Sending Wang Kemin away, Major General Hirata Masaju said to Okamura Ningji: "Your Excellency Commander, this is really a godsend, with the secret cooperation of the Chinese political axe army, the imperial army can completely level the base of the Eighth Route Army in advance, eliminate the Eighth Route Army, and the imperial army can concentrate its troops and go all out to deal with the Chinese political axe army." ”

"Nope." Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said, "The Imperial Army must unswervingly implement the policy of 'encroachment', and must not easily sweep the base areas of the Eighth Route Army before the conditions are fully mature." After saying this, Okamura Ningji said again, "Hirata-kun, the hard bone of the Eighth Route Army, let's let the Shina Political Axe Army gnaw it first." ”

Hirata Masashi said disapprovingly: "Your Excellency Commander, I think that the Dirt Eight Road is a rabble!" ”

"Yaga." Okamura Ninji said angrily, "Have you forgotten the lesson of Tada? Tada Jun also thinks that Tsuchihachi is a rabble, and thinks that their will to resist can be destroyed by slaughter, but what is the result? As a result, the situation in the whole of North China was completely out of control, and it almost led to an irreparable tragedy! ”

"Hello." Hirata suddenly bowed his head, but the expression on his face was still a little unconvinced.

Okamura Ninji sighed, and then said: "Hirata-kun, it seems that you still don't know much about the characteristics of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army is basically a group of militia, as long as they take off their uniforms, they are no different from ordinary people, and if the imperial army wants to really level the base of the Eighth Route Army, there is only one way, that is, to kill all Chinese." ”

After saying this, Okamura Ningji said again: "However, the base area of the Eighth Route Army in North China is vast and the population is large, can the imperial army kill it?" Tada was steadfast in his policy of slaughter, but what was the result? As a result, out of ten Chinese civilians, Tada Jun killed one, and the other nine became warriors! ”

"Hello." Hirata Masashi bowed his head suddenly, and finally figured it out.

"Therefore, we must unswervingly pursue the policy of 'encroachment'." Okamura Ninji said, "Only through the 'encroachment' policy can the base area of the Eighth Route Army gradually shrink, and only when the area and population of the base area of the Eighth Route Army shrink to a certain limit, can the Imperial Army implement the policy of slaughter without scruples, do you understand?" ”

"Hello, mine got it." Hirata bowed his head for the third time, and he completely understood.

However, Hirata Masashi quickly looked up again and said, "However, it would be a shame to miss this opportunity." ”

Okamura Ninji waved his hand and said: "Hirata-kun, not only do you not know the Eighth Route Army, but you also don't know enough about the leader of the branch, Jiang, since Jiang sent a message through Wang Kemin and wanted to cooperate with the imperial army, it is enough to show that he has become jealous of the Eighth Route Army, once Jiang is jealous of the Eighth Route Army, even if there is no imperial army, he will also do it." ”

………… It turns out that Okamura Ninji's prediction was absolutely correct!

In May of the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), that is, the second month after the Eighth Route Army launched the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, there was a crazy wave of anti-communist rebellion in the [***] troops in various theaters in North China.

Previously, in order to consolidate the base area and resist the sweep of the Yue army, Wei Lihuang in Zhongtiao Mountain, Sun Lianzhong in Luzhong Mountain, Yu Xuezhong in Sulu Border, and Yan Commander in the Second War Zone all openly absorbed a lot of [***] members, not to mention Yue Weihan's 39th Group Army, and there were hundreds of [***] members who were openly active.

Now, all of these public [***] members have suffered!

………… Nakajo Mountain, Theater Command.

When Zhao Yunhe, deputy director of the Political Department of the 95th Division of the 43rd Army of the Central Army, walked into the large conference room, he saw that there were no less than 20 people sitting inside, many of whom were acquaintances of Zhao Yunhe, all of whom came from Yan'an.

In the sound of hurried footsteps, Hu Zongnan, commander-in-chief of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater, had already walked in surrounded by attendants.

Zhao Yunhe and the others hurriedly got up and saluted, but Hu Zongnan walked to the rostrum without saying a word, first coldly glanced at the dozens of [***] members in the audience, and then shouted: "Take it!" ”

Without waiting for Zhao Yunhe and the others to react, hundreds of armed gendarmes had already swarmed in, and without saying anything, they pushed Zhao Yunhe and the others to the ground and tied them up, Zhao Yunhe asked in wonder while struggling: "Commander-in-Chief Hu, what are you doing here?" We have not violated military discipline, so why should we be arrested? ”

"Why?" Hu Zongnan said coldly, "Just because you are a gangster!" ”

"Commander-in-Chief Hu, please pay attention to your words." Zhao Yunhe said solemnly, "Now is the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party!" ”

"Kuomintang-Communist cooperation?" Hu Zongnan said abruptly, "This was originally a joke, you gangsters, if it weren't for Zhang Xueliang's useless waste, you should have been exterminated as early as northern Shaanxi, how could you be allowed to run rampant until now?" However, it's not a big deal, a few days earlier and a few days later, it doesn't make much difference, hum. ”

"Hu Zongnan!" Zhao Yunhe said angrily, "You are sabotaging the national united front, and you have to bear historical responsibility!" ”

"Well said!" Hu Zongnan said, "Only by killing you communists and bandits can we truly be responsible for history and truly form a united front against Japan!" Saying this, Hu Nanzong shouted again, "Drag it down, shoot it!" ”

………… Taiyuan, Yan Mansion.

The attendant adjutant Xu Youde tiptoed into Chief Yan's room and said in a low voice: "General seat, the [***] members of the various group armies who are openly active and secretly active have all been controlled, you can see ......"

"Kill them all." Chief Yan said with a sad face, "Jiang has given a death order, and if you don't do it, you can't do it." ”

"Yes." Xu Youde agreed and immediately took the order, but as soon as he arrived at the door, he was called back by Chief Yan.

"Don't kill it." Chief Yan sighed and said, "If you really kill all these communists, but you will offend the Eighth Route Army to death, we will never stop in Shanxi in the future, so we will pull these communists to the street for a turn, do enough on the surface, and then pull them into the mountains and secretly release them." ”

"Yes, I understand." Xu Youde took the order and left.

………… Sulu theater of operations, headquarters of the 3rd Army.

Nearly 100 [***] members were invited to the official residence of Yu Xuezhong, the commander-in-chief of the theater of operations, Yu Xuezhong gave each fifty pieces of ocean, and said politely: "Everyone, this year, thank you for your great support, without your hard work and the strong support of your party, Yu would not have been able to gain a foothold on the Sulu border." ”

Nearly 100 [***] members looked at each other, not knowing what Yu Xuezhong meant.

Yu Xuezhong didn't explain too much, and then Tuan Tuan said: "However, Yu has just received an order from Shangfeng, it is no longer appropriate for you to stay in the Sulu War Zone, and then stay in Yu's troops, where did you come from or where do you go back, just a few dozen oceans, it is really not a respect, I hope you can laugh at it." ”

………… Luzhong Mountain, Headquarters of the 2nd Army.

Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 30th Army, hurriedly entered Sun Lianzhong's office, stood up and said: "General, all the communists who are openly and secretly active in the war zone have been arrested, do you think they have been secretly released?" Although these people are all communists, they have really helped us a lot. ”

"What did you say, let them go?" Sun Lianzhong frowned and said, "No! Absolutely not! ”

After saying this, Sun Lianzhong said again: "Chairman Jiang's order is child's play, shoot them, shoot them all!" ”

………… Jingcheng County, Headquarters of the 39th Group Army.

Yue Weihan, who had just returned from southern Hebei, didn't have time to wash his face, so he hurried to the war room.

Liu Yi, who was busy in the war room, and more than a dozen senior staff officers hurriedly greeted him, Yue Weihan waved his hand to stop everyone from saluting, and immediately asked Liu Yi: "Chief of Staff, why do you want to detain the [***] party members in the group army?" ”

"Boss, you better take a look at this first." Liu Yi handed Yue Weihan a telegram with a solemn expression.

Yue Weihan took the telegram and saw that it was Chairman Chiang, which was new, since the breakthrough of Xuzhou, Chairman Chiang had never sent a telegram to Yue Weihan in his private name, and then looked at the content, but asked Yue Weihan to immediately eliminate the [***] members of the 39th Group Army, and cooperate with the army to exterminate the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei.

"And this." Liu Yi handed another telegram to Yue Weihan.

This telegram was a secret telegram sent to Ma Zhankui by Ma Hansan, head of the Beiping Station of the Military Command, and the content was that Chairman Chiang was secretly in contact with Okamura Ningji through Wang Kemin, chairman of the puppet North China Provisional Political Axe Administrative Committee.

After reading the telegram, Yue Weihan was very angry in his heart, but there was no difference on his face.

From the bottom of his heart, Chairman Chiang was a politician, and seeing that the Eighth Route Army had expanded from a dozen regiments to more than 200 regiments in less than a year, it was inevitable that he would feel jealous, and in addition, Okamura Ningji, an old devil, deliberately showed weakness, and it was reasonable that Chairman Chiang would have the idea of weakening the Eighth Route Army by lending his own hands.

Yue Weihan put down the telegram and said to Liu Yi again: "Chief of Staff, you haven't answered my question yet. ”

Liu Yi sighed and said helplessly: "General seat, the current situation is very complicated, Zhongtiao Mountain, Jin Sui Army, the 3rd Group Army and the 2nd Group Army have all been purged, Yu Xuezhong and Yan Xishan are still polite, Sun Lianzhong and Hu Zongnan simply killed all the [***] members!" ”

After saying this, Liu Yi said in a solemn tone: "General, the wave of the platoon communists in various theaters has been formed, and I am very worried that [***] will take decisive measures to counteract, if we don't control the [***] members within the group army, in case they gather to make trouble or incite the troops to mutiny, then it will be a big trouble. ”

Yue Weihan was silent, Liu Yi did not know that Yue Weihan had secretly joined the party, and it was reasonable to take decisive measures to temporarily detain [***] members under the premise that friends and foes were difficult to argue, fortunately, Liu Yi did not kill or send these [***] members out of the country, otherwise, Yue Weihan would really have a hard time arguing.

Moreover, Yue Weihan quickly thought of another layer, maybe this was a great opportunity to lure Okamura Ningji, an old devil, into being fooled!

(To be continued)