So much gold, silver, and firearms. It is enough to arm two regiments of soldiers, Chen Zikun is still too little, there is really no place to reason, Yan Qingyu said: "Brother-in-law, take it when you see it, don't be too greedy, make little Japan anxious, don't break the prince, I have to exterminate you, it won't be good." ”

Chen Zikun said: "You go back and tell them that if this number is tripled, I will release them immediately." ”

Yan Qingyu was speechless: "Brother-in-law, are you really playing?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "You have been the second chief, why is your vision still so narrow, at the beginning of the defense of North Thailand, the loss of aircraft and artillery is much larger than this number, and the wealth looted by the Japanese in China is hundreds of millions, I only got this back, it depends on your face." ”

Yan Qingyu did not stay in the Daqingshan area, but immediately returned to Nanjing, and conveyed Chen Zikun's request to the countermeasures headquarters, and the two Red Cross personnel who accompanied him also reported the prince's health condition, which was basically satisfactory.

Unexpectedly, Seishiro Sakagaki immediately agreed to Chen Zikun's price, and loaded the first batch of gold and silver cash, guns, ammunition, machinery and equipment to Beitai, and in order to avoid irritating the other party, the Red Cross was responsible for the delivery of the ransom.

At the same time, a team of elite infantry drawn from various divisions of the dispatch army was also formed and secretly arrived in Jiangbei, which was the proposal of General Ishihara Wan'er, with Japanese veterans who were proficient in fighting in East China to form a plainclothes team, infiltrate the Daqingshan area to retrieve the prince, and by the way, bring back the ransom money, so that Chen Zikun's bamboo basket was empty.

In order to ensure the victory of the raid, the matter was kept extremely secret, and even the king of Guryu did not know about it.

The captain of the Einsatzgruppen is Captain Masao Kojima, whose military rank is not high, but he has extremely rich combat experience, he has fought from Shanghai to Jiangdong, he can speak Chinese, he is a Chinese expert, and most of the soldiers in the team are experienced sergeants such as Jun Cao or Cao Chang, rather than ordinary soldiers.

Their weapons were specially distributed, and the Japanese army's signature weapons, the 38 big cover and the Wang 8 box, were not selected, but were mainly the 100-type short-gun and the 44-type cavalry rifle that had just entered service, the support weapons were the 96-type light machine guns and 50-caliber grenadiers using 30-round magazines, and the self-defense weapons were Sugiura-style pistols, which were extremely well-equipped and lightweight, and their firepower far exceeded that of ordinary infantry units.

Fighting in enemy areas, military uniforms are not allowed to be worn, and the Einsatzgruppen all change into the clothes of ordinary people, with large Chinese-style cotton jackets and trousers, leg belts, black cloth cotton shoes on their feet, dogskin hats on their heads, and a dung basket on their backs, with their bodies bent and their faces smeared with black ash, which is no different from the old farmers in the countryside of Jiangbei.

On the eve of the troops, Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro inspected these hot-blooded men, and the general expressed his great satisfaction.

The cart full of the first batch of ransom money was pulled to Nantai, ten miles out of the city, the guerrillas took over, counted the amount in person, and after signing the receipt, the two sides shook hands and said goodbye.

The car was loaded with machinery, equipment, medical equipment, medicines, etc., and the weight was very heavy, and it could not be disassembled and packed, so it had to be driven to pull and push the mule forward and backward, and drive to the base area, no one paid attention, and a merchant followed far behind.

Although Jiangbei has been fighting, but the people's life has been normal, hawkers go to the countryside, farmers rush to the market, ordinary people go to relatives, but when you pass the bayonet, you need a good citizen certificate, now the turrets have been pulled out, come and go much freer, and it is normal for hawkers to be more than before.

These peddlers carry baskets on their backs to peddle needles and threads, collect their hair for pear paste candy, and sell kerosene at odds, and the price is fair, and the people are also kind, and when the drums are sounded, the children in the village all run after them, and even the dogs stop barking, and wag their tails very affectionately.

The merchants are kind to business, and they also like to tell stories to children, like to go to the villagers' homes to beg for a bowl of water to drink, and by the way talk about the harvest, the world, and the new things in the village.

These acts were watched by the guerrilla scouts.

Three days later, one evening, a convoy of trucks drove from Beitai, covered with tarpaulin, no one knew what it was loading, after dark, the city curfew, a group of people dressed as ordinary people appeared in the wilderness, riding Japanese bicycles to the countryside.

It was the end of February, the sky was the last quarter moon, and the night at the end of winter was extremely cold, and the plainclothes team pedaled bicycles in the vast wilderness, and when they encountered a big hole on the road, they carried bicycles to bypass the side, and the reason for choosing this means of transportation was that it was light, but there was no noise, and it would not alarm the guerrillas.

After an hour of marching, the faces of the elite of the imperial army were almost frozen, and finally arrived at the destination, Kushuijing Village, they put their bicycles on the edge of the ridge outside the village, and the bullets were loaded and ready to enter the village to rob people, after the detective team's disguised reconnaissance, the prince's detention position has been determined, and there are not many guards, just a company, they are asleep at one o'clock at night, at most one shift is on duty, it is easy to solve.

The shadows approached the village in the dim moonlight, and Captain Kojima drew his sword, and in order to avoid reflection, even the knife was smeared with a layer of ash from the bottom of the pot, which showed that the preparation was comprehensive.

The village was so silent at night that there was not even the sound of dogs barking, and Kojima, who had been in the army for ten years and had a lot of experience on the battlefield, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and it seemed that danger was approaching.

The soldier's sixth sense is correct, without warning, the gunfire rang out, and it was very dense, the other party had already taken precautions, the sneak attack was miscalculated, and the strong attack lost its meaning, after all, the plainclothes team came to save people, and since the other party had noticed it, the prince must have moved a long time ago.

Captain Kojima ordered a hasty retreat, leaving a detachment to cover with light machine guns and 100 submachine guns, while the rest of the men bent over and ran wildly, picked up the bicycles that were placed on the ridges, flew into the car, and pedaled away.

Suddenly, dozens of shining pillars of light shone through, and the dazzling light made them squint their eyes, and there was a deafening roar of the motor in their ears, and they couldn't see or hear anything for a while.

Liang Maocai led the motorcycle team to wait for them for a long time, and the Harley-Davidson motorcycles imported from the United States have been dormant and have not been used, but because the stock of gasoline is too small, and now hundreds of barrels of gasoline have been seized, and these motorcycles finally have a place to use.

With a blow, Thompson's hand-held machine gun sprayed a long fire snake in the moonlight, and the Japanese plainclothes team members who had nothing to hide under the light were beaten into a hornet's nest.

Captain Kojima led more than a dozen people to ride bicycles in the wilderness, those motorcycles followed them like cats and mice, and the roar of the high-powered motorcycles with the exhaust pipes removed was like the roar of the devil in the harsh winter wilderness, and Kojima and the others were sweating all over, but they could not get rid of the pursuit.

Kojima knew that he couldn't escape, so he shook off his bicycle violently, pulled out his saber and shouted, "Come on! ”

The soldiers also abandoned their bicycles, each armed back to back in a circular defensive circle, facing the blinding pillars of light and the deafening roar.

Liang Maocai asked his subordinates not to shoot, and walked over with a Japanese-style white sheathed knife.

Captain Kojima is a kendo master, and when he saw the other party's posture, he immediately understood, his eyes squinted, he took off the binoculars and pistol holsters and other bits and pieces on his body, and greeted him, and the two sides stood five steps apart, looking at each other.

After a while, Xiao Dao exerted his strength, jumped over with a loud shout, the saber slashed head, Liang Maocai's body shook, the two changed positions, standing back to back, the white sheath knife in Liang Maocai's hand seemed to have never been unsheathed, Xiao Dao did not move, and muttered in his mouth: "It's actually a knife flow." ”

A thin scar slowly appeared on his neck, and then his head slipped off, and he fell to the ground.

Knowing that there was no hope of breaking through, the remnants of the Japanese army committed mass suicide by pulling grenades.

This was the end of the battle in the middle of the night, a carefully prepared sneak attack by the Japanese base camp failed, and the plainclothes team was wiped out, as if it had never appeared.

The plan failed, someone had to be held responsible, and the high-ranking officials of the military department were angry with Nishio Shouzo, dismissed him from the post of commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army, and replaced him with General Shunroku Hata, Nishio returned to Japan gloomily, and Itagaki did not have a good time, and the emperor was furious, and the countermeasure headquarters was revoked, but they still chose to pay the ransom honestly and exchange the prince back.

After all the promised supplies by the Japanese side were in place, and the gold, silver, and US dollars and yen were deposited into Chen Zikun's account in the Shanghai concession, Prince Toyohito of Shimizu Palace was finally released, and the ceremony was held outside the city of Nantai County, and the Chinese and Japanese sides attended without weapons.

Chen Zikun shook hands with Qing Shui Feng and said goodbye, "When the war is over, you are welcome to come back as a guest." ”

Prince Qing Shui said movingly: "I've caused you trouble these days, and I will come when I have the chance." ”

Chan said, "Don't forget our agreement, goodbye." ”

The prince left, and returned to Japan with the hope of the people of Jiangbei for peace, and in the early spring, the grass was strong out of the frozen soil.

……

The annihilation of the island night raid team was the first battle after Liang Maocai's return, and he played a majestic and famous role, and everyone knew that the unfilial son of Liangjiazhuang was back.

Liang Maocai didn't have the face to go home, but he still came back, he was no longer the stunned young man he was at the beginning, but a middle-aged man in his thirties.

The courtyard of the Liang family has long since changed, the former glorious courtyard is overgrown with weeds, and when he enters the door, a tiger-headed boy asks him: "Who are you looking for?" ”

"I ......" Liang Maocai was a little speechless, he didn't know what to say.

A woman came out of the hall and saw Liang Maocai, the basket in his hand fell to the ground, and the boy called out to his mother, ran over and snuggled up to the woman, and stared at the strange guest vigilantly.

Liang Maocai was carrying a hat and a box cannon, his face was full of stubble, and he was not a good person at first glance, but this seemingly rough man was extremely restrained and kind, and he stammered: "You...... You okay? ”

The woman lowered her head: "I'm okay, grandma left the year before last, and my uncle and aunt divided the land, so I left this house for our mother." ”

Liang Maocai said: "What's the baby's name?" ”

The woman said, "It's called Liang Pan." Pan'er, call Dad. ”

The boy twisted his head: "He's not my father, he's a dog!" ”