AWB Chapter 593: Simple Frame-up
Chapter 593: Simple Frame-up
The Battle of Qingdao was over and the carrier pigeon plan was restarted. Every day, members of the Yimeng guerrillas gathered at Dashibi Mountain. Tian Heiwa took on the responsibility of instructor. When the number of people was sufficient, merchant ships would continue to come to pick them up.
On January 1941, 1, a mysterious team launched a surprise attack on the small town of Jingjia in Indochina, and killed all the seventy Rooster men stationed in the town. However, the team was not very clean. Three Rooster men were knocked unconscious but not dead because the knife wounds were too shallow and did not injure the aorta. One of them was stabbed to death by the mysterious team while screaming, and the other two escaped by lying in the pile of dead bodies.
The nature of the incident was extremely bad. Not only did this group of armed men kill and rob, they also kept shouting "bancai". When two of them were relieving themselves, their loincloths were exposed, which was all seen by the two rooster men who were pretending to be dead.
Before the incident here escalated, at dawn, the small town of Yitan, more than 20 kilometers away from the small town of Jingjia, was also attacked. This time, more than 40 people from Xiongji were killed. Several local natives hid in a dilapidated labor shed and witnessed the whole process. They were deeply shocked by Hayaku and Kuorusi, who had been shouting at the sneak attack team all night.
The Roosters were very angry and sent a clear message to severely condemn the atrocities of the Japanese army and asked the beautiful father and the corrupt country uncle to do justice.
The corrupt king was fighting in the air and could hardly protect himself, so he had no time to deal with these petty fights. The beautiful dad had long disliked the Japs and naturally made a strong representation.
The Japanese knew that they did not do it, so they were unwilling to admit it. However, the other party swore and had solid evidence, which made the Japanese confused. Although they also had this plan, they did not put it into action!
A man with a clear conscience has nothing to fear. The Japanese ignored the condemnation of the United States and sneered at the Chinese people, calling them a bunch of scum who had lost their country. The Japanese did not cause trouble for them but only gave face to the United States. If there was anything, they could frame themselves.
The Rooster people retook the two small towns with a skeptical attitude. Due to the shortage of manpower, they could only send a company of garrison to each small town, and made three layers of defense inside and outside.
Less than two days later, the mysterious team launched another surprise attack on the small town of Jingjia. After a fierce exchange of fire, they broke through the two outer positions. Seeing that there were not many Rooster people inside, they shouted to the other side to surrender and said that the Imperial Japanese Army would not kill prisoners. The people inside secretly sent a telegram to surrender, but they were all slaughtered. The mysterious team looted for a while, but seemed dissatisfied. They withdrew shouting "Baga Baga", without noticing that the Rooster company commander was hiding in the cupboard and looking outside in horror.
The situation fermented again. This time, the beautiful dad was angry. This was not the way to slap someone in the face. A series of policies were introduced to prepare for sanctions against the Japanese and urge the Japanese troops to withdraw from northern Indochina immediately.
The Japanese were really confused this time. They asked about the situations in each sequence and realized that someone had deliberately framed them. They had to catch the framer.
Two battalions of Japanese troops went into the tropical rainforest between Jingjia and Yitan, and they actually found traces of a mysterious armed group.
The search was led to the small town of Yitan. The Japanese army suddenly appeared in the town. The Rooster people opened machine guns without saying a word. No matter how the other side explained, it was useless. Seeing that the team suffered heavy casualties, the captain, Lieutenant Colonel Yoshinari, was furious. After a fierce exchange of fire, the Rooster Company was destroyed.
In order to destroy the evidence, the remains of the Rooster Company were dragged out of the town and buried in the woods outside the town. However, two Rooster soldiers were rescued by several "natives", who told them the location of the bodies in their native language. The two Rooster soldiers gave them watches but they refused them, and also refused silver crosses. Finally, the "natives" found some food on the battlefield, gobbled it up, and snatched it before leaving.
The incident attracted great attention from the U.S. government. In order to protest Japan's occupation and encroachment on the East Indies and French Indochina, on February 1941, 2, the United States froze all Japanese assets there and imposed a complete embargo on oil sales to Japan, five months earlier than the same time in history.
At the same time, the United States stopped exporting iron ore and steel to Japan and imposed severe sanctions on Japan's military industry, which was heavily dependent on its own oil and steel imports. This was the first time that the West took real punitive action to counter Japan's series of aggressive activities. Although it had nothing to do with the impoverished and weak China, it still greatly encouraged the masses.
When Lieutenant Colonel Yoshinari learned that his country was under sanctions, he simply stopped pretending and armed forces occupied the two small towns of Seika and Gidan. Although the two towns were poor, they were major rubber producing areas. All the defenders in them were killed, and it was a pity to waste them.
The Japanese diplomat was still trying desperately to explain, but he was stabbed in the back by a stupid pig behind him.
The mission was accomplished. It was simple and crude, but very practical. Wang Hanqiang did not lead his team out to the sea, but infiltrated westward, intending to cross the mountains to reach the port of Myitkyina and carve out a niche for himself there.
The Japanese troops in the Zhongxing Mining Area delayed their attack and seemed to have forgotten the purpose of this assembly. Laborers were working every day and most of them slept in the mining area at night. The Guards Regiment had no good solution. Fortunately, there was an open-pit coal mine in the Jinling Mining Area, which did not delay the production in Mengshan.
As the catalyst of the incident, Chen Feng was in a very good mood, and he was even more delighted when listening to the top-secret telegram read by Li Yunyan.
The telegram was sent by Commander Li of the Fifth War Zone. It was a top-secret message. The commanders of the North China Expeditionary Army and the Central China Expeditionary Army returned to their country secretly almost at the same time.
Chen Feng concluded that the return of the two important figures this time might mean that an old devil was about to come to power. As long as this old devil came to power, the time for the Japanese army to launch a surprise attack and counterattack would not be far away.
February 1941, 2, the 19th day of the first lunar month, the solar term "Rain Water".
The land in the north has begun to thaw. The Japanese army has vigorously rebuilt the Jinpu Line and the Longhai East Line. Due to sanctions from the United States, the headquarters decided that the Jinpu Line and the Longhai East Line must be reopened. Although there are no oil and rubber resources, there is still iron ore. The importance of the Longhai East Line has surpassed the Jinpu Line.
The Japanese in the Zhongxing Mining Area retreated, and overnight only more than 2,000 laborers were left in the mining area. As the guard regiment that had been confronting the mining area for a whole winter, we received the news of the Japanese retreat as soon as possible, but we could only watch the 20,000 Japanese troops retreat to the west of the Jinpu Line.
A large number of wounded soldiers recovered, and the Japanese garrison in Lincheng was restored to a strength of 100,000. The 100,000 Japanese soldiers had no intention of attacking. 30,000 joined the interrupted defense sequence of the Jinpu Line, 20,000 were in Xuzhou to hold the line, and nearly 50,000 devils joined the defense of the Longhai East Line.