Wu Mujun is very lively during the Chinese New Year this year, and all the troops have chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and mutton, but the wine is not enough. Mr. Zhou, Mr. Wang, Lu Zhengang, and Wang Yu held the New Year's dinner of senior generals in the canteen, and they had a complete variety: fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, chickens, ducks, and fish.

The senior generals of all the troops, including the first side, are all here: Zhao Dahu is the old commander of Tuesday Dog, and Li Jinshan, Liu Maoer, Wan Zixiong, Liu Qinghe, Wang Laodun, Hao Xiuwen, Ma Yihang, Zhou Dagou, Shi Jilun, He Laifu, Qi Yuankai, Wu Dalang, ** Yue, Qiao Xingzhu, Wu Zhengtang, Lu Yuxi, Duan Xingcheng, Gu Qizhang, Zheng Qiguang...... The original team of Maoshan troops Xiang Qingyun, Li Haiyang, Zu Jing, Dai Heng, Wang Ziwei, Ke Hua, Lou Sanchun, Liu Zhenjiang, Zhao Daer; Ouyang Cheng, Liu Chenghai, Wang Yilang, Jing Yukun, Feng Jiuzhong, Zeng Qi who broke through in Nanjing...... Rising stars such as Wu Zhen, Wu Lei, Wu Ting, Niu Daojia, Liang Ruxiang, Duanmu Changyan, Lu Family Ten Brothers, Tong Jingya, Liang Zisheng, Li Guangda, Wang Junshan, Wang Huankai, Jin Manlou, Han Jinkui, Xu Jiguang, Li Jiakui, Wei Wenyang, Wu Yuwen...... The generals gathered, as well as Tuesday Dog's 3 sons, Zhao Dahu's wife Hu Zhaoyue, sons Zhao Chongshan and Zhao Junling, Liu Maoer's daughter-in-law Lu Zhenyun, and many experts at the Yangmao level. Due to the large number of personnel, there are still people on duty for combat readiness, so Zhao Dahu and Xiang Qingyun have stipulated the standards for the personnel participating in the New Year's dinner: the old team of Shanghai Tang; When Maoshan formed the army, the captain and deputy captain of each team were above the captain; The rank of major general or above; Newly formed troops at or above the regimental level; At least one of the above is met.

So, Li Jiakui, Wei Wenyang, Duanmu Changyan, Wang Huankai, Jin Manlou, Wang Junshan, Wang Huankai, Jin Manlou, Han Jinkui, Xu Jiguang, Wu Yuwen and others had to obediently go to the army on duty.

Wu Lei and Wu Ting were able to make the trip because General Cai Tingkai also came to Xishan for the New Year. Cai Tingkai was very happy to see that the soldiers under his command were now star-studded, and even Wu Zhen, Niu Daojia, and Lu Qingyang, who were running away from the plate, were all major generals, and he clinked glasses with Zhou Yuzi, Mr. Wang, and Lu Zhengang again and again.

According to the usual practice, the Wu brothers, the ten brothers of the Lu family, Niu Daojia, Liang Ruxiang, Tong Jingya, Zhao Chongshan, Zhao Junling, these small characters can only run the hall with plates, but this year the ten brothers of the Lu family and Tong Jingya have been added, and everyone is also busy running before and after. Duanmu Changyan wanted to mix in and join in the fun, but was unceremoniously blasted away by Niu Daojia, he was not qualified enough to serve dishes!

The New Year's meal was eaten in a row, until the dumplings and soup balls were served on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Wu Lei and the others were hungry before they were close, and a large group of generals and school officials ran to the kitchen to grab their mouths and steal food.

As soon as it was dark, the officers who had already eaten dumplings and dumplings waited for Zhao Dahu's order, and immediately drove back to the station—there was a major combat operation tonight!

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Lu Yaohan and Zhang Tielong commanded the troops to advance to Changzhou.

Lu Yaohan's brigade rushed to Changzhou with a firepower regiment, and Zhang Tielong's brigade was responsible for deploying defense and reinforcements in the direction of Wuxi.

Lu Yaohan's brigade rested for a while on the outskirts of Changzhou, and then fought without declaring a war, and the three sharp knife companies quietly infiltrated the devil's defense area.

At this time, the devils who were on the defensive also began to lay mines for defense, and the Lu Yaohan brigade used siege trucks to break through the minefields, used searchlights to illuminate the devils' turrets and fortifications to destroy the devils' sight, and blew up the devil's turrets and pillboxes with high-explosive meteor flying mines, or suppressed the devil's firepower with machine gunners and snipers, and then the demomen rushed up to destroy the devil's trenches and barbed wire with the cover of the carrying vehicles and steel shields, and attacked the devil's stronghold.

The other troops either continued to advance or sent reinforcements on both sides, and the troops advanced rapidly in three routes, attacking the city of Changzhou before dawn.

Zhang Tielong's brigade quickly inserted between Changzhou and Changzhou, first destroyed the railway, and blocked the reinforcements in the direction of Wuxi with a defensive position. Unexpectedly, the devils in Wuxi did not dare to fight at night, but symbolized the surname to send a squadron to reinforce, which was accepted by Zhang Tielong. At dawn, two brigades were sent to rush to the aid of Changzhou, and Zhang Tielong ordered the troops to set up two pocket formations along the highway and railway, so that the devils did not dare to take a step forward.

The devil reinforcements on the Danyang side were surrounded by Lu Yaohan's two companies on the train, and they could only resist by relying on the railway embankment. Although there are many devils and their firepower is also strong, the more than 200 gun grenades in Lu Yaohan's department are not vegetarian, and the small gun grenades the size of a small wine pot almost bite the flesh; The large gun grenade is used to shoot grenadiers, but the smoke that explodes makes the devil unable to see his opponent; The machine gunners of Lu Yaohan's department are also very treacherous, guerrilla everywhere, and 20 rounds of ammunition in a shuttle have to be converted into 3 or 4 positions before they are finished, and they specialize in fighting the machine gunners of devils; As soon as the devil's infantry artillery and mortars appeared, Lu Yaohan's meteor flying thunder came as scheduled, and he couldn't open a firing position at all.

At this time, Changzhou was already in Lu Yaohan's hands, but he couldn't take it. Zheng Nan, a battalion commander on the left flank of Lu Yaohan's brigade, had an idea, tied a batch of timber from the suburbs into dozens of small rafts, set up machine guns and grenades, and went down the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and broke into Changzhou through the waterway.

The other troops of Lu Yaohan's department took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack, braving the bombing of devil planes and artillery counterattacks, breaking into the artillery regiment and fire regiment to cover the infantry to break through Changzhou City.

The bombing of the devil's plane not only brought great pressure to Lu Yaohan, Zhang Tielong was also troubled by the devil's plane, but Wu Mujun was not blindly passively bombed, the smoke screen masking method, the mirror method, and at the same time, the light and heavy machine guns also took the time to give the devil plane a counterattack, which made the devil plane also worried about the big mistake, or greatly reduced the pressure of the air attack.

The heavy firepower of the reading division was allocated to Lu Yaohan's attacking troops, so Zhang Tielong's brigade only had mortars and heavy machine guns at the regimental and battalion level, and it was still difficult to block the two brigades of devils, mainly because the artillery level was far inferior to that of devils, and there were fewer heavy machine guns than devils, and the battle line was precarious.

Zhang Tielong was anxious and wise, and organized a death squad to counter-charge. Concentrate artillery and heavy machine guns to cover the death squads to attack the devil's heavy machine gun positions. The death squad carried a traveling vehicle and a steel shield to protect the body, and each carried two meteor thunderbolts to charge, and bombed a heavy machine gun position of the devil, and the results were unexpectedly ideal. Zhang Tielong made persistent efforts and continued to attack the artillery positions further behind the devils, and also achieved ideal results. As a result, Zhang Tielong ordered a full-scale counterattack.

The devil lost nearly half of his heavy machine guns and artillery, and soon could not support it, so he had to defend on the spot and counterattack Zhang Tielong's attack with the remaining heavy machine guns and artillery.

Zhang Tielong's subordinates saw that the devil's firepower was weakened, and took advantage of the devil's plane bombing interval to launch another round of attack, and all the troops attacked the devil's firepower position according to the gourd's drawing, and as a result, the tactics of beating the master to death with indiscriminate punches once again defeated the devil's "regular operation", and the two brigades hastily withdrew to Wuxi.

Xiang Qingyun received Lu Yaohan's report and learned that Changzhou City had been taken, so he ordered to clean up the battlefield and transport back the materials in Changzhou City, and then the various units of the Reading Division alternately covered and withdrew to the defense area between Taihu Lake and Zhuhu Lake.

Lu Yaohan and others reported to Xiang Qingyun and asked to defend Changzhou, but they were severely stopped by Xiang Qingyun - after occupying Changzhou, the devil's transportation line was completely cut off, and Wu Mujun would not be able to get supplies.

In this battle, the reading division suffered more than 1,100 casualties, consumed ammunition and equipment, killed and injured more than 1,200 devils, captured Changzhou City, and seized a large number of materials. The Reading Force Division won the first battle, and after a few more battles, it is another iron-blooded division!

Hata Junliu really can't spare his troops to deal with the endless stalking troops of the Wu Mu Army, and the entire ** battlefield is short of troops! I had no choice but to "make peace" with Wu Mujun again.

First, Wang Jingwei sent Chen Gongbo to "persuade him to surrender". On Tuesday, the dog also gave Chen Gongbo face, and asked Wang Jingwei to provide 10,000 women, and the vast majority of Xishan's employees did not have daughters-in-law!

Chen Gongbo said that he couldn't do anything and was blown away by the dog on Tuesday!

The special representative of Shunroku Hata had to come forward, and on Tuesday the dog did not ask for much - 1000 tanks!

Toshiroku Hatata's special representative was beaten up and returned to Shanghai to recover his life.

Wang Laodun came to report that a large number of central reserve bonds had been successfully printed, and asked for instructions on when they would be put into the occupied area.

The Central Reserve Bank, whose full name is the Central Reserve Bank Bills, is a currency issued by Wang's puppet political axe in the occupied areas. In 1941, Wang set up the Central Reserve Bank and issued the Central Reserve Bank, and began to exchange the original "legal tender" at a ratio of 50 to 100, and on May 31, 1942, the political axe ordered to prohibit the circulation of legal tender, which was an important means for the devils to plunder China's wealth. The military commanders led by Dai Li fought against each other because of the Central Reserve Bonds and the "No. 76 Xiafei Road" led by Li Shiqun, kidnapping and assassinating senior managers of the other side's banking industry, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Dai Li once asked Tuesday Dog and Shi Jilun for help, and Tuesday Dog and Shi Jilun also lost a lot of capable personnel for this, and finally lost to the offensive of the devil.

Shi Jilun couldn't swallow this breath, and entrusted Wang Laodun to develop the devil's middle reserve bonds, which impacted the currency market in the occupied area. It took Wang Laodun a long time to raise printing presses, samples of central storage coupons, paper, ink, and craftsmanship, and finally came out with results.

The task of releasing counterfeit money was naturally undertaken by Duanmu Changyan's special operations brigade. Duanmu Changyan sent people to find Lu Ao to come to the list of the special forces and police stations in the occupied area, and found a suitable person according to Lu Ao's instructions, and quickly established a sales network for counterfeit banknotes, and the spies and police of ** were responsible for spreading counterfeit banknotes. **Most of them are for a good time, and it's grandchildren who don't do anything to make money!

Therefore, Wang Laodun used counterfeit money to exchange a large number of supplies for Wu Mujun: soap, batteries, sugar, foreign cloth, kerosene, horse lanterns...... Although counterfeit banknotes will eventually damage the interests of the common people in the occupied areas, in order to counter plundering and destroy the economic system of the puppet political axe and devils, Wu Mujun has no choice but to act ruthlessly.

The devil also discovered the counterfeit banknotes made by Wu Mujun and began to investigate strictly. However, the devil is too small ** people's wisdom, even ** has two brushes, they pull the devil secret service into the water to participate in the resale of counterfeit banknotes, in this way, the devil on the one hand vigorously cracks down on counterfeit banknotes, on the other hand, he is a big dealer who resells counterfeit banknotes, the effect is that prices have risen all the way, the credit of the reserve bonds is becoming more and more unreliable, and fiat currency has begun to prevail in the black market. Even the devil soldiers know that when they buy things with the central reserve coupons, the merchants are often "out of stock", and when they buy things with fiat currency, the merchants will look for them, and often "find" the "only" little goods from the rags, so even the devil soldiers are stealing fiat currency and counterfeit banknotes.

The devil's spy agency is responsible for maintaining the economic order in the occupied area, and also has the profit of reselling counterfeit banknotes.

The devil's approach forced another group of people - the puppet army. The puppet officers and soldiers can't buy anything with the middle reserve coupons, and the spies of the devil ** check the fiat currency again, and the puppet soldiers can't survive, so they naturally have constant friction with the spies. In the end, the ** spies did not dare to cooperate with the puppet army's actions, because the spies were often shot by the puppet army and never returned.

The main problem of Duanmu Changyan's special operations brigade was the transportation of counterfeit banknotes, because the devils and dogs jumped over the wall and set up many checkpoints around the Xishan base area, focusing on checking counterfeit banknotes, and Duanmu Changyan and their troops were in a predicament for a while.

Duanmu Changyan's master Liu Mao'er has returned to the ** army, and Duanmu Changyan has no choice but to ask Li Jinshan for advice. After listening to Duanmu Changyan's words, Li Jinshan kicked Duanmu Changyan's **, "It's really stupid, you can pull the spy into the water, but you can't pull the puppet army into the water?" ”

After that, the puppet army was responsible for transporting counterfeit banknotes, and the spies were responsible for distributing counterfeit banknotes, and the economic situation in the occupied areas can be imagined.

Because the devils issued the central reserve bonds, in order to reduce losses, the Wumu caravan has rarely trafficked materials to Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Ningbo and other occupied areas, which has caused a shortage of materials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Wu Mujun's guerrillas are also an important channel for the issuance of counterfeit banknotes, but they are much more merciful than the devils**, when buying things, fiat currency and counterfeit banknotes are at the mercy of merchants, and fiat currency is on the market, and counterfeit banknotes are paid at 3 times......

The grain chips issued by Wu Mujun are now the most sought-after hard currency in the occupied areas, and the transaction is named "bartering", mainly because Wang Jingwei did not dare to provoke Wu Mujun too much, and opened up the grain chip network, but it also caused the outflow of copper from the Xishan base area.

Mao Ziqing seized the opportunity and suggested to Songwenbol: 1. Move a number of factories such as the military uniform and quilt factory, match factory, and soap factory to Jiaxing, Wuxi, and other areas adjacent to Wu Mujun, solve the problem of raw materials with barter trade, overcome the soaring prices, and at the same time send people to secretly reach an agreement with Wu Mujun to ensure that the factories are not encroached upon by Wu Mujun; Second, imitating Wu Mujun's grain chips, taking advantage of the rise in copper prices to make a big profit, can also be called this political axe in the name of fighting a currency war against Wu Mujun, disrupting the economic order of Wu Mujun...... Seeing that it was profitable, other merchants followed suit, so the copper began to flow back to the Xishan base area.

Now the business of the Wumu caravan is not easy to do, and the use of central reserve bonds in Jiangsu and Zhejiang cannot be done; The best in northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui have suffered defeats, the territory has shrunk, and the market has shrunk; The goods can only be transported to the north of Jiangsu, eastern Anhui, western Anhui, and eastern Hubei in the north of the Yangtze River, and the road is getting farther and farther, and it has to be sneaky, and the Wumu caravan is much more difficult.

Shi Jilun is also worried about the Wumu caravan: the Wumu caravan is mainly a veteran of the Wumu army, and it also undertakes the mission of supporting disabled soldiers, exporting products for the Xishan base area, and playing an important role in stabilizing the economy, so Shi Jilun must find a way to expand the business of the Wumu caravan.

On Tuesday, the dog held a staff meeting for the first time for the affairs of the West Mountain Self-Rescue Association. In the end, the staff committee decided to relax the traffic control on the Nanjing-Shanghai line and "share" the traffic line with the devils.

Therefore, the Wumu caravan used 10 carts to swagger and swagger large quantities of salt along Changzhou, Danyang, and Jurong into Nanjing, and then crossed the river to Pukou and headed for the Fifth War Zone.

Shunroku Hata knew each other very well and ordered the passage of the Takemu caravan, sending a signal of reconciliation to the Takemu army. This was to be expected by the dog and others on Tuesday.

So Shunroku Hahata also sent a convoy from Nanjing to Shanghai, carrying the ashes of fallen soldiers and some groceries. Unexpectedly, he was intercepted by Wu Mujun on the way, but this time he did not hurt anyone, but only told Shunroku Hata that he was not allowed to wear military uniforms, transport arms, or transport materials plundered from China when passing through the territory of Wu Mujun, otherwise, Wu Mujun would not guarantee the safety of the transport team.

Shunroku Hata received a report from the devil's transport team and calculated the gains and losses: the Wumu caravan transported civilian materials, so he also had to transport civilian materials, but in addition to the weapons and equipment that the imperial army had to transport, it was the captured materials that were transported back to the mainland; In this way, the ** people got the materials they wanted, but most of the materials that the imperial army wanted could not pass, which was not cost-effective! However, the wounded, retired soldiers, urns, and postal parcels of the Imperial Army could still pass through in civilian clothes, and medical equipment, medicines, supplies, and parts of machinery and equipment could also be transported to the front line; Although the conditions proposed by Wu Mujun are relatively harsh, they can also solve some of the urgent needs of the imperial army, alas, admit it!

So Shunroku Hata sent back a batch of wounded soldiers.

At this time, Wu Mujun had openly set up checkpoints on the highway. The checkpoint detained all valuables such as gold, silver, and jewelry on the wounded soldiers on the grounds that they belonged to materials plundered from China.

Shunroku Hata was so angry that he had no choice but to transport the wounded soldiers, veterans and "personal belongings" separately.

Therefore, the large convoy of Wumu caravan carried a large amount of salt, matches, soap, fishing nets, shovels, pickaxes, ploughs and hoes, kitchen knives, iron pots, and Chinese patent medicines to the Fifth and Ninth War Zones in exchange for a large number of silk, linen, cotton, tea, and tung oil...... There are also medicinal materials, tungsten sand, coal, timber and even copper, kerosene, gasoline, and diesel, all of which have devils' passes, and the Wumu caravan and the devil's troops have also established "business relationships".

Zhou Dagou also stepped in and repaired Wu Mujun's steam tractor, because Wu Mujun's industrial base increased, and the small boiler on the tractor was no longer of much use, so it was transformed into a long-distance bus by Zhou Dagou, whether it was Chinese, himself, other foreigners, or spies, soldiers, businessmen, or farmers, as long as they paid for it, they could ride a car, but they did not accept Chinese storage coupons and military tickets, and they loved to sit or not! Unexpectedly, the passenger transport business is booming! Li Shiqun can't afford to provoke Zhou Dagou, and he doesn't dare to force Zhou Dagou to use the Central Reserve Coupon and Military Ticket! (To be continued.) )