Wei Chendong warmly received Ikeda, but he was the first to ask for his help, saying that Peng Hu's influence was all over the Northeast, and that he had the greatest influence and the widest sphere of influence in the Northeast, and that he would have to cooperate with them in the future.

Hearing Wei Chendong's request, Ikeda laughed, and his heart immediately settled a lot, judging from Wei Chendong's tone and request for help, it is not difficult to see that he is not very hostile to himself, otherwise, who would ask the enemy to help him? Besides, asking for my help will definitely come at a price.

Ikeda readily agreed to Wei Chendong's request, and said that the two sides would strengthen cooperation and help each other in the future, so as to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and Wei Chendong nodded yes.

Next, Ikeda began to ask questions about his own mind, and because of the previous good conversation, Ikeda's tone of voice was much more relaxed when he asked questions, and there was no aggressive momentum, as if two old friends were talking.

To achieve the goal in his heart, Wei Chendong also tried his best to show a kind demeanor, and then organized language to answer Ikeda's questions, for overly sensitive questions, Wei Chendong brushed them aside, or bypassed them vaguely, Ikeda also knew that some things involved confidentiality, and it was understandable that Wei Chendong didn't say it, so he didn't pursue it too much.

Wei Chendong gave a detailed answer to Ikeda's question about why the Yan and Huang armies were building fortifications and recruiting new soldiers in Heilongjiang, because he knew that this question was the most important thing for him, and if he could not give them a satisfactory answer, he would probably not let them die.

Wei Chendong told himself that Peng Hu's power in the Northeast is very large, far beyond his imagination, although there are not as many people as the Yan and Huang Army, and they are not as good as the equipment and resources of the Yan and Huang Army, but they are valuable in secrecy, and the scope of influence and involvement are very wide, they may be a bandit who occupies the mountain as the king, or it may be a small business owner, or it may be a guy who sells dumplings or pork stewed noodles, or even a beggar who asks for food on the street, which makes people unguardable, they are not only good at spying on intelligence, but also good at assassination, Creating chaos and so on, Wei Chendong suspected that Peng Hu's forces had established a large number of Gan bases in the Northeast, these places are not necessarily very large, but they must be secret or easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they can also come and go freely, that is, they can hit the enemy, and they can escape the enemy's retaliation, so this is why the Yan and Huang Army will do a good job in the defense of the Northeast first, divide the entire Heilongjiang into several districts, and then block the entire Heilongjiang River, and then send troops to encircle and suppress and clean up piece by piece, this is a difficult and difficult process, there can be no loss, otherwise, The Yan and Huang army will definitely suffer great losses, and they will not even be able to exterminate Peng Hu's forces at all.

Hearing Wei Chendong's explanation, Ikeda was also shocked, for Peng Hu, he himself had also been in contact with him, and he had also carried out wooing, but this person actually ignored his own Corporal Lixian, but instead had a lot of conflicts with some Kwantung Army organizations, the relationship between the two sides has been very stiff, Peng Hu is also the object that he wants to get rid of, when he heard that Wei Chendong is coming to the Northeast, he said that he did not send troops to stop it There is also this reason, at this time, when he heard Wei Chendong say that Peng Hu's organization is far beyond his imagination, how can he not let Ikeda be shocked, If this was said by someone else, Ikeda might not have cared, but Wei Chendong had been Peng Hu's owner before, and it was natural that he had more information about Peng Hu than he did.

Wei Chendong also told Ikeda that he had asked Peng Hu to come to the Northeast because he had taken a fancy to several cemeteries here, so he stole them and then evacuated quickly, but he didn't expect that this guy had found some other burial areas and kept dragging them out, and began to secretly develop his power, that Lei Hong's matter was just an excuse for Peng Hu to oppose him Wei Chendong, in fact, this guy had long been anti-minded, Wei Chendong even suspected that this Lei Hong's rebellion was instructed by him, if it succeeded, it would be powerful, and he Peng Hu could turn over in one day.

Wei Chendong lamented that he was unforgiving, and Ikeda was also infected by his experience, and sympathized with Wei Chendong.

Then, Wei Chendong reported to Ikeda some of the information he knew about Peng Hu, because he himself also had a gap with Peng Hu, and the Yan and Huang armies were in Heilongjiang to suppress it, and it was said that Ben was in other places, and he tried to exterminate Peng Hu in the northeast in the shortest possible time.

The negotiation between Wei Chendong and Ikeda was a very successful one, and before Ikeda left, Wei Chendong gave Ikeda a gift of an ancient Indian Buddha statue.

"Ikeda-kun, I know that you are very fond of studying ancient cultures, and you believe in Buddhism, so I have specially prepared this gift for you, this Buddha I have asked someone to specialize, at least a few thousand years of history, I believe that there are many places worthy of Ikeda-kun's research, this is just a courtesy exchange between friends, and I ask Ikeda-kun to accept it."

Looking at this lifelike Buddha statue, Ikeda thought for a moment and accepted it, but said that he was still courteous and gave his sword to Wei Chendong, although this saber was not as valuable as this Buddha statue, but the samurai has always paid more attention to his weapons and gave the saber to Wei Chendong, which shows that Ikeda is also full of affection for Wei Chendong.

In this peace talks, both sides were relatively satisfied, and Ikeda was even more so, not only knowing what he wanted to know, but also knowing a lot of information about Peng Hu, although this information may not be completely accurate, but it is better than nothing, after all, the relationship between Wei Chendong and Peng Hu is messed up, the latter will definitely be prepared in order to prevent the former, and the information provided by Wei Chendong is likely to be outdated.

After the meeting, Wei Chendong openly funded the Northeast Army in Heilongjiang on behalf of the Yan and Huang Army, and the Northeast Army publicly expressed support for the Yan and Huang Army to exterminate Peng Hu's forces, and the two armies formed an alliance to jointly protect Heilongjiang.

Although it was a little inappropriate to see the alliance between the two armies, neither the Nationalist Axe nor the Kwantung Army showed excesses.

Seeing this, Wei Chendong relieved his mind and donated a batch of weapons from the Yanhuang Army's inventory to the Northeast Army to show his condolences.

The Northeast Army began to grow under the funding of Wei Chendong, but there were many new recruits, and a lot of training was needed, and the Yan and Huang Army were the same.

Knowing that there is not much time, Wei Chendong is even more "cruel" to these recruits, and as soon as they come up, they will train as veterans, which makes many people secretly complain, and some veterans also don't understand, because their current training amount is slowly added little by little at the beginning, why is it so big all of a sudden, which also makes them secretly happy, fortunately, they came in earlier than these guys, otherwise, they won't be killed directly, I'm afraid they won't be able to get up at night, and the military records recruited by the Yan and Huang Army will become decorations, Secretly mourning for these recruits, the veterans devoted themselves to their own training, because they didn't dare to underestimate these trainings, and they were like dead dogs every day, so they didn't understand Wei Chendong's decision.

The cruel training of the Yan and Huang Army was also spread out, so that some young and middle-aged people who originally wanted to come to the Yan and Huang Army to eat retreated, and some of them ran to the Northeast Army under their thoughts. Besides, he, General Wei, has no enmity with them, so do you want to use training to get along with them? This General Wei must have his own intentions, and some smart people thought of this.

The year 1931 was a sensitive year, all the forces in China had their own schemes, the national political axe was wantonly encircling and suppressing the Red Army, he said that he was constantly thinking of bad intentions, his ambition of aggression was constantly expanding, he was constantly planning conspiracy again and again, and he was looking for a suitable time and a suitable excuse to eat the cake on his lips.

Wei Chendong's Yanhuang Army seemed to be indifferent to the outside world, while developing, while strengthening the defense of Heilongjiang, from time to time encircled and suppressed a Peng Hu organization in various regions.

Time is busy into September, for this special month, Wei Chendong knows better than everyone in this era, so he has always been restless, and the women around him have also found that their men have become a lot more depressed during this time, how can they know the bitterness in Wei Chendong's heart, does he want to shout everywhere that he wants to plot against him on the 18th of this month? I am afraid that others will not believe you, do you really think that you are a prophet? Even if someone believes it, who will care, the Kuomintang will definitely not care, [***] has the heart but is powerless, for the northeast, it only depends on him Wei Chendong himself, isn't it for this that he spent so much effort to get the Yan and Huang troops to Heilongjiang? Although Heilongjiang allowed him to gain a firm foothold, it put the Yan and Huang Army on the front line of resistance, I am afraid that until the time of the full-scale invasion of China, the outside world will not have much assistance, the Yan and Huang Army's operations in the Northeast must be hard, even life and death, after all, the development time of the Yan and Huang Army is still short, and it is a bit irrational to fight hard with Yue himself at this time, but Wei Chendong will not retreat because of this reason, coming here to resist is one of the reasons, and the most important thing is that he has another plan, if he succeeds, Then even if the sacrifice of the Yan and Huang Army is great, it is worth it, so Heilongjiang, Wei Chendong must stand firm, even if it is said that the army is pressing, he must withstand it.

In September, Wei Chendong talked to the veterans of the 21st century a lot more, and he would use his brain every day to think about some questions, and then call back to consult these veterans, and then make the next decision after a group of people discussed.

Time flies, quickly entering the middle of September, Wei Chendong feels more and more pressure, every day around the defense of Heilongjiang, as soon as he arrives in Heilongjiang, he has already told Ma Zhanshan secretly, let him prepare early, said that he is likely to occupy the northeast this year.

Ma Zhanshan can be said to have a deep understanding of his behavior in the Northeast, saying that he is plotting in the Northeast, no need for others to say, he also knows, just listening to Wei Chendong's tone, it seems that it must be this year, although he is a little puzzled, but everything must be prepared for a rainy day, after receiving a large amount of funding from Wei Chendong, the development of the Northeast Army is also extremely fast.

On 18 September, Wei Chendong had been staring at the map all day long, seeing if there were any major loopholes in the stationing of the Yan and Huang armies in Heilongjiang, and the current distribution of the Yan and Huang armies in the northeast was 100,000 in Daqing, 50,000 in some county-level cities in Harbin, and the rest were scattered in some other important areas.

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, a small detachment headed by Lieutenant Suemori Kawamoto, captain of the wicker lake detachment of the railway garrison of the Kwantung Army, secretly buried explosives under a section of railroad tracks in the name of inspecting the railway.

Sumoru Kawamoto immediately placed the bodies of three Chinese wearing the uniforms of soldiers of the Northeast Army brought with him at the scene as evidence of the destruction of the railway by the Northeast Army, falsely accusing the Chinese [***] team of sabotaging the railway and attacking the garrison.

As the sound of the explosion came out, the squadron leader of Kawashima, who was staying about four kilometers north of the railway blasting point, immediately led his troops south and began to attack the northern camp. The Chinese troops stationed in Beidaying and Shenyang City divided into two routes, north and south, and attacked Beidaying, where the Northeast Army was stationed.

The Southern Army was the 2nd Wing of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army commanded by Yukihiro Hirata, and the Northern Army was the 2nd Brigade of the Railway Garrison under the command of Shoichi Shimamoto.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the Northeast Army stationed in Beidaying was defenseless and was taken off guard, and Zhang Xueliang explained the policy of non-confrontation beforehand, except for a small number of people who really couldn't stand the gas resistance, most of the Northeast Army retreated passively, but nearly 10,000 Northeast Army troops were defeated by 500 soldiers.

The night was spent in the premeditated plundering of the Yue Army and the retreat of the Northeast Army, and the next day, the "September 18 Incident" suddenly spread throughout the country and the whole world, and the whole world was in an uproar.

Hearing this incident, Wei Chendong calmed down and sighed, what should come will always come, since it has happened, Wei Chendong no longer has to worry about him happening, so he devoted himself to his plan.

At this time, the soldiers were in a period of madness, their ambitions were extremely inflated, coupled with the continuous retreat of the Northeast Army and the non-resistance policy of Chiang Kai-shek's political axe, which made them even more unscrupulous.

In the early morning of September 19, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Honjo Shigeru, issued one order after another, saying that the main force of the 2nd Division of the Army, the Reading Garrison, the main force of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and the 1st Battalion of the Reading Garrison respectively chose their own targets, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and by 10 o'clock on September 19, the Yue Army had captured 18 towns along the South Manchurian Railway and the Anbong Railway. The Northeast Army in the Changchun area spontaneously counterattacked, and the battle ended in the second day, and Changchun fell.

On September 21, Xi Qia, chief of staff of the Jilin Provincial Office of the Deputy Commander of the Northeast Frontier Army, led his troops to surrender to the enemy, and the main force of the 2nd Division of the Army occupied Jilin. Until the end of September, Liaoning and Jilin fell, and the army pointed the spearhead at Heilongjiang.

The actions of the outside world, the Yan and Huang Army were unaware of it, and Wei Chendong still trained the Yan and Huang Army on his own and built the defense of Heilongjiang.

After all, more than 200,000 Yan and Huang troops were placed there, and before attacking Heilongjiang, the Kwantung Army Headquarters still sent someone to contact Wei Chendong, and asked about the position of the Yan and Huang Army.

Hearing Wei Chendong's heart, the Kwantung Army Headquarters' worried heart was relieved a little, Heilongjiang is very big, and the Yan and Huang Army are stationed in the place where the Yan and Huang Army are stationed naturally knows, anyway, it is impossible for him to send troops to be stationed everywhere, first occupy some places where other Yan and Huang Army forces are out of reach, and then wait to gain a firm foothold in Heilongjiang, many things will be easy to do, and then whether the Yan and Huang Army forces will fight or stay is up to him.

Although Wei Chendong's words were spoken, he naturally would not be stupid and still guarded against Yan Huangjun. In order to avoid the sphere of influence of the Yan and Huang Army, Yue himself pointed the spearhead of the attack at Qiqihar in the west of Heilongjiang, Qiqihar was the provincial capital of Heilongjiang at this time, and the main force of the Yan and Huang Army was not here, which was the preferred object of the Yue Army.

On October 1, the Northeast Army's Heilongjiang Taonan Town Guard Zhang Haipeng surrendered to the enemy, and was ordered by the army to send three regiments to attack Qiqihar. In Nenjiang Bridge, Tailai County, Zhang Haipeng's puppet army was frantically blocked by Ma Zhanshan, Ma Zhanshan had just been appointed by Zhang Xueliang as the acting provincial chairman and military commander of Heilongjiang Province, he knew that the army wanted to seize Qiqihar, must first seize the Nenjiang Bridge, so not an inch of land, the puppet army was defeated by Ma Bu, and was repulsed.

On October 26, the 2nd Wing of the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army occupied the main towns along the Sitao Railway. Feeling the pressure, Ma Zhanshan asked Wei Chendong for support, and Wei Chendong publicly stated that he would not participate in this meaningless battle, and his body was moved in Daqing.

Ma Zhanshan scolded Wei Chendong for not talking about brotherhood, but Wei Chendong was still indifferent in Daqing.

He immediately issued an ultimatum to Ma Zhanshan, limiting him to retreat from the Nenjiang Iron Bridge to an area 10 kilometers away before noon on 3 November, and not to enter the area until the damaged Nenjiang Bridge was repaired, and if he did not accept the above demand, the army would use force.

At noon on November 3, Ma Zhanshan did not hesitate to reject the ultimatum of the Yue army, and the angry Yue army decided to use force. On the morning of November 4, the main force of the 2nd Division arrived at the Nenjiang Bridge, and then together with the puppet army, launched a fierce attack on the Nenjiang Bridge.

(To be continued)