The two sides hit it off, and immediately began to prepare the target, although the reconnaissance company's reconnaissance ability is far above the Wufeng Army, but Lin Hu is a native of the local area, has lived around Wufeng for almost 30 years, is familiar with everything around, plus the Lin family's network, not only in Wufeng, Changhua, Nantou, Taichung Several places are very in place, the preliminary investigation and selection work, or handed over to the Wufeng Army.

Lin Hu lived up to Yang Yuanzhao's expectations, and quickly selected some targets from the surroundings. Changhua County, Taichung, and even Yunlin County and Chiayi County, these places have more or less garrisons and police sub-offices, which are all worthy targets, but the largest units are only small army units, and some simply only have second-line troops and police departments. Looking at the information collected by the Lin family, Liu Ye was noncommittal, and after Lin Hu finished speaking, he asked curiously: "Why is there no Nantou!" ”

Lin Long didn't know why, he also knew that Nantou was not far away, even closer than Changhua, turning his head to look at Lin Hu, Lin Hu was a little hesitant, but under Liu Ye's attention, under Lin Long's urging, he still said the reason, in fact, it was very simple, the reason why he didn't choose Nantou was because there were too many garrisons in Nantou, and it was a hard bone.

Nantou is the only inland county in Taiwan, completely not near the sea, Taiwan's highest peak Yushan, Sun Moon Lake, the source of the longest river Turbidity Creek and Taiwan's geographical center are all located in Nantou County. After the Luo Fuxing uprising, because of the huge momentum, it actually lasted for two years, which posed a huge threat to Japanese rule, and the Japanese garrison in Taiwan attached great importance to it. Not only did a large number of people be sent to the surrounding counties to defend themselves to prevent Luo Fuxing from wandering, but also in the places where Luo Fuxing was most likely to appear. Nantou County, where Yushan is located, has invested heavy troops and sent a wing over to be responsible for the battle in the central part of the country.

At present, a lot of troops are scattered and searched in the central mountains of Taiwan, but in Nantou County, a brigade of regular troops is stationed. Responsible for liaising around, guarding the company's arsenal and providing support to other troops. The reason why Lin Hu did not choose Nantou. It is also because of this, although with the help of the Northwest Army, the strength of the Wufeng Army has made tremendous progress every day. Formal military training. It has given them more power, but the shadow of the past is still there.

A brigade of the Japanese army is a field brigade with a full strength of 1,100 people. For the former Wufeng Army, in the early days of the uprising, when the morale was high, it was not a large group of Japanese troops encountered, but only a squadron. There were only 180 people, and the Wufeng Army had more than 300 people at that time. Twice the number, the Wufeng army was still defeated, in the face of the Japanese offensive, a charge, more than 100 were killed and wounded, and then, there was no then, leaving 200 people behind, and ran away.

Now, the face is not a squadron, but a brigade, a brigade of 1100 standards, this is definitely a hard bone, Lin Hu does not think that just after training, the total number of people is only 700 people, can deal with this.

After listening to Lin Hu's story, Liu Ye's eyes lit up, a brigade is not much, it has not reached the level of a wing, they can't deal with it, but it is not less, for them, it is the best stepping stone, and it can be regarded as the foundation for establishing their own strength.

In Taiwan, because Luo Fuxing's uprising was suppressed, coupled with the massacre of a large number of people, the uprising fell into a trough, the long struggle, countless blood, too much shed and too bitter, in the absence of support, the people's spontaneous command is getting lower and lower, but the expectations of the heart for the homeland can not be parted, this is an opportunity.

Liu Ye chose Nantou County almost without thinking, which made Lin Hu shocked and blocked him repeatedly, but Liu Ye had already made up his mind, and briefly described the difference in strength between the two sides, especially in terms of technical equipment and soldier quality, although the number of reconnaissance companies is only one-third of the brigade, but if you really want to meet on the battlefield, you can kill half of the opponent's people if you have more means or sneak attacks, there is almost no problem with victory.

Lin Hu recognized the strength of the Northwest Army very much, and felt that the number of the Northwest Army was too small, if the Northwest Army had more than 1,000 people, plus the Wufeng Army, he would not hesitate to choose here, now the Northwest Army is only about 300 people, the Wufeng Army here has not been completely trained, according to the Northwest Army, the Northwest Army recruit training also takes 3 months, maybe the Wufeng Army will not be worse than the new army, but a month or two is always needed, this is only 10 days, on the battlefield, this is more or less, it is irresponsible to the soldiers.

Lin Hu disagreed, Liu Ye had the right to command, but he couldn't come hard, so he had to explain a little bit, almost exposing the strength of the reconnaissance company, and even the strength of the special forces was told again, telling in detail, examples of real battles, these together became the last straw that broke the camel's back, the Japanese in Taiwan, almost a demon-like existence, every Japanese soldier has bloody hands, and it is every Taiwanese who chooses to have the opportunity to deal with them, since the combat effectiveness of the Northwest Army is so strong, Then deal with them, let the heads of 1,100 Japanese pay tribute to the heroic souls of the people of Taiwan.

After the overall view is unified, the action begins, whether the battle is victorious, intelligence accuracy is the guide, and only by knowing oneself and knowing the other can victory be achieved, the northwest has always attached importance to intelligence gathering, even the lowest company-level commander Liu Ye also knows that he is not only the company commander of the reconnaissance company, but also has 3 squads of special forces, although he has no jurisdiction, but has the right to command the battlefield.

In the following days, the elites of the special forces and reconnaissance companies began to frequently enter Nantou County to investigate the basic information of the defenders inside. In this era, the Japanese Army, the idea of building the army is still the level of the last century, adhering to the personnel and hand-to-hand combat, these two points even in later generations, there is not much room for improvement, in this case, when encountering the supremacy of firepower, coupled with the special forces such a post-modern army, the gap is all-round.

In just 5 days, the entire Nantou county has been investigated by the special forces and reconnaissance company, and the loopholes everywhere are like a sieve, the name of the Japanese army brigade currently stationed in Nantou County is the Sakamoto Brigade, and his captain is Soichiro Sakamoto, which is the third brigade belonging to the 532nd Wing of the First Division of the Japanese Taiwan Army, the entire brigade has about 1,000 people, and some second-line troops, the number is not much, about 300 people, they are responsible for the city defense of Nantou, a police sub-office, There are more than 700 police officers under its jurisdiction, the largest among all police sub-offices, and with a small number of armed expatriates and company armed personnel, there are almost more than 2,800 armed personnel in the entire Nantou county.

Of course, the most important and strongest is the Sakamoto Brigade, which is a veteran brigade that once belonged to the Sixth Division, and later in 1895 the Taiwan Army was established and was transferred over, and on the basis of several brigades, the current Taiwan Army was established, with a relatively long history.

The investigators not only investigated the military strength of Nantou County, but also drew a map of Nantou, in the map, several key locations and buildings related to Nantou were marked out in detail by the investigators on the map, this map will be repeatedly confirmed, handed over to each commander, the entire military operation against Nantou County, will rely on this military map, so it is very critical, at least send a few waves of people, after careful checking, before the final verdict.

During the reconnaissance, the high-level of the Wufeng Army, looking at the strength of the Northwest Army with their own eyes, almost entered the area controlled by the Japanese army, before they were worried about the pride and arrogance of the Northwest, it turned out that the other party was proud, but it was the pride of believing in their own strength very much, rather than blind arrogance, including arsenals, barracks, canteens, staff headquarters, headquarters, etc., important facilities, all of which were marked one by one, did not arouse the vigilance of the Japanese Army, they were still at a loss in Nantou County, I don't know, a bloodthirsty monster, Already keeping an eye on them.

These Japanese troops in Nantou County have not done enough, maybe it is the relationship between the bandits, or the relationship between the strength of Luo Fuxing and the Wufeng Army before is too weak, the Japanese have not encountered any strong resistance at all, at most it is a little troublesome to search for them, the dense mountains in the central part, these guys, like a gopher, drill into it, and they can't find it at all.

It is precisely because of this that the Sakamoto Brigade did not build a close position in Nantou County, but only found a row of warehouses in the county seat, and stationed them next to it, with police and second-line troops on the periphery to defend, they only need to guard the arsenal, most of the time is resting, and the defensive mentality is almost the lowest.

For the Northwest Army, this is the best opportunity, the other side is not defended at all, as long as the opponent's sentry posts are cleared, sneak attacks and intensive fire attacks, what awaits them will be a feast, and it is necessary to find out the situation of the arsenal, and get the arms in the arsenal under the premise of annihilating a large pair of troops of the opponent. This is the arsenal that supports a wing, although there are not many guns, but the inconvenient artillery, shells, bullets and logistical supplies are at least fifty or sixty tons, and with these, most of the arms problems can be solved in the initial stage.

As for the future, all the soldiers of the Northwest Army know very well that with the Northwest as the backing, Taiwan will not lack weapons in the future, but what is lacking is now, as long as a solid base is laid, preferably a port, and the Northwest has a strong industrial production capacity and maritime delivery capacity, a large number of troops and arms can be dropped into Taiwan in a few minutes.

At present, several ports in Taiwan, Keelung, Kaohsiung and Taipei, in the end, Kaohsiung was chosen, but that is the long-term goal, at least the goal in a few months, now for the northwest, it is better to eat the current first, the first to bear the brunt, is Nantou County, where a brigade of Japanese troops is stationed. (To be continued......)