Baoding City Gate.

More than 300 meters away from the road.

A huge explosion of fireballs, accompanied by billowing gunpowder smoke, suddenly spread and rose to cover the entire highway in an instant, and then a violent explosion and a surging shock wave dispersed in all directions.

Although the devils in Baoding City are all second-line, they have also undergone complete recruit training, and most of them have experienced actual combat and chose the right response at the first time.

At the first moment of the explosion, they all lay down, prostrate, looking for cover, dodging shock waves and fragments.

But there is one exception.

"General Iwamatsu..."

At the gate of the city, a devil major general who had been watching the convoy leave suddenly had round eyes and rushed out, and the surrounding guards had no time to stop him.

But without the help of the guards, the ensuing explosion wave pushed the devil major general back, fell heavily on the city wall, and fainted straight. Several guards hurriedly crawled over against the shock wave, touched their noses, and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that their general was not dead.

Because of the timely evasion, although the power of the 80-kilogram explosives was huge, and even iron filings were added to strengthen the killing, except for the dozen devils standing guard at the center of the explosion and the devils in a few trucks, the rest of the devils did not suffer many casualties, and most of them were injured by the shock wave.

As for the common people, because the devil cleared the scene before, there were no casualties, but they were taken aback.

The shock wave dissipated, and the devils stood up to observe the situation, but the thick smoke and dust from the explosion obscured their vision.

All the devils could see were the parts of the car that were diffused by the shock wave, as well as the parts of the Imperial Army, which were scattered in bits and pieces within a few hundred meters of the surrounding area.

For a moment, the devil was stunned.

"Yaga..."

Suddenly, an angry roar sounded, and the major general had woken up, and when he saw the devils who were stunned, he was immediately furious:

"What are you doing? Go and save people, and bring General Iwamatsu back. ”

"The rest of the people spread the vigilance to prevent the enemy..."

"Arrest all the suspicious people around."

Because he was injured by the shock wave before, the major general's devil spat out a series of blood foam from his mouth. But this major general was quite active and quickly responded to the command.

Only then did the devils react, and a group of devils rushed to the highway in a hurry, and a group of devils scattered and surrounded the place where the incident occurred.

Actually, it's not that the devils forgot to save people, but, judging from the explosion point and the parts of the car armored vehicles scattered around, the devils know very well that Lieutenant General Iwamatsu is dead.

The kind where all the bodies can't be found.

But if you die, you will be saved, otherwise if a lieutenant general dies, he will not be rescued in time, and he will be investigated afterwards·····

······

When the devil rushed to the rescue.

A few hundred meters away from the explosion site, Wang Gensheng, Zhang Dabiao, and the monk were running at high speed away from the city gate.

"Fuck..."

During the high-speed running, his footsteps were unsteady and he almost stumbled, and Wang Gensheng scolded rarely.

This is unusual.

Although the houses around Baoding are complicated, the roads are all flat gravel roads, and some are even paved with cement or pebbles.

"Are you alright?"

Zhang Dabiao's voice was also buzzing, and he was not as neutral as before.

He could see that Wang Gensheng's face was a little pale, which was obviously injured by the explosion.

And Zhang Dabiao himself is similar, his face is also a little pale, but he is better than Wang Gensheng, after all, he is rough and has a much stronger ability to carry the impact of the explosion than Wang Gensheng.

In order to reduce the delay in detonation, in order to avoid being discovered by the devil because the detonation rope was too thick, this time the three of them avoided the location relatively close to the road, although there was a dirt bag to cover it, but Zhang Dabiao and Wang Gensheng were still injured by the shock wave.

Only the monk, this guy with inhuman physical strength, had nothing unusual in his face.

"It's fine."

Baba spit out a mouthful of bloodshot saliva, Wang Gensheng quickened his pace.

"Damn, I've got to think of another way, I can't do that in the future."

"It's too dangerous to pull the rope to detonate."

Zhang Dabiao had palpitations.

Eighty kilograms of explosives, the power is comparable to a devil bombshell, not only the shock wave, this can also be dodged, at most shock, the most dangerous is the explosion fragments, this time a piece of devil car fragments almost smashed Wang Gensheng.

If it weren't for luck, Gensheng would probably die with the devil lieutenant general.

"We don't have a devil's electronic detonator, and there is a shortage of wires in the army."

The monk urn was angry and patted his chest:

"Next time I'll come, I'm in good health and can bear it."

"Ahem····· No loss anyway. ”

Coughing up a mouthful of blood foam again, Wang Gensheng smiled at the corner of his mouth.

The most important thing to detonate is timing, the longer the rope, the more difficult it is to detonate in time, this is only his most experienced, and no matter how good his body is, he can't carry such a large piece of iron, besides, kill a devil lieutenant general, plus at least dozens of devils, even if he dies, he won't lose.

plus the price code given by Boss Chen.

Blood earned.

······

Bang Bang

On the train to Baoding, Yamamoto held a stack of information in his hand and looked at it expressionlessly.

At this time, Baoding was only half an hour away, and he was making final preparations, striving to show himself in front of Lieutenant General Yan Song, and by the way, to show the advantages of special operations.

Drip Drip Drip ·

With the sound of a radio tick, a team member walked up to Yamamoto with a solemn face:

"Baoding Emergency Electricity."

"Huh?"

The word emergency surprised Yamamoto.

Emergencies are generally bad things. At this time, how could Baoding send him an emergency call? What could happen over there?

"Lieutenant General Yan Song's convoy was hit by an explosion at the city gate, and Lieutenant General Yan Song shattered jade."

After speaking, the devil team member bowed his head in mourning.

This is the standard action of the Japanese army for the officer's jade break, according to the reason, when receiving the news of the army or the officer's jade break, all the staff should bow their heads and salute to show their respect, but to the surprise of the devil team members...

'Oh? ’

Yamamoto was stunned for a moment, and then his tone was raised, with a brisk meaning, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked:

"Lieutenant General Yan Song was attacked at the gate of Baoding City, and the jade was shattered?"

At this scene, the ghost team members who watched it were stunned.

Although he bowed his head to express his condolences, it was just a patterned action, and there was actually no sadness in his heart, and he even wanted to laugh a little, after all, a lieutenant general was bombed at the door, and this security force was too wasteful.

But, Captain, are you serious with this hooked mouth and your brisk tone?

"Hey."

Suppressing the thoughts in their hearts, the team members should bow their heads:

"The direction of Baoding has been confirmed, and Lieutenant General Yan Song has been shattered."

"Hmm."

Yamamoto also realized his gaffe, restrained his expression, returned to the expressionless coldness he had before, and said:

"Continue according to the original plan, we got off in Baoding to see the situation."

Iwamatsu hung up, was killed, and was killed in Baoding, then General Shinozuka would not have been removed from his post for a short time, and would continue to hold the position of commander of the First Army.

As the war progressed in the empire, there were more and more generals, but there were still not many who could serve as commanders of the first army.

Moreover, General Shinozuka also has connections, and he may be able to reverse the current situation by taking this opportunity, after all, Baoding, which is not under the jurisdiction of the First Army, has also encountered this kind of thing, which shows that it is not only the incompetence of the First Army.

"Hey."

The devil team members nodded yes.

Looking sideways out the window, the scenery outside passed, and Yamamoto was in a happier mood than ever.

General Shinozuka continues to serve as the commander of the First Army, which is the best news for Yamamoto, and in the entire empire, except for General Miyano, who has been shattered, only General Shinozuka supports him to promote special operations and put it into action.

Because of this, he was not so resistant to going to Baoding.

Although he would definitely be ridiculed and embarrassed if he went, he didn't know why, he just wanted to take a look.

I wonder who killed Lieutenant General Iwamatsu.

······

Taiyuan.

Inside the headquarters of the 1st Army.

Yoshio Shinozuka sent away the staff officers, as well as the guards on duty, and stayed in the headquarters leisurely alone.

The devil lieutenant general sat on a chair, playing with the katana in his hand, and looked relaxed.

The table in front of him was piled with stacks of papers.

This is some intelligence information about Li Yunlong, including from the killing of Sakata to the recent robbery of naval gold, all recorded here.

With the order of the base camp, the time to leave office is getting closer and closer, he has nothing to do, the First Army has basically not had any military operations in the near future, and the headquarters of the Front Army has also stopped daily contact with him, and everything is waiting for Iwamatsu to take office and talk about it.

Yoshio Shinozuka is also happy.

So, after busy preparing for dealing with Li Yunlong, he stopped doing anything, and leisurely played chess, read books, and wiped the katana every day, waiting for him to leave office and return to China.

"Empire..."

Putting down the katana, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly sighed softly.

After being withdrawn from the position of commander of the First Army, in the past few days, Yoshio Shinozuka has seen a lot of things that he hadn't noticed before.

It has been more than three years since the empire occupied North China, and it has obtained a large amount of mineral resources and grain and other materials urgently needed by the empire, but in the past three or four years, due to the serious security problems brought by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, the empire has also had to continuously invest a lot of manpower and material resources to clean up law and order and maintain communication lines.

More than 100,000 troops of the North China Front had to be stationed in North China to protect railway lines and highway lines.

On the whole, the empire's occupation of North China was at a loss.

Moreover, this loss is still widening.

North China is indeed rich in natural resources, and there are many human resources, which can make up for the lack of the empire, if it can be used reasonably, if things can develop according to the pre-war plan, it will inevitably become the great rear of the empire, and a steady stream of blood for the empire.

But to everyone's expectations, after more than three years of purging, the Eighth Route Army entrenched here was not only wiped out, but also grew stronger. Hundreds of thousands of North China Front troops were pinned down and could not move. In order to maintain more than 100,000 combat troops, the empire was also forced to invest a lot of resources.

This has led to a serious shortage of troops at the front...

At this moment, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly discovered that in North China, although the empire claimed to occupy and had an absolute advantage in terms of troops, it was actually a hole, a hole that constantly consumed the power of the empire, and it seemed that there was no end in sight·····

The hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army, can it be wiped out?

Can that Li Yunlong be eliminated?

And that Chen Fan, can you find it?

A series of questions made the clouds in Yoshio Shinozuka's heart thicker and thicker.

The best way is to pull out, implement the previous plan of General Ishihara, occupy the Republic of China in small amounts, and then trigger infighting, and the empire will watch the tiger fight from the mountains and profit from it.

But the situation has developed like this, even the locust, the nominal helmsman of the empire, can no longer withdraw from North China, and can only grit his teeth and consume, hoping to clear law and order and turn North China into the rear of the empire.

Not to mention, now the Navy is still working with the United States...

"It's okay, I'm leaving."

Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief.

is not in his position and does not seek his own politics, Yoshio Shinozuka has completely laid down.

"Yan Songjun, Li Yunlong will be handed over to you to deal with."

Thinking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly laughed.

The next sweep, according to his intuition, will definitely be able to deal a relatively big blow to Li Yunlong, but it will definitely not be able to eliminate Li Yunlong, with that Chen Fan providing weapons and ammunition and other materials, Li Yunlong's strength can recover quickly, so ·····

After Yoshio Shinozuka decided to return to China, he should focus on the situation here.

Jingle bells····

Suddenly, the phone rang in the headquarters.

"Huh?"

Yoshio Shinozuka was stunned.

Who will call him at this time?

It was the phone number of the headquarters, and he was contacted either by his superiors, such as General Gangmura, or by a direct officer of the First Army, but after he was transferred, it had not rang for a long time.

"Shinozuka-kun..."

When I picked up the phone, it was the voice of General Gangmura.

"General."

Yoshio Shinozuka stands on the right path.

He had a good personal relationship with Gangcun, and General Gangcun also supported him in this incident, but the order from the base camp and the situation in the area under the jurisdiction of the First Army made him have to give up his position.

"Commander of the First Army, let's continue to be you."

Gangcun goes straight to the point.

"Nani?"

Yoshio Shinozuka was directly stunned: "What about General Iwamatsu?" ”

"Iwamatsu Ichikuma..."

Gangcun paused before continuing: "I encountered a bomb attack in Baoding, and the jade has been shattered. ”

"Nani?"

This time Nani, Yoshio Shinozuka's tone raised an octave: "What's the matter, who did it?" ”

"It's not clear."

Gangcun said directly:

"You will continue to serve as the commander of the First Army, and I have also agreed to the reinforcement of the flight group you applied for, and in a few days, fifteen planes and pilots will fly directly to Taiyuan."

"You just have to respond."

“···· Hi. ”

The corners of his mouth twitched, and Yoshio Shinozuka didn't know what expression to show for a while.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Yoshio Shinozuka really doesn't know.

However, he knew one thing...

"Li Yunlong..."

Hung up the phone and called out the name, after that, Yoshio Shinozuka had to reach out and rub his head.

Head, it's starting to hurt again.