After hearing Goodina Huaxiong's satisfactory answer, Lieutenant General Kawagishi Fumizaburo, commander of the 20th Division, returned to his desk, sat down in a chair, closed his eyes, and rested for a moment with his head tilted, and then rang the table bell and asked the guards to notify the chief of staff, Kimura Kuzo Daisa, to come in.

The 20th Division is a field division, a permanent division of the Japanese army, and its task is to carry out offensive operations, and such problems as the defense of Taiyuan City, which has become the base camp of the Japanese army in Shanxi, should be carried out by a special garrison. It is a pity that the little Japanese are not enough to swallow the elephant, and their eyes are fixed on the splendid China, eager for a quick victory and the rapid destruction of China, and they have not had time to do a good job in the security and garrison work in the occupied areas, and there is no special Japanese garrison in Taiyuan City.

When the Japanese army first captured Taiyuan, the Fifth Division, the Chahar Dispatch Corps, the 20th Division, the 108th Division, and the 109th Division flocked in, and there were garrisons in Taiyuan City, and the defense of Taiyuan City must have been taken care of by Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki, commander of the 5th Division. After the Fifth Division was transferred eastward, the 108th Division of the Japanese Army undertook the defense of Taiyuan City, and the current Taiyuan Gendarmerie is the military police detachment of the original 108th Division. When the 1st 08th Division was transferred out of Taiyuan, the 20th Division took over the task of Taiyuan city defense.

The operational plan of the Japanese First Army, the "pacification operation," was to eliminate the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army gathered in southern and southwestern Jin, and at least to drive the main force of the Chinese army across the Yellow River and drive them out of Shanxi.

The Japanese military top brass and staff officers who formulated this plan did not have in their minds the opponents of the Eighth Route Army rising to the strategic level at this time, they did not know that this was the land of the Chinese, let alone that they occupied the central city and occupied the communication line, but the Eighth Route Army took root after it was deployed behind enemy lines, and they could never expel the Eighth Route Army from Shanxi.

Because of the lack of a deep understanding of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army, which formulated the plan of "pacification operation", not only let the 20th Division act as the main force to attack southward, but also let the 20th Division stay in Taiyuan to garrison Taiyuan, taking care of both ends!

This matter was not a matter at all in the minds of the Japanese military leaders at this time, because they never thought that there would be Chinese troops who would dare to attack Taiyuan!

Now the situation is different, the Eighth Route Army not only dared to sneak attack Taiyuan, but also achieved such great results, completely destroying Taiyuan Airport!

Little Japan has a high degree of industrialization, it can produce thousands of aircraft a year, and although the loss of 48 aircraft is painful, it can still be afforded by the Japanese army, and then it can be transferred from the mainland. The problem is that Xiao Siming killed all the pilots and crews of these 48 Japanese planes, and killed all the ground commanders and ground crews of the little devil Taiyuan Airport, and the losses of the Japanese army were much greater!

Pilots are more precious than airplanes, that's something everyone knows!

Without pilots, planes can only be placed there for people to see, and it is impossible to fly into the blue sky to participate in the war! And if the price paid for cultivating a qualified pilot is measured in gold, I am afraid that it will be the same as the height of the pilot!

This time, the independent battalion really fought too hard and accurately, so ruthless that the little devils and old devils were so painful that they were angry and angry!

Kawagishi Bunzaburo and the three old devils of Kimura Kuzo and Gudina Huaxiong analyzed and studied the map for a full hour, and only then did they reach a consensus, that is, in order to truly consolidate the defense of Taiyuan City and ensure the safety of the occupied area, it is necessary to eliminate the Eighth Route Army, which is growing stronger and stronger in the occupied area, and has a strong will to fight and an active attack!

The reason for this opinion is that Kawagishi Fumizaburo, Kimura Kuzo, and Kodina Kao are not fools, and they link the destruction of the Taiyuan airport with the heavy damage suffered by the 119th Wing of the 118th Brigade of the 109th Division in the operation of Nianzigou.

Although Taiyuan Airport was in a mess by the explosion of the ammunition depot and oil depot, and a complete corpse could not be found, Kawagishi Bunzaburo, Kizumura Kuzo, and Gudina Huaxiong were experienced and experienced, and as long as they saw the head of a devil, they understood how they died, and knew that the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army used poison gas bombs!

Although there are many Chinese troops, the one who can capture gas bombs and dare to use them is known to Kawagishi Bunzaburo and Kimura Hisazo, which is the mysterious Eighth Route Army in front of them.

Kawagishi Bunzaburo and Kimura Kuzo also knew that after the Battle of Nianzigou, the Chinese side advertised that it was the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army that was fighting in Nianzigou, that is, the Chinese army that ambushed the Itagaki Division at Pingxingguan!

Not only that, the three old devils thus connected with the destruction of Yangmingbao Airport during the Battle of Taiyuan, the recovery of many county towns by the Eighth Route Army from the Japanese army, and the fact that the Japanese army was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army many times, and formed a consensus that the tactics of the Eighth Route Army were different from those of the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army, and the damage caused to the Japanese army was deeper!

These three old devils may be the first people in the Japanese army to invade China who have a more sober understanding of the Eighth Route Army!

Xiao Siming never expected that he led the independent battalion to attack Taiyuan Airport, which would cause Kawagishi Bunzaburo and others to begin to pay attention to the Eighth Route Army! What a blessing in disguise!

At the same time, it was decided to use the plainclothes of the Gudi organs as the mainstay, and to draw personnel from the garrisons of Taiyuan County and Yangqu County who were familiar with the terrain around Taiyuan and had actual combat experience to form a number of small units to reconnoiter and search in the direction of Yangqu, Shouyang, and Gujiao, to find clues and find the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army unit that attacked the airport as soon as possible. At the same time, a report was sent to the garrisons in the surrounding areas to inform them of the situation and ask them to assist in reconnoitring and intercepting this Eighth Route Army unit.

Kimura Kuzo Daisa proposed that a report should be sent to the headquarters of the First Army, requesting that the combat direction of the 20th Division be adjusted, and the main force should be concentrated to return to the division to find and annihilate the cunning and murderous Eighth Route Army troops that attacked the airfield, and avenge the warriors of the jade shatter!

Kawagishi Bunzaburo stopped Kimura Kuzo Daisa, touched the mustache, and said that the reason why the Eighth Route Army attacked Taiyuan Airport was to interfere with the First Army's "pacification operation", and the main force of the delayed army attacked south to respond to the Chinese army in Jinnan. This tactic is the same as the combat method of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province to break through Beitongpu Road, and there is no fuss. It's just that this Eighth Route Army has exquisite tactics and better weapons and equipment, and it has caused more damage to the imperial army! At present, it is the royal road to unswervingly implement the plan of "pacification operation", to defeat the enemy in front of Han Xinling, and to gather and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army in southern and southwestern Jinjin!

With this said, Kimura Kuzo Daisa and Gudina Huaxiong Daisa have to admire His Excellency the division commander for his foresight!

As a result, Lieutenant General Kawagishi Fumizaburo sent an urgent telegram to Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commander of the First Army, and General Toshiichi Terauchi, commander of the North China Front, in which he took the trouble to list one by one the examples of the Japanese army that had repeatedly suffered losses at the hands of the Eighth Route Army since it entered Shanxi, implored the Front Army and the First Army to attach great importance to the operations against the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Chinese Communists, and implored the Front Army for urgent tactical guidance, ordering the Provisional Air Corps of the North China Front Army to deploy additional fighters to ensure air fire support on the Hanxinling battlefield, and at the same time sending fighters to search and reconnoiter in the area around Taiyuan, find the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that fled after attacking Taiyuan Airport.

In other words, the old devil Kawagishi Bunzaburo planned to submit the Front Army and the First Army to organize a large-scale operation against the Eighth Route Army after the end of the offensive operation to the south and southwest of Jin.

After sending the telegram, Kawagishi Fumizaburo left the chief of staff, Kimura Kuzo Osa, to guard Taiyuan, and asked Gudina Huaxiong to go back to organize and carry out the tracking and reconnaissance of the small troops of the Eighth Route Army, and he drove south with his staff officers to the front line of Han Xinling to form the front enemy headquarters of the division and regiment, and personally command the attack on Han Xinling.

After returning to the headquarters of the 20th Division, Gudina Huaxiong did not return to his office in the former Shanxi Provincial Government compound, but directly returned to No. 10 Dianshan, and personally deployed and organized a small force to track and investigate.

In the office of Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo, the foxy Gudina Huaxiong Dazuo did not dare to link the Eighth Route Army's surprise attack on Taiyuan Airport with the case of camouflaging the Japanese army and smuggling the Taiyuan Arsenal that he was organizing to solve.

Gu Dina Huaxiong himself knows very well, the sniper Yoshino Shiro corpse destruction case, the smuggling of military supplies case, the attack on the defenders of the Longguo Temple stronghold, and the surprise attack on Taiyuan Airport by the Eighth Route Army last night are definitely a continuous incident, and they are a few gourds growing on a vine. Needless to say, those three guys who disguised the officers and soldiers of the 109th Division who infiltrated Taiyuan City were here to make a forward stop for the Eighth Route Army that attacked Taiyuan Airport, and they were their intelligence reconnaissance personnel!

Fortunately, the old devil Gu Di Na Huaxiong didn't know Xiao Siming, the commander and instructor of the Independent Battalion of the Eighth Route Army, and he didn't know that Xiao Siming took the guard platoon commander to Taiyuan City to investigate in person. Otherwise, with the perseverance and perseverance of the old Japanese spy, he will be fierce and bite the independent battalion to death!

Goodina Huaxiong decided to investigate the destruction of Shiro Yoshino's body, the theft of military supplies, the attack on the stronghold of Longguoji Temple, and the surprise attack on the airfield by the Eighth Route Army!

In fact, after returning from the stronghold of Longguo Temple, the Gudi agency has already begun to investigate in Taiyuan City, trying to find the three horses and the two flower girls. It's a pity that the spies worked on it for three days in a row, without a single clue.

This time, Gu Di Na Huaxiong was ruthless, gathered all the agents of the Taiyuan secret service, redeployed the forces, and divided them into two classes: one group was mainly an economic investigation team, investigating in Taiyuan City, and it was necessary to find the three horses and the two flower girls, so that the Yingze sentries who had seen the two flower girls on duty that day could identify them; Another squad went to Taiyuan County, Yangqu County, and Shouyang County to select those soldiers and bandits who were born as ruffians and habitual bandits, and formed three special task forces to track and reconnoiter in the direction of Shouyang County, Yangqu County, Taiyuan County, and Gujiao, and to find out the whereabouts of the Eighth Route Army troops retreating from the airport.

Gu Dina Huaxiong spent a lot of money this time and offered a reward to the spies, and the reward was very high: anyone who found this Eighth Route Army unit would be rewarded with 5,000 pieces of ocean!

This kind of reward is enough to make those spies' eyes light up and they are eager to try! (To be continued.) )