~.-~    The Unparalleled National Scholar Chapter 53 Liang Pan

So many gold, silver and guns.┌|Website is enough to arm the two regiments of soldiers. Chen Zikun still thinks it is too little, and there is really no place to reason. Yan Qingyu said: "Brother-in-law, stop when you see it is good. Don't be too greedy. If you are angry with the little Japanese, don't want to destroy the prince, and you will be wiped out. That's not good."

Chen Zikun said: "You go back and tell them, and I will release them immediately according to this number."

Yan Qingyu was shocked: "Brother-in-law, are you really playing?"

Chen Zikun said: "You have become a secondary chief, why is your vision so narrow? In the battle of defense of Beijing and Thailand, the planes and cannons lost much more than this number. The Japanese plundered hundreds of millions of wealth in China. I only got this back, it depends on your face."

Yan Qingyu did not stay in the Daqingshan area and immediately returned to Nanjing and conveyed Chen Zikun's request to the countermeasure headquarters. The two Red Cross personnel who were with him also reported the prince's health, which was basically satisfactory.

Unexpectedly, Seishiro Sakagaki immediately agreed to Chen Zikun's price and loaded the first batch of gold, silver cash, guns, ammunition and equipment to Beitai. In order to avoid stimulating the other party, the Red Cross was responsible for the payment of the ransom.

At the same time, a team of elite infantry drawn by various divisions of the dispatched army was also formed and arrived in Jiangbei secretly. This was General Ishihara Kan'er's proposal to form a plainclothes team with Japanese veterans who were proficient in combat in East China, sneak into the Daqingshan area to grab the prince, and bring the ransom back at the same time, so that Chen Zikun could get nothing.

In order to ensure the victory of the raid, the matter was extremely confidential and even the King of the Imperial King was not aware of it.

The captain of the Rangers was Captain Masao Kojima. He had a low rank, but he had extremely rich combat experience. He could speak Chinese from Shanghai to Jiangdong and was a master of China. Most of the soldiers in the team were experienced soldiers such as military commanders or chief Cao, rather than ordinary soldiers.

Their weapons were specially issued. The Japanese army's iconic weapons, the 38th cover and the turtle box, were not selected. Instead, they were newly entered service, mainly the 100-type machine gun and the 44th cavalry rifle. The support weapons were the Type 96 light machine guns and 50-caliber grenade launchers that used 30 round magazines. The self-defense weapon was the Sugiura-style pistol, which was extremely well-equipped and light, and its firepower was far beyond that of ordinary infantry units.

In the enemy area, military uniforms cannot be worn. The Rangers all changed into the clothes of ordinary people, including large Chinese cotton jackets and pants, legs tied, black cloth cotton shoes, dog-skin hats on their heads, and a feces basket on their backs. They were hunched over and some black gray on their faces. It was no different from the old farmers in Jiangbei.

On the eve of the troops' expedition, Lieutenant General Seishi Itagaki inspected these passionate men. The general expressed his satisfaction. The bandits from Jiangbei gathered and were armed everywhere. Such a dress would definitely be mixed in, and the prince was rescued without knowing it.

The cart full of the first batch of ransoms was pulled to Nantai, and ten miles away from the city, the guerrillas took over, checked the amount in person, and after signing for the receipt, the two sides shook hands and said goodbye.

The car was loaded with machinery, medical equipment, medicines, etc., which were very heavy and could not be disassembled and filled. They had to drive the mule to pull and push back and head toward the base. No one noticed that a peddler followed far behind.

Although Jiangbei has been fighting, folk life has always been normal. Hawkers go to the countryside, farmers go to markets, and ordinary people visit relatives. However, they need a good citizen certificate when passing the checkpoint. Now the artillery towers are removed, and they are often much freer. It is normal that there are more hawkers than before.

These vendors carried baskets and sold needles and thread everywhere, collected their hair and exchanged pear paste and candy, and sold kerosene in small quantities. The fair-priced people were also kind. When the drum sounded, all the children in the village followed behind, and even the dogs stopped barking, and they were very intimate with their tails.

The peddlers are kind-hearted in business and like to tell stories to children. They like to go to villagers' homes to ask for a bowl of water, and talk about the harvest, the world, and the latest news in the village.

These actions were seen by the guerrilla investigators.

One evening three days later, a team of trucks drove from Beitai, with tarpaulin covered tightly, and no one knew what to do. After dark, there was a curfew in the city, and a group of people dressed in the people appeared in the wilderness and rode Japanese bicycles to the countryside.

It was late February, and the sky was full of crescent moons. The night in late winter was extremely cold. The plainclothes team was riding bicycles in the vast wilderness. When they encountered a big pit on the road, they carried bicycles around the side. The reason for choosing this kind of transportation was light, but no noise, and would not alarm the guerrillas.

After an hour of march, the faces of the elite Imperial Army were almost frozen and finally arrived at their destination. In Kushuijing Village, they placed their bicycles on the edge of the field outside the village, loaded bullets to enter the village to grab people. After the disguised reconnaissance team, the position of the prince was determined, and there were not many guards, only one company, and they were sleeping at one o'clock at night, and at most one shift was on duty, which was easy to solve.

The shadows approached the village under the dim moonlight. Captain Kojima drew out his battle knife. In order to avoid reflection, he even applied a layer of ashes on the bottom of the pot, which shows how comprehensive the preparation is.

The village under the night was extremely quiet, and there was no barking of dogs. The island had been in the army for ten years and had a wealth of experience in the battlefield. He suddenly felt something was wrong, and it seemed that he was approaching.

The soldier's sixth sense is correct. Without warning, the gunshots rang out, and it was very dense. The opponent was prepared for a long time. The sneak attack miscalculated and the strong attack lost its meaning. After all, the plainclothes team came to save people. Since the opponent had noticed it, the prince must have transferred a long time ago.

Captain Kojima urgently ordered a retreat, leaving a team to cover it with light machine guns and a hundred-type submachine guns. The rest bent over and ran wildly, holding up the bicycle placed on the ridge of the field, flying onto the car, and then pedaled.

Suddenly dozens of extremely shiny light beams shone over, and the dazzling light made them squint their eyes. A deafening motor roar came from their ears, and for a moment, they could not see or hear anything.

Liang Maocai led a motorcycle team to wait for them for a long time. The Harley-Davidson motorcycle imported from the United States has been dormant and has not been activated. It is just because there is too little gasoline in stock. Now hundreds of barrels of Japanese gasoline have been seized, and these motorcycles have finally come into play.

With a sound of attack, Thompson's portable machine gun sprayed a long fire snake under the moonlight. The Japanese plainclothes team members who had nowhere to hide under the light were beaten into a hornet's nest. They were elite troops and fought back to the light. Some people rushed over with grenades in their hands and tried to die together, and finally won the opportunity for their comrades to escape.

Captain Kojima was riding a dozen people on bicycles in the wilderness. The motorcycles followed them like cats and mice. The roar of the high-power motorcycle that had removed the exhaust pump was like a devil's roar in the wilderness of winter. Kojima and others were sweating all over, but they could not escape the pursuit.

Kojima knew he couldn't escape, so he suddenly shook off his bicycle, pulled out his sabre and shouted: "Come on!"

The soldiers also abandoned their bicycles and formed a circular defense circle with weapons back to back. Faced with dazzling light columns and deafening roar, they were ready to die.

Liang Maocai told his subordinates not to shoot, so he walked over with a Japanese-style white-scavenger knife.

Captain Kojima is a master of kendo. When he saw the other party's posture, he immediately understood. He narrowed his eyes and took off the fragments of telescope pistol holsters on his body. He went up to him. The two sides stood five steps apart and looked at each other.

After a while, Kojima exerted force, shouted and jumped over, and the saber slashed at the head. Liang Maocai's body shook, and the two changed positions and stood back to back. Liang Maocai's white sheath knife seemed to have never been sheathed. Kojima did not move at all, and murmured: "It's actually a single sword."

A thin knife mark slowly appeared on his neck, and then his head slid down and he rushed to the ground to death.

The remaining Japanese army knew that there was no hope of breaking through, so they fired a grenade and committed suicide collectively.

The battle in the middle of the night ended like this. A sneak attack carefully prepared by the Japanese base camp was gone, and the plainclothes team was destroyed, and it seemed that it had never appeared.

The plan failed and someone must be responsible for it. The senior officials of the military headquarters took their anger to Nishio Suzao and removed him from his position as commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army. He replaced him with General Shinji Hata. Nishio returned to China in disgrace. Itagaki's life was not easy. The emperor was furious and the countermeasures headquarters were revoked, but he chose to pay the ransom honestly and exchange the prince for the return.

All the materials promised by the Japanese side were in place. After gold, silver and US dollars and yen were transferred into Chen Zikun's account in the Shanghai Concession, Prince Fengren of Qingmizu Palace was finally released. The ceremony was held outside Nantai County. Both China and Japan attended without weapons.

Chen Zikun shook hands with Qingshui Feng and said goodbye, "When the war is over, you are welcome to come and visit again."

Prince Qingshui was moved and said, "This period has caused you trouble. I will come if I have the chance."

Chen Zikun said: "Don't forget our agreement, goodbye."

The prince left and returned to Japan with the people of Jiangbei's expectations for peace. In the early spring, the grass penetrated out of the permafrost.

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The annihilation of the night attack team in Xiaodao was Liang Maocai's first battle after his return. He showed his prestige and fame. People all know that the unfilial son of Liangjiazhuang is back.

Liang Maocai was not ashamed to go home, but he still came back. He was no longer the young man he was in his early years, but a middle-aged man in his thirties and covered in frost.

The Liang family courtyard has long changed. The former glorious door was covered with weeds. When he entered the door, a stubborn boy asked him: "Who are you looking for?"

"I..." Liang Maocai was speechless, he didn't know what to say.

A woman came out of the main hall and saw Liang Maocai. The basket in her hand fell to the ground. The boy called out "Mom" and ran over and snuggled beside the woman, staring at the strange guest vigilantly.

Liang Maocai was carrying a hat and a box cannon, and his face was full of stubble. He looked like he was not a good person, but this seemingly rough man was extremely restrained and kind. He stuttered: "You... are you okay?"

The woman lowered her head: "It's okay. Grandma left the year before yesterday, and uncle and aunt divided the land, so she left this house for us mother and mother."

Liang Maocai said: "What's the name of the baby?"

The woman said, "Call Liang Pan. Pan'er, call her father."

The boy twisted his head: "He is not my father, he is a ***!"

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