For this Yano Shaosa, after all, although Tsuruta Numan is actually in command, after all, he is the real commander of this army. The unforgettable insult that the 36th Division received on this Eighth Route before was something he had never personally experienced for him after all. But this time, he was very disgraced, and even felt humiliated.

Tsuruta Numanan was a staff officer of the First Army Headquarters, and he should bear the main responsibility for this encirclement, interception, and smashing the pot. But he is a Shangguan, and when the time comes, he will pat his ass and leave. At that time, the 36th Division once again experienced the humiliation of the board, and it will eventually fall on him, after all, he is the most direct commander.

He painstakingly transferred from the war-free Korean army to the China Battlefield, which was safer than the Pacific Theater, for the sake of making meritorious contributions, not for the sake of slipping away. If this encirclement and suppression fails, and the things that people treat him like a monkey do, then his future may not be clouded.

Thinking of this, Yano Shaosa looked at the side for a short time, as if it was Tsuruta Numa, who was more than ten years old, and tried to find a solution from him. Although Yano Shaosa was already a little distrustful of Tsuruta Numu Nan at this time, he also had to admit that this guy had a lot more bad water in his stomach than himself.

In response to Yano Shaosa's instructive gaze, Tsuruta Numanan gritted his teeth and said: "Yano-kun, you immediately send a telegram to the follow-up troops, asking them to immediately stop going south and deploy defenses at the junction of Huguan and Hubei on the spot." The real purpose of this eight-way battle Xiyaogou is to mobilize us to be tired and open a passage for them to retract back to the old nest in Hubei. ”

"If we all go south, we're falling for their tricks. What we can do now is to bite them and destroy them at all costs, in order to wash away the shame that this Eight Ways has brought us again and again. And to destroy them, we must block all the routes they retreat back to, and force them to go in the direction we have set. ”

"In addition, I will personally draft a telegram to the chief of staff of your division. The 36th Division is now sweeping the troops in the Ludong area to all move south as soon as possible and completely block the passage of the Eighth Route to the north. And with a part of the army, to the junction of Huguan, Hubei and Changzhi. ”

"There is no longer a large force of the Eighth Route Armed Forces in Ludong, and even if there are so many troops left for repeated sweeps, it is no longer possible to expand the results of the battle. But if you let this extremely destructive Eighth Route run back in an organized manner, you don't want to stop in the entire Ludong and Changzhi areas. ”

Speaking of this, Tsuruta Nunan's voice suddenly turned cold: "Yano-kun, today's discovery in Shili Ling, I suggest that you don't report it." There are some things that you and I should solve together, so that we don't let everyone know. Yano-kun, you are a graduate of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, not one of those reserve officers, nor is you a second lieutenant candidate officer. ”

"As a graduate of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, your future is much better than that of officers with miscellaneous backgrounds. You have to think about whether this mistake in judgment will have any impact on your future. Don't forget, you still have one last chance to apply for the Army University. If you miss this opportunity again, your dream of becoming a general will never come true. ”

These words of Tsuruta Numan were like a heavy hammer, and they smashed Yano Shaosa's heart. looked at the puppet army who was tied up on the opposite side and had not yet been loosened. Yano Shaosa called the two squadron leaders and whispered a few words. When the two squadron leaders heard this, they looked at the captain on the other side with some surprise, who almost didn't know each other.

It's just that Yano Shaosa's rather firm eyes made the two squadron leaders dare not refute anymore. A squadron leader commanded his subordinates to quickly dig a large pit large enough to bury more than 100 people together. Another squadron leader, commanding his own soldiers, stood in front of each puppet army.

When the squadron leader's hand waved down fiercely. All the Japanese soldiers, holding the 38-type rifles with bayonets on them, stabbed the 30 bayonets into the chests of the puppet soldiers on the opposite side. One knife, two knives, almost all the soldiers were red-eyed. No one paid attention to the pleading and pleading of the puppet army on the opposite side, and they did not let go until they were motionless.

After killing these puppet soldiers, they threw all the corpses of these puppet soldiers into a big pit, and quickly buried and destroyed all traces. Except for the bayonet marks on the trees, and the stains of blood, it was as if these puppet soldiers had never appeared.

Tsuruta Numan and Yano Shaosa, after cleanly finishing the action of killing people and destroying mouths. Tsuruta Numanan opened the map and looked at it carefully, and finally decided to search and advance to the north on the spot, to the area east of Changzhi. At the same time, the 36th Division of Changzhi was notified and asked them to immediately transfer the Japanese troops in Hubei and rush to the junction of Changzhi, Hubei and Huguan to deploy defenses.

The Huguan garrison stationed in Huguan County, as well as the defenders, were required to immediately search the border between Huguan and Changzhi, focusing on the area north of Huguan County. And all the strongholds in the Changzhi area are required to enter the highest state of alert. It is best to mobilize part of the troops and strengthen the sweeping and vigilance in the border areas of Huguan, Changzhi, and Hubei.

After receiving a somewhat veiled telegram from Tsuruta Nunan, the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division reacted extremely quickly this time and immediately terminated the sweep of the entire Ludong area. Not only did he mobilize troops to move south quickly, but he also drew more than 2,000 Japanese troops from the Japanese army that swept Ludong at the first time, and pretended to be all the troops of the founding army of the southern Jin Dynasty, and drove back to the periphery of Changzhi to deploy defenses.

He also ordered the garrison in the Hubei area to strengthen the blockade of the western plain area of Hubei. Considering that the strength of the Hubei garrison was somewhat weak, the 36th Division specially ordered a Japanese puppet army in Ludong to move south and station in the western part of Hubei, focusing on the border between Hubei and Changzhi.

This time, the 36th Division reacted extremely quickly, and Tsuruta Nunan's telegram was secretive. However, the telegram also mentioned the eight routes that attacked Xiyaogou, that is, the eight routes that the 36th Division had sworn to destroy. And under the situation that this eight roads cannot be routed to the south at the moment, it is very likely to flow to the northeast.

This report by Tsuruta Numanan made the 36th Division take aback. Although this guy is hesitant to report on the spot, everyone is not a fool. The 36th Division had already let this force attack the location of the division headquarters once, and also lost the arsenal of the Changzhi Fire Temple, and the former division commander was even more angry to the point of having a stroke.

If it had been attacked by this Eighth Route once, the 36th Division would have suffered a great humiliation again before it withdrew from the Shanxi battlefield. The 36th Division will also become the laughing stock of the entire army. This is something that the entire 36th Division cannot accept at all.

With the lessons learned from the previous time, the 36th Division reacted quite quickly this time. Not only did they send out the pseudo-plainclothes teams in Changzhi, Hubei, and Ludong counties. In the case that the troops have not yet withdrawn, the entire Changzhi City is like an iron bucket. Even the orderlies and horsemen of the division headquarters were issued with rifles to send out guards.

The chief of staff of the division and regiment even tried to mobilize all means of transportation to bring back the troops that the division had swept away in several counties in Ludong. And at the first time, the main force of the division and regiment search wing, mainly all the armored units, was transferred to the periphery of Changzhi. He even grabbed a large number of laborers in Changzhi City and dug a trench deep enough and wide enough along the perimeter of Changzhi City.

At present, the 36th Division, which is more or less full of grass and trees, moves quickly, and uses the trucks and other modern means of transportation in its hands to try to block Li Ziyuan in Huguan before he can enter the territory of Changzhi. But Li Ziyuan's movements are not slow. It can even be said that Li Ziyuan is traveling quite fast.

In particular, all the Japanese puppet armies also need a lot of time to gather and assemble after receiving orders. What's more, the telegram to the 36th Division after Tsuruta Numan found out that something was wrong, and after the murder was extinguished, it was already a few hours late. In the past few hours, Li Ziyuan has basically taken the initiative.

Just when the heavy troops of the Japanese puppet army were marching to the designated area, Li Ziyuan had already entered the territory of Changzhi along the line of Shili Ling and Wulongtou in the south of Huguan County. However, Li Ziyuan was in Shililing before, and he almost turned it upside down, and he couldn't find the Huguan Independent Battalion, but he encountered it in Wulongtou.

Because Li Ziyuan's subordinates are now wearing military uniforms from Chongqing, which are very different from the gray military uniforms commonly equipped by the troops of the Taihang Military Region. The Huguan Independent Battalion was a little bit closer, and did not regard Li Ziyuan's department as some aspect of grabbing turf. If it weren't for the quick reaction of the leading company commander, he would have fought a battle by mistake.

However, this time when he encountered the Huguan Independent Battalion, Li Ziyuan immediately asked them for information. When I learned from the mouth of the Huguan Independent Battalion, in the border area between Changzhi and Huguan, except for some pseudo-garrisons, the Japanese army was now less than one squadron. Li Ziyuan immediately made a decision, did not make any stops in the Wulongtou area, and immediately marched to the Changzhi area.

Before leaving, Li Ziyuan considered that his previous activities in Huguan would bring follow-up troubles to the Huguan Independent Battalion. It was very atmospheric to give the Huguan Independent Battalion two crooked machine guns, one Soviet-made turntable machine gun, as well as 5,000 rounds of 65 and 79 bullets, 2,000 Soviet-made machine gun bullets, 300 pieces* and two grenadiers as compensation.

The battalion commander of the Huguan Independent Battalion was very grateful to Li Ziyuan for his generosity. You must know that his Huguan Independent Battalion only has a few Jin-made light machine guns, and the amount of ammunition is even more scarce. The only thing that is more is the soil construction of the base*. But the question is, can the power of the stuff of the stuff of the loading * be the same as the stuff of the loading system*?

Although Li Ziyuan only took out a drop in the bucket, this can be regarded as alleviating their predicament. The Huguan Independent Battalion, which was very grateful, not only supplemented some rations for Li Ziyuan. Even though it was just some potatoes, it was the best thing they could come up with. also took the initiative to take over Li Ziyuan's wounded and sick to reduce the burden on Li Ziyuan.

It's just that after Li Ziyuan left, in the face of a large number of Japanese puppet troops who went north from Lingchuan and south from Hubei, and swept back and forth in the Huguan area to search for Li Ziyuan's department, causing a lot of trouble to their activities, this old man's original gratitude suddenly turned into a scolding. Only then did he know why Li Ziyuan was so generous, and gave himself two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition at once.

Fortunately, Li Ziyuan's later movements in Changzhi made the attention of the Japanese army shift quickly, and he didn't let the trouble caused to him by these Japanese soldiers last too long. Basically, he didn't cause any damage to the Huguan base area, which made him dissipate the sulkness in his heart.