Li Ziyuan's request shocked the entire 14th Independent Infantry Brigade. If there is no food and firewood for the winter, how will they survive this winter? The various departments of the Japanese army, which were confused, sent puppet army personnel to inquire one after another. As a result, I came back to find out that people don't want anything else now.

If you want to continue exchanging supplies, then use * to top the account. Until this problem is resolved, the Eighth Route temporarily ceases all exchanges with the various units of the Japanese army. Li Ziyuan's order made the entire 14th Independent Infantry Brigade upset. Artillery shells and * cannot be given, this is the unanimous consensus of the whole brigade.

The eight roads lacked heavy firepower, and a small amount of heavy fire also lacked ammunition. They don't have the manufacturing capacity, so they don't have an effective supplement, so they can still huddle in a few counties. But the problem is that now that the Eight Roads have been proposed, either you give *, or you have your own seeds to come out and grab food, and see which of us can help whom.

After receiving Li Ziyuan's ultimatum, Major General Yoshiyoshi Yoshikawa really mustered up courage. It is already October now, and the newly formed puppet army has been put in place one after another. Now he feels a little harder, under the instigation of a puppet army general who is ambitious to dominate the Ludong region in order to expand his strength.

The strength equivalent to two and a half infantry squadrons was scraped together, with two heavy machine gun squads, dragging a mountain cannon with the cooperation of more than 1,700 puppet troops. Starting from Ludong County, it rushed directly to the western plains of Ludong and Hubei counties, the largest grain producing area in the entire Ludong region.

The plan of this Major General Yoshikawa Yoshiyoshi is very clear, since you Balu does not want to maintain this situation of hello, me, and everyone, they have no taboos. If you don't give it, I'll fight and get out quickly, grab the food and leave, and see what you can do. The most important thing is that he feels that after the Battle of Qiaokou, the Eighth Route in the Ludong area is too rampant, and it is time to learn some lessons.

For Major General Yoshiyoshi Yoshikawa, if Li Ziyuan was not too picky, he did not want to take this risk. Because he learned from his classmates in the base camp that he would be transferred at the end of the year at most. Of course, he knew that the First Army and even the North China Front were not satisfied with him since he became the commander of the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade.

If you are in a few years, even a year ago, you will be discharged from active service. But now there are not enough generals in the empire, and a large number of reserve generals have been re-drafted to active duty. I may be transferred to the domestic army. But no matter where you go, it's better than staying in this damn North China.

Think about your predecessors, when they were stationed in the southeast of Jin, they weren't full of brains. Of course, there are also a few people who have been tossed to the point of having a stroke. But although people are said to be half-paralyzed, they can bring those wealth with them when they return to China, which makes people blush when they look at it. But when I got here, even eating became a problem.

The most important thing is that the Eighth Road is still picking and choosing, and picking what it can't sell. The little food that was given was very little white flour. People say that they sell three goods, but they don't even have room to choose customers. Even if you can't get food this time, scare those eight roads and let them know that they are not the owners who let them rub around.

Of course, he will not take a direct part in this kind of food grabbing operation. He appointed Kojiro Kenkawa, the only graduate of the Army University in his brigade besides him, and also the brigade's senior operational staff officer, to command the operation. As for those old arms and legs, they can't even run, and they are already old reserve officers in the twilight, so he doesn't dare to count on them at all.

The lessons of the Battle of Qiaokou made him think that it was better for these old reserve officers to hold their strongholds honestly. As for this kind of thing on the battlefield, it is better to let a young man like Kenkawa Kojiro Shaozo go. If you are too old, don't go to the battlefield to mix.

To say that this Kenkawa Kojiro Shaozo can be regarded as a rare talent. Although the arrival time was not long, the brigade headquarters of the 14th Brigade, which had been made a mess by those reserve officers who were not young, was sorted out neatly. Send him out, His Excellency Major General Yoshiyoshi Kikawa is still relieved.

After receiving the order, this Kenkawa Kojiro Shaozo did not feel happy. He was not optimistic about this grain rush operation, although the brigade commander gave him the order to take a handful and leave, but the question was to get a handful, where to go to catch it? Where is the grain collected by the Eight Roads stored? Now is the autumn harvest season, is it possible to let your troops go to harvest in person?

First, without intelligence support, where is the current strength of the second unit? Mainly rely on the puppet army, isn't it a joke that your Excellency Major General? If the people of China can withstand it, why is the empire still stationing so many troops on the battlefield of China? Just two squadrons of Japanese troops, isn't that a sheep in the mouth of a tiger? You, Major General Yoshiyoshi Kikawa, really think it's 37 or 38 years now.

After staring at the confrontation between the enemy and us on the sand table for a long time, this old man knew that he could not do anything, but he still tried his best to make a plan to grab food. In order to keep it secret, he did not choose to set off from Hubei County, which is the closest county to Changzhi, but chose to assemble and set off in Ludong County.

And after setting off from Ludong County, he led his troops straight to the east first, and put on a posture of sweeping towards the Taihang Mountains. When he was just ten kilometers deep into the eastern mountainous area, he quickly changed direction and turned to the southwest, killing the northwest plain area of Hubei County, which is also the largest grain-producing area in the entire Ludong region.

His entire battle plan, except for himself, was unknown to no one else until the full operation was exposed. Not to mention the puppet army generals, even the two squadron leaders of the Japanese army who participated in the war are not clear. This guy even hid his own people, which can be said to be not an ordinary good intention.

Because he knew that the troops below had been scared before. They are willing to maintain the current status quo of peaceful coexistence with the Eighth Route with weapons, ammunition and exchange materials. No one wants to come out to sweep, and they are afraid of being beaten by the eight roads. These old guys give the order today, and maybe they will sell themselves tomorrow. Now, he didn't dare to trust these compatriots and comrades.

He took great pains, but he didn't hide it from many people. As soon as this guy pouted his ass, Li Ziyuan knew what kind of shit he was going to pull. Since he began to preside over the work of the division, he has strictly controlled the flow of grain and other necessities to the Japanese-occupied areas. All the grain circulation is firmly controlled in the hands of the military sub-districts.

Regarding the practice of exchanging grain, Li Ziyuan expressed some support. But he also demanded that the Japanese army not be allowed to store grain for more than half a month. In terms of the current efficiency of the eight-way execution order, Li Ziyuan still knows whether this order can be implemented.

Now that winter is about to begin, if they don't take this opportunity to come out and get some food, unless they get food from Jinzhong, the entire 14th Independent Infantry Brigade will have to starve all winter. However, in addition to meeting the needs of the Japanese army in the Jinzhong area, the grain in Jinzhong also had to meet the consumption of the Japanese army in northern Jin, which had a very low grain output, and Suiyuan.

Even if a batch of grain can be allocated, the quantity will be quite limited. At present, he has choked the grain bags of the Japanese army, and he can not meet their needs at all by relying on a few palm-sized places around the county town. Now that the autumn grain has come down, what are these Japanese puppet soldiers doing, and fools can judge clearly.

Therefore, after receiving the information that the Japanese puppet army was concentrated in Ludong County, Li Ziyuan secretly transferred the two main regiments plus an independent detachment to the junction of Ludong and the western part of Hubei to wait. In the entire territory of Ludong County, the Ludong Independent Battalion and some of the troops drawn from the independent battalions of several other counties were released.

Even his headquarters followed the Second Independent Regiment to secretly detour back to the junction of Hubei and Ludong to hide and wait. After all, he set up an ambush circle for Kojiro Kenkawa in the area at the junction of the two prefectures. For this reason, he transferred all the light and heavy mortar companies belonging to the military division.

Here, Li Ziyuan has set up an ambush circle and is waiting for the net, and the southward action of Jianchuan Kojiro over there is also quite cautious. He gathered all the Japanese puppet army hedgehogs together to act in a group, and the top soldiers in front were all changed to Japanese soldiers. As you travel, focus on the two wings.

Although the hedgehog acted together, it did not mean that he had gathered all the teams together. He divided all the Japanese puppet troops into three teams, each team spaced about five miles apart. In this way, even if they are ambushed, not all of them will be hit, and each part of the ministry will be able to support each other, regardless of which part of the attack is attacked.

This guy's idea is not ingenious. But he ignored one point, that is, the combat effectiveness of this puppet security army transferred from Hebei was far less strong than he imagined. There has never been a smooth internal situation, and there is almost no trust between the pseudo-officers who were transferred later and the officers from the local background.

Moreover, the local officers in the puppet army of the ministry have been hit by the Eighth Route many times. In the battle of Qiaokou, he was almost served by the pot. Congenitally has a serious fear of Li Ziyuan's eight roads. In the fight, these people are very likely to collapse at the touch of a button, and they will not be able to hold on to the time he expected.

The most important thing is that if his two squadrons were the Japanese army with a tenacious will, fierce style, and quite well-prepared at the beginning of the 77 Incident, maybe this tactic could still play some role. But the current Japanese army, with two squadrons, not to mention the eight routes of two regiments, is the eighth route of two companies, and it is not necessarily possible to win one-on-one.

He didn't even expect that in order to deal with his grain-grabbing troops, Li Ziyuan mobilized almost all of the two main regiments plus some local armed forces, and he planned to send all of his Japanese puppet troops to the door within their intended targets. The tactics he formulated were exactly the same as the tactics of interspersing, dividing, and encircling that Li Ziyuan had painstakingly practiced.

The Japanese puppet army marching on foot, after wandering around the shallow mountainous area at the junction of Ludong and Hubei for nearly a day, saw the new market town in front of them, and the Japanese puppet army breathed a sigh of relief. Located in the shallow mountains and hilly areas, the new market town is a relatively large market town at the junction of the two counties.

Although it is located in the north of Hu, it is only separated from the east and west of Lu by a very low ridge, and the straight-line distance is less than ten miles. Less than fifty miles to the southwest is the county town of Hubei, which can provide support at any time. According to the clues provided by the original puppet garrison officers, a large part of the public grain collected by the Eighth Route in the western part of the two counties was concentrated here, and then transported to the eastern mountainous areas.

Now that the autumn grain harvest has begun, it will definitely be full of grain. In addition, the geographical location is moderate, so Kenkawa Kojiro took the new market town as the main target of this grain rush operation. In this dispatch, he brought out almost all the mules and horses of the 14th Brigade of the Independent Infantry, and also collected a lot of people and carts from several counties.