Chapter 1: Portrait of Hu Fei

"Is this Hu Fei?" Muto Nobuyoshi is holding a pencil portrait in his hand, and the portrait shows a young man with thick eyebrows and a nose, two eyes with a bright face, and a heroic face, a handsome young man with a heroic posture.

"Yes, this is Hu Fei! It was he who led the elite of the twenty volunteer soldiers to launch a terrorist attack on the imperial army station in Haicheng! As a result, more than 30 imperial officers and soldiers were killed and wounded at the station, including the head of the station, His Excellency Koichiro Muto, who was assassinated and killed. The bandit did not repent, and then created a tragic military train bombing case, resulting in the tragedy of more than 400 casualties among officers and soldiers under Jiro Gangmura and the rank of Shaozo! ”

"Say no more!" Muto Nobuyoshi slapped the table hard, I just want to confirm with you if this is Hu Fei, you just have to answer yes or no, where is so much nonsense? I don't know how many casualties the imperial army had? Do you need to repeat it here?

"How similar is this portrait to a real person?"

"At least more than 90 percent! This is a portrait painting expert from our intelligence department who painted it by hand, and it should be said that this is a classic that is more expressive than a photograph! Lieutenant General Kuniaki Koiso, Chief of Staff and Minister of Intelligence of the Kwantung Army, shook his head, as if he admired the portrait expert.

"Yo Xi, let the painting expert make a hundred more copies of this portrait. No, two hundred copies! It's going to be bigger, oh, it's going to be so, it's going to be big. In Mukden, Changchun, Harbin, and all the main streets of Manchuria, large and small, were to be posted. Offer a reward of 2,000 yuan to catch the murderer Hu Fei, the leader of the bandits! ”

"Hey!" Koiso Kuniaki nodded and agreed, took the portrait and went out to take the car, and went directly to the printing house inside the Kwantung Army.

Two hundred enlarged copies? Then you can't exhaust his expert to death? Enlarged and reproduced according to the original drawing, what is more convenient than stereotyped printing? It's the industrial age now, and those who believe in brushes and don't believe in printing presses can probably only be old-fashioned like General Muto. His Excellency Lieutenant General Koiso Kuniaki's ideology is very trendy!

"Hu Fei! Hmph, your portrait is already in my hands, I think you can still be away for a few days? Get me Hideki Kono! ”

"Hey!"

Half an hour later, a small, burly Japanese officer with a standard sanitary mustache on his upper lip strode into the office of the commander of the Kwantung Army. The rank on the officer's shoulders is two yellow bars and three silver five-pointed stars, Dazuo.

"Your Excellency Commander, Hideki Kono has been ordered to report for duty, please reprimand Your Excellency!" Hideki Kono respectfully saluted, then bowed his head and stood there, not moving. He, the official of Dazuo, is not small in the eyes of outsiders, but it depends on where he puts it. In front of Muto Nobuyoshi, a big Zuo is not much stronger than an excellent army commander.

"Kono-kun, you are the best young officer I selected from dozens of divisions of the Kwantung Army! I am going to set up a mobile wing directly under the division and regimental headquarters, and you are the wing leader of this mobile wing! ”

In the end, he is a capable person who has been personally selected, and he likes it when he looks at it. Muto Nobuyoshi looked at Hideki Kono, how pleasing to the eye!

Kono Osa was in his early thirties and was in the prime of life, graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and rose through the ranks with military merit step by step, starting as a warrant officer. He has participated in the Battle of Nomenkan, and has carried out many extermination and sweeping battles in Northeast China, and has extremely rich combat experience, and is an excellent army commander!

"Kono is ready to obey the orders of His Excellency the Commander! Give the order! Kono Hideki was quite excited to receive praise from His Excellency the Commander in person, and this guy even raised the attitude of dying as a confidant at that time.

Muto Nobuyoshi is quite appreciative of Kono Hideki, if this matter is not related to the face of the imperial army, he can only succeed and not fail, he is reluctant to release Kono Hideki!

"There is a gang of gangsters in Shaling Town, Panshan County, who call themselves volunteers, who undermine public order everywhere and do evil, specifically with the task of harming our imperial army, resulting in repeated persecution of the military and civilians in our security area! These rioters must be brought to justice! Give me back the Kwantung Army and the good people of the security area a peaceful world! ”

"Kono-kun, I'll leave this matter to you! I have formed an infantry wing of 2,500 men, and you are the wing commander of this task force infantry wing!" Exterminate the Sand Ridge Volunteers, and your wing will be in charge! ”

"The first is to accumulate merit for you! In a new unit, it is not easy to hold people together without combat exploits. The second is to train the troops! After this battle, there are still many tough battles to be fought, and I will hone your Kono Wing into a fist force! Give you a month to train, and after a month, I'll see you lead your troops out of the city with my own eyes!" After this success, I personally reported to the Emperor and applied for an exceptional promotion of you to Major General of the Great Japanese Army! ”

"Hey! Kono is willing to serve His Excellency the Shogun! Resolutely destroy the Sand Ridge Volunteers! "That's a promise! Countless people have stopped at junior officers all their lives, and it is even more difficult to be promoted to general!

"There is a bandit leader in the Shaling Volunteer Army, and his name is Hu Fei. If you find this man, you must capture him alive and bring him back. I want to meet this Hu Fei. Muto Nobuyoshi squinted his eyes, and two fierce lights shot out from the slender slits, and those eyes were like those of poisonous insects and beasts.

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency Commander, I promise to bring Hu Fei alive to see you!"

Hu Fei, who was being worried about Commander Muto and Kono Daisa, had already come to the outside of Mukden City.

After Hu Fei returned to Shaling from Haicheng with several hundred rebel troops, he was warmly welcomed by the generals of the Shaling Volunteer Army led by Zhang Haitian, the old north wind. More than a dozen people can make a big fuss about Haicheng, and after turning the devils in Haicheng upside down, hundreds of police puppet soldiers were incorporated before leaving! This record can be said to be the best of all the volunteer generals in Shaling!

Zhang Haitian, Xiang Qingshan, and Gai Zhonghua, the three leaders of the volunteer army are full of praise for Hu Fei. Of course, this also caused jealousy and resentment among others.

Zhang Haitian's second brother, Zhang Hechun, openly proposed at the celebration banquet that Hu Fei's trouble in Haicheng would definitely anger the Japanese. If the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Mukden sends a large army to encircle and suppress it, the volunteers in Shaling are likely to face annihilation!

It's a joke! Is it that if you are afraid of retaliation from the Japanese, you will not resist Japan? If you are afraid of wolves and tigers in everything, why did you set up the Volunteer Army in the first place? Wouldn't it be better for the big guys to be disbanded, and go back to their respective homes to be good citizens to the Japanese? Hu Fei took the case and raised the bar with Zhang Hechun on the spot.

Zhang Binglin, the young master, also joined in to support Hu Fei, and Zhang Heqiu jumped out to support his second brother. There was tension on both sides, and a good celebration banquet almost turned into a battlefield.

Fortunately, Zhang Haitian came forward in time to stop the dispute between the two sides and reprimanded Zhang Hechun in public. Although the matter has subsided, the problem has gone. The Japanese will definitely retaliate against Haicheng, Lao Beifeng is not afraid, but he must be prepared, right? He now had no idea what kind of retaliation the Japanese might launch!

It was Hu Fei who asked for orders on the spot, he wanted to go to Mukden in person to spy on the Japanese attempt!