Siheyuan: Married a female spy at the beginning of 1944

He Daqing calculated in his mind that the Japanese would surrender in about a month.

Even if our troops could invade Shanxi, I'm afraid the Japanese in Shanxi would have surrendered by then.

I couldn't kill many devils.

Moreover, the passes in Shanxi are easy to defend but difficult to attack, and are no worse than city walls.

The casualty rate of the troops will still rise sharply.

"ok, I get it."

There is not much time left, and there are no easy Japanese devils nearby.

We can only target the Japanese hiding in big cities.

During this period, the Eighth Route Army actually did not care about these big cities.

The Eighth Route Army's strategy was to besiege the city.

Because all the people living around the cities were already members of the Eighth Route Army, these cities were like isolated islands in the ocean.

If a city cannot get supplies from the countryside, it will basically become a dead city.

It only takes a certain amount of time for this city to fall.

The Military Commission gave Commander Qin an order to capture large cities.

On the one hand, these cities have been under siege for almost half a year.

The Japanese supplies inside had long been gone, and it was difficult for them to even eat, let alone go to the battlefield.

Another important reason is that these big cities still have a lot of important military supplies.

Mainly weapons and ammunition.

The other troops of the Eighth Route Army were not as powerful as He Daqing's troops.

We were able to seize so many supplies from the Japanese.

Most of them are still short of guns and ammunition.

If Commander Qin can capture these big cities, it will be a great supplement to the Eighth Route Army's guns and ammunition.

It can equip at least two or three armies.

Anyone with a discerning eye could already tell that the Japs would be gone in a few days.

Once the Japanese surrender, the conflicts between the dukes will be exposed.

So at this time, no matter which side, they were trying hard to contact the Japanese, wanting to receive their surrender before the other side.

Only in this way can we get the legacy left by the Japanese.

For both sides now, everything left behind by the Japanese are treasures.

Even in the early stages of the Korean War, the Japanese Type 38 rifles were the main rifles of our army.

While He Daqing was resting his troops, Tan Ya had already arrived in Beiping City as a representative of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the city of Peking was dead silent.

Because Beijing’s urban functions had declined significantly under the Eighth Route Army’s economic model.

The existence of the large city of Peking is mainly due to the fact that a large number of state agencies have their offices here.

As well as the existence of some light industry and entertainment industry.

In today's world, the Japanese have to go to the streets to buy their own food, not to mention collecting taxes and paying wages.

Now all officials in Peking, big and small, whether they are puppet soldiers, policemen or Japanese soldiers, have lost their salaries.

They cannot pay their salaries, which results in the people who serve these people not earning a penny.

A large number of people were unemployed and had no food to eat, so they had no choice but to leave the city to beg for food.

In addition, a large number of light industries such as weaving and dyeing cloth also died out at this time.

The Eighth Route Army had its own weaving and dyeing system.

They can provide these necessities of life to all the villages.

This left most of the workshops in Peking without a livelihood, and they closed down one after another.

As for the entertainment industry, only people with nothing better to do will pay attention to it.

There are few people in Beijing who have enough to eat now, and even if the entertainment industry sells itself, it can’t get a good price.

Unable to find food in Peking, a large number of citizens began to flee the city.

So when Tanya and the others entered Peking again, they felt that there were very few people on the streets.

Even the former commercial street is now down to only a few businesses that are barely maintaining operations.

If we were to ask which industry is the most developed at this time.

Those would be casinos and opium dens.

This group of people had started to drag the Japanese into the water before.

The Japanese are getting worse day by day and are becoming more and more excessive.

Moreover, the Japanese soldiers themselves were also worried and depressed every day.

The two sides hit it off.

They served the Japanese soldiers, allowing them to smoke opium and gamble, and then the Japanese soldiers handed over all their belongings to them.

In Beijing, the Japanese, whether ordinary citizens or soldiers, were often seen dying on the streets from drug overdoses.

The commander of the North China Military Police, Sifang Lianger, was also worried at this time.

"Miyano, do you think there is still hope for the empire?"

As Ryoji Shiho's deputy, Miyauchi had a very difficult time these days.

Not to mention anything else, the military rations alone were enough to make him anxious.

Peking is now completely surrounded, and supplies from the Northeast cannot be transported to Peking.

They had no way to go to the countryside to collect.

As for the grain merchants on the market, they did not dare to rob them.

They still have to rely on grain merchants to provide them with food. If they rob all the grain from the grain merchants at this time, the next step will be to rob civilians.

The poor had no food for the night at this time, so even if they tried to rob, they wouldn't be able to get much.

If things go wrong, it might scare away all the residents.

In order to buy food, they have basically sold out everything except weapons and ammunition.

They even opened a Japanese brothel to make money.

It was full of Japanese women.

Some of these women were comfort women, and some were wives and daughters of Japanese officers.

Although the price is relatively high, there is a constant stream of guests received every day.

"Sir, don't be discouraged. Failure is only temporary. As long as Manchuria is not lost, we have a chance to turn the tables."

Miyauchi also knew that Ryukyu had been occupied by the US military.

Now His Majesty the Emperor has planned to move the capital to Manchuria.

These officers have a relatively good understanding of the situation in Manchuria.

At this time, Manchuria's industrial production capacity had already surpassed that of mainland Japan.

As long as they can hold on to Manchuria and maintain a stalemate with the other side for a period of time, they can bring the other side to the negotiating table.

This is also the idea of ​​most Japanese senior officials.

In fact, this has always been the thinking of Japan's top leaders.

Basically, they beat you up, then ask for money and territory. They slowly digest and absorb it. After it is absorbed, they beat you up again, ask for money and territory again, and then absorb it again.

But Japan's lower-level military personnel don't think so.

What they want is to swallow up the world.

They always feel that they are the people of Amaterasu and the descendants of God.

Look down on other nationalities.

Therefore, they also feel that other ethnic groups are not worthy of living on such a good land.

Just keep attacking, attacking, and attacking again.

In the end, it became a snake swallowing an elephant.

However, after more than a year of education, the Japanese lower-level officers have become much more sober.

Only the lower-level soldiers who were kept in the dark were still fantasizing about victory every day.

"Haha, Manchuria, Manchuria, do you think Manchuria can resist the army from the north?

You have to know that our enemies now are not only the United States, but also Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Italy, China, Canada, and Australia.

It’s almost like being against the world.”

"Sir, will the Soviet Union really send troops?"

"With the war at this stage, how could the Soviet Union not send troops? In the eyes of the Soviet Union, the Empire is now just a baby holding a huge treasure."