"You're Thunder?" Zhao Zhi's voice introduced himself a little louder, and was heard clearly by the students crouching in the riverbed, and the female student who rolled her eyes at Luo Ying at first screamed directly. These students were all progressive students from Peking and Tianjin, and after the outbreak of the war, these students were locked up in their homes by their families, but with the birth of the thunder, more and more people in the enemy-occupied areas believed that the war was almost over and that the Japanese would eventually lose.

People in enemy-occupied areas will have such thoughts, thanks to the vigorous propaganda of the Nationalist Government and the strength of the military command's intelligence network, the good news on the Thunder side will be quickly transmitted to the enemy-occupied areas through the military commander's intelligence network. The underground printing houses dominated by the military commanders would print these messages into leaflets and distribute them in enemy-occupied areas, which would cause trouble for the military commanders' intelligence stations, but to a great extent aroused the people's desire to resist the war in the enemy-occupied areas.

At first, these students were detained at home for fear that they would cause trouble for themselves and their families, but with the implementation of the Nationalist government's propaganda stations, the people in the enemy-occupied areas had a new understanding of the current war situation. Pingxingguan, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, Zhangwu County, Ding'an City, of course, including the thunder in the limelight, the successive defeats of the Japanese in Shanxi, so that the people in the enemy-occupied areas saw hope, many people who are good at seizing the opportunity will send their juniors to Shanxi, whether it is to join the Eighth Route Army, the National Army or the Thunder, they hope to leave a back road for their families.

"Are we thunder, or the question just now, we need to know the situation on your way to the periphery of Taiyuan" Zhao Zhi didn't want to entangle with this gang too much, and after the lion opened his mouth in Yan'an, Zhao Zhi lost confidence in the Eighth Route Army. The Taiyuan operation was time-consuming and labor-intensive, Zhao Zhi didn't want to spend all his energy on mutual calculations with the Eighth Route Army, and for a long time after the Taiyuan Campaign, Zhao Zhi would fight in Burma for the vested interests of Thunder, who would know what would happen in the future, although Zhao Zhi knew that China would be a red country in the future, but Thunder was not in China at all.

Thunder's ambulance skillfully bandaged Ma Liancheng's wound, Ma Liancheng was shot in the chest, but his wound was only a penetrating wound, I don't know if Ma Liancheng was lucky or the Japanese machine gunner's marksmanship was too good, the bullet only penetrated Ma Liancheng's body, but did not hurt important organs and bones. Zhao Zhiwen only owed the Japanese puppet army the deployment and density of the Japanese puppet army along the way, not to know the secret route of the Eighth Route Army, so Ma Liancheng did not hide it, and told Zhao Zhi about the things he experienced along the way.

"Are you really Thunder's troops?" Zhao Zhi and Ma Liancheng sat down and chatted with Zhenghuan, and the students who were out of danger transferred the object of inquiry to Luo Ying, this guy who looked smaller than them actually commanded the dozen or so thunder people to fight with the Japanese puppet army on the spot just now, he should be a person who has a certain weight in the thunder, and the students who were eager to inquire about the thunder took Luo Ying as the object of their questioning.

"Of course, we were originally thunder" The enthusiasm of the female students made Luo Ying take two steps back, but the muzzle of the flat-ended submachine gun was lowered. The students' questions are actually superfluous, Zhao Zhi and they are wearing a full set of American-style military uniforms, as well as Thunder's customized carrying equipment, and there are signs with the word Thunder on the sleeves of the military uniforms, as long as you are literate, you can know that these people are Thunder's combat team, and the students will ask like this, just to set up magnetism with Luo Ying, so as to get more information about Thunder from Lloyd's mouth.

"Are you saying that most of the people you have met along the way are the Imperial Army? The number of Japanese troops was small? Zhao Zhi looked at Ma Liancheng with some surprise, the information sent by the military commander before, there should be many Japanese troops around Taiyuan. These people from the Eighth Route Army traveled a long way from Hebei with so many students, and they only met a very small number of Japanese soldiers, which had to make Zhao Zhi's heart rise a little bad.

Zhao Zhi's Taiyuan operation is not just as simple as taking Taiyuan, he also plans to use the method of encirclement to attract more Japanese puppet troops to come to Taiyuan to rescue, and use the powerful combat power of the Thunder Armored Corps to kill and injure these Japanese soldiers, so as to lay a good foundation for the follow-up action of comprehensively clearing the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi. But Ma Liancheng now said that they hadn't encountered many Japanese troops on the way from Hebei, which made Zhao Zhi question whether there was something wrong with the battle plan he had made earlier, or if the plan had been leaked.

"Luo Ying, immediately send a report to Pingyao and Erhushan, asking them to immediately discharge scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese army, I want to know whether there is a large-scale troop movement of the Japanese puppet army around Taiyuan, it is best to contact the military commanders in Taiyuan City, let them inquire about the situation of Taiyuan city defense, and see if they have any information about the movement of the Japanese puppet army" Zhao Zhi whispered a few words, Luo Ying, who didn't want to deal with those students, ran to find the radio soldiers.

Intelligence is the key to determining whether a battle is victorious, Zhao Zhi has never been stingy with his contribution to the military commander, not to mention the action teams trained by Geyue Mountain for the military commander, even the American-style weapons and equipment that Zhao Zhi provided to the military commander for free, which is enough to make Dai Li treat Zhao Zhi as a brother. Thunder's good combat effectiveness in Shanxi also depends to a large extent on the intelligence provided by the military commanders and the CCP, and the CCP's performance in the weapons leasing plan has made Zhao Zhi a little disappointed, so a large part of the current intelligence sources of the thunder come from the intelligence network of the military commanders.

Sending a telegram and receiving a reply are naturally not the same thing, Pingyao and Erhushan are worried about Zhao Zhi is also helpless, the scouts they sent out earlier did not send back any valuable information, but the mercenary troops who were ordered to infiltrate Taiyuan had good news. With the help of the internal line bought by the military commander, all the 300 mercenaries who were ordered to infiltrate Taiyuan City have entered Taiyuan City safely, and the inner line bought by the military commander not only provided them with a valid certificate of good citizenship, but also safely transported the mercenaries' weapons into Taiyuan City.

"This is indeed good news" Zhao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the lurking troops had successfully entered the city, what he was most worried about was the 300 lurking mercenaries. It is no longer a big problem for personnel to enter Taiyuan City, but Zhao Zhi is worried about the weapons used by the mercenaries, the mercenaries without weapons are like tigers without fangs, and it is difficult to create the riot that Zhao Zhi needs in Taiyuan City with only those pistols provided by the military commander. I didn't expect that the military commander's ability was good, and he actually solved the weapon problem, maybe after the Taiyuan Battle, Zhao Zhi should send Dai Li a few more pieces of antique porcelain given to him by the big families in Pingyao.

"Okay, let's separate here, we still have a task, we can only send you here, and it is safe to go any further, the Japanese puppet army strongholds along the way have been cleaned up by our thunderous troops, and you can return to your base safely all the way" sent Ma Liancheng and them out of the long way onto the avenue, Zhao Zhicai and Ma Liancheng broke up.

Sending away Ma Liancheng and the others, Zhao Zhi took his men to start transferring and continued to move in the direction of Taiyuan, except for Ma Liancheng's people who were replaced with 38 rifles and 100 rounds of ammunition per person, all the loot belonged to Zhao Zhi and them. The mercenaries don't look down on the bolt-action rifles of the Japanese puppet army, but the captured Japanese-style grenades and the grenades of the Imperial Allied Army are good things, at least they can save the American-style grenades they brought out from Pingyao, and the cigarettes on the Japanese puppet army are also good things, and few of the mercenaries under Zhao Zhi are non-smokers.

"Sir, it's all done, except for grenades and machine guns, everything else has been buried on the spot by the motors" Luo Ying carried the second lieutenant command knife of the commander of the Japanese squad, and ran to Zhao Zhi's side step by step, but the latter was carefully looking at the map spread out on the stone. Although Willis's infantry regiment has occupied the road from Luliang to Taiyuan, there are still large and small Japanese puppet army strongholds along the way, once the march of the armored corps is known to the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi's Taiyuan operation may be exposed to the Japanese army in advance, which is why Zhao Zhi will appear here.

"Tell the infantry to contact the surrounding teams and move closer here" Zhao Zhi put away the map, took out a cigar and played with it in his hand. The Eighth Route Army just said very clearly, they came from Hebei, and it was easy for a small-scale unit to evade the search of the Japanese puppet army, but once the troops reached a scale, it would be difficult to escape the blockade line of the Japanese puppet army. Zhao Zhi came out this time with 200 mercenaries, in addition to his own team, there were many mercenary teams within a radius of more than ten miles on the left.

Clearing the Japanese puppet strongholds and troops along the route of the Panzer Corps was the purpose of Zhao Zhi's trip, which Zhao Zhi called the operation Operation Scavenger. The armored corps is the hole card of the thunder and the key to the success of the Taiyuan campaign, such a large-scale mobilization of armored troops that movement is not small, if the Japanese puppet army on the Taiyuan side learned of the appearance and existence of the armored corps in advance, for the thunder is by no means the plan of action may fail as simple, if it is not done well, it will cause the Japanese army to counterattack or encircle, so the scavenger operation is necessary.

Shanxi has now been stirred into a pot of muddy water by thunder, the Japanese army will not take the initiative to give up Shanxi, Taiyuan is besieged, they will definitely find reinforcements, in Hebei and Shandong have no time to take care of Shanxi, their reinforcements are only from Zhangjiakou and Baotou. Taking Taiyuan, it was just that Zhao Zhi wanted a bridgehead to pave the way for the follow-up action of Thunder, but once the Japanese troops in Zhangjiakou and Baotou went south in large numbers and entered Shanxi, the Thunder troops guarding the front line of Yangquan could not stop them, and Zhao Zhi needed to make countermeasures in advance.