Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 593 Birthday Banquet Invitation
As a colonel, Yamamoto Ikki took orders directly from Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander-in-chief of the 1st Army of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army.

In the setting, this old devil was the first Japanese to try to use special forces on the battlefield, and he achieved remarkable results.

Because the author does not understand special operations, many of Yamamoto Ikki's actions seem incredible, as if he simply assembled a team of strong fighters, good equipment, and accurate shooting to defeat the enemy with fewer troops. This is the general perception of ordinary people about "special forces", that is, one person can defeat ten.

In the Internet age, many people use this to prove that Yamamoto Ikki was a poor student and knew nothing about special operations.

But TV dramas are TV dramas, and reality is reality. No matter how flawed or even bizarre Yamamoto Ikki's operation is, the setting is the setting, and he is indeed a talent who is proficient in special operations. A team of more than a dozen people almost wiped out the independent regiment led by Kong Jie, and kidnapped the wife of the head of the independent regiment led by Li Yunlong.

The strength is by no means to be underestimated.

Later, even when Li Yunlong besieged an isolated city, he was annihilated at the cost of huge casualties. How much was the cost? In the battle of Ping'an County, Li Yunlong commanded tens of thousands of people to attack. When the iron triangle of northwest Shanxi reunited later, according to Ding Wei, Li Yunlong's troops had expanded nearly three times.

Including his direct company, reconnaissance company, guard company, and cavalry company, no matter how beyond the scope, the force is only about 358 people, not much more than Chu Yunfei's th Regiment.

What about the remaining thousands of people? Most of them died in the battle to storm the county town. It can be said that Li Yunlong's independent regiment lost more people than Kong Jie's independent regiment when fighting against Yamamoto Ikki.

This is the strength of Yamamoto Ikki.

Moreover, he always wanted to go straight to our military headquarters and carry out a decapitation operation. If we really let this old devil continue to hang around outside, he will become a hidden danger sooner or later.

Just take this opportunity to kill Yamamoto Ikki.

First, to ensure that Li Yunlong had a living wife; second, He Songling felt that after participating in the war for some time, his progress had been very clear, and if he took one more step forward, he would be able to truly reach a higher level.

And the final step is to bombard Ping'an County.

As expected, the pressure and casualties brought by this sweep were particularly great. He Songling alone could not change much. At most, our army suffered fewer casualties, but most of them were heavy losses and needed to be repaired.

The brigade commander ordered all regiments to rest on the spot, and the independent regiment settled down in Zhaojiayu.

The time spent in Zhaojiayu can be said to be the most comfortable days for Li Yunlong, and his relationship with Yang Xiuqin also heated up very quickly.

He Songling had nothing to do, so he handed over the artillery battalion he had run to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, and returned to the Flying Tigers to fly planes to bomb the Japanese for fun. He shot down more than 40 enemy planes in the air and bombed countless railways, airports, and bases on the ground.

The record of the Flying Tigers, thanks to He Songling alone, shocked the world. Eight ace pilots could not catch up with the number of kills he shot down.

"What kind of a damn devil's birthday party do you want me to attend?"

He Songling, who had just returned to northwest Shanxi, threw the invitation in his hand away.

Since the full-scale war began, the Japanese have never given up the idea of ​​recruiting He Songling. Because He Songling is the richest man in the world, his Nisheng Group, with a market value of over 4.55 billion US dollars, is one of the largest and richest companies in the world. You should know that before Japan invaded Northeast China in 10.78, the annual military expenditure was only million yen; in , before the full-scale invasion, it increased to billion yen.

After 1391, military spending suddenly rose to more than 695 billion yen, and continued to increase year by year. But even until , the last crazy moment before the defeat, it was only billion yen, equivalent to only billion US dollars. During the same period, the United States and Russia spent as much as billion to billion, and the military spending of the mustache exceeded billion.

The Japanese are actually very poor. It's just a tiny island and they can't squeeze out much oil no matter how hard they try.

That's why they launched a crazy invasion.

At this time, He Songling's company, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, accounted for nearly one-third of their military expenditure, and the Japanese could not afford to ignore it.

In addition to economic benefits, there is also world status.

He Songling's partners were all people like Joseph and Fleming, American politicians, and British academicians. He himself was also in a very high position. Although he did not have much real power, everyone knew his influence, and the symbolic significance alone was not simple.

Think about it, if we can win over He Songling, the devils can tell the world that the bullshit lie of "Greater East Asia Supply and Capacity" is true, and our great yellow fungus really came to help improve the living standards of the people of Lao Zhong. Look, the world's richest man doesn't know it? Cooperating with us can really make you rich.

If we really want to win over He Songling, his influence will be even greater than that of the last emperor, comparable to Wang Tianhai.

So even though He Songling openly joined the army in 1941 and even served as an officer, fighting in the war in various forms such as personally fighting, commanding troops, and flying planes, the Japanese still never gave up on recruiting He Songling.

Because the Japanese saw that He Songling's position on Baldy's side was not high, he was only a lieutenant colonel and did not even have any real power, so they formed an artillery battalion themselves. However, since the cannons could not be equipped with bayonets, they had to cooperate with our army to seek protection from the infantry.

Regardless of their sinister intentions, even from a sincere and honest perspective, the high-ranking officials of the Japanese felt that Baldy had treated He Songling too badly. They felt that if they were He Songling, they would definitely be dissatisfied with Baldy. And He Songling's behavior of getting close to our army further confirmed this point in their eyes.

As long as they can offer high enough benefits, they will have a chance to win He Songling over.

However, He Songling is really too rich. If he just gives cash to us? The total cash of the whole island is not as much as that of He Songling's company. If he changes it into arms and minerals? What if he uses these to fight against our Japanese yellow fungus?
So the Japs came up with a stupid idea, trying to use "warmth" to "persuade" He Songling.

Aren't you not valued by Baldy? It doesn't matter, come to us and see how we, the Japanese hot pot yellow fungus, treat people. It's so warm. After a long time, why don't you join us?
So there were always various invitations to the Japanese banquets, which would be sent to He Songling. Of course, He Songling never went. This was not because of whether there was actual cooperation or not. If he went once, it would be interpreted in various ways by the outside world. Over time, the Japanese also became a little discouraged.

"Even if you know there's no hope, you wouldn't look down on me like that, right?"

He Songling curled his lips. In the past, the invitations he received were at least for banquets hosted by people at the level of lieutenant generals, even the pseudo-emperor, Wang Tianhai, and even big figures like Tu Feiyuan and Mei Jin who were later worshipped in the shrine.

"What the hell is this, a birthday party for Military Police Captain Ichiro Hirata... eh?"

(End of this chapter)