I really came here to fight against Japan

Political Commissar Rong was thinking that there were more than 6,000 miners, and their physical strength had already been exhausted after years of digging coal in the mines.

At this moment, it was because the attack pointed out by the Eighth Route Army the night before was too scary.

Kudo was afraid that the miners would take advantage of the chaos to riot, so he allowed the miners at Dongshan Coal Mine to rest for a day and not start work.

This allowed the miners to save some energy.

But the road ahead is long, and with the miners' current physical strength, I'm afraid they won't be able to go far in one night.

Since the Japanese are now willing to take them there by car, he will gladly accept it.

"This one is called Kudo, right? How many cars do you have in your base? Can you give them to us?"

Kudo thought to himself, you guys are really rude, you dare to respond to anything.

But he said politely: "We have a total of 50 trucks loaded with coal in Dongshan Coal Mine.

It’s just a pity that most of the drivers went to Taiyuan for vacation, so there are only ten trucks available.”

Political Commissar Rong thought to himself: Kudo, you are playing both the role and the position.

First they promised us they could lend us trucks, but now they are telling us they don’t have enough drivers.

Isn't this just an attempt to bully "us" because the Eighth Route Army is too unsophisticated and has no drivers who can drive?

"As long as you have a car, you can ask the driver to drive the car to the door first, and then we can drive away.

Don't worry, we are just borrowing these trucks and will return them to you when we are done using them."

Kudo: Go ahead, go ahead. It would be great if you could all drive away.

When the time comes, I will report that the car was blown up by the Eighth Route Army, and then sell it to the temporary capital.

Hehehe, all this extra money will go into my pocket, that will be so wonderful!

After a short while, ten Japanese trucks drove out of the Dongshan Coal Mine stronghold.

Then the Japanese drivers got off the cars and went back to drive the second batch of cars.

Kudo was not in a hurry. He smoked a cigarette while watching the miners get on the bus.

He wanted to see how the Eighth Route Army drove the truck away without a driver.

Kudo even thought unkindly, are these Eighth Route Army soldiers planning to use pack horses to pull the cars?

But he was soon surprised by what he saw.

Twenty Eighth Route Army soldiers ran over, opened the car door and got into the cab.

Then the Eighth Route Army soldier under the car began to crank the handle.

Then the coal truck was started and driven away by the Eighth Route Army.

Then there is no more...

Wait for the Japanese driver in the stronghold to drive out.

All I could see were the taillights of the ten trucks, which had already gone farther and farther away.

Kudo was surprised and said: The Eighth Route Army can drive a car?

Then nothing else happened, and trucks drove out one after another.

The miners also got on the cars one by one and were taken away by the Eighth Route Army's motorcade.

This coal truck can fit 50 people.

Those fifty trucks took away more than 2,500 people.

The remaining miners had no choice but to walk, as they were all in relatively good physical condition.

The mine's truck made two consecutive trips and finally delivered the people to the outskirts of the base at daybreak.

Now that the miners have arrived at the base, the rest of the work will be easy.

With the help of their fellow villagers, they were finally able to go into the mountains to rest.

The Taihang Mountains are so large that it is easy for 6,000 miners to rest and recuperate.

Political Commissar Rong also kept his promise and returned all the trucks without damaging any of them.

This also gave Kudo a great advantage. He reported half of the fifty cars as damaged, and then asked his family in China to reimburse him.

He also got the biggest benefit at the same time.

It was during the post-war trial of war criminals that he helped the rescued laborers.

They were provided with a large number of escape tools and were finally pardoned by the court.

And Political Commissar Rong explained: “I saw that he was so proactive and provided assistance for our retreat.

I thought he was from Moscow International, so I asked the soldiers to return the truck to prevent him from being exposed.

Kudo did help the Eighth Route Army this time, but it was a pity for Ono and Hayata's plan.

They also thought that the rescued miners would be like the people of Xinye back then.

Even if they walked for ten days or half a month, they would still be caught up by Cao Cao's cavalry.

Not only can they rescue the miners, but they can also follow the clues and catch the Eighth Route Army that is supporting them.

However, no matter how good the plan is, you are afraid of having bad teammates who will mess things up around you.

What they didn't expect was that the Eighth Route Army would take the people away that very night.

Manager Kudo did not report until four o'clock the next morning.

What they didn't expect was that it was Manager Kudo of Dongshan Coal Mine.

He would considerately use the trucks in the stronghold to help the Eighth Route Army transport people.

The third one was unexpected, and it happened to Yoshio Shinozuka.

He did not agree to send a plane in time to search for the whereabouts of the miners.

By the time they started to act, Political Commissar Rong and his men had already disappeared without a trace.

Now let’s talk about Zhangjiaji. At the beginning, the course of things was normal.

Following Ono and Hayata's orders, the Japanese army gathered all the prisoners in the prison overnight.

Before four o'clock in the morning, they were finally brought to Zhangjiaji.

In order to let the anti-Japanese elements in prison slow down the march of the Eighth Route Army.

They came here step by step from Taiyuan City.

By the time they arrived at Zhangjiaji, they were so exhausted that they could not move forward.

The person responsible for the exchange was the Japanese military police captain Tsutaro Hashimoto.

He was the first to cross the river and come to check on the bodies of Gong Jiji and others.

They all lay in the makeshift coffins.

In order to prevent the bodies of the Japanese officers from rotting too quickly and becoming unrecognizable.

Song Wenwan also added some ice cubes into the coffin, which she found from somewhere.

While Hashimoto was thanking the Eighth Route Army, he was also secretly shocked.

He could see that except for a few of the Japanese corpses, they were still intact (these were killed by the explosion).

Most of the bodies of the Japanese officers were pieced together using fishing lines.

Lord Gong Jiji Juten's condition is relatively good, except that his head has been moved.

Many other bodies of Japanese officers were obviously chopped more than once.

Look at their arms and legs, they are obviously different in length, and some even have different colors of uniforms.

It was obvious that there was no complete body, so they found some arms and legs from the dead and sewed them together randomly.

But this is none of his business, he is just responsible for replacing people.

The ones who should have the real headache should be those nobles and tycoons hiding in the Japanese islands.

Hashimoto took out his military officer ID and checked the photos one by one. There was no doubt that they were all his own.

However, the surnames written on those certificates made even a colonel like him speechless.

This group of Eighth Route Army is truly ruthless. Are they going to perform an unprecedented operation on the immortals of the empire?

"Excuse me, commander of the Eighth Route Army, we have brought all the prisoners from Taiyuan Prison that you wanted.

Now, can we start exchanging them?"

Li Yunlong: "Why are you in such a hurry to exchange? We haven't finished the inventory yet."

Hashimoto waited for another twenty minutes before the comrade from the Enemy Work Department who had gone to identify the enemy came back to report.

“Commander Li, we have questioned them in each cell, and the Japanese have indeed released them all.

They all vouched for each other, and no spies were found among them."