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In order to bribe Li Hong to be a traitor, the little devil really spent a lot of money.
Li Hong put away the gold bars and the letter of appointment, and said with a sly smile: "Mr. Ikeda, the conditions in the letter of appointment are quite acceptable, but you, the Imperial Japanese Army, are too stingy, why did you give me such a box of gold bars?"
At this time, asking the little devil for more money can be said to be just the right time.
Ikeda Shunji put down the wine glass in his hand, and said lightly: "General Li, there is an old saying in your China that a gentleman loves money and obtains it in a proper way. Our big Japan has already given you very generous conditions."
"Mr. Ikeda, there is an old saying in China that people die for money and birds die for food. I, Li Hong, am now a traitor. It doesn't matter to me whether I am a gentleman or not. I just want to benefit a lot?"
Li Hong put on the face of a traitor who is greedy for money. If he didn't show his greed and insatiability, it might arouse the suspicion of the old fox Ikeda Shunji.
"Hahaha!"
Ikeda Shunji laughed a few times, and then he took out a stack of Oceanic currency notes from the pocket of his suit and put them on the table.
Li Hong picked up the stack of banknotes and counted them. There were a total of [-] ocean-wide banknotes, and he was so happy that he put the banknotes into his arms from ear to ear.
"Thank you Mr. Ikeda, thank you Imperial Army of Japan!"
The Japanese devil's high-ranking officials and generous salary were not given to Li Hong for nothing. Next, Ikeda Shunji talked about his conditions.
The Japanese army wanted to attack Xuzhou, and Beigu Town was Xuzhou's barrier. Later, Ikeda Shunji proposed that the Japanese troops use Beigu Town to let Li Hong's security team let them pass.
The passes in Beigu Town are easy to defend and difficult to attack. With a security team guarding such an important town, if the little devils attack by force, there may not be two brigades with casualties that cannot take Beigu Town.
The little devil had estimated the price of winning Beigu Town, so they did everything possible to buy Li Hong. For the Japanese army, this was the smallest price.
"Okay, Mr. Ikeda, I agree to your request. Two days later, I, Li Hong, will definitely open the gate of Beigu Town to welcome the Imperial Japanese Army, and ensure that the security forces will not fire a single shot." Li Hong said seriously. With that said, he solemnly promised.
"well!"
Ikeda Shunji picked up the wine glass and said with a sinister smile: "General Li, come, let's toast together for our future cooperation."
Everyone raised their glasses and drank several glasses of wine in succession.
Half an hour later, Li Hong left Gan Weigou's house with a box of gold bars.
Ikeda Shunji and Gan Weigou personally sent Li Hong to the door.
Watching Li Hong leave on horseback, Gan Weigou said worriedly: "Mr. Chitian, I have accepted Li Hong's money and letter of appointment. It is quite straightforward to agree, but can you fully believe what he said?"
"Of course I can't completely believe what Li Hong said, ha ha."
Ikeda Shunji smiled secretly, and then he and Gan Weigou walked to the inner hall.
Ikeda Shunji will not trust Li Hong so easily. In the past two days, he will send his secret agents to pay close attention to the movement of Li Hong's security team.
On the way back to the security team, Li Hong was thinking about things all the time, and he also knew that Ikeda Shunji would not trust him completely.
"Brother-in-law, you won't really be bought by that Ikeda Shunji to become a traitor?"
Chen Lin asked Li Hong strangely, he couldn't understand why Li Hong agreed to Ikeda Shunji's condition to borrow Beigu Town.
Li Hong smiled treacherously: "I, Li Hong, don't know how to be a traitor. I, Li Hong, must accept the money given by the devil. If the devil gives me money, I don't want it. Am I so stupid?"
"Brother-in-law, you are too treacherous. Playing a rascal is really your usual style. I learned another trick from you. Whoever says that you have to do things after receiving money, hahaha." Chen Lin very much agrees with Li Hong's approach.
Now Li Hong was thinking about how to bully the little devils. Since the little devils' army wanted to use Beigu Town, it happened to be a trick to lure the devil's combat troops into a trap and wipe them out.
As soon as he returned to the security regiment, Li Hong gave the troops a withdrawal order.
The troops guarding the position withdrew overnight, and even some important passes outside the city also withdrew.
The disarming of the security regiment, on the surface, relaxed its vigilance and was not ready to fight, but in fact it was a paralyzing tactic of "loosening the outside and tightening the inside".
Ikeda Shunji was not a fool. Li Hong had expected that the little devil would observe secretly, so he arranged this kind of cover-up to deceive the enemy.
The devil's spies would hang out in the town every day, keeping a close eye on the mobilization of the security regiment's troops.
These ghost spies reported all the detected situations to Ikeda Shunji.
After receiving the report from his subordinates, Junji Ikeda believed it to be true, and instead, he reported the information to the commander of the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army.
Tian Junliu knew that Ikeda Shun'er had bought Li Hong, so he was naturally overjoyed. On the same day, he sent a brigade to march from the south bank of Huaihe River to Beigu Town...
Chapter 3 and Six
() In the afternoon of the second day, Li Hong put on civilian clothes and dressed up in disguise.
He escaped the surveillance of the devil's spies, secretly left Beigu Town, and rode to the headquarters of the Third Army.
Li Hong went out of the city this time because he was going to find Yu Changsheng, and together they discussed how to attack the enemies who marched into Beigu Town.
Originally, Li Hong could inform Yu Changsheng of the battle plan by telegram.
Although it is faster to send a telegram to convey the message, the content of the telegram may be intercepted by the Japanese army. In order to have a thorough battle plan, Li Hong decided to make a trip in person.
After riding for two hours, Li Hong arrived at the headquarters of the Third Army.
Seeing that Li Hong was wearing casual clothes, Yu Changsheng asked strangely, "Commander Li, why are you wearing such clothes when you come to my headquarters today?"
Li Hong didn't go around in circles, and directly told Yu Changsheng why he came.
Knowing that the Japanese army was going through Beigu Town, Yu Changsheng couldn't help showing a bit of surprise.
What surprised him was that if Li Hongzhen was bribed by devils, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Immediately, Yu Changsheng asked the communications soldier to notify some of his generals to attend a meeting at the headquarters.
An hour later, all the officers and generals of the Third Army arrived at the headquarters one after another.
These military officers who came to the meeting were all Yu Changsheng's confidantes.
More than a dozen officers and generals sat at the conference table, and Yu Changsheng made a long story short and told all the other officers present what Li Hong said just now.
After hearing Yu Changsheng's words, the officers and generals fell silent with each other.
Yu Changsheng looked towards Li Hong and said, "Li Hong, you came up with the battle plan, so go first."
Li Hong stood up and told everyone the battle plan: "Sirs, the Japanese army wants to use Beigu Town, so I decided to obey the Japanese army, and then lead the Japanese army into a trap to encircle and annihilate them."
Although this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to eliminate the Japanese army, the officers and generals neither agreed with Li Hong nor opposed it.
Li Hong's battle plan is certainly good, but without detailed information on the enemy who marched into Beigu Town, fighting such a battle with inaccurate information is simply like a child's play.
Fighting a war is not just talking about it on paper. A wrong command will lead to the casualties of thousands of officers and soldiers, not to mention the lack of accurate combat intelligence.
Peng Jinliang, commander of the 51th Division of the 114st Army, said: "Commander Li, we don't have accurate information at present, and we don't know how many Japanese troops have entered Beigu Town, and they fought a random battle rashly. Isn't this taking the lives of officers and soldiers as a joke? "