[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 363: Zhu Changgui (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Longhua City. Lee's conscience food line.

Li's Conscience Grain Store is the largest grain merchant in the four northern provinces, and has been settled in Longhua for more than 100 years, and has been operating for more than four generations.

Today is a very special day for the Li family, although it is already early in the morning, but the old man of the Li family does not dare to rest, and even the immediate family members of the Li family have left Longhua County a few days ago, and the Li family is now only left with the old man Li Shixun to stay in the Li family.

The reason why the Li family was forced to flee from Longhua was that the old man already knew that the Eighth Route Army was going to attack Longhua County tonight, and it would definitely become a battlefield at that time, and the family would probably be injured by mistake if they stayed.

The reason why Li Shixun was able to get the news of the Eighth Route Army's attack on Longhua in advance was entirely because of one person, Zhu Changgui.

Who is Zhu Changgui, to say that not many people have heard of this name half a year ago, but almost no one in the ordinary people living in Rehe has not heard of him half a year later.

This person suddenly appeared in Longhua County in the first half of 38, and there was also a small army with him, the number of which is unknown, but it will certainly not be too much. As soon as this small unit arrived in Longhua, it attacked the Japanese strongholds everywhere, and the Japanese artillery towers in Tangtougou and Lanqi Town were attacked, and in just one month, the Japanese puppet army in Longhua County was severely damaged three times, and three garrison commanders were replaced, forcing the Japanese army to increase the defenders of one squadron in Longhua to two and a half squadrons, and later transferred a puppet infantry regiment, but still did not eliminate this unit.

The local people don't know which part this belongs to, is it the Central Army or the Eighth Route Army? Or is it the original Northeast Army? None of this is known, but the common people all know that the commander of this elusive small unit is named Zhu Changgui, a black-faced man who is more than seven feet tall.

In fact, this small army was neither the Central Army nor the Northeast Army. It was the Eighth Route Army, which was an anti-Japanese detachment behind enemy lines under the Suicha Military Region, and Zhu Changgui was the captain of this detachment, the former commander of the third battalion and three companies of the first regiment of the Seventh Independent Brigade.

Zhu Changgui arrived in Longhua County in May last year, and when he came over, the total strength was only 122 people, which could barely be regarded as an infantry company. After arriving in Longhua County. Zhu Changgui was not busy dealing with the Japanese puppet army inside and outside the city, but imitated Ma Zheng's practice in Hadesberg and first attacked the bandits in Longhua County.

To say that this Longhua County is poor and poor, the real poor mountains and bad waters, and it is also close to the provincial capital Chengde, so it has become an extremely serious area of banditry, even after the Japanese came, there was no change in the slightest, and even more serious.

Using what he learned under Ma Zheng, in less than a month. Zhu Changgui led this elite detachment to launch a series of attacks on the bandits' dens near Longhua and the paddock, and the results were extremely remarkable, and by the end of June, Zhu Changgui had more than 4,000 soldiers under his command. Although these people are extremely poorly armed and equipped, they are all old fritters, and their physical fitness is also very good, and they can become qualified fighters with a little training.

With these more than 4,000 people in hand, Zhu Changgui felt confident, so he began to attack the Japanese puppet army in Longhua County. Because Zhu Changgui was familiar with the routines of the Japanese army. As a result, the essence of guerrilla warfare was brought into full play, and four or five hundred Japanese puppet soldiers were killed and wounded in a short period of time. uprooted more than 30 strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, and even entered Longhua County for a time.

Zhu Changgui is considered to be the true legend of Ma Zheng, usually only a part of the troops are mobilized when fighting, and many of them show all their hole cards, so the Japanese army underestimated the strength of Zhu Changgui's department again and again, and every time he was beaten crying dad and calling mother.

After more than half a year of development. Zhu Changgui's department has expanded from more than 100 people to more than 6,000 now, and its weapons and equipment have been replaced. Although it cannot be compared with the remaining units of the Suicha Military Region, it is obviously better than other units of the Eighth Route Army.

More importantly, because of the activities of Zhu Changgui's department in Longhua, Weichang and other counties. It aroused the fighting spirit of the local people to resist the Japanese invaders, and also made them see the hope of defeating the Japanese.

Zhu Changgui found Li Shixun four months ago, and Zhu Changgui personally came to the door. As the troops gained a firm foothold in the Rebei area, Zhu Changgui also had some understanding of the situation in this area. In addition, the speed of the expansion of the army was so rapid that there was a shortage of food in the winter.

Food is a big deal for ordinary people, and it's even more important for the army. If the troops ran out of food, the soldiers would not have enough to eat, and their combat effectiveness would naturally be reduced if they were not full, so after learning that the troops were facing a crisis of food shortage, Zhu Changgui began to think of ways to solve this matter.

If you want to solve the food problem, the most effective way is to attack the transportation lines of the Japanese army, but the problem is that Zhu Changgui's department has a full 6,000 people, and relying on the transportation lines of the Japanese puppet army alone is a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the problem.

It stands to reason that after the outbreak of the war, this grain became a military material, and it was not allowed to be sold casually, so many grain merchants were forced to close their stores and change careers to do something else.

However, because the Li family is the largest grain merchant in the four northern provinces, and has been trading grain with the Japanese puppet leaders in the northeast since the September 18 Incident, the Li family is very fortunate to be specially approved by the Kwantung Army as a military grain merchant and allows the Li family to engage in grain business. On the one hand, it was hoped that the Li family would use its huge commercial network in the four northern provinces to stabilize the grain prices in the occupied areas for the Japanese army, and on the other hand, it would provide military rations for the Japanese army invading China through the channels of the Li family.

After knowing these at that time, Zhu Changgui's first reaction was to include the Li family in the traitor family, and was ready to get rid of this family that aided and abetted the abuse. However, in the process of collecting intelligence, Zhu Changgui found that the Li family did not seem to be as simple as it seemed, although the Li family was also serving the Japanese, but they were secretly very close to the two small units of the former Northeast Army, and often provided them with food and even weapons and equipment.

You must know that these two Northeast armies are the remnants of the troops who are unwilling to enter the pass despite Zhang Shaoshuai, and they are one of the most hated enemies of the Japanese army. Now the Li family and these two small troops are eyebrows, which shows that the relationship between the Li family and the Japanese does not seem to be as close as it seems.

So Zhu Changgui suspended the action against the Li family, investigated the Li family's movements in an all-round way, and sent people to enter the Li family's grain transportation team. The news that came back afterwards surprised Zhu Changgui, although the Li family did business with the Japanese, and even paid taxes to the Japanese for the authorities, but the old man of the Li family was not a person with the Japanese, and he could be regarded as an anti-Japanese fighter, but the battle lines they fought on were different.

After learning this, Zhu Changgui decided to take the risk to meet this old man to see if the two sides could cooperate.

What made Zhu Changgui happy was that when he came to the door, after confirming Zhu Changgui's identity, Li Shixun, the old man of the Li family, immediately decided to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army, and was willing to provide some military rations for the troops for free.

This time, Ma Zheng's headquarters was going to attack Longhua County, and the staff department contacted Zhu Changgui's headquarters when they arrived in Guyuan, hoping that they could infiltrate Longhua City before the general attack was launched and cooperate with the large army to attack the city. So Zhu Changgui found Old Man Li and asked him to help.

Zhu Changgui knew that in order to protect the grain, the Li family set up a huge grain transportation team with the approval of the Japanese army. Although this grain transport team is only a force similar to a security force, it usually acts as both a stevedore and a coachman, and only when it encounters bandits and disaster victims who grab food, it will take up arms to fight back, and the weapons are also extremely rudimentary single-shot guns, and the actual combat effectiveness is very limited.

But it can't stand the large number of people, there are at least 10,000 people in the grain transportation team owned by the Li family in the entire Rehe Province, and Zhu Changgui just wants to transfer the elite under his command into the city in the name of the grain transportation team.

Knowing that the Eighth Route Army was going to attack Longhua County, Old Man Li didn't say a word, and immediately expressed his support. Subsequently, more than 2,000 people under Zhu Changgui's department infiltrated Longhua County through various means, preparing to give the Japanese puppet army in the city a ruthless blow. (To be continued.) )