Chen Shiming: "Captain Wang, just tell me what you need me to do."

Wang Chengzhu: "I need the topographic map along the Zhengtai Railway, the distribution map of the Japanese strongholds, the troop deployment map, etc.

The more detailed the better.”

"no problem."

Chen Shiming originally admired Wang Chengzhu immensely, and he also had instructions from above.

Now, of course, he shared all the information he knew with Wang Chengzhu without reservation.

Wang Chengzhu briefly read the intelligence information provided by Chen Shiming. It was not particularly detailed, but it was still of great benefit to his subsequent reconnaissance operations.

Moreover, he did not expect to get too much intelligence information from Chen Shiming, otherwise, his subsequent reconnaissance would be meaningless.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Chen!"

Wang Chengzhu put away the information and handed over to Chen Shiming.

Chen Shiming hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Captain Wang, you're welcome. This is what I should do."

Next, the two chatted in detail about the situation of the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway for a while, until Chen Shiming told Wang Chengzhu everything he knew, and then Wang Chengzhu got up and left...

Time flew by and the next day came quickly.

To reconnoiter the enemy's situation, it is not good to have too many people. Wang Chengzhu led the entire Langya Special Forces here not only to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, but also to have a certain combat effectiveness when encountering a situation or finding a target that can be attacked.

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Therefore, when he went out for reconnaissance for the first time, Wang Chengzhu only took Wei Monk and Duan Peng with him.

Before setting off, Wang Chengzhu checked the equipment again.

Weapons and equipment, dry food, maps, notebooks, pencils, telescopes, and some things found in the ocean...

After making sure that nothing was left behind, Wang Chengzhu led Wei Monk and Duan Peng on the road.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Wang Chengzhu had chosen the time and left now. He would be able to enter the Japanese-occupied area by almost evening.

In this way, after entering the Japanese-occupied area, you can move around at night.

Wang Chengzhu did not expect to swagger into the Japanese-occupied area in broad daylight.

Although the current Japanese-occupied areas are impregnably defended by the Japanese, they are also filled with puppet troops, police, and detective teams.

In addition, each village is also filled with a large number of Japs' eyes and ears.

In broad daylight, let alone carrying weapons, even if you enter the Japanese-occupied area without carrying weapons, if a few strong strangers suddenly appear, they will definitely be spotted by the eyes and ears of the little Japs at the first opportunity.

Although it is not dangerous, it is still a troublesome thing.

Wang Chengzhu's first stop was Xujia'ao and the Huangyan stronghold 2 kilometers east of Xujia'ao.

When we arrived near Xujia'ao, the sky gradually darkened.

In the dusk, Wang Chengzhu glanced at Xujia'ao Village in front of him from a distance.

If nothing else goes wrong, as long as they get close to the village, they will definitely be watched by the enemy's eyes and ears.

However, Wang Chengzhu was not worried, because through his conversation with Director Chen last night, Wang Chengzhu knew that this area was already on the edge of the Japanese-occupied area, and there were often local armed forces or militiamen from the Eighth Route Army operating there.

In the beginning, spies in the village would immediately report any suspicious people they saw, but many times, these suspicious targets were not local armed forces or militia members of the Eighth Route Army at all.

Sometimes, even if they are really local armed forces and militiamen of the Eighth Route Army, by the time the spies report and the Japs arrive, these militiamen will have long since disappeared.

The angry little devil naturally believed that these spies deliberately provided them with false information in order to receive rewards.

They ranged from scolding to direct slaps or whips.

As time went by, these spies no longer dared to inform the little devil easily without confirming the identity of the other party.

However, in order to be on the safe side, Wang Chengzhu did not choose to take the main road. Instead, when he was still more than one kilometer away from Xujia Village, he followed the path around the village and headed towards the Huangyan stronghold.

When the three of them arrived near the Huangyan stronghold, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves trampling the ground, they saw groups of Japanese cavalry rushing towards the stronghold one by one.

The horse's hooves trampled the ground and kicked up dust.

At that moment, Wang Chengzhu and the others immediately climbed to the top of a hill not far away.

"Captain, the horses of the Japanese cavalry look much stronger than the horses of the Wanjia Town Cavalry Battalion. They are both treasures." Monk Wei looked at the Japanese horses on the road not far away, and he almost cried out.

Already.

Duan Peng on the side said angrily: "The Japanese must keep good things for themselves. They can't ride on bad horses and let the puppet troops ride on good horses, right?"

"That seems to make sense." Monk Wei nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "With so many troops and horses, if we knock down this stronghold, we will be very prosperous."

Wang Chengzhu ignored Monk Wei, but raised his telescope and observed carefully.

Through the telescope, Wang Chengzhu observed more clearly.

The entire Huangyan stronghold was already filled with Japanese cavalry, and there were more than 10 large warehouses deep in the stronghold.

Outside the warehouse, dozens of large trucks and hundreds of pallet trucks were parked.

The cart was filled with sacks.

Hundreds of puppet soldiers were busy unloading sacks from pallets and truck compartments, and moving them into the warehouses.

Wang Chengzhu speculated that these sacks should be supplies for the Japanese army and horses; he made a visual inspection and found that, not to mention those that had been stored in the warehouse before, just the ones that had just arrived today were at least 200 tons.

As the saying goes, before the troops and horses move, food and grass go first. The troops and horses naturally have to eat, and they eat more than the soldiers, and it is more expensive.

In other words, he is independently wealthy and has grown super sweet potatoes.

Not only the roots, stems and leaves of sweet potatoes can be fed to military horses, so that they can support a battalion of military horses.

For an ordinary Eighth Route Army unit, raising a platoon of military horses would be a problem, let alone a battalion of military horses.

Whether it was the troops and horses in the stronghold or the supplies, they were all treasures. Wang Chengzhu silently noted them down and made a plan in his mind.

Moreover, Wang Chengzhu also learned the identity of this Japanese cavalry through Officer Chen: "Black Island Cavalry Regiment!"

Yoshio Shinozuka spared no effort to transfer the Kuroshima Cavalry Regiment from northwestern Shanxi to the southeastern Shanxi area, which fully demonstrated a problem, that is, the shortcomings of the Japs' insufficient strength had begun to show up.

This is not difficult to understand.

As a time traveler, Wang Chengzhu knew better than anyone else that the Japanese First Army in Shanxi not only had to station heavy troops in southern Shanxi to guard against the Central Army in the Zhongtiao Mountains, but also dispatched some troops to support the Zaoyi battlefield. The dispatch of troops was already stretched.

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In addition, nearly 20,000 troops were lost in the northwestern Shanxi region not long ago. It would be abnormal if there were still surplus troops.

Otherwise, given Yoshio Shinozuka's character, how could he allow the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which had brought him great humiliation, to develop unscrupulously in the northwestern Shanxi region.

Yoshio Shinozuka re-employed Kazuki Yamamoto in an attempt to change the pattern of war, and it was also for this reason...
Chapter completed!