Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 662 Information Broker
Inside Jinmen City, the Japanese Defense Command.

Currently in charge of the overall situation in Jinmen is Moritake Tanabe, chief of staff of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force, and part of the independent No.15 mixed brigade that attacked Jinmen together took over the defense of Jinmen and its surrounding areas.

The main force of the 27th Division, which had just returned from the security war in eastern Hebei, had the opportunity to enter the city. One part went north again to search for traces of the rebels in the Yanshan Mountains, and the other part was to launch a sabotage attack on the Beining Line. The Fifth Division of Central Hebei and the Tenth Army Division of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei retaliated against the base area.

"Sir, the 27th Division called. The rebels engulfed the overseas Chinese and brought a large amount of luggage into the Panshan area, a branch of the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain. They shouted from the imperial army, but none of them came out to surrender. They also cooperated with the Eighth Route Army in the Panshan area. They repelled the emperor many times. The army enters the mountain to encircle and suppress!" The adjutant reported in a loud voice.

Moritake Tanabe, who had been planning to use gentle means to make the rebels surrender, was furious when he heard the words: "Eighth Route Army? Baga, they are a disgrace to the Great Japanese Empire. They actually colluded with the Eighth Route Army. What do they want to do?"

"Notify Miki Qingyan that you don't need to show mercy. Within half a month, this group of rebels must be wiped out!"

"Sir, it's winter, and it's really not a good opportunity to encircle and suppress the mountain. Besides, the Eighth Route Army is familiar with the terrain of the Panshan Mountain. Even if it succeeds in this way, the imperial army will suffer a lot of casualties. It's better to let the imperial army garrison outside and block the traffic. Essentially, trap this group of rebels and the Eighth Route Army to death!" the adjutant suggested anxiously.

In fact, there is a reason for the 27th Division to carry out security warfare in the eastern Jidong area in winter. The fighting environment of the Eighth Route Army troops in the Eastern Jidong Army Division is extremely harsh.

Hebei is adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin in the east, Beiping in the west, and Zunhua and other places guard the main road to Beijing. The army entered the customs on a large scale, and the soldiers and civilians in the eastern Jidong base area were in the first place to bear the brunt.

Under such circumstances, the Jidong base area was divided into multiple small pieces, and before the Japanese army launched a public security war, it would strictly block the communication channel between Jidong and Pingbei in advance, leaving Jidong in a state of isolation and helplessness.

Not long ago, the 27th Division carried out the third public security strengthening campaign in the eastern Hebei region. The fundamental purpose was to besiege the Eighth Route Army in the eastern Hebei region to the mountainous areas, causing a large number of non-combat attrition in the Eighth Route Army.

However, due to the outbreak of the Jinmen mutiny, the third public security strengthening battle did not achieve the desired effect.

Faced with the tough attitude shown by Moritake Tanabe, the adjutant hesitated to speak at this time, and the chief of staff of the 27th Division, Miki Qingyan, was driven back without entering the Jinmen gate.

The whereabouts of the head of the division Masaharu Honma is unknown, Jinmen has suffered heavy losses, and the current situation is not good for the rebels. Of course, Miki Aohito knows that Shangfeng is furious, and if he doesn't do it, he, the chief of staff, will be dismissed and returned to China.

Therefore, Moritake Tanabe's adjutant has already been bribed by him to let him play tricks.

More importantly, there were more than [-] Japanese troops fighting in the Yanshan area, and nearly one-third of the Japanese troops were transferred from Jidong. Most of these troops were detained in Jidong by other divisions on vacation.

After the mutinous Japanese army arrived at Panshan, although the grassroots commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army were generally hostile, they still sent out backbones who were proficient in guerrilla warfare and political cadres who secretly developed anti-war insiders in the Japanese army. The Japanese army's propaganda offensive has already caused the Japanese army of the 27th Division to be unstable.

After hearing the adjutant mentioning this situation, Moritake Tanabe said bluntly: "The rebels carried a lot of luggage. How could they be trapped to death in one winter? Don't they have to wait until the beginning of spring? Even if General Gangmura and I agree, Can the headquarters agree?"

The words are divided into two parts.

The foreigners who bumped all the way didn't live in peace when they were in southern Hebei, but they calmed down when they entered Pingshun.

The reason is simple. Pingshun is the only county seat in Tainan that is fully occupied. The territory is strictly controlled, and the adjacent villages implement a joint defense policy.

Everywhere the team went, they could see militiamen patrolling with live ammunition. Later, the people in the nearby villages heard that a group of strange foreigners had come to the base area. This made the group of foreigners quiet down.

In Pingshun City, the headquarters of the Second District Committee.

The phone on the table rang, and the person on duty picked up the phone: "Okay, I see, I'm reporting!"

"Member, the action team has already arrived at Hougou, and it is expected to arrive outside the city in an hour!"

Zhou Weihan nodded when he heard the words, he arrived in Pingshun by car, one step earlier than the action team.

"Dali, according to what I said before, these people should not enter the city, and arrange them directly to the selected barracks outside the city!" Zhou Weihan said.

"Communist, are you not going to show up?" Xu Dali heard the meaning of Zhou Weihan's words.

"Wait, let's see Changzhi's reaction!"

"Yes!"

Zhou Weihan's sudden change of mind was the result of repeated consideration. It was the Americans who proposed to rescue these foreigners in Jinmen, and the Eighth Route Army only knew the identities of these foreigners in Jinmen.

Among them are a few directors of the Concession Industry Bureau, who are prominent in the concession, but they are not even farts in their own countries. Now that the Allies and the Axis countries, the United States and Japan have reached a deadly situation, the two sides naturally do not need to fight against each other. Regardless of the scruples, the United States still has the leisure to manage these detainees.

As for this group of foreigners, the Japanese neither killed nor released them, as if they were waiting for something, which made Zhou Weihan suspicious.

After learning that the action team had safely arrived at the base in southern Hebei, the Eighth Route Army immediately contacted the Americans through the Shancheng Office, and soon after, the US Liaison Office in Shancheng sent people to Changzhi.

This furious performance further confirmed Zhou Weihan's guess that European and American countries have always had the habit of sending spies and intelligence brokers to lurk in the concessions. Among these foreigners, there may be personnel from the CIA and MI[-] who have information about the Japanese army. Intelligence is indispensable, and it is even very possible to know the Japanese army's combat operations in Southeast Asia.

Zhou Weihan was not interested in the Japanese army's combat operations in Southeast Asia, but Zhou Weihan was extremely concerned about the Japanese army's combat operations in China.

The outcome of the war between China and Japan has long been expected by insightful people from both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. However, due to the butterfly effect caused by Zhou Weihan, the current situation in North China is quite different from the historical one.

Therefore, Zhou Weihan is going to take the political risks and hang these foreigners out of the city for a few days before starting the investigation. I will not interfere with your own activities, but you should not leave Pingshun easily.

(End of this chapter)