It's late at night and people are quiet.

In the inner city of Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Japanese Army stationed in Shanxi.

In the war room, a huge sand table has been set up.

According to the latest battle report just submitted by the communications class, Masao Inamori has already taken several combat staff from the combat class to mark the sand table.

Masao Inamori held a long wooden pole in his hand and pointed to the sand table to Yoshio Iwamatsu and Masao Hanaya, saying, "Your Commander and Your Chief of Staff, please see here, here, here, here and here."

"The Third Division of the Imperial Army and the Eight Regiments of the Fifth Division have reached their designated locations and have formed a four-sided encirclement of the core area of ​​the Taihang Bandit Area of ​​the Eighth Route Army."

"Yo Xi." Yoshio Iwamatsu nodded happily...

Hanagu Masato said again: "What is the reaction of the Eighth Route Army?"

Masao Inamori said: "The Eighth Route Army's reaction still needs to be reported by the front-line scouts..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the communications department head Inoue Yasushi walked in quickly and reported: "Commander, the front-line scouts have just heard of the news that the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Bandit District has broken through separately."

"Your Excellency Commander, everything seems to be very good." Hanaguchi Masahira.

"Yoxi." Yoshio Iwamatsu nodded happily and said, "Order the front-line scouts to continue to strengthen reconnaissance, and notify the advance teams of various participating divisions to strengthen reconnaissance in various areas around the Taihang Bandit Area. Once the Eighth Route Army is found to have signs of reassembling in a certain area, it must be reported to the headquarters as soon as possible."

"Hayi." Inoue Yasushi bowed his head heavily and turned around and hurried away.

Masao Inamori started the sand table operation with two combat staff.

The main purpose is to present the Eighth Route Army's split breakthrough on the simulated sand table.

Seeing Masao Inamori and two combat staff busy on the sand table, Yoshio Iwamatsu asked Masao Hana again: "Kun Huagu, what abnormal actions did the Eighth Route Army in the Northwest Bandit Area of ​​Shanxi and the Taiyue Bandit Area have taken place?"

According to Sakamoto Takaichi's judgment, the Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi will definitely take action. Iwamatsu Yoshio is most worried about. The Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi is too aggressive!

Kawa Masashi Hana replied: "As of now, no abnormalities have been found."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, another communications consultant hurried in.

"Hiss Commander," said the communications officer, "The Maguan stronghold reported that an Eighth Route Army, with a population of about a thousand, was heading south quickly along the Tongpu Railway."

"Maguan stronghold?" Yoshio Iwamatsu suddenly turned around and walked quickly towards the north wall of the war room.

Hanaya Masaya quickly walked to Yoshio Iwamatsu, then pointed to the map posted on the north wall and said, "Please look here, your commander, this is the Maguan stronghold."

Yoshio Iwamatsu made a rough observation and said in a deep voice: "It's only ten kilometers away from Taiyuan?"

"Yes, it's only about ten kilometers." Hanaya Masashi paused, then turned around and asked the communications consultant, "Shibuya, how did the Maguan stronghold find this Eighth Route Army?"

The communications consultant said: "The Maguan stronghold has arranged a large number of eyeliners in each village within ten kilometers around. This news is reported by the eyeliners of the village that is farthest. Oh, that village has already made a phone call."

Hua Guzheng said: "That means that the Eighth Route Army is still twenty kilometers away from Taiyuan."

Yoshio Iwamatsu said: "Order the New Castle Airport Guards to send scouts to verify."

"Hayi." The communications consultant paused and hurried back to the communications class to convey the order.

Watching the communications officer's figure go away, Hua Gu is withdrawing his gaze and said, "Your Excellency Commander, it's just an Eighth Route Army of the regiment, and it seems that there is no need to use the airport garrison to verify it."

"Don't be careless." Iwamatsu Yoshio said, "It's better to be careful."

Kazuya no longer said anything.

...

Niuwang Village.

With the protection of the night, Niu Er quietly came to the cornice at the entrance of the village.

Niu Er is the eyeliner placed by the Japanese at the Maguan stronghold in Niuwang Village, but even if they are dog legs, they cannot often receive bones with meat.

For example, Niu Er has not received any rewards recently.

Niu Er is lazy and lives a miserable life without rewards.

I was hungry for a day and finally waited until the villagers fell asleep. Niu Er quietly slipped to the corn field at the entrance of the village and was about to break a few bunches of corn sticks to chew.

However, after breaking several bunches, there were only corn sticks and no grains.

Because it is too early, the grains have not yet grown.

"Fuck, is this going to starve grandpa to death?" Niu Er cursed.

At this moment, a fire suddenly lit up in the direction of the road ahead.

"What's the situation?" Niu Er's heart moved and he turned over and fell to the cornfield.

After a while, the team appeared near the cornfield with torches.

Because of the fire, Niu Er could easily see the military uniform style of this team.

It was the Eighth Route Army! Niu Er was overjoyed and immediately retracted backwards to the depths of the cornfield, then rushed out of the cornfield from the other side, and ran towards the Maguan stronghold several kilometers away.

In less than a moment, Niu Er arrived outside the Maguan stronghold.

"Who?" a puppet soldier shouted loudly, "Stop!"

"Tajun, I want to meet Shimada Taijun." Niu Er shouted repeatedly, "I have important military information to Shimada Taijun."

"Niu Sang?" A Japanese lieutenant soon appeared at the gate of the Maguan stronghold and said in stiff Chinese, "Do you want to report to me about the Eighth Route Army?"

"Ah?" Niu Er was stunned, "Taijun, do you know?"

"Nonsense." The Japanese lieutenant said coldly, "How can I not know about such a big disturbance?"

"Taijun, this is also considered effective information?" Niu Er asked with a flattering look, "Is there any reward for money?"

"Baga, this cannot be considered effective information." The second lieutenant of the Japanese said in a deep voice, "I also know that the Eighth Route Army has entered your Niuwang Village. You should go back and stare at them for me."

"Hayi." Niu Er walked back in shame.

...

Needless to say, the first battalion of the independent regiment led by Zhang Dabiao was entering Niuwang Village.

Niuwang Village is already in the hinterland of the Japanese-occupied area, and there are neither strongholds nor artillery towers here, so the first battalion did not suffer any resistance during the process of occupying the village.

In normal times, Zhang Dabiao would definitely not dare to come here to fight the rich.

Or even if you come here, you will never dare to stay for a long time. At most, you will harass it and then apply oil on the soles of your feet and quickly escape.

But now, Zhang Dabiao has no scruples, because the main forces of the Japanese army in Shanxi have gathered in southeastern Shanxi and are sweeping the Taihang base, and the entire Jinzhong area is empty.

When the Japanese and puppet troops at nearby strongholds heard that they were coming, they were probably hiding in the strongholds, Ran Suishu was trembling.

As soon as he entered the village, Zhang Dabiao issued a stern order: "One company and two company guards, the third company surrounded the entire village, the guard lined up for me to enter the village to arrest people, and arrested President Maintain for me."

一声令下,一营官兵便迅速行动起来.

没有任务的四连战士,只能原地休息.

As the guard strait rushed into the village, Niuwang Village, which was originally in tranquility, immediately became turbulent.

In less than a moment, a man wearing a melon-skin hat on his head and a delicate black silk gown was tied up by two soldiers in the guard platoon and slipped over with his hands.

张大彪一个眼神冷冷地瞪过去,

The man in the melon-shaped hat immediately thrust and fell to the ground.

Zhang Dabiao said coldly: "Are you the maintenance president of Niuwang Village?"

"Yes, yes." The man in the melon-shaped hat replied hurriedly, "The little old Wang Changgui is proud and will maintain the president of Niuwang Village."

"Your surname is Wang?" Zhang Dabiao curled with a look of disdain on the corner of his mouth, and then cursed, "You are worthy of your surname Wang?"

"Yes, yes, yes, little old man is not worthy of his surname Wang." Wang Changgui did not dare to resist verbally, and said hurriedly, "Little old man is not worthy of his surname."

When Zhang Dabiao was about to continue the interrogation, a rapid sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded in the direction of the dandelion road, and then a cavalry appeared at the entrance of Niuwang Village.

“张副参谋长!”

Nearly a hundred meters away, the cavalry shouted loudly from afar.

"It's the squad leader of the communication squad." Zhang Dabiao said in a deep voice, "It's probably a new combat mission."

After a while, Gu Xiaobei rode a fast horse and rushed to Zhang Dabiao like a wind storm, gasping for breath: "Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang, the command center ordered urgently."

Zhang Dabiao quickly stood up.

Gu Xiaobei also said: "Cook up food and grass on the spot, prepare 30,000 servings of dry rice and breakfast for 3,000 mules and horses. After completing the task of raising food and grass, he immediately seized all the commanding heights in Niuwang Village and nearby, and built fortifications on the spot to prevent the Japanese army heading south from Anhua."

Zhang Dabiao shouted: "Yes!"

谷小北随即打马离去.

Watching Gu Xiaobei go away, Zhang Dabiao turns his gaze to Wang Changgui again and says coldly: "Did you hear what you said just now? Now I will give you a chance to atone for your sins."

"As long as you can prepare breakfast for 30,000 people before dawn, remember, what to do!"

"It must also be enough to feed the grass grains for three thousand mules and horses and the feed beans for five hundred war horses."

"As long as you can complete these things, you can't pursue the past without pursuing them, and we will spare you."

"Yes, yes, yes." Wang Changgui still did not dare to resist at all, and said hurriedly, "It will definitely be done, it will be done here, and the old man will be done now."

...

One night passed.

It was almost dawn, the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment drove along the same dandelion road to Niuwang Village. At this time, the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment, which was the vanguard, had already prepared breakfast.

The breakfast was a freshly steamed white flour bun, which was placed in a large basket on the side of the road, and there was also a broth.

In addition to white flour buns and broth, horse troughs were also placed in the corn fields on both sides of the highway, which contained ready-made forage and fried beans.

Therefore, the large army did not stop for a moment when they passed by.

The soldiers grabbed a handful of white flour buns, held one in their mouths, a few in their bags, and two more in their hands. They ate while marching south. They were so thirsty that they stopped to drink a bowl of broth.

The cavalry had to dismount and lead the army to the cornfield to feed the food.

Wang Ye will be marching with Ding Wei's new 1st regiment headquarters.

When the Xinyi Tuantuan headquarters arrived at Niuwang Village, it was already past seven o'clock in the morning.

At this time, Li Yunlong had already brought the main force of the Independent Group, and now he was passing through the new first group of troops, and Kong Jie's new second group was still behind.

The large army of nearly 30,000 people was more than ten miles long.

After a marching night, Ding Wei and Wang Ye were also hungry. When they were about to stop for breakfast, the loud roar of the plane engine suddenly sounded in the air ahead.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army had already summarized a complete set of experience because it was bombarded by the Japanese aviation army.

Almost at the moment when the plane engine roared, a sharp whistle sounded in the marching queue. Hearing the sharp whistle, the marching queues on the road quickly spread out and hid into the cornfield on both sides of the road. Even the four Meiji 38-year-old 75mm caliber field cannons in the queue were pushed into the cornfield as soon as possible.

The rolling green gauze tent provided excellent cover to the Eighth Route Army.

I have to say that it is really good to choose to send troops to attack Taiyuan at this time!

Not only the marching troops, but even the soldiers of the first battalion carried baskets filled with white flour buns and large wooden barrels filled with broth and hidden into the cornfield on the roadside.

Ding Wei grabbed a white flour bun from the basket and chewed it while saying, "This unit is not good for its large scale. It can never be able to march in seclusion like before."

"When I was just a group of thousands of people, how could these happen?"

"There are no reconnaissance, logistics support, or emergency plans."

"Whether I was in the Hebei Central Military Region before or later in the Taihang Military Region, as long as I had an idea, I always left whenever I said I could go. I would marching for a long distance at night and then I could reach a hundred miles away without anyone noticing."

Wang Ye said: "The underlying logic of large troops' operations is completely different from the sneak attacks of small troops."

"Not that," Ding Wei said, "Small troops attack sneak attacks are about flexibility and suddenness, but large troops cannot be flexible and maneuverable in combat, and there are too many restrictions in all aspects."

Wang Ye smiled and said, "Captain Ding, this is just a large army of 20,000 to 30,000 people. In the near future, when the Japanese devils are killed, a large army of hundreds of thousands or even millions will break out. The movement will be huge at that time, so we have to accumulate and summarize this experience now, so we will not suffer a big loss when we are caught off guard."

Wang Ye’s words were not just nonsense. In the early days of the Liberation War, the People’s Liberation Army had really suffered a great loss in this regard.

"You don't know, it's really necessary." Ding Wei nodded, "You kid is really good. The combat plan formulated this time has opened my eyes. I dare say that at this stage, all the staff officers of our Eighth Route Army, one of them is counted, and it is impossible for you to formulate a more rigorous combat plan than your kid."

"No, Captain Ding, you are so proud of me."

Wang Ye hurriedly said, "I must never take this."

While the two were talking, two Zero fighters appeared in the sky in the southeast.

Then the two Zero fighters quickly dived, but did not dive towards the cornfield where the large number of Eighth Route Army were hidden, but instead dive towards Niuwang Village.

First, they dropped bombs, then dived and strafed.

It took more than ten minutes to rage, and two Zero fighters flew away.

"Fuck!" Ding Wei walked out of the cornfield, spat in the direction where the Japanese fighter planes flew away, and said with hatred, "We the Eighth Route Army don't know when we will have our own air force?"

Wang Yexin said that this is a bit difficult, and I am afraid it will be after the founding of the country.

Ding Wei was still worried about the safety of the cannons, so he called the artillery company commander Liu Mangang in front of him and said, "Company Commander Liu, further forward is the Taiyuan Effective Area. It is densely populated and is not conducive to the concealment of the cannons, so you should not go forward for the time being, just stay here and wait until it gets dark."

Liu Mangang smiled and said, "Captain, you and Captain Li have thought of going together."

"Li Yunlong?" Ding Wei said in surprise, "He also left the cannon company here?"

"Not." Liu Mangan said with a smile, "I saw Lao Tu in the corn field just now."

Lao Tu in Liu Mangang's mouth is Tu Feng, the company commander of the artillery company directly under the Independent Regiment, and he is also Liu Mangang's old comrade-in-arms.

Wang Ye smiled and said, "This is called the hero's similar experience. Commander Ding and our commander thought of going together. Anyway, today they were just cleaning up the periphery of Taiyuan. You should not use cannons for the time being. Grenade launchers and mortars are enough."

"After all the time, it's because we don't have an air force." Ding Wei said, "so we have to think more about the enemy than the enemy. How can our artillery be able to play a role and survive?"

He paused and said, "You can also hide with the help of corn fields during the march, but when you arrive outside Taiyuan City, it may not be so easy to hide."

"There is actually a solution." Wang Ye said with a smile.

After a pause, he continued: "There are many ways. The most common method is to cover the camouflage nets with cannons, so that the Japanese planes can basically not tell where the artillery positions are and where the crop fields are? If the terrain allows, they can directly hide the cannons in the air-raid shelter, so they are not afraid of the plane bombing."

"Don't say it, this method is good." Ding Wei said with his eyes lit up.

"There are many small hills outside Taiyuan City, and many caves have been built on the mountain."

"Remodeling these caves and disguising them will make you an excellent artillery position."

"Captain Ding, the artillery position has been selected long ago." After Wang Ye said that, he took out a map from his bag.

Ding Wei leaned over and took a look, but found that it was a Taiyuan City Defense Map. There were several small circles drawn with red pencils in the northeast and northwest corners outside Taiyuan City.

"Captain Ding, look at this place, there is still this place."

Wang Ye pointed to a few red circles and said, "There are several small hills here, and there are several caves facing Taiyuan at the foot of the mountain. The distance is about six or seven kilometers, which can be transformed into the artillery position."

"This picture should be the reconnaissance result of the Wolf Warrior Squadron, right?"

Ding Wei sighed: "Xiao Wang, you really thought of everything."

He paused and said, "Li Yunlong is so lucky. You are like the chief of staff."

"Captain Ding, stop praising me." Wang Ye waved his hand and smiled, "I will be proud of praising me again. Once I am proud, there will be trouble. In the words of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Wang Ye is not praising me."
Chapter completed!