Fifty miles south of Dongyang City, on a flat field, Captain Tian Jian of the Japanese Army is riding on a chrysanthemum-green Oriental horse, with a command knife hanging on his crotch and a riding whip in his right hand. He is in his forties and has shaved hair.
With his slender, green beard and triangular eyes, he looked like a man with a cold nature.
This is indeed the case. When Captain Tian Jian arrived in Dongyang County, he launched an extremely cruel purge. At least more than a hundred local gentry and officials were killed or arrested. For a time, the whole city was in turmoil.
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However, he then showed his skillful political skills and used both kindness and power to make the officials and gentry in Dongyang County willingly submit to his management.
Among so many counties where Japanese troops were stationed, Dongyang County was the first to be completely controlled, and it was also the one with the most stable order. It was once used as a model by the Kwantung Army Headquarters and was reported to the three eastern provinces.
This is why Ma Zhenshan launched a riot here, which was to undermine the confidence and influence of the Japanese army and build the confidence of the anti-Japanese people.
From the current point of view, their goal has been achieved. Captain Tian Jian's lair was taken away, the gendarmerie was also killed, and the remaining Japanese army was completely annihilated. This was enough to shock most of the three eastern provinces.
Of course, Captain Tian Jian doesn't know this yet. If he knew, I don't know what his expression would be like.
What he is thinking about now is, where did Zheng Xiao and the others who broke out go?
After coming out of the city, he went straight to the plains to the south. The task assigned to him at the beginning was to rush to the southern foot of the plains as quickly as possible and cut off the two passages leading to the Guandong Mountains to prevent the tiger from returning to the mountains.
According to the plan, he arrived here smoothly and set up an ambush, waiting for Zheng Xiao and others to appear. However, an hour passed and there was not a single person in sight.
"According to the speed, even if the opponent is not walking very fast, it should be here by this time. Why hasn't there been any movement yet?" Captain Tian Jian was a little anxious. He had already sent more than a dozen teams of scouts to investigate, but there was no movement.
At the first moment of discovery, the other party seemed to have suddenly evaporated from the world and disappeared without a trace.
I also contacted other Japanese troops, but they found nothing. Even the Japanese cavalry who had searched the south of the city several times found nothing.
This situation was so abnormal that it made all the Japanese people tense up. They had a premonition that things had changed, and that it was very likely that they were out of their control.
Next to Captain Tian Jian, several squadron commanders had looked at him countless times, waiting for him to give orders. However, Captain Tian Jian stayed there motionless, which made several of his subordinate commanders very depressed.
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At this time, there was a sudden response from the radio station. The operator immediately began to listen to the contents of the telegram with all his concentration, and then wrote it down with a pen.
After recording, the operator ran over and handed the telegraph newspaper to Captain Tian Jian.
His eyes fell on the telegram for a moment, and Captain Tian Jian's arm holding the telegram became stiff. He looked at the line of words on it, and his expression became particularly ugly, as if someone had taken off his shoes and used the soles of his shoes.
It's the same as if I had been whipped five hundred times.
It could be seen that he was trying his best to control his emotions, but the wrinkled telegraph newspaper that he pinched with too much force revealed his inner anger.
The squadron commanders around him didn't know what happened. They all turned their heads and stared at their captain, wanting to know what happened.
"Baga, Baga!"
Captain Tian Jian felt that his temples were throbbing, as if they were about to burst. The news on the telegram made him want to cry, "What is this? I'm stupid here, lying in wait.
They actually took away their own nest."
The telegram was sent from Dongyang County, but it was not the telephone serviceman he left behind, but Zheng Xiao.
In the message, Zheng Xiao greeted Tian Jian and told him by the way that his squadron in Dongyang County no longer existed and Dongyang County was now under the control of Chinese soldiers.
This news was like a slap in the face, hitting Tian Jian hard on the cheek, making him feel his cheeks burning up.
The governance of Dongyang County has always been Captain Tian Jian's proudest masterpiece, and it has also been his ladder of promotion. It is said that Commander Changdao of the Kwantung Army will come here for an inspection recently, but now that something like this has happened, all his efforts have been in vain.
All turned into nothing.
Tian Jian was now ready to tear Zheng Xiao to pieces. He immediately ordered two squadrons to follow him back to Dongyang County. At the same time, he also notified other Japanese troops to cooperate with him to surround Dongyang County and annihilate all opponents.
One squadron of Japanese troops and two battalions of puppet troops were left behind to ambush here. Tian Jian felt that these manpower should be enough. After all, they knew that Zheng Xiao and the others did not have too many people.
Following his order, two squadrons of Japanese troops set off quickly and pounced on Dongyang County with great momentum, clamoring to take back the county and eliminate Zheng Xiao and the others.
At the same time, other Japanese troops also got the news. They quickly mobilized some troops and surrounded Dongyang County from all directions. At this point, the Chinese army had to admire the coordination, synchronization and pace of the Japanese troops.
Consistent, working together.
However, what the Japanese did not expect was that after sending this telegram, Zheng Xiao and his troops had already left Dongyang County, exited the city from the north gate, and headed straight for Liaoyang City along the highway.
After he left, Ma Zhenshan commanded the rioting coalition forces to quickly pack up supplies, and quickly left Dongyang County and implemented the transfer. They were all local gangsters, and it was easy to hide. It was easier than Zheng Xiao and the others.
Much more convenient.
This time they won a great victory and returned home with a full load. All the coalition soldiers who participated in the riot remembered one name - Zheng Xiao.
It was this name that became a topic of discussion among the coalition soldiers for some time to come. The content included the strength of his soldiers, the advanced weapons of his team, and of course, more importantly, his fight with the mysterious masked man.
The sharp skills displayed at the time.
Although there were only a limited number of soldiers at the scene at that time, others still heard about Zheng Xiao's heroic deeds from them, and they even added insult to injury. The descriptions were vivid and exciting, causing many female soldiers to have small twitches in their eyes.
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Anyway, Zheng Xiao became famous and many coalition soldiers knew about him and what a great person he was.