The Japanese were busy preparing for spring raids. Trucks loaded with supplies and ammunition were speeding down the road, sending up smoke and dust all over the sky.
Dabeizhuang in the north of Gaoyou has become a material and arms storage base for the advance of the Japanese soldiers. A steady stream of arms and supplies have been transported here and stored.
Once the attack is launched, the Japanese troops can quickly march lightly to replenish supplies and then launch a large-scale offensive northward.
Although the main force of the Japanese has occupied Wuhan and is still attacking deep into the southwest, there is still no peace in the areas occupied by the Japanese.
After the Chinese *** team completed the second phase of training, nearly a million troops arrived in the occupied areas through the blockade, opening a second battlefield behind enemy lines and containing a large number of Japanese troops.
Now there are a large number of squadrons in neighboring Anhui and Jiangsu alone, including Yang Zhonghua's troops, Li Shouwei, Weng Da, Gu Xijiu and other 89th Army troops, the tax police force, the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and the Sulu Corps in Taizhou.
Although the troops were scattered everywhere, they were like a knife stabbing into the heart of the Japanese, making it difficult for them to sleep or eat well.
Moreover, in the nearby Anhui Province, the Chinese Army's strength is even stronger. In Hefei and Huainan, the front line is controlled by the Chinese Gui Army troops, and the Japanese can't get in at all.
These Gui army troops are all from the southwest region. Although they are small and small, they are more capable and have amazing combat effectiveness.
Although they suffered heavy losses in the Songhu battlefield, the remaining troops moved to Anhui to rest and recuperate. A large number of supplementary troops arrived in Anhui from Guangxi again, and the troops are now stronger and stronger.
Now there are faint signs of a full-scale attack on these Guangxi Army troops. Once the squadrons in Anhui and Jiangsu are allowed to join forces to support each other, the consequences will be disastrous.
So now the Japanese Central China Headquarters has begun to mobilize troops and focus on the security and order operations in the occupied areas, hoping that the Chinese troops in these areas will either surrender or be wiped out, otherwise they will become a serious problem for them.
Now the Wang Jingwei Group has begun to actively prepare for the establishment of a puppet government in Nanjing, and the Japanese are also actively cooperating, using heavy troops to suppress the situation to put pressure on the Chinese troops in the enemy-occupied areas, and at the same time politically induce them to surrender, so that they will obey the commands of the Nanjing puppet government.
Now the Japanese troops from all walks of life are ready to attack at any time. Once the inducement to surrender fails, they will launch an attack. They are fully prepared.
The advanced material storage bases at various places along the Japs' frontier have already prepared supplies, and they are ready to attack.
Guo Bing and the others from the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps followed the road and soon arrived at the outskirts of Dabeizhuang. Seeing the Japanese truckloads of ammunition and supplies being transported to this village, they knew without even thinking that this was a place owned by the Japanese.
Material storage base.
"There must be a lot of supplies and ammunition here. If we blow it up for the devils, the devils will probably be blinded."
The brothers did not dare to get too close and lurked in the fields from a distance to observe.
This village has been completely commandeered by the Japanese. The people inside and outside are all Japanese. A defensive line has been built outside. The machine gun trenches made of sandbags are guarded by Japanese machine gunners.
"The Japanese have pulled up the barbed wire fence, and there are also patrols. It is estimated that there are no less than a hundred people guarding this place. What should we do?"
Although the brothers all want to blow up this place, saying it is one thing and doing it is another.
The Japanese are not stupid pigs. They have defended this forward base where supplies are stored watertight. It can be said that blowing it up is harder than climbing to the sky.
The brothers frowned and were in trouble. The enemy's security was too tight, and they didn't have heavy weapons. If they wanted to blow up this place, there was no chance.
"How about I forget it and let's find another target. We have no chance here."
Squad leader Li Baoshan looked at the Japanese rising sun flag flying high and began to retreat in his heart.
"We've all been here, how can we just leave like this? We have to do something like this!" Deputy platoon leader Guo Bing's attitude was very firm.
They took great risks to sneak into the Japanese-controlled area, and they would not be willing to go back empty-handed.
"But there are too many Japs and the security is tight. Maybe all the brothers will have to stay here."
"Come on, let's go back first and sum it up carefully."
Although he decided to fight, Guo Bing didn't know how to fight for a while. It would be too easy to be exposed if he stayed nearby, so he took his brothers back to the ruined temple to hide.
They wandered around Dabeizhuang for several days, but Dabeizhuang was so well defended by the Japanese that they couldn't find a place to attack.
They had already eaten all the dry food they carried, and their stomachs were starving. When they couldn't find the supply warehouse, they had to look for food first.
They took great risks and sneaked into a nearby village at night to get some food. Who knew that as soon as they entered the yard of a house, they bumped into the owner of the house who was coming out of the back room.
Squad leader Li Baoshan had quick eyesight and quick hands. He rushed forward and put his bayonet to the throat of the stooped man. He covered his mouth and subdued him.
And the man who was subdued by them didn't resist obediently. He looked at them rummaging around in the house looking for food, but his face was filled with uncertainty.
"Are you from the Northern Jiangsu Corps?"
While the brothers were devouring their food, the man who was tied up by them had spit out the rag stuffed in his mouth and actually spoke.
This statement frightened the brothers so much that squad leader Li Baoshan's expression changed and he hurried over to pick up the rag and block his mouth.
"I'm also from the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and I know you."
This man looked at Li Baoshan's reaction and the military uniforms they were wearing. He already made a judgment in his heart and took the risk to reveal his identity.
Hearing that this man turned out to be from the North Jiangsu Corps, Li Baoshan, who was holding a rag in his hand, was neither stuffed nor stuffed. He stood there in shock and looked at their deputy platoon leader Guo Bing.
Deputy platoon leader Guo Bing glared at Li Baoshan, who was not doing his job well, and sent two brothers out to guard him. Then he pulled up a bench and sat across from the man.
"Are you from the Northern Jiangsu Corps? What credentials do you have?" Looking at this man, Guo Bing asked seriously.
"My identity certificate is in the iron box under the water tank. You can check it."
Deputy platoon leader Guo Bing waved his hand, and Li Baoshan called to his two brothers, who hurried over to move the water tank, and discovered that there was indeed an iron box hidden underneath. There was an identification card inside, and it was stamped with the red seal of the Jiangsu North Corps.
Guo Bing got to know some words in the literacy class and learned that this man turned out to be an intelligence officer of the Jiangsu North Corps who stayed in the Japanese-controlled area.
"Which one of you is Deputy Platoon Leader Guo?"
The man looked at Guo Bing's uncertain face while holding the certificate, and continued to ask again.
"I am." Hearing that this person could call his own name, and now having proof in hand, Guo Bing was already convinced that this person should be one of his own.
"Great, I thought you had been captured by the Japanese." Hearing Guo Bing confirm his identity, the man became excited.
They had received instructions two days ago to investigate a small group that had sneaked in here. However, they did not get any news from their inquiries, but they did not expect to encounter them here.