After hearing Yamamoto's speculation, Yoshio Shinozuka opened the map and observed the situation in the south.

Although the sea and land are almost at the same level as each other, the intelligence exchange between the land forces is still very smooth, and the level of the first army can naturally get the distribution map of the forces in the south.

Looking at the map on the table, Yoshio Shinozuka fell into deep contemplation...

In the case of the Eighth Route Army, the government can no longer be regarded as teammates, and the special nature of this mission will never be able to cooperate.

Judging by the map. Starting from Shou County to Banqiao Town on the Huaihe River, there were almost no stable so-called base areas along the way, no bases along the way, and no friendly troops that could respond.

This situation.

As long as it is a commander in his right mind, he will not send troops to attack more than 700 kilometers to rob three tons of gold.

It's not that gold isn't alluring enough, it's that it's not successful at all. With a distance of more than 700 kilometers, a lone army marching on foot between mountain roads, any accident will lead to the annihilation of the entire army.

The best way to do this is to send troops on the spot and then support the weapons...

But ·····

The other party is Li Yunlong.

Moreover, there is that mysterious Chen Fan, if there is enough intelligence, the preparation interval is long enough...

Squinting his eyes, Yoshio Shinozuka ordered in a loud tone:

"Order the 33rd Wing of Yangquan, Xiyangdi..."

In the end, Yoshio Shinozuka decided that he would rather believe it than believe it...

If it was really Li Yunlong who did it, then he would definitely send troops to meet him, and he came from the south to Shou County, just a few routes, and Yoshio Shinozuka decided to cut off all of them and set up roadblocks for him.

It just so happened that recently he had a unit under his command that had been transferred from the headquarters of the Front Army, which was originally intended to attack the Eighth Route Army Arsenal, but now there were still months before the battle began, and he could be sent out to encircle and suppress this gold convoy.

With his order, the Japanese troops around Shou County suddenly went into action.

After giving the order, Yoshio Shinozuka had a headache again.

If it was really Li Yunlong who did it, then he would definitely be scolded, but this is still a trivial matter, anyway, the navy's gold was robbed, even if he has a problem, the army will not ask.

The question that makes him feel troublesome is, if it is really Li Yunlong, what will happen to this guy next?

Thinking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly felt a tingling of his scalp.

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"Yangquan, the devil of Xiyang has come out? A circle along the south to the south of us? ”

Shou County is not far from Yangquan, and Li Yunlong has already sent a lot of secret sentinels to keep an eye on him, and he got this information as soon as possible.

"The strength of a wing, we don't have a base in the south."

"What are they going to do?"

Zhao Gang's tone was puzzled:

"Could it be that the little devil is aware?"

Now, all the intelligence points to the little devil planning to launch an attack from the north, the target should be the arsenal, and the headquarters is also ready, but why do you suddenly send troops to the south?

After thinking about it, Zhao Gang thought of the gold robbery incident.

"Possibly."

Li Yunlong smiled: "Since the devils of Yangquan have been dispatched, let Sun Desheng and them go." ”

"Haha..."

Hearing this, Political Commissar Zhao also laughed, and his tone was full of expectation.

They had already predicted this situation, although because of communication problems, they could not directly help Zhang Dabiao who came back, but they still managed to provide indirect support. Moreover, you can also take advantage of the autumn breeze by the way.

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Outside Shou County.

Between dirt roads.

After the occupation of Shou County, the troops who were usually idle and had nothing to do often came to maintain the road, so the dirt road here was much better than during the occupation of the devils.

At this time, Sun Desheng rode on the three jumpers and looked around.

Around him, fifteen more three-jumpers were ready to go, the engines had started, and the buzzing sound was practiced into one piece, and finally gathered, like the low roar before the bite of a fierce beast.

"It's a pity..."

Squinting at the machine gun in front of the side fight, Sun Desheng sighed in his heart that it was a pity.

Most of the general-purpose machine guns were taken away by Zhang Dabiao, he only had five this time, and the rest could only be counted in the Bren type, which was equivalent to a direct drop in firepower by half.

Thinking of this, Sun Desheng looked behind him.

In the middle of his ranks, there were no machine guns in front of them, but a large barrel held horizontally by the machine gunner.

Suddenly, Sun Desheng laughed again.

Although the general-purpose machine gun was taken away by Zhang Dabao a lot, they also carried another good thing this time.

Large-caliber heavy machine guns.

The German motorcycle from Boss Chen is full of horsepower and is larger than the little devil's three jumpers, and can transport three people while carrying a heavy machine gun.

It's just that the recoil of this thing is too big, and the car can't bear it directly on the motorcycle, so it can only be parked and then set up on the ground and then fire, which is more troublesome.

But...

Thinking of the power of this thing, the power of smashing the devil with a random bullet, Sun Desheng felt troublesome at all.

"Let's go, target Yangquan."

With Sun Desheng's order, a puff of green smoke erupted from the exhaust pipes of fifteen motorcycles, and then in a buzzing sound that suddenly became louder, they rushed towards Yangquan.

Some time after Sun Desheng set out, it was also on the road, and the cavalry battalion of the Independent Regiment also began to assemble.

······

Same.

"Just rest here."

Glancing at the map and the light sky, Wang Gensheng ordered.

Behind him, forty large mules were already carrying gold on their backs, and the gold was extremely dense, eighty kilograms was only a few bricks in size, and it was almost impossible to see to the naked eye. Only some firearms were visible, as well as other baggage such as food.

"Captain, we're already behind schedule..."

On the side, a soldier of an independent regiment was a little anxious.

At this time, five days had passed since they robbed the gold, and on the sixth day, according to the plan, they had to march at least five hundred kilometers, but because of a sudden heavy rain in the middle, the speed of the march was greatly reduced, and as time went by, the strength of the warriors began to decline, and the big mules were not as powerful as they were at the beginning, and by now, they had only marched four hundred and forty kilometers.

Sixty kilometers behind schedule.

"It's okay, fix your day here, don't act during the day."

Wang Gensheng shook his head resolutely.

Concealment is more important than speed.

Moreover, although the speed was affected by the rain before, he braved the rain to advance a certain distance, which completely cleared their footprints, and the mountain road here was complicated, and there were no traces, and it was difficult to find them.

"Yes."

Then the convoy went into the forest where he had come and hid himself.

The south is mountainous, and the woods are much denser than the north, so Wang Gensheng took these dozens of people and forty big mules into the mountains and forests to hide under the cover of the lead-gray sky in the early morning.

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South.

Huai River boundary.

The commander of the devil division in charge of this side is listening to the report:

"Because of the rain, the tracking reconnaissance cavalry unit lost track of the other party about two hundred kilometers to the north."

"At present, the intelligence services have not investigated the origin of this group."

"According to local feedback, those motorboats are not produced by ourselves, they should be imitated abroad, but it is certain that the production time of these three motorboats is no more than a month, and they must be produced by foreign manufacturers."

"In addition, we found a temporary hidden dock in Banqiao Town, located in a dilapidated house in the river valley one kilometer downstream of Banqiao Town, presumably used to conceal the parking of motorboats."

The staff officer said this, put away the folder, bowed his head and remained silent.

The head of the devil division rubbed his forehead, feeling that his head was very big.

This annoyed him a lot.

The group that robbed the gold had left his territory.

But the impact remains.

Nowadays, there is news everywhere that someone has found a gold convoy, although it is basically a rumor, and in the end it turns out that most of them are just ordinary unlucky caravans, but they still cause a lot of trouble for the locust army.

People always like to make up rumors, and this thing, just open your mouth and come out, make it up, there is no cost, for example, today a mysterious mule and horse team was found here, and a group of armed teams that operate at night were found there.

Similar news is endless.

There is a lot of news, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity, but the money is moving, not to mention the three tons of gold, and recently, there have been several incidents of bandits attacking the imperial army.

Plus the government troops, and the agitation of the New Fourth Army.

The security here is not good, because of this matter, it has directly dropped several levels, and the garrisons everywhere are in a hurry, and the losses are not small, so he can't spare his hands to track down the gold matter.

"Order the Intelligence Section to continue its investigation."

The division commander didn't bother to continue to emphasize, and waved his hand casually.

According to his estimates, it is no longer possible for him to find this group of people who have robbed the gold alone, after all, his control range is only about 100 kilometers, and the group of people has run so far.

If you want to find out, you can only rely on the intelligence department.

It's just at this time. A staff officer walked in with a telegram in his hand:

"General, telegram from Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army."

"Huh?"

The division commander was stunned.

After the failure of the cooperation in the planning of the navy, he and Yoshio Shinozuka had no contact, after all, they were not very familiar with each other, and they were not in a combat sequence, so if there was no connection of interests, they would naturally disperse directly.

As a result, the telegram, the division commander looked at it,

Soon, the corners of the division commander's eyes jumped, and his expression was obviously angry: "This gang of gold robbers is from Shanxi in the north?" It was the same group of people who robbed Taiyuan gold at the beginning? ”

"Or the Eighth Route Army?"

"Yoshio Shinozuka, what do you mean?"

Then, with a slap, he threw the telegram far away.

Regarding the news in his hand, the head of the devil division didn't believe a word.

The gold robber came from Shanxi?

Am I really a fool?

Not to mention the distance of more than 700 kilometers.

Can the Eighth Route Army get the Imperial Powerboat? Can you figure out the timing of a Navy transport? It's something that none of their Army intelligence has been able to figure out.

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Taiyuan.

After confirming that the little devil was planning to deal with the Eighth Route Army, Yan Laoxi was relieved, but the recent events in the south had deeply attracted his attention.

Three tons of gold from the little devil were robbed.

At the beginning of hearing the news, Yan Laoxi's eyes were red.

Now, the Jin Sui army has a miserable life, not to mention the arrears of military salaries, this is a very common thing, even the grain, has begun to have a serious shortage of supply, because of the recent drought, the grain harvest failed, and the government can't support much.

There are channels to buy food, but there is no way to buy food, but there is no money in hand.

If only I could get this batch of gold...

Thinking of this, he sighed.

At the beginning, the Eighth Route Army snatched back more than a ton of gold from Taiyuan, and also blew up the airfield of the First Army of the devils, which made him raise his eyebrows and exclaim, and his eyes were staring at the ton of gold again.

So while verbally rewarding the commander of the Eighth Route Army, he also sent someone over to discuss, the batch of gold was his, it was robbed by the little devil, and he could not return it to him, but the final result was, of course, that the Eighth Route Army directly ignored him.

"Commander."

At this moment, a staff officer walked in with a telegram in his hand:

"According to the news from the south, it seems that the little devils still haven't been able to catch the gang of gold robbers."

The chief of staff of the way of his own command wanted to hear the most information, and immediately informed the content of the telegram transferred from the national government.

"Hmm."

His eyes flickered, and Yan Laoxi nodded expressionlessly.

In his heart, he was thinking about who did it.

Over there, although the devils have occupied the forest, the power of the government is relatively strong, and as for the New Fourth Army, the sphere of influence has not yet extended to the Huai River, and only the government has the ability to organize forces to rob this group of devils gold.

Therefore, he has always wondered if it was the army of the national government that did it, and then deliberately did not publicize it, so as to monopolize it.

Pushing himself and others, Yan Laoxi asked himself, if he got this batch of gold, he would definitely cover it tightly and never let people know.

The staff officer continued:

"The Japanese army in Yangquan dispatched and marched north of Shou County..."

"Oh?"

Yan Laoxi was surprised: "Is this planning to recover Shou County?" ”

The staff officer did not respond, he was only responsible for informing the intelligence, and he continued: "In addition, the Japanese army in the direction of Yangquan seems to have been attacked by guerrillas, according to the intelligence, this group of people is from Shou County, and it should be from the independent regiment. ”

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The same news appeared in the headquarters of the First Army.

"General, Shinji Kosa is calling."

"A group of troops appeared around Yangquan, they were riding motorcycles, equipped with large-caliber heavy machine guns, attacking strongholds and military stations, and a cavalry team of about 300 people from the direction of Shou County was also attacking Yangquan."

"Because of the lack of troops and the opponent's strong mobility ability, Kosa Shinji Daisa asked for tactical guidance."

Yoshio Shinozuka, who received the news, immediately rubbed his head with a headache, and then, gritted his teeth and spit out a few words:

"Li Yunlong·····"

Next to him, Yamamoto bowed his head silently.