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Chapter 255 Li Chong's Plan
Araki knew that the imperial association troops under his command were greedy for life and afraid of death, so if they really wanted to do their best for the imperial army, it would be impossible for them to be as brave as the soldiers of the imperial army on the battlefield.

But how to let people who are not wholeheartedly play a role is also a study.

From Araki's point of view, although Zhu Sang has some minor problems, the few things he asked him to do are still remarkable.

Zhu Sang is a medium he established between the imperial army and the imperial association army.The Chinese people always had some resistance to the imperial army leading them, but letting the Chinese people lead them, this resistance weakened a lot.

So by setting up Zhu Sang as a medium, he can gather a group of imperial association troops to serve the imperial army on various occasions.

In the case of shy troops, Araki needs to build up a large-scale imperial association army.It is enough to be able to help defend the imperial army stationed in one place on weekdays, and to act as a human shield in front of the imperial army when sweeping up the anti-Japanese forces in the future.

Standing in front of Araki's desk, Kimura and Qingteng felt a little sad when they heard Zhu Keming's narration.The lieutenant of Yu Sui in Old Chen Village is not bad compared to his own rank.

The two thought silently in their hearts, it seems that they should be careful when going out in the future.

Encouraged by the chief leader of Anyi County, Zhu Keming nodded and said, "Thank you, Majesty, for your concern! I will live my life and work more for the imperial army!"

After getting up, Zhu Keming continued, "Taijun Araki, the second son of the old Chen family was caught by the damned anti-Japanese elements, and offered seven dans of noodles in exchange for [-] dans of rice, what do you think?"

Araki paced back and forth in front of the desk, seven loads of white flour and twelve loads of rice, which amounted to nearly two thousand catties of grain, were exchanged for a Chinese man, and he absolutely disagreed in the bottom of his heart.

But you can't refuse it directly. The tempting military tickets and leaflets that have been put out these days have shown some results, as evidenced by the fact that many people came to sign up when the Imperial Association Army recruited troops.If he vetoes this exchange, spreading the word will undoubtedly dampen the enthusiasm of the Chinese to join the Imperial Association Army.

What's more, compared to the "grain for people" transaction itself, Araki wondered what the head of the Chinese delegation was planning when he proposed to transport the grain to Changbu Town, and then choose a location for the transaction?
Could it be that this deal was just a cover, that the regiment commander of China wanted to take advantage of this to divert attention and take the opportunity to attack his weak stronghold, so as to continue revenge for their ambush today?
Araki felt that the Chinese regiment leader who appeared in Laochen Village tonight and killed his three lieutenants was an act of revenge against the 27 people killed during the day.

Thinking about it this way, the opponent's anticlimactic military operations in Huangzhou Town and the wharf today can be explained. The Chongqing army in Meiling may be testing the strength of Huangbu Town and preparing for further retaliatory attacks.

"Zhu Sang, you want the Chen family to prepare all the food!" Under the circumstances that it was difficult to guess the other party's plan, Araki decided to make a move first.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Keming saluted with his intact left hand and retreated. Mr. Araki agreed to exchange, which made him feel a little touched. After all, the second child of the Chen family is also the captain of the security team of Huangzhou Town, and he is a member of the security team of Anyi County. Chief, the second child of the Chen family is also his subordinate.

After Zhu Keming withdrew, Kimura who was standing aside asked Araki, "Your Majesty, do you really want to exchange rice and flour for a Chinese?"

From Kimura's point of view, if the other party arrested the lieutenant officer who was present at the time and proposed such an exchange condition, maybe he should think about it, but it is totally worthless to put it on a Chinese person.

Araki shook his head, "No, I've been thinking about what the Chinese people mean when they propose to transport them to Changbu Town before choosing the exchange location? The two of you help me analyze, what is the purpose of this Chinese leader's move?"

"Maybe these anti-Japanese elements live in the mountains and are facing a food crisis, so they hijacked the landlord's son?" Kimura said a simple possibility.

"Then they can completely hijack the officers of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army present at Lao Chencun." Araki shook his head and disagreed with Kimura's guess. If it is a coercive transaction, naturally the more bargaining chips and the heavier the weight, the better.

"Master, are you worried that this transaction is just a smoke bomb released by the Chinese, and they are diverting our attention?"

Araki nodded, he expressed his thoughts just now, and then continued:

"Originally, I planned to take advantage of this transaction to take advantage of the opportunity to deploy troops and set up an ambush. In the process of exchanging with the Imperial Association Army, I suddenly attacked to destroy the Meiling Chongqing Army who came to exchange, and taught the Chinese people a bloody lesson. - This transaction is just a trick, and we are focusing on the transaction, what if the Chinese attack our other towns at this time?"

Araki's words made the devils Kimura and Ioto ponder endlessly, and the actions of the head of the group were too unreasonable.If the three lieutenants hadn't been shot dead, then the three of them must have come to the conclusion that "this regiment leader brought hostages and wanted to exchange food."

But in their eyes, an important officer of the Imperial Army was killed, and only a security team captain of the Imperial Association Army, what confidence does this Chinese regiment leader have to call the price of nearly two thousand catties of grain?

This made it hard for the three devils to believe that Li Chong sincerely wanted to exchange hostages for food.

Qingteng expressed his own judgment, "Your Majesty, these resistance forces only need to choose a point of attack, but as the defenders, it is difficult for us to cover everything. The subordinates feel that this matter is very likely to be a trick of the Chinese. They The real purpose is not food, but to attract the attention of the imperial army to attack a certain town."

Self strategy is the scariest.

In fact, Li Chong asked He Maoping to kill the four devils first at the banquet table in Laochen Village, only because there were too many variables to have devils as hostages.Li Chong had seen the ferocity of the devils before. He hadn't seen a single devil prisoner until now. If he took a few devil prisoners with him during the retreat, who knew what would happen on the way.

Binding the second son of the Chen family to exchange for food was also his temporary plan. He came up with a temporary plan after remembering at the village banquet that the soldiers in the third battalion and one platoon were plotted by the devils today.

The exchange of hostages for food is indeed a pretense as Araki thought.Letting the grain be transported to Changbu Town and then notifying the trading place, Li Chong was indeed trying to hide under the lights. His real purpose was:

First transport the grain to Changbu Town, and then store the trading place in the countryside two kilometers away, in Pingshang Village, a military blank area on both sides.The devils must not be willing to hand over this batch of grain, and the devils will definitely deploy troops to ambush and set up an ambush at the exchange place to fight a battle.

The food has circulated in Changbu Town for a while, and there is a high probability that the devils will transfer some of their troops from Changbu Town, so that they will attack Changbu Town with lightning speed and attack Changbu Town again after the last time. of wool.

But Li Chongzhi didn't expect that killing the four devils would cause mental troubles to Araki in Anyi County, making them think that they were dishonest in exchanging hostages.

But this was also Li Chong's temporary idea, so naturally he didn't think about it that much.

In the middle of the night, with the bright moon hanging high, the three devils in Araki's office in Anyi County were still thinking hard.

(End of this chapter)