The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

And at this juncture, a message that surprised Kong Jie, Ding Wei, Li Yunlong and other generals came next:

Harada, the commander of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army, who had always had business dealings with the caravans of the Iron Triangle, actually sent someone to send news that he was going to make a big deal with Kong Jie.

In the letter sent by Harada, he claimed that he had a large amount of military supplies that Kong Jie needed, including wood, coal, steel, and various rare metal mines.

As for Harada, what he needs is always the same thing - money!

Kong Jie, who received the news, smiled at this matter and asked Ding Wei, Li Yunlong, Xu Guoan, and Li Wenjie what the purpose of this Harada was.

Li Wenjie was surprised: "In the past few years, with the development of our Eighth Route Army base area, a considerable amount of materials on the Japanese side have been in a state of scarcity, but only this Harada Division always has a steady stream of military materials in its hands.

Since the beginning of this year, we have been doing business with this Harada Division, and we don't know how much money we have spent.

How is it that the materials in the hands of Harada, an old devil, are endless, and they can't be exhausted?

But speaking of which, Harada, the old devil, really has a few brushes, and with his private business dealings with us, the soldiers of other Japanese divisions and regiments didn't even have to let go of the military sound, and when they couldn't take care of three meals a day, the little devils of the Harada division were still eating oily!

If it is said that in other Japanese divisions, the soldiers' obedience to the officers stems from the soldiers' duty to obey orders, and the obedience of the hierarchy is strict.

In the Harada Division, those little devils really admired Harada, an old devil. ”

Xu Guoan took over the conversation and said happily: "The so-called food and clothing parents, Harada provides them with food and drink, and also pays them military salaries, these devil soldiers will naturally follow Harada with all their hearts." ”

"As for Wenjie, your doubts, let me answer them for you!"

"The reason is very simple, although the resources on hand of this devil are getting less and less, including many mines of the Japanese army, we have robbed them, but if you can't stand it, the little devil can go back and do business with the national control area!"

As a smart person, Li Wenjie immediately came back to his senses, and said with a stunned face: "Old Xu, do you mean that this Harada Division is doing business with Jiang Jun, and after getting supplies from them, they will turn around and do business with us and make money from us?" ”

Xu Guoan smiled and nodded.

Kong Jie continued: "This is what I often tell you about middlemen in business to make the difference.

On the one hand, he bought materials from Jiang Jun at a relatively low price, and on the other hand, he sold these materials to us at a higher price.

If you want me to say that Harada, an old devil, is really a waste of talent to lead troops to fight, if he is in business, he may not be a profiteer who is especially opportunistic! ”

"Brother, can we do this business?"

"Do it, why not?" Kong Jie said with a smile: "The Jiang army has always been under the banner of preferring to cooperate with the Japanese army rather than contact with our Eighth Route Army.

We have a lot of business that we want to start with Jiang Jun, but there is no way, and it is just through this Harada that we can save trouble. ”

The next topic was to talk about what Harada, an old devil, thought, and why did he propose to do business with Kong Jie at this juncture, and especially increase cooperation?

"What kind of little calculation is this old devil had!"

Ding Wei's area of responsibility is closer to Shouyang County, and he took the lead in making an analysis: "According to the relevant information I received near Shouyang, this Harada Division was originally stationed in the Shouyang area, and these days, some caravans belonging to the Harada Division have appeared in large numbers near Shouyang, and even blatantly do business with us.

There are anomalies everywhere in this matter.

If my guess is correct, Harada, the old devil, wants to use the caravan to confuse the public and mislead our judgment, perhaps it is precisely with the help of these caravans to cover up some military operations in the shadows. ”

"Bypassing Shouyang, this battle around Datong and Zhangjiakou is nothing more than going straight to Xinkou or Daixian."

Li Yunlong followed: "In this way, Harada, this old devil is also a drunkard, and he doesn't mean to drink, most of them are going in the direction of the north, interesting, this old devil is now shrewd in learning, and he knows how to use this method of hiding from the world." ”

Li Wenjie said: "If it is just a means to paralyze our judgment, but what Harada wrote in the letter, even the quantity and list of goods at the time, place, and place are clearly written, and it is clearly sincere.

Could it be that he wants to mislead our judgment by bypassing Shouyang and attacking Daixian or Xinkou directly, but also without delaying our business? ”

Hahaha –

Li Yunlong said happily: "Wen Jie, what you said is not bad, Harada, the old devil, killed two birds with one stone, and sang well."

This is to fight a war and make money without delay.

I think we might as well follow the meaning of this old devil, pretend not to know anything, and let this self-righteous old devil go to Dai County smoothly! ”

Kong Jie agreed: "Let's do what Lao Li said, don't let the devil play a little smart, how can people think that they have seized the opportunity and have an advantage?" ”

"Let me reply to the letter first, and then confirm this business cooperation, and then let's take the opportunity to get another amount of supplies."

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The Japanese army was temporarily stationed at the headquarters of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army in Shouyang.

After Kong Jie's news was delivered, Lieutenant General Harada was overjoyed and immediately arranged for people to prepare all kinds of materials and equipment to hand over to the caravan sent by the Eighth Route Army.

Harada did not hesitate to do so, and he had many business collaborations with Kong Jie's team, and the two sides were built on the basis of mutual trust.

After all, it's not a one-shot deal.

Ikeda, the commander of the 9th Mixed Brigade, who was in charge of cooperating with the Harada Division, who was in charge of cooperating with the Harada Division, who participated in the meeting, questioned: "Harada-kun, didn't you say yes, but just under the guise of doing business, paralyzing the judgment of the Eighth Route Army, and bypassing Shouyang to sneak attack Daixian?"

What are you? ”

Harada said: "The commanders of the Eighth Route Army are very cunning, do you think you can really deceive their eyes with some fake business cooperation?"

There is an old Chinese saying that you do a full set of dramas. Since we want to paralyze the Eighth Route Army, this business cooperation between the two sides must be carried out truthfully.

This is the perfect cover for our army to bypass Shouyang's surprise attack on Dai County! ”

"Hey!" Ikeda, who had been scolded by Harada, had nothing more to say.

And Harada's heart was happy at this time, he never thought that there would be such a good thing, this time the order of the military department was arranged:

Let him lead the 35th Division to bypass Shouyang and attack Dai County, and after laying Yanmen Pass, he left his troops at Yanmen Pass to garrison, and then turned south to replace the county and capture Mingbao Airport.

Then made a detour from the direction of Xinkou, and cooperated with the 106th and 26th divisions of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army guarding Xinkou from Laoxian, and flanked the main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

After this order was issued, Harada realized that his opportunity had come, and he took the initiative to apply to the military department, and he would use the caravan cooperation on the surface to paralyze the judgment of the Eighth Route Army and take the opportunity to surprise the Daixian.

For this reason, Harada specifically pointed out that since the beginning of this year, his business cooperation with the Eighth Route Army has reached the role of paralyzing the Eighth Route Army, and this time it can be used.

In this regard, even Guan Cun, an old devil who watched coldly, had nothing to say for a while.

Harada's boldness, thick-skinnedness, and eloquence are beyond his reach.

In this way, Lieutenant General Harada ushered in his own spring, this time with almost no disguise to start a further expansion of business cooperation with the Eighth Route Army.

It's true to cover up in the military, but it's also true to do business.

Anyway, the empire fights the empire, I Harada took the opportunity to make a few more strokes, this holy war is almost over, I have a lot of money, even if the war is over, we can still live a good life after returning home.

Even if it is a military achievement, our Harada is not bad.

The whole division and regiment let us develop strong soldiers and horses, and the soldiers are strong and mighty.

Since the outbreak of the Pacific War and the Southeast Asian War, coupled with the increasingly rampant growth of the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines, all divisions and regiments of the Japanese army have basically suffered considerable losses in the battles against the Eighth Route Army.

But Lieutenant General Harada could pat his chest and say, "No matter what the losses of other divisions are, my team is getting bigger and bigger!" ”

Based on this, when the holy war ended, Harada pondered, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor would personally award himself an outstanding officer commendation badge!

Time goes on.

On the one hand, Harada asked a large number of caravans that appeared near Shouyang to carry out real business cooperation with the Eighth Route Army to attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, the 9th Mixed Brigade, which cooperated with his 35th Division, continued to advance to the guerrilla zone of the Eighth Route Army and confronted the Eighth Route Army, so as to particularly interfere with the judgment of the Eighth Route Army.

So it was on a moonlit night with high winds.

With Harada's final order, the main force of the Japanese 35th Division marched at night to avoid the reconnaissance of the reconnaissance planes that appeared above the Eighth Route Army from time to time during the day.

After the main force of the army quickly arrived near Dai County, Harada shrewdly avoided the easy to defend and difficult to attack fortifications left by the Eighth Route Army in Dai County, but bypassed Dai County and attacked Yanmen Pass by surprise.

"Attack!"

Harada, an old devil who sat in the temporary command of the army, gave orders with full confidence.

A fierce battle between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out.

It took less than half an hour for the front-line combat troops to send back the news, saying that they had successfully broken through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army and had fully captured Yanmen Pass.

Harada's old face when he heard the news smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Yanxi, everything is as I expected, the little wild goose gate is closed, and it is within reach!"

The other side.

The battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, who was responsible for garrisoning Yanmen Pass, led his troops to evacuate along the reserved path in advance under the onslaught of the Japanese army in the morning.

On the way, the battalion commander couldn't help but yawn a few times, muttering and scolding: "This little devil is really, he came slowly, and there was an order from the command headquarters, saying that the devil probably launched a surprise attack at night, who would have thought, wait until the middle of the night!"

The devil came early, and we could go back to sleep peacefully! ”

The next day, it was just dawn.

Yanmen Pass had completely fallen into the hands of the Japanese 35th Division, and under the command of Harada, the Japanese army remained at Yanmen Pass to defend the corresponding forces, and then turned back to capture Daixian and Mingbao airfields.

The news that the 35th Division had defeated the Eighth Route Army and won a great victory was then overwhelmingly publicized.

When he got the news, the old devil Guan Cun was leading the remnants of his defeated troops who were greatly injured during the May Day Sweep, and stationed them in the Changzhi area as a mobile force.

His face was also full of astonishment, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

A silverfish like Harada, who only secretly does business with the Eighth Route Army and fills his pockets, can still achieve such a victory?

He Guancun graduated from the dignified Imperial Military University and led the Imperial Elite Sixth Field Division, but he was constantly defeated in the confrontation with the Eighth Route Army and was almost wiped out.

There is no gap without comparison.

Guan Cun suddenly felt a kind of humiliation of being completely slapped in the face.

Then it was depressed, how could the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army collapse to such a point in the hands of a second-rate combat unit like the 35th Division, which could only do business and mess around?

Thus......

"There must be something strange in this, maybe it is the trap deliberately set by the Eighth Road, luring the 35th Division to go deeper step by step!" Realizing this, Guan Cun immediately passed the news to the headquarters of the 35th Division.

Lieutenant General Harada, who was unable to extricate himself from the joy of the great victory, after receiving the news, said disdainfully to the officers around him:

"Guancun has lost too many battles, but now he doesn't even have the spirit of enterprising, we defeated the Eighth Route and won the victory, but he said that there are any traps in it, does it have to be a common sense for us to lose to the Eighth Route Army?"

The officers below chimed in and taunted Guan Cun.

And with the 35th Division successfully laying down Yanmen Pass and taking Dai County and Mingbao Airport, this was like a perfect fuse, completely igniting all the preparations of the Japanese army around the direction of Datong and Zhangjiakou.

The 106th and 26th Divisions of the Japanese Army set out from Laoxian on the same day and launched a fierce attack on the troops of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army guarding Xinkou.

The two sides fought fiercely for less than two hours.

The Japanese commander, who was forced to open up the situation, transferred the Japanese 101st Division, which was originally a reserve, to the battlefield.

The 110th Regiment of the Japanese Army was a mixed mechanized division mixed with armored troops, and after it was quickly put into the battlefield, it immediately put great pressure on the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Xinkou.

Soon after, Harada, an old devil, led the main force of his 35th Division to bypass Xinkou according to the plan, and attacked the main force of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army on both sides with the Japanese 106th, 26th and 101st Divisions.

"Pretty fight!"

In the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese army in Shanxi, the commander of the devil, Yoshio Iwamatsu, was overjoyed when he received the news.

He really didn't expect Harada to bring him such a surprise.

The 35th Division directly opened the situation of this battle!

Yan Song, who did not delay any longer, immediately issued an order to order the main force of the First Army to attack in the direction of Datong.

The 27th and 69th Divisions attacked Shuo County all the way, and the 101st, 106th, and 35th Divisions attacked Yingxian all the way.

Guancun's 6th Division was moved from Changzhi to Taiyuan as a reserve.

Rapid advance of all combat units against Datong......

(End of chapter)