Spring.

The temperature of the general environment in the northwest of Shanxi Province has risen, and it no longer looks like the cold winter time.

Taking advantage of the winter, the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were temporarily peaceful, and under Kong Jie's arrangement, the independent regiment continued to broaden its business path, and achieved initial results:

The latest cooperation with the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army has been reached again.

Yang Chongshan, the commander of the 57th Regiment, was indeed a little panicked after learning that Kong Jie had found a new seller, the 71st Regiment of the Jin Suijun.

Yang Chongshan knows the name of the 71st regiment.

The 71st Regiment is particularly good at doing business, they not only do business with the Jin Suijun, they do business with the Central Army, and even do business with little devils, and that business is much more extensive than his 57th Regiment.

To say that the 71st Regiment did business with the Independent Regiment, Yang Chongshan really didn't doubt it.

Wu Changsheng, the head of the 71st regiment, said in his life, "As long as there is money to be made, I don't care who he is, this financial is the uncle, the bank has milk and is the mother, and my team also has to eat, drink and Lazar." ”

Therefore, after learning that the Independent Regiment might turn around and do business with the 71st Regiment, Yang Chongshan did not dare to hesitate anymore, and hurriedly prepared all the equipment and ammunition for the new batch of orders sent by Kong Jie.

On the side of the independent regiment, the Ministry of Finance spent nearly 300,000 legal dollars at one time to purchase a considerable batch of Jin-made grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns, as well as rifles and ammunition.

On the other hand, through the business operation of Xu Qingnian's father, Xu Fenggong, in the enemy-occupied county, the sales of honeycomb coal produced by the independent regiment and the honeycomb coal stove were quite good.

The people in the county are very fond of the convenience of this honeycomb coal.

But if you are a little wealthier and come across a stove and honeycomb coal, you will always have to buy some.

The reputation of this peculiar honeycomb coal, which is easy to use and suitable for heating and cooking, soon spread in the county.

On the side of the independent regiment, the sales of honeycomb coal and coal stoves also increased all of a sudden, and after Dong San asked Kong Jie for instructions, he also specially pulled out a production line and expanded the scale to produce honeycomb coal and coal stoves.

This alone brought a lot of income to the independent regiment.

Since the armed seizure of the county seat of the devil, as well as the cash flow of the Jin Sui Army and the Central Military Bank, the Ministry of Finance, which has been unable to enter and exit the independent regiment, finally has its first good income.

Minister of Finance Xu Qingnian had a smile on his face, and he even began to plan the financial sector belonging to the independent regiment after the time was right.

Business in the direction of Inner Mongolia is also doing very well.

Honeycomb coal, and honeycomb coal stoves, for the independent regiment to return a batch of cattle and sheep.

The independent regiment reclaimed a large amount of wasteland in the surrounding area, and planted more than 1,000 catties of potatoes and mothers and children.

Kong Jie is confident in this point, and as long as the base area is stable, as long as the tragic counter-sweep in less than 42 years is underway, it will be able to hold on.

After this batch of potatoes is harvested again, it will be able to solve the logistical food supply problem of the independent regiment to a large extent.

Regiment headquarters.

Kong Jie is discussing with Dong San and Xu Qingnian about continuing to expand the business chain of the independent group.

Kong Jie said: "The efficiency of this honeycomb coal production and honeycomb coal stove is still a little low, and the coal stove is often sold better in winter.

In the spring and summer, when the weather warms up, if you are not particularly wealthy at home, most of them will not buy our coal stove. ”

"So we still have to think of a profitable business."

Dong San scratched his head, he didn't think of any better idea: "Regiment Leader, but apart from this honeycomb coal and honeycomb coal stove, what else can we do in our base area?" Tea? Or are you going to shoot potatoes, potato flour or something like that? ”

Kong Jie said: "During the war, when we do business, we must not only consider the question of how much money we can make, but also consider whether the actual goods will be sold out, whether the disadvantages outweigh the advantages or the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. ”

"For example, some local national armies, they sell high-quality sha, timber, and all kinds of rare metal ores to the Japanese army, and after getting money from the Japanese army, they buy back big cigarettes and other things from the devils, and after returning to the national control area, they sell these big tobaccos to their own people at a high price."

"Think about it, is this going to work? The final result of this is that the little devils have all kinds of materials that can be used to develop industrial production, make guns, artillery, and shipbuilding, and what about these national armies? They just got some big cigarettes, and when they finished the big cigarettes, they were gone, and their bodies collapsed. ”

"What is the difference between this little devil who persecuted us Chinese with opium back then?"

"One day, the shells that the Japanese make with the materials they sell will have to fall on their heads."

"So the grain crops in our base area, including this honeycomb coal, and coal stoves, even if we want to do business, our target is the people in the county, not the little devils, we can't let the devils take advantage."

"I've thought about this carefully, let's give you a general direction, let's not focus on these crops, these things are also needed in our bases, and we have food in our pockets, so we don't panic."

"Then think of other ways, such as the devil selling big cigarettes to the national army, and we can also produce some cigarettes to sell to the little devils and make money from the devils."

"As for the factories and equipment for the production of cigarettes, I will ask Wang An to think of a way, but it really can't be done, just find the tobacco factory of the devil puppet army and rob it."

"In addition, I think we can also produce chicken essence."

Xu Qingnian was puzzled: "Leader, I have eaten Ajinomoto or something like this in the county town of Devils, which is said to be a seasoning invented by the Japanese, and after it was transmitted to our China, we are usually called monosodium glutamate, what is this chicken essence?" ”

Kong Jie explained with a smile: "If our independent group wants to do business, we don't necessarily have to delve into those businesses that no one else has done.

It's better to think differently, we can also do the business that the devil and the national army can do, what we have to do is to improve the quality of our goods and gain market recognition, then we will win.

For example, the devil has a factory that produces cigarettes, and we also produce cigarettes, and our cigarettes are cheaper and taste better than the cigarettes they produce. ”

"If we advertise again, every pack of cigarettes produced by our independent regiment can make a contribution to the cause of the Anti-Japanese War."

"Didn't you make money, and by the way, you also carried anti-Japanese propaganda?"

Dong San, Xu Qingnian: "......"

"And as I just said, the Japanese invented Ajinomoto or monosodium glutamate, so we can go to the next level.

For example, the MSG made by the little devils, after we buy some in bulk and come back, we mix some other things in it, grind the chicken and chicken bones into flour, and add it to it, can we further enhance the taste of this MSG? That's what I'm talking about chicken bouillon.

Of course, how to produce the specific method, I will let the old squad leaders of the cooking class study and study it well, and finally create this new chicken essence, which must be better than the little devil's MSG in taste, then we will have a market. ”

How to make chicken essence, Kong Jie probably still knows a little.

If this chicken essence can be made, it can definitely suppress the devil's MSG in terms of taste.

Dong San and Xu Qingnian are also good at business, as soon as Kong Jie said this, the two immediately came back to their senses, I looked at their head with admiration, and the head of the group was too good at his brain.

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Taiyuan City.

Kazuki Yamamoto, the captain of the special forces of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi, and Ishii Haraichi, the commander of the Japanese army, were preparing to join forces to eliminate Kong Jie and destroy the actual military operation of the independent regiment, but they were not in a hurry to start.

Ishii Haraichi and Yamamoto Kazuki reached a consensus on this point.

The lion fights the rabbit with all his might.

Ishii Haraichi was originally cautious, while Yamamoto Kazuki had suffered too much at the hands of Kong Jie, and he was not allowed to be careless.

The two agreed that in order to send troops to destroy the Independent Regiment in one fell swoop and eliminate Kong Jie, the head of the Independent Regiment, intelligence gathering is a very important part.

In addition, Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi, also told Kazuki Yamamoto and Ishii Haraichi.

According to the order conveyed by the North China Front Command, it is expected that around May this year, the Japanese Empire will launch an offensive against the Jinnan Central Army.

Therefore, before that, in order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking the opportunity to make chaos and assist the Jinnan Central Army, the imperial troops will conduct a large-scale sweep against the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountain area, further compress the living space of the Taihang Eighth Route Army, and cut off the connection between the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area and the Jinnan Central Army.

So the timelines are meant to be connected.

If Kazuki Yamamoto and Ishii Haraichi can successfully annihilate the Independent Regiment and break the defense system of the Iron Triangle in the northwest of the Eighth Route Army, then the main force of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi will advance at the same time to carry out a large-scale sweep of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area.

Then the Japanese army in North China would take advantage of the suppression of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang to turn its forces and directly take the Central Army of Jinnan.

This is also more confusing, the Central Army in Jinnan probably wouldn't have thought that the Japanese army in front of them was launching a sweep against the base area of the Eighth Route Army, how could it turn around and hit Jinnan?

Therefore, before Ishii Haraichi and Yamamoto Kazuki attacked the independent regiment, the two had nearly two months to maneuver, which was enough for them to make reasonable arrangements, search for intelligence, and secretly deploy troops.

"Senior, we can start to collect specific information about the inside of this independent regiment base area, on the one hand, we can send plainclothes teams to find villagers nearby, and on the other hand, we can also try to let the Imperial Association Army or plainclothes teams disguise themselves as ordinary people and infiltrate the area around Niukou Village to investigate, in addition, some national troops and Jin Sui troops around the independent regiment base area may also be able to get some information."

In terms of gathering information about the Independent Regiment, Ishii Haraichi said.

In order to cooperate with the military operation of the two against the Independent Regiment, the Japanese military intelligence system around Yangquan was also launched and went to the base area of the Independent Regiment.

With such a big movement, how could Kong Jie be hidden?

Today, as the eyes and ears of the independent regiment, there are comrades of the enemy's engineering department lurking in the vicinity of the base area and the major county towns in the area occupied by the Japanese army.

There was a special service company directly under the regimental headquarters of the Independent Regiment that was later ordered by Kong Jie and was in charge of instructor Li Wenjie.

There are also villagers in the villages surrounding the base area.

The elderly and children, sometimes going into the enemy-occupied areas and counties to buy some things, and if they encounter something that they find useful, they will return to the village as soon as possible, report the situation to the militia in the village, and then the militia captain will screen it and convey it to the special service company of the independent regiment.

It can be said that the eyes and ears of the independent regiment are almost all over the major areas around the base area.

But if there is any wind and grass, it will reach Kong Jie's ears as soon as possible.

Not to mention the Japanese puppet army, this time in order to find out the news of the independent regiment base area, they tried to approach the Niukou Village base area.

As soon as the plainclothes team of the devils approached, the news reached the headquarters of the independent regiment.

"Regiment commander, the militia comrades in our Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang areas have all sent news, saying that there have been many unfamiliar faces around the village during this time, and they have deliberately used the villagers' tricks to suspect that the Japanese army has sent them to investigate the spies in our base area.

The militia comrades passed the news and asked the regiment commander for instructions. ”

Li Wenjie, who received the news through the spy company, rushed to the regiment headquarters and reported to Kong Jie.

Kong Jie smiled, "The little devil wants to deal with our independent regiment, this is the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the intelligence comes first." ”

"Lao Li and Lao Ding are right, this little devil is going to do something to our independent group, and it is a sign in front of him."

"In this way, Wen Jie, tell the militia comrades to let them and the villagers do a good job of handover, and we will plan and pretend that we don't know anything."

"If the devils send plainclothes teams, or disguise themselves as spies of the common people, enter the village, let them walk around the village, take a look, and let the villagers show what an ordinary village should be, hide weapons or something, and reduce the size of the militia to one-tenth."

"Anyway, our village is no different from an ordinary village until the defense against the Japanese sweep is deployed."

"This devil's spy is here, and he can't see any fame."

"If we really guard it too strictly, so that the devil's spies can't detect the slightest rumor, it will arouse the vigilance of the enemy, and the gains outweigh the losses."

"In addition, especially the villagers in the village entrance area, we must unify the caliber to prevent devils from mixing in and talking."

"We want the devil to know, deliberately say something, can't let the devil know, can't reveal the slightest, know how to do it?"

Li Wenjie smiled: "Commander, don't worry!" ”

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West Village.

A puppet army squad leader disguised himself as a civilian and entered Xikou Village.

Before the people entered the village, there was a burst of dog barking at the head of the village, which scared the puppet army squad leader a lot, but thinking of the task assigned by the little devil, he could only continue to move forward.

A few Chinese pastoral dogs who were guarding the home seemed to smell the smell of traitors on the people who came, and directly surrounded them.

The puppet squad leader was so frightened that he picked up a stick from the side of the road, and scared a few dogs with his teeth and claws: "Roar-" in an attempt to scare the dogs away.

As a result, the pastoral dogs were enraged, and they were about to pounce on the puppet army squad leader.

On one side is "Roar Roar Woo Woo Woo

Fortunately, an old woman in a village stopped drinking in time, "Beast, what are you calling blindly?" ”

After the old woman finished scolding, a few dogs seemed to understand, and bared their teeth at the puppet army squad leader, and then they scattered a little "show off their might", but they still stared at the puppet army squad leader not far away.

The puppet army squad leader breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat that was scared out of his forehead, as for who the beast that the old woman scolded was, he couldn't think about it.

"Auntie, the dogs in your village are really fierce!"

The old woman said: "You don't know, these dogs raised in the village are all to prevent animals, all of them have smart noses, good people come to wag their tails, bad people come to watch the house, and now I don't know how, so they bark at you." ”

"Xu is the village has not seen people from other villages for a long time!"

"By the way, young man, you shouldn't be a traitor sent by the devil to let us dogs smell it, right?"

The puppet army squad leader was startled, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "Auntie, don't be joking, how can I be a traitor?" ”…………

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