Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Mystery Operation
In the early morning of August 29, 1940, in the east of Taiyuan City, Yoshida Textile Co., Ltd
The huge factory area was quiet, without a sound, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, the armed workers in charge of the night, the bodies of the Japanese managers and their families were scattered in the factory area, even a few German wolf dogs were not spared, and the blood merged into streams, even in the dark night, it looked so amazing.
Yoshida Textile Co., Ltd.'s warehouse and factory building were emptied by the attackers, except for a small number of bulky equipment bases, and even wires and light bulbs were carefully removed from the factory area.
In many conspicuous positions in the factory area, eye-catching anti-Japanese slogans are pasted, and there is even a large seal of the Taiyue Military Region of the Eighth Route Army on it, and I believe that those Japanese patrols will not be too surprised to find out about this situation tomorrow morning.
It's too common, since the Eighth Route Army launched a large-scale sabotage war, this kind of thing is too common, even around Taiyuan, such things happen every day, and almost every time there is no movement at all, it is also a living mouth, chickens and dogs are not left, even the deceased's belongings and clothes are stripped of you, and nothing is left.
This made the Japanese merchants in Taiyuan and its surrounding areas a little noisy, for fear that one day the Eighth Route Army would find them.
Run? Where to run? The traffic in the whole of North China was paralyzed, even if they wanted to, there was nowhere to run, and these Eighth Route Army was extremely powerful, only on the night of the 28th, these Eighth Route Army swept more than a dozen Japanese banks in Taiyuan City, two tons of gold, three million oceans, and foreign exchange and fiat currency worth more than eight million yen actually disappeared.
What is infuriating is that when the bank side found the headquarters of the First Army, the other party actually asked them to prove that there was indeed so much money in the bank vault, and at the same time they had to hand over the detailed accounts and responsible personnel, otherwise the military would not be responsible for this, because the Eighth Route Army was not capable of doing such a thing at all.
The Japanese bankers who were able to open banks in Huaxia were not good at it, and even complained about it to the Dispatch Army and the Military Department, and even stabbed the matter to the Cabinet, demanding that the First Army be severely punished for its inaction and compensate them for their losses.
What can make the bank collapse is that Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka has secretly arrived in Datong at this time, personally commanding the troops to counter the siege of Datong by the Eighth Route Army, sitting in Taiyuan, and it is not Major General Kusuyama Hideyoshi, chief of staff of the First Army, who is in charge of everything, and now Taiyuan is talking about the new star of the imperial army, the emperor's favorite retainer - Major General Yamamoto Kazuki.
Reprimand, punishment? Forget it, this guy is too demonic, not only His Majesty the Emperor and the army fully support, but even the navy has shown great goodwill to him, in this case, no one wants to offend Yamamoto Kazuki, who is in the limelight, but he just urged the First Army to investigate this matter without pain, and even asked the bank to cooperate with this matter.
What no one would have expected was that at this moment, Major General Kazuki Yamamoto, deputy commander of the First Army, was wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, lying on a truck full of cotton cloth, with a dog's tail grass in his mouth, so uncomfortable.
That's right, it was Major General Yamamoto Kazuki, and it was his Yamamoto troops who attacked Yoshida Textile Co., Ltd., not only this factory, but also those banks in Taiyuan on the first day, in the past week, Yamamoto's troops attacked at least eighty Japanese trading companies or traitor enterprises under the banner of the Eighth Route Army, and obtained a large amount of equipment, materials and cash.
"Qian Sang, there is still time, you take a squadron, go to Lijiazhuang, and raid Li Dana's house." Kazuki Yamamoto explained to Qian Bojun, who was riding a donkey on the side.
In addition to the Japanese puppet high-level in Beiping and Jinling, there are many friends in Japan, plus a son who is the commander of the Imperial Army, so that Li Dana has arrogance and arrogance, and the capital in the township, in the east generation of Taiyuan City, this guy is more effective than the imperial army.
Because of the many evils, the Eighth Route Army did want to eradicate Li Dana several times, but the walls of Lijiazhuang were high and deep, the firepower was fierce, and there were even four machine guns.
The reason why Yamamoto Kazuki wants to eradicate Li Dana is that this Li Dana does not know whether he is alive or dead, and actually engages in the trick of the two ends of the head and the rat, in addition to colluding with the Jin Sui Army and the military commander, he also wants to unite with some people in the Jinling government who want to seek the independent command of the Imperial Allied Army, and want the Jin Sui Imperial Allied Army to be directly under the command of the Jinling Government. Although the dispatch army didn't care about these people's jumping up and down at all, it was also a very bad sign, which made Yamamoto Kazuki intolerable, although Shinozuka Yoshio did not instruct, but as the number one loyal dog, Yamamoto Kazuki knew that he had to do something.
"Hayi!" Qian Bojun agreed in style, to be honest, he was also a little confused during this time, wearing the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army every day, attacking Japanese factories and trading companies, robbing overseas Chinese ronins, and eradicating traitors and puppet troops, which was simply more beautiful than what he did when he was in the Jin Sui Army, if there were no Japanese to act together, he would feel that he was a genuine Eighth Route Army.
Although, why did you do this to Kazuki Yamamoto? Qian Bojun had a lot of questions in his heart, but he was smart and didn't say anything, and after receiving the order, he took a squadron of his descendants and disappeared into the night.
"Your Excellency, this-" On the side, Ichiro Hirata, who was also dressed in the uniform of the Eighth Route Army, hesitated,
"Hirata-kun, as we said before, as long as anyone who hinders the victory of the empire is our enemy, those unscrupulous merchants and chaebols need to be eliminated, and the Chinese people at both ends of the first rat are even worse, everything we do is for the empire, for the holy war!" Yamamoto Kazuki's tone was fierce and resolute.
The Japanese trading companies, factories and expatriate ronins he attacks have one thing in common: they are constantly destroying the foundations of Japan and grabbing benefits that should not belong to them.
In addition to causing disasters to the people of Japan proper, they also greatly affected the Empire's control over the occupied territories.
They raised prices, to say that at the current stage, the supply of materials in the empire is not so tight that it cannot be saved, after all, the army has been winning battles, occupying large areas of land, looting massive materials, and can continue to feed back to the country, but the country does not feel it at all, all the people can see is the rising prices, and in order to cope with the high prices, the government is forced to issue more money, and then there is inflation, and the prices are further pushed up, making the people's lives more difficult than before the war.
They colluded with officials and businessmen, and the imperial army gained a lot of wealth in the triumphant advance, which should have been used to improve the lives of the people and enrich the treasury, but in fact, a large amount of wealth was either divided among the people at a very small price, or it was simply gone, yes, it was gone, and it was gone, with the tacit approval of the army and government officials.
Just like the Yoshida Textile Co., Ltd. just now, the brand-new equipment and factory building were worth at least millions of oceans in Jin Province before the war, but those guys from the Yoshida family actually acquired the factory without spending a penny, and even included more than 100,000 pieces of grey cloth in the warehouse.
They sabotage finance, the Japanese government before the outbreak of the war of aggression formulated a perfect financial invasion program, if it is strictly implemented in accordance with that, while frantically grabbing wealth, the economy of the occupied areas will not collapse seriously, but what about these guys, they actually emptied the reserves of counterfeit currency regardless of life and death, this is not counting, they also colluded with the army, a large number of printing and indiscriminate issuance of military tickets, using military tickets to plunder the Chinese people, they actually dare to use their own printed military tickets to exchange precious metals and foreign currency in the bank, As a direct consequence, in just a few years, the government's gold reserves are almost empty.
As for the other evil deeds of sabotage jihad, and almost all the Japanese chaebol families in China are participating in this carnival, the wealth of millions of imperial soldiers in exchange for their lives is constantly being transported to the country, or deposited in foreign banks, but only a small amount of wealth is used to improve people's livelihood, but even that little wealth is quickly grabbed again. 33
In the past few years, the empire has not only failed to use the wealth of China to improve people's livelihood and enrich the treasury, but the situation has become more critical, and the navy red deer has continued to use resources to build warships, in a vain attempt to challenge the Bald Eagle Navy, which has pushed the empire to the brink of collapse, and if this continues, the empire is very likely to take the initiative to provoke the next war in the near future, a larger and more tragic war.
The huge sense of crisis made Yamamoto Kazuki decide to do something, he wanted to use the wealth of these scum to build an army, accumulate strength, and actively prepare for the upcoming next war, his personal strength may be small, but Yamamoto wants to do his best to amplify his strength, whether it is a war against the northern powers or rice animals in the future, he will shine more brightly!
Assassination of the highest authorities? That would be an insult to Yamamoto's troops, and his target should be Comrade Iron or the lame man across the ocean.
Some people died, but not completely......