It took Hu Bin more than half an hour to run to the artillery, and at this time, Xiang Lei, Zhong Mochu, Lu Feng and Huo Qingge were left, and the others were already in front.

"Xiang Lei, now you go outside, drive over with a telegraph, and when you get to the intersection, your brother is waiting for you over there, and I will fire the cannon later, you can help report the location and see if it hits!" After Hu Bin came up, he said to Xiang Lei.

"Oh, good!" Xiang Lei said and ran down with a telegraph on his back.

And Hu Bin began to run to the mountain, calculating the distance, and now he can't see the location where the devils are hiding, because he is blocked by the mountain in front, so Hu Bin can only rely on the county seat to locate it, calculate the location of the devils, and then calculate the parameters.

"Brother Bin, are you going to fire again?" Zhong Mochu ran up, looked at Hu Bin and asked.

"Well, those devils are out there. Blow one up and kill one! Hu Bin nodded and said, continuing to count there, and Zhong Mochu didn't bother, holding a telescope and looking ahead.

But now on the Taiyuan side, the devil commander Terauchi Shouichi has also come here, and in the next few months, the location here is very important, and it also involves the communication line to the south, so he personally came to keep an eye on it.

"Commander, now there is a problem in Zhongyang County, not only the supplies in Zhongyang County have been bombed, but the entire county has been bombed, and our troops are now staying outside the city, which is very unsafe!" Tokutaro said to Shouichi Terauchi, who had just gotten out of the car.

"Nani, the Eighth Route attacked our Zhongyang County?" Terauchi Shouichi heard it, stood still, looked at Tokutaro Shikai and said.

"There was no large-scale attack of troops, but they had artillery, attacking our county with artillery. Before we could react, the artillery hit the ammunition depot, and then caused a big explosion, and all the supplies inside were burned, and they just sent a telegram to say. Now Zhongyang County is still burning! Tokutaro Shikai looked at Shouichi Terauchi and said.

"Yaga!" When Shouichi Terauchi heard this, he scolded very angrily.

Tokutaro Shikai continued to walk inside, and now Tokutaro Shikai is temporarily in charge of the 6th Division, and the new division commander has not yet come.

"How many troops are there now?" Shou Terauchi asked as he walked.

"There are less than 1,500 people, and there were 2 brigades of troops before, but the casualties in the past few days have been very large!" Tokutaro Shikai followed behind and reported.

Soon, they arrived at the headquarters in Taiyuan, where Terauchi Shouichi sat down on the main seat, and the generals all stood there straight.

"All sit down!" Shouichi Terauchi said when he saw it.

"Hi. Thank you, General! When the generals heard the order, they replied, and they all sat down.

"This time the defense task on your side is very heavy, according to our intelligence, the Chinese side of Chongqing has ordered the troops in Yan'an to destroy our lines of communication at all costs.

And now, we still have a lot of supplies that are not ready. So, this line of traffic. You must keep it for me, the shortest is a month, the longest is half a year! Shouichi Terauchi sat there and spoke.

"Ah, half a year?" When the generals heard this, they couldn't believe their ears and looked at Shouichi Terauchi.

"Yo Si. We have just finished the Battle of Wuhan, the casualties are very large, and the consumption of materials is also very large, and now the empire is preparing supplies to start the Battle of Changsha, which will be quite a tragic battle. The Chinese side will definitely resist desperately.

The people in Chongqing know that once Changsha is occupied by us, then the gate of Chongqing will be opened, and those Chinese resisters will have no way to retreat, so the war over there will require a large amount of materials, and we are ready to annihilate China's existing main forces in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the preparation time for this battle is very long, and your side will be the key to the success of this operation, this communication line here needs to be completely controlled in our hands, but now the Eighth Route in Zhongyang County has been moved.

Before, we thought about exterminating those Eight Roads, but unfortunately we didn't succeed, General Gu Shoufu was too radical, he didn't expect that his logistics troops would be controlled by the Eight Roads, and he could have eliminated those Eight Roads on a large scale, but not only did he not succeed, but he also harmed his own life!

Moreover, the Eighth Route side has obtained a large number of our weapons and ammunition, and the speed of development has been accelerated, and in the future, if we want to destroy them, it is estimated that we will have to pay more costs. Now we don't have enough troops to deal with the eight roads in the mountains, so we can only control our current lines of communication! Shouichi Terauchi said.

"Hey!" The generals all stood up and nodded in response.

"Sit down, in a few days, your two divisions will be replenished, and the base camp will send 20,000 recruits over to supplement your troops, they have been trained, but when you get to your side, you have to continue training.

The other is that in Zhongyang County, if you can not give up, try not to give up, once you give up, the Eighth Road will still be approaching step by step, and then our traffic line will be more difficult to defend, I hope you understand.

Hold Zhongyang County, no matter whether there can be garrisoned there, as long as you hold there, the Eighth Route can only send a small force out to act, and the large army will not dare to act, in this way, our communication line is safe, so you need to increase the troops in Zhongyang County! Shouichi Terauchi said to Tokutaro Shimai.

"Hey, but, now our troops are also very tight, the troops of the entire division and regiment are all scattered in various counties, holding those eight roads, once the troops are drawn from the locality, the eight roads will definitely be able to get the news in advance, and those eight roads will be able to attack in advance and attack our county seats, so that there will be fewer and fewer places we can control!" Tokutaro Shikai spoke.

"Yo Xi, I know what you said, 3 days later, the troops of the 4th Division will go south, they will first be here with you to assist in the defense of the Eighth Route Army, mainly to familiarize them with the combat style of the Eighth Route in advance, and the other is to let you supervise, this unit, hey!" When Shouichi Terauchi said this, he sighed and said.

"Nani, is the Fourth Division really coming here? Commander, this, this, what do those big men in the base camp think, can the 4th Division fight? They are all bent on doing business, and when they get here, they will probably cause us trouble! Tokutaro said excitedly.

Their permanent divisions, which do not have a single division, can afford to look down on the Fourth Division, which has been a special existence since the Russo-Japanese War.

"I know, but now we can't send other troops over, there is no way on the base camp, they are also permanent divisions, they must fight, this time the base camp is also in this consideration, they must be involved in the war in China, we can't let them continue to stay behind!" Shouichi Terauchi also looked down on the Fourth Division a little, but now that it was an order from the base camp, they couldn't do anything about it.

"Yaga!" Tokutaro scolded in a low voice, as if Shouichi Terauchi didn't hear it, he also knew in his heart that no division was willing to cooperate with the fourth division, it was really out of tune.

"In three days, their large army will come here, you go and give an order to the troops in Zhongyang County, so that they must stick to Zhongyang County no matter what. When the time comes, we will directly send a wing of troops over there to assist in the defense of Zhongyang County and control the county seat of Zhongyang County! Shouichi Terauchi said to Tokutaro Shimai.

"Hey, I'm going to order them!" Tokutaro had no choice but to stand up and walk outside, and when he got outside, he confessed to a staff officer and asked him to send a telegram to the troops stationed in Zhongyang County, so that they could continue to hold on to the county seat! After the order was finished, Tokutaro Shikai returned to the command again.

"When the recruits of your division arrived, they immediately began training. Because your troops will have to go to the front line at any time, and when they are training, they must also hold this line of communication! Shouichi Terauchi said.

On the front side of the Eighth Route Army, Commander Peng had just received a telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, which was forwarded to Chongqing, and the Commander-in-Chief and the Commander-in-Chief had personally written a telegram to him.

This is already the fourth telegram about hindering the devils from sending war materials to the front.

"Well, hinder, obstruction, it's easy to say, if we really force it, we can win, but can we hold it? It's useless to use a small force, and the devil is not stupid, he will definitely defend those railways with heavy troops, hey! Commander Peng took the telegram and said with a sigh there, while several senior cadres next to him looked at it with the telegram.

"We can hold back for a day, we can hold back for a month, but can we hold back for a year? How many troops do we have to consume? The devil already has 2 divisions here, although it is disabled, but the combat effectiveness is still there, especially they are defensive, we are attacking, we have no advantage at all, if the fight is terrible, there are too many troops gathered, the devil will definitely send planes, how do you say to fight? A senior cadre spoke.

"But it won't work if you don't fight, and the commander also said that if Changsha is defeated, then our war of resistance will be even more passive!" Another cadre said.

But Commander Peng didn't speak all the time, but walked inside the headquarters with his hands behind his back, thinking of a way.

"Commander, if it doesn't work, you can only use a large force, but you may suffer heavy casualties!" A cadre reminded Commander Peng to say.

"No, we can't use large troops, we can't afford such casualties, the commander-in-chief said, while hindering, we must control the casualties and not be disabled!" Commander Peng shook his head and said. (To be continued.) )