When Zhao Ziming died, Chen Zikun was still busy in Chongqing, the contradiction between Chiang Kai-shek and Stilwell was deepening, almost to the point of incompatibility, the United States forced the Yunnan Expeditionary Force to attack northern Burma, and did not provide material support, Chiang Kai-shek fought back strongly, claiming that the United States' approach violated the way of the alliance, China would no longer bear the cost of the US military in China, and Sino-US relations were on the verge of frequent rupture.

Roosevelt gave Chen Zikun the rank of brigadier general of the U.S. Army, just to let him act as a buffer bridge between Chiang Kai-shek and Stilwell, and it was very sad to be a man in the cracks, and Chen Zikun was not the kind of person who was exquisite, the coordination work was unsustainable, and the U.S. aid materials were sharply reduced, so there was still a surplus to arm the Jiangbei Eighth Route Army.

It was already 1944, the war had entered its seventh year, and the common people had gradually become accustomed to life and death, hardships and hardships, and military and political officials had become accustomed to all kinds of headaches.

In the past few months, the tentacles of the Soviet Union have reached all corners of Xinjiang, supposedly to turn Xinjiang into a member state; Gansu Hui people**, known as the anti-Japanese salvation army of various ethnic groups in the northwest, 50,000 or 60,000 in the play, affecting more than 20 counties, has just been quelled, and there are rebellions in Sichuan and Xikang; The Great Famine in Henan, where millions of people starved to death; Yan'an and the Americans are eyebrows, full of freedom, want to form a coalition government, and make a huge China, just like a big ship full of holes, struggling to move forward in the stormy seas.

The Japanese occupation zone was not having a good time, the situation in the Nanyang War was unfavorable, and the Imperial Army suffered heavy losses; although the civilian shortwave radios were taken away, and the newspapers reported good news but not bad news, the common people could see the deterioration of the situation from very things.

The supply of coal in Shanghai is tight, each household is limited to the purchase of a number of briquettes, briquettes are made of coal and yellow mud, in the past, there was a lot of charcoal, a briquette can make a meal, now the briquettes are full of yellow mud, even a pot of water can not be boiled.

The war consumed a lot of iron and steel resources, although the Japanese occupied a lot of iron ore, but it was difficult to mine and transport, so they had to collect scrap iron from the big cities, the first of which was Shanghai, tram rails, iron doors and windows, iron pots, and even drawer handles had to be levied, the first unlucky was the tram track in Nanshi, which was dismantled and piled up on the dock to wait for it to be transported back to Japan, but the first wait was half a month, it is said that the steamers were sunk by American submarines, and there was no ship to transport scrap iron, and the donation campaign had to end hastily.

The officials of the puppet government are very well-informed, and they are extremely guilty of the psychology of being drunk and drunk today, drunk and dreaming all day long, drinking and gambling indiscriminately, singing all night in the casino, gambling money is all dollars and gold, and the money is amazing, and the people who fell into the water relatively late, and who are not too high in the Wang government, have already begun to contact the Chongqing side to strive to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

As we all know, Vice Minister Yan of the Ministry of Culture has inextricable ties with Chongqing, many people trust his way, looking for a letter of guarantee, Yan Qingyu is not ambiguous, find a radish carved a side of the Kuomintang Military Committee Investigation and Statistics Bureau, as long as you take out real money, you will give a letter of appointment, proving that this person is a military commander hidden personnel, for a time to earn a pit full of valleys, gold bars filled a large suitcase.

At first, Yan Qingyu was startled, thinking that he was here to arrest him, but he learned that the Japanese were also planning a way back, so as not to have no way back after defeat, but he had no gold and US dollars, and only a piece of military intelligence called "Operation No. 1" was valuable.

It turned out that the US Air Force's use of Chinese bases to fight had seriously affected the progress of the war; airfields on Hankou, Hsinchu, and Hainan Island were bombed, countless planes were lost, and even the commander of the lieutenant general division of the Third Flying Division was shot down and killed.

Yan Qingyu has more channels to collect intelligence, he has long heard about the No. 1 operation, it is impossible for such a large military operation not to leak secrets at all, but such a detailed battle plan is too simple to get easily, and regardless of whether it is true or not, he will send it back first, he packed the information in a sack of fiat currency and transported it back to Chongqing by smuggling plane.

The war reached this point, both China and Japan were exhausted, large-scale operations were rare, economic warfare occupied a dominant position, the Japanese army forced the use of the puppet government's reserve bills, and those who used legal tender were killed, and countless legal tender left in the occupied area became waste paper overnight, and this kind of banknote was still common in the rear, so the Japanese used the price of waste paper to buy legal tender, and sent spies to the rear to grab shopping materials, artificially creating inflation.

Seeing the move, the Chongqing side also sent personnel to use gold to grab and buy goods in the occupied areas, but the results were obviously not as good as those of the Japanese side, and some agents of the military and central commands instead smuggled legal tender back to seek huge profits, helping the Japanese in disguise.

Yan Qingyu is also in the business of buying banknotes, he is in contact with the military commander, Shen Kai has been promoted to the head of the military command team because of his ability, and the military rank has also been promoted to captain, and there is a plane from the occupied area every week, full of purchased cotton yarn, medicines, antiques, jade, calligraphy and paintings, and sacks of fiat currency.

Shen Kai took out the information of Operation No. 1 from the sack and hurriedly handed it over to Dai Li, who attached great importance to it and personally reported it to Chairman Jiang.

A few months later, the Japanese army really attacked, but the national army, which should have been on guard, was crushed.

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The Japanese army launched a large-scale offensive in Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi, and the Japanese army in Jiangbei also took the initiative to attack in search of the main force of the Eighth Route Army for a decisive battle.

Takayoshi Hashimoto finally waited for the opportunity to take revenge, and he personally led a group of gendarmes to enter the mountains to clear the anti-Japanese forces with the coordination of a large brigade of infantry.

In the past, the imperial army suffered many losses in the Daqingshan area, that was because the infantry was not accustomed to mountain combat, and now this unit transferred is extraordinary, it is a mountain infantry subordinate to the Taiwan division, the soldiers have been trained in the mountainous areas of Taiwan, familiar with the mountain conditions, and some of the soldiers are Takasago people, who grew up in the mountains since childhood, do not wear boots when climbing the mountains, and advance barefoot, and when they arrive in Daqingshan, it is like returning home.

The Eighth Route Army ambushed the devil soldiers one by one, but did not receive the expected results, these devils are completely different from the devils in the past, walking in the mountains like flying, physical strength is outstanding, quickly around the back of the Eighth Route Army to attack, if it is not for the commander to retreat immediately, it will not be a big loss.

Hashimoto Shaozo was very satisfied with the victory in the first battle, but his target was not the Eighth Route Army, but Chengjiazhai in the depths of Daqing Mountain.

Since the outbreak of the war, many people fled into the mountains with their families, Chengjiazhai took in a lot, the population skyrocketed, reclaimed the mountains and planted bud valleys, and lived a happy life, because it was located in the deep mountains and old forests, and there was a tiger jumping over the stream, so there was no need to worry about anything.

In the early morning, the dog in the village suddenly barked wildly, some people put on their clothes and went out of the house, only to see countless black shadows under the moonlight, immediately shouted to warn, the villagers hurriedly got up, a man held a horse lantern to see if it was the Eighth Route Army into the village, but he saw the Japanese plaster flag, frightened him to drop the horse lantern and run wildly: "Folks, run, the devil is coming!" ”

Before he could run five steps, a bullet penetrated his body, and the terrible scream was like a comet piercing the night sky, Chengjiazhai was shrouded in terror, and some hunters hid in the house and shot with firearms, knocking down a Japanese soldier, and was immediately strafed by machine guns, and several Japanese soldiers rushed in and stabbed Orion's family to death with bayonets.

By the time dawn, more than 300 people in Chengjiazhai had been concentrated on the threshing floor, surrounded by machine guns, wolf dogs spit out blood-red tongues, and even their eyes were glowing red.

Hashimoto Shaoza slowly took off his white gloves, jumped on a table of eight immortals, looked down at the villagers and began to speak, first talking about the Emperor's Paradise and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle, and then the conversation changed and mentioned many tragedies in the county.

"According to investigation, this was done by people from your village, and I am here today to ask you to hand over the murderer."

There was a chill below, and no one dared to speak.

"Fellow, you say." Hashimoto pointed to an old man with a white beard.

The old man stood up: "Sir, as the saying goes, there is a debtor, you can arrest whoever did it, our village is a good citizen, and the things outside are not clear." ”

Hashimoto sneered: "Good people? What are these, please? ”

A few devils came over with a bundle of rifles, all of them were Japanese-style 38 big covers, or the trophies captured by Chen Zikun, Zhao Ziming and Cheng Shi in the back of the year, the villagers used it as a shotgun, and when the bullets ran out, they hid at home, and now they have all been searched out and become evidence of the crime.

The old man said proudly: "There is a shortage of soldiers, and a few guns in the village are nothing. ”

"What a sharp-toothed Diao Min." Hashimoto Shaoza suddenly pulled out his knife, and with a sound of drinking, the knife flashed, and the old man's shoulder blade was split, and the man staggered twice and fell to the ground.

There was a commotion in the crowd, several young young students had their eyes on fire, and they fought with the Japanese guard soldiers, Hashimoto waved his hand, and the machine gun rang out, and the screams and gunshots were mixed together, and countless old and weak women and children fell in pools of blood.

Takayoshi Hashimoto turned around and carefully wiped his saber with a white silk cloth, this is the ancestral sword of the Hashimoto family, named Tachibanachimaru, the ancestors of the Hashimoto family used it to kill the enemy in the Battle of Sekigahara, which can be described as having a long history.

The gunfire stopped for a long time, and the soldiers went into the bloody threshing floor and stabbed the dead to death with bayonets, and a dozen Takasago soldiers became excited, cut off the dead man's head, sang and danced, poured liquor into the mouth of the head, and drank the bloody wine from under the severed neck.

"Savage life." Takayoshi Hashimoto muttered, carefully put the orange no maru back into the scabbard, the soldiers of the Takasago tribe have the national custom of beheading out of the grass, the rebellion of the Taiwan Wushe that year, Shengban killed hundreds of Japanese, and it took a lot of trouble to quell the rebellion, and the bravery of the Takasago tribe also impressed the Japanese colonists, so a group of mountain infantry was recruited in Shengban, and it is said that some Shengban joined the air force and served the imperial country in the Pacific theater, so Hashimoto Shaozo is not good to blame them too much.

He just spilled a glass of sake on the ground and said lightly: "Ono-kun, I have avenged you, you can look at it, your wife and children, leave it to me." ”