380 Having many eyes and ears, he will take advantage of the situation
Early spring.
The ambient temperature in northwest Shanxi has risen and is no longer as cold as in the cold winter.
Taking advantage of the winter, the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were temporarily at peace with each other. Under Kong Jie's arrangement, the Independent Regiment continued to expand business avenues and achieved preliminary results:
The latest cooperation with the 57th Regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army has been achieved again.
Yang Chongshan, the leader of the 57th Regiment, was indeed a little panicked after learning 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, but also with the Central Army, and even do business with the Japs. Their business channels are much wider than those of the 57th Regiment.
Yang Chongshan really had no doubt that the 71st Regiment was doing business with the Independent Regiment.
The life motto of Wu Changsheng, the leader of the 71st Regiment, is, "As long as there is money to be made, I don't care who he is. This financial man is the boss, and the one who has milk in the bank is the mother. My team also has to eat, drink, and piss."<
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Therefore, after learning that the Independent Regiment might turn around and do business with the 71st Regiment, Yang Chongshan did not dare to hesitate and quickly prepared all the equipment and ammunition for the new batch of orders sent by Kong Jie.
For the Independent Regiment, the Ministry of Finance spent nearly 300,000 legal currency at one time to purchase a considerable number of Jin-made grenade launchers, light and heavy machine guns, as well as rifles and ammunition.
On the other hand, through the business operation of Xu Qingnian's father, Xu Fenggong, in the enemy-occupied county, the independent group produced briquettes and briquette stoves, and the sales response was quite good.
The people in the county like the convenience of this briquette very much.
Whenever a slightly wealthy family encounters stoves and briquettes, they will always buy some.
The reputation of this unique briquette, which is easy to use and suitable for heating and cooking, quickly spread in the county.
In the Independent Group, the sales of briquettes and coal stoves also suddenly increased. After Dong San asked Kong Jie for instructions, he also set up a special production line and expanded the scale to produce briquettes and coal stoves.
This alone brings a lot of income to the independent group.
Since the armed seizure of Guizi County, as well as the cash flow of the Jinsui Army and the Central Army Bank, the Ministry of Finance, which the Independent Regiment has been unable to get out of, finally has its first good income.
Finance Minister Xu Qingnian had a smile on his face. He was even planning, and when the time was right, he would start planning his own financial department that would belong to the independent group.
Business in Inner Mongolia is also going very smoothly.
Briquettes, as well as briquette stoves, were exchanged for a group of cattle and sheep for the independent group.
The Independent Regiment reclaimed a large amount of wasteland in the surrounding area and planted more than 1,000 kilograms of potatoes, mother and child.
Kong Jie is confident about this. The base area is stable and can be held as long as the brutal counter-mopping up in 1942 is not carried out.
After this batch of potatoes is harvested again, it can solve the independent regiment's logistical food supply problem to a large extent.
Regiment Headquarters.
Kong Jie is discussing with Dong San and Xu Qingnian about continuing to expand the independent group's business chain.
Kong Jie said: "The efficiency of briquette production and briquette stoves is still a bit low. In addition, coal stoves tend to sell better in winter.
In spring and summer, when the weather warms up, most people who don’t have a particularly wealthy family will not buy our coal stove.”
"So we still have to think about a profitable business."
Dong San scratched his head, not thinking of any better ideas: "Captain, besides this briquette and briquette stove, what else can we get from our base? Tea? Or potatoes, potato powder, etc. that we plan to sell in the future?
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Kong Jie said: "During the war, when we do business, we must not only consider how much money we can make, but also whether the actual goods will do more harm than good or good than harm after they are sold."
"For example, some local national troops sold high-quality Usha, timber, and various rare metal ores to the Japanese army. After getting money from the Japanese army, they bought back cigarettes and other things from the Japanese and returned to the Kuomintang-controlled areas.
After that, they sell these cigarettes to their own countrymen at high prices."
"Think about it, is this possible? The end result is that the little devils get all kinds of materials that can be used to develop industrial production, make guns, cannons, and ships, but what about these national troops? They just get some
It’s just a big cigarette. After you finish smoking, the big cigarette is gone and your body is broken.”
"What difference does it make when the little devil used opium to persecute us Chinese people?"
"There is no telling which day the artillery shells made by the Japanese using the materials they sold will fall on their own heads."
"So the food crops in our base area, including the briquettes and coal stoves, even if we want to do business, our targets are the people in the county, not the little devils. We can't let the devils take advantage."
"I have thought about this carefully, and I will give you a general direction. Let's not focus on crops. Our base areas also need these things. We have food in our pockets, so we don't panic."
"Then think of other ways. For example, if the Japanese sell cigarettes to the national army, we can also produce some cigarettes and sell them to the little Japanese to make money from the Japanese."
"As for the factories and equipment that produce cigarettes, I will let Wang An think of a way. If it doesn't work, just find the cigarette factory owned by the Japanese and puppet troops and rob it."
"In addition, I think we can also produce chicken essence."
Xu Qingnian said doubtfully: "Captain, when I was in Guizi County, I had eaten ajinomoto and the like. It is said to be a condiment invented by the Japanese. After it was introduced to China, we usually call it monosodium glutamate. This chicken essence
What is it again?"
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.
Why don't we think differently, we can do the business that the Japanese and the National Army can do, and all we have to do is improve the quality of our products and gain market recognition, then we will win.
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For example, the Japanese have factories that produce cigarettes, and we also produce cigarettes. Our cigarettes are cheaper and taste better than the cigarettes they produce. When the time comes, will consumers choose cigarettes produced by us or cigarettes produced by the Japanese?
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"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."
"Isn't it true that I made money and also promoted the anti-Japanese war?"
Dong San, Xu Qingnian: "..."
"Furthermore, as I just said, the Japanese invented Ajinomoto, which is MSG, so we can take it to the next level.
For example, if we buy some of the MSG made by the little devils in bulk, we can mix it with other things, grind chicken and chicken bones into flour, and add it to it. Can we further enhance the taste of the MSG? This is
I'm talking about chicken essence.
Of course, I will ask the old squad leaders of the cooking class to study the specific method of production. The new chicken essence finally created must be better than the little devil's MSG in taste, so we have
market."
Kong Jie probably knows a little bit about how to make chicken essence.
If this chicken essence can be made, it can definitely overpower the Japanese MSG in terms of 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 team leader with disapproval. The team leader’s brain was too good.
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Taiyuan City.
Yamamoto Kazuki, captain of the Japanese First Army Special Forces in Shanxi, and Ishii Haraichi, the Japanese joint captain, prepared to join forces to eliminate Kong Jie and destroy the independent regiment, but they were not in a hurry to start the actual military operation.
Ishii Haraichi and Yamamoto Kazuki have reached a consensus on this point.
A lion fights a rabbit with all his strength.
Ishii Haraichi was originally cautious, while Yamamoto Kazuki had suffered too much at the hands of Kong Jie, and he was not allowed to be careless.
The two agreed that in order to send troops to destroy the Independent Regiment in one fell swoop and eliminate Kong Jie, the leader of the Independent Regiment, intelligence collection was a very important part.
In addition, Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, also told Kazuki Yamamoto and Haraichi Ishii.
According to the order conveyed by the North China Front Army Headquarters, it is expected that the Empire of Japan will launch an attack on the Central Army of Southern Shanxi around May this year.
Therefore, before that, in order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking the opportunity to cause chaos and assist the Shanxi Central Army, the imperial forces will conduct a large-scale raid on the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains area, further compressing the Taihang Eighth Route Army's living space, and cutting off the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area from the Shanxi Central Army.
Contact.
So the timelines need to be connected.
If Yamamoto Kazuki and Ishii Haraichi can successfully destroy the independent regiment and break the Eighth Route Army's defense system in the North Shanxi Iron Triangle, then the main force of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi will advance forward at the same time and carry out a large-scale attack on the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area.
The sweep.
Then the Japanese army in North China would take advantage of the suppression of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang, turn around and attack the Central Army in southern Shanxi.
This is also more confusing. The Central Army in southern Shanxi probably would not have thought that the Japanese army in front of them was launching a large-scale raid on the Eighth Route Army base area. How could they turn around and attack southern Shanxi?
Therefore, before Ishii Haraichi and Yamamoto Kazuki attack the independent regiment, they still have nearly two months of maneuver time, which is enough for them to make reasonable arrangements, search for intelligence, and secretly deploy troops.
"Senior, regarding the specific information inside this independent regiment's base, we can collect it from many aspects. On the one hand, we can send plainclothes teams to find villagers nearby to investigate. In addition, we can also try to have the Imperial Association Army or plainclothes teams disguise themselves as ordinary people.
, sneak into the Niukou Village area to investigate. In addition, we may also be able to get some information from some national troops and Jinsui troops around the independent regiment base area."
In terms of collecting information about the independent group, Haraichi Ishii said this.
In order to cooperate with the two men's military operations against the Independent Regiment, the Japanese military intelligence system around Yangquan was also activated and targeted the base area of the Independent Regiment.
How could such a huge movement be hidden from Kong Jie?
Now, as the eyes and ears of the independent regiment, there are comrades from the enemy's Ministry of Industry lurking around the base area and in major counties in the Japanese-occupied areas.
Kong Jie later ordered the formation of a special agent company directly under the independent regiment headquarters, headed by instructor Li Wenjie.
There are also folks from the villages surrounding the base area.
The elderly and children sometimes enter enemy-occupied counties to buy some things. If they encounter something and find it useful, they will return to the village as soon as possible and 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 ears and eyes of the independent regiment are almost spread in all major areas around the base area.
But if there is any disturbance, it will reach Kong Jie’s ears immediately.
Not to mention that the Japanese and puppet troops attempted to get close to the Niukou Village base area this time in order to find out information about the Independence Regiment base area.
As soon as the Japanese plainclothes team approached, the news spread to the independent regiment headquarters.
"Captain, our militia comrades in the West Village and Zhangjiazhuang areas have all sent news that many strange faces have appeared around the village during this period, and they also deliberately used the villagers to make excuses, suspecting that they were spies sent by the Japanese army to explore our base area.
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The militia comrades passed the news over and asked the regiment leader for instructions."
Li Wenjie, who received the news through the special agent company, rushed to the regiment headquarters and reported to Kong Jiehui.
Kong Jie smiled, "The little devils want to deal with our independent regiment, but the troops and horses have not yet been moved, and the intelligence comes first."
"What Lao Li and Lao Ding said is right, this little devil is going to attack our independent group, and there are signs right now."
"In this way, Wenjie, tell the militia comrades and let them make a good handover with the villagers. We will use our tricks and pretend we don't know anything."
"If the devils send plainclothes teams, or spies disguised as ordinary people, into the village, let them walk around the village, take a look, and let the villagers show what an ordinary village should have, such as hidden weapons and so on.
Okay, let’s reduce the size of the militia to one-tenth.”
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"Anyway, our village is no different from an ordinary village before we deploy defenses against the Japanese raids."
"This devil's spy is here, but he doesn't have any tricks up his sleeve."
"If we really guard too tightly so that the Japanese spies can't detect anything, it will arouse the enemy's vigilance, and the gain outweighs the loss."
"In addition, especially the villagers in the village entrance area, they must have a unified tone to prevent Japanese spies from sneaking in to make lies."
"What we want the devils to know, we deliberately tell them. What we don't want the devils to know, we can't reveal at all. Do you know how to do it specifically?"
Li Wenjie smiled and said: "Captain, don't worry!"
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West Village.
A puppet army squad leader disguised himself as a commoner and entered Xikou Village.
Before they even entered the village, there was a barking of dogs from the end of the village, which frightened the squad leader of the puppet army. However, thinking of the task assigned by the little devil, he could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward.
Several Chinese garden dogs who were guarding the home seemed to smell the traitorous smell on the visitor and immediately surrounded him.
The squad leader of the puppet army was so frightened that he picked up a stick from the side of the road, and with all his teeth and claws, he threatened a few dogs: "Ho ho ho..." in an attempt to scare away the dogs.
As a result, the pastoral dogs were enraged and were about to pounce on the puppet squad leader.
One side is "Ho ho——", the other side is "Woof woof woof——"
Fortunately, an old woman in the village stopped her drinking in time, "Beast, what are you calling for?"
After the old woman scolded, the dogs seemed to understand and bared their teeth at the puppet squad leader. Then they dispersed in a "show of force", but they were still staring at the puppet leader not far away.
Puppet Army 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 was scolding was, he didn't want to think about it.
"Auntie, the dogs in your village are really vicious!"
The old woman said: "You don't know, these dogs raised in our village are all for guarding against animals. Each of them has a sharp nose. When good people come, they wag their tails. When bad people come, they can look after the house. Today, too,
I don’t know why, but I started screaming at you."
"Maybe the village has not seen people from other villages for a long time!"
"By the way, young man, are you a traitor sent by the Japanese to let us dogs smell you?"
The squad leader of the puppet army was startled, shook his head quickly and said: "Auntie, don't be ridiculous, how can I be a traitor?"......