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Chapter 856: The Blade Unsheathed (4)

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    While the people from the Haizhou Salt Bureau were busy dealing with the salt tax deficit, the special forces of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps also began to take action.

    Under Li Guoyao's order, almost all the special forces members of the unit quickly went south to carry out the combat mission of destroying the Huaibei Salt Farm.

    Li Guoyao still attached great importance to this mission. After all, the Huaibei Salt Industry was already one of the most important economic sources for the Japanese army in North China and an important pillar for them to launch a war of aggression.

    "If the Huaibei salt field is destroyed, it can hit the economic lifeline of the Japanese army, slow down the Japanese army's plunder of China's resources, and also attack the arrogance of the Japanese and puppet troops. Kill three birds with one stone, why not!"

    Originally, Zhang Shaolin and others did not pay much attention to this infiltration operation, because according to the intelligence collected by the intelligence department, although the Japanese army had many troops stationed in northern Jiangsu, they were very scattered. Half of the division's troops were scattered in  With more than 20 counties and districts, plus the garrison in a big city like Xuzhou, the average number of people in a county is only two to three hundred, which is not enough for the special forces to fill their teeth.

    Moreover, this combat mission is not to seize the county seat or anything, but to attack several salt fields under the control of the Japanese army. The major salt fields are all located in coastal villages and towns, which are quite far away from the county seat. There is no possibility of a head-on conflict with the Japanese army.  Not big.

    Therefore, when analyzing the enemy's situation, Zhang Shaolin and others felt that the special team's biggest opponent this time was the anti-smuggling team under the Haizhou Salt Bureau.

    But I¡¯m sorry, although the anti-smuggling team has thousands of people, it has to control tens of thousands of salt workers in several salt fields, and is also responsible for cracking down on smuggled salt dealers. It is simply too busy.

    The most important thing is that this anti-smuggling team is not a regular army at all. It belongs to the puppet army. Not to mention compared with elites like the special forces, even those smuggling salt dealers are better than them.

    However, when the special forces arrived in Haizhou, the intelligence collected was shocking!

    Qingkou Town. Guozhuang.

    Zhu Hong took the intelligence collected by the special forces team members, his brows furrowed, and the expression on his face was a bit solemn!

    "Hutou, is your news reliable? Did the anti-smuggling team really wipe out all the smuggling salt dealers nearby?"

    "Captain, you can't be wrong! It is said that three days ago, the anti-smuggling team in Haizhou City suddenly assembled its troops to ambush the smuggled salt dealers who appeared at night. As a result, Song Lao, the smuggled salt tycoon who was in Qingkou, Zhongzheng and other places, was killed.  More than 3,000 people from the third group were annihilated, and then the anti-smuggling team took the initiative and took away Song Laosan's lair in Jiagu Mountain. This matter has spread throughout Haizhou City, and anyone who asks will know it!" Hutou!  replied.

    "Our intelligence officers have investigated Song Laosan. It is said that he has a bandit background. He is a relatively large smuggling salt dealer near Haicheng. It is said that he has thousands of people under his command. Haicheng's anti-smuggling team really killed them.  ?¡±

    "It's true. It is said that the heads of Song Laosan and his family are still hanging on the flagpole at the top of Haizhou City!"

    "How did those devils do it?"

    "I'm not sure about this, but it must have something to do with the Japanese in Haizhou City. It is said that the Japanese troops near Haizhou City mobilized frequently that night. It should be the regular Japanese troops who took action, otherwise the anti-smuggling team would just rely on those rubbish  It¡¯s impossible to destroy Song Laosan¡¯s subordinates so cleanly.¡±

    Zhu Hong nodded and said: "Then we have to be careful. After all, we have few people and can deal with a small number of Japanese soldiers. Once it involves the regular Japanese troops, we must be cautious, otherwise the whole army may be annihilated!"

    "yes!"

    "What's the current situation at Qingkou Saltworks?"

    "The salt field is still the same as before. There are more than 4,000 salt workers here, and there is also a part of the mine protection team. Plus the anti-smuggling team has set up a stronghold nearby. The security force should be about a thousand people. With our combat power, we want to clean up  These more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops are not a big problem!"

    However, Zhu Hong shook his head and said: "It would be fine if it was just an ordinary assassination, but if we want to complete the destruction mission, just killing these one thousand people is not enough!"

    "What's the meaning?"

    "Hutou, the commander of this mission made it very clear that the killings were just incidental. The real purpose was to destroy the salt field. But do you know how big a salt field is? Take the Qingkou Salt Field we are going to destroy this time as an example. What is the area?  Qian Qing, if you want to destroy such a large area of ??salt fields, explosives alone are useless."

    As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Tou said hurriedly: "Yes, although the power of explosives is great, it does not have much effect on the salt field. At most, it can only destroy the buildings outside the salt field. This does not seem to have much effect.  !¡±

    "Um, the best way to destroy the salt pans is to blow up the sea defense embankments near the salt pans and divert seawater into the salt pans.  But this requires a process. It does not mean that seawater can come in just by blowing up the sea defense levee. The time must be controlled and it must be at high tide.  "

    ¡°Then how do we know when the sea¡¯s tide is high?¡±

    "This requires us to consult the veteran fishermen who live at sea all year round. They are more relevant and have more experience in this matter. In addition, we also need to find out the true number of Japanese and puppet troops in Haizhou City, and do a good job in Haizhou City.  Plan to support Qingkou Town."

    "yes!"

    "Go down and get ready!"

    "yes!"

    After Hutou left, Zhu Hong's brows couldn't help but frown. The enemy's situation had changed unexpectedly than they expected. This caused a lot of trouble for this operation. The plan seemed to need to be changed and changed.

    Soon, after questioning local veteran fishermen, intelligence personnel learned that the ebb and flow of the sea near Haizhou during this period was fairly regular. Basically, the high tide was around five o'clock in the morning, the low tide was at noon, and the high tide was at six o'clock in the afternoon.  Low tide at 11pm.

    After receiving the news, Zhu Hong and others immediately decided to take action in the early morning. However, since high tide is a natural factor and there are many uncertainties, Zhu Hong and others were not sure about this battle.

    At 3:30 in the morning on October 1, Zhu Hong and others set off from the reed swamp outside Guozhuang and drove towards the Qingkou Salt Fields a few kilometers away.

    Along the way, they easily eliminated three Lukas from the anti-smuggling team, and finally arrived outside Qingkou Salt Fields at around five o'clock.

    Qingkou Salt Field is one of the three major salt fields near Haizhou City. Although there are only salt dings here to dry sea salt on weekdays, due to its huge scale, a huge market town has been formed near the salt field. After all, there are at least three or four people here on weekdays.  Qian Yanding, plus their families, usually has a permanent population of more than 10,000 people in Qingkou Salt Fields.

    In order to better manage the salt fields and salt fields, the Japanese army placed a reinforced squadron here after taking over the Qingkou Salt Fields. At the same time, they also filled in some members of the anti-smuggling team to cooperate with the Japanese army in managing the Qingkou Salt Fields.

    ¡°At the moment, the entire salt field is like a huge town. It not only has the Japanese army¡¯s headquarters, but also arsenals, ordnance repair shops, prisons, etc., which are even more generous than those in smaller counties.

    At the north and south exits of the salt field, the Japanese and puppet troops also built guard booths and roadblocks, and pedestrians and vehicles were inspected in order to prevent the salt produced by the Qingkou Salt Field from flowing out.

    But before Shimono Shizuo decided to rectify the salt affairs, the road cards and guard booths here were just decorations. The reason was that under the heavy bribes of smuggled salt dealers, both the anti-smuggling team and the Japanese commanders were bribed to control the smuggled salt.  The dealer turns a blind eye. After all, no one has trouble with money.

    It is precisely because of this unscrupulous smuggling that the salt produced in various salt farms in the Huaibei region was severely outflowed, which eventually led to a significant reduction in salt taxes, forcing Shimono Shizuo to make up his mind to go to war against private salt dealers.

    As the war between the anti-smuggling team and the smuggled salt traffickers became increasingly fierce, especially after the elimination of Song Laosan's headquarters, the smuggling salt teams in the Linyi and Rizhao directions lost trust in the anti-smuggling team. Many incidents have happened between the two sides during this period.  This large-scale conflict caused the atmosphere in the entire Qingkou Salt Fields and even the entire Haizhou City to become very tense.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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