One day later, the Jinsui Army negotiators showed no intention of resuming negotiations.
Li Hao was not anxious at all, as if he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai.
Hong Linfeng and Wang Hong couldn't hold back their anger, especially Wang Hong, the chief steward of the garrison?
As the drought continues, the production capacity and profits of the underground sweet potato flour factories, chicken farms, and pig farms are constantly declining?
However, the main force of the garrison was fighting more and more, and the garrison's limited financial reserves were already somewhat beyond its means.
The negotiations before him gave him hope of easing the logistical pressure on the garrison.
So in his eyes, this negotiation can only succeed but cannot fail.
It had been a day since the negotiators from Jinsui Army had made any move. Wang Hong, who had remained calm at first, gradually lost his patience and began to panic because of Li Hao's comfort.
He didn't know the Jinsui Army as well as Li Hao, and he wasn't as confident as he was.
In his opinion, since the Jinsui Army is eager to redeem the thousands of Jinsui Army, they will definitely take the initiative to negotiate with the regiment leader. Even if the price they ask is too high, they can still bargain.
But now there is no movement at all, and there is only one possibility: the Jinsui Army has given up hope in this negotiation, or their desire to take back those thousands of people is not as strong as before, and they have the intention to give up the negotiation.
"Captain, the security force reported that the Jinsui Army negotiators stayed in the room all day and were not in a hurry. Do they not want to talk anymore?" While waiting anxiously, Wang Hong finally couldn't hold back and turned his heart to
expressed his concerns.
"No rush!" Li Hao replied calmly.
"Chief Yan has a typical businessman mentality and can definitely calculate the pros and cons. Therefore, this negotiation will definitely continue, and they will definitely win the more than 4,000 officers and soldiers. There is no doubt about this."
"The reason why we are not moving is for two reasons: Either we are planning to pull some tricks to force us to lower our asking price."
"Either they stop with silence, make us lose our composure, and then throw ourselves into chaos. When the time comes, they will come back to bargain, and they will definitely be able to lower our asking price a lot."
"So at this time, we can't be in a hurry."
"No matter which method they adopt, or whether they go both ways at the same time, we are not afraid."
Wang Hong took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down: "Captain, I believe you."
"Then wait a little longer and see what conspiracy they have."
"Report...the head of the regiment, the political commissar, the headquarters has an urgent telegram, and it's an encrypted telegram..." Communications platoon leader Zhou Liang suddenly broke in and reported.
Wang Hong took the telegram filled with numerical codes and began to translate it.
Just halfway through the translation, my brows started to furrow.
After all the translations were completed, my brows had been furrowed into a big "Sichuan" character, and my face had become heavy.
"Captain, you are right, the Jinsui Army is indeed making trouble."
"They sent a telegram to the Eighth Route Army headquarters, thanking our garrison for rescuing their troops outside Datong City, and ordered us in the name of the theater headquarters to cover and cooperate with these Jinsui Army troops to return to their bases."
"In order to thank us for what we did on the Datong battlefield, we specially allocated 2,000 rifles, 50 light machine guns, 300,000 rounds of ammunition and 100,000 oceans to reward us!"
"The headquarters called and asked us how to call back to the war zone without affecting our subsequent negotiations."
Not only was Li Hao not worried, but a smile flashed across his face. He looked at Wang Hong and replied: "Political Commissar, once the Jinsui Army takes action, this matter will be much easier to handle. The soldiers will cover up the water and cover it up."
"Immediately send a telegram back to the chief: We have captured more than 4,000 puppet troops outside Datong City, and have not rescued any Shanxi-Sui Army troops."
Less than two hours after the telegram was sent, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army negotiation team became anxious and hurriedly came over.
He opened his mouth and asked: "Captain Li, yesterday we clearly saw more than a hundred Shanxi-Sui Army officers in your base area, and you rescued them from the Japanese army outside Datong City. Why do you deny it today?"
"If your group does not want to carry out the orders of the theater command and deny their identity, I would not mind reporting to Commander Yan and sending an investigation team into your base area to investigate."
"There are more than 4,000 of them, and they are right at the base of your garrison. You can't hide them even if you want."
"If they find out anything, your garrison will be found guilty of disobeying military orders, attacking friendly forces, and undermining the united front."
"At that time, not only your small garrison group will not be able to shoulder the responsibility, but the entire Eighth Route Army will not be able to shoulder the responsibility."
Li Hao acted as if nothing was wrong, and answered the major general's gaze: "General Zhou, you don't have to pretend to be powerful here and put these big hats on our garrison and the Eighth Route Army to scare people."
"I said that the garrison did not rescue the Jinsui Army."
"As for those people you saw yesterday, they were all puppet soldiers we captured on the battlefield."
"No, they are all wearing the uniforms of the Jinsui Army. They are the Jinsui Army, not the puppet army." The major general retorted loudly.
Li Hao still responded with a calm expression: "General Zhou, when I say they are puppet troops, they are puppet troops."
"When they were captured, they were indeed wearing the uniforms of the Jinsui Army, but they had already surrendered to the Japanese army on the battlefield. If General Zhou doesn't believe it, I can show you some evidence to prove that what I just said is correct."
Then he turned to look at Hong Linfeng, who was already on standby next to him: "Chief of Staff, show General Zhou some of the confessions we have interrogated to make General Zhou give up."
"Yes, leader..." Hong Linfeng replied with a smile on his face, and took out two confessions and handed them over.
Before he finished reading the confession, the major general's face began to turn pale, and large beads of sweat flowed down his forehead like rain.
He threw the confessions on the table and retorted anxiously: "These confessions are all false. They must have been forged by you."
"He is the company commander of our Jinsui Army. How could he be bribed by the Japs, rebel against the Jinsui Army on the battlefield, and lead his troops to surrender to the Japs... I don't believe it."
Hong Linfeng answered with certainty: "This person is still being held by us. Our original idea was to hand it over to you together after the negotiation."
"After all, he is a member of the Jinsui Army and one of yours. It is not easy for us to deal with him."
"If General Zhou doesn't believe it, I can bring him here to confront you now, and General Zhou can interrogate him personally."
"In addition, in addition to this company commander, we also found that many officers were bribed by the Japs, or were agents planted by the Japs in your Jinsui Army."
"When the troops retreated, they deliberately slowed down their marching speed to delay and allow your troops to be overtaken by the Japanese and puppet troops. Then they rebelled on the battlefield and threatened other Jinsui troops to surrender together and work for the Japs."
"We have evidence in our hands, and the witnesses and physical evidence are conclusive."
The major general was confused. The scene in front of him was something he never expected even to death.
Moreover, the garrison was obviously well prepared, and all the witnesses and material evidence were perfect, making it impossible for him to refute, and he had to admit that the soldiers he wanted to redeem were prisoners.
Li Hao struck while the iron was hot and said, "General Zhou, you must believe it now."
"When we saw them outside Datong City, they had surrendered to the Japanese and became puppet troops. So they were prisoners, not Jinsui soldiers."
"And I'm sure there are a lot of little Japanese spies hidden inside that we don't know about."
"If they were the Jinsui Army, our garrison would definitely not embarrass the friendly forces and would have let them go back unconditionally."
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