Taiyuan, 1st Army Command.

Okamura Yasuji has been staying in Taiyuan for a while, so Seiichiro Kita, the commander of the 1st Army, is more like the chief of staff, but Seiichiro Kita has no choice.

After all, Okamura Yasuji is his immediate boss.

That morning Seiichiro Kita was preparing to have breakfast, but found that the food had become worse.

"Haga." Kita Seiichiro immediately said furiously, "Call the person in charge of the kitchen!"

After a while, the head of the kitchen came to Seiichiro Kita, nodded and said, "Tajun, what are your instructions?"

"What's going on?" Seiichiro Kita pointed to the table and said with a dark face, "Why has the breakfast standard become worse? Why is there no sashimi or sake?"

"This..." The kitchen manager was speechless.

Seiichiro Kita angrily said, "Are you corrupt? Chinese people are just unreliable!"

The head of the kitchen faced bitterly and didn't know how to explain. At this time, Okamura Yasuji came in.

"Kitajun." Okamura Yasuji waved his hand and said, "Don't be angry, this is my order."

"What?" Kita Seiichiro was stunned and said in surprise, "Is it your general who you mean?"

"Yes, it's all the logistics expenditures I have cut." Okamura Yiji sat at the dining table and picked up a rice ball and said, "The empire's finances are already very tight at the moment. In addition to asking us to send our condemnation troops to raise funds on their own, the base camp also hopes that we can feed the base camp some funds."

"Feedback the funds?" Seiichiro Kita said with a wry smile, "It's not easy."

"Yes, it's really not easy." Okamura Yasuji said, "China has become a huge burden for the empire. Not only can it not provide support to the empire, but it continues to consume the empire's valuable resources, including military sources and combat materials, must be provided from the empire's mainland, so the only thing we can do is to provide financial support."

Seiichiro Kita nodded and said, "That is why you, the general, allocated funds to SX?"

"The five provinces in North China have to pay levies." Okamura Yasuji said, "but Shanxi has the highest quota, which is 20 million yuan!"

Speaking of this, Okamura Yasuji sighed again: "Even so, our North China Front Army can only provide 50 million yuan to the base camp at most, barely enough to build an aircraft carrier."

Seiichiro Kita said with a dark face: "Has the empire's finances really collapsed to this extent? Isn't the treasury still abundant in the first half of this year?"

Okamura Yasuji said: "There is no way. In the past six months, the Imperial Navy and the Beautiful National Navy have fought more than 30 consecutive times, losing a large number of aircraft and warships. The dividends obtained by the Southern Army from the Southeast Asian battlefield have long been exhausted and even owed them, so the base camp has reduced the expenditure of each army."

Seiichiro Kita said: "The people in the navy are all useless. They have never won a battle since the Battle of Midway. If the Imperial Navy is at a disadvantage, I won't say that the Imperial Navy is at a disadvantage. But the problem is that every naval battle, the Imperial Navy clearly has the advantage of troops and weapons, but in the end they always draw or simply lose. It's really annoying."

Okamura Yasuji sighed: "The Navy's soul has been knocked out."

Seiichiro Kita said, "I wish Marshal Togo was still there."

"I won't talk about this." Okamura Yasuji waved his hand and said, "Eat."

At this moment, the adjutant Machidachi hurried in and reported: "What happened to you, Your Excellency General."

"Machida-kun, don't be anxious." Okamura Yanji waved his hand and said slowly while gnawing on the rice ball, "If you have something to do, it's time to say it, the sky will not fall."

"Hai." Machida paused, "The Qi County Military Police Team had just called and said that the special forces of the 386th Brigade had just attacked Qi County and robbed a Type 93 armored vehicle of the Qi County Military Police Team, but also used this armored vehicle to pretend to be the military police team to steal the funds raised by the Qu family, Wang family and Shi family for the empire."

"What?" Seiichiro Kita burst into tears, "What's the matter?"

Okamura Yanji's face also collapsed instantly: "How much does it cost to rob it?"

Machida Ichi said in a deep voice: "Total 10,000 taels of gold plus 30,000 yuan of oceans."

"Damn it!" Okamura Nishi said with a dark face, "It's this wolf warrior team again."

Seiichiro Kita said: "Great General, this Wolf Warrior Team is too arrogant."

"Yes, it's really too arrogant." Okamura Yasuji said, "This is the first time this has been attacked in half a year? If I remember correctly, there should have been more than a dozen times, right?"

Seiichiro Kita said: "What makes people even more angry is that our blockade ditch and the strongholds along the route are useless in front of the Wolf Warrior Team and have no effect at all. There are more than a dozen counties around the Taiyue Bandit District. They enter as much as they want, come as they want, and kill whoever they want, making everyone in danger of the local genius and gentry who are kind to the Imperial Army."

After a pause, Seiichiro Kita said again: "It's better if Yamamoto and the others are still here."

The Wolf Warrior Team is a special force, and ordinary troops can't deal with it.

Unfortunately, both experts in the Japanese army who were proficient in special operations had been killed in battle.

So now it is impossible to build a special forces counter the Wolf Warrior Team.

As for other troops like the Advance Team, they are not opponents of the Wolf Warrior Team at all.

They have not built a marching team before, and have sent a marching team to deal with the Wolf Team, but the final result is that meat buns will go and fight dogs without returning.

Whether it is home or away, the results are no different.

Okamura Yasuji sighed, saying: "The Wolf Warrior Team is so difficult to deal with, and entering and leaving the dozen counties around the Taiyue Bandit District is like entering a no-man. In this way, it is necessary to expand the scope of material blockade."

Seiichiro Kita was stunned and said, "What does your general mean?"

Okamura Yanji pondered: "Didn't the Wolf Warrior Brigade of the 386th Brigade just robbed more than 1.4 million yuan of gold worth more than 1.4 million yuan from Qi County? If I was not wrong, they robbed money to buy food, because recently a large number of refugees poured into southeastern Shanxi from Henan, which has put serious pressure on the supply of grain in the bandit area."

"Yoxi." Seiichiro Kita said happily, "so control the outflow of grain and prevent the 386th Brigade from buying grain from more than a dozen counties around the bandit area? This is useless to have money."

"It's not enough to just control the outflow of food." Okamura Nishi shook his head and said, "because no matter how strict the Imperial Army is, the Eighth Route Army can always think of ways. Their spies are simply everywhere."

After a pause, Okamura Yasuji said again: "So, we have to control the inflow of food."

Seiichiro Kita said: "Your Excellency General is saying that you should limit the grain supply in the counties around the Taiyue Bandit District? But this seems useless, because the Eighth Route Army can buy grain from farther county towns, and the Imperial Army cannot block the grain supply in Shanxi. In this way, it will be against the grain merchants in Shanxi."

"It is definitely not possible to block the grain supply in Shanxi and prevent Shanxi merchants from making money. After all, the Imperial Army's business activities in Shanxi have to be maintained by Shanxi merchants. It is not possible to rely on local merchants of the empire alone." Okamura Yasuji waved his hand and said, "But we don't need to block Shanxi, we just need to block more than ten counties around Taiyue Bandit District."

Seiichiro Kita said: "In this case, the 386th Brigade can only buy grain from a distance, such as Taiyuan."

"It is to force the Eighth Route Army to buy food from a distance and increase the distance to transport food." Okamura Yanji said with a fierce voice, "If nothing unexpected happens, the food crisis in Taiyue Bandit District and Taihang Bandit District is now extremely serious, and it will only become more and more serious as time goes by, so sporadic grain smuggling cannot solve the problem."

"Yes." Seiichiro Kita nodded, "It is necessary to carry out large-scale armed trafficking."

"This gives us time to react," said Okamura Yasuji. "We can notify the strongholds in time to intercept them, and then mobilize troops to encircle and suppress them. In short, the 386th Brigade must not be allowed to transport a grain back to the bandit area."

"Your Excellency, I'm afraid it's not easy," said Seiichiro Kita. "Because of the abominable troops of the Wolf Warrior Team, they will always cut off the telephone lines at critical moments and paralyze the communications of various strongholds along the blockade ditch, so that the various strongholds along the blockade ditch always become blind and deaf at critical moments, and they will never play any role."

"So we need to strengthen communication." Okamura Yasuji said, "The reliability of telephone communication is too low. We have to provide walkie-talkies to the garrisons, military police teams and various strongholds along the blockade ditch to realize instant communication."

"Fitted with a walkie-talkie." Kita Seiichiro frowned, "This is a considerable expense."

"Money is not a problem." Okamura Yanji snorted, "Let Qukawazhi and others pay the money."

"Yes." Seiichiro Kita nodded happily, "The Imperial Army equipped with more advanced communication equipment is not to protect their property safety, so it is also appropriate for them to pay some funds."

"That's the reason." Okamura Yasuji said happily.

...

At this time, Li Yunlong had already led his troops to meet Wang Ye and the others.

It is close to Qi County, which belongs to the fourth division, so the Chief of Staff asked Li Yunlong to bring his troops to support him.

When Li Yunlong led a battalion to the Blockade Ditch, he happened to meet Wang Ye and the others driving the Type 93 armored vehicles, fighting fiercely with the Japanese at the strongholds along the Blockade Ditch.

The Japanese and puppet troops had about one hundred people in total.

Li Yunlong led his troops to defeat the Japanese with just one charge.

The remaining seventy or eighty puppet troops fled in panic, and Li Yunlong did not order a pursuit.

The Type 93 armored vehicle could not pass the blockade ditch and could only blow it up, which made Li Yunlong feel very distressed. Seeing that Wang Ye and the others were just lifting the eight-piece wooden box out of the armored vehicle, Li Yunlong became even more depressed.

Pointing at the eight-piece wooden box that was put on the mule's back, Li Yunlong asked, "Those are the only ones?"

"The regiment commander, there are a lot." Wang Ye said with a smile, "It's more than 1.4 million yuan in the ocean. It's enough to buy 30 million kilograms of corn or 20 million kilograms of wheat. It's enough to eat at least two years for our military region. It's okay to save some food for three years."

"Breaking nonsense, you are so stupid." Li Yunlong said angrily, "A 100-yuan weighs more than five kilograms, and more than 1.4 million-yuan weighs more than 70,000 kilograms. At least more than 200 mules are required to carry it."

After saying that, he pointed to the eight mules in front and said, "There is no enough for eight mules."

Wang Ye said: "I forgot to say that the ocean is only 30,000 yuan, and the rest is gold, about 10,000 taels."

"Gold?" Li Yunlong calculated with his fingers, "Now one or two gold liang is worth 140 oceans, and ten thousand taels of gold is really 1.4 million oceans. Damn it, wouldn't you make a fortune if you say so?"

"That's not." Wang Ye smiled, "When did I lie?"

"That's great." Li Yunlong said, "We don't have to go hungry anymore."

"Xiao Wang, you don't know that I have been drinking dilutely every meal in the past two months. Even when we walk the road, we have to fight with our legs, and we are so thin that we can blow into the sky with the wind."

"Look, the ribs are all out."

"Damn, I've really lived enough of this kind of life."

"When did we suffer such hardships when we were in northwest Shanxi?"

He paused and said, "But now, I'm fine. With this money, I finally don't have to go hungry."

While the two were talking, they suddenly saw a team coming towards us. Because the vanguard team did not warn, Wang Ye and Li Yunlong knew that the person who came here was their own people.

He is really his own person.

Xu Yougeng, who escorted Carlson back to Yan'an, came back.

Carlson has successfully completed his mission and is preparing to return to Chongqing to submit a mission to Jansen.

What Wang Ye and Li Yunlong did not expect was that those who came back with Xu Yougeng were Zhang Dabiao and more than 300 veterans from Northwest Shanxi who returned to the team after recovering from injury.

Seeing Zhang Dabiao and more than 300 veterans,

Li Yunlong, Wang Ye and others were really overjoyed.

"Da Biao, you are finally willing to come back." Li Yunlong greeted someone by scolding, "I thought you were staying in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia and didn't want to come back."
To be continued...