end, after the collective discussion of the Taiyue Military Region and after An Ziwen's decision, it was decided to break the convention and reply the letter without opening the envelope and directly hand it over to Kobayashi Mitsuhide, who would read it and then report to the organization.

"The officer in charge of the logistics and baggage affairs of the North China Front is named Okaku Nakaei, he is an officer of the Tojo family, he was also implicated after the fall of the Tojo cabinet, and his will is very depressed, and now he has kept his current position through large-scale activities in the country, and he does not have to go to Nanyang to die. While working in the General Staff, I learned not only about some secret information, but also about his long-standing involvement in the black market trade of ordnance and baggage. After reading the letter, Kobayashi Mitsuhide said with a smile, "He wrote the letter." He was not an anti-war leagueman, he was more interested in money, he was just a representative of the high-ranking officers in front of the stage, and there was a huge black net behind him, so there was someone to protect him. We had a close relationship - he was not only my senior, he was from the same county as me, and he was a little bit of a kinship, so I had some influence over him. ”

"You don't suspect him of snitching or implicating him?"

"Whistleblowers? What is there to inform? Some of the people in the anti-war alliance became traitors, the organization was very bad, and my identity would soon be revealed, so I took the opportunity to break away from the raid, otherwise I would have stayed and done more work. Therefore, the big horn could not come to correct me, and as for the involvement, as long as he did not publicly state that his affairs alone could not implicate him, my superiors in the second section of the General Staff would be in trouble. Kobayashi Mitsuhide said with a smile, "The reply said that they reported internally that I was captured after accidentally getting lost -- not taking the initiative to surrender, and the commander of the North China Front, General Okamura Ninji, is also a person who wants to save face." ”

"You say that the prime minister of the Japanese cabinet has changed, and then the new prime minister is purging the subordinates of the old prime minister?"

"Although Tojo has only been prime minister for one year, it is not a short time in Japan, and it has been several years since the Japanese prime minister who decided to go to war with China has resigned. This cabinet change is not the same as the previous ones, and now the prime minister has been completely hollowed out, and the current system of the army and navy is 'unanimous for the whole country', and as long as the base camp nods to any decision, the government departments must unconditionally cooperate. The top echelons of the army who came to power this time were Hideki Tojo's opposition for many years, Senior General Tada Jun and Lieutenant General Ishihara Kanji, who were wantonly purging the officers of the Tojo faction...... Therefore, it should be said that one faction in the military is purging the other faction, not the new prime minister purging the old prime minister. ”

Others heard it in a fog, but An Ziwen, who was deeply educated by the party's command and gun, knew what was powerful -- and now Japan is a gun-commanding government and is outright militaristic.

Kobayashi Mitsuhide handed over the reply letter and said calmly: "In the letter, Okakku offered to do business with us and sell us arms. ”

"Selling arms?" An Ziwen couldn't believe his ears, "His personal behavior? ”

"In the organizational behavior of the North China Front, a group of officers are trying to find ways to make money -- if it is like now, and the leaders of the base camp change and some people will be purged, then these high-ranking officers will inevitably have to leave a way back for themselves, and they will not be able to survive without money." Kobayashi Mitsuhide said with a smile, "The structure of the Japanese army determines that officers cannot be paid empty salaries, but they can use their brains on arms -- this is the same thing as the nature of warlords selling arms to us." ”

"What kind of arms can you get?" The others asked eagerly.

"Ordinary arms are fine, and in order to reassure us, he offered to receive the goods first, inspect the goods and then pay for them - they are also trading with Yan Xishan. Secretary An, in such a major operation, without a group of senior officers intervening, what do you think a logistics officer can do? ”

An Ziwen thought so, and the same was true of the news transmitted from other channels, the Japanese army was indeed hooking up with Yan Xishan again, the latter had always claimed to be dancing on three eggs, and the contact with the Japanese side had been severed, and now it seems that the possibility of an arms deal is very high.

The first batch of arms traded in the Taiyue Military Region was rifles, and the official rifle with 300 rounds of ammunition in the big horn was 100 in the big horn, and if you bought 100 at one time, you could get a 9% discount, and the Japanese side would be responsible for the delivery, provided that the Eighth Route Army would ensure the safety of the delivery person, and that they could pay after receiving the goods when they were satisfied. Although some people have suggested that the arms should be swallowed, An Ziwen is obviously looking much farther away - if the deal can really be stabilized, swallowing this batch of guns is only a small profit, and the most important thing is to obtain a steady supply of arms.

After receiving 100 rifles and corresponding bullets, plus 3 Czech light machine guns, the Taiyue Military Region gritted its teeth and scraped together 10,000 oceans worth of cash and gold and sent them over. After the success of the first transaction, the second and third transactions were quickly and logically reached, and all kinds of weapons and equipment, such as the Zhongcheng, Type 38, grenadiers, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and so on, as long as the Taiyue Military Region opened its mouth, there was nothing that Dajiao could not get, and once Dajiao also sent a bunch of broken guns, telling the Taiyue side that the parts were given away, and the Eighth Route Army was so happy that the whole army could not close their mouths -- plus the rotten guns in their hands, they could also toss a few good guns by piecing together.

Several major leaders were also very relieved about this kind of transaction, and intelligence showed that Yan Xishan's side was trading more vigorously, and the Jin Suijun could not take out more precious metals, so they simply transported grain, cotton yarn, and coal to trade, and even turned them into semi-public transactions.

But this time the deal is obviously different, and what Japan wants to sell is not arms, but county towns and puppet armies.

"Sell?" An Ziwen asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say that the Japanese army would soon withdraw from some county seats?" ”

"It's to withdraw, but it's troublesome for the puppet army to transfer, and they don't plan to take it away together - without the Japanese army pressing the formation, the puppet army is afraid that it will surrender after a charge." Kobayashi explained, "For the Japanese army, it was easy to withdraw from the county, but for us, who would occupy it was a big question. If Yan Xishan occupies the county seat and receives the puppet army, under the current united front system, can the Eighth Route Army take it again? ”

"This ......" An Ziwen hesitated, "What does Comrade Kobayashi think?" ”

"After all, Yan Xishan is a native of Shanxi, and he has a natural advantage after occupying the territory, can we still act easily?"

The others laughed: "Even if the devil hands over those places to Yan Xishan, can he keep them?" ”

"Of course he can't hold the county seat deep into our base area, what if it is at the junction of the two armies? In addition to Shanxi, there are also ...... Hebei, Henan"

Everyone's expressions became serious, it was still a trivial matter to hand over to Yan Xishan, anyway, Yan Laoxi's strength was not strong, but if he looked farther, what if the Japanese army was handed over to the Kuomintang army?

"Could it be that the great victory boasted by the Kuomintang some time ago has a lot of water?" Beginning in December, the Kuomintang newspapers vigorously claimed a great victory, claiming to have recovered more than 20 county towns -- if the report of Dajiao was true, could it be that the Kuomintang had already begun to do so?

"For such a big decision, we don't have a legal mandate, and we must ask the superiors for instructions, but we can tactfully tell the central government." An Ziwen thought for a while, "In fact, spending money to buy individual county towns can't suffer a big loss, just the baggage inside and the batch of arms in the hands of the puppet army are worth this price, and we don't need to get them all down -- as long as the key county towns are occupied, the base areas of the military region in western and southern Jinxi can be connected, and it is also a powerful barrier to Yan'an." ”

While everyone was discussing it, someone hurriedly came in and said, "Secretary An, Director Xiaolin, we just received another letter. "Kobayashi Mitsuhide's official position is the head of the Liaison Office of the Taiyue Military Region, so it is called.

"For me?" Kobayashi Mitsuhide asked suspiciously, "Haven't you had time to process the letter yet?" ”

"Yes. So it wasn't sent from the designated channel, it came through our emergency channel in Qinyuan County, marking 100,000 urgent. ”

Kobayashi Mitsuhide took it apart and looked at it, his face changed slightly, and then handed it to An Ziwen: "It's a personal letter from Dajiao to me, saying that there is a batch of tanks to deal with, and asking us if we can buy it?" If you don't buy it, he will dispose of it all to Yan Xishan, and if we want, you can leave us 5 cars. ”

"Tanks are also sold?" All the high-ranking members of the Taiyue Military Region, including An Ziwen, feel that they can't keep up with the train of thought -- are the Japanese crazy?

"Is it okay for them to sell this thing? This bighorned general is so bold......"

"Simple...... Just get an arsenal explosion. Kobayashi Mitsuhide said expressionlessly, "Otherwise, how do you think he will write off the account?" ”

"Quick, immediately send a message and ask your superiors."

While the Taiyue Military Region was discussing warmly, at the former site of the ruling government of Duan Qirui in Tieshi Hutong, Beiping, Senior General Okamura Ninji, commander of the North China Front of the Japanese Army's Chinese Dispatch Army, and Major General Nakanishi Sadaki, deputy chief of staff, were leisurely playing chess, while Major General Nakarong of the Great Horn was watching the battle from the sidelines.

"The letter selling the chariot went out?"

"Yes." Big Horn replied, "Sir, I don't understand, it's just a matter of selling ordinary arms, why do you sell chariots too?" There are not many tanks in our front. ”

"The base camp has sent an order to prepare the tank unit to assemble for the Philippines - possibly to receive new tanks there."

"Nani?"

Okamura Ninji said lightly: "You didn't pay attention to the naval battle report? ”

"This ...... After a few rough glances, I didn't care. ”

"The combined fleet won a great victory in the Indian Ocean, and 1,400 tanks were made before and after, almost all of which were better than our current best 97 tanks, and the base camp was ready to reequip the tank troops, and the base camp of the Type 94 bean tanks to be sold this time was not worth it at all, and it was too bad to use as a training tank, so it was simply disposed of."

Big Horn was shocked: "So many? Sent by the Germans? ”

"Most of the gifts were given away, and a small part was captured by the Combined Fleet -- I heard that the captured materials were worth 1 billion yen, and in the words of the Navy, they were worth the equipment of seven battleships of the Yamato or 20 first-class divisions."

"1 billion." The two of them had gold stars in their eyes, and the navy was rich. (To be continued.) )