"...Every time a sudden encounter between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the Communist Party suddenly cooperate to fight the enemy, there is a conspiracy behind it, maybe it is from one side, maybe from both sides, or even from the three Japanese conspiracies, everyone stares at each other's fatal points and forgets their weaknesses... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

It was daytime, without warning before, and suddenly the entire northern Jiangsu region was formed into a group, and all towns and Japanese transportation transit stations were attacked without exception! How many people did the Chinese army use? Hata Shunruo from Nanjing was in a hurry: he just sent a telegram to the Tokyo base camp a day ago, and was sure to end the negotiations within two days. The national army would be forced to withdraw from various counties and declare that the Japanese army had occupied Jiangsu in full... Now, will his big words be published in the newspaper? Hata Shunruo wished he could tear Cao Xiaomin to pieces!

The Japanese transport teams on the roads were also attacked one after another. Although they suffered little losses, they knew that the transfer station at the next stop was fighting fiercely and did not dare to move forward. At the same time, because they were escorting a large amount of material, they did not dare to pursue the harassing troops. The transport teams could only stop on the road and constantly endured the attack and was in a dilemma...[]

The chaos in northern Jiangsu forced Hata Shunruo to lie on the map and check the location where the transport team was attacked. Because the transport team could no longer get support from various Japanese troops in northern Jiangsu, they could only hope that the Nanjing headquarters would send Marines to rescue them - Li Tianhao's large army was launched, and the main targets were those transport teams!

Shinji Hata suddenly pointed to two attack points and stood up: "Are these two... really attacks from the national army?"

The staff members realized that the place Tian Junliu pointed at was in Jiangnan!

At this moment, a staff officer hurriedly handed over a telegram: "Just on the Yangtze River, on the south bank, one of our field airports was attacked. Now there is a fierce battle. The materials piled up on the airport are being set on fire by the enemy... The New Fourth Army attacked the airport!"

"What!? When will the New Fourth Army join forces with the National Army??" Hata Shunruo took a deep breath again. In his concept, the two troops fought each other more times than they fought with the Japanese army in total! Because of this, Hata Shunruo tolerated the entry of the first and second columns of the New Fourth Army and did not conduct a full-scale encirclement and suppression as soon as possible. Wherever the New Fourth Army went, it turned out that the National Army's guerrillas had to turn their guns to meet the enemy... However, everything changed today. The National Army in Jiangbei suddenly launched a full-scale attack, and the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan actually dispatched everywhere in the entire guerrilla area!

"It seems that Staff Wang's judgment is correct and invites him over..."

Something that would have been shocked if Cao Xiaomin knew about it happened: Wang Hansheng, a half-baked spy, was promoted step by step among the Japanese army. Now, in addition to several positions in Nanjing Geji, he also serves as a senior military adviser in the headquarters!

Wang Hansheng, who had become extremely deep, appeared. He was the only one who immediately thought that the New Fourth Army was going to make big moves against the Japanese army in the Jiangnan area after knowing that the New Fourth Army had added two columns to the Jiangnan area!

As a senior spy in the State Government, he would certainly insist on letting the Japanese army do their best to eliminate the New Fourth Army, but Hata Shunji rejected his suggestion at the time, and Hata Shunji invited him today because the facts proved that he was right...

Wang Hansheng proposed that the New Fourth Army would cause trouble to the Japanese army, but there was only one reason: he was instructed by the Military Control Commission! Of course, it is very simple to find a reason to convince people for a proven result, at least it is much easier than to find a reasonable explanation for a completely different thing.

"The reason why the Communist Party's New Fourth Army cooperated with the Kuomintang at this time is that in my speculation, they must have reached some consensus in northern Jiangsu..." Wang Hansheng now seems much more calm than before, and is very confident: "This time, the Kuomintang army suddenly made such a big move in northern Jiangsu, maybe it is the prelude to them withdraw from northern Jiangsu..."

Wang Hansheng's statement made a group of Japanese staff look at each other, and the Kuomintang gave up northern Jiangsu?!

"In Chongqing, behind the government, the Communist Party attacks the government the most is passive resistance and ambiguous with us... If the Kuomintang launched a war in northern Jiangsu at this time, a war that was enough to almost exhaust their main forces, and then the compromise conditions that had been reached were met to bear, then they could promote the New Fourth Army's treason! At the same time, after such a war, would we sit still? We can only do our best to clear out northern Jiangsu, at least to get back some face..." Wang Hansheng noticed that when he made a statement about face, almost all the Japanese twitched their faces - the Japanese army on the southern front was indeed too shameless...

"But, at this time our opponent may become the New Fourth Army..." Wang Hansheng continued: "For the National Government, they want to be a war zone hanging behind enemy lines. Don't forget that Cao Xiaomin was actually a general who fought in the war, and he had no connection with the traditional Central Army. However, northern Jiangsu had a completely different significance to the New Fourth Army. Getting the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu was connected with the Eighth Route Army in Shandong was a great opportunity for their development on the Eastern Front... My bold guess is: the National Army will be in this battle.

Then we gave up northern Jiangsu, and the New Fourth Army would be fully stationed! The National Government forced us to keep a lot of energy against the New Fourth Army by the Battle of northern Jiangsu. At the same time, they withdrew from a certain area to exchange for direct conflict between the New Fourth Army and us... In many places, we found that the New Fourth Army and the National Government fought far more than we did, so we often let them grow bigger and even deliberately help them fight the National Army. But if there is another situation, there is no national army in a region, but only both of us? There is only one situation, and the New Fourth Army and we are defeated by the death!..."

"The three monks have no water to eat..." Hata Shunruo said softly. Although he felt that Wang Hansheng's analysis was too whimsical, it was not completely unreasonable.

At this time, Wang Hansheng handed over a document, which was actually a book, which he wrote himself: "Research on the Similarities and Sameness of Guerrilla Warfare in the Kuomintang and Communist Army".

Shinro Hata took it and carefully opened it and browsed the title. Then, when his eyes lit up, he suddenly gave Wang Hansheng a thumbs up: "Very good!... Just for this book, your military rank can be upgraded to two levels!"

Under Wang Hansheng's strong advocacy, Hata Shunruo began to mobilize troops in Jiangnan to eliminate the New Fourth Army with all his might, and at the same time ordered all the troops trapped in northern Jiangsu to go north with all their might, and gather in the south to the riverside, and the Marine Corps responded. For a moment, the war on the southern front of the Xuzhou battlefield was in full swing, and the whole country was ignited!

"In this way, our army's strength in Jiangnan will be fully exposed, and I'm afraid it will not be worth the loss..." Su Yu looked at the map, looking at the places marked with red circles on the map. On the not-so-large ground, there were as many as sixteen red circles - one day and one night, the New Fourth Army launched an attack on the Japanese army at sixteen locations at the same time!

"If the Japanese army counterattacked our army in the next days, our army could have one or two huge but not very powerful battles with them, and at the same time, let the comrades led by the team below ask to hide in Jiangbei through their personal relationship with the grassroots officers of the National Army opposite. I think that as long as the work is in place, it is not difficult to master several reliable crossing points with the attitude of the troops of the northern Jiangsu army towards the Japanese. We will directly cross the Third and Fourth Columns!" Chen Yi said in a deep voice: "I went to negotiate with them, but in fact it was

We must create a momentum so that the grassroots officers below will know that the upper level is negotiating and cooperation may be formed, which will help the comrades below carry out their work. However, we must understand that the success or failure of the eastward advance cannot be placed on the enemy. We must strive to take the initiative. Once this secret crusade through Chen Cang is successful, then whether it is Cao Xiaomin or Li Tianhao, who will have time to gather the troops to stop it? Even if they come, with the strength of our third and fourth vertices, they will definitely have the power to fight. I think they dare not fight!"

"But, Mr. Chen, you go to negotiate in person, and I always feel it's too dangerous..." Su Yu thought for a while and said, "I think it's better to have a more detailed contact first..."

"No! You have to cut the mess at this time! Only when the war is full of fire can they do grassroots work and get mixed up with fish eyes!" Chen Yi was very determined: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get a tiger's son? I want all departments of the Jiangbei National Army to know that I, Chen Yi, have to go to Jiangbei to negotiate with Cao Xiaomin in person, and at this critical moment, the Third Column and Fourth Column can cross the river. Only then will their grassroots officers give us face at this time and let us go to one or two battalions; when they find out that we have passed by two columns, I guess it's not him, Li Tianhao, what do you want to do, or whether I, Chen Yi, will deal with him!"

Cao Xiaomin wanted to take the opportunity to destroy Chen Yi, Chen Yi wanted to take the opportunity to smuggle the Yangtze River; Hata Shunji was preparing to deal with the main force of the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan, and the main force of the New Fourth Army wanted to take advantage of the Japanese war to overcome northern Jiangsu; the Military Control Commission hoped that the Japanese army misjudged the situation in northern Jiangsu and deliberately left a three-party confrontation situation without launching full-scale attacks on the 57th Army and other units, but in fact, the national army dominated northern Jiangsu; the Japanese thought that after destroying the main force of the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan, they took advantage of the situation to take the opportunity to attack the Kuomintang army that might give up northern Jiangsu to a complete sweep... Each has his own plans, and of course they also have their own follow-up methods to hide.

A secret negotiation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party that seemed secret but in fact the spies from the three sides had learned had not yet begun. Various secret wars had begun. The war was raging but they were all superficial. The three sides were actually staring at the northern part of Jiangsu behind the war.

But at this time, Cao Xiaomin, one of the protagonists, had already accompanied two men and two women and four men and women on board the plane to Zhengzhou - the war started in northern Jiangsu. The Japanese army outside Huaiyin would no longer stay in Huaiyin without attacking, and it was time to leave!

It was not until this time that He Yan learned that Cao Xiaomin's next stop was to leave northern Jiangsu! Then, the negotiations with President Chen... She was anxious but could not hand over the information because she was also one of Cao Xiaomin's entourage!
Chapter completed!