It seemed that he noticed that He Dianzi and the others had woken up, and one of the five turned his head and said with a smile: "Oh, are you all awake?"

More than 30 puppet soldiers looked at each other, but He Dianzi nodded blankly.

The man got up and walked over, took off the torn socks from He Dianzi's mouth, and said, "I'll get to know my name. My name is Li Mu, the deputy captain of the 5th Brigade of the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army."

"Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army? My goodness." He Dianzi breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately he was not a bandit.

In the past few months, with the attacks of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui, its reputation has quickly spread throughout southern Anhui. At present, the reputation of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui is similar to that of the Eighth Route Army in North China.

In North China, as soon as the Eighth Route Army arrived, the puppet army would basically lose the will to resist and surrender obediently

The Eighth Route Army has a great reputation, but it is not that they are really good at fighting, but because the Eighth Route Army has powerful policies.

In addition to a few evil traitors, the Eighth Route Army basically only disarmed the puppet army and rarely killed people. The puppet army, wearing this dog skin, was mostly forced by life, and rarely had the will to be traitors or lackeys. Therefore, when they encountered each other on weekdays, the puppet army would usually surrender obediently, so they would not fight the Eighth Route Army for the sake of the little Japanese.

The policy of captives of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army in southern Anhui was formulated by Shu Tongwen, and it was almost the same.

So He Dianzi was very at ease, at least he didn't have to worry about his own head. The anti-Japanese and national salvation army in southern Anhui would not kill people indiscriminately.

Li Mu took down all the smelly socks from the mouths of more than thirty puppet soldiers. These puppet soldiers were very cooperative, but none of them shouted to warn the Japanese. Of course, they shouted, which was useless because the dozen Japanese soldiers in the artillery tower had already let Li Mu and the others drop it, so the bodies should be cold now.

Li Mu was not righteous and sternly scolding these puppet troops. After all, there is a difference between people. When facing a butcher knife, you cannot ask everyone to be equally fearless. As long as these puppet troops can keep the bottom line in their hearts and not become completely accomplices of the little Japanese, that is forgiven.

Moreover, these puppet troops who adhere to the bottom line of psychology are actually the hidden help of the anti-Japanese and national salvation army in southern Anhui.

In the past few months, the reason why the southern Anhui Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army has achieved such brilliant results is inseparable from the puppet troops' firing guns and the active disarming of weapons. After all, everyone is Chinese, so when they arrive on the battlefield, they naturally have tacit understanding. At some times, these puppet troops even take advantage of the chaos to attack the black guns of small Japanese.

After eating and drinking, Li Mu and his team drove away two side tricycles set up in the artillery tower.

At noon, the Japanese army in Tongling County discovered something was wrong and sent a patrol team to come over. As a result, they found more than 30 puppet troops tied to the bed and the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were thrown into the river. The Japanese lieutenant who led the team was so angry that he screamed, but there was no way, because the southern Anhui Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army that attacked the artillery tower had already slipped away.

(Split Line)

The commander of the 14th Independent Brigade, Takae Fujido walked into Okamura's office in a nervous mood

Okamura Nishi sat behind the desk with her thin body almost completely retracted into the pineapple wooden chair. Fujido Takae noticed that Okamura Nishi's face was very bad, and his eyes hiding behind the glasses were flashing with cold and angry eyes, and his inverted eyebrows were also tightly twisted together.

Takae Fujido became more and more nervous.

Fujido Takaei knows why Okamura Yasuji is in a bad mood.

The Battle of Nanchang was an epic victory for the Japanese army. Facing the most elite Xue Yue Corps of the National Army, Okamura Yasuji achieved a decisive victory only with two weak divisions that were crippled in the previous De'an Battle, the 10l Division and the 10th Pei Corps. They not only successfully occupied Nanchang, but also severely damaged Xue Yue Corps.

However, after the victory of the Nanchang Battle, Okamura Yanji was a little lost.

Just the day after the victory of the Nanchang Battle ended, Okamura Yasuji sent a telegram to the base camp in a tough tone, demanding that the base camp continue to expand the scale of the war against central China and sweep across the central, southwest, and northwest with a thunderous force. Even if it could not completely wipe out the national army, it also sought to drive the Chiang Kai-shek regime to Xinjiang.

In order to prompt the base camp to make up its mind, Okamura Yasuji also stood at a strategic height to carefully analyze the world situation and the possible future direction of the Sino-Japanese War. Okamura Yasuji believed that Britain and France were completely restrained by Germany in Europe, and the Red Soviet Union and Germany would also go to war late, so Japan had only one real enemy, that is the United States.

Although the United States has not yet emerged from isolationism, the United States will never be isolated forever. Sooner or later they will choose between the Axis powers and the Allies and then join this war. Moreover, the probability of the United States choosing to join the Axis powers is very small. In other words, the United States will definitely become the enemy of Japan, and it will be a matter of time before Japan and the United States start a war.

The choice now before the Japanese army is to start a war with the United States under the slump of China, or quickly resolve the China Incident, and then concentrate all efforts to fight the United States. There is no doubt that the latter option is more beneficial to Japan. Therefore, we must overcome all difficulties and end the China Incident with all our might.

But Okamura's suggestion was obviously contrary to the base camp.

Because long before the Battle of Nanchang, the base camp had decided to turn from military offense as the main focus, political susceptibility as the auxiliary focus to political susceptibility as the main focus, and military offense as the auxiliary focus, Okamura Yasuji now demanded that the scale of the offensive continue to expand, which was simply not taking the head of the base camp seriously. What's wrong?

So the base camp sent a stern telegram to Okamura Yasuji.

There are also rumors that the base camp is considering transferring Okamura Yasuji back to the local area and becoming a military senator. This is to refrigerate Okamura Yasuji and not reuse it.

Therefore, Okamura Yasuji was in a very bad mood during this period.

"Commander." Fujido Takae held his feet heavily and paid tribute to Okamura Yasuji.

Okamura Yanji looked up, and his eyes hiding behind the lens stared at Takayoshi Fujido like a poisonous snake. It was not until cold sweat oozed from Takayoshi Fujido's forehead that Okamura Yanji groaned, raised the documents in his hand, and asked Takayoshi Fujido: "Takayoshi Fujido, why is the public security situation in southern Anhui so decayed, and how did you command it?"

The control areas of the 100 counties in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. Almost all the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basins are under the control of the 10th Army. Because Okamura Yasuji implemented the Huairou policy, in general, the security situation in the area controlled by the 10th Army is quite good, at least much stronger than in North China.

However, the exception is the case in southern Anhui, and the security situation in southern Anhui can be said to be extremely severe.

Especially in the several counties adjacent to Longkou County, the Japanese army was even somewhat untenable.

"Hayi, I am incompetent, please punish me." Fujido Takaei did not defend himself. This is the advantage of Japanese soldiers. When he was scolded by his superiors, even if he was wronged, they would first look for shortcomings from themselves, rather than thinking about proposing to the superiors or finding excuses to shirk responsibility for themselves.

Okamura Yasuji snorted lightly, his anger calmed down, and he asked: "Is this southern Anhui anti-Japanese national salvation army very difficult?"

"Hai." Fujido Takayoshi replied heavily, "Qingyang County Military Police Captain Takayuki Noguchi reported that although this southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army belongs to the Third War Zone of the Chinese Army, it is completely different from the troops that are different from the Third War. They are not only well-trained, but also well-equipped and have extremely strong combat power."

"Is that right? There is such a unit in the third war zone?" Okamura Yanji frowned again.

There are three national war zones that directly confront the 1st Army, namely the Ninth War Zone, the Fifth War Zone and the Third War Zone. Okamura Yanji was most afraid of was Xue Yue's Ninth War Zone. The troops in the Ninth War Zone were also the key targets of Okamura Yanji. However, after the Battle of Nanchang, the Ninth War Zone had been severely damaged and no longer had the ability to attack.

Then there is Li Zongren's Fifth War Zone. Okamura Yasuji is now planning the Battle of Suzao, with the purpose of which is to damage the national army in the Fifth War Zone a heavy blow, destroy the counterattack potential of the Fifth War Zone, and completely remove the threat from the north bank of the Yangtze River.

As for Gu Zhutong's third war zone, to be honest, Okamura Yanji didn't take it seriously at all. As the saying goes, if a soldier is a bear, a general is a crotch. With a commander-in-chief like Gu Zhutong, there will be no elite troops in the third war zone that can afford tough battles. Therefore, although hundreds of thousands of troops in the third war zone are watching, Okamura Yanji never takes it seriously.

"Your Excellency Commander, Huizei begs to move the brigade headquarters to Chizhou." Fujido Takae made another request.

"It's not necessary. Isn't it just a messy army? They can't make a fuss." Okamura Yanji still didn't take the anti-Japanese and national salvation army seriously. He rejected Fujido Takayoshi's request and said, "You can just draw an infantry brigade, and then use cavalry, artillery, and engineers to strengthen it into an independent brigade to regain Longkou."
Chapter completed!