Shanxi.

Taiyuan.

Headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front.

"General."

"This is a summary of intelligence from the headquarters of the North China Front."

In front of the square table, the intelligence staff officer stood straight with a folder in his hand, and his voice did not rise or fall in the slightest.

"Read."

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.

As the commander of the First Army, he will be reviewed by the General Staff of the North China Front every once in a while, but he does not need to think about it to know that today's news will not be good news.

The situation in his First Army garrison was in a mess, the Eighth Route Army was sabotaging everywhere, the railways were pulled up, the roads were dug up, the artillery towers were bombed, the garrisons in various places were either pinned down or exhausted, and even the Shou County garrison was trapped, which was simply a shame.

The situation in other parts of North China will not be much better than his.

"Since late August, the Tongpu Railway, the Pinghan Railway, the Tianjin-Pu Railway, and the Bac Ninh Railway have all been repeatedly destructively attacked by the Eighth Route Army, with a cumulative mileage of 50 kilometers of damaged railways, and strongholds and bridges around the railways have also been breached on a large scale.

"During this period, the garrisons of the counties and strongholds around the railways encountered large-scale resistance from the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the way to the rescue, and the other side showed an unexpected scale and combat effectiveness, almost all the support troops were pinned, and few troops arrived on time for the successful rescue."

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Taking a seat, Yoshio Shinozuka listened to the report of the staff officer without the slightest emotion, and his face gradually turned black like the bottom of a pot.

The situation was much worse than he expected.

A long time ago, he had expected that the Eighth Route Army troops in the base area would launch a counterattack, after all, with the implementation of the cage tactic, the size of the opposing force was beyond expectations, and it was obvious that there was still a counterattack force.

But when the counterattack came, its scale, duration, and destructiveness were still greatly beyond his expectations.

Just a rough estimate, the other side sent more than 100,000 regular troops, more than 100,000 militia troops launched countless sabotage battles, not only pulled out a large number of artillery towers, but also destroyed most of the railways in North China.

Most of the turrets were gone, and the cage tactics were a complete failure.

Moreover, it is easy to destroy but difficult to repair.

It is estimated that it will take three months to repair the railway and bridges, and it will cost a lot of money and materials, because those guerrillas called Hanako, like Tuhaha, who have never seen the world, have dug up almost everything, railroad tracks, sleepers, and even foundation stones...

It can be said that the entire North China Front Army was completely wiped out in the first nine months of this year.

What's more, those Eighth Route Army, which haunted like rats, had no intention of stopping at all. It's been a month and the destruction continues! It was repaired during the day, and at night it was slightly careless, and the railway was destroyed again.

I'm afraid that this year, rail transportation will not be able to recover.

After a moment of silence, Yoshio Shinozuka's face returned to normal, and he waved his hand to signal the staff officer to leave.

After taking a deep breath and calming the anger in his heart, he turned his head to look at Kazuki Yamamoto on the side, and his tone was cold:

"It seems that we still underestimate this group of mud legs hiding in the mountains, and their strength is beyond our expectations."

Between the words, the killing intent was awe-inspiring.

"It's both expected and unexpected."

Kazuki Yamamoto still had a cold and paralyzed face, without the slightest expression of surprise:

"The counterattack of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the failure of the cage tactic, had failed from the moment of misestimating the opponent's strength, but in just over three years, it expanded from 45,000 troops to nearly 400,000 troops..."

"The speed of this group of mud-legged expansion troops is really amazing!"

Speaking of this, Yamamoto Kazuki couldn't help but praise mockingly, and then he said in a sneering tone:

"However, it is not a good thing that the army is expanding too quickly."

"Without an industrial base, they can't even be self-sufficient in weapons and ammunition, although there is some foreign support, but it is only a drop in the bucket, in three years, the expansion of the army is more than eight times, this speed obviously exceeds the material supply capacity of the Eighth Route Army, and the combat effectiveness of the troops will inevitably drop significantly."

"This can be seen from the situation of the blocking battle, although the opponent has a large number of people, the casualties of our support troops are very low."

"Besides, the more troops there are, the greater the consumption."

"With their pitiful supply capacity, it won't be long before they fall into a long period of weakness!"

"When the time comes..."

The words were closed, and a sharp light flashed in Yamamoto Kazuki's eyes.

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, his expression slightly relaxed:

"Yamamoto-kun is right, such a force, no matter how large it is, is not enough to be afraid."

This is also the reason why Yoshio Shinozuka is angry in his heart, but he can quickly suppress his anger.

So far, the other side has only carried out sabotage battles and blocking battles, mainly destroying railways, highways, artillery towers, etc., and rarely fighting head-on with the imperial army.

Moreover, North China is very important, and this battle has also completely exposed the strength of the other side, which will attract further attention from the local base camp. When the imperial army adjusts, it will inevitably be an unprecedented large-scale sweep.

"However, we must not allow the other side to continue to develop, we must completely eliminate them, and eliminate them at any cost."

Yoshio Shinozuka's eyes narrowed behind his round glasses, and he was full of murderous energy.

In just over three years, it has grown from more than 40,000 people to nearly 400,000 regular troops and militia units, and it has caused almost devastating damage to the occupied areas.

In case there are a few more Li Yunlong groups...

Thinking of Li Yunlong, Yoshio Shinozuka had a severe headache.

Damn Li Yunlong, one day, I'm going to cut off your head!

For Grand Master Li, Yoshio Shinozuka can't wait to eat his flesh and eat his blood.

So far, the casualties of his Shanxi First Army have only been more than 3,000, of which a little more than 2,000 were killed and about 1,000 were wounded.

Moreover, if it weren't for Li Yunlong, how could he have mobilized Yangquan's 33rd Wing in advance? Originally, the 33rd Wing was used as a reserve, but it was forced to be sent out to deal with Li Yunlong, resulting in no soldiers to send when reinforcements were needed in the later period. Otherwise, it would not have been so badly damaged.

It's all this damn Li Yunlong.

"However, before that, we must first ensure the smooth operation of the Pinghan Railway."

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the murderous intent in his heart towards Grand Master Li, Yoshio Shinozuka said.

Before launching a sweep, he must first ensure that the supply channels are unblocked, otherwise the supplies will be insufficient, and the Eighth Route Army will not be able to eliminate it, but will suffer a big loss.

"I personally led the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade to it."

Yoshio Shinozuka looked at Kazuki Yamamoto: "You continue to investigate the mysterious person named Chen Fan, in this battle, a small amount of imported equipment appeared in the Eighth Route Army troops, including a lot of mortars, which should be provided by this person." ”

"Hey!"

Yamamoto Kazuki bowed his head: "I will personally go to the area around Yangquan to investigate, according to the intelligence, this person has been haunted nearby." ”

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"The devils in Taiyuan have been dispatched."

"The leader is Yoshio Shinozuka himself, and there is currently only one brigade of garrison troops in Taiyuan."

Information about Yoshio Shinozuka's departure from Taiyuan was soon passed on to the Independent Regiment.

"Haha, the time is just right."

At the Youth League Headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Grand Master Li waved his hand and said in an excited tone: "He notified the political commissar, Zhang Dabiao, Sun Desheng, Yan Sheng, and Wang Gensheng to come over." ”

"Yes."

The men of the guard platoon at the regimental headquarters moved quickly, and within half an hour, all the personnel were assembled in place.

"Yoshio Shinozuka is on the move?"

Zhang Dabiao couldn't wait to ask as soon as he entered the door.

The most important thing in the plan to snatch the gold in Taiyuan is that the main force of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan will be dispatched, otherwise more than 6,000 devils will stay in Taiyuan, and the special squad will definitely fight the dogs with meat buns when they go in, and none of them will come back, let alone rob the gold.

"Yes, this old devil is finally out."

"The purpose of this old devil is the Pinghan Railway, which has been damaged by us so badly that he can't sit still."

Li Yunlong's tone was emotional.

Although the main forces of the First Army had recently wreaked havoc in Shanxi, leaving the divisions of the First Army scattered and exhausted, a brigade of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan was only operating within a few dozen miles of Shanxi City, which made him almost think that the plan to seize the gold was about to be abandoned.

"Great."

As soon as he thought that he was going to shell the devil's airport in Taiyuan next, and it was an intensive shelling, and the artillery fire covered the kind, Iwamori couldn't help but wave his fist.

"I personally led the team on this mission."

Li Yunlong looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Zhao Gang, and his tone became serious.

Everyone nodded, no one had an opinion, not even Zhao Gang had no objection.

The most dangerous task in this mission is the special squad, and the other units are not very dangerous.

In fact, when we discussed it before, Grand Master Li also wanted to go, and his personal ability was completely fine, usually this guy trained with the special team, and it was easy to climb up at a height of twenty meters, but Zhao Gang did not agree, including monks, Zhang Dabiao and others did not agree, and after taking out the shelf of the regiment leader was useless, Grand Master Li had no choice but to give up.

In the end, Grand Master Li decided to act together with the artillery battalion.

Although you can't go in to grab the gold, it's also quite exciting to bombard the Devil's Airport.

"The fire company of the first battalion is assigned to the cavalry battalion to strengthen the firepower, and you are responsible for covering the special squad leaving the city wall, and you must suppress the firepower of the pillbox devils at the city gate." Li Yunlong said to Sun Desheng:

"The big mules are also assigned to your camp, take care to protect them, and not a single piece of gold will be dropped, and if you lose a piece of labor, you will be sold to make up the number."

"Guaranteed to get the job done."

Sun Desheng's somewhat hoarse voice carried a thick confidence: "Regiment commander, just look at it, our battalion has been training hard for more than ten days for this mission, and I will come to see you if there is a problem." ”

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Li Yunlong was very satisfied, and then he said to Zhang Dabiao:

"Zhang Dabiao, you pick out one hundred and twenty veterans with good shooting skills from the regiment to form a reinforced company, and then take more machine gun equipment from the warehouse, so that an average of five people have one machine gun, and the rest of the soldiers use twenty shell guns, and bring more bullets and grenades, and this company acts with the artillery company."

The artillery company lacks the ability to defend itself and needs to be protected by a company with strong firepower, after all, this time the artillery company is playing guerrilla with the devils.

"Good!"

Zhang Dabiao nodded.

"As for yourself..."

"This time you're operating with a special squad?" Li Yunlong continued to look at Zhang Dabiao.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Zhang Dabiao's smile had the flavor of Grand Master Li: "I am the deputy captain of the special squad, of course I act with the special squad, you can rest assured, commander, I will definitely get back a ton of gold from the devil." ”

"Okay, stay safe."

Li Yunlong nodded with satisfaction.

Although Wang Gensheng is a good hand at reconnaissance and grenades are also a unique skill, he is still a little relieved to lead a team to sneak into Taiyuan to snatch gold, and with Zhang Dabiao joining, he is even more at ease.

"Yan Sheng, I will ask Huang Baowang to allocate sixty big mules for you later, this time try to bring as many shells as possible, as many as you can, and the labor and management want to let the devil's airport taste the taste of being covered by artillery fire."

Li Yunlong's eyes were fierce.

In the face of the devil's plane, Grand Master Li decided to be ruthless and bombarded to death.

Fortunately, after pulling out the devil's turret, more than 100 large mules arrived in the independent regiment, and they had enough transportation capacity, otherwise his artillery coverage plan would not have been possible.

"Yes!"

Iwamori responded loudly, his mouth closed with laughter.

Sixty large mules, plus the artillery company's own carrying capacity, his artillery company can carry 2,000 rounds of 82 mortar shells at a time, and this time, he wants to bomb the devil's airfield to pieces and blow up all the planes.

"Everyone acted on time according to the plan."

Finally, Li Yunlong looked at Zhang Dabiao, Sun Desheng and the mechanical watch in his own hand, considering that the troops outside could not contact the special squad in the city, Grand Master Li equipped each commander with a watch:

"Five minutes after the devil's truck transporting gold departs, the artillery company will first fire to attract the devils, and then the special team will grab the gold near the city wall, and then send a signal for the cavalry battalion to answer outside."

Li Yunlong finally briefly emphasized the planning process.

"If an accident occurs during the mission, send a signal immediately, and if it is really not feasible, abandon the mission."

"Yes!" The crowd responded in unison.

"Monk, are you following the special squad or following me?" Li Yunlong looked at the monk who was listening in a daze.

"I, follow the special squad, where is there a shortage of people."

The monk touched his head.

"Okay."

Of course, Li Yunlong knew that the monk valued that it was more convenient to kill devils over there, and there were fewer people who robbed them.

"By the way, regiment commander, why don't we grab the devil's military column halfway?" The monk suddenly asked another stupid question.

"There is a section of the Devil Army on the Devil Army that has been refitted, equipped with armor, with three heavy machine guns on it, and the army column is accompanied by at least three armored vehicles to protect it." It was Zhao Gang who answered the monk.

"Armored train compartment..."

"At least three armored vehicles!"

After the monk muttered in a low voice, he immediately lowered his head.

Three armored cars plus armored compartments, bothered, when I didn't say·····