Those puppet military and political personnel who worked for the Japanese army were even more inexplicable to this group of gendarmes who were particularly ruthless to themselves. Although they knew that the Japanese military police were not good at stubble, they never understood why the Japanese suddenly attacked them.

Moreover, when those rough Japanese military police beat people, they were beaten to a far greater extent than the Japanese. The plainclothes captain of Ludong, who was collecting intelligence below and staying at a certain stronghold, was even forced by these gendarmes to beat several of his subordinates to death with pickaxes.

Although the Japanese have always been brutal to the Chinese, even for the dogs they raise, they are often disarmed and pushed out as scapegoats. But for some unknown reason, it was definitely the first time that these people were beaten to death. Although there have been cases of people who have been shot before, there are reasons for them.

The gendarmerie that raided various strongholds dealt a dead hand to these traitors, and for a time also made the entire group of traitors in the southeast of Jin Province panic and sad. I can't figure out why the Japanese are so heavy this time? It's too much to beat people to death. Although we all know that the Japanese do not treat the Chinese as human beings, this approach is a bit excessive.

After receiving these reports, Shintaro Imamura almost died of anger on the spot. At present, he is busy looking for Li Ziyuan everywhere, searching for and making every effort to crack the gendarmerie of the eight-way intelligence network in the various jurisdictions under the division and regiment, and now there is the effort to care about what the garrisons below are doing? Moreover, it is necessary to rectify the appearance and discipline of the army, and it will not be carried out at this time.

Of course, Imamura Shintaro also knows what kind of virtue his subordinates are, and it is better to have a garrison closer to the city than a senior officer. But for those Japanese troops who were scattered in small strongholds, far away from the high command, it was definitely far from the Tiangao Emperor.

There were not a few Japanese soldiers who drank alcohol, gambled, opened shops to do business, and even got drunk and got into group fights. If the gendarmes really take the method of surprise inspection, they will basically catch one by one. The gendarmes, who are responsible for rectifying military discipline, have indeed had serious contradictions with the troops below.

Clashes between the gendarmes and subordinate units are definitely not uncommon. However, this purge of military discipline refers to Japan's own internal affairs, such as disobedience to orders. For these Japanese soldiers to burn, kill and loot in China, the gendarmerie has never been in charge.

Even a few Japanese soldiers stationed in Ludong last year openly befriended the wife of the captain of the Ludong garrison*. After the incident, the biggest punishment for these Japanese soldiers was that each of them received a few mouths that were not light or heavy. However, when it comes to the internal military discipline of the Japanese army, the Japanese military police still arrest it very strictly.

But Imamura Shintaro knew that even if the division wanted to clean up military discipline, it would not do anything to disarm his troops and beat them violently, and then strip them naked and throw them on the snow to freeze. Not to mention the current gendarmerie, there is no energy to rectify any military discipline at this moment,

And those remote small strongholds, let alone at this time, even the gendarmerie with limited strength in ordinary times does not have the energy to take care of it. There is only a little gendarme in the division, and the spies who maintain several county towns and clean up the Eighth Road on weekdays are too busy, and they still have time to go to those places where rabbits don't to clean up military discipline?

In addition to the eight-way camouflage, what else can these gendarmes do? Now there is more than one case of attack, whether the officers below are idiots, or whether they have been kicked in the head by the donkey of Zhina. is so mentally retarded that he can't even tell the truth from the fake of those gendarmes.

In the face of the garrison left behind below, he kept asking for severe punishment of the gendarmes, and Shintaro Imamura's already headache hurt even more. However, in addition to the headache, Imamura Shintaro also discovered a problem, he connected several strongholds attacked by disguised gendarmes into a line and found that these strongholds were in some remote areas west of the Baijin Railway in the Ludong area.

Even the largest of them is coincidentally located in the heart of the line. Although the other strongholds that were attacked were a little far apart, their locations were always changing. And it's centered on the largest stronghold and radiates to the periphery. All strongholds were raided by the gendarmes at intervals of less than an hour.

In other words, the dirt that you can't find is very likely to spread out or hide here. The remoteness of these strongholds must have restricted their movements, which is why they have taken such actions. Thinking of this, Shintaro Imamura immediately mobilized his forces and pounced on the area where the disguised military police attacked the stronghold where it took place.

However, considering the danger that the Eighth Route camouflages the gendarme, it may bring. At the same time as mobilizing troops to sweep the suspicious area, Imamura Shintaro issued an order to the troops stationed in the division, and the gendarmerie did not take any action to clean up military discipline during this time. If there is a gendarme going to attack the stronghold, then there is no need to ask that it is an eight-way sneak attack, and the garrisons in various places can take all actions.

But the day after Shintaro Imamura mobilized heavy troops and swept towards suspicious locations. The Baijin Railway is in the territory of Ludong, on a very important railway bridge, and the entire bridge was blown up into the sky. This bridge, which is extremely important on the Baijin railway line, was bombed, and the entire Baijin railway was completely paralyzed.

After receiving the news of the bombing of the railway bridge, Shintaro Imamura was once again confused. The distance between the place where the bridge was bombed and the stronghold where it was attacked was nearly a few tens of kilometers. Even if this Eighth Road can run again, they can't be dozens of kilometers away on the first day without a car or any other motorized vehicle, and they will run to the Baijin Railway Line the next day.

From the place where the fake gendarmes attacked the day before, to the bombed bridge, there were still six or seven strongholds. Although not all of them were garrisoned by the Japanese army, a considerable part of them were garrisoned by the puppet army alone, and there were two blockade ditches in between. But these strongholds have not given any warning during this period, which is very strange.

Where is this Eight Roads lurking right now, is it Luxi or Ludong? Confused, Shintaro Imamura stared at the map for a long time before realizing that he had made a fatal mistake. When Lieutenant General Jingguan had not yet fallen, he was worried that the garrisons in various places would encounter similar attacks on Changzhi City, so he left a large number of garrisons in the rear during the sweep.

Even this sweep of the Ludong area was mainly based on the garrison, and the Japanese army was only used as the backbone. At the same time, in order to avoid being this cunning eight roads, what kind of tricks to play around the point to help, the eight roads are the best at tricks. The troops stationed in various localities, especially the garrisons at key points, were repeatedly and strictly ordered not to act rashly without receiving orders from the division and regimental headquarters.

Even if the Eighth Road is moving around him, he is not allowed to attack easily. In this way, they will limit their troops to a limited area of activity, but on the contrary, they will limit their hands and feet. The main strength of the division and regiment transferred back, except for the garrison in the southern Jinnan area, most of them were placed around Changzhi City.

With only a small number of mobile troops in the division and regiment, and the fact that they still have to undertake the sweep of the entire Ludong Army Division, the forces that can be used to capture this Eighth Route are even more limited. This has created a situation where they are fortified everywhere, and as a result, there are loopholes everywhere. This eight-way commander used his mentality to play so many hands in a row.

A considerable part of the entire area west of the Baijin Railway is located in the Shangdang Basin. Under the condition of flat terrain, the large-scale eight-way activities will definitely not be without a trace at all. If it is true that hundreds of eight roads are operating on their own territory, and no trace has been found for a few days, then the intelligence department of the 36th Division really deserves to die.

It is the enemy's scattered forces that give the illusion that they have created by their independent activities. Not to mention the exhaustion of his limited mobile forces, he also let himself be fortified everywhere. He became the cow that was led by the nose in their bullying tactics.

Thinking about this, Shintaro Imamura immediately ordered the mobile troops that were sweeping in the Ludong Mountains to withdraw all the main forces to the Kamidang Basin, except for one that was tightly sealed at the various mountain entrances. At the same time, with a force, the blockade along the Baijin Railway was strengthened. Order the garrison of Jinnan to defend closely to prevent the Eighth Route from other directions from taking advantage of the chaos to sneak attack.

The puppet army that was transferred back did not return to the prefectures to garrison, but was concentrated by Imamura Shintaro, and the Japanese army was used as the backbone to carry out a strict and strict cleanup of the area west of the Baijin Railway and up to the Taiyue Mountains. It's just that there is not much time left for Shintaro Imamura.

First of all, Changzhi City was attacked three times, and the ammunition depot of the Fire God Temple was blown up. Then the Baijin Railway was attacked, and a large amount of grain transported to Taiyuan was robbed. Immediately, the chief of staff of the major general of the First Army was killed by the cold artillery of the sneak attacker, which made the First Army and the North China Front extremely angry.

At present, the most important bridge on the Baijin railway line cannot be repaired for a period of time after being bombed. This undoubtedly made the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto, who had just arrived in office for less than four months, extremely angry.

In particular, Major General Hanaya Masashi was actually killed by the cold cannon of the sneak attack by the Eighth Road in the tightly guarded area. This makes Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto, even if he is very solid in the background, but he doesn't know how to explain to the base camp. The chief of staff of the army was killed, and although it had been five years since the war was fought, this was the first time such a situation had occurred.

The former chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, who was embarrassed and angry, could no longer restrain the annoyance in his heart. On the one hand, he urged the new division commander sent from the base camp to the 36th Division to take up his post immediately, and on the other hand, he ordered Shintaro Imamura to make meritorious service and completely dig out Li Ziyuan's headquarters and resolutely eliminate it.

Except for the order to Shintaro Imamura.,The tone is unusually tough.。 At present, Japan's number one henchman, who wears many hats and actually controls Japan's military and political power, has made a big difference on Shintaro Imamura's list. The Emperor's permission is required to transfer a division commander, but there is absolutely no problem in transferring a division chief of staff himself.

After giving Imamura Shintaro a death order, the army commander drafted a secret telegram to his backstage in addition to considering the candidate for his new chief of staff of the First Army. It is hoped that Koichi Oi, senior staff officer of the Operations Section of the North China Front, will be transferred to take over as chief of staff of the 36th Division.

It's just that I don't know that Lieutenant General Sadachi Yoshimoto has already sentenced himself to death in his heart. At this time, Shintaro Imamura, who was searching the mountains and seas everywhere to find Li Ziyuan, was very puzzled in an attempt to make meritorious contributions. When the troops he transferred back from the Ludong Mountains returned to the Baijin Railway to clear the army, Li Ziyuan's department lost its trace again.