The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 488: Regaining the Seaport

The unfortunate fellow, whose neck was strangled tightly, could only utter a few weak cries for help, and soon stopped struggling.

He never figured out until his death why Jiang Cheng and Suzuki Hiroshi wanted to kill him...

And no matter how much he looked down on Suzuki, he was still his comrade in the military. How could he unite with an inferior race from a foreign country?
But the last bit of consciousness he had left was not enough for him to figure all this out. In his gradually darkening vision, the handsome young commander slowly stood up.

His face was filled with a cold and contemptuous smile.

"What a fool."

After loosening the two ends of the rope, Suzuki Hiroshi also stood up and showed a few flattering smiles to his alien master, "General Jiang, I did a pretty good job, didn't I?"

cough cough.

With his fist against his upper lip, Jiang Cheng lowered his eyebrows and sneered, "Not bad. This operation went so smoothly thanks to your cooperation, Suzuki."

Seeing the flattering smile on the other side becoming more and more like a lapdog, the Jilin governor said seriously, "It's not time to reward people for their merits yet--"

"We have more important things to do now! Don't you know how the Japanese military interprets information? Go, tell your Japanese colleagues as we agreed on the way here!"

If it was just for secret infiltration, Jiang Cheng, as the governor of a province, would have no need to follow the elite task force and take risks, or even kill a Japanese dog with his own hands.

The reason for going straight here is for the next action.

Suzuki Hiroshi nodded, turned around quickly and ran out to call the two signalmen he brought with him.

Those who answered the phone immediately answered the phone, those who connected to the radio connected to the radio——

Life is just a simple life, and things are done quickly. Ten minutes later, a telegram sent by Suzuki Hiroshi, a "Japanese traitor", spread throughout Hunchun.

After the call was connected, Suzuki Hiroshi, as the commander, ordered all the garrison troops and police in the city to immediately switch guard with the Yoshi army that entered the city.

The general content of the telegram was to issue a withdrawal order and inform all Japanese troops in the city to leave the city and head towards the mouth of the Tumen River... saying that the navy had arrived at the port and they could set off on their journey home.

As early as several months ago, the Kwantung Army had been making extensive publicity in newspapers, calling for the realization of autonomy in the Northeast, the transfer of Hunchun and other places, and the deepening of cooperation with Marshal Zhang.

Of course the top brass knew that this was all a matter of face. In reality, how could they let Jiang Feilan hand over Hunchun for free?

But the lower-level soldiers believed it and were already discussing when they could return to their hometown and when they could eat hometown sushi again...

At present, when such an order was issued from above, some captains and sergeants were a little skeptical, but thinking about leaving this cold city before winter and returning to their warm and comfortable Hiroshima, these greedy invaders did not bother to verify the authenticity.

Go home, I can finally go home!

The Chinese officers who took over were surprisingly friendly and asked them with a smile if they were willing to sell some of their equipment to them.

This is great. They had been complaining about the equipment being in the way and were worrying about how to transport them...but they didn't expect that these soldiers would actually take the initiative to ask them if they were willing to sell the goods.

How can I not sell it?

Several leaders of the Kwantung Army took the main force to Siberia, and they are the only ones left in the entire Hunchun - now they have received an order from their superiors to retreat, so they might as well grab what they can while their superiors are away, so that they can have a good life after returning home!

Under this mentality, this group of low-level officers sold a lot of goods to the task force led by Hai Pingchuan in an attitude of "opening the warehouse to release grain".
In one night, all the remaining equipment, military uniforms, and even daily necessities such as quilts, soaps, etc. in Hunchun were sold out!

These soldiers who were eager to go home happily packed their luggage, took the silver dollars they exchanged for the "Imperial Army's weapons", sang Japanese songs, and leisurely left the city to the port south of Hunchun.

This is the "Tumen River Estuary" that Jilin has coveted in modern times.

It is a special delta area between Russia, North Korea and China, and has important strategic significance.

This place was once Chinese territory during the Qing Dynasty, and Jilin Province was once a coastal province. The signing of the Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty in 1858 ceded part of the territory between Jilin Province and the Sea of ​​Japan to Russia, causing China to lose its coastline to the Sea of ​​Japan and unable to use the Tumen River to enter the Sea of ​​Japan.

After the Russo-Japanese War, the port here was occupied by the Japanese army, but due to the poor infrastructure level of the Japanese at that time, the port has not developed much since then;
Not only is the freight throughput capacity limited, but there are not many Japanese troops stationed there.

After "tricking" them to the port, Jiang Cheng of course let them go home.

Of course, I’m going home, and back to my hometown.

After selling the goods, the Japanese soldiers were in high spirits. They drank some wine and set off in a daze.

When they were about an hour away from the port, they encountered the Ji army that had been lying in ambush there.

Led by Gao Maolin, a subordinate of Guo Xipeng, a group of new European goods rushed over and in just half an hour, they sent this group of Japanese soldiers who were eager to return home back to their hometown.

When the battle broke out, there were naturally gunshots and explosions. The port was not far from here... The Japanese garrison there was naturally alarmed.

But Jiang Cheng had already arranged for Vasily to lead the White Russian Regiment to directly capture the port under the cover of two tanks and artillery fire.

The port has been fully controlled, and there are actually two ironclad ships docked in the sparsely guarded naval port - and the soldiers on board have been bored for days and have not stayed on the ships, but have gone out early to have fun.

In addition to the port and surrounding territories, there were also these two ships as unexpected gains.

When the news of victory reached Hunchun, Jiang Cheng was speechless holding the victory report.

"Master Jiang, what's wrong with you?"

As if seeing his face turn pale and blue, Hai Pingchuan interrupted his thoughts softly, "Brothers, didn't you fight well enough?"

Jiang Cheng suddenly gathered his mind and tightly grasped the good news that represented the bright future of Jilin. He put his left hand around Hai Pingchuan and his right hand around Zhang Tingshu, and they hugged each other tightly.

"Good brothers! You are all my good brothers!"

The Jilin governor, who was always good at speaking, could not control himself in this matter. "Great, my brothers--"

"You may not know what this means... but I'm telling you now, if we have access to the sea, it means that all our imports and exports are open. The future of Jilin, no, the entire Northeast will be bright!"

The two looked at their boss in confusion; they had never seen their leader so excited.

(End of this chapter)