The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 381
early spring.

The temperature of the environment in Northwest Shanxi has risen, and it is no longer like the cold winter.

Taking advantage of the winter, the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were temporarily at peace. Under the arrangement of Kong Jie, the independent regiment continued to expand its business channels and initially achieved results:

The latest cooperation with the 57th regiment of the Jinsui Army has been reached again.

Yang Chongshan, the head of the 57th Regiment, was indeed panicked when he learned that Kong Jie had found a new seller, the 71st Regiment of the Jinsui Army.

Yang Chongshan knew the name of the 71st regiment.

The 71st Regiment is particularly good at doing business. They not only do business with the Jinsui Army, the Central Army, and even do business with little devils. Their business avenues are much wider than those of the 57th Regiment.

To say that the 71st regiment is doing business with the independent regiment, Yang Chongshan really has no doubts.

Wu Changsheng, the leader of the 71st regiment, has a motto in life, "As long as there is money to be made, I don't care who he is. The financially rich is the uncle, and the bank is the mother, and my team also needs to eat and drink."

Therefore, after learning that the Independent Regiment might turn around to do business with the 71st Regiment, Yang Chongshan didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and quickly prepared all the equipment and ammunition for the new batch of orders sent by Kong Jie.

On the side of the Independent Regiment, the Ministry of Finance spent nearly 30 French currency at a time to purchase a considerable number of Jin-made grenades, light and heavy machine guns, as well as rifles and ammunition.

Another, through the business operation of Xu Qingnian's father Xu Fenggong in the enemy-occupied county, the briquette briquettes independently produced by the independent group, as well as the briquette briquette stoves, have received a very good sales response.

The people in the county are very fond of the convenience of this briquette.

However, those who are a little richer always buy some stoves and briquettes when they come across them.

The reputation of this peculiar briquette, which is convenient to use and suitable for heating and cooking, spread quickly in the county.

On the side of the independent group, the sales of honeycomb coal and coal stoves also increased all of a sudden. After Dong San asked Kong Jie for instructions, he also pulled out a special production line and expanded the scale to produce honeycomb coal and coal stoves.

This alone brings a lot of income to the independent group.

Since the armed forces seized Guizi County, as well as the cash flow from the Jinsui Army and the Central Military Bank, the Ministry of Finance, which the Independence Regiment had been unable to enter, finally had its first good income.

Xu Qingnian, Minister of Finance, had a smile on his face. He was even planning, and when the time was right, he began to plan for the independent group's own financial department.

The business in the direction of Inner Mongolia is also doing very well.

Honeycomb coal, as well as a honeycomb coal stove, in exchange for a batch of cattle and sheep for the independent regiment.

The independent group reclaimed a large amount of wasteland in the surrounding area, and planted more than a thousand catties of potatoes.

Kong Jie is confident in this point. The stability of the base area can be maintained as long as the tragic anti-mopping up is less than [-].

After this batch of potatoes is harvested again, it can solve the logistical food supply problem of the independent regiment to a large extent.

regiment.

Kong Jie is discussing with Dong San and Xu Qingnian about continuing to expand the business chain of independent groups.

Kong Jie said: "The production of briquettes and briquette stoves are still a bit inefficient, and the coal stoves tend to sell better in winter.

In spring and summer, when the weather warms up, if the family is not particularly rich, most of them will not buy our coal stove. "

"So we still want to start a profitable business."

Dong San scratched his head, but didn't think of any better idea: "Commander, but besides this briquette and briquette stove, what else can we get from our base area? Tea? Potatoes, potato flour, etc. that we plan to sell in the future of?"

Kong Jie said: "During the war, when we do business, we must not only consider how much money we can make, but also consider whether the actual goods are sold, whether the harm outweighs the benefit or whether the benefit outweighs the harm."

"For example, some local national troops sold high-quality Wusha, wood, and various rare metal ores to the Japanese army. After getting money from the Japanese army, they bought things like opium from the devils and returned to the Kuomintang-controlled areas. Afterwards, they sell these opium cigarettes to their own countrymen at a high price."

"Think about it, can this work? The end result is that the little devils have all kinds of materials that can be used to develop industrial production, make guns, cannons, and shipbuilding. What about the national army? They just got some It’s just opium, after smoking the opium, it’s gone, and my body has collapsed.”

"What's the difference between the little devil who used opium to persecute us Chinese?"

"Maybe one day, the shells made by the Japanese with the materials they sold will fall on their own heads."

"So the food crops in our base area, including this briquette and coal stoves, even if we want to do business, our target is the people in the county, not the little devils. We can't let the devils take advantage of it."

"I've thought about this carefully, and I'll give you a general direction. Let's not focus on the crops. We also need these things in the base area. If we have food in our pockets, we don't panic."

"Then think of other ways. For example, if the devil sells big cigarettes to the national army, we can also produce some cigarettes and sell them to the little devil to earn money from the devil."

"As for the factory and equipment for producing cigarettes, I will ask Wang An to think of a way. If it really doesn't work, just find the cigarette factory of the devils and the puppet army and rob it."

"In addition, I think we can also produce chicken essence."

Xu Qingnian wondered: "Head, I was in Guizi County, but I have eaten Ajinomoto and the like. It is said that it is a kind of condiment invented by the Japanese. After it was introduced to China, we usually call it monosodium glutamate, which is chicken essence. What else?"

Kong Jie explained with a smile: "If our independent group wants to do business, we don't necessarily have to delve into businesses that no one else has done.

How about changing the way of thinking, we can do business that the devils and the national army can do, and what we have to do is to improve the quality of our products and gain market recognition, then we will win.

For example, devils have a factory that produces cigarettes, and we also produce cigarettes. Our cigarettes are cheaper and taste better than theirs. When you say that the people who consume them will choose the cigarettes produced by us or the cigarettes produced by devils ? "

"If we advertise again, every pack of cigarettes produced by our independent regiment will make a contribution to the cause of the Anti-Japanese War."

"Didn't it make money and also promote the Anti-Japanese War along the way?"

Dong San and Xu Qingnian: "..."

"Besides what I just said, the Japanese invented Ajinomoto, which is monosodium glutamate, so we can take it to the next level.

For example, the monosodium glutamate made by the little devil, after we buy some in bulk, we will add some other things in it, grind chicken and chicken bones into flour, and add it to it, can it further enhance the taste of this monosodium glutamate?This is what I call chicken essence.

Of course, I will let the old squad leaders of the cooking class study the specific method of production, and finally create this new type of chicken essence, which must be better than the little devil's MSG in taste, then we will have up the market. "

Kong Jie probably knows how to make chicken essence.

If this chicken essence can be made, it can definitely suppress the devil's monosodium glutamate in taste.

Dong San and Xu Qingnian are also good at business. When Kong Jie said this, the two of them immediately came to their senses. I looked at my head in disapproval. The head of the group is also very smart.

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Taiyuan City.

Kazuki Yamamoto, the captain of the special service team of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi, and Kazuki Ishii, the joint commander of the Japanese army, planned to join forces to eliminate Kong Jie and the actual military operation to destroy the independent regiment, but there was no rush to start.

On this point, Ishii Haraichi and Yamamoto Kazuki reached a consensus.

The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength.

Ishiihara had a cautious personality, but Kazuki Yamamoto had suffered too much at the hands of Kong Jie, and he could not be careless.

The two agreed that in order to send troops to destroy the Independence Regiment and the head of the Independence Regiment, Kong Jie, intelligence gathering is a very important part.

In addition, Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, also told Kazuki Yamamoto and Kazuki Ishiihara.

According to the order conveyed by the North China Front Army Command, it is expected that around May this year, the Empire of Japan will launch an attack on the Jinnan Central Army.

So before that, in order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking the opportunity to cause chaos and assist the Central Army in southern Shanxi, the imperial troops will conduct a large-scale sweep against the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountain area, further reducing the living space of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area, and separating the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area from the Central Army in southern Shanxi contact.

So the timeline is connected.

If Kazuki Yamamoto and Ishiihara can successfully destroy the independent regiment and break the defense system of the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi, then the main force of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi will advance at the same time to carry out a large-scale attack on the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area. mopping up.

Then the Japanese army in North China will take advantage of the Taihang Eighth Route Army being suppressed, turn their troops around, and attack the Central Army in southern Shanxi.

This is also more confusing. The Central Army in southern Shanxi probably would not have imagined that the Japanese army is currently launching a sweeping campaign against the bases of the Eighth Route Army. Why did they turn around and hit southern Shanxi?
Therefore, before Kazuki Ishii and Kazuki Yamamoto attacked the independent regiment, they still had nearly two months of maneuvering time, which was enough for them to make reasonable arrangements, search for intelligence, and secretly deploy troops.

"Senior, we can collect specific information about the base area of ​​the independent regiment from various sources. On the one hand, we can send plainclothes teams to find villagers nearby to investigate; Infiltrating into Niukou Village to investigate, besides, you may also be able to get some information from the mouths of some national troops and Jinsui troops around the base of the Independence Regiment."

In terms of collecting information about the independent regiment, Ishii Haraichi said this.

In order to cooperate with the two military operations against the Independence Regiment, the Japanese intelligence system around Yangquan was also mobilized to target the Independence Regiment base.

How could it be possible to hide such a big movement from Kong Jie?

Today, as the eyes and ears of the independent regiment, there are comrades from the enemy industry department lurking around the base area and in major counties and towns in the Japanese-occupied area.

Kong Jie later ordered the establishment of a special agent company directly under the independent regiment headquartered by the instructor Li Wenjie.

There are also folks in the villages around the base area.

Old people and children sometimes enter enemy-occupied areas and counties to buy some things. If they find something useful, they will return to the village as soon as possible, report the situation to the militia in the village, and then the militia captain will screen them. , Conveyed to the special agent company of the independent regiment.

It can be said that the eyes and ears of the independent regiment are almost all over the major areas around the base area.

But if there is any disturbance, it will be transmitted to Kong Jie's ears immediately.

Not to mention that the Japanese and puppet troops tried to get close to the Niukou Village base in order to find out the news about the Independence Regiment base.

As soon as the devil's plainclothes team approached, the news reached the independent regiment headquarters.

"Commander, the militia comrades in our West Village and Zhangjiazhuang area have all sent news that many strange faces have appeared around the village during this period, and they deliberately used the villagers' clichés to suspect that they were spies sent by the Japanese army to investigate our base area. .

The comrades of the militia passed the news and asked the head of the regiment for instructions. "

Li Wenjie, who received the news through the spy company, rushed to the regiment headquarters and reported to Kong Jiehui.

Kong Jie smiled, "The little devil wants to deal with our independent regiment. This is because the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the intelligence comes first."

"Lao Li and Lao Ding are right. This little devil is going to attack our independent group. There are signs right in front of us."

"So, Wen Jie, tell the comrades in the militia and let them and the villagers make a good handover. Let's do whatever we want and pretend we don't know anything."

"If the devils send plainclothes teams, or pretend to be spies of ordinary people, enter the village, let them go around the village, take a look, and let the villagers show the things that should be in an ordinary village, such as weapons and other hidden items. Well, the size of the militia will be reduced to one-tenth."

"Anyway, our village is no different from an ordinary village before deploying defenses against the Japanese raids."

"The devil's spies are here, and they can't see anything."

"If we really guard too strictly, so that the devil's spies can't detect the slightest bit of wind, it will arouse the vigilance of the enemy instead, and the gain outweighs the loss."

"In addition, especially the folks at the entrance of the village, we must unify our caliber and prevent devils and spies from getting in and making clichés."

"We want the devils to know, we say something deliberately, we can't let the devils know, we can't reveal it at all, do you know how to do it?"

Li Wenjie smiled and said, "Leader, don't worry!"

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West Village.

A squad leader of the puppet army disguised himself as a commoner and entered Xikou Village.

Before anyone entered the village, there was a bark of dogs from the head of the village, scaring the puppet squad leader, but thinking of the task assigned by the little devil, he could only bite the bullet and move on.

Several Chinese pastoral dogs who were guarding the house seemed to smell the traitor on the visitor, and immediately surrounded him.

The puppet army squad leader was so frightened that he picked up a stick from the side of the road, bared his teeth and waved his paws to scare the dogs: "Ho Ho—" in an attempt to scare the dogs away.

As a result, the pastoral dogs were irritated instead, and they were about to rush towards the puppet squad leader.

One side is "Hohoo—" and the other is "Wow, woof—"

Fortunately, an old woman in a village stopped her in time, "Bastard, what are you yelling for?"

After the old woman scolded, the dogs seemed to understand, and bared their teeth at the puppet squad leader, and then spread out a little "showing off their might", but they still stared at the puppet squad leader not far away. Puppet squad leader.

The squad leader of the puppet army breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. As for who the beast the old woman scolded was, he didn't even bother to think about it.

"Ma'am, the dogs in your village are really fierce!"

The old woman said: "You don't know, the dogs raised in our village are all guarding against animals. They all have good noses. When good people come and wag their tails, when bad people come, they can look after the house. I don’t know why, but I just yelled at you.”

"Perhaps the village has not seen people from other villages for quite some time!"

"By the way, young man, you are not a traitor sent by the devil, let our dog smell it?"

The squad leader of the puppet army was taken aback, and quickly shook his head and said, "Ma'am, don't be joking, how can I be a traitor?"...

　Unexpectedly, it’s New Year’s Eve, and I probably should take a vacation, because I want to be lazy and blame myself at the same time. The expectations of book friends are nothing more than a kind of encouragement. After thinking about it, the inertia of asking for leave should not come!Happy New Year's Eve, my dear book friends!

　　
　
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