After hesitating for a few seconds, he reminded: "Your Excellency, division commander, there is one more thing?"
"In order to recruit soldiers and win over people's hearts, we don't have much food in our hands and we need to replenish it urgently. Otherwise, the goodwill that the Chinese people have just had towards us will disappear, and our previous efforts will be in vain!"
Lieutenant General Fujino replied calmly: "Don't worry, the front army promised that our follow-up food will start shipping tomorrow and will arrive in Linfen in three days. A total of three million kilograms of food is enough for us to last for two months!"
"That's good!" the staff officer replied with a long sigh of relief.
He was completely unaware that his old rival might be targeting this batch of grain.
After all, the roads the transport team will take are all in the areas occupied by the imperial army, and there are a large number of imperial troops guarding them along the way!
Tanjiagou, where Wang Ping decided to raid the Japanese transport team.
At three o'clock in the morning, Wang Ping led his troops to bypass the Japanese and puppet army blockade and lurked here.
"Captain, the Japanese transport team has arrived three kilometers away. In one hour, the forward troops will be able to break into our pocket formation!" The leader of the fourth battalion's reconnaissance platoon rushed to the commanding heights of the battlefield and reported when he saw Wang Ping!
"God is really helping me! There are only five hours until dark now, and there are still four hours left after the Japs arrive here. Even if the Japs' air force arrives on the battlefield, it will take more than an hour, and they can stay on the battlefield for at most half a day.
We will retreat in an hour!" Wang Ping shouted with excitement on his face.
"Two companies of the air defense battalion, in platoon units, occupy all the commanding heights on both sides of the road!
"An anti-aircraft machine gun is powerful and has a long range. The effective range of a flat shot is more than one kilometer. Only the bullets hit the road. Even if they only hit the little devil, they will pose a fatal threat!"
"There are eighteen anti-aircraft machine guns and the same number of heavy machine guns cooperating to occupy the commanding heights on both sides of the road. No matter how capable the Japanese are, they will not be able to snatch those commanding heights from us. After the battle begins, they can only seize the commanding heights on both sides of the road with our more than thirty heavy machine guns.
They were beaten passively under suppressive fire from machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns!"
"Each company, after seeing the attack signal, use the shortest possible time to move to position, block the possible breakthrough gap for the Japanese, and then divide and surround the Japanese transport troops!"
"The cavalry battalion is responsible for attacking the two thousand Japanese recruits. They are not equipped with heavy weapons and can only be beaten passively in front of ordinary infantry..."
"After all the offensive forces are in place, the air defense battalion withdraws from the battle and sets up a clearance position on the spot. As long as the Japs' planes come over, hit me hard and try to kill one of the Japs' planes for me to come down!"
The person in charge of the transportation team was a Japanese major, who had unified command of two baggage squadrons and a reinforced squadron of security troops.
As for the two thousand new recruits, since the highest-ranking officer was only a lieutenant, they were also under his command!
As a veteran major officer, the largest army he has ever commanded was 2,000 troops, of which more than 1,000 were members of the Imperial Alliance Army.
Now, he actually commanded nearly 3,000 troops, all of them imperial troops. From the moment he set out, the major had a high-spirited expression on his face.
Normally, he would definitely not want the transport team under his command to run into little Japs.
But now, not only was he not worried about this problem, but he was secretly hoping that the transport team would be targeted by the Eighth Route Army.
He has not moved from his position as Major Captain for two years.
During the war years, at this time, for me, I had enough qualifications to be promoted to lieutenant colonel.
The only thing missing is an opportunity to gain military exploits. As long as he has military exploits, Major is sure that his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel will be a sure thing.
And in front of him, with nearly 3,000 imperial troops in his hands, it was undoubtedly the best opportunity to gain military exploits.
If he could command these 3,000 imperial troops to severely inflict heavy losses on the Eighth Route Army, Major was sure that he would not only have achieved a military exploit that would allow him to be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel, but he would also have the experience of serving as a regimental captain and commanding an infantry regiment of the imperial army in combat!
When the time comes, it will be possible to be directly promoted to captain of the Lieutenant Colonel.
"Da da da……"
Suddenly, a series of gunshots from the forward troops brought the major out of his dream and back to reality!
"Sir, there are Eighth Route Army troops ahead to stop us!" A second lieutenant panted and rushed over to report.
Seeing that the major was not angry but smiling instead, he added: "Judging from the intensity of gunfire, the opponent only has two companies of troops standing in the sky!"
The Major reacted quickly: "This is the area occupied by the Imperial Army. Even if there are Eighth Route Army troops, they are just a small group of Eighth Route Army troops who escaped from the Imperial Army's blockade and sneaked in!"
"This is a piece of meat that's put in your mouth...order the forward troops to attack immediately and kill them!"
"Deploy 400 people from the new troops to reinforce the forward troops, and outflank them on both sides. The Eighth Route Army that has the courage to stand in front of us in our occupied area must be elite. We must kill them to avoid future troubles!"
"Hi~" The lieutenant and adjutant standing nearby did not raise any objection and immediately rushed to the battlefield.
"Da da da……"
In less than five minutes, more intensive gunfire rang out from the direction of the battlefield.
"Something's wrong!" Soon, the excitement on the major's face disappeared, and his brows wrinkled into a big "Sichuan"!
"The gunfire was not all the sound of light and heavy machine gun fire, there seemed to be the sound of large-caliber machine gun churning!"
The major, who was frowning and talking to himself, had just finished speaking when a communications officer rushed over with fear on his face.
"Sir, it's over...the forward troops are over!"
"Anti-aircraft machine guns. The Eighth Route Army in front of us is also equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns... It's too cruel. As long as the flying heavy machine gun bullets touch us, the soldiers will be beaten to pieces with arms and legs, or directly killed.
We didn't even have a chance to fight back before a large number of us were killed!"
"Da da da……"
At this moment, the familiar yet unfamiliar sound of gunfire rang out again, very close to him, not far from the flank.
Then I saw hundreds of new recruits gathered not far away and fell into chaos.
Six thick tongues of fire suddenly appeared on the hilltop seven or eight hundred meters away. Under the sweep of these tongues of fire, the recruits who had not really been on the battlefield were swept to the ground in pieces like mature crops.
Wherever the thick and dense bullets flew, there was a bloody scene of broken arms everywhere!
"Sure enough, it's an anti-aircraft machine gun...the light and heavy machine guns we are equipped with are no match at all~" the major, whose face suddenly turned pale, exclaimed loudly.
Then he ordered: "Artillery, fire immediately, kill the Eighth Route Army anti-aircraft machine gun position on the hill 800 meters away, destroy their anti-aircraft machine guns, fire now!"
"Da da da..." Before the order could be completely passed on, several commanding heights on both sides of the road, all of which had been agreed upon, rang out with gunshots that frightened him.
On the highway, wherever the imperial army gathered, bullets from anti-aircraft machine guns flew over as if they were free, causing a bloody storm!
"Sir, the artillery team was attacked and almost all its troops were lost~"
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army armed with anti-aircraft machine guns also appeared on the high ground behind us. The rearguard suffered heavy losses and our retreat was blocked!"
The pale-faced Major finally came to his senses: "There are so many Eighth Route Army troops on Bageya Road. They want to annihilate us all!"
"Block the highway with anti-aircraft machine guns. No matter how powerful we are, we can't rush across the highway with the fire of anti-aircraft machine guns. What a cruel move!"
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