The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 298 The door is too small?
"Yes! That's right. Their real purpose is obviously not just the coal mine, but they must be here to seize the county town."

Jiang Cheng looked back at the map in front of him. "Yuanming, look, how far is the coal mine from the county town? If we take the right route, it should only take an hour or so to get there, right?"

"If the Japanese really head for Liufangzi County, we will be hard to defend against."

The Kwantung Army of this era and even in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan had the strongest overall quality.

Cai Yuanming came up and nodded silently. Jiang Cheng continued, "There are more than 300 miners in the entire mine, almost all of them are from Liufangzi County—"

"If the coal mines were seized, many miners would lose their livelihoods and their families would starve... Therefore, this second conflict was inevitable."

Cai Yuanming nodded meaningfully and said, "Yes, if the miners can't bear it anymore and gather together to cause trouble at the coal mine, will the Japanese have an excuse to send troops to the county town?"

This is not the first time the Japanese have done such a thing.

Not to mention the distant ones, even the recent conflict in Dapingzhuang was where the Japanese sent troops to attack Dapingzhuang under the pretext of "provocation" and "protecting overseas Chinese."

After suffering a loss once, he learned his lesson.

Jiang Cheng looked back at him with admiration: "I think the devil's plan is worse than you think."

Cai Yuanming stared at the map and looked back: "Brother, do you think the Japanese are targeting Siping?"

Raising his hand and pressing it on his shoulder, Jiang Cheng smiled: "You have finally learned something."

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Early the next morning, Jiang Cheng assembled a regiment of troops carrying heavy weapons, and with the cooperation of the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion, he let the strong man Bayin lead the heavy cavalry, shouting and firing along the way to clear the way, and marched into Liufangzi County in a mighty manner.

When Liu Zhanxing, who was taking a nap with his new concubine, heard about this, he was so frightened that he almost dropped his pants and ran to the city defense in a panic.

However, at this moment, Hai Pingchuan and Bayin had already beaten aside the soldiers guarding the city who tried to block the way. The large army was shouting slogans and marching towards Liu Zhanxing's camp.

"Captain Jiang, what do you mean?"

As soon as the group entered the room, they saw Jiang Cheng sitting with his legs crossed in the seat that originally belonged to him. Surrounding him were either his men with fierce eyes like Hai Pingchuan or fully armed guards like Ye Hai and Han Ming.

Jiang Cheng lowered his eyes and sneered.

This loser was disheveled, with a flushed face, and an indescribable odor could be smelled from a long distance away... It was obvious that he was playing with some woman before he came.

At first, Jiang Cheng thought Liu Zhanxing was afraid that if he helped the miners, the Japanese would blame him, so he suppressed the matter.

However, now that I see how stupid he is, I realize that I was overthinking.

"Captain Liu, since the General Staff ordered me to take over Siping, you seem to have never reported to the regiment headquarters?"

Seeing that he looked a little more nervous, Jiang Cheng lifted up his other leg, leaned on the armrest with one hand and leaned forward slightly, "Why, is it that my gate is too small to accommodate you, Captain Liu?"

This is a bit of an exaggeration... Although it was Wu Junsheng who recruited his insurance team, after Jiang Feilan took over Siping, Wu Junsheng also telegraphed that Liufangzi and the surrounding counties would be assigned to him.

But even though Liu Zhanxing had been recruited before, Wu Junsheng was busy suppressing bandits, and Siping had changed hands many times, so this kid still occupied Liu's house and acted as a "local emperor";
Suddenly, a young general of about seventeen or eighteen years old came to be his leader, and Master Liu had to take him seriously.

Therefore, the leaders of several nearby counties went to Siping to express their intention to surrender, but it was almost as if Liu Zhanyuan had not been seen.

Being questioned like this, Liu Zhanyuan was not in a hurry: "What are you talking about, Captain Jiang? Could it be that in your eyes, I have no one? I am just... busy with official business in the county, so I..."

Before he could even finish the second half of his sentence, Cai Yuanming, who was full of venom, rushed in and said, "Hey, you're still busy with official duties? What the hell are you busy with?"

As he said this, the bad-mouthed boy put his hand on the whip at his waist, walked forward with a wicked smile, and walked around him with his hands folded, "I think Captain Liu is busy with some little girl's bed, doing some trivial official business!"

In fact, these words were not that funny, but Jiang Feilan's subordinates were all around him, and they immediately burst into laughter as soon as these words fell, making Liu Zhanyuan's face turn red with embarrassment.

"Jiang, Captain Jiang, you..."

When the laughter died down a bit, the guy gritted his teeth and almost growled, "You came here just to humiliate me, right?"

Facing this face filled with anger and shame, Jiang Cheng pushed the chair and stood up: "Bring the person up to me!"

These words were powerful, and then Sun Zhengnan led Luo Yuzhu, Mei Sheng, and dozens of miners' representatives with bruised faces and noses into the main hall.

When Liu Zhanyuan turned his head and saw them, his expression froze for a moment, but he immediately pretended to be calm: "What... do you mean?"

Jiang Cheng clasped his hands behind his back and walked forward coldly: "Captain Liu, do you know them?"

He immediately replied, "I know them - they are a few troublemakers in the city! Especially this Luo Yuzhu, who gathered a crowd to cause trouble and indiscriminately cried out for justice in the public hall..."

"This kind of thing, we,"

Jiang Cheng suddenly raised his hand and glared at him: "As the garrison commander of Liufangzi County, you are just going to ignore this kind of thing?"

"The people were in trouble, they were beaten, the mine was seized, has Luo Yuzhu's son arranged for his funeral?"

"Are there any compensations for the miners who were killed in the robbery... Is this how you, as a government official, act? Tell me now, who would let you be such an official?"

Liu Zhanyuan was speechless for a moment after being scolded by this series of people. Then he said seriously: "Captain Jiang, I'm afraid you don't know that the one who did it is..."

Hai Pingchuan on the side suddenly shouted: "Who did it? What are you afraid of! Aren't they just the damn Japanese?"

In fact, in addition to Jiang Cheng's people, there were also many of Liu Zhanyuan's people present.

When they heard Hai Pingchuan's remarks about the little devils, they were all shocked and looked around -

All we knew about Jiang Cheng was that he was the son of Xinmin chief Jiang Lanxuan, and that he was highly regarded by the commander-in-chief and the assistant commander-in-chief... When we first saw this handsome scholar, we didn't think he had any abilities.

You are so good, Jiang Feilan, you actually speak so arrogantly to such an extent that you don’t even take the Japanese seriously.

Liu Zhanyuan gritted his teeth and stared at his boss, whose expression became increasingly stern: "I admire you!"

"I admit that the Japanese army provoked me, but if we really started a war with them, wouldn't they have an excuse to attack Liu's house?"

Jiang Cheng slowly raised his hand: "According to what you said, you are afraid of the enemy's attack, so... you are a coward?"

Something happened suddenly at home, I will try my best to catch up with the second update tonight.

I am really sorry to all my readers.

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