After all, the Japanese army was the real master of Laiyuan County. After so long, even if we have not figured out the true strength of the independent battalion, we can still figure out the approximate location of the independent battalion.

Colonel Ono, no, now Ono has been promoted to major general. As long as the supplementary troops and equipment given to him by the headquarters arrives, the Laiyuan Garage Brigade will be announced to the public and he will become the first brigade commander of the brigade.

Although he had not yet encircled the Eighth Route Army in the mountains, Ono did not want these cunning Eighth Route Army to come out of the mountains to harass him before the establishment of the brigade, and to eat his own infantry squadron for no reason. At the same time, he did not want to see these Eighth Route Army flee from Laiyuan and make him lose the opportunity to take revenge.

Therefore, when ordering each stronghold to build artillery towers with cement, Ono specially dispatched troops from the county town to form a mixed reinforcement squadron, including an infantry squadron, a mortar squad, a heavy machine gun squad, an infantry artillery squad, nearly 300 elite Imperial Army troops, and then added a battalion of puppet troops, with a total of more than 600 people. The only way to enter the independent battalion and enter the mountains, Xiaguan Village.

In the view of Major General Ono, as long as he guards the Xiaguancun stronghold, the Eighth Route Army cannot come out of the mountain to harass us. At the same time, the Imperial Army can also trap the Eighth Route Army in the mountains. Once the brigade has formed its combat effectiveness, it can draw heavy troops to enter the mountain to encircle them and avenge their previous shame.

It is precisely because the Xiaguan stronghold is so important that Ono has drawn so many people from the limited troops to come here.

The person responsible for all the Japanese and puppet troops in the Xiaguan stronghold was a captain, Major Hamasaki.

As a veteran Japanese officer who was deeply influenced by the spirit of Bushido, Major Hamazaki has been on the front line of the battlefield since the war of aggression against China. Even if there are not a few dozen Chinese people who died at his hands, ten people will definitely be indispensable.

With these military achievements, when Ono was promoted to major general, he was promoted from captain to major.

As an executioner stained with the blood of the Chinese, he never regarded the Chinese as human beings. In his eyes, the Chinese were tools to create wealth for Japan. Therefore, in order to make the Xiaguan stronghold repaired as soon as possible, in addition to asking Ono for more than 100 prisoners of the Jinsui Army who had just been sent from the front line, he also captured more than 100 young and strong people in the surrounding villages.

They only gave these people food that could not starve to death every day, but they were asked to do at least ten hours of coolies every day, with more than two hundred people, and took turns day and night to build strongholds and artillery towers.

Since the Japanese started building the artillery tower, in just two days, two prisoners and one young man were cut in half by Hamazaki with a command knife because they could not support themselves. Then they buried them in the big pit just dug out around the stronghold.

As for the more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops, because the stronghold has not been built, they are now stationed on a high ground less than 500 meters away from the stronghold. While surveillance of the stronghold, they also sent at least one Japanese squad and a company of puppet troops to take turns to supervise the stronghold to prevent prisoners and young men from being lazy.

So, before Wang Ping and his troops walked out of the mountains, they were stopped by Zhong Yusheng, who was in the investigation in front.

After hearing the enemy situation that Zhong Yusheng found, Wang Ping frowned first, and then said with a murderous look on his face: "We must eat this Japanese and puppet army, otherwise it will be very difficult for us to go out, not to mention fighting the Laiyuan everywhere!"

"But the enemy has more than 600 people, heavy machine guns, mortars, and infantry cannons. But we only have more than 200 people, so we are not opponents at all!" The first company commander Zhang Qing frowned and analyzed the strength comparison between the enemy and us.

"Battery Commander, I finally encountered a big battle. More than 600 Japanese and puppet troops. If our independent battalion could eat it, it would definitely shock the entire military region and let everyone look at our independent battalion differently!" Zeng Quan said with a longing look on his face.

Wang Ping replied with a wry smile: "Lao Zeng, this is more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops, and there are more than 300 Japanese and Japanese soldiers alone. If it is so easy to fight, I wouldn't have pulled all the independent camps over."

Then he ordered Zhong Yusheng next to him: "Planer Zhong, please introduce the situation to Lao Zeng first!"
Chapter completed!