The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 18 Black Dragon Society

Jiang Cheng did not answer him for the time being, but continued to talk with Chen Ma. After finalizing some details, he happily sent Chen Ma out the door, and then turned around and said, "Uncle Hai, the Japanese outpost should have emerged!"

"What?"

"Uncle Hai, what do you think..."

Jiang Cheng grabbed a coat from the rack and put it on. "Most of the cavalry battalions are out now, arresting bandits and horse bandits everywhere."

"Yes, that's right. Didn't you and your son talk about a policy called "fortifying the city and clearing the countryside"? It was to separate and divide the rebels who were ambushing nearby and preparing to gather?"

Hai Rusong could understand this, "I still don't understand, what does this have to do with buying rice?"

"In addition to arresting the rebels outside and dividing these people, we Xinmin people, no matter whether they leave the city day or night, must be carefully checked--"

Jiang Cheng blinked and smiled mysteriously, "We are chasing them everywhere now. It may be difficult to hunt for food outside, right?"

"People have to eat. If they can't get food outside, they will definitely think of moving to the city."

After hearing these explanations, Hai Rusong suddenly realized: "That's right! Why didn't I think of this? If they can't grab food, they have to go to the city to buy it, and then the Japanese will send it to them!"

"Hahaha, you really have a good brain, you can actually think of these things."

Hai Rusong was delighted, and then he slapped his thigh, "Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and send out the troops, follow the clues and catch these bastards in one fell swoop!"

Jiang Cheng shook his head: "I'm afraid it would be a bit of a loss to arrest them now."

Seeing this uncle-like man was stunned, he raised his eyebrows and smiled slyly: "Why can't we follow him out quietly and catch them all in one fell swoop?"

After hearing this, Hai Rusong smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits: "You are really good, kid. Well, well, it seems that from now on, I, as your uncle, will use you as my military advisor."

"Forget about being a military advisor! Uncle Hai, if you get promoted in the future, you have to give me a chief of staff... Okay, let's stop joking. Now hurry up and notify the brothers to be ready to assemble and set off at any time."

Jiang Cheng opened the cabinet and stuffed the three boxes into his waist, but Hai Rusong held him down: "What are you doing? Do you really need to help with such a small matter? Pingchuan and I will go."

"No, no, you all run out to kill the enemy and have fun, and I'm the only one left at home. I won't do that."

Jiang Cheng pushed him out without saying anything. At this time, Hai Pingchuan had just changed his clothes and was planning to practice boxing under the rainless porch.

Seeing them go out with excited expressions, the boy immediately ran up to them like a follower.

"Pingchuan, you must hurry to the Xinmin Army Camp to find your uncle Jiang - let the brothers get ready quickly."

Hai Rusong waved his hand, but Jiang Cheng stopped him and said, "No hurry. I just calculated the amount of food the Japanese have collected. It is not necessary to send it outside the city now. Let's go and see if it is serious."

"That's right. Pingchuan, then go and tell your uncle Jiang exactly what he said."

After saying that, the two of them took their umbrellas and went out. Although the rain had subsided a little at this moment, it still soaked the entire street so that there was almost no pedestrian left.

Aunt Chen and the cook of Jiang's house often go out to buy things, so they are well-informed about Xinmin's news.

I have many acquaintances in the county town, and the one who brought the news this time was the Dongmi Shop in the market.

This store is considered the largest grain trading store in the entire Xinmin County.

Normally, summer is not a time of food shortage. Instead, it is the season for purchasing summer grain. However, the rice shop was locked today, with a large sign hanging on it:

No food today.

“They’re all sold out.”

Hai Rusong's face darkened. Jiang Cheng said nothing, but went to the second, third, and fourth grain stores with his umbrella.

The situation was exactly the same as that of the Dongmi Store. The doors were closed and all the grain had been sold out.

In front of the last shop, there were many poor people who came to buy food.

Seeing the locked door, everyone sighed and complained;
There was also an old lady in her fifties who started crying, muttering that her daughter-in-law who had just given birth was still waiting for food to produce milk. Now she could only continue to eat sweet potatoes.

Others said that they had been eating corn and brown rice for several months in a row, and finally when the food price was cheap, they found that it was not being sold, and their children at home were crying with hunger.

"These bastards have robbed all the food in the city."

Standing next to Jiang Cheng, Hai Rusong almost cursed through his teeth, "You've screwed the people so badly."

The rush to buy food is like draining the pond to catch all the fish. Aren't they afraid that the garrison officers in the city will notice?
The Japanese are so damn arrogant, they are simply insulting the Jiang family!
"So, we have to punish them severely?"

Jiang Cheng responded in a low voice and gestured to lead him in the direction of Tanaka Bathhouse.

What Chen Ma found out was that many Japanese expatriates were buying food from the city at crazy prices, and then sending it to Tanaka Bathhouse like ants moving a mountain.

"That's it?"

When he arrived at the door, Hai Rusong was startled. "Isn't this the shop that was opened by a Japanese old man before?"

"What's the matter?"

In fact, when Jiang Cheng came here with Zhang Zhuqing to enjoy the hot springs, he felt that this place, whether in terms of decoration style or the people inside, exuded an indescribable weirdness.

Hai Rusong scratched his chin covered with black beard and said, "Well, what's so strange about it? Originally, this place was occupied by the richest man in Xinmin. Later, a Japanese expatriate came and bought the house and land from him."

"Then he opened this bathhouse... Look at the word 'tang'?"

"Hey, kid, don't you know about this? I remember you and Feng Yong and the others played here last time!"

How could Jiang Cheng remember this section?

But after he said that, I remembered something was wrong.

It turned out to be the Black Dragon Society.

He suddenly remembered why he felt strange.

When I went to a hot spring with Zhang Zhuqing, they saw a huge screen with a black dragon spitting pearls in the hall;

I remember watching Jet Li's movie "Fist of Fury" when I was a child, and this ghostly pattern was featured in close-ups more than once.

The so-called Black Dragon Society was founded by Japanese far-right forces Ryohei Uchida and Mitsuru Toyama - its main members are Japanese ronin active in China.

They advocated Japanese militarism, regarded the Yamato people as superior, instigated the invasion of China, and named the Heilongjiang River after the word "Black Dragon".

The purpose is to seize the territory in the Heilongjiang River basin.

Wherever this pattern appears, there are Japanese conspiracy operations: smuggling, assassination, intelligence gathering, opium trafficking, and all kinds of evil.

However, the Black Dragon Society's dojo is not just a martial arts gym like in the movies.

Any messy place, such as a bathhouse, a geisha house, etc., may be the conspiracy site where this organization is hidden.

He finally understood that the organization that assassinated the Marshal... and the organization that planned to support the Zongshe Party's actions, was actually the famous Black Dragon Society!
(End of this chapter)