Cao Mancang hurriedly took out the business certificate and the certificate of good citizenship.

The captain of the gendarmerie squad just glanced at it, and said bluntly: "There is a problem with the business certificate, you should follow our gendarmerie." ”

After speaking, he took Cao Mancang away.

In the gendarmerie, Cao Mancang met Takuya Mizuhara as he wished.

Sending everyone out of the office, Takuya Mizuhara said, "Cao Sang, I've kept you waiting." ”

Cao Mancang said: "This must be the captain of Suwon of the Taiyuan Gendarmerie, but I really don't know what you're talking about." ”

"No, Cao Sang, you know what I'm talking about." Takuya Mizuhara said with a smile, "You have a famous saying in China that you don't tell lies in front of real people, isn't the reason why you took such a big risk to return to Taiyuan just to see me?" Isn't it just that you want to turn against me and develop me into your informant? ”

Cao Mancang felt a little unable to answer, why didn't Takuya Mizuhara play his cards according to the routine?

As an agent of the hidden front, shouldn't you try a few rounds in the clouds and fog first, and then start substantive contact or transactions after confirming that both parties have intentions, how can there be such an "open and honest" as soon as you come up? This is not the quality that an intelligence officer should have, and Takuya Mizuhara really came out of the gendarmerie system?

In just one round, Cao Mancang was completely stunned by Takuya Mizuhara.

Takuya Mizuhara smiled slightly, and said: "But I must regret to tell you that it is impossible for me to betray Japan, and I will never be able to betray Japan, just as you will never be able to betray China." ”

Cao Mancang's heart sank violently when he heard this, and he could hear that Takuya Mizuhara was not lying.

Takuya Mizuhara's words were not fierce, and he didn't swear by swearing, as if he was just saying a trivial matter, but Cao Mancang could hear the determination.

It seems that Counselor Wang's impression of the people of Osaka also seems to be skewed.

The people of Osaka don't seem to be a bunch of treacherous businessmen who are mercenary.

"Isn't it different from your impression of Osaka merchants?"

Takuya Mizuhara smiled slightly, and said, "It's different, in fact, not only you Chinese, but also the Japanese have many misunderstandings about us Osaka people." ”

Cao Mancang's face became more and more ugly.

Can this little devil hear his heart?

Takuya Mizuhara added: "We Osaka people really love peace and don't like to fight and kill, and the belief of our Osaka people is that if you can solve problems with money, you will never use knives and guns, and if you can not kill people, you will try not to kill people." ”

"It's the funniest joke I've ever heard." Cao Mancang completely fell into the trap of Takuya Mizuhara's words without knowing it, and said with a sneer, "If you can try not to kill people if you don't kill people?" Since you Japanese came to China, have you killed fewer people? Nanjing alone killed no less than 300,000 innocent civilians......"

"Cao Sang, you should control your emotions." Takuya Mizuhara smiled and said, "Don't forget that you are a secret agent, a spy, and a spy is not supposed to show emotion."

Cao Mancang suddenly screamed in his heart, but he said quietly on his face: "I don't know what you're talking about? I'm not a secret agent, and I'm not a spy. ”

Takuya Mizuhara smiled and said, "Cao Sang, what I don't like most about you Chinese is this, it's too hypocritical, isn't open and honest communication bad?" Unless you're worried about revealing your identity, but with all due respect, your worries are unwarranted, and if I really want to arrest you, why wait until today? ”

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara added: "Of course, open and honest conversations are limited to today, and only in my office. ”

Hearing this, Cao Mancang also realized that he was a little too cautious.

When I decided to return to Taiyuan, I was already mentally prepared to feed the tiger with my body, so what else was there to worry about?

Takuya Mizuhara said again: "Don't worry, I have cleared the case records you left in the gendarmerie for you, and now no one in the gendarmerie knows your details except me." ”

Cao Mancang said in a deep voice: "So, what exactly does Suwon Taijun want?" ”

"What I want is actually very simple." Takuya Mizuhara smiled and said, "Just one word - money!" ”

Cao Mancang just wanted to speak but was stopped by a gesture from Takuya Mizuhara, Takuya Mizuhara shook his finger and said: "But there must be a premise for this, you can't betray Japan." ”

Cao Mancang said solemnly: "How to define betrayal of Japan? ”

"That's a great question." Takuya Mizuhara said with a smile, "It is worth our serious discussion, in order to simplify a complex issue, we might as well discuss the Sino-Japanese war first." ”

"It is clear that this is a war of aggression imposed on the Chinese by the Japanese government." Cao Mancang Road.

"Agreed." Takuya Mizuhara said, "I also think it was a war of aggression, and I am convinced that most of the Japanese people are only blinded by fanatical warmongers and will support this war, but Japanese people like me who can keep thinking for themselves will not be blinded." ”

Takuya Mizuhara's answer surprised Cao Mancang a little.

At that moment, Cao Mancang said: "So, we have the basis for cooperation? ”

"Of course, the basis for cooperation is always there." Takuya Mizuhara said with a smile.

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara said again: "And in order to show my sincerity, I can now provide you with important information for free." ”

"Really?" Cao Mancang asked, "What information?"

Takuya Mizuhara said with a smile: "At this time, the headquarters of the First Army is holding a staff meeting to discuss the spring sweep, and if nothing else, there will soon be a big combat operation." ”

Cao Mancang's expression froze, and he asked again: "Who is the target?" When, exactly? ”

Takuya Mizuhara smiled slightly and said: "Cao San, the rules you should know, free information is the only one, if you want to get more information, you must exchange items or information of equal value, of course, you can also take money, but now the market has changed again, and now only gold and US dollars are accepted." ”

Cao Mancang said: "Aren't your lackey tickets okay?" ”

"I'm sorry." Takuya Mizuhara said, "Not even the yen." ”

It must be admitted that the business sense of the people of Osaka is truly unparalleled, and although the situation of the Japanese army was very good at this time, even Southeast Asia was already in the bag, and the financial situation was greatly eased, Takuya Mizuhara, who was a native of Osaka, had already seen a huge crisis under the surface of the fire.

A sharp depreciation of the yen is inevitable.

So now, Takuya Mizuhara doesn't even want to accept yen.

Cao Mancang frowned, and said, "What is the specific price?" ”

Takuya Mizuhara said: "One hundred taels of gold or three thousand dollars for a piece of information, refuse to bargain." ”

"What did you say?" Cao Mancang's eyes widened suddenly, and he lost his voice, "One hundred taels of gold or three thousand dollars for a piece of information?" How can there be such expensive information in this world, why don't you grab it? ”

Takuya Mizuhara spread his hands and said, "If you think it's expensive, you can not buy it." ”

After a pause, Takuya Mizuhara said: "We Osaka people have always been fair in our dealings, and we will never do anything like buying and selling, and I can assure you that the information provided is definitely worth the money." ”

Cao Mancang said in a deep voice: "I may have to go back and think about it." ”

"Of course." Takuya Mizuhara said, "You just think about it. ”

……

Fuliang Mountain, the headquarters of the independent regiment.

Xing Zhiguo and Zhao Gang have already returned, busy all winter, and the two can finally take a breath after the beginning of spring.

Because the reconstruction work of Dagu Town, Qingyun Town, and Lijia Town has been almost done, and the reconstruction work of the militia in the entire Fuliangshan base area has also been done almost completely.

Xing Zhiguo is reporting to the regimental party committee on his progress in work.

"Up to now, the Ping'an County Brigade, the Fu'an County Brigade, the Heyuan County Brigade and more than 20 district squads have all been formed, and the basic militias of various villages have also been re-developed, but there is a problem, that is, there is a large gap in weapons and equipment, and many militias can only be assigned a home-made mine to act as a façade."

Originally, the militia equipment in the Fuliangshan base area was good, but after the large-scale expansion of the independent regiment, these weapons and equipment were supplemented into the main force, and the level of the militia's weapons and equipment fell again.

Now don't talk about the militia teams in the villages, and even the county brigades can only use the old sleeves to make up the numbers.

Li Yunlong said: "The issue of weapons and equipment will certainly be resolved by the first half of this year at the latest. ”

"In the first half of this year?" Zhao Gang said, "Lao Li, are you so sure that there will be a big combat operation in the first half of the year?" ”

"Lao Zhao, this is not what I said, but what Xiao Wang said." After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he said to Wang Ye, "Xiao Wang, tell us Political Commissar Zhao about the international situation." ”

Wang Ye replied and re-explained the international situation after the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia.

Hearing this, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo's faces suddenly became grim, and Zhao Gang said with a solemn expression: "So in the next two years, we really have to be mentally prepared to live a hard life." ”

"It's a must." Li Yunlong said, "But it's nothing." ”

After a pause, he said: "No matter how hard it is, can it be even more difficult than during the Long March?" ”

Wang Ye said with a smile: "The head of the regiment is right, we have survived even the 25,000-mile long march, and there is no difficulty in this world that we can't overcome, but ......"

"But what?" Li Yunlong said, "I know that you kid has something to say." ”

Wang Ye said with a smile: "But we should still take precautions and make some preparations as much as possible, such as stockpiling as much ammunition as possible." ”

"You say this? It's a tough thing to do. ”

Li Yunlong said: "The devils are all good at learning, and this thing is not easy to handle." ”

"yes." Xing Zhiguo also said, "The devil is now shrinking in a few county towns and not coming out easily, usually only let the puppet army come out to activities, the puppet army is now also trained by the devil like a wolf, and I am not afraid to see our Eighth Route Army, and the puppet army carries not much ammunition, and it is not easy to eliminate a group of puppet troops and lose money." ”

After a pause, he added: "Recently, several county brigades have not even dared to fight guerrilla warfare, because they have lost money every time, and they will lose all their money if they fight a few more guerrilla wars. ”

Zhao Gang muttered: "It seems that relying on capture to maintain guerrilla warfare is only a luxury after all. ”

"Seizures alone will not work." Wang Ye said, "So we have to build an arsenal, and it is not mandatory to build guns and cannons, but at least it must be able to reload bullets and shells." ”

"Otherwise, no matter how much ammunition we have, we won't be able to last long."

"But with the arsenal, it's different, you can have a steady stream of reloaded bullets and shells, even if the elastic performance of the reloaded bullets and cannons is a little worse, but at least it can be used."

Speaking of this, he said to Li Yunlong with a smile: "Just like the head of the regiment said, no matter what kind of plaster he is, what can pull out pus is a good plaster, which is better than nothing!" ”

Li Yunlong smiled and said, "That's the reason. ”

Zhao Gang said: "Why don't you make a report to the head of the headquarters?" ”

Zhao Gang's meaning was to ask the head of the headquarters to support an arsenal branch.

In the last breakthrough, the equipment and technical personnel of the Shuijiaozi Arsenal were completely transferred to the mountainous areas near Liao County and Licheng with the headquarters organs, and a Huangyadong Arsenal was rebuilt.

Now the scale of the Huangyadong Arsenal is quite large, and it can even produce rifles.

Zhao Gang's meaning was to let the Huangyadong Arsenal build a bullet workshop in the northwest of Shanxi.

Li Yunlong waved his hand and said: "The scale of the Huangyadong Arsenal is only so small, how can it have the ability to assist our base area in the northwest of Shanxi?" In my opinion, we have to figure it out on our own. ”

Xing Zhiguo said: "This matter is not easy to solve. ”

Wang Ye said: "It's hard to say this, but it's not difficult to say. ”

Li Yunlong said: "Xiao Wang, you kid won't want to fight Taiyuan again, right?" ”

Wang Ye smiled and asked Li Yunlong: "Commander, don't you want to?" ”

"Nonsense? Can Lao Tzu not want to. Li Yunlong said, "Lao Tzu wants to fight Taiyuan in his dreams." ”

"What? Hit Taiyuan? Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo changed color when they heard this, and said in unison, "Lao Li, Xiao Wang, this is not a joke, you two don't mess around." ”

While talking, Cheng Yue hurriedly walked in and handed a telegram to Wang Ye.

After Wang Ye finished reading the telegram, Huo Ran got up and said: "This is really whatever you say, this is a top-secret information provided by the Taiyuan underground party just transferred from the headquarters, saying that the devil will launch a big sweep soon, but the specific time and specific sweep target will be further determined." ”

"Damn, the opportunity is really here."

Li Yunlong also Huo Ran got up, and said: "The last time we fought Taiyuan, the strength of our three regiments was still weak, so we could only beat the side drum on the side, and we could only watch Chu Yunfei and Liang Gang sing the leading roles from the side. ”

"But the situation is different now, now the bodies of our three regiments are hard, and we can sing the leading role."

"Hahaha, this time Lao Tzu has to fight Taiyuan by himself, Chu Yunfei and Liang Gang If they want to join in the fun, let them beat the side drum next to them, if they don't want to join in the fun, then stay where it is cool."

Xing Zhiguo said: "Lao Li, isn't the situation still undecided?" We don't even know exactly where the devils are fighting. ”

Zhao Gang also said: "Yes, what if the devil's target is our northwest Jin?" Lao Li, before we determine the real goal and time of the devil, we can't act rashly. ”

This will Zhao Gang is really a little anxious, worried that Li Yunlong's brain will be hot and he will run to fight Taiyuan.

Because less than two months ago, Yan'an issued an order to cancel the final decision of the head of the political work.

In other words, when there is a serious difference of opinion between the military chief and the head of political work, the head of political work will no longer make the final decision, but the military chief will exercise the final decision.

Specific to the independent regiment, it is Li Yunlong who has the final say.

If Li Yunlong wants to hit Taiyuan with a single tendon, the regimental party committee will not be able to stop him.

What worries Zhao Gang even more is that Wang Ye is still "in a group" with Li Yunlong, and Zhao Gang is really worried that these two people will poke a hole in the sky and cause irreparable heavy losses to the troops.

"Lao Zhao, don't worry, I won't mess around."

"When it comes to fighting, I, Li Yunlong, will always take advantage."

"When did you see me Li Yunlong suffer a loss on the battlefield?"

Li Yunlong laughed and said, "Xiao Wang, you analyze and analyze first." ”

Wang Ye replied yes, and said: "The target and time of the devil's sweep are actually not difficult to determine. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Gang's expression moved, and he asked again, "Xiao Wang, can you analyze the target and time of the devil's sweep?" ”

Wang Ye said: "First of all, it takes about two to three days for war materials to be transported from the Japanese mainland to China's Tianjin Port or Qingdao Port by sea, and it takes about 10 days to transfer them from Tianjin Port or Qingdao Port to Beiping or Taiyuan, so this sweeping operation will not be launched until mid-March at the earliest. ”

"Considering the dispatch and deployment of Japanese troops, as well as the formulation of plans,"

"I don't think it can start until mid or even late April at the earliest."

"Of course, if it's just a small sweep of less than 10,000 people, it can start in late March, but I don't think it's very likely that the devils will launch a small sweep of less than 10,000 people."

In fact, there is no need to analyze this at all.

Because historically, this year's sweep has mostly been in May.

For example, the May Day sweep personally commanded by Okamura Ninji.

"Makes sense." Li Yunlong asked again, "What about the devil's sweeping target?" ”

Wang Ye said: "With the current situation, it is unlikely that the devils will attack the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army, and there is a high probability that they will also target us. ”

After saying this, Wang Ye said again: "The regiment commander, the political commissar, and the deputy head of the criminal regiment, do you remember that at the end of last year, the Japanese puppet army launched a sweep in the area of Liao County and Licheng?" ”

Li Yunlong said: "Of course I remember, the pseudo-seventh master has done a lot of evil things. ”

Wang Ye said: "That is, the devil is doing his homework in advance, touching the bottom of our Taihang Military Region, and at the same time accurately mapping the areas around Liaoxian, Licheng and Changzhi, originally, even if there is no great victory of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, the First Army will carry out a sweeping operation on the Taihang Military Region, but now it is just in advance." ”