Chapter 128: Pre-war Deployment Begins
Regarding Zhou Wenhua’s young and promising talent, the high-level officials of the 29th Route Army were truly extremely shocked. Originally, they thought that the big merchants who had always given them money and supplies and made donations were at least over 40 years old. Otherwise, who could be so young and possess so much money, and still be so generous in making donations?
But what shocked the high-level officials of the 29th Route Army even more was that after the harmonious banquet dinner party, they actually received another large sum of military pay donated by Zhou Wenhua, along with supplies, and a batch of brand-new Mark-type heavy machine guns, Zhongzheng Rifles, as well as German weaponry hand grenades.
These weapons and equipment could form a well-armed battalion, or even a regiment.
So after the shock,
all the high-level officials of the entire 29th Army raised Zhou Wenhua’s hospitality level to the highest top tier.
And in order to keep secret the weapons and equipment, and ammunition that Zhou Wenhua had donated to them,
they carefully selected a group of elite and loyal subordinates, planning to go to the secret warehouse mentioned by Zhou Wenhua to transport the goods back only after Zhou Wenhua left.
For the confidentiality level, they also adopted the highest top-secret handling method.
At the same time,
the 29th Route Army’s warm hospitality toward Zhou Wenhua also reached an unprecedented level of enthusiastic reception.
However, Zhou Wenhua did not stay long at the places of their hospitality banquets, headquarters, and other locations.
In response, the officers of the 29th Route Army also bid farewell to Zhou Wenhua with some regret,
and they issued orders to all troops in the army that whoever saw Zhou Wenhua in the future must treat him politely, especially if he appeared in Beiping City, they must do a good job of protecting him and so on.
After bidding farewell to these high-level officials of the 29th Army,
Zhou Wenhua also returned to inside Beiping City,
This city, after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, had not resisted the Japanese invaders much before it was occupied and fell to the Japanese Army,
and the civilians here also suffered atrocities of arson, killing, looting, and plundering,
The universities in Beiping that were still open included the church-affiliated private Yenching University and Fu Jen Catholic University, as well as Tsinghua, Peking Union Medical College, and other universities.
On the middle school side, there were several church-affiliated private middle schools such as Yuying, Huiven, Changde, Chongshi, and Beiman schools,
Jiang Chaozong and Public Security Bureau Chief Pan Yugui, these two traitors, were the ones who would later manage Beiping City after its fall for the Japanese people who occupied it.
Afterward, Beiping, led by traitors such as Wang Kemin, Tang Erhe, Wang Yitang, and Qi Xieyuan, established the puppet “Provisional Government” under the support of the Japanese Army, helping the Japanese invaders occupy and enslave Beiping, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and other six provinces.
Until March 30, 1940, after the Wang puppet regime was established, this puppet “Provisional Government” was forced to be renamed the puppet “North China Political Affairs Committee,” with major North China traitor Wang Kemin serving as chairman.
Regarding these future traitors,
Zhou Wenhua was also considering whether to have his subordinates deal with them in advance,
but upon thinking that even without these traitors, other traitors would step forward to replace them and do those utterly conscienceless evil deeds for the Japanese Army.
However, in the end, Zhou Wenhua felt it would be more satisfying to find ways to make the Japanese Army suffer more casualties during their attack on Beiping, inciting the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and the war of attacking Taiyuan, and so on.
So he also began preparing to transfer some security team personnel from the plantations and other places deployed in various other provinces to come here, to prepare to participate in the upcoming war of resisting Japanese invaders.
And at the moment when Zhou Wenhua began deploying combat deployment against the Japanese Army,
those traitor spies and Japanese intelligence officers dispatched by Dohihara Kenji to infiltrate the 29th Route Army’s banquet and various troops also reported the intelligence they had collected about Zhou Wenhua to Dohihara Kenji at the fastest speed.
