Chapter Thirty-Seven: Water Comes to Cover the Earth

The first section of the special team

When the smoke of Kawaguchi Town is filled with smoke and the sunset is shining, the town office, the independent brigade team headquarters, the Zhennan warehouse and other places are still full of people coming and going, and it is a busy and lively scene.

Only a few people knew in their hearts that there was an undercurrent surging under this harmonious comfort, and in the shadows of the mountains in the distance, there were black clouds rising, just like the old blind man sitting in the courtyard singing the drum lyrics - "The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings"! Indeed, there is such a black cloud in Xiangshang in the northwest!

There is a small mountain village about 40 miles away from Kawaguchi Town, because there is a stone house made of stone slabs on the top of the hill behind the village, so this village is called a stone house ditch.

There were a total of 22 families in the village, and when the town of Yinfang was besieged, the local cadres led the villagers to move to the west. More than 20 elderly people, women and children who were reluctant to leave their homes were buried alive on the dry river beach at the foot of the mountain.

Originally, Qing Shui Dazuo was going to follow the combat wing to relieve the siege of Laiyuan, but when Mancheng County was ready to go, he received a secret telegram from the North China Dispatch Army, asking him and a few officers who were also drawn out to be secretly sent to a fully enclosed base on the outskirts of Baoding.

After receiving two weeks of special training here, Shimizu Daizo learned that he had submitted to General Gangcun about the targeted use of small units to infiltrate and attack Jihua in the rear base area of the Eighth Route with a small force, and he had obtained the general's approval, and instructed the 36th Division to transfer officers and excellent soldiers to the Langya Mountain area for actual combat testing after special training.

The 223rd Wing of the 36th Division assigned 120 soldiers to the operation, all of whom were from the Japanese Mt. Shidake Mountains, and their weapons and equipment were also configured at the highest level. A squadron-sized special operations team actually has one heavy machine gun, 10 light machine guns, one 92 infantry gun (120 shells), and one Type 41 mountain gun (60 shells).

The soldiers carried a horse rifle (120 rounds of ammunition), a six-day ration, two grenades, and other equipment such as raincoats.

In addition, in addition to Shimizu Osa as the supreme commander of the special forces, several officers who had received special operations training in Germany were also transferred, and Shigeo Mashiko, Sasaki, Inogu, and Miyaken served as squad leaders and military commanders respectively.

Leading the way for this unit was a 18-member Chinese plainclothes team led by the Japanese North China Special High Section Amamiya Shaoza. These plainclothes are all hardcore traitors who are familiar with the terrain and topography of the combat area and have received long-term training as agents of the Japanese army, and are determined to work for the imperial army.

For the sake of secrecy, all the combatants were loaded into closed trucks at night and sent to Mancheng County, where they departed, and did not appear in public or have contact with the outside world until the time of departure.

On the night when Yang Bangzi and the 72nd Wing of the Japanese Army were stumbling around Woquegou, at 12 o'clock in the night, Shimizu Dazuo and the others quietly left the camp, and according to the route of repeated drills on the sand table, they avoided the villages along the way, and walked in the small roads and green gauze tents, and approached Yinfang Town at the northern foot of Langya Mountain.

From Mancheng County to Yinfang Town, the road is full of hills and mountains, due to the repeated encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, most of these mountains have become uninhabited except for the extremely remote ravines. Therefore, the special team successfully sneaked to the vicinity of Yinfang Town, and used the darkness and camouflage to successfully cross several blockade lines besieging Yinfang Town by the Eighth Road.

According to the instructions of the North China Dispatch Army, it should quickly penetrate into the center of the Eighth Route base area and strike at their command center and key rear targets under the guidance of those agents lurking in the Eighth Route Base Area.

However, Shimizu Daisa has always been the lord of "the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign king", and he advocates changing according to his own situation and changing with the change of the battlefield. When he led the team to arrive, the battle situation in Yinfang Town could be said to be precarious! Surrounded by the enemy on three sides, the only communication and supply channel between the north and Laiyuan was often harassed and cut off, and the reserves of food and ammunition were not enough to hold on for a long time.

Therefore, Shimizu Daisa wants to take advantage of the enemy situation here to conduct actual combat training for the special operations team first. This idea was supported by other officers such as Shigeo Mashiko, and General Okamura also affirmed this jihua in the telegram.

The plainclothes team drew paper patterns according to the style of the military uniforms of the Eighth Road, and rushed to produce more than 100 sets. This special operations team has been transformed into the main force of the regular Eighth Route Army.

Relying on the information provided by the hidden agents, the special forces team attacked 5 surrounding natural villages in a few days, killing and wounding more than 200 regular soldiers and local armed forces of the Eighth Road! Hundreds of Chinese peasants who were useless to the special forces were also "eliminated" on the spot.

And under the interception of more than 2,000 Eighth Roads and militia, the special forces actually only slightly injured two people! This achievement shocked the North China Dispatch Army! According to the war report, there is basically no movement of large troops on the Eighth Road around Yinfang Town, and the siege in the early stage has basically been broken!

And after the special operation in the past few days, from Shimizu Daisa to ordinary soldiers, they have all changed from the anxiety when they set off from the city to full of confidence! It seems that the theory of special operations learned from Europe is exactly the magic weapon for restraining the eight-way that is good at guerrilla warfare!

After resting, Shimizu Daisa got the information transmitted from within the Eighth Road, which was provided by the "Chrysanthemum" in Beiping, and this "Chrysanthemum" is said to be known only to a few highest-ranking generals in the army, such as General Gangmura, and their information is generally very accurate!

This information said that the supreme commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the main organs of the Military Region of the Eighth Route had moved southward from the northwest of Hebei and were currently staying in the area west of Tang County and north of Fuping.

At the same time, the telecommunications reconnaissance department in Peiping also sent information, and it was able to track and detect the activities of the eight radio stations.

In this way, Qing Shui Dazuo had a bold idea, that is, to secretly go south from Yinfang Town, pass through the central area of the Eighth Road, and make a hundred miles to attack and defeat the command center of the Jinchaji Military Region.

This idea was supported by General Gangmura, and in order for this bold Jihua to succeed, the Japanese army began to make a number of preparations.

First, it also announced to the outside world that it would vigorously carry out a campaign to strengthen public order and strengthen control over the Linglai Highway.

Second, the troops stationed in Shanxi were ordered to secretly transfer troops from Wutai and other places to form a rapid search and suppression detachment, and to go out to the mountains west of Fuping to stand by.

Third, personnel were transferred from the garrison units in Shijiazhuang, Dingzhou, and Tang counties to form a search and suppression team on the southern line, and a large number of artillery towers and pillboxes were built along both sides of the Fuping Highway to completely block all roads leading to southern Hebei.

Fourth, the special high-tech department of the Japanese army in North China directly ordered the spies who were lurking and dispatched to start sabotage and assassination activities in the area where they were active, so as to divert the attention of the Eighth Route and make them busy dealing with the chaos within the base area.

These operations were carried out in secret, and even some high-ranking officers of the Japanese army were kept in the dark, and the soldiers and officers who came out of concealment were instructed to prepare for the second phase of the sweep, and it was not known when the operation would attack which area!

The telegram that Shimizu Daisa had just received said that at present, he may choose the direction of travel, Xiangshang, and there are two key targets of the eight routes, Kawaguchi Town and Junying Town. The town of Kawaguchi is the seat of government in the newly established so-called Reiman Prefecture of the Eighth Road, and according to reliable information, there are warehouses used to transfer and store supplies destined for the central base.

According to the intelligence of the military camp town, the arsenal of the Eighth Road, the rear hospital, and the school are all there.

Whether these two targets will attack or not is up to Shimizu Daisa to decide, and the time for Zuihou to attack the organs of the Eighth Route Military Region is to be determined.

However, the Japanese army's secret service is very powerful, and the name and summary resume of the military leader of the Eighth Route Lingman Prefecture have also been obtained, and when he saw the words "Yang Daye", Shimizu Dazuo's heart still twitched.

During his last tenure in the Suzuki detachment, after the defeat, he learned that he had been dealing with him for two days and buried more than 100 of his subordinates alive with explosives.

This revenge must be avenged! The enemy is very red when they meet! Not to mention it's only 40 miles away! There was also the help of the special high-tech agents, and it was also confirmed that there was no telecommunication signal around Kawaguchi Town, and if the surprise attack was successful, it would be a big deal to wipe out all the prisoners, so that the news would not leak.

Shimizu Daisa's true opinion on the Sino War has not been said to anyone, including his friends, superiors and wives, but judging from his treatment of the Chinese, it is not difficult to guess at all, that is, physical destruction, preferably the destruction of the entire nation!

Thinking of the "Shina Pig" that was going to destroy a lot more, Shimizu Dazuo looked up at the sunset in the sky, turned back to the military Cao Changgong Xianjun and said: "The brigade gathers at 10 o'clock and sets off at 10:15, the target, Kawaguchi Town!" ”