Chapter 262 More money is needed! "Muraguchi-kun, it seems that you are very anxious to get in touch with our Eighth Route Army." Listening to what Cunkou Sanlang said, Qin Yangming immediately thought that Qingquan Muyi must have encountered some unexpected situation in Chiyang Town. Otherwise, Murakuchi Saburo would not have said anything about Qingquan Muyi trying to contact the Eighth Route Army. It was obvious that nothing happened to Murakuchi Saburo himself, but something big happened to Kiyozumi Kiichi. "It seems that Qingquan Muyi is a little anxious about being transferred from Chiyang Town. Qingquan Muyi has some things that are not yet finished, so he is in a hurry to contact the Eighth Route Army and ask the Eighth Route Army to help him finish them." Thinking of this, Qin Yangming immediately spoke to Sanlang at the entrance of the village. "Muraguchi-kun, is there something going on with Kiyozumi Muichi? I guess there might be something going on in Chiyang Town that Qingquan Muyi hasn't had time to finish yet. As a result, he was transferred to Ping'an County. So he was in a hurry to contact the Eighth Route Army, hoping that the Eighth Route Army could help to clean up the mess?"
When Murakuchi Saburo saw that Qin Yangming directly analyzed his thoughts, he was stunned, and then he no longer concealed his expression. “Hey, Qin Jun, that’s true. Qingquan Jun has done too many deals with your army in Chiyang Town. The warehouse is empty, and I had originally planned to finish it slowly later. Unexpectedly, he was suddenly transferred to Ping'an County. There is absolutely no chance to finish it, so I can only hope that your army can help to finish it. Otherwise, Qingquan Jun might be forced to commit suicide because of the events in Chiyang Town. I hope your army can help. As for the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold, this is a gift I intend to give to your army, not a reward. If your army is willing to help with the final work, then we are also willing to strengthen our cooperation with your army." "Oh? Strengthen cooperation? How do you strengthen it? Also, how are you going to pay Qingquan Muyi for helping him finish the work? I guess you are aware of the current situation of our Eighth Route Army. We are not short of weapons and equipment, nor are we short of food. As for medicines, you are also short of them. It is also difficult for you to provide mechanical equipment. Mr. Murakuchi, it's not that what I said was unpleasant, but if we continue to trade with you now, our Eighth Route Army will not gain much benefit. Murakuchi-kun, although we two can be friends, we have a very good relationship. But you have to understand that I am just a regiment commander and my decision cannot become the decision of the Eighth Route Army. Moreover, the troops now in Chiyang Town are not the troops I am familiar with. I can't say anything to get the troops over there to help you deal with the matter in Chiyang Town." Qin Yangming’s meaning is very simple.
If you want our Eighth Route Army to help you deal with the issues in Chiyang Town, okay, no problem. But you have to offer the right price. Otherwise, there is nothing I can do. When Murakuchi Saburo saw that Qin Yangming was willing to help, he felt relieved. He was afraid that Qin Yangming would not be willing to continue helping. He also knew that the Eighth Route Army, especially the 129th and 120th Divisions, were no longer short of weapons and equipment. At least the demand for weapons and equipment is no longer as urgent as it was at the beginning. Therefore, their advantage in providing weapons and equipment to the Eighth Route Army has disappeared and is at most a waste. Dispensable. The Eighth Route Army had a large number of artillery pieces, and it became impossible for the strongholds and artillery towers they had built to stop the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army could easily blow up the artillery tower with artillery and then seize a large number of weapons and equipment from it. Now a large number of Imperial Army troops escape every day and join the Eighth Route Army directly with their weapons and equipment. There were even cases where entire rows of Imperial Army troops collectively defected to the Eighth Route Army. So now ordinary equipment such as rifles can no longer attract the Eighth Route Army, or a small number of rifles can no longer attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army. If they want to continue trading weapons and equipment with the Eighth Route Army, they must at least have mountain cannons or field cannons to arouse the Eighth Route Army's interest. However, as for the type of artillery such as mountain cannons and field cannons, mountain cannons are easier to deal with. Murakuchi Saburo can still think of a way to operate them and make a few of them. But a few mountain cannons only had so much appeal to the Eighth Route Army. As for field artillery, that kind of thing is only equipped by divisions and brigades. If he can get the artillery from a brigade and sell it, then why would he bother to clean up the mess for Qingquan Muyi? Murakuchi Saburo had no idea what price he could offer to get the Eighth Route Army to help deal with the affairs of Chiyang Town. He simply looked at Qin Yangming, intending to let Qin Yangming consider the issue. "Mr. Qin, I understand your difficulties. Please name a price. I will explain in advance that you cannot get the gold bars because we have sent them back to our homeland or hidden them elsewhere. We cannot return them to you. We don’t have that much gold bars, so we need to make some arrangements.” When Qin Yangming saw Cunkou Sanlang asking him to name a price, he thought for a moment. "We make an offer? The price will definitely be very high. Are you sure you want us to make an offer?!" Qin Yangming deliberately said that the price of himself and others was very high so that Murakuchi Sanlang would be mentally prepared. "No problem, Mr. Qin, that's how business works, as the saying goes, if you ask for a high price, you should pay it back on the spot. Mr. Qin, please name a price." "I want Taiyuan, can you give it to me?" “Pfft…cough cough cough…Mr. Qin, let’s stop joking.
If I could make the decision to hand Taiyuan over to Qin Jun, then why would I need Qin Jun's help to contact the Eighth Route Army in Chiyang Town to help clean up the mess? Mr. Qin, I am sincere, please give me a suitable price." "Ping An County!" "I want Ping'an County, can you give it to me?!" When he heard Qin Yangming mention Ping'an County, Cunkou Sanlang stood up with his eyes wide open. "Mr. Qin, Ping'an County is the pass leading to Hebei, it is a strategic location! If you take Ping'an County, then your army can go north and join the Eighth Route Army from Mount Wutai to attack Shuiquan and Luyang from the north and south. Going west, you can join forces with Shangdang to attack Taigu, Taiyuan and other places. Going east, you can go out of Taihang and enter the Ji Zhong area and connect with your Ji Zhong troops. Mr. Qin, you must be aware of the importance of Ping'an County!" Murakuchi Saburo stared at Qin Yangming with wide eyes. He had thought that Qin Yangming would ask for a huge sum of money, but she didn't expect that Qin Yangming would actually dare to speak so loudly. Originally, when he mentioned Taiyuan, he could have thought of it as a joke. After all, everyone knows that helping to clean up the mess does not require paying such a high price as Taiyuan. But when it comes to Ping'an County, Qin Yangming doesn't seem to be joking. "Qiaodou Madai, why did he say Ping'an County! No, he was preparing to attack Ping'an County, and then received intelligence that Qingquan Muyi and I were going to garrison in Ping'an County, so he decided to contact us to see what was going on? "When Murakuchi Sanlang saw Qin Yangming mention Ping'an County, he quickly reacted. Qin Yangming is most likely preparing to attack Ping'an County. Even the battle plan for attacking Ping'an County had been formulated. Unexpectedly, he and Qingquanmu would come to Ping'an County to serve as commanders. That's why I came here to contact me and others to see if I can get some help from them. Or maybe he just came to see whether he and Qingquan Muyi were willing to continue trading with the Eighth Route Army. If you are willing, then please let me and others go. If we can't get in touch, it will depend on luck whether Qingquan Mu and I will die or not. Qin Yangming listened to Cunkou Saburo's words without responding. He just smiled at Cunkou Saburo and let Cunkou Saburo think about it himself. At this moment, Murakuchi Saburo was also considering whether it was worth handing over Ping'an County to Qin Yangming. “No, no matter what happened in Chiyang Town, it is not necessary to use Ping’an County as payment. Even if I want to sell it, it definitely can't be so cheap. If we hand over Ping'an County to the Eighth Route Army, we will have no way to explain this to our superiors. Qingquan Muyi had just taken office, and he lost Ping'an County the next moment. At that time, let alone letting Qingquan Muyi serve as a colonel, it would be a good thing if he was not asked by the headquarters to commit suicide."
The reason why Murakuchi Saburo asked Qin Yangming for help was that he wanted to deal with the affairs of Chiyang Town so that Qingquan Muyi could concentrate on gaining military merits in Ping'an County and then become a colonel. But now Qin Yangming directly asked for Ping'an County. Qingquan Muyi had just taken office and Ping'an County was lost as soon as he took over. How could he explain this to his superiors? By then, let alone letting Qingquan Muyi become a colonel, I would become a lieutenant colonel. It was a question whether he and Qingquan Muyi could survive. The incident in Chiyang Town was a huge bombshell, and at most Qingquan Muyi was killed. If Ping'an County were handed over to the Eighth Route Army, at least he and Qingquan Muyi would be dead. Otherwise there is no way to explain it. Just when Qingquan Mu was about to directly reject Qin Yangming and prepare to change the price, he suddenly thought that even if he did not give it, Qin Yangming would still attack Ping'an County. With the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, if the Eighth Route Army was really preparing to attack Ping'an County. It is not known whether the Eighth Route Army will be able to take Ping'an County by then, but he and Qingquan Muyi will still not be able to escape. The sword has no eyes on the battlefield. The Eighth Route Army has a lot of artillery pieces. If Qingquan Muyi and I are unlucky, a shell might fall. He and Qingquan Muyi still had to die. However, if he made a deal with Qin Yangming and others, and if the operation was done well, maybe he and Qingquan Muyi would not only not die, but would also be able to make something. Murakuchi Saburo is good at accounting and has a flexible mind. After realizing that Qin Yangming was definitely going to attack Ping'an County, a good idea quickly came to his mind. "If you calculate it this way, it's not impossible to sell Ping'an County to the Eighth Route Army...but Chiyang Town is definitely not worth the price." After Murakuchi Saburo came up with the idea of selling Ping'an County to Qin Yangming, his mind instantly became active. "Mr. Qin, we have a whole battalion of soldiers stationed in Ping'an County. If we add the troops from Zhangzhuang, Xiaocaozhuang, Dongzhanghe strongholds and the Imperial Army, then the total number of troops in the entire Ping'an County area will be more than a regiment. Lord Qin, so many troops, and the terrain of Ping'an County itself. This is an important town! I believe Mr. Qin can also see how much we value Ping'an County. The 11th Brigade is now resting in the Shuiquan area, even if you want to launch a large-scale attack. At that time, in addition to facing the strong fortifications in various areas of Ping'an County, you will also have to face the 11th Brigade from Shuiquan and the 20th Division from Taigu! They even have to face troops from Hebei area. Mr. Qin, Ping'an County is not a small county. Mr. Qin, don’t you know how important Ping’an County is to us? It is basically impossible to hand over Ping'an County to the Eighth Route Army." Listening to what Cunkou Saburo said, Qin Yangming still didn't speak and continued to look at Cunkou Saburo.
He has already come out, and Murakuchi Saburo has already started preparing to hand over Ping'an County to them. It's basically impossible, but isn't it possible? I’m just afraid that you don’t have any thoughts. If you have thoughts, everything will be easy. If we can use money to buy Ping'an County, it's not impossible. Or it would be fine to sell them the city defense map of Ping'an County. Seeing that Qin Yangming didn't say anything, Cunkou Sanlang spoke directly. “Mr. Qin, if you want Ping’an County, you can. But the things in Chiyang Town are not enough, we need to pay more!" "How much? Just name a number!" Listening to Qin Yangming's words, Murakuchi Saburo stared at Qin Yangming. He thought of the extremely powerful equipment in Qin Yangming's hands, which was even not inferior to Yamamoto's special forces! Although Saburo Murakuchi was only a major, due to his identity, he was naturally very clear about the affairs of Yamamoto's special forces. I also understand what kind of force Yamamoto's special forces are. When Saburo Murakuchi thought that Qin Yangming might have a team of the same nature as Yamamoto's special forces, a crazy idea came to his mind. "Mr. Qin, I don't want money! I want you to promise me something! Unconditionally dispatch troops to help me do one thing! " "What is it? As long as it doesn't violate the regulations of the Eighth Route Army, I can help you solve it." Seeing that Murakuchi Sanlang did not want money but instead asked him to help him do something, Qin Yangming became a little curious. Although it is not clear what happened. But he agreed first. As long as it doesn't violate the rules, he will help. Let me mobilize the troops to help? If you want to help intercept some Japanese devils, Qin Yangming can help. If it was something else, it would be too difficult. Sorry, the Eighth Route Army has regulations that troops cannot be mobilized without authorization. To get something for nothing, just get the benefits first. The worst that can happen is that we will lose our credibility with the Japanese. He doesn't care about that. Once Ping'an County is captured and the war begins, the Japanese blockade will be completely broken and they will no longer be able to stop the development of the Eighth Route Army. Listening to Qin Yangming's answer, Murakuchi Sanlang's mouth curled up, thinking of the crazy plan that had just come to his mind.
"Mr. Qin, don't worry. I will never violate the regulations of the Eighth Route Army! This is also a great thing for the Eighth Route Army." (End of this chapter)