Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 650 Arriving at Jinmen, deformed prosperity
When Jinmen entered the end of the [-]th century, it was an important railway transportation hub. It started from Beiping, passed through Jinmen, and finally reached the Beining Line in Fengtian. All over North China.

A steaming train is running on the tracks. This military train is loaded with coal mined in Jiaozuo, west of Xinxiang, and wool collected from the local Japanese-occupied area.
As an important railway line running from north to south, the Ping-Han line enabled the Japanese army to expand rapidly along with the railway line at the beginning of the war. After the Japanese army occupied North China, the resources that the Japanese army seized in various occupied areas arrived through the Ping-Han line. Tianjin is thus shipped to the country.

Fortunately, Zheng County is still under the control of the National Army, and Xinyang and Zhumadian in the south are also within the sphere of influence of the National Army. The area where the Japanese army gathered heavily on both sides.

On the train, Terauchi Yong specially added five train skins at the tail of the military train, which were full of high-quality and cheap salt transported from the base area in Southwest Shandong, but it was not transported to Jinmen.

There are three major salt producing areas in northern China, one is the Changlu salt area around the Bohai Sea, the other is the Laizhou salt area in Shandong, and the third is the Liaodong Bay salt area in the northeast. The above three salt areas are all sea salt.

Although the local Japanese army strictly controlled the price of salt, the local people did not lack salt after all. As expected of Isamu Terauchi, he came from the Osaka Division. Due to the conflict, Terauchiyong immediately decided to sell the salt from Southwest Shandong to the Northwest.

At that time, this military train will stop at Fengtai Station in Beiping, and then re-ship it to the northwest region through the Pingsui Railway. Calculated, the profit has at least tripled.

Zhou Weiguo and Dong Jiang were wearing Japanese military uniforms, one with the rank of major assistant and the other with the rank of captain. It is not a good experience to take a long-distance train these days.

The two were alone in a sleeper box with several Japanese officers from the 41st Division. The rest of the Japanese army and Zhou Weiguo selected a total of 120 elites from the reconnaissance company and the special operations team. In the painted cargo compartment.

"Takeshita-kun, Yajima-kun, the soldiers in your action team seem to be very different from ordinary soldiers. There is a lot of order in how you move your hands and feet, and you exude a kind of bravery invisibly. They must be better than the army!"

The person who spoke was sitting opposite Zhou and Dong. He also had the rank of Major Commander. This person was Si Neiyong's confidant, and he accompanied the military column northward to Jinmen specifically to cooperate with the action team.

Facing Qiaokou Sanjian's rush to please, Zhou Weiguo also responded enthusiastically: "Oh, Qiaokou-kun is ridiculous, your army is capable of recruiting and fighting so many soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of soldiers is second to none in the entire East Asia!"

"That was in the past, and now the combat effectiveness of soldiers in the imperial army is generally declining, and the domestic situation is not as good as the high-level officials publicized among the soldiers stationed abroad!"

Perhaps because of being with Isamu Terauchi, Japanese military officers like Sanken Hashiguchi seemed exceptionally sober.

Zhou Weiguo grinned, even though he hated the little devil in his heart, the combat system formed by the soldiers trained by the Japanese army in accordance with the infantry drill code, the non-commissioned officers, and the non-commissioned officers and officers trained by the military academy had to make Zhou Weiguo admire the Japanese army. background.

On this point, when Zhou Weiguo was studying in Germany, Zhou Weiguo and Takeshita Jun had a fierce quarrel. If the national army and the Japanese army were equal in strength and weapons and equipment, the Japanese army would still have a high probability of occupying the advantage in the battle.

Sometimes, it is not only the level of weaponry and industrial development that determines the success or failure of a battle. The combat literacy of soldiers, the tactical level of grassroots officers, and the strategic command capabilities of high-level commanders are also key factors.

Among them, the ideology that runs through the army is an internal factor. The Japanese high-level officials brainwashed the grassroots soldiers of the Japanese army with ***, and the Eighth Route Army armed soldiers with communist ideology. As for the national army, it was
The three judged each other, and the current situation of the war is gradually shifting.

The train traveled for nearly a day, and the train stopped at a small station along the way that afternoon, and all the soldiers on the military train got off the train to solve the problem.

At dawn on the second day, they will arrive at Fengtai Station in Beiping. The five trains temporarily added to the rear of the military train will be transported to the northwest on another military train. in the compartment.

Since it was winter, the Eighth Route Army in the area along the Ping-Han Railway also disappeared and recuperated. What Zhou Weiguo worried about did not happen.

Jinmen Railway Station was crowded with people inside and outside the station. Apart from the laborers, most of them were Japanese soldiers transferring at Jinmen Station.

The action team got out of the car, and there was a freight station of the 41st Division outside the station, and a special office in the city.

"You two, there is our office in the city, I think you can go to the city, it will be more convenient!"

Being able to enter the city is naturally a wish. Zhou Weiguo and Dong Jiang looked at each other, and they both understood what the other party meant. Then Dong Jiang asked Cao Dabao to lead a few soldiers into the city, and Xu Hu took the rest of the soldiers to stay at the freight station to meet him.

Compared with Changzhi, Handan and other county towns, Jinmen appears to be more prosperous, as can be seen from the buildings along the streets.

Zhou Weiguo had seen the world, while Dong Jiang and the others seemed a bit of country bumpkins. When the group passed by the concession, the buildings of various styles, the spacious asphalt roads, the private cars and trams that flowed endlessly, all opened their eyes. .

The Japanese Concession in Jinmen is located in a swamp between the British and French Concession and the old city of Jinmen. Asahi Street, both sides to Fukushima Street.

Asahi Street is the busiest place in the Japanese Concession in Jinmen, with various Chinese and foreign shops lined up. It is Ginza Street in the Japanese Concession, known as "Little Ginza". Shou Street is similar to Asahi Street, except that there are more small shops opened by Japanese .

Miyajima Street is another central area of ​​the Japanese Concession, where the Japanese Consulate General and the Japanese Police Department are located.

A large number of ordinary Japanese civilians and businessmen came to live in Jinmen, and opened many foreign firms, trading companies, and factories in Jinmen.According to historical records, there are as many as 5 Japanese living in Jinmen.

The Japanese Concession in Jinmen is like this, and the concessions in other countries are not much worse, but this kind of prosperity is the prosperity of foreigners, and it is a prosperity based on the backs of Chinese industry, commerce and the working people.

As an important commodity distribution base in Jinmen, the powers of various countries plundered raw materials at low prices, shipped them back to China for production, and then sold them to China at high prices.

In recent years, due to the geographical advantages between Japan and Jinmen, and as Japan occupied a large area of ​​China, trade oppression has become more serious, and many local businesses and factories in Jinmen have closed down.

However, the quality of Japanese products is not as good as that of domestic products. For example, the quality of foreign cotton is far inferior to that of Chinese cotton, but the price is more than twice as expensive.

In addition, incidents of Japanese military and businessmen openly robbing Chinese businessmen emerged one after another. Wood merchants, silk and satin rewards, money houses, grain merchants, etc. were all the targets of the Japanese army's plot.

"Gentlemen, Jinmen's prosperity is currently only comparable to that of Shanghai. Every time I come here, I have the idea of ​​staying here. It is much better than my hometown!" Sanjian Qiaoguchi said. They were extremely enthusiastic, and when everyone arrived at the destination, the Japanese Concession, their words were filled with pride.

"After taking the train for two days, you must be tired. Let's take a break this afternoon, and there will be a special program to entertain you in the evening!"

Zhou Weiguo and the others had no choice but to wait for comrades from Jinmen to come to meet at this gap. As for the special program proposed by Sanjian Qiaoguchi, everyone didn't pay attention at all.

(End of this chapter)