"Clearly sent a report to Chongqing, that is, the headquarters of the National Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column recently connected Zhangwu County and Madian Railway Station, after completely annihilating the Japanese puppet army stationed in Zhangwu County and Madian Railway Station, and then defeated the Japanese puppet army reinforcements from the Maliang River at the stone beach of Banqiao, and in a total of 6 days of fighting, a total of 2,000 Japanese puppet troops were killed, and the injuries were not counted" The city gate of Zhangwu County can already be seen, but Zhao Zhi suddenly ordered to stop sending telegrams to Chongqing on the spot, and it was also sent in plain code.

"Sir, the use of clear code to send newspapers will be intercepted by the Japanese army" The newspaper operator who was stuffed by the Chongqing government to Zhao Zhi looked at Zhao Zhi with some concern. Zhao Zhi just smiled and asked him to send a telegram in clear code according to the order, Zhao Zhi naturally had his purpose in doing this, the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram after the victory in Banqiao, saying that an infantry battalion they sent had gone to Zhangwu County, plus the regiment sent by the national army, and now the armed forces gathered in Zhangwu County have reached nearly 2,000 people, Zhao Zhi did this because he wanted to rely on Zhangwu County to attract the Japanese puppet army around Zhangwu County to come over and fight a good battle. It is also good to relieve some pressure on the anti-Japanese forces on the battlefield in Shanxi.

Sure enough, as Zhao Zhi expected, the telegram they typed out in clear code was not only received by Chongqing, but also intercepted by the Japanese army. "Baga, these hateful Chinese people" Kenkichi Hirata, the commander of the 37th Division of the Japanese Army, who belonged to the First Army of the North China Front of the Japanese Army invading China, slapped the telegram in his hand on the table. This 37th Division was a division that had just been formed in Japan, and it was only then that it was transferred to the Chinese battlefield and assigned to the First Army of the North China Theater, and was ordered to garrison in Shanxi. Zhao Zhi's telegram said that he killed more than 2,000 Japanese puppet soldiers in one time, which made Hirata Kenyoshi, who was stationed on the front line of Yuncheng, a little surprised, and he didn't believe that the soldiers of the empire would be so vulnerable.

"Immediately summon the officers above the brigade level to the division headquarters for a meeting" Kenkichi Hirata picked up the pen and paper on the table, and he wanted to immediately draft a telegram to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro. Although the 37th Division had just arrived on the Chinese battlefield, the defense area of his 37th Division was in Yuncheng, which was the closest to Zhangwu County and Madian, so he was arrogant and wrote to the military headquarters, preparing to send a wing of his division to deal with the Zhina people entrenched in Zhangwu County.

The 37th Division has three wings of infantry, 225, 226, and 227, as well as the 37th Wing of Search, 37th Wing of Baggage, and 37th Engineer Wing, and the total number of the entire 37th Division has reached 13,000 people. Hirata Kenkichi only found the location of Zhangwu County on the map, and according to the comparison of the map, this county seat that had been occupied by the people of China was more than 200 miles away from Yuncheng.

Hirata Kenji calculated the distance according to the map, but he ignored the mountainous and ravinely terrain of Shanxi, and the more than 200 li he calculated was just an approximation, if it was calculated on the spot, from Yuncheng to Zhangwu County, I am afraid that it would be almost 300 miles. The 37th Division had just arrived at Yuncheng to garrison, and the troops had not yet fully deployed, so the officers were quickly assembled, and they gathered in the headquarters in a short time.

"Let's all take a look" Kenkichi Hirata took the telegram that the adjutant had just pasted and put it on the table, and the officers under him circulated it to each other, and Kenyoshi Hirata reacted the same, and the officers were all excitedly clamoring to send troops to show their strength. "I have already called the military headquarters far away in Taiyuan, asking our 37th Division to eliminate these nasty Zhina, and the search wing will immediately send a search team to Zhangwu County to reconnoitre, please be ready to send troops at any time, now just wait for the order of the military headquarters"

Umezu Mijiro, who was far away in Taiyuan, received a telegram from the 37th Division, and he was still a little confused, because he had not yet received a report here because of the incident in Zhangwu County and Madian Railway Station. After reading Hirata's letter of invitation, Umezu Mijiro had a general impression in his heart, so he found his adjutant and asked about Shomu County and Madian Railway Station. After the relevant reports were brought in, Umezu Mijiro's reaction was even more powerful than that of Hirata Kenkichi, and he directly swept everything on the table to the ground.

If it was just the loss of Zhangwu County, it would be forgotten, but the new light tanks that had just arrived at the Madian Railway Station were all robbed, and Mitsui, who rushed from the Maliang River, was also a loss of soldiers, and more than 2,000 people were lost in a few battles, which was almost the destruction of an infantry wing, can Umezu Mijiro not be angry. Umezu Mijiro, who had lost his temper, slowly calmed down, and what he was thinking about now was not to immediately send troops to Zhangwu County, but to find out the number of the Shina troops that attacked the Madian Railway Station and ambushed Mitsui, and he wanted to know which Shina troops would have such combat power on the battlefield in China.

"Ordered the special high school to immediately send elite agents to Zhangwu County to investigate all the information about the Chinese army, and the relevant information was also sent to the 37th Division in Yuncheng" Umezu Mijiro approved the 37th Division's request for war with a stroke of his pen, and for the smooth operation of the 37th Division, he also ordered the 20th Division to take the initiative to contain a part of the Chinese troops in Shanxi, attract the attention of *** and the Kuomintang troops to the 20th Division, and clear the way for the 37th Division's Zhangwu trip.

"The military department has approved our petition, and I have ordered that the 37th Wing of the Search Force send a brigade forward to serve as the leading reconnaissance, and I will transfer trucks from the Baggage Wing to support them, and the 225th Infantry Wing will lead this battle and will go out of Shotake a day after the search team departs" Kenkichi Hirata's hand fell heavily on the table, and the teacups on the table shook chaotically, and the officers sitting on both sides of the body stood up and shouted loudly, and the entire 37th Division headquarters was filled with a crazy militaristic smell.

With the issuance of Umezu Mijiro's order, the Taiyuan Special High School sent the most elite spies to Zhangwu County, and their agents stationed in Zhangwu County earlier had already lost contact, and this time in order to cooperate with the actions of the 37th Division, the Special High School had to send new hidden agents to rush over. Due to the order of Hirata Kenyoshi, there was also a tense atmosphere on the Yuncheng side, and the Japanese soldiers of the brigade began to assemble, and the gate of the barracks was immediately closed, and the soldiers were not allowed to enter and leave freely, which seemed to be the preparation before the big war.

It's just that what Hirata Kenkichi didn't expect was that as soon as the search team on his side set off from Yuncheng by car, the military commander agents lurking in Yuncheng passed on the information, and the military commander who received the information analyzed that the abnormal behavior of the 37th Division was really brewing an operation, and the target of the operation was Zhangwu County, which Zhang Zhi had just recaptured. Before the military commander could send information to Zhao Zhi, he received information from the Taiyuan Military Command Station about the special high school, and the intelligence showed that a group of senior Japanese agents were rushing to Zhangwu County, and it seemed that this remote Zhangwu County had really become the target of the Japanese army, and the Japanese troops in Taiyuan and Yuncheng regarded it as a thorn in their side.