Wanping City.

Quadrangle-style headquarters.

Hall.

On a row of antique Taishi chairs, three Japanese officers with bright adjutant collar badges sat side by side.

Higashino Kanda, Yoji Matsuda, Yoshida Kurokawa.

In front of them, Izumi was making a report with an intelligence booklet, and behind him stood an intelligence officer.

"According to the information from intelligence officers behind enemy lines, a small force of the enemy's 18th Group Army, which is a company of the 119th Division, has entered the boundary of Wanping County."

"But we can't know the specific information, including the actual strength, configuration, and location of this company, and we only know that the leader of this company is named Zhang Lianshun."

"The 119th Division of the Eighteenth Army? The 119th Division in the Battle of Pingxingguan? Yoji Matsuda interrupted Ito's report at this time and asked questions.

"Yes," Ito nodded.

After a pause, the three adjutants did not ask any further questions before the meeting, and Ito continued to make a report.

"According to the Order No. 119 of the Western Order, two months ago, we implemented the strategy of local collection of partial provisions"

"A total of 127 villages and towns around Wanping City, in the past two months, our army has carried out five requisitions in conjunction with various security forces, and a total of 10,000 tons of grain, livestock and other materials have been collected, which has effectively reduced the pressure on domestic supplies and supported front-line operations."

"During this period, we were counterattacked nearly 100 times by a few spontaneously formed self-defense units, because they lacked organization and poor weapons, so there was no obstacle to the requisition."

"On the bright side, this enemy force has not been seen, they are hiding and accumulating strength, and they did not attack until the arrival of this transport group"

"But actually," Ito said this, Izumi paused deliberately, in order to draw the attention of the three adjutants.

"From this record of more than 100 counterattacks by local guerrillas, I found that the enemy's garrison was probably in the area of Pinggu Town, Tutuo Village, and Dazhuang Village."

"Tell me the reason" Hearing this, the three adjutants were obviously interested.

The baggage team was attacked, and it was not only Yoji Matsuda who was annoyed by heavy casualties. After all, the baggage team in the territory under his management was attacked, and Kurokawa Yoshida naturally couldn't escape the blame.

Moreover, these supplies were originally allocated to the Wanping City garrison for the reorganization of the brigade and the formation of the security team, and these baggage were robbed, and the expansion of the brigade and the formation of the security team were naturally gone.

Annoyed, the two of them have been mobilizing intelligence everywhere for four days, looking for traces of this group of enemies, but except for a bunch of useless information, there has been no substantive discovery, and at this time, a squad leader actually said that he had discovered the enemy station, which could not help but attract their interest.

"I studied the records of more than 100 large and small counterattacks, and found a pattern from them"

"Among the 127 villages and towns, the distribution of rebellion incidents is very regular, but most of the larger ones are concentrated in Pinggu Town, Tutuo Village, Dazhuang Village, Xiao'an Village, Da'an Village, etc., and the most dense rebellion is in Pinggu Town, Tutuo Village, and Dazhuang Village."

"Of course, it's hard to see anything based on this information alone, but I looked at the amount of supplies collected in various places."

"Among them, Pinggu Town, Tutuo Village, and Dazhuang Village collected the least and worst materials each time, as if the other party was deliberately taking out some useless materials."

"But in fact, these three villages and towns are not poor, and they can even be regarded as rich villages and towns around Wanping County."

"Moreover, among the three villages, the security team has recruited the least number of people."

"So, combined with this information, I suspect that this enemy company should be hiding around these villages, and with the support of the local population, they rebelled against our army in a small and organized way."

"Map" heard Ito Izumi's report, and Kurokawa Yoshida ordered someone to bring the map.

Spreading out the map, the three adjutants, including Kanda Higashino, carefully observed the map and called Ito Izumi to identify the location on the spot.

"This is Pinggu Town, about three kilometers to the west is Tutuo Village, and four kilometers to the north of Tutuo Village is Dazhuang Village, these three villages are distributed in a horn like a horn around Tutuo Village, and the surrounding terrain is dangerous, backed by deep mountains, it is an excellent place for small troops to be stationed."

Izumi pointed to the location on the map and said what he thought.

"Of course, the above is pure speculation and lacks actual evidence," he added.

"Whether it is true or not, the terrain here is already enough to justify an on-the-spot reconnaissance, this time the baggage team has been attacked, the losses are heavy, we must give enough counterattacks, we must deal a devastating blow to this force operating around Wanping County"

Clicking on the three villages and towns on the map, Kurokawa Yoshida looked angry, he could not escape the blame for such a big loss in his territory, although Higashino Shaozo resisted the punishment of his superiors for him, but if he couldn't find a way back in this matter and eliminate this small force of guerrillas and his own territory, even if Higashino Shaozo supported it, I am afraid that his status as a captain would be difficult to protect.

"Telegram" At this moment, a liaison officer walked into the headquarters with a telegram and handed it directly to Yoji Matsuda.

Yoji Matsuda took the telegram, looked at it, and a slight smile appeared on his originally calm face, and then handed the telegram to Kanda Higashino beside him, and after Kanda Higashino read it, he handed the telegram to Kurokawa Yoshida.

"Hey, please give me a lot of advice, Captain Matsuda" Looking at the telegram, Kurokawa Yoshida's face was calm at first, then gradually became pleasantly surprised, and finally a smile appeared on his face completely.

The telegram sent the commander of his direct division that his brigade would be under the direct command of Matsuda Dazuo in the near future, and that a brigade from the 5th Division would arrive at Wanping Castle in two days, and that they would belong to Matsuda Daisa, and that Matsuda Daisa would be responsible for encircling and suppressing the enemy forces around Wanping Castle.

And in the telegram, there is another message.

Yoji Matsuda will lead a newly formed wing and officially become a powerful wing leader.

"Kurokawa Nakasa, both imperial samurai, together for the great cause of the empire" Matsuda Yoji did not show his dislike and contempt for the second-line division, first, this is someone else's territory, and his next actions also need the strong support of the captain Kurokawa Nakasa in front of him.

Secondly, he still has some respect for the old lieutenant in front of him, who has served in the army for more than 20 years.

At this time, Yoji Matsuda and Higashino Kanda glanced at each other, and both of them saw the solemnity in their eyes.

They had exchanged messages privately before.

They knew very well that the support of this front-line brigade was not to annihilate a local guerrilla force, but to target the elite squad of the Republic of China that was suspected of existing, with super sophisticated equipment.