As the main general of the Japanese invasion of China, Okamura Ninji, commander of the 11th Japanese Army, was certainly not the master who could only send telegrams and newspapers to protest, and he dreamed of using this excuse to completely annihilate the main force of the Nationalist Army and oust the Nationalist Government. But he really can't do it now.

After a battle of Nanchang, although Okamura Ninji won, several divisions and regiments that participated in the battle also suffered a lot of losses. In particular, in terms of ammunition supply, without a period of replenishment, it is simply impossible for him to launch a large-scale offensive operation against the Hunan and Jiangxi regions.

If the martial arts can't work, then it's all counting on the Wen to come. The Japanese published signed articles in the Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, including the New York Times in the United States, The Times in Britain, and other internationally influential newspapers, exposing a series of acts of the bandit general Hu Fei.

Including his people, when he was in the Northeast, he was a murderous bandit leader who did not blink an eye, and now he has mixed into the ranks of the national army and is even more fearless, and now it has developed to the point of openly invading provincial capital-level metropolises and robbing international banks! The mediocre and corrupt Nationalist Government is in the league of bandits, which is really chilling to the teeth of friendly neighbors.

Of course, Okamura's remarks cannot arouse the slightest wavering on the part of the Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and the Chinese Government. How many ordinary people can read foreign newspapers? It is impossible for China's "Central Daily" to publish such news, right? As for the Japanese newspapers published in the occupied areas, how could the Chinese people in the occupied areas believe the aggressors?

In order to increase the credibility of the matter, General Okamura Ninji somewhere got the wanted notice posted on the gate of Mukden Castle back nowhere. Although the photo on the wanted notice is blurry, the text on it confirms Hu Fei's identity as the leader of the bandits. In addition, photographs of looted bank vaults, damaged bank gates, and dead and wounded Imperial soldiers and bank clerks were all published in the newspapers.

To quote Commander Okamura's original words, it is: Hu bandits committed crimes and were unscrupulous. Its behaviour is despicable, and its methods are outrageous.

Of course, as Okamura Ninji exposed Hu Fei's bad deeds more and more in the newspapers, it eventually triggered a series of reactions.

That's right, Okamura Ninji, an old devil, already has a tendency to develop as a professional newspaper contributor. In addition to being busy with military affairs every day, this guy writes for the newspaper whenever he has time. Because of the particularity of his identity, the manuscript submission rate is still extremely high, and basically as long as the article he writes, there will always be a newspaper willing to publish it.

According to insiders, during that time, General Okamura would basically have a large amount of money paid every two days, and if it weren't for the fact that he needed to concentrate more energy at the beginning of the first Battle of Changsha, General Okamura might have changed his career to become a world-renowned newspaper writer since then. Anyway, during that time, Commander Okamura used Hu Fei's deeds to earn a lot of manuscript fees!

And Hu Fei, the other protagonist of this incident, did not know that he had been praised by Commander Okamura as an international figure, and he did not have the conditions to read foreign newspapers. After returning from Nanchang, Hu Fei was busy trading with devils. The price is negotiated in advance, and we are waiting for the payment of one hand and the delivery of the other.

On the day of the transaction, the two parties settled the payment in an open area. The Japanese army sent a transport squadron, and Hu Fei also brought his baggage regiment. Hu Fei's subordinates also had so many carts of the baggage regiment that could transport the ten cannons and 5,000 shells.

This is also the first time that Xiong Wei has carried out such an important task after serving as the head of the baggage regiment. The head of the bear regiment was dressed in military uniform, and he drove a carriage in person. This carriage was also the car of Hu Fei, the leader of the 88th detachment of the Advance Army and the bandit general. Buying cannons is such an important matter, Hu Fei can only rest assured when he comes in person.

Of course, the artillery battalion commander Liu Crooked Neck will definitely have to follow. Without this expert who made the cannon to inspect the goods in person, if the devil gave one less part, it would really become a pile of scrap metal for a lot of money!

The first transaction was such a large amount, not only Hu Fei attached great importance to it, but also the Japanese army. The 101st Division sent His Excellency Fukutaro Nishiyama, chief of staff of the division, to preside over the transaction.

The division commander, Lieutenant General Masaki Ito, did not come, and His Excellency the division commander had to avoid suspicion. After all, it is illegal to resell weapons to enemy troops. From division commanders to brigade commanders, all the 101st Divisions at the level of generals did not come. However, Nishiyama Dazuo, who is not yet a general at the top of the division and regiment, is just right to do this job.

The first one on the Japanese side was Shao Zuo, and Hu Fei sent Xiong Wei here. After a few words on both sides, the Nationalist army brought out a few boxes containing money, and the Japanese carried over the infantry guns that had been disassembled and packed, as well as a large number of shell boxes. Five thousand shells is not a small number, and the boxes alone contain several hundred.

The two sides are trading for the first time, and at the same time they are belligerent enemies, so there must be no so-called trust between them. The cannons should be checked one by one, and each box of shells should be unpacked and counted. The Japanese army also inspected and weighed the silver dollars, gold bars, and banknotes given here. They also guarded against the counterfeit money that Hu Fei gave them. In this way, the process can be long.

Fortunately, both sides have enough patience for this. The Japanese were patient with the large sums of money that were about to arrive, and the Nationalists were even more excited about the artillery.

The waiting process is long. Hu Fei felt annoyed while sitting in the carriage, so he jumped down from the carriage and moved his legs and feet. Seeing that the two parties to the transaction inspected the traded items separately, although Hu Fei also wanted to go over and see it with his own eyes, he felt that it seemed a bit of a loss of face to do so.

The devil also brought a lot of wagons in order to transport so many cannons and shells, and in front of the carriage stood a group of officers, and in the middle was a black and thin guy. The two sides were a little far away, and Hu Fei couldn't see this guy's rank clearly.

stared at the devil officer for a while, and the guy seemed to have a feeling, and he also looked up at Hu Fei. Hehe, kind of interesting. Hu Fei raised his hand and waved, and the devil officer also raised his hand. Of course, Hu Fei didn't want to get close to the devil officer, he just wanted to determine the location of that guy and see if he could give him a shot when he left.

A devil on horseback ran up to him, jumped off his horse and handed over a telegram or something. The devil officer took it and looked at it, took out a pen, wrote something on it, and returned it to the cavalry. The cavalry got on their horses and rode away.

Cavalry? When Hu Fei saw the devil cavalry. His idea of having a cavalry unit suddenly occurred to him. While the two sides are trading now, why not inquire about the devil's intentions?

"Xiaomu." Hu Fei beckoned to Murat.