Miller was also very excited after hearing Gao Jiu’s plan. He said, “Mr. Gao, you are becoming more and more like us Americans. This is a typical American way of doing things.”

Gao Jiu said: "This is indeed learned from you Americans. When dealing with you Americans, you have to use your American methods, strength first, interests first, carrots and sticks."

Miller smiled and said, "It's great, I like it. You can go according to your plan, and we will be responsible for coordinating the subsequent things."

In late March, Gao Jiu personally led the Taohuashan Special Forces, the haibao commando, 500 anti-Japanese self-defense forces, as well as elite soldiers selected from the American prisoners of war, forming a commando. They crossed the Sanbalis Mountains in central Luzon and launched continuous attacks on the Japanese army.

Within ten days, they captured 16 strongholds of the Japanese army, including the county town, and two minerals, annihilated more than 3,400 Japanese troops, rescued more than 1,300 American prisoners of war, and pushed the anti-Japanese base forward for more than 40 kilometers.

The division commander of the Japanese garrison division in Manila City once again dispatched the main force of the Japanese army, mainly the 82nd Brigade, and with the cooperation of the naval aviation, he went to central Luzon Island to seek to fight against Gao Jiu.

When Gao Jiu and others saw the arrival of the main force of the Japanese army, they voluntarily gave up some newly occupied areas and retreated into the Sanbalishi Mountains. They avoided bombing of Japanese naval aviation in the mountains during the day and attacked the Japanese army at night. The attacks every night can cause considerable casualties to the Japanese army. Once, the attacks hit the brigade headquarters of the 82nd Brigade of the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army strengthened its defense in advance, it still caused considerable casualties, and even the brigade commander himself almost died. The main force of the Japanese army was forced to retreat dozens of kilometers and abandon most of the Japanese strongholds that had been recaptured.

In the next two days, the anti-Japanese army did not launch an attack on the Japanese army again, and the front line was quiet for two days.

On the next night, fierce gunfire suddenly sounded in Manila City, and the Japanese division headquarters was attacked. More than a dozen mortar shells fell into the yard of the division headquarters. Although no large number of casualties were caused, everyone, including the division commander, was greatly frightened.

Immediately afterwards, Manila's military port was also attacked, and a destroyer and a frigate were blown up in the port.

The Japanese division commander really couldn't deal with Gao Jiu's attack. He reported the bad situation on Luzon Island to his superiors and asked his superiors to send a large army to encircle Gao Jiu.

The commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army had dealt with Gao Jiu for not only once, but he was a little confused about the attack launched by Gao Jiu.

He held a military meeting and asked the people from the Special High School to attend the meeting to analyze Gao Jiu's intentions.

After the meeting began, the deputy chief of staff of the Southern Expeditionary Force informed the participants of the situation on Luzon.

The Chief of Staff said: "Gao Jiu is a bandit and is good at sneak attacks. The series of offensives he launched are not surprising, but in his attacks, he achieved his combat goals every time. However, when he attacked the 82nd Brigade and the Garrison Division, he did not succeed and failed twice in succession. Why is this for?"

Gao Jiu's combat power is super strong and meticulous. He basically has no mistakes in the battle or combat goals he wants to achieve. No one believes that Gao Jiu's brigade commander and division commander were safe and sound in the two operations of Gao Jiu's attack on the Japanese division headquarters and the brigade headquarters. It was because Gao Jiu's incompetence caused the failure.

The commander quickly came to a conclusion that Gao Jiu forced the Japanese army to negotiate with him.

He said: "According to the intelligence, Gao Jiu has formed a large number of anti-Japanese armed forces in the northern part of Luzon. He did not launch a large-scale attack on the southern part of Luzon, but only used small troops to carry out sneak attacks. He also created two attacks in Manila, and also let go of the division headquarters of the garrison division and the 82nd Brigade. It can be understood that Gao Jiu is putting pressure on the garrison division and forcing them to report to the southern dispatched troops. What does this mean?"

The head of the Special High School Department went through great difficulty to formulate a plan to attack Gao Jiu. Unexpectedly, he lost his wife and soldiers, and lost the lives of Captain Yoshida and his 500 elite Huang soldiers. He was ashamed of this. He urgently hoped to eliminate Gao Jiu and avenge a revenge. Therefore, he did not understand the commander's intention for a while.

He said: "Commander, isn't Gao Jiu afraid of angering the Huang army and sending a large army into Luzon Island to clear him? Luzon Island is an island after all, lacks strategic depth. As long as the Huang army has enough troops to advance parallel from south to north, and the cooperation of the navy and air force, I don't believe that Gao Jiu has three heads and six arms that can resist the encirclement of the army."

The commander was a little unhappy when he saw that the head of the Special High School class questioned his opinion. He lowered his face and scolded him: "It's simply stupid. No wonder the troops will defeat the war. Is this how you collect information and make judgments?"

The Super High School Chief was a little confused by the training, but he really didn't understand what the commander's intention was. He had a blushing face and thick neck, and he didn't know what to do, so he lowered his head and stopped talking.

The deputy chief of staff was directly in charge of the deputy chief of staff. The chief of staff was scolded, and the deputy chief of staff could not hold back. The deputy chief of staff personally led the troops to fight Gao Jiu, and he was more familiar with the commander. He knew that the commander was unwilling to fight Gao Jiu, so he carefully thought about every sentence the commander said, and understood his intentions in his original intention.

The deputy chief of staff said: "Mr. Commander, I think the reason why Gao Jiu attacked the garrison division headquarters and the 82nd Brigade headquarters in Luzon was not a terrible move. He wanted to pass on the message to the Southern Expeditionary Force Command through them. If I understand well, he would negotiate with us."

The commander meant this. He saw that the deputy chief of staff had fully understood his intentions and praised: "Yoxi, it's still your smart mind. Gao Jiu is going to negotiate with us."

The Chief of Staff and other senior officers also understood that Gao Jiu's approach was indeed to force the defenders of Luzon Island to send messages to the southern sending troops, and let the Japanese army take the initiative to negotiate with him.

So, the senior officials of the Southern Expeditionary Army discussed this issue and decided to send Hejian Dazu, the commander of the 15th Army, to contact Gao Jiu. They are acquaintances and have negotiated many times, so they are the most suitable negotiators.

The commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army made a mistake. Gao Jiu wanted to attack the Japanese army and force them to take the initiative to negotiate with him. If the Japanese army had not reacted, he would continue to fight until the Japanese army understood.

What exactly is Gao Jiu doing?

It turns out that Gao Jiu is in a very awkward situation now. He must rescue those Americans, otherwise he will lose his credit from the Americans. If he wants to cooperate with the Americans in the future, it will be much more difficult.

It is very difficult to rescue those American prisoners of war. It can even be said that Gao Jiu is powerless at all, because there are more than 50,000 American prisoners of war. They are treated as laborers and are detained in up to 20 prisoners of war camps or various mining sites. Gao Jiu cannot rescue them at the same time.

If Gao Jiu went to rescue them one by one, it would be impossible without a year or two. Gao Jiu didn't have that much time to stay in Luzon.

Due to the special environment of Luzon, the entire Luzon Island is within the combat radius of the Japanese naval aviation, and they can launch air strikes against the Japanese army at any time.

Even if Gao Jiu can rescue the Americans and let them leave the prisoner-of-war camp, he will basically not be able to send them to a safe area. If these Americans were subjected to air strikes and intercepted by Japanese ground troops during the retreat, there would be heavy casualties, and he would not be able to explain to the Americans.

Therefore, relying on force to rescue these American prisoners of war is really a bad choice.

Gao Jiu had to think of a way to rescue these American prisoners of war safely at one time. The only way was to let the Japanese release them on their own initiative.

In addition to rescuing the American prisoners of war, Gao Jiu also had a very embarrassing thing. Since Luzon was blocked by the Japanese navy, it was very difficult for Gao Jiu himself to leave Luzon. Whether it was robbing Japanese planes or naval ships, he was attacked by Japanese aircraft carriers at sea, it was a dead end. Even if Gao Jiu had good physical strength, he would not be able to swim directly from Luzon to the South Asian continent.

Therefore, Gao Jiu wanted to leave Luzon as soon as possible, and he also had to ask the Japanese for help.

To achieve these goals, Gao Jiu must take advantage of the weaknesses of the Japanese and force them to negotiate with him.

On Luzon, the Japanese really have a great weakness, that is, there are coal, iron ore and a large amount of other minerals that Japan needs. They are reluctant to give up here. Their troops on Luzon are insufficient and they are not sure about Gao Jiu. Therefore, in order to protect their interests in Luzon, they must be willing to negotiate with Gao Jiu.

The reason why Miller said that Gao Jiu's approach is becoming more and more like the Americans is because the American negotiation approach is not to contact the negotiating opponents, but to use the resources and strength in his hands to put pressure on the opponents and force the opponents to make concessions to him.

Of course, Gao Jiu would not make the best of these Americans for no reason. He must get benefits from the Americans. Therefore, he first negotiated with Miller and others, put forward the conditions he wanted to let the Americans meet their requirements.

The Americans, like the Japanese on Luzon, also had their own weaknesses. On the one hand, five important Americans and the Haibao commando were still trapped on Luzon. Without Gao Jiu's help, they could not leave at all. There were also as many as 50,000 American prisoners of war. If the Americans wanted to rescue them, they had to rely on Gao Jiu, so Gao Jiu had enough capital to negotiate with the Americans.

There is also a little benefit for the Americans. They will not be ruthless when they can oppress their negotiating opponents. However, if the negotiating opponents have enough strength to force them to make concessions, they can accept it.

Gao Jiu negotiated with the Americans without pressure on them, and the pressure brought to them by the Japanese was enough. Therefore, after they reported the conditions proposed by Gao Jiu to the upper class of the United States, the upper class of the United States agreed to the conditions proposed by Gao Jiu.

Soon, Gao Jiu received a telegram from Hejian Dazuo, hoping that Gao Jiu would temporarily stop attacking the Japanese army in southern Luzon Island, and he would fly to Luzon Island soon to meet with Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu agreed to He Jiandazuo's request and no longer launched an attack on the Japanese army. The Japanese army also automatically retreated 20 kilometers, and the war on Luzon Island temporarily calmed down.

Gao Jiu returned to Suwei City and asked Zhu Jianmin to send people to restore the field airport outside the city to welcome the arrival of the Hejian masterpiece.

A few days later, Hejian Dazuo flew to the field airport in Suwei City, and Gao Jiu went to the airport to greet him in person.

When he saw Hejian masterpiece, Gao Jiu smiled and came forward to shake hands and greet him. Hejian masterpiece was also very intimate, and the two were talking and laughing like old friends. The difference is that Gao Jiu's smile comes from the heart, and he believes that Hejian masterpiece can bring good luck to him.

Hejian's big smile was a bitter smile. He knew that he must have been plotted against by this Gao Jiu again. He had to suffer losses when dealing with Gao Jiu.

After the greetings, Gao Jiu said to Hejian’s masterpiece: “Hejianjun, my subordinates are going to return to the Golden Triangle. Please send a transport plane to send them a trip.”

Hejian Dazuo immediately agreed to this request. He asked the adjutant to notify the pilot of the transport plane, asking him to safely send Gao Jiu's men to the Golden Triangle.

Gao Jiu already had the idea of ​​leaving Luzon Island. There are two choices at present. One is that if the negotiation goes well, he plans to escort the five important American figures to the United States to meet Xiao Yatong. Because it is inconvenient to bring Lin Yanni and others, he wants to send Lin Yanni and others back to the Golden Triangle in advance. There is another option, that is, if the negotiations are not going well, Lin Yanni and the special forces team members will leave Luzon Island first, which will be much more convenient for him alone, and he can even rob a Japanese plane and fly back directly.

Gao Jiu had already communicated with Lin Yanni and others in advance. Lin Yanni was reluctant to part with Gao Jiu. She cried for a long time last night, but her eyes were still red.

Gao Jiu accompanied Lin Yanni to the side of the transport plane. Seeing Lin Yanni crying and looking at her with pear blossoms, she stepped forward and hugged and kissed her gently.

The haibao commandos who were on guard duty at the airport, saw this warm scene, applauded loudly, and some even whistled.

Next, Gao Jiu hugged Jia Liu, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and every special forces member and said goodbye to them.

The transport plane took off, Gao Jiu watched the plane disappear into the horizon, and then accompanied Hejian Dazuo to enter Suwei City.
Chapter completed!