Pei Yuanshao battle group headquarters, Pei Yuanshao on the basis of the original two battalions, successively supplemented some combat personnel, these combat personnel are mainly supplemented in accordance with the infantry squad platoon, Pei Yuanshao is extremely dissatisfied with this, but there is nothing to do, the reason is very simple, Zhou Cang has no one to send to him, so, for such a thing, he himself also expressed extreme helplessness, this is the current situation they encountered, in the face of such a situation, they also expressed extreme helplessness.

"Is the scouting report out?" Pei Yuanshao said to a clerk that he had no staff officers by his side, so he could only temporarily transfer some officers to form a command headquarters. The clerks are all experienced non-commissioned officers.

"Not yet, sir. There may be some time to come, and we will not be able to pull out the personnel we need in a short period of time. The clerk explained.

"yes, I see." Pei Yuanshao nodded helplessly, Pei Yuanshao felt that he was very unsuitable for such a command method, the front-line combat area was very long, like a long snake, the two sides kept detouring, probing, and then clashing in more areas, and the width of the battle line reached an astonishing eighty miles. But the combined strength of the two sides is estimated to be only a little more than 5,000, and Pei Yuanshao doubts whether they can hold such a thin defensive line.

Therefore, Pei Yuanshao kept asking for reinforcements, but too few reinforcements came. Unable to replenish more than one company at a time, his only recourse now was to recruit militia and temporarily recruit them into the ranks for defensive operations.

They have to take the lead in occupying the points, defending, and in many areas, they also need to arrange **, in short, there are a lot of things, trouble. The line of defense is thinly removed at any time.

"Sir, the latest reconnaissance report." An ensign officer hurried in and reported.

"What's the situation?" Pei Yuanshao immediately asked.

"It's strange that we scouted their camp, but there was no one in the camp and no supplies." The second lieutenant said.

"What?" Pei Yuanshao asked extremely puzzled.

"We first scouted their camp and thought about a sneak attack, but we found that the camp was only occasionally entered, but the whole camp was quiet, and our men approached to reconnoitre. The camp was found to be empty. The second lieutenant reported.

Pei Yuanshao had some confusion. But he reacted quickly.

"Watch our front and see if there is any change, or rather, the appearance of the Wuhuan people in other areas throughout the world that we have not noticed. Intensify patrols. Pei Yuanshao first suspected that the Wuhuan people had launched a larger-scale attack. They must have found a new breakthrough.

The reconnaissance mission was again arranged, and at the same time, the information on the defense of the various strongholds began to be reflected.

None of them found any information about the Wuhuan people's roundabout attack, and Pei Yuanshao became cautious, as if it was completely different from the active offensive operation launched by Pei Yuanshao before, which was something they had never encountered before.

Wars are inherently complicated, and even, in some special circumstances, their changes are extremely different.

In Handan City, the police are extremely busy, especially the police who want to ensure the law and order situation in Handan, and their situation has also become extremely busy.

"All the people, take them back and have a good trial." Inspector Zheng Bing commanded.

"Sir, we've discovered something new." A policeman said to Inspector Zheng Bing.

"What's the situation?" Zheng Bing asked.

"Medicinal herbs, a lot of medicinal herbs, and finished medicines. This seems to be something on the other side of the patent case. The policeman said.

"Let's take a look." Zheng Bing said. Saying that, the two of them came to a large house, the house is made of bricks, very strong, but the decoration is very simple, so it is used as a warehouse. There is a lot of space inside, and there are more than 2,000 stone of medicinal herbs.

"It's just one room, and so are the other three rooms. They stored a large number of medicinal herbs. The police said that Zheng Bing and they found a fraud case, and when the economy develops, anything will happen, and in order to gather more money as soon as possible, many people will do everything. For example, shoddy, or simply fake. When Zheng Bing was sabotaging a fraud case, he accidentally seized these things.

"From what I know about these guys, a lot of things are fake, or shoddy, and it's definitely not a serious job anyway. If it's a serious product, it will never show up here, ask them what they do. Zheng Bing didn't know about medicinal materials, but his intuition told him that those guys were all people who couldn't afford to draft, and this also involved the issue of medicinal materials, and he knew that medicinal materials were a big deal.

Soon the police interrogated several people in a surprise manner, and the matter soon became known.

"Sir, those are all family medicinal herbs, and there are some medicinal herbs that have lost their medicinal effect, and they will gather these medicinal herbs and process them into powder. Then it was packed and sold to the Huns. Or a handful of other nomadic peoples in the north. As for the efficacy, the devil knows what to expect, and they are mixed with a lot of other things, such as wheat straw, wheat bran, and so on. Processed ingredients, nothing can be seen. Anyway, those Huns will think that this is a special medicine. Because these guys, at first, will sell some real pills, as well as potion mixtures to each other. It's easy to explain, that is, the medicine is not the right thing. A different medicine will do. Actually, these are two of the same thing. The police told Zheng Bing the results of the interrogation.

After Zheng Bing heard this, he was shocked, and he was quite shocked. He'd heard about some cases, and it was about food safety. For example, many alcoholic beverages are not brewed from pure grains, but are blended on a large scale. The kind of alcohol blended with is easy to produce. It's cheap, it's strong, and strictly speaking, it's a kind of wine, but it's cheaper, and some of them just take something else and process it. Anyway, the devil knows what they make up.

Merchants chase profits, and when goods are sold extensively, they start to think of ways to do things elsewhere. For example, how to reduce production costs, shoddy and so on. They did these things.

Some businessmen in the arms business are not involved, but they have noticed other businesses, such as bedding, alcohol, or medicine, because there is a lot of space for medicinal herbs, especially counterfeit medicines.

The Huns were very envious of the special drugs used by the Republican Army. The non-combat attrition of the Huns was also very terrible, especially in the bad weather. They have a great thirst for medicinal herbs.

And some businessmen quickly noticed such a lucrative industry. For example, a very normal pair of Xiao Chai Hu Tang powder sells for less than 50 points in the Republican Army. The cheapest can be bought for 35 cents, and a course of treatment does not cost much. But this price of less than fifty cents, in the hands of the Huns, is sixty yuan, and even as high as one hundred yuan in some places, and the more fierce the war, the more expensive it is.

The price of medical alcohol, which is only 1 yuan and 50 yuan, is as high as 150 yuan. The more intense the war, the more expensive it became. This profit can directly surpass that of the arms business.

High profits and huge demand have directly led some unscrupulous businessmen to make extremely extreme practices, counterfeit medicines, and they also use their own rhetoric, for example, they have a lot of functions that should not be there, detoxification, anti-inflammatory, and deal with all typhoid colds. Tablets and granules have become a special medicine for the treatment of all incurable diseases.

The use of herbs will increase the cost of the herb if some other substitutes are used, such as radish instead of ginseng and codonopsis. Anyway, it seems to them that it is about the same, and they even make flour into tablets, and the price of flour is high, so they use gypsum powder. They seemed to know that gypsum powder was also a medicinal herb, and they used it so comfortably.

Zheng Bing didn't know if such a case was a big case, because these unscrupulous businessmen should be more heinous than those theft and robbery crimes.

Businessmen who chase profits seem to be more harmful.

The illegal acts of businessmen are no longer limited to food safety issues. They go into other areas, and that's the disadvantage of chasing business profits. It's just that the development momentum of the Republican Army is very rapid, and many people don't notice such things.

Things got terribly shocking. Little by little, such things are being reported to the War Department, but the War Department's concern is not here, because the matter has not yet developed to the point of great shock.

War Department.

"The Huns have already sent troops. This is the latest telegram from the intelligence services, and the Huns are moving fast. Jia Xu said.

"But we have not found any signs of the Wuhuan retreat on our front." Shang Wu read the telegram and said so.

"There may be some waiting. Or maybe it won't take long. You can find out. Jia Xu said.

"Well, do you think we should tell us about what might happen at the front." Shang Wu said.

"Well, I don't think we'd tell them that if they take some risky steps to launch a counterattack, I don't think it's good." Jia Xu said worriedly that the front line was very stale, and it seemed that the Republican Army should mobilize two more infantry divisions to solve the problem, but unfortunately, they only mobilized one. The successive additions did not fundamentally solve the problem. On the contrary, the problem has entered a stalemate, which is very unfavorable, that is, it is in an extremely awkward position for offense and defense.