"Since it is related to the Eighth Route Army, let's meet it~ The Eighth Route Army is getting better and better now. Shanxi will soon no longer be the Shanxi of our Shanxi-Sui Army. We must find a way to use the power of the Japanese to suppress them!" Commander
Answered with a thoughtful look on his face.
Not long after, a middle-aged man wearing ordinary people's clothes walked in! With a small goatee, he could tell at a glance that he was Japanese.
""Sir, this is Lieutenant Colonel Noda, the deputy chief of staff of the Japs Division, who has been ordered to negotiate with us!"
"Hello, Commander, I am here to negotiate with your army under the orders of the Imperial Japanese Army's North China Command!"
"We are enemies and rivals. What is there to talk about? Deputy Chief of Staff Wang, see you off!" After staying in Shanxi for so long, the commander has learned a lot about the shrewdness and negotiation skills unique to Shanxi businessmen, and he puts on a good face as soon as he comes up.
Take the attitude of having nothing to talk about and take the initiative in the entire negotiation.
Lieutenant Colonel Noda replied with a smile: "It's good that we are rivals, but now, we have a common enemy, the Eighth Route Army!"
"You Chinese have a saying that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. We have a common enemy, and even if we can't be friends, there should be no problem in living together peacefully!"
The commander's eyes lit up and he asked: "How can we live in peace with each other?"
"The Imperial Army and the Jinsui Army made a secret truce. In order to show sincerity, the Imperial Army troops on the front line took the initiative to withdraw ten kilometers. The ten kilometers in the middle serve as a buffer zone between us. No one can send troops to enter!"
The commander was moved.
After fighting the Japanese for so many years, the Jinsui Army suffered huge casualties. Although many troops were rebuilt, the total strength was still more than 100,000.
However, due to insufficient training of the troops, there is no difference between sending them to the battlefield and sending them to death.
For the commander, no matter how many recruits he loses on the battlefield, he doesn't feel heartbroken. There are plenty of people in Shanxi, and if the loss of new recruits is serious, it's a big deal to recruit more troops. The only thing that makes him heartbroken is the weapons equipped by those troops.
After the recruits died in battle, the weapons and ammunition equipped by the recruits would undoubtedly end up in the hands of the little Japs.
Although he took a lot of assets with him when he evacuated Taiyuan, no amount of assets could withstand such rapid consumption.
Faced with this situation, his subordinates have proposed more than once that the troops need time to rest and train... Otherwise, the true combat effectiveness of the Jinsui Army will definitely be greatly weakened.
The commander-in-chief was not aware of this situation, but in order to put pressure on himself, the Japanese never stopped attacking him, leaving no time for the troops to rest and recuperate.
Now when he heard that the Japanese proposed a truce with the Jinsui Army, the commander immediately thought of the biggest problem facing the Jinsui Army.
But on the surface, the commander did not make any move. As if he heard a very common thing, he asked with a half-smiling expression: "On the battlefield, you have always won more and lost less, and you have the absolute advantage."
Advantage. Now that the truce is suddenly proposed, there must be some reason that we don’t know! Tell me! What conditions do you have!"
"The purpose is very simple. The imperial army wants to concentrate all its forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army, which is like a cancer and is entrenched in North China!"
The commander sneered and asked: "In this case, our Jinsui Army will become a helper in destroying the Eighth Route Army!"
"The Jinsui Army is still a friendly force with the Eighth Route Army. I still know the old man's counterattack. Once you kill the Eighth Route Army, the next opponent you want to kill will be our Jinsui Army! I don't believe that a piece of paper can keep us going forever.
Stay in southwest Shanxi!"
"This!" Lieutenant Colonel Noda didn't expect that the commander-in-chief's mind would turn so quickly. He could see the true purpose of the imperial army at a glance, and it took him a long time to react.
"I believe that since the front army proposed this idea of truce, it must be sincere. Please consider this carefully before replying to me!"
"In addition to signing a secret armistice agreement, after the front army learned that your army was short of weapons and ammunition, it decided to return to you the weapons and ammunition seized from your army in previous battles, including a total of 10,000 rifles, 186 light and heavy machine guns, and 16 mortars.
Door, more than 500,000 rounds of various ammunition!"
What the Jinsui Army lacks most now is weapons and ammunition, so the commander-in-chief did not hold back this time and immediately asked: "What are your conditions!"
"Equal price in exchange for food!" Lieutenant Colonel Noda replied.
The commander suddenly reacted: "I understand. If I remember correctly, your garrison in Linfen City is about to run out of food!"
"In addition, all the roads leading to Linfen are occupied by the Eighth Route Army, so you have no way to replenish Linfen with food and ammunition, and then you set your sights on me, old man!"
"To tell you the truth, I have grain. I can afford tens of millions of kilograms of grain without telling you too much."
"As for your proposal to exchange weapons and ammunition for food from me, I agree in principle, but I must carefully calculate the price."
"In this way, Lieutenant Noda, you will rest at the headquarters for one night. I will ask my subordinates to clear a courtyard for you at the headquarters, and then send heavy troops to guard you. I will give you an answer after dawn tomorrow!"
As soon as the Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Noda was taken out, the intelligence director next to him couldn't help but remind him: "Sir, I think this transaction of exchanging food for weapons is feasible. However, the Japanese are too cunning. We must be cautious and cautious when making transactions."
, we can’t be fooled by them!”
"As for the Japs' proposal to cease the war with us and concentrate our forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army, I fully support your decision just now. We cannot agree to the Japs!"
"What you just said is so right. We and the Eighth Route Army are at loggerheads. As long as one of us is killed by the little devil, the other one will definitely not be spared!"
At this time, the commander was surprised and shook his head and replied: "No, I will agree to the Japanese request for a truce with us!"
The director of the intelligence department asked with a puzzled look on his face: "But you clearly refused just now!"
"And you yourself said that we have a close relationship with the Eighth Route Army. If the Eighth Route Army is finished, then we will also be killed by the Japanese... Sir, you have to think twice!"
The commander asked back: "Do you think the Eighth Route Army is so easy to kill?"
"If they would have been killed so easily, they would not have survived until now. The troops are getting stronger and stronger, the number of soldiers is getting larger and larger, and the territory is getting bigger and bigger!"
The director of the intelligence department looked puzzled and asked: "Sir, you mean that even if we little devils stop the war and let them concentrate their forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army, it is impossible to kill the Eighth Route Army!"
"The best case scenario is that they severely inflict heavy damage on the Eighth Route Army!" the commander replied.
Then he changed the topic and continued: "However, based on my understanding of the Japanese and the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese must have encountered some difficulties before they came to us!"
"In this case, the Japanese troops of our division will be particularly important in the entire sweep."
"With this division, the Japanese army can at most be on par with the Eighth Route Army!"
"However, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning. Although I don't know whether they will achieve victory in the anti-mopping campaign, they do not have no chance."
"Of course, for our Jinsui Army, the result we most want to see is that both the Japanese and the Eighth Route Army will suffer losses."
"Order, Chief of Staff, Chief of Logistics, come to me immediately!"
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