Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Confusing and Vicious Conspiracy

The two units that attacked the devil's convoy were counterattacked by the devils, causing great losses to the Einsatzgruppen, which suffered nearly 100 casualties. Xiao Xiong knew that this vicious trap set by the devil was a vain attempt to eliminate the resistance elements who attacked the transport convoy. Although they did not achieve the ultimate goal of eliminating the anti-enemy special forces in northern Jiangxi this time, they still sounded the alarm for Xiao Xiong's future actions.

Xiao Xiong was very sad and ashamed, and he was extremely angry, so he summoned Gao Qixing, Xiong Qiang, and other officers above the squadron leader, and asked the brothers who were also angry and sad to calm down first, carefully analyze the current situation, and make a new battle plan in detail. In short, their bottom line is to destroy the devil's poison gas bomb in Jiujiang, and absolutely not let it be transported to the front line. Everyone was determined to sabotage the enemy's transportation plan to the death, resolutely complete the tasks assigned by the headquarters of the theater commander, and avenge the death of the brethren.

Obviously, the root cause of this defeat was that the enemy knew the goal of the Einsatzgruppen, and the devil deliberately revealed his whereabouts, and gave the Einsatzgruppen sufficient time to prepare, creating the illusion of two-way transportation, which really confused himself. After their car convoy drove out of Jiujiang, they loaded at least one squadron of devils on Shahe Street. Because, they estimated that the section of the road attacked by the Einsatzgruppen prepared two more devil patrols reinforced by nearly two squadrons. In this way, after Xiong Qiang and the others began to attack, the devils could quickly mobilize a force of nearly 400 people, in a vain attempt to wipe out the Einsatzgruppen and annihilate it, so they could sit back and relax once and for all.

On the other hand, the devils secretly loaded the men and horses of the two heavily armed squadrons onto the train, and equipped it with an armored train with super firepower, as long as the Einsatzgruppen dared to attack, it would definitely be hit by the destruction of the surname.

It can be said that the conspiracy designed by the devils this time is indeed superb, they deceived all the lines of the Einsatzgruppen and deceived Xiao Xiong. If it weren't for the two front-line commanders' strong battlefield adaptability, the consequences would be really unimaginable. In this way, the two Einsatzgruppen units involved in the attack were still thwarted in their actions and suffered heavy losses.

Now, the most troublesome thing is where did the devil hide those 100 boxes of gas bombs? What exactly is the time to transport it? What means of transport is used?

These questions have left the officers of Xiao Xiong's core team tormented.

Now, we have to mobilize all the people to participate and go to the streets and alleys of Jiujiang to secretly find the whereabouts of the poison gas bombs. At the same time, it is necessary to quickly report the failure of this operation to the theater command and strive for intelligence support from the theater. After all, the intelligence network of the military commander and the central commander on the front line of the Yangtze River is powerful, and with the help of their strength, they may be able to find clues of devils.

Xiao Xiong and the others analyzed that the large-scale operation of the devils was imminent, and it was impossible for them to keep this kind of strategic material in Jiujiang for a long time, at least before the war began, they must transport it to the combat troops. Therefore, it is possible to find out the hiding place of the devil's poison gas bombs through the enemy's telegrams, and at the same time to know the purpose and approximate time of the devil's large-scale combat operations, killing two birds with one stone.

Xiao Xiong asked the intelligence team to quickly telegraph the information to the Ninth Theater Commander's Department and wait for their instructions. At the same time, in the name of the Northern Jiangxi Special Administrative Office and the Northern Jiangxi Guerrilla Corps, all subordinate units were ordered to immediately move closer to the Jiujiang urban area, and in particular, local guerrillas like Hu Maosheng must also immediately follow the order and quickly arrive at the designated position and make preparations for battle. Because if you want to find a hundred wooden boxes in Jiujiang City, it is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's not a piece of cake for the devil to hide that little thing in the huge Jiujiang City. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on all the forces that can be relied on, especially to mobilize the local people in Jiujiang and nearby to go out to look for them, these people are not easy to be discovered by the devils, and they are familiar with the situation in Jiujiang, and the purpose of summoning them to Jiujiang is to find out where the devils are hiding as soon as possible.

But more than a month has passed, and seeing that the time is almost the end of 1940, and the search for devil gas bombs still has not made the slightest progress, Xiao Xiong and the others are very anxious. During this period, the devils frequently transferred troops from various theaters, and the destinations they were all in the direction of Nanchang, which indicated that the Ninth War Zone was about to face a big battle and a vicious battle.

In fact, it was not only Xiao Xiong who was anxious, but the generals of the Ninth Theater Commander's Headquarters were even more anxious than them. Because after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the devils continued to use poison gas bombs and bacteriological warfare on the battlefield, causing great casualties to our army, and several important battles led to the defeat of our army because of the devils' sudden use of poison gas bombs. In the past battles against the devils, especially in the early days of the war, the Ninth War Zone suffered a lot of losses from the devils' poison gas bombs.

Therefore, in the face of the increasingly grim situation, the Ninth War Zone also mobilized a lot of men and horses to monitor the movements of the devils day and night, tracking the poison gas bombs that suddenly disappeared from the devils, and trying to prevent it from appearing on the battlefield in the future, and it is best to solve it in Jiujiang.

During this period of time, the devils have also significantly accelerated the deployment of troops to northern and northwest Jiangxi. The 11th Army of the Devils began to transfer troops from the 5th and 6th Theaters of Operations, which was occupied, and Jiujiang, which was a very important transit point for the Devils, was particularly busy.

Yamamoto was very happy during this time, because the two anti-ambush battles some time ago were very successful, which was a rare masterpiece since he was stationed in Tunjiujiang. After being reprimanded by his superiors one after another, Yamamoto racked his brains, so he conspired with Peng Fugui and the others to use poison gas bombs as bait to lure out the anti-Japanese elements and force them to take the risk of attacking. In this way, it will definitely be possible to catch them all, or at least give them a heavy blow.

As expected, after two battles, hundreds of anti-Japanese elements were killed and wounded, and a brilliant victory was achieved. As a result, the resistance has indeed been greatly weakened, as their sabotage activities against the Imperial Army have decreased significantly in the last month or so. The normal transportation of the Nanxun Railway and the Nanjiu Highway was ensured, so that a large number of personnel and materials could be transported to the front line in a timely manner. The superiors of the 11th Army Headquarters and the 33rd and 34th Divisions expressed their affirmation and satisfaction with his work, and the resentment of some time ago was dissipated.

Yamamoto also received an order from the military headquarters of the 11th Army, telling him to quickly transport the poison gas bombs hidden in Jiujiang to Nanchang before the end of the year, and the devils were about to launch the "Poyang Lake Sweeping Campaign" in the spring of 1941. The reason for this was that the headquarters of the Dispatch Army in China decided to transfer the 33rd Division from the Central China Dispatch Army to support the "sweep" in North China. In order to strike at the anti-Japanese forces in our Ninth Theater and consolidate the enemy's occupation in central and northern Jiangxi, the devils specially prepared to transfer from Shanghai the 20th Brigade led by Major General Naozo Ikeda to Nanchang in the near future, and planned to concentrate on launching a sweep against the anti-Japanese troops in this area before the 33rd Division was transferred, and the main target of the attack was the main force of Luo Zhuoying's [***] 19th Group Army stationed in Shanggao and Fengxin.

In order to ensure the victory of the "Poyang Lake Sweeping Battle", the Devil's Invasion Command ordered the army to completely destroy the will to resist of the Central [***] Brigade by all means, ensure the safety of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, the Nanxun Railway, the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake and other land and water transportation, and consolidate the rule of the occupied areas. Therefore, this batch of poison gas bombs in Jiujiang became the devil's trump card and secret weapon against the enemy in this battle.

Yamamoto knew that such an important thing must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy, nor should it be destroyed and destroyed by the enemy. The vicious trick he carried out last time did cause some difficulties for the sabotage operation of the Einsatzgruppen, but even so, Yamamoto, an old devil, was still not very reassured. Therefore, he decided to carry out an even more vicious conspiracy when transporting the gas bombs out of Jiujiang, forcing the Einsatzgruppen to intercept them, and they would definitely be completely wiped out at that time.