The chief of staff of the Taiyuan Japanese Army Headquarters is reporting some new changes in Shanxi in recent days!

The commander stood beside the sand table, his brows were twisted all the time, and his face was very ugly!

The chief of staff who is reporting is also helpless!

In the face of the attack of the Eighth Route Army, although the troops already had a way to counter the flying thunder artillery, the opponent was too cunning, and it was necessary to minimize the loss of the flying thunder artillery by fighting guerrillas!

Then use the Flying Thunder Cannon to continue attacking the stronghold occupied by the Imperial Army!

The Imperial Army has a limited number of troops, and one less dies on the battlefield!

After a few days of fighting, through fighting and attrition, he took more than 20 medium and large strongholds and killed more than 1,000 imperial troops!

Fortunately, at this time, the offensive momentum and sharpness of the Eighth Route Army were defeated, otherwise the losses of the Shanxi garrison would be even greater, and it was possible to lose the two county seats!

"Eight Grid Yalu, when the garrison is killed, I will definitely gather heavy troops to recapture the territory that was robbed and robbed by the Eighth Route Army, and return the tooth for a tooth!" The commander clenched his fists, his eyes were spewing with anger, red and red, and he gritted his teeth and scolded!

After speaking, he stared at the chief of staff and asked!

"How's the situation with the garrison? There have been no changes recently! ”

"And Major General Nakata Yama Lang, has he contacted his troops, and when will he be in place!"

"I can't wait, I want to take out the garrison regiment immediately, and then concentrate my forces and firepower to deal with the other Eighth Route Army units in our occupied area!"

The chief of staff hurriedly replied: "Commander, rest your anger! ”

"There has always been a connection between Major General Nakata Yama Lang and the Independent Mixed Brigade!"

"The troops are fighting with the Eighth Route Army, and there are losses for each other!"

"The front army command has given a clear reply, and the battle will be over in ten days at most, and then the army will rush to Laiyuan!"

"So we have to push back the specific attack time by a month!"

"The garrison has not moved any way in the past few days!"

"Their so-called base areas are undergoing spring ploughing, and the local troops and guerrillas are all suspending training to help the common people in spring ploughing!"

"Only the main force is still training, but under the harassment of the action team we sent out, the training speed is much slower than before!"

"The garrisons of Guangling, Laiyuan, and Hunyuan are recovering their strength, reorganizing the Imperial Cooperative Army, and when the main force attacks, they will kill the county seat, and they will be moved to attack the garrison regiment from behind, and the garrison will be eliminated by the front and rear attacks!"

"The garrison on the blockade line around the garrison regiment is forming and training the Imperial Cooperative Army according to the order!"

"At present, the 10,000-strong Imperial Cooperative Army is fully staffed!"

"Equipment. Food, all in place! ”

"All units are stationed in large and small strongholds and county towns on the blockade line, and undertake the task of blockading the garrison regiment while training!"

"Yo Xi!"

The commander finally had a satisfied smile on his face, and then ordered very decisively.

"Order the garrison of the blockade line and strengthen the training of the Imperial Army!"

"After the attack on the garrison began, all those imperial allegories participated in the battle, occupied the territory captured by the imperial army, and protected the rear of the attacking troops!

"Intelligence department, closely monitor every move of the garrison!"

"As long as the situation does not change, as soon as the independent mixed brigade is in place, we will start attacking the garrison!"

The headquarters of the third battalion of the garrison regiment!

None of the telegrams from the regiment headquarters to the third battalion mentioned that the troops were going to fight, but between the lines, Huang Sheng still faintly felt that a trace of war crisis was slowly approaching him!

Therefore, the pace of training of the troops has been accelerating under his leadership!

After a day's training ended successfully, Huang Sheng dragged his tired body back to the headquarters, and before he had time to catch his breath, a string of horses' hooves sounded at the entrance of the village outside the headquarters, and the sound became louder and louder!

When I arrived at the gate of the headquarters, the sound of horses' hooves stopped abruptly, and then I saw three regimental headquarters messengers running in!

Because of the long time riding on the horse, my cheeks were red from the cold wind, and I was panting and very tired!

"Battalion Commander Huang, the regimental headquarters order!"

The correspondent who took the lead took out an envelope with body temperature and sent it to Huang Sheng!

Then he added: "The regiment commander still has an order: after reading and writing a letter, Battalion Commander Huang must burn the order in front of us, and then keep the order in the letter secret, and not a word can be leaked before the operation begins!" ”

"So serious?" Huang Shengmeng took a look!

But he reacted quickly, and then opened the envelope very carefully!

The content of the letter was not long, but it shocked Huang Sheng very much, and his face became more and more solemn, and it took a long time to react!

After reading the command on the letter again and making sure that you were not mistaken, fold the letter and put it next to the kerosene lamp and light it!

"Thank you, Camp Commander Huang, for your cooperation!"

The serious expression on the face of the lead correspondent also relaxed, and then he took out another piece of paper, a map to be exact, and it was completely hand-drawn!

"Battalion Commander Huang, this is the second thing that the regiment commander asked me to hand over to you, and I must wait for the letter just now to burn before I can give it to you!"

Huang Sheng took the map and spread it out on the table, took the kerosene lamp and browsed it!

Soon, Huang Sheng's wrinkled brows relaxed, his face looked a lot better, and even a smile appeared, exclaiming excitedly!

"I knew that the regiment commander had been prepared for a long time, and sure enough!"

"Now that we have this map, the task assigned to the third battalion by the regiment commander will definitely get twice the result with half the effort!"

"Comrade, you go back now and report to the regiment commander, the third battalion promises not to disappoint the regiment headquarters!"

Three kilometers away from the stronghold of Xiaozhuang, squadron leader Captain Kato has also just returned from the training ground!

The garrison of the stronghold originally had less than three hundred people, including a reinforced squadron of the Imperial Army and a company of the Imperial Allied Army!

More than half a month ago, an order was suddenly issued from above, asking him to expand the Imperial Allied Army from a company to a battalion!

Captain Kato is reluctant in his heart!

Although there are many troops under his command, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Allied Army is too poor, and no one dares to guarantee that they will not have two hearts and betray the Imperial Army when they go to the battlefield in the future!

It wasn't until he saw the order to install the Imperial Army into the Imperial Alliance Army as officers and instructors from the expansion order that he was relieved!

Then they began to receive food, weapons and ammunition from their superiors and expand their troops!

In order to let this Imperial Allied Army form combat effectiveness as soon as possible and go to the battlefield in the future to make meritorious contributions to himself, Captain Kato personally went out and personally led an infantry squad to train them to the death every day!

The effect is very good, and in just a few days, the recruits have already become presentable!

Kato believes that in time, these hundreds of imperial allies will definitely be trained into elites by themselves, slaughter all sides on the battlefield, become a sharp sword in their hands, and make contributions to themselves!

Just as Captain Kato continued to dream, the squad leader on duty suddenly broke in!

I didn't even knock on the door, I pushed open the door and rushed in, looking nervous!

"Captain, there's a situation!"

"There is an unusual movement in the Eighth Route Army that is confronting us, they are killing us under the cover of night, about more than 200 people, and the equipment is unknown!"

The dream was interrupted, and Kato was already unhappy!

The subordinates didn't knock on the door, and directly pushed the door and broke in, Kato felt even more unhappy, and even showed signs of anger!

After listening to the report and determining that the Eighth Route Army only dispatched more than 200 people, the unhappiness in Kato's heart was directly replaced by anger, and like a powder keg, it exploded in an instant!

"Bage Yalu, are you stupid?"

"Just over 200 Eighth Route Army scared you like this, are you still an officer of the Great Japanese Empire?"

"Don't you know what strength the Eighth Route Army is facing us?"

"A group of newly expanded recruits, how much combat power can they have, even if they all kill me, I'm not afraid!"

"If it weren't for the repeated emphasis above that I couldn't take the initiative to attack and provoke a war, I would have wanted to lead my troops into their base area and kill all those recruits!"

"Order the troops to be ready for battle, if those recruits really have the guts to kill them, then just kill them all!"

"However, I don't think they have the guts, a group of recruits, even self-preservation is a problem, how can they take the initiative to provoke a war, and also attack a stronghold with perfect fortifications!"

It was the third battalion and the ninth company that had just left the position!

Until departure, the instructor was still full of doubts about the offensive order brought back by the company commander Yuan Shan.

Of course, it's no wonder he's not to blame!

The disparity between the strength of the enemy and us is too great, and the troops have just completed training, as long as the commander who is a little sensible will not let the troops fight at this time, and as soon as they strike, it will be the most test of the combat effectiveness of the troops, and the battle with the greatest casualties!

Looking at Yuan Shan, who was full of excitement in his eyes, the instructor asked again: "Company commander, are you sure that the battalion commander really ordered us to attack the Xiaozhuang stronghold, not harass?" ”

The instructor has asked this question no less than five times, and all of them have been in the past half an hour!

Yuan Shan didn't show the meaning of being irritable!

Because he reacted like the instructor when he received the order at the beginning, he was skeptical, he didn't believe it!

It wasn't until the battalion commander told him how to attack that he chose to obey the order!

Looking at the instructor, he replied very affirmatively: "The instructor is not only the Xiaozhuang stronghold, but also the Gufeng Town stronghold is also our target tonight!" ”

"First take the Xiaozhuang stronghold quickly, then run a long distance for fifteen kilometers, make persistent efforts to take the stronghold of Gufeng Town, end the battle before dawn, and then divide the troops, half of the troops take advantage of the maintenance meeting in Gufeng Town and the traitor spies have not had time to retreat, immediately send troops to kill them, seize the wealth they exploited and loot from the villagers, and help us resist Japan and fight devils!"

"Half of the troops are monitoring the direction of the county with me, and attacking the reinforcements that may be sent from the direction of the county seat!"

"How?"

This is the answer that the instructor can't even figure out!

There is such a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, and more than eighty percent of the soldiers in the Ninth Company are recruits, who have just completed recruit training and have not yet been on the battlefield! It's enough to take a small Zhuang stronghold in one night, let alone add another Gufeng Town stronghold!

There are more Japanese puppet troops there, and the turrets and bunkers in the stronghold are also stronger!

Don't take the stronghold at that time, nearly 200 people from the Ninth Company folded in, and lost their wife and soldiers!