Chapter 175: Cunning Guy

Tsuruta Numan believes that although these so-called Eight Roads are just a force established by the Eight Roads, there is no number, the so-called local armed forces. Fastest update access: щщщ.79XS.сОΜ. The area of activity is also relatively fixed, and the weaponry and military quality are also inferior to those of the main force of the Eighth Road. But Tsuruta Numan believes that these Tubalu who are familiar with the terrain and people's conditions are no less threatening to the empire's domination in the southeast of Jin than the regular Eighth Route Army.

In particular, the military and tactical quality of this Tubalu in Hubei is also in the middle and upper range, and it is almost the same as the main force of the Balu. After winning several 'engagements' with the Hubei County Garrison and the Hubei garrison, the equipment was also quite 'sophisticated'. Its commanders are not only tactically strange and changeable, but also extremely adept at capturing fighters. After making up your mind, dare to take any risks.

If they are allowed to exist, it will be a serious threat to the security of Hubei and even the entire Changzhi region. It may even directly threaten the security and stability of the Changzhi county seat where the division headquarters is located. Tsuruta Numan has always believed that if a piece of rotten 'meat' is not cleaned up in time, it will cause a series of chain reactions.

The good 'meat' around the rotten 'meat' will gradually decay together over time. The most important thing to do now is to dig up this piece of rotten 'meat' as soon as possible, even if it is to pay some price temporarily. The most urgent thing is to solve this increasingly active and threatening dirt road as soon as possible.

I don't want Luo Hekanshiro to fail in encirclement and suppression many times, but it is the loss of soldiers who will take a scene on him, and Tsuruta Numan will be staged again. It was insisted on setting up an ambush circle in the triangular area of Luoma and Qiaokou and Pingchuan in the necessary place to retreat from Hubei County to the eastern mountainous area, and to destroy this Tuba Road, which was bold and eager to return after the successful sneak attack, and directly wiped it out in one go.

It's just a pity that although Tsuruta Numan is ambitious, his boss doesn't see it that way. What are you kidding, a county town is actually occupied by a Tubalu, where to put the face of the imperial army. If the main force of the Eight Roads of Taihang Mountain is not forced to say the past, but the sneak attack is a Tu Eight Roads that does not even have a military uniform and a number.

This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the empire's rule in the southeast of Jin. It will cause those who serve the empire to suffer a major blow to their confidence. Moreover, a large number of materials stored in Hubei County were destroyed, so that the logistics supply of the troops on the Western Front who were sweeping in the Taihang Mountains at the moment could be said to be almost completely interrupted.

If Hubei County cannot be collected and paid in time, the empire will lose face in the entire southeast of Jin, and it will also be a serious blow to the security of the southeast of Jin. The most important thing is to lose so many supplies, and this sweeping operation on the western line of Taihang Mountain can only be terminated.

Although Tsuruta Numan repeatedly asked for instructions, the chief of staff of the 36th Division, who was in charge of commanding the 'sweeping' troops on the Western Front, repeatedly ordered Tsuruta Numan to immediately return to the rescue of Hubei County. If Tsuruta Numanan does not obey the order or acts on his own, he will be punished with the most severe punishment.

After receiving a telegram from the chief of staff of the division, Tsuruta Numan could only sigh and reluctantly order it to be executed. He knew that even with the assistance of the reconnaissance plane, it would be difficult for him to catch this cunning dirt road now that he had withdrawn to Hubei County. The commander of this Tubalu is not an ordinary cunning, and he will definitely not wait for himself to be caught in Hubei County.

His withdrawal to Hubei County can only be said in vain, and it also means that the sweep of the eastern mountainous areas of Hubei can only be completely terminated. Tsuruta Numan knew that as long as he withdrew to Hubei County, his boss would not be able to 'pump' so many troops at least for a short time. Especially after this incident, the boss must focus on strengthening the defense of the line from Hubei to Ludong.

At present, the troops advancing westward from Licheng have swept northward after swooping in the mountainous area east of Hubei. Although he has the current strength at hand, it is impossible to control the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei if he wants to ensure that the county seat of Hubei will not be attacked again.

Especially under the situation that the two squadrons of the Hubei County Garrison followed the reinforcements to rescue the Okazaki detachment and never returned, and the strength of the garrison has been greatly weakened. If he retracts back to Hubei County, it will not be easy to ensure the safety of Luoma, Qiaokou and Pingchuan.

It's just that no matter whether Tsuruta Numan is unwilling or unwilling, he can only obey orders in the face of the strict orders of the chief of staff of the division and regiment and the threat of military legal sanctions. Through Qiaokou and Pingchuan, it quickly withdrew to Hubei County. It's just that he was unwilling, and before evacuating from the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei, he left more than 100 Japanese troops on the front line of Qiaokou and Pingchuan to strengthen their defenses.

And with a part of the troops, they were stationed north at the junction of Ludong and Hubei, and the connection between the two counties was strictly sealed. As for the stronghold of the fallen horse, Tsuruta Numan hesitated, but still did not strengthen his guard in that direction. Just ordered the troops who stayed on the front line of Pingchuan to make a warning in the direction of the fall.

The Japanese puppet army, which had been defeated from the southeast of Ludong and retreated to Luoma and Qiaokou, had been transferred back to Ludong under the strict orders of their superiors. And the troops of Luoma and Qiaokou before have been 'drawn' too much in order to reinforce the Okazaki detachment. The remaining forces are somewhat difficult to hold on to two strongholds on average.

At present, when Tsuruta Numan adjusts its deployment, whether in terms of terrain or important 'nature', it can only tilt the focus to the line from Pingchuan to Qiaokou. After all, as the main stronghold of the Japanese army in the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei, the importance of curbing the Qiaokou from Hubei to Licheng is far more important than falling off the horse. There is no way to compare the importance of mountain roads and highways militarily.

It's not that Tsuruta Numan consciously ignored the stronghold of the fallen horse, but that the terrain there is like a gourd, which is narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, which is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack. After entering the mountain from the base of the horse, the long mountain road is quite narrow and difficult to pass through the carriage. If those dirt roads carried a large amount of supplies into the mountains, it was not an easy task without horse-drawn carriages.

The weight of a person is limited, and if all these supplies are transported by manpower, the troops will not be able to march and fight if they have to deal with sudden battles at all times. This point, Tsuruta Numan believes that the commander of the Tsuchihachi Road will definitely not be unintelligible. He wouldn't be so stupid to carry so much supplies to the stronghold.

In addition, the base of Lok Ma is very close to Pingchuan and Qiaokou, and there are good roads to connect it. Tsuruta Numan believed that under the circumstance that there were not too many troops left, it would be more appropriate to take the Pingchuan and Qiaokou lines as the core and tightly seal the Basongling line to clamp down on the strongholds.

But many times, the development of the situation is not subject to human will. On the same day that Tsuruta Numan had just taken the Japanese puppet army that had entered the mountains to sweep the 'sweep', and withdrew to Hubei County. Before he could catch his breath, he received another report that the stronghold had been lost, and the defenders had broken and the 'jade' had been shattered.

After receiving a report from the Japanese army in Hirakawa Town, Tsuruta Numan almost didn't bite his teeth. Before he had time to rest and recuperate, he immediately set off as a team, with his reinforcements and a squadron of the puppet garrison dispatched from Pingchuan, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers who stayed on the line from Pingchuan to Qiaokou rushed to the stronghold of Luoma, but found that in addition to the corpses of dozens of Japanese puppet soldiers, only a broken wall remained.

Looking at the fallen stronghold in front of him, which had become a pile of rubble, Tsuruta Numu was almost mad with anger. Before he could calm down, the sudden and dense gunfire in the direction of Pingchuan made him so angry that he was about to vomit blood. He could only pick up the 'spirit' and command the troops to march towards Pingchuan again.

The gunfire in the direction of Hirakawa made Tsuruta Numan immediately understand the opponent's thoughts. Their real goal is not to fall off the horse at all. They carried a large amount of supplies from Hubei County, which was a trick of repairing the plank road and secretly Chencang. By attacking the stronghold of Luoma, he transferred his forces deployed in Pingchuan and Qiaokou to the north.

Leave them with a short period of time to open up the road from Pingchuan and Qiaokou to the mountain. So that they could carry the large amount of goods that had been seized into the mountains generously. What a cunning guy and a good hand to play. When he withdrew to Hubei County, this guy was probably hiding in the corner around Pingchuan and observing himself carefully.

Otherwise, how could this guy 'touch' the timing and his own thoughts so accurately? It's just that for Tsuruta Numanan, although he saw through the opponent's intentions, he absolutely couldn't sit idly by when Pingchuan was attacked. Not only to rescue, but also to act quickly.

Pingchuan is different from Luoma, and even from Qiaokou stronghold, which is an important station on the Baijin railway line. The key is that there are still reserves of winter clothes that have just been transported to the Japanese army in Hubei, as well as a large number of explosives and spare steel rails used to repair the Baijin railway line. If Pingchuan is lost, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat and walk around.

It's just that although the distance between Pingchuan and Luoma is not far in a straight line, the way to reinforce Pingchuan is an extremely difficult journey for Tsuruta Numanan. Coming out of the stronghold of the fallen horse, the gunfire along the way has not subsided. This time, he came out to reinforce the stronghold of Luoma, and only brought a squadron of Japanese troops, and the rest of the troops were left by him in the west of Hubei.

The boss's order made Tsuruta Numan a bit of a bogeyer in the use of troops. If Tubalu still adopts the tactic of diverting the tiger from the mountain this time, he will once again attract his troops to the mountainous area in the east of Hubei, and he will be like a poisonous snake, hiding and waiting in the place around Hubei County.

After waiting for himself to set off again, he will have another sneak attack on Hubei County, and he will not be able to make today's Luohe Kanshiro his own tomorrow. The commander of the Dirt Eight Road is too cunning. With the experience of this time, Tsuruta Numan did not dare to be careless in any way.

It's just that more than 200 Japanese troops are adding a squadron of pseudo-garrisons, and in the face of the mountainous areas in this area, the strength is really not much. Especially when the opponent doesn't fight him hard at all, just shoots and leaves. Along the way, there was either a burst of machine guns from there, or a grenade flew from the mountains on both sides.

The Japanese puppet army led by Tsuruta Numan faced endless 'commotion' on the route of dozens of miles, and walked for nearly five hours before arriving at Pingchuan Town. It's just that by the time the reinforcements brought by Tsuruta Numan arrived in Pingchuan, the place had already been looted. Nothing was left but the same rubble.

Hundreds of winter coats to be changed, a large number of explosives and spare railroad tracks have completely disappeared. Only the other party was not able to carry it away, and was set up and put on a fire, and the sleepers on the Baijin Railway that were still burning at this time, the light of the fire was still beating in front of him. The smoke from the burning was clearly visible to him at the drop of the horse.