"How are the wounded?" When eating lunch, Ye Kong, who had been busy all morning, hurriedly met with Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi, who was hit by Qi Lang in the head, looked a little sluggish, fortunately he was only shot in the shoulder this time, otherwise this time when they returned to Zhangwu County, Ye Kong and Luo Ying would not have to be scolded to death by Luo Lin. Before the start of the Taiyuan operation, Luo Lin, who was far away in Zhangwu County, strictly ordered Zhao Zhi not to allow him to charge on the front line, and Zhao Zhi naturally agreed to Luo Lin, but it was Ye Kong and Luo Ying who were the two unlucky people who guaranteed this agreement.

"Most of them are fine, the lightly wounded and the seriously injured who have stabilized have been sent back to Zhangwu County by the transport plane, and some of the ones who are not suitable to move and need to recuperate are in the Japanese military hospital, and the doctors and nurses we captured are taking care of them" Ye Kong hurriedly ate a few bites, and then took the group of mercenaries under him to continue their great business of raiding homes. Among the orders that Zhao Zhi gave to Ye Kong, it was not only as simple as copying the traitor's home, but there were also two Japanese-run banks and dozens of Japanese-funded commercial banks in Taiyuan City, and Ye Kong received the order to empty them.

As for the other resources in Taiyuan City, Zhao Zhi strictly ordered his soldiers to occupy them, and Zhao Zhi had already ordered the sniper troops in Shimen Township to begin to shrink and retreat, and the Beacon Fire Plan that cooperated with the Taiyuan operation would also return to the first stage of the spark state. The bandit coalition forces of the four provinces, which are entrenched at the junction of Shanxi and Shandong provinces, will also learn the news of Thunder's withdrawal to the south sooner or later, and before the time comes, the Jin Sui army and the national army will join forces to clear out the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi, and a large number of Japanese puppet troops from Hebei and Shandong provinces will counterattack Taiyuan, and Zhao Zhi will not really leave an empty city for the Jin Sui army and the national army, after all, they still have to rely on the city to resist the Japanese army.

Zhao Zhi had his own plans, Lei Ting directly participated in the Taiyuan operation with 20,000 troops, deployed in Shimen Township with 6,000 blocking troops, controlled more than 5,000 people in the area of Luliang and Laiyuan, and left as many as 30,000 troops on the front line in Jinzhong. Before launching the Taiyuan operation, with the cooperation of the military commanders and the CCP's sleepers, Jin Zhanpeng and his team cleaned up all the radio stations in Taiyuan City, and the troops on the periphery also blocked the road to other places.

The life or death of the Jin Sui Army, the National Army or the Eighth Route Army doesn't matter to Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi doesn't want to Lang Fei Leiting's combat power for these guys, since he has decided to go south to Burma, Zhao Zhi must get back the benefits for the hard work that Lei Ting has paid. "Gather the officers for a meeting, immediately" Zhao Zhi threw the gauze that fixed his arms in a ball at his feet, and ordered the mercenaries on guard to notify his officers to come over for a meeting. Zhao Zhi formulated a two-day rest period based on the situation he had mastered, and during these two days, Thunder had to withdraw all the wounded, supplies and peripheral blocking troops from Taiyuan City, which needed to be planned, and Thunder could not be as orderly as the retreat of the national army.

The officers who came to the meeting hadn't had time to change out of their military uniforms full of blood, but fortunately, everyone had washed their faces, so that they wouldn't stand behind Zhao Zhi with a scorched face like Luo Ying. "Everyone is here," Zhao Zhi, who was shirtless and exposed his wounds, glanced around left and right, and continued when he saw that the officers had arrived, "Our Taiyuan operation has achieved the results of the first phase, and the Nationalist Government, which signed a secret agreement with us, has sent a force of 30,000 people to Baotou, and Taiyuan is just a bargaining chip for us to exchange Baotou with the Nationalist Government."

Receiving Zhao Zhi's signal, Luo Ying and a mercenary spread out a map on the table, "Our task force secretly entered the territory of the Soviet Union more than a year ago, and so far, they have gathered more than 50,000 hostile forces of White Russia and Stalin. The real intention of the Taiyuan operation was to build an airfield in Baotou and to transport weapons, ammunition and equipment to our contingent from several airfields from south to north, and the airborne corps would also be deployed into the Soviet contingent to help us in the following time."

"Sir, why don't you fly directly to the Soviet Union from our Qinglongping airfield, so that we can avoid this battle with the Japanese army in Taiyuan?" The Jewish officers did not dare to speak against Zhao Zhi, but the casualties of 4,000 people last night made each of them very uncomfortable. The Jewish Legion of Thunder was only 100,000 men, and it suffered four percent casualties in just one night, a casualty rate that no army could afford, let alone that they were just hired by Thunder.

"The fighter plane unit in Qinglongping only swept the Japanese airfield in Shanxi, and the fighter plane units deployed by the Japanese army on the front line of Hebei and Suiyuan can pounce on Shanxi's airspace at any time, and the long-distance transportation of our transport planes is too dangerous, and only by shortening the flight time by segmented transportation, our transport planes can effectively avoid danger, and the overall delivery of materials can also enable the ground receiving troops to avoid unnecessary exposure" Zhao Zhi's concise and concise account made the officers present nod their heads again and again.

"Baotou is close to Mongolia, and most of the Japanese troops in this area are cavalry units, once the situation of the war changes, our troops stationed in Baotou can take a transport plane back to Kunming, or directly cross Mongolia into the Soviet Union to join our contingent" Zhao Zhi drew two big arrows on the map with a red pen, one went north to the territory of the Soviet Union, and the other went south to Kunming.

"First of all, the troops we arranged in Shimen Township retreated to Luliang, and after joining the Willis Infantry Regiment in Luliang, they immediately went north to Baotou to build an airfield, and the 30,000 troops who stayed on the front line in Jinzhong to block the Japanese army going north immediately turned back to Zhangwu County and went south to Kunming. Starting tomorrow, the troops in Taiyuan City will return to Zhangwu County by transport planes one by one, and it will take three days for the transport planes of the fighter unit to send us all back to Zhangwu County. The armored forces have already moved eastward, they will join up with the receiving troops sent by the tinder troops before dawn tomorrow, the men of the tinder troops will receive those armored vehicles and tanks, and then our men will return to the Taiyuan airport to assemble"

Most of the armored vehicles and tanks brought by Zhao Zhi were arranged on the front line of Jinzhong to block the Japanese puppet army troops that might counterattack from southern Jin, and only a dozen armored personnel carriers equipped with heavy machine guns and British Sherman tanks brought to Taiyuan, plus the Japanese tanks captured by Thunder in Taiyuan, a total of more than 20 tanks and 6 armored personnel carriers. If the Tinder troops, who have been active in Hebei, successfully obtain this batch of equipment, it is believed that they will have a better chance of surviving in the face of the Japanese siege.

"Taiyuan City will be handed over to the troops of the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army and the National Army in two days, and our defensive position is Taiyuan Airport, holding here to transfer all our people back to Zhangwu County, this is our main task in the next two days or even a few days" Zhao Zhi had several lists in his hand, and Luo Ying sent these lists to the officers present, "These lists record some locations, which our people found in the headquarters of the Japanese army in Taiyuan, I estimate that the Japanese army should have stockpiled supplies or something important in these places, I need you to send troops to search these places tomorrow, and everything that is found will be transported to the airport to be loaded onto the plane."

Zhao Zhi originally wanted to move all the useful things like he did when he dealt with Yangon, but unfortunately the Japanese army's counterattack was imminent, and Zhao Zhi lacked transportation capacity, so he could only pick up important things and transport them back to Zhangwu County. The frenzied procurement of logistics has left the warehouses at Taiyuan Airport full of food, cloth and medicines, and the supplies purchased with the money obtained from the raids will be returned to Zhangwu County with the lightly wounded, at which point Rowling will send half of the supplies to the Nationalist Government in Chongqing, and the remaining half of the supplies will be escorted south to Kunming by the militia troops of Zhangwu County.

All of the planes of the Thunder at the Xi'an airfield were transferred to Qinglongping in Zhangwu County, and half of the fighters were deployed at the airstrips of Erhushan and Laiyuan, and these fighters had to take on the task of escorting the transport planes from the Taiyuan airfield to Zhangwu County without stopping. Thunder has reserved aviation fuel for more than a year because of this southward retreat may be exhausted, but Zhao Zhi doesn't care, while consuming a lot of fuel, the pilots of these fighter units have also accumulated rich flight experience, and compared with the gain, Thunder will get more.

"The mercenary troops raided the homes of some traitors today, and the logistics people used the money to buy a lot of materials we need, and a large amount of paper money was not spent in the logistics, after a while, you all went to get some and sent them to the soldiers below, telling them that they can use the money to buy what they need, smoking, drinking, and visiting brothels, but if I know that your soldiers are drunk and make trouble or rape or something, the mercenary law enforcement team will not show mercy."

When there are benefits, Zhao Zhi always never forgets his soldiers, especially after experiencing a night of life and death, these physically and mentally exhausted soldiers need to relax even more. In his previous life, Zhao Zhi would always go to the bar to find a woman to play after every mission he got paid, wine and women are the two things that can most relax the soldiers, but this is China, Zhao Zhi hopes that his soldiers can use money to solve problems when they are having fun, rather than taking away a woman's chastity by means of coercion and rape like the Soviet army in the late stage of World War II.

"Remember, we only have two or three days, and during this time, I ask you to do what I have arranged, and not to affect the lives of others because of some minor details" The meeting ended simply, and Zhao Zhi kicked out these guys who smelled of blood. The distribution of banknotes to the soldiers below was not intended to mean that Zhao Zhi had relaxed his control over them, which was good news for the soldiers, and it was also a benefit for the officers, who could buy things they liked and bring them back to Kunming to give to their favorite women or wives.