In troubled times, if you have soldiers, you have status and the capital to stand on your own.
Therefore, after hearing that the Japanese were willing to exchange weapons for food, Commander Yan subconsciously wanted to agree and wanted to continue this business.
With 10,000 rifles, 200 light and heavy machine guns, and a large number of mortars in your hands, you can form a two-division Shanxi-Sui army.
Regardless of whether there will be another deal between himself and the little devil in the future, he must get the equipment that can form more than 10,000 Jinsui troops in front of him.
"Chief of Staff, haven't the troops who went to trade with the Japs come back yet? Logically speaking, they should have already returned!" At five o'clock in the morning, the tired Chief Yan couldn't help but ask.
"No..." the chief of staff replied, shaking his head.
Then he reminded: "Commander, do you think there is any conspiracy here? The little devil is playing tricks on us. He took our food and then refused to give us weapons and ammunition!"
"No, definitely not. The Japanese will not be so short-sighted that for the sake of three million kilograms of grain, it will affect their overall sweep of North China!"
"You have also seen the intelligence sent from the direction of Taiyue. Commander Chen of the Eighth Route Army is so capable of fighting. In just a short time, he has killed another Japanese brigade!"
"With the infantry regiment in front, plus this infantry brigade, the five thousand little Japs will be gone. The entire Taiyue suddenly lost five thousand troops. If the Japanese don't subsidize this gap, with the Eighth Route Army's fighting style, they will definitely arrest them.
Seize the opportunity and continue to attack them until the situation in the Taiyue area is changed!"
"If the Japanese want to stabilize the situation in Taiyue, they can only mobilize troops from us. There is no other way out!"
The chief of staff knew that what Chief Yan said was true. After hesitating for a few seconds, he asked: "I'm still a little worried when you haven't come back so late!"
"Commander, how about I take a company from the cavalry regiment to have a look and pick them up by the way?"
"This is okay!" Commander Yan did not refuse.
At the Japanese Division Headquarters in Linfen City, Lieutenant General Fujino slept particularly soundly today.
As long as the food problem is solved, Fujino is confident that under his new round of raids and attacks, the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army will definitely suffer heavy losses.
"Pa bang bang..."
Suddenly, a rapid knock on the door woke him up from his sleep. As soon as he opened his eyes, the door was pushed open, and the somewhat distracted chief of staff rushed in.
"Division Commander, something happened to the food?"
"Nani?" Fujino's intention to curse suddenly disappeared, and he sat up from the bed after a while.
Staring at the chief of staff, he asked: "How could something happen? From the trading place to Linfen City, it is an area occupied by the imperial army. There are checkpoints controlled by the imperial army along the way, and there is also a large baggage team escorting along the way. How could something happen?"
The chief of staff shook his head and replied: "An hour and a half ago, the convoy passed the last checkpoint ten kilometers away from Linfen City. Now two hours have almost passed, and it still has not reached Linfen. The cavalry troops followed the road until they found the checkpoint, but they did not find it. More than a thousand people were found.
The huge convoy of large vehicles seemed to have disappeared out of thin air!”
Lieutenant General Fujino couldn't sit still, put on a military coat and rushed outside.
This batch of food is too important to him, and there must be no accidents.
He rushed into the war room and stared at the staff officer on duty and asked, "Have you not found the convoy yet?"
Seeing the staff member shaking his head, he walked directly to the sand table, pointed to the forks on the sand table and asked, "Could they have taken the wrong path and been on the road these two days?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a communications staff officer rushed in: "Sir, we have lost contact with the cavalry team!"
"Where was the last contact with the cavalry team!"
"This way!" the staff officer on duty replied!
Lieutenant General Fujino directly judged: "If they have an accident on this road, then there must be something wrong with this road!"
He calmly ordered to the chief of staff next to him: "There are many Eighth Route Army guerrillas operating in the occupied area, and their main force has not moved. It must be those guerrillas who did it. Although I don't know if the convoy has anything to do with them, but as long as they are found
Everything is clear to the team!”
"Deploy a cavalry squadron and a strengthened infantry squadron from the city, take a car, and kill them immediately. We must find them!"
The convoy that stretched for five or six kilometers, because there were no torches, was like a ghost in the night, slowly advancing along the road.
Troops from the two companies scouted back and forth on both sides of the road to ensure that there were no enemies within 500 meters of the road on both sides!
Suddenly, Yan Song went to Wang Ping and reported: "Captain, the guard camp telegraphed that they have fought with a small group of Japanese cavalry, and killed the cavalry group, and also captured a radio station and 26 horses!"
After finishing the report, his eyes became hot.
"Your plan worked. Once the guard camp takes action, the enemy's attention will definitely be transferred to them. By the time the main force of the enemy goes over to find out the facts, we will have already arrived at the blockade!"
"Unexpectedly, a few large trucks filled with rocks and soil hid the little devils, and even tricked them into running around!"
Wang Ping looked at the watch on his wrist with the help of moonlight and replied: "There are less than eight kilometers left from the blockade. We will definitely arrive at 6:30 in the morning!"
"There I have gone to the Chief of Staff to prepare three mountain artillery batteries, three artillery batteries, a total of more than thirty artillery pieces!"
"That stronghold has a battalion of the Imperial Army and a reinforcement team of the Japanese army, and there are no of our own people in these Imperial Army. Send a telegram to the Chief of Staff now. When you see the signal flares we fired, all the artillery cannot stop. Fire with all your strength.
.I will use artillery shells to tear a hole in the Japanese defense line!"
"Your guard company has been blocked for me for six beams. Counting from the moment you hear the sound of the cannon, you must hold the position for an hour and a half at all costs. You cannot let the Japanese and puppet troops reach the front line one by one!"
"The first company blocks the Japs who may come to the left of the gap, and the second company blocks the Japs on the right. After the gap is opened, I will ask the artillery to send liaison officers with radios to reinforce them and call them for artillery support!"
"Send another telegram to the guard camp!"
"The Japs will definitely send out heavy troops to retaliate against them. There is no need to fight with the Japs, as long as the Japs can't find those carts filled with rocks before dawn!"
"After daybreak, the troops immediately dispersed and lurked to find the action teams and guerrillas operating there. There is no need to come back for the time being!"
"I have a hunch that the Japanese will no longer be able to get food from the Jinsui Army. But the Japanese are short of food, so there is only one way to get back the food they gave away to win people's hearts some time ago!"
"If it comes to this, while the areas occupied by the little devils are tight outside and loose inside, the guard battalions will cooperate with local guerrillas and action teams to attack the Japanese and puppet army's food-grabbing troops. Let the common people know who are their real friends and who are their true friends.
The enemy will then expand its troops and develop the areas occupied by the Japanese and puppet troops into guerrilla zones for our Eighth Route Army."
Yan Song's eyes flashed and he replied: "Captain, you have set up a big picture for the Japanese! As long as the Japanese are fooled, the little Japanese in Linfen City will probably be destroyed!"
Wang Ping replied with a serious face: "I just want to kill them! Take Linfen City and pull out the nail that the little devil has stuck in our heart!"
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