East Gate of Licheng County!
Nagano Yuao looked at every Chinese who came in and out of the city gate with burning eyes. Behind him were more than a dozen soldiers with live ammunition in the sandbag fortifications on both sides of the city gate. And in the fortification at the top of the city wall, there was a
Taisho 11 young machine gun with loaded magazine and two machine gunners.
From then on, Chinese people passing by looked at the black muzzles of guns and the solemn-looking Japanese soldiers, and instinctively showed fear and stayed away a little.
Watching a patched-up woman with a gray face leading a three-year-old child hurriedly past her, Yuio Nagano's eyes suddenly blurred.
In one month, it will be his fifth year in the army. From a 17-year-old boy to a 23-year-old man now, he has spent almost a quarter of his life in the army, and he is considered a veteran.
If he had been in his hometown and nothing unexpected happened, he would be the father of a 2-year-old child by now!
Thinking of this, Nagano Yuuo felt inexplicably worried. Hideko, who had already made a lifelong commitment to him, had not received any letters since he came to China. He wondered if something had happened, and his face could not help but darken.
"Nagano Tai-kun, have you fallen in love with this woman?" A Chinese man wearing a separate coat and a shell gun next to him, with a flattering smile on his face, whispered into Nagano Yuio's ear.
Nagano Yuuo's face showed a hint of displeasure!
The man next to me is one of the Chinese who took the initiative to surrender when the brigade entered Licheng County half a month ago. According to the parlance in the imperial army, this is a surrender and a friend of the empire. The Chinese are more direct.
, traitor!
China is too big, and the Japanese alone cannot manage it anyway. They need the help of surrendered Chinese people. This concept came about after Nagano Yuio set foot on the land of northern China.
The empire's hundreds of thousands of troops spent half a year occupying a vast area several times the size of Japan. As a result, rumors among the military said that this was only one-tenth of China's size. This was really something that impressed Nagano Yu.
At this rate, how long will it take to completely end this war?
However, the war is far away, and it has nothing to do with his dislike of the so-called 'friend of the Empire' next to him. The Japanese nation has always admired heroes. Although the man next to him and his companions have defected to and helped the Empire, they
Having betrayed the interests of his motherland, Sergeant Nagano Yuao instinctively loathed him.
But for this disgusting man, not even Nagano Yuio could express his disgust clearly on his face.
Because this man is the youngest son of the richest man in Licheng County, and when the imperial army entered the city, he not only contributed his sturdy and beautifully decorated house as the brigade headquarters, but also provided a large amount of money.
Yi Laojun also worked very cooperatively to transform his private guard into the Licheng County Security Brigade to maintain order in the city. Qi Liangzhongzuo valued him very much and not only appointed him as the captain of the Licheng County Security Brigade, but also guaranteed his
Security of private industry.
After entering 1938, as the war in North China progressed smoothly, the North China Front Army Headquarters also promulgated some new internal regulations. Without special reasons, destructive killings in occupied counties were not allowed.
It was not because of pity for life, but as the war progressed, the empire's local economic consumption was too great. The imperial economic department criticized the imperial army's behavior of only consuming but not producing, and the front army headquarters suffered too much pressure.
, so they had to hold on to the butcher's knife temporarily and maintain the normal economy in the occupied city.
Only in this way can there be output, tax revenue, and feedback to the empire!
This is also the main reason why the Sixth Infantry Brigade of the Xiayuan Infantry Brigade was stationed in Li City and spent three days conducting a comprehensive screening of the residents in the city before fully allowing normal access to the city gates.
However, an infantry squad was stationed at each of the four city gates for entry and exit, and the gates were inspected in shifts from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. to prevent enemies from sneaking into the city and causing trouble.
Although the top commander in the city, the 6th Infantry Battalion Captain Saki Ryochuzuo, believed that this possibility was extremely low.
The reason is very simple. With the capture of Dongyang Pass in the northeast of the county, the highway from HD to Changzhi has been fully opened. All the counties along the way have been occupied and connected. Any Chinese troops who want to harass will be defended by a county garrison.
With the support of the other two counties, the Chinese do not have more than 10,000 troops, so I am afraid they do not have the courage.
As for the mobilization of more than 10,000 troops, is the empire's intelligence agency a fool? Or are the informants outside the city in vain?
Licheng County has a history of more than two thousand years. This is a long time that makes almost all Japanese people numb. In 221 BC, Japan was still a primitive society. The patriarchal society had just replaced the matriarchal society.
At that time, Japan was in a semi-ancient state, also known as the "Yayoi period". At this time, Japan had just learned to grow rice and use copper and iron.
Pushing forward the time for more than a thousand years, we arrived at the Warring States Period, which is well known to Japan and Asia. However, compared to the war that broke out in 500 BC between ancient Greece and Persia in the West, which often involved hundreds of thousands of troops, look at China again.
When the Border Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, both sides engaged in a battle involving nearly a million people. The so-called Warring States Period in Japan was just a fight between a few small villages...
Why do the Japanese prefer beautiful Chinese people in the end? Even if they are hit with big fat bombs by beautiful Chinese people, do they feel that they have the same problem as beautiful Chinese people? We two brothers have no history in football. We are holding hands and side by side without looking at each other.
Do you hope it will come true in the future?
It doesn’t matter how many years it took for Licheng to be built. What matters is that the walls of Licheng, a mountain city, are high enough and thick enough!
Perhaps it was just out of the cold weapon era, or maybe the mountains are high and there are many bandits. To prevent bandits, the city wall of Licheng County is even more complete than many large cities on the North China Plain. The vertical height of the city wall is nearly 4 meters.
, the width is more than 3 meters, and it can even reach the city wall through a Type 94 tank on the slope inside the city.
It is precisely with the protection of such a city wall that Qi Liangzhongzuo has enough confidence. Even if the Chinese have an infantry brigade to attack, he and the Sixth Infantry Brigade can hold on to Lucheng and Shecheng to come to the rescue.
The supreme commander could think so, but Nagano Yuuo maintained his caution as always. The central left-hand man, who was approaching a battle, could hide in that strong house, but he, the sergeant who led 14 soldiers, could not.
Otherwise, he, the squad leader, is enough to sit in the fortifications, drink a few sips of tea and smoke freshly issued cigarettes, so he still needs to personally supervise at the city gate?
At a time like this, it was even less likely that he would be interested in a Chinese woman with a dusty face and a body covered in rags. Although he also knew that if the dusty face was washed clean, she should still be pretty, but
Can that compare to his show?
"Wang Sang, please do not talk about military-related matters while performing military duties!" Nagano Yuao turned his attention back to the Chinese civilians queuing up for inspection over there.
Feeling the coldness of the Japanese sergeant next to him, the separated man felt a little resentful and secretly complained that the guy in front of him was ignorant of current affairs!
He is just a young sergeant. If his father hadn't sternly warned him that he must have good relations with all Japanese, which is related to the life and death of the entire family, why would the young master of his dignified Wang family come to the city gate to work as a gatekeeper?
?
Then, Nagano Yuuo's eyes narrowed, and he saw a young Chinese Taoist priest wearing a worn Taoist robe and carrying a wooden box.
The little Taoist priest must have completed all the inspections and just carried his wooden box.
However, this is not a prosperous big city. What is this little Taoist doing here? Nagano Yuao instinctively felt that something was wrong.
"Yours, come here!" Nagano Yuuo pointed at the little Taoist priest who was obviously nervous.
Being pointed at like this, the little Taoist priest's face instantly turned pale, and his body began to tremble involuntarily, which made Nagano Yuio feel more relaxed.
In front of imperial soldiers, this is the most normal reaction for Chinese people, especially to a boy who looks like he is only in his teens.
"Where did you come from, and why are you here?" Of course Nagano Yuio's Chinese was not proficient enough. After jabbering, he looked at Wang Changshou!
Wang Changshou is a weakling, but he still has a certain talent for languages. In just half a month, he has learned basic Japanese conversation. Otherwise, he would not have the opportunity to work as a translator at the city gate.
"I was ordered by my master to go down the mountain to travel, and my home is all over the world!" The little Taoist reluctantly bowed with a Taoist bow. The fear on his face did not change, but his eyes were still clear.
This look made Nagano Yuoo, who had heard the translation, feel a little unhappy.
The Chinese people he met along the way were all terrified. Those Chinese who dared to look at the imperial army either knelt down humbly at the gunpoint, or because of this stubbornness, they became prey to the imperial soldiers' guns.
Will this little Chinese Taoist priest be the former or the latter? Nagano Yuuo couldn't help but lick his lips, and a cold and cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Wang Sang, help me tell him that I believe in Buddhism, not some messy Taoism. Don't answer with such vague reasons. Just answer me honestly, where do you come from and where do you go? If there is any
What you concealed is dead!"
After listening to the translation, the little Taoist finally showed fear in his eyes, and his thin shoulders began to tremble. The people around him also cast fearful glances at him.
The little Taoist priest looked like a wandering Taoist at first glance, either relying on fortune-telling at Hukou or relying on charity from believers. If he died here because of the Japanese, that would be something that all kind-hearted Chinese civilians would not want to see.
However, looking at the black muzzles protruding from the sandbags on both sides of the city gate, no one dared to go up and speak. They could only cast disdainful eyes on Wang Changshou, who was working loyally for the Japanese.
In the past, when Wang Changshou wandered around the land of fireworks, the people in Licheng only regarded him as a swinger. Unexpectedly, now the whole family has turned into a disgusting traitor and lackey of the Japanese.
Now Wang Changshou couldn't stand it anymore.
The traitor is a very strange creature. He wants others to be afraid of him, but he also wants others to respect him. From a psychological point of view, it belongs to the psychology that the more something is lacking, the more it wants.
In the early days, many traitors hoped to use the excuse of protecting their neighbors as a cover-up for being dogs. Later, they were despised more, and instead they were broken. Since they are not respected, I will be afraid when you see me.
The brutality against his own compatriots was even worse than that of the Japanese invaders, which was the result of the failure of this demand mentality.
Wang Changshou, who had just become a traitor, obviously still had this psychological need to be respected. So, after the little Taoist priest once again repeated the reason of "traveling down the mountain and being home all over the world", he actually helped the little Taoist priest to tease the Japanese in Danhu Lake for the first time.
.
"Nagano Taijun, the little Taoist priest said that he came from southern Shanxi and came to this mountain to escape the war. However, there was no food in the mountain, so he had to go to the city to tell people's fortunes to survive! He looked quite pitiful." Wang Changshou talked nonsense.
Not to mention, there are no other types of swinger-type traitors, but Xia Jiba talks one thing after another, making it difficult to distinguish the true from the false.
The reason why he can do this may have something to do with the fact that he just put his hot face on Nagano Yuao's cold buttocks. By lying to him, Wang Changshou can also regain some face. Anyway, he is not afraid that these lowly civilians dare to report him.
Yes, the little Taoist priest who is harmless to humans and animals does not look like a human being who can make some waves.
"Yusi! Your ruler is such a bastard that no one who practices Taoism can survive and has to look for food in the cities under our empire's rule!" Nagano Yuio heard this explanation, with a smile on his face and nodded.
He raised his head and stretched out his hand. "Go to the city! You will have a full stomach."
What made Nagano Yuao change his mind was actually Wang Changshou's explanation. He had been observing the little Taoist priest's reaction. The little Taoist priest was obviously very frightened and his body was shaking, but his eyes were still clear. This is a spiritual practitioner.
How people should react.
The little Taoist priest is afraid, which is derived from the life instinct of fear of powerful creatures. His clear eyes also show that he has faith in gods and has a heart to practice, which completely proves his identity.
Moreover, with the help of the closer distance, he saw that there was no callus on the little Taoist's tiger's mouth. He was definitely not a person who had enough contact with firearms. His fingers were slender and white, and he probably was not someone who often exercised his strength. Overall, it showed that he did not
will become a threat.
Of course, the most important thing is that he saw the disdainful looks of the Chinese people around him towards Wang Changshou. That is what he wants to see. The more the Chinese are like this, the more the Wang family can go to the dark side with the empire, and there will be no more
The way back.
Since Wang Changshou said so, he didn't mind giving this guy some face.
Before the little Taoist priest left, he took a deep look at Wang Changshou. Wang Changshou, who had a long parted hair, curled his lips and signaled the little Taoist priest to get out of here. Unless his deceased grandma believed in it, he would not help the little Taoist priest on a whim.
However, it was Nagano Yuuo who was so stupid that he made the lake foggy for any reason. It would be great if all Japanese people were so stupid.
The Japanese and Chinese each kept their own secrets and stood at the same city gate.
But he didn't notice that in front of the little Taoist priest, there was an old man with white hair and beard carrying a bag, a relatively strong woodcutter carrying a load of firewood, and a young hunter carrying rabbits and pheasants, handing over a certain amount of money.
After paying the entry fee, enter Licheng.
The Japanese can't tell what is Licheng dialect and what is Chinese, and for Licheng people, there won't be much surprise. The special squadron learned it from the local guide as early as when they entered the mountains.
Although I won’t be particularly proficient in the local dialect in a short period of time, I still have a 70-80% proficiency in it.
On March 12, ten members of the special squadron entered Licheng County through various cover-ups, including Uncle Han, whom Gu Xishui specifically asked Tang Tuanzuo for secondment.
Inside the city, people were picked up by personnel already contacted by the 683 brigade, and the good citizen certificates issued by the Japanese army three days after entering the city became everyone's identity documents.
All kinds of weapons and equipment needed for people entering the city were also delivered one by one via the Wang family carriage two days later.
The Wang family is the largest business group in the city. The main members choose to join the Japanese, but that doesn't mean that everyone will follow them wholeheartedly. Some people also choose to embrace another thick leg.
When a crisis comes, everyone has a chance to choose, choose the right life, choose the wrong death, that's all.
This chapter has been completed!