Naturally, the Japanese army's food grabbing operation could not be hidden from Yi Zhenhua's eyes and ears. Zhao Xueling quickly deciphered the instructions sent by Shoji Iida to the garrison in various places through the intercepted Japanese military messages.

Inside the brigade headquarters, Yi Zhenhua raised the message deciphered by Zhao Xueling in his hand and told Zhao Daquan, Chen Qigang, Haoyue, Nuo Hu and others: "According to intelligence, the Japanese army across Hainan is also preparing to harvest rice for military rations, not to mention the rice.

Most of it is the food rations that the local people depend on for survival. Without food, the people may starve to death. Even if the people have enough food, we cannot let the Japanese army successfully obtain this food to enrich their military rations and reduce their logistics.

pressure.

"Prince, what are your plans?" Zhao Daquan asked.

Yi Zhenhua walked up and down with his hands behind his back and frowned for a moment, then said, "Send troops to harass the Japanese war zone and help the local people grab and store grain. In time, we cannot transport the grain back to the base area, and we have to help the people grab it for income."

Store it deep in the warehouse. In short, we must not let this food fall into the hands of the Japanese army!"

"But the brigade commander, the deputy brigade commander and the chief of staff have taken most of our troops out to help the people in Qiongzhong and Baoting counties to harvest rice. We only have one battalion of our garrison left to guard Wuzhishan.

As well as the artillery battalion, police company, reconnaissance company and the newly established tank and armor battalion and other units directly under the brigade headquarters, except for the most basic garrison and defense troops, basically there is no way to spare too many troops!" Zhao Daquan said with a bitter face.

road.

"Of course I know this, but Daquan, you may not have paid attention to what I said. I am talking about harassing the Japanese war zone, not capturing it. In addition, this is a harassment battle behind enemy lines. Therefore, this harassing force is only about finesse and not large numbers.

." Yi Zhenhua smiled calmly.

"Oh!" Zhao Daquan suddenly nodded, and then asked: "How many troops do you plan to send into the Japanese war zone to harass?"

"I want to bring the armored battalion and the police together, and you can unified command the first battalion, the reconnaissance company and the artillery battalion to stay at the Wuzhishan base area!" Yi Zhenhua said thoughtfully.

"In addition..." Yi Zhenhua suddenly remembered something again, turned to the artillery battalion commander Chen Qigang and said: "Chen Qigang, battalion commander, your artillery battalion's 88mm anti-aircraft gun battery will also deploy four of them to accompany the armored battalion and the

The jǐngwei company goes out together!"

"Yes!" Chen Qigang and Zhao Daquan stood up and agreed in unison, and Zhao Daquan added: "Brigade seat, it is dangerous and unpredictable to go deep into the Japanese war zone. How about I lead the armored battalion and the police company to go! You stay in the Wuzhishan base area!"

"No, this operation deep into the Japanese theater behind enemy lines will extremely test the commander's temporary response command ability, so I must lead the team myself. When the time comes, I will have my own sense of priority and retreat!" Yi Zhenhua waved his hand thoughtfully.

"Yes." Zhao Daquan knew that Yi Zhenhua had made up his mind, so he said no more and nodded.

"Okay, hurry up and get ready. Notify the armored battalion and the guard company to assemble immediately. Time is not waiting for me and we will set off immediately!" Yi Zhenhua waved to Zhao Daquan, Haoyue and Chen Qigang.

"Yes!" The three of them stood up and responded at the same time, and immediately took the order and left together.

Nearly half an hour later, the officers and soldiers of the tank and armor battalion who were training completed the assembly with the police company and an 88mm anti-aircraft gun deployed from the artillery battalion. Since they were about to go on an expedition with Yi Zhenhua, the police company

The garrison work was temporarily handled by Nuohu's reconnaissance team.

When the armored battalion, the Guard Company and the artillery completed their assembly, Yi Zhenhua, supported by Haoyue and others, came to the assembly area outside the brigade headquarters. On the site, more than 300 armored soldiers and more than 100 officers and soldiers of the Guard Company lined up.

They formed four hundred-man columns, lined up in an orderly manner. The officers and soldiers were fully armed, with steel guns like a forest, and bayonets in groups. The snow-white bayonets reflected dazzling light under the scorching sun.

Behind the column, fifty M3A1 half-track armored vehicles flying the blue sky and white flag were parked neatly behind them, in a row of ten.

Looking over the faces of the more than 400 officers and soldiers present one by one, Yi Zhenhua said slowly and solemnly: "Brothers, the summer harvest season is coming this year, and the Japanese devils are frantically robbing all parts of Hainan of the summer grains that the people have worked hard to plant.

, if they succeed, countless compatriots will die of hunger in the war zone that day. As a Hainanese, a Chinese Communist, and a soldier who is the son of our fathers and mothers in our hometown in Hainan, what should we do?"

"Kill all the little devils! Help the folks in your hometown get back their food!" More than 400 officers and soldiers responded in varying voices.

Yi Zhenhua frowned slightly and shouted: "What the hell are you doing without eating? Tell me louder, what should we do?"

"Fuck your mother-in-law's little bastard with a gun and steal back the food that belongs to the elders in your hometown!" Some of the big-headed soldiers with relatively violent personalities began to yell at the top of their lungs with red faces.

"Yes, let's do it with Xiao Dongyang! Kill these bastards!" The big-headed soldier's roar soon resonated with other soldiers, and they all roared in anger.

"Okay, born in troubled times, a good man cannot just sit back and watch the country fall and his compatriots suffer! I didn't say it before, shoot the Japanese pirates to death with guns! Today is the first battle since the establishment of your armored battalion. Use your machine guns to let the little devils have a taste of me.

The Chinese armored forces are powerful!" Yi Zhenhua raised his arms at the right time and shouted: "Let's go!"

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At the same time, there is a county town about fifty kilometers north of Qiongzhong County, called Tunchang. Tunchang is located at the northern foot of Wuzhishan Mountain, on the south bank of the largest Henan Crossing River in Hainan. It is the only way for Qiongbei to enter the hinterland Wuzhishan area.

Its unique geographical location makes it a strategic location in Hainan.

Therefore, since the Japanese army reduced its forces in Hainan to carry out key defenses, although it gave up the Baoting and Qiongzhong areas close to Wuzhishan, it did not abandon Tunchang County, because Iida Shoji knew that once the Japanese army was freed up,

, it is bound to encircle and suppress the Chinese anti-Japanese forces in the Wuzhishan area again, so Tunchang County, a strategic location located on the south bank of the Nandu River, will be an important bridgehead and the only way for the Japanese army to enter the hinterland of Wuzhishan.

As long as Tunchang is in the hands of the Japanese army, if there is a military operation in the future, our offensive troops can quickly launch an attack southward through the Nandu River. Therefore, no matter how stretched the troops are, Iida Shoji still deploys in Tunchang.

An infantry brigade, that is, the third brigade of the First Regiment that was ordered to go south to Qiongzhong a few days ago to support Ma Qing's rebellion and surrender.

Due to the irrigation of the Nandu River, the land in Tunchang area is very fertile, so it is also one of the important grain-producing counties in Hainan.

When Shoji Iida's order to seize grain was given to Tunchang, the Third Infantry Battalion, which had just crossed the Limu Mountain and other mountainous areas and fled back to Tunchang, immediately took a large number of Han and puppet troops under the command of captain Nagai Major.

They came out in full force and swarmed into the surrounding areas of the county to force local people to help them harvest rice and grab summer grain.

ps: Since the New Year is approaching, I went to visit the graves of my deceased relatives today, which means burning some paper money or something. I haven’t celebrated the New Year in my hometown for many years and I really don’t understand these rules. Thanks to the old man in the courtyard who told me this morning.

And this damn haze weather has caused my son to have a cold and a fever in the past two days, so he has no time to type today, so I will just update this one today, and I will definitely make up for it with two larger chapters tomorrow.
Chapter completed!