Looking at the Imperial Allied Army walking at the forefront of the ranks, Chief of Staff Kazuo Asakusa looked at Goro under the bridge walking beside him with admiration, and his mouth was full of compliments, "Your Excellency, it's better to do this with you, the soldiers of the empire pretending to be the imperial alliance army can not only confuse our opponents, but also avoid casualties among the imperial warriors when they are attacked to a certain extent, it is really a double win."

"Soldiers, treacherous. Therefore, it can be shown but cannot be used, it is not used to show it, it is near and it is far away, and it is far away and it is shown to be near. Profit and temptation, chaos and take, real and prepared, strong and avoid, angry and scratch, humble and arrogant, hard work, kiss and leave, attack its unpreparedness, surprise. The victory of this soldier cannot be passed on first," Goro, who was riding on horseback, read the plan in the Art of War of Sun Tzu, which he admired, and put on a confident look.

"Asakusa-kun, the Shina people are the most cunning people I have ever met, especially those who are very good at ambushes and sports warfare. When I encircled and suppressed the Tuba Road in the Hebei Theater, I was often attacked by them, and the Tuba Road with a lack of guns and ammunition was not terrible, but what we had to face now was thunder" Goro Hashimoto pointed at the Imperial Alliance troops walking in front of the queue with the horsewhip in his hand, "Although we have 7,000 soldiers this time, most of them are drawn from all over the country, and they do not fully understand and trust each other, once there are major casualties, I am afraid that the troops will collapse, so I have to guard against it."

For Goro Hashimoto's helplessness and complaints, Kazuo Asakusa, as the chief of staff, sympathized, and the number of mixed troops under their command has exceeded 7,000 people, which is about the size of a brigade in the field troops of the Japanese army. However, this is only the size of the brigade in terms of numbers, but in terms of actual combat effectiveness, it cannot even be compared with the infantry wing of the Japanese field troops. The 7,000-day puppet army under them were all drawn from various defense areas in the Luliang area, and they were all second-line troops, especially those of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and even more of them were local garrison troops.

It is necessary to ensure the speed of the march, and to collect mules and horses from the villages and towns along the way, Goro Hashimoto They set out from Luliang in the past three days, it can be said that everything is not going well, especially those small units of the Dirt Eight Road like flies, and they dare to sneak attack Goro Hashimoshita's troops in broad daylight, although the casualties caused are not large, but the commander Goro Hashimoto is as uncomfortable as eating a fly. Although they also sent a spearhead unit to pursue the Dohachi Road, which attacked them, it had little effect, and after Goro Hashimoto carefully pondered the targets of those attackers, all the Imperial Allied troops were forced to change their uniforms with an equal number of Japanese troops.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and most of these soldiers of the Imperial Association Army defected to the Japanese, just to get enough food and clothing, and even more greedy for that little money. Take people with short hands and short mouths, and receive the military salary of the Japanese, so naturally you must listen to the arrangements of the Japanese, Hashimoto Goro gave an order, all the Imperial Allied troops drank the Japanese soldiers and changed their uniforms, and at this time, the 3000 Imperial Allied troops who walked at the front of the queue were all Japanese soldiers pretending, but the real Imperial Allied Army wore Japanese military uniforms and walked in the middle and rear of the queue.

There were also objections to such a strange order from Goro Hashimota, but more of the Imperial Allied Army responded positively to Goro Hashimoto's order, not only because Goro Hashimoto was the commander, but also because the Imperial Allied Army was afraid of death. Although the successive sneak attacks of Tubalu were aimed at killing and injuring the Japanese army, it was the most dangerous to walk in the forefront of the entire team, and once attacked, the possibility of survival would be very small.

There was also a certain danger in pretending to be a Japanese soldier, but it was better than being put in front of the Japanese to block the guns, and the cowhide military shoes on the feet of the Japanese seemed to be more suitable for long journeys than the cloth military shoes of their Imperial Army. Nearly 3,000 Japanese soldiers pretending to be the Imperial Allied Army were at the front of the queue, and once the troops were attacked on a large scale, the opponent's attention would be focused on the Imperial Allied Army pretending to be Japanese troops, and the real Japanese troops would detour back to the attacker's flank to attack, and Goro Hashimoto believed that his arrangement would make the thunder of the attack unable to eat and walk around.

Nearly 1,000 Japanese troops wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Army, under the guidance of guides who are familiar with the terrain, unfolded a battle formation towards Pingyao, on the way the commander Watanabe Nakasa divided the entire forward force into three parts, and the finished zigzag was unfolded, and all the villages and towns along the way were plundered by them, mules and horses were their most scarce, followed by food and those chickens, ducks and livestock in the people's homes. The 1,000 "Imperial Army" of the forward troops were like locusts crossing the border on a dry day, plundering all the supplies in the path of the wing under the bridge.

But after they walked to a place called Yanwu Town west of Pingyao, the situation changed, the area east of Yanwu Town is simply like a dead area, the mountain village that could be seen for ten miles can not be seen now, but now there is not a living thing, all the wells that can be found are either blocked, or all kinds of drugs have been placed, after the inspection of the military doctor who accompanied the army, from the better croton laxative to the arsenic that dies at the entrance can be found from the well.

As for the obvious source of active water, all the soldiers reported that there was no problem when they took the water, and the drug test of the military doctor did not detect anything wrong, but after some of the soldiers in front of them drank the water, then endless diarrhea followed, and it was only after Watanabe Nakasa called the military doctor over and reprimanded him that the military doctor seriously re-tested, and finally came to the conclusion that the E. coli bacteria were seriously exceeded.

"Yaga" Watanabe brandished a command knife to vent his anger, he commanded a forward unit of 1,000 people, as the commander of the wing, Goro Hashimoto was not very optimistic about himself, if it wasn't for the chief of staff Kazuo Asakusa strongly recommended himself, the commander of this forward unit was afraid that it would not be his turn to do it. Plundering mules, horses and grain, Watanabe felt that he had been doing a good job these days, and he had sent no less than 100 mules and horses to the large army behind, and the food was enough for 2,000 people to eat for three days, so why did he fall into the toadstool in the water of the Chinese people?

"Haha, this time it's enough for these two dogs to drink a pot" Looking at the Imperial Association soldiers staggering by the stream from the telescope, Tang Lei, who was lying behind a dirt bag, smiled from ear to ear. After Zhao Zhi received the information sent by Wang Chen, he urgently divided the declared mercenaries into several units and sent them out to monitor all the roads from Luliang. Wang Chen said that there were more than 7,000 Japanese puppet troops coming this time, so Zhao Zhi did not dare to take it lightly, sports warfare and harassment are the strengths of the mercenary force, Zhao Zhi planned to slow down the movement speed of this group of Japanese puppet troops first, so as to win some time for his arrangement.

Tang Lei couldn't stay idle, impatient to stay in Pingyao City, so he pestered Zhao Zhi to ask for an order, and took a dozen intimate mercenaries to the direction of Yanwu Town, in his intuition judged that the Japanese puppet army from the direction of Luliang would definitely pass here, the facts showed that his judgment was extremely accurate, Watanabe's forward troops had just arrived in Yanwu Town, Tang Lei and they had already gotten the news, and did not hesitate to use force to coerce, and moved the people and livestock in several villages east of Yanwu Town, leaving only the empty village to Watanabe them.

Removing all the people and livestock was only Tang Lei's first step, and with the arrival of other mercenary teams, Tang Lei resorted to his second trick - cutting off the water. Zhao Zhi once told Tang Lei that a person can live for a week and live longer without food, but if a person can't drink water, then he only has three days to live, Tang Lei not only has to cut off the food of these imperial army, but also cut off their water. The upstream of those living water has long been sprinkled with a lot of feces and dead cats and dead dogs by Tang Lei, as long as these imperial troops dare to drink that water, they will definitely not be happy.

"There's something wrong with the turtle son" The complacent Tang Lei's eyes suddenly widened, and what appeared in the telescope was a stumbling Imperial Cooperative Army walking, looking at the posture of the guy who had diarrhea and collapsed. If it were normal times, Tang Lei would treat this person as a joke and comment with the mercenaries around him, but at this time, Tang Lei's face had a solemn look, "Damn, I just said that I always feel that something is wrong, and the reason for daring is that it is because of these two devils."

"Tietou, immediately send a report to Mr., there has been a Japanese advance 20 miles east of Yanwu Town, no heavy machine guns and mortars have been found, the Japanese army is equipped with rifles and grenadiers, and the number is about 1,000 people" Tang Lei held a telescope and stared at the Imperial Association Army by the stream in the distance without blinking, and greeted the newspaper operator with the team in his mouth.

"Head, isn't this the Imperial Army? Why is it a little Japan? ”

"Stupid" Tang Lei raised his hand and rewarded the newspaper operator with a plan, "I usually tell you to observe carefully when you encounter the enemy, I see that you have forgotten to the heels." Look carefully at their weapons, they are all 38 rifles, and then look at their military uniforms, although they are wearing the military uniforms of the Imperial Army, but you look at those guys, everyone's discipline is tightly buttoned, if this is a second devil, there will be such a military appearance and discipline, think about it, these guys must be pretended by the Japanese."

Goro Hashimoto, who claimed to be familiar with the art of war, never imagined that the clever plan he had figured out had been seen through, and if he knew that the failure of this plan was due to military appearance and military discipline, and he did not know that he would not vomit blood and die without anger, could it be a sin that the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire were well-trained.