The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 300 Simple

Hai Pingchuan nodded after hearing this, but he still looked worried and said, "I can understand this, but it's not a good idea for us to stay here with our brothers!"

"Brothers, we have to spend money every day on food and clothing. Besides, the whole county is watching us... You don't know that few of the people we recently recruited are obedient."

Jiang Cheng was staring out the window with his hands clasped behind his back. When he heard this, he turned around and smiled: "Why, is it that Lao Guo can't do anything about it?"

Hai Pingchuan waved his hand: "That's not what he meant...but you know Lao Guo's temper. Liu Zhanyuan was beaten by the miners for no apparent reason, and the current superiors were forced to take the position, so it's reasonable for them to be dissatisfied."

Jiang Cheng raised his hand and pinched his shoulder: "Tell Lao Guo that you don't need to worry about personal relationships... Anyone who disobeys military orders will have their salary deducted for the first time, be beaten with a stick and put in solitary confinement for the second time, and be killed directly for the third time without asking me."

Hai Pingchuan hesitated: "Will it provoke a mutiny?"

Jiang Cheng retracted his hand and shook his head, smiling: "Are you still worried about this? You know, in the entire Fengtian Army, apart from the Marshal's Guard Brigade, who else can pay such a high salary? What do you think?"

"Besides, it doesn't matter who you join the army. As long as we pay them enough and deal with those troublemakers, we can get our work done!"

"Okay, let's not discuss these simple issues. Pingchuan, have you posted all the notices I asked you to post?"

The topic was immediately changed by someone else. Hai Pingchuan was startled but quickly nodded: "It's all posted! Our Staff Officer Sun also said that in case people couldn't understand it, he found a few people with strong voices to shout it out in the county town while beating gongs and drums."

Jiang Cheng smiled with satisfaction: "Well done! I just want to let everyone know that no matter who offers to recruit miners these days, we will not accept the job."

But Hai Pingchuan was still a little confused: "Yes, that's what I don't understand."

"If the miners don't work, we'll still be supporting them. It'll take a long time..."

Jiang Cheng waved his hand to interrupt him and said with a smile: "Brother, you are really not as good as our thief No. 2 in cheating!"

"Think about it, the Japanese have been hiding in the mining area. If we guard all the places in the nearby county towns and villages, big and small, how can they recruit miners?"

"Will these old soldiers of the Kwantung Army go mining on their own?"

Hai Pingchuan understood now: "I understand! They originally wanted to use the coal mine to force us to cause trouble, and then they could send troops to Liufangzi in the name of counterattack."

Jiang Cheng nodded: "The terrain here at Liufangzi is too flat. If the Japanese invade in large numbers, we will suffer heavy losses even if we defend it."

"Instead of doing this, it is better to turn the attack into defense and force the devils to jump up and down——"

At this point, Jiang Cheng smiled wickedly again, "By the way, Pingchuan, take our engineers with you today and do something on the road near the mining area..."

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Just when Jiang Cheng ordered Hai Pingchuan to "make trouble", the Japanese officer Nakagawa Yudai from Liufangzi Coal Mine was cursing in the house.

This was a mining area in the Republic of China in 1917. The conditions were simple and crude. On weekdays, the miners ate and slept in a simple shack made of wooden boards.

Even if it belonged to the mine owner Luo Yuzhu, it only had an outer layer of bamboo mat, and the conditions inside the house were still extremely simple.

The weather was good these days and it rained a few times. In the Northeast, the short summer rain made these Japanese soldiers from Hiroshima shiver with cold. Because it was not far from the county town, the local miners usually took a lunch break here and rarely stayed overnight. They had almost no quilts.
And the worst thing is that the shack is just a shack. When it rains continuously, the miners know to cover the roof with straw, but the Japanese don't know how to do that. Now it's raining heavily outside and lightly inside.

There was an electric light in Nakagawa's room, but the raindrops swept into the light bulb and it was like a small bomb, which exploded and scattered flames... The team leader was so angry that he walked around the room cursing.

"It's all because of that despicable Minamoto no Yoshihei! He actually drove us, the heroic main forces of the Empire, into a mountain valley with such conditions."

Nakagawa was standing outside the door, holding the family heirloom samurai sword in his hand, shouting and cursing in a loud voice.

His soldiers were guarding the mining area, all of them looked miserable after being soaked by the heavy rain. They couldn't help but continue to curse: "They said they were carrying out a mission, but the limit is three days--"

"We will definitely be able to wipe out the Chinese armed forces in the county. What now? We can only wait here, wait, and wait again!"

Minamoto Yoshihei's order was almost the same as what Jiang Cheng expected, which was to stir up trouble and let the miners who had lost their livelihoods come and cause trouble.

Then they can use this incident to counterattack the county town, and during the conflict they can even launch a large-scale attack on Siping City.

Of course, in addition to these, Jiang Cheng also knew:
The reason why Minamoto Yoshihei dared to use this vicious plan was that he must have contacted old man Meng who was far away in Jilin Prefecture.

Once the fighting starts here, all the troops in Liaoyuan will surely come out in full force, and then the war will spread from Liaoyuan Siping and other places all the way to Fengtian City!
That's why Jiang Cheng was so lukewarm and took his troops to "travel" and "barbecue" nearby in a big way, which made Nakagawa, who got the news, extremely crazy.

If they fight, they probably can’t win, and it’s different from the orders from above… They are not authorized to take the initiative;

Let's not fight. These Fengtian troops are really abominable. They are playing in the water and catching fish with their bare butts nearby, eating, drinking and having fun.

As for them, they could only be trapped in this dirty, messy and cold coal mine, enduring the tempting aroma wafting in the air and the silent ridicule of those soldiers whom they considered to be of an inferior race.

"Damn Chinese..."

Nakagawa gritted his teeth more and more.

Liufangzi Coal Mine is an open-pit mine, which has considerable advantages for developers in terms of both excavation difficulty and output speed.

But the "accommodation conditions" are a disaster. When it's windy, they have to eat coal, and when it rains, they have to drink black water - it's really miserable.

These days he has been using the radio to ask his superiors for instructions, but Minamoto Yoshihei's response has always been to continue waiting.

Of course, today is an exception. Yuan Yiping finally gave in and told him that there must be Chinese miners coming to work in the near future... The people they planted in Liufangzi would bribe the money-grubbing people with a large sum of money to come to the mining area, and then they would assist in the transportation of vehicles and send the coal out.

The car didn't come, and neither did the people.

The most fatal thing was that because the battle plan was for three days, they only brought five days of supplies...

If no more baggage arrives,
Nakagawa couldn't help but curse Minamoto Yoshihei as a bastard in his heart, but then he was brought back to his senses by a deafening explosion!
All the Japanese soldiers holding Type 38 rifles turned in shock towards the source of the voice, and each of their faces looked even uglier because of the paleness of the rain.

(End of this chapter)