Bright Sword: I am an undercover agent in the puppet army

"Wait a minute." Xu Yang raised his hand to stop him.

Kitano Kenzo: "Boss Yu, do you have any other requests?"

Xu Yang: "Since this is a sweep of our army, how can you, with just one division, be enough?"

Kitano Kenzo's face darkened slightly: "Boss Yu, what do you mean by this? Are you looking down on our Osaka Division?"

Xu Yang: "No, your Osaka Division is one of the 17 standing A-type divisions of the Japanese Army, so there is no doubt about its combat effectiveness.

It’s just that we are partners, we can’t engage in a firefight with you, right?
There must be other supporting roles to make this drama a success.”

Kitano Kenzo's mood immediately improved a lot: "Go on."

Xu Yang: "What I mean is that when you ask Shinozuka Yoshio to fight and launch a sweep of our military base, you need to ask Shinozuka Yoshio to send more troops to join in.

In this way, our army has a target.

Then, you would sell the intelligence about these Japanese troops to us at a high price, or even provide them with false intelligence and lead them into our ambush.

In this way, not only can you make a lot of money, but your division's invincible posture will also be in sharp contrast to the repeated defeats of other troops, which can further prove the combat effectiveness of your division.

In this way, your division will not only receive a large number of awards, but also improve its reputation, which can be said to be killing two birds with one stone."

Kitano Kenzo narrowed his eyes and said, "Boss Yu, you are really very insidious, but I like doing business with people like you."

"I agree to your request."

Then, Kitano Kenzo played the role of host and prepared a sumptuous banquet to entertain Xu Yang and Liang Kang.

After the banquet, Kitano Kenzo planned to let the comfort women accompanying the army serve Xu Yang well, but was politely rejected by Xu Yang.

Although this could barely be considered as anti-Japanese activities, these Japanese comfort women had been raped by countless Japanese soldiers, and God knows whether they had any diseases.

If the disease is transmitted to him later, where will he go to seek justice?
……

Leaves the Osaka Division Headquarters.

"Lone Wolf Staff Officer, you are so amazing. You bribed the Osaka Division with just a few words." Liang Kang looked at Xu Yang with admiration.

Xu Yang: "The Osaka Division doesn't recognize anyone in public. As long as the money is in place, they can even sell out their own locusts. So, it's not that I'm good, it's who should pretend to be this person."

Liang Kang: "The Osaka Division only cares about money, not people. This shows how powerful you are. If you hadn't gotten the yen production line, how would we get the money to do business with the Osaka Division?"

Xu Yang had no way to refute this. If he did, he would appear hypocritical.

After a pause, Liang Kang asked again: "Lone Wolf Staff Officer, after all, the situation of the Osaka Division is very different from that of the Hikawa Okazaka Division. It is almost impossible to develop it into the Japanese Communist Party.

So, how do you deal with the Osaka Division?"

It has to be said that Liang Kang had a very strategic vision, and he pointed out the difference between the Osaka Division and the Hinakawa Okazaka.

Xu Yang's face darkened, and he said with murderous intent in his eyes: "Of course I will kill them! I will not let any devil who sets foot on our territory go!
Moreover, the fact that the Osaka Division was just afraid of death does not mean that they had not committed acts of burning, killing and looting.

They are timid in fighting, but ruthless in bullying our civilians.

However, the Osaka Division is still useful, and now is not the time to destroy them. As long as the time is right, I will be the first to destroy it!
As I said before, only dead devils are good devils, including those who surrendered to our army. "

Liang Kang was shocked. Although he thought Xu Yang's words were correct and very satisfying, he also discovered problems with the other party's ideological awareness.

He quickly reminded him, "Lone Wolf Staff Officer, it is the discipline of our army to treat prisoners well. If you say so, then won't the Japanese communists like Hikawa Okazaka also be liquidated after the war?"

Xu Yang: "Although it is our army's discipline to treat prisoners well, as long as the Japanese prisoners fall into my hands, I will kill them even if it violates discipline!

If surrendering can save one's life, how can one explain to the compatriots who were persecuted and killed by them?"

After a pause, Xu Yang's tone softened a little, and then he said, "As for the Japanese communists like Hikawa Okazaka, if they have not committed unforgivable crimes and have made outstanding contributions to our army's elimination of the Japanese invaders, they can be dealt with leniently."

Liang Kang was speechless for a moment, and suddenly realized that this style of behavior was not the style of their old leader Li Yunlong?

Seeing that Liang Kang stopped talking, Xu Yang stopped talking about this topic and started to explain some details. By the way, he learned about the recent development of the Eighth Route Army through Liang Kang's mouth.

Although the brigade commander had informed him of the good news via telegram, the details in a telegram could not be as clear as what he could get in person.

Although Liang Kang did not learn from the organization who got penicillin and the M1 Garand rifle, he guessed it almost right.

Instead of answering, he asked, "Staff Officer Lone Wolf, did you get our army's latest semi-automatic rifle, the M1 Garand rifle, and penicillin?"

Xu Yang had no intention of hiding anything from Liang Kang. After all, he was the first Eighth Route Army soldier he had come into contact with, and the other party's beliefs were extremely firm, which was not comparable to those of Zhu Ziming and his ilk.

Then he smiled and said, "No, I didn't get it."

Liang Kang looked surprised: "Didn't you, Lone Wolf Staff Officer, get it?"

Xu Yang: "Strictly speaking, what I got was the production line for the M1 Garand rifle and the production line for penicillin. The finished products were produced by the organization itself."

After hearing this, Liang Kang was shocked, because the value of a production line is far greater than that of a finished product. Just as it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, if you have a production line, you can have a steady supply of finished products.

It is not the same if you only have finished products. If you only have finished products, then the finished products will become less and less. On the contrary, if you have a production line, the finished products can be produced continuously, more and more, or even inexhaustible.

Moreover, more advanced products can be researched through the production principles of the production line.

"I never thought that what you, Lone Wolf Staff Officer, had brought was actually a production line. No wonder I said that our troops are increasing their equipment of M1 Garand rifles every day, unlike other weapons in the past, which are not available once they are equipped and then gone."

"After our army was equipped with the M1 Garand rifle, its combat effectiveness was greatly improved, especially when combined with the three-three system tactics, which made the combat effectiveness of the troops soar.

Although I don't know who invented the three-three tactic, I have to say that this person is a real genius. It was tailor-made for our army.

It can be predicted that in the future, when we fight field battles, the combat effectiveness that our army can unleash will definitely scare the Japanese devils."

After hearing Liang Kang's words and learning that the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness was gradually improving, Xu Yang was sincerely happy.

However, he did not indicate that he was the one who proposed the Three-Three System Tactics. Firstly, he did not want to take credit in front of Liang Kang, and secondly, this tactic was not invented by him, but by the Eighth Route Army itself.

He just put forward this tactical theory in advance, that's all.

After talking about weapons and equipment, Liang Kang started talking about penicillin: "As for penicillin, it is even more precious than other treasures. It is not only priceless, but it can even be said that it cannot be bought even with money.

What our army lacks most urgently is medicine. In the past, many of our soldiers did not die directly on the battlefield, but died from post-war injuries that were not effectively treated, resulting in wound infection and inflammation, and worsening of their injuries.

With penicillin, our army will no longer have to worry about soldiers’ wound infections and inflammations.

Just this time, penicillin reduced our army's non-combat casualties by at least 50%.

In other words, this time alone, Lone Wolf Staff Officer, not only did you help our army inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army, you also saved at least tens of thousands of wounded soldiers.

And this number will only increase as time goes on and in subsequent battles, even reaching hundreds of thousands or millions.

No, in addition to soldiers, ordinary people can also use it.

The number of people saved would be more than tens of millions!
Lone Wolf Staff Officer, although I don’t know where you got the penicillin production line from, I must point out that this production line is a national treasure that will benefit our army and the people of the country…”

Upon learning that Xu Yang had obtained both the M1 Garand rifle production line and the penicillin production line, Staff Officer Liang's admiration for Xu Yang reached an extreme level. He spoke endlessly, praising him with all kinds of gorgeous words without hesitation...

Taiyuan City.

Japanese 1st Army Headquarters.

Shinozuka Yoshio looked at the translated message in his hand and said in disbelief, "What? The Osaka Division volunteered to launch a sweep of the Eighth Route Army's Taihang base?"

The head of the communications department, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was approaching, bowed his head and said, "Hi! General Kitano did report this in the telegram."

Shinozuka Yoshio looked at the Chief of Staff Kusunoyama Hideyoshi and the Chief of the Operations Section and said, "Kusuyama-kun, Sakanishi-kun, what do you two think about this?"

Kusunoshi Hideyoshi was also puzzled: "I can't quite figure out Kitano-kun's thoughts. After all, after a detailed investigation, I found that the Osaka Division is notorious for slacking off.

Every time she received a combat order, she would use various excuses such as pretending to be sick to slack off. This was the first time that a young lady had volunteered to do so.

So, I really don't understand the specific situation. It can't be that the Osaka Division has changed its nature? Or have we always wrongly blamed them? "

Yoshio Shinozuka did not rush to draw a conclusion, but looked at Kazuyoshi Sakanishi beside him.

Sakanishi Ichiyoshi thought for a while and said, "Commander, I don't know what General Kitano is thinking, but as General Kitano said, there are only thieves who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against thieves for a thousand days.

The Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area is becoming increasingly powerful. If they are not eradicated soon, they will sooner or later become the locust army's top concern. The previous Hundred Regiments Campaign has already sounded the alarm for us.

Therefore, the locust army must eradicate them as soon as possible! To prevent future troubles!"

Kusunokichi said: "I agree with Sakanishi-kun's point of view. Although the Eighth Route Army's military scale and weapons and equipment are far inferior to those of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Central Army, their threat is far greater than that of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Central Army.

Because the Eighth Route Army was so powerful in attack, which was far beyond the reach of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Central Army.

The Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Central Army rarely took the initiative to attack the Locust Army, or even never launched an attack. Moreover, even when their friendly forces were attacked, they rarely sent reinforcements, and even attacked each other.

This is something that will never happen to the Eighth Route Army. Not only that, let alone the Eighth Route Army, even if the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Central Army were attacked, the Eighth Route Army would find ways to help. "

After a pause, Kusunokichi continued, "It just so happens that with the Hundred Regiments Campaign coming to an end, we have shown goodwill to each other with Yan Laoxi.

Therefore, we can completely withdraw the 37th Division in western Shanxi and the 36th Division in southern Shanxi.

By then, with the strength of three divisions, we can completely flatten the entire Taihang Mountains!"

Shinozuka Yoshio frowned slightly and said: "There is no problem for the 36th Division in western Shanxi to withdraw, but Wei Junru in southern Shanxi does not accept the goodwill of the locust army at all.

Although Wei Junru stopped his efforts to contain the 36th Division after the Hundred Regiments Campaign and retreated back into Zhongtiao Mountain, as long as we withdraw our troops, Wei Junru will definitely interfere.

The outbreak of the Hundred Regiments Campaign was the best proof.

Therefore, the locust army in southern Shanxi can only send back half a division at most! "

Sakanishi Ichiro said: "Two and a half divisions are basically enough."

Shinozuka Yoshio thought for a while and said, "Since Kitano-kun is determined to deal with the Eighth Route Army, and you all support him, then the Operations Division should first formulate a detailed operation plan."

"Hi Yi!"

Banishi Yiliang paused heavily.

……

Headquarters of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Liang Kang had just returned and went straight to the brigade headquarters to report without even having time to drink water.

"Brigade Commander! Chief of Staff!"

Liang Kang saluted and greeted while panting.

The brigade commander smiled and said, "Staff Officer Liang is back? You've worked hard. Take a break first, catch your breath and drink some water."

"Orderly, water!"

Soon, the orderly brought a glass of water.

Liang Kang was so thirsty that he didn't hesitate to pick up the cup and drink it all in one gulp.

The Chief of Staff smiled and said, "Liang, drink slowly. Lone Wolf has already made a brief report on the matter via the radio."

Liang Kang: "Commander, you may only know the specific results, but you know nothing about the details."

"I'm telling you..."

Liang Kang recounted the situation in detail, and then said: "The Lone Wolf Staff threw out 600 million yen, which directly shocked Kitano Kenzo and his Chief of Staff Matsuo Yoshisuke.

Then, the subsequent negotiations were almost smooth sailing.

The funniest thing is that Kitano Kenzo said that if we let him commit treason, we have to pay him more money..."

The brigade commander and the chief of staff had serious expressions on their faces, but when they heard Liang Kang say "you have to pay more", they couldn't hold back any longer.

"Hahaha! What a good one! He deserves extra money. This guy Kitano Kenzo has fully revealed his nature as an unscrupulous businessman."

Liang Kang added: "Also, Lone Wolf Staff raised the transaction price by 40% based on the market price, so Kitano Kenzo thought they made a killing.

They are really a group of wild boars who have never eaten fine bran.

Little did we know that we have a yen production line, and yen is no different from waste paper to us."

Chief of Staff: "I think we should double the price. That way, the more yen that is put into circulation, the greater the impact on the Japanese economy."

Brigade Commander: "No, the little yen in the hands of the Osaka Division is far from enough to impact the Japanese economy. Not to mention doubling the price, even quintupling it is not enough. Their size is still too small.

Moreover, if too much concession is made, it will make Kitano Kenzo suspicious. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

We know that, and Kenzo Kitano knows it too.

Moreover, this old guy has been slacking off for so many years, but nothing has gone wrong. This is enough to prove his intelligence. He is just simply afraid of death and wants to make money, but he is not stupid.

It’s too late.

So, the more concessions we make, the better. The best is to make the right amount.

A 40% to 50% profit concession is undoubtedly the most appropriate. This proves that our army is eager to cooperate with the other party and also cares about the other party as a partner.

It will also make the other party feel valued, and even think that we can let them do whatever they want.

By then, we can cooperate with each other little by little, and increase the profit margin little by little, and it will be a natural thing..."

...(End of chapter)