The ceremony soon began, and all the steps were carried out in full accordance with the ancient rites, and there were reporters taking pictures all the time, and people even wrote press releases on the spot and sent them to all over the world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The ritual of sacrificing Confucius is very complicated, there are also debates on the date, the most important in the ritual is the three offerings, the chief priest must first dress and wash his hands before he can go to the front of the Confucius incense table to bow on the incense, when bowing the man should be left hand in front and right hand in the back, and the woman should have the right hand in front and the left hand in the back. Okamura Ningji bowed to Confucius's wooden card money and offered incense according to such ancient ritual requirements, followed by Zhou Fohai and others in turn.

Soon, the whole ceremony was over, and Okamura Ninji came outside, and a wooden platform had already been set up outside, which was prepared for Okamura Ninji's next Q&A.

As soon as Okamura Ninji stood on the stage, the reporters hurriedly raised their hands, and Okamura Ninji smiled and pointed to a blonde Western reporter.

The reporter nodded in gratitude and said, "General Okamura, I would like to ask, as far as I know, the worship of Confucius is a traditional event in China, and the time is not at this time, why did you participate in such an event and choose such a time?" ”

Okamura Ningji was very satisfied with this question, nodded and said, "First of all, I like Chinese history very much, in fact, my real name Okamura Ningci should be Xu Ningci, a descendant of the famous general Xu Da of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, not only me, many Japanese have Chinese blood, in terms of blood, the Japanese are actually closer than the Manchurians and the Han people!"

And then why am I holding this event at this time? Because I know that since the beginning of 37 years, the Chinese people have had a lot of misunderstandings about us Japanese, some of which are due to the misleading of the Chinese Red Party and Mr. Jiang Zhongzhong, but it is also true that some of them have not done well ourselves, so I decided to let the Chinese people know us Japanese again, recognize our goodwill, and understand our determination to help China! I am here to appeal to all the Chinese people in North China that we are willing to work with all the people in North China to build a new North China, and we are ready to introduce a package to build our North China. ”

Immediately another group of people raised their hands, and Okamura Ninji nodded to a short Japanese, and the Japanese nodded and said, "General Okamura, I want to know what that package is?" ”

Okamura Ninji said, "We know that our troops have a lot of contradictions with the Chinese people in North China because of language barriers, so our first step will be to clean up the army, you can send a document to tell all the people in North China, as long as you do not support anti-Japanese activities, you are absolutely free, if you find that any Japanese soldiers infringe on your interests, you can go to the local headquarters to report, if they do not accept, you can write to me directly, I promise to uphold justice for you, Supervision by journalists is also welcome.

Then we will drastically reduce the industrial and commercial tax revenues in areas with good public order, stop violent policies such as compulsory acquisitions, and completely return the local public security and administration to the Nanjing government in China. ”

Okamura's words and policies soon spread throughout the country, and everyone was curious to see what kind of astonishing actions the newly appointed commander of the North China Front would make. Okamura Ninji did not disappoint, he really greatly reduced the tax rate in the Japanese-occupied areas of North China, and also stopped the things he had been doing to enforce military tickets, and even held the recruitment of civil servants and officers, and recruited many talents from North China.

But there are still people who find that Okamura Ningci is not simple, and the first person to find out that something is wrong is not Shandong, where Okamura Ningji is set as a key target, but Liu Deng's army on Taihang Mountain.

"Strangely, in the past week or two, our salt and sugar shipments have dropped significantly." Deng Xianxian walked to Liu Bocheng's office with the report and said.

"Oh? Could it be that it's because it's getting colder now? Liu Bocheng asked guessingly.

Deng Xianxian shook his head and said, "This is impossible, the weather is going to get cold now, it should be more time to ship, I think there may be some movement of the Japanese army." ”

Liu Bocheng said strangely: "But I didn't hear any news... It's Okamura Ninji who started to build trenches and bunkers again, but this shouldn't have much impact on us. ”

Deng Xianxian looked at the report carefully and said, "I took a look, and it was those Japanese businessmen who fell sharply, and they haven't gone up the mountain for the past two weeks... I suspect it has something to do with Ninji Okamura, who may have infiltrated last time. ”

When Liu Bocheng heard this, he immediately said, "In this way, this Okamura Ningji is really not simple, it turns out that the Japanese army also wants to control our salt and sugar, but there is no way, as a result, this Okamura Ningji first controlled the Japanese businessmen as soon as he came, which shows that he understands our situation very well and is extremely hostile to us." Do you think he's going to hold a big encirclement next? ”

Deng Xianxian nodded and said, "It is very likely, I think we will increase the intelligence force in the plain area." ”

When tension began to arise in the Taihang Mountain base area, Wu Peifu was informed by Okamura Ningji that he was ready to attend an extremely important meeting.

Yuan Shu came to Wu Peifu's home, looked at Wu Peifu and said with a smile: "Dashuai, don't you look very happy to see you!" ”

Wu Peifu muttered, "Do you know how long it has been since I dared to read newspapers and listen to the radio, every time I go out, I feel that there are countless people pointing at me!" ”

Yuan Shu smiled and said, "Dashuai, these will be washed away later, Okamura Ningji is amazing, he first held a Japanese business conference, requiring all Japanese businessmen to record, and prohibiting Japanese businessmen from selling salt and sugar and other materials related to the Red Party, but also a thorough inventory of military materials, it can be said that the previous methods are useless, hehe, I don't know how many Japanese businessmen hate him to the core." ”

Wu Peifu nodded and said, "Indeed, a few days ago, he personally shot a Japanese soldier who shot and killed the people in front of Tiananmen Square in Beiping, so that now there are traitors and literati everywhere who praise him, these guys, I really think he is a saint!" ”

Yuan Shu smiled, speaking of which, there is still one of those disgusting articles that he wrote.

Wu Peifu stopped gossiping and said to Yuan Shu, "Yes, let's go and see what new tricks Okamura Ningji has." ”

There was nothing to say all the way, and the two came to the combat conference room of the North China Front Headquarters together, Yuan Shu couldn't go in, so Wu Peifu walked in by himself, Wu Peifu saw a bunch of senior Japanese officers sitting down as soon as he entered, and he went straight to the second position, and after a while Okamura Ningji walked in and sat in the first place, and Yamashita Fengwen sat in the second position.

Okamura Ninji looked at everyone and saw that everyone had arrived, nodded and said, "Okay!" Ladies and gentlemen, please hand over all the pens and paper to the guards next to you, this combat meeting is a top secret meeting, and no records are allowed, please understand. ”

After everyone handed over the pen and paper, Okamura Ninji said, "The theme of this combat meeting is the Shandong Clean-up Plan!" General Yamashita will be asked to give a specific explanation to the army. ”

Shandong? Wu Peifu suddenly felt shocked when he heard Shandong, anyone is very concerned about his hometown, although Wu Peifu has not been home for a long time, but he has been paying attention to Shandong, and now he can't help but be a little worried when he hears that the devil wants to focus on Shandong, but on the surface he still tries to pretend that he doesn't care.

Yamashita stood up and bowed to everyone and said, "Gentlemen! As you should know, North China is now nominally ruled by the Imperial Army and the Nanking government, but in reality, more than 70% of the land and population are in the hands of another force - the Chinese Red Party and the Eighth Route Army! They took the so-called guerrillas as the main force, reunited in the countryside cottages, confronted the imperial army, propagated anti-Japanese ideas, extremely dangerous, and even in the first two years of fighting, took away Shanxi and Suiyuan from the imperial army, which made the imperial army suffer a big loss, our research believes that the key is the Eighth Route Army forces lurking in various places, these troops often cooperate with the main force to fight at critical moments, so that our troops are beaten everywhere, attacked everywhere, extremely passive, and finally lead to strategic defeat, and economically, These troops organized the local people to resist rent and taxes, and destroyed the economy, so that North China not only did not help the empire, but became a burden, which is really a shame for our North China Front! ”

"Hey!" Except for Wu Peifu, the Japanese officers all lowered their heads, as if they deserved to die, Wu Peifu looked down on the Japanese army in his heart, and he was really ashamed to commit suicide, don't be scary here.

Yamashita continued: "According to this situation, we decided to take Shandong as the main direction of clean-up, and the Red Party in North China was cleaned up little by little by the forces of the Eighth Route Army, so why did we choose Shandong? Shandong is close to the sea, and we will have naval support, while Hebei is close to Shanxi and Suiyuan, and the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain relies on the terrain and is more difficult to attack, so we adhere to the principle of first easy and then difficult, and choose Shandong, now let's talk about the specific plan.

We plan to organize 75 of the 125 brigades of the First Army and the Twelfth Army and the troops directly under the jurisdiction of the Front Army, including six tank brigades, 10 cavalry brigades, and 8 artillery brigades, with a total of 120,000 imperial troops, as well as 20 regiments of the North China Peace Army, about 80,000 people, and a total strength of 200,000 troops. ”

As he spoke, Yamashita Fengwen opened the map, and on a huge map, it could be seen that Shandong was divided into hundreds of dense pieces.

Yamashita said, "We will re-divide Shandong on the basis of rivers, mountains, roads, and railways, and divide all areas into three categories, one of which is a safe area, and the second and third categories are clean-up areas, and each department will act according to the instructions, taking this area as an example, it is composed of five lines, and we will require six brigades or 18 battalions to act together, each brigade or three battalions on one side, of course, the specific situation will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and they will move closer to the center, which is the red area, It is confirmed to be the base of the Eighth Route Army, except for a very small number of elements, the people here are all red party and red-related elements, and our demand is to kill them all! ”

"Kill them all?" Wu Peifu was taken aback, he looked at Okamura Ningji and said, "Could it be that the people are also killed?" ”

Okamura Ningji looked at Wu Peifu gloomily and nodded, "The people here are already hopeless, I can guarantee that you will not find the people in the village, they will all hide in the nearby mountains, so you must first occupy the mountains, rivers and forests near the village, and then attack the village, General Wu, you should know that we have lowered taxes for the whole of North China, and the army is not allowed to harass the people, right?" But when we came to North China, the Japanese Empire, we also wanted food and military salaries, and our goodwill and tax cuts were aimed at those who were willing to show goodwill to us, and as for those who resisted us with weapons, we must naturally resolutely get rid of them! ”

"But those are the people!" Wu Peifu ignored Yuan Shu's advice before he came, and continued to tell Okamura Ningji that he really couldn't accept that his fellow villagers were going to be massacred in an organized way like this.

"I'm not trying to deal with the people!!" Okamura Ninji slapped the table and shouted, "I'm going to deal with the Eighth Route Army!" Deal with the guerrillas! Let me ask you, the people in these places all support those Eighth Route Army, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are their children, the clothes of the Eighth Route Army are sewed by them, the food is provided by them, and the residence is their home. ”

As he spoke, Okamura Ninji said to all the Japanese officers, "Kill all these places that are marked red!" Burn it out! Grab the light! No one here needs to live, all the wells here must be filled, all the livestock here must be captured, and those who can't be caught will be killed and put into rivers and wells, and I want all here to die! Got it? ”

"Hey!"

Wu Peifu looked at the red-eyed and bloodthirsty appearance of those Japanese officers one by one, and knew that it was impossible to make these demons change their minds by talking on their own, so he sat down slowly, his eyes glazed over, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Yamashita continued, "Then there are these yellow places, these places are infested with guerrillas, you can choose whether you want to slaughter the village or give them the Hinomaru banner to shelter, you remember, we will make some special flags at that time, these flags will be given to those friendly people who are willing to cooperate with the imperial army, and those people must be respected, and even give some benefits and advantages, these people will be the cornerstone of my law and order in North China, understand?" ”

"Hey!"

The meeting lasted for a day, and when Wu Peifu returned home, it was already dark, Wu Peifu trembled and poured water with a teacup, he guessed that the Japanese army would make a big move, but he didn't expect it to be so vicious, looking at the color of the map just now, how many people would be killed by these beasts? Million? Or ten million? No one knows, but the only thing that is certain is that a catastrophe in Shandong is coming. (To be continued.) )