In Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army.

Michiichi Miyano, chief of staff of the North China Front, returned to Beiping by plane after inspecting the inspection.

Not long after Commander Yoshio Shinozuka got up, Toshimatsu Kasai, a communications staff officer, walked in and reported to him.

"Report to the general, the defenders of Tongpu North Road reported that the Jinggou Bridge was blown up last night, and a train full of cement was also blown up and fell into a mountain stream."

"Nani?"

"Yaga!"

Yoshio Shinozuka's face suddenly darkened, and the first news he received early in the morning was still bad news, which made it difficult for him to be in a good mood all day.

Coincidentally, part of the cement on this train is the reinforced concrete stronghold that Yoshio Shinozuka is going to use to build the Yuliao Highway.

I didn't expect it to be gone halfway, and I had to wait for the next month to wait for the next truckload of cement.

During this period, cement was called ash by the Chinese, and like steel bars, cement was also a material in demand for the Japanese army.

"What's going on?" Yoshio Shinozuka frowned and said, "Tongpu Road is so tightly defended, it still can't stop the Tuba Road from blowing up the bridge?" ”

Kasai Toshimatsu said: "In addition to the bombing of the Jinggou Bridge, near the Xiaotang stronghold, a small detachment was also attacked by the enemy, the enemy's marksmanship was very ruthless, the squad did not survive, all the jade was broken, Captain Okada Ichiro suspected that these two attacks were carried out by the same enemy." ”

After the Japanese army began to implement Tadajun's cage policy, the number of law and order incidents in various places was indeed much smaller, but there were still sporadic attacks and harassment.

However, such a bad incident of blowing up a bridge is very rare.

"How long will it take for the bridge to be repaired?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

"It will take at least half a month!" Toshimatsu Kasai replied.

Half a month? Yoshio Shinozuka's face darkened, which meant that Tongpu North Road would be paralyzed for half a month.

The materials plundered from Datong will not reach Taiyuan for at least half a month.

But at this point, Yoshio Shinozuka doesn't have much to say, and the railroad has been bombed often in the past, but it has been stopped a little in recent months.

At that moment, a young officer with the rank of captain walked in with a telegram in his hand, walked up to Toshimatsu Kasai, snapped his feet together, and handed the telegram with both hands.

Then, the Japanese captain turned to leave, and Toshimatsu Kasai glanced at the telegram and said.

"General, the North China Front Army Headquarters has called, tomorrow the Seventh Wing of the Chariot Tank stationed in Mongolia will take a train along Tongpu Road from our defense area to the south to reinforce the Zaoyi battlefield."

"Commander Tada ordered us to do a good job of receiving the railway stations in advance."

Yoshio Shinozuka's face darkened, and the Seventh Chariot Wing came at an inopportune time.

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka did not link the bridge bombing incident with the Seventh Tank Wing.

After all, a fully staffed tank wing of the Japanese army with more than 50 tanks can be placed sideways in any theater of operations in China.

If the Chinese army in Shanxi dares to provoke the Seventh Tank Wing, it is looking for death, so Yoshio Shinozuka didn't think about it.

Yoshio Shinozuka got up and walked to the map, looked down from Datong along the Tongpu Railway, and found the Jinggou Bridge.

Turning to Kasai Toshimatsu, he said: "Send a telegram to the Seventh Wing of the Chariot and inform them to take the train to Yuanping Station, get off the train and follow the road to Taiyuan." ”

Yuanping Station is about 110 kilometers away from Taiyuan, and the speed of the tank on the highway can reach more than 30 kilometers per hour, and it only takes more than three hours to drive the tank to Taiyuan along the highway.

Not a big problem.

"Hey!" Toshishi Kasai paused, then walked briskly towards the communication room.

……

At night, southeast of Jin, Baijin railway line.

With the main force of the 385th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army entering Nanguan Town, the entire Baijin Railway Breaking Battle began.

With the assistance of more than 20,000 people, the main forces launched a huge battle of destruction on the railway line of more than 200 miles.

The main forces stormed the strongholds along the railway, and the road-breaking units broke the road with the active cooperation and vigorous support of the masses.

It's a lot of fun.

At the same time, the Lujiazhuang stronghold between Shouyang and Taiyuan of the Zhengtai Railway.

Cao Jiang, the commander of the first company of the cavalry battalion, ordered the generals to tie their horses to the nearby woods, and then led his troops to quietly approach the stronghold.

The cavalry battalion of the new regiment had just been formed, and most of the cavalry horsemanship was not good enough, but there was no problem in dismounting and fighting, because these were elite veterans.

Moreover, each cavalry company was strictly in accordance with the firepower configuration of the infantry company, that is, one light machine gun per squad, plus one submachine gun.

So, each cavalry company of the new regiment had 9 light machine guns and 9 submachine guns, and the fire was very fierce.

This time, Li Yunlong also temporarily equipped the cavalry company with two mortar squads, a total of 4 mortars, in addition to 2 Makqin.

Opened up to play.

At the beginning, Cao Jiang had fought such a rich battle, and immediately ordered all mortars and machine guns to open fire.

Shells continued to fall in the stronghold and explode, and the gunfire was very dense, like firecrackers.

The devils and puppet troops in the Lujiazhuang stronghold are usually attacked and harassed by sporadic guerrillas, who have seen this kind of formation, and thought that they were attacked by a regiment of the Eighth Road, and they were so frightened that they called and shook people on the spot.

The nearby devil patrol rushed to hear the gunshots, and even Shouyang County sent devil reinforcements.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the new regiment cut the barbed wire fence from a dozen positions in a company and quickly passed through the Zhengtai Railway.

When the devils of Shouyang County rushed to the Lujiazhuang stronghold for reinforcements, the cavalry company had already ridden on military horses and fled.

……

Early the next morning.

Yoshio Shinozuka called Kazuki Yamamoto to play chess.

The two discussed the Japanese army's weapons while playing chess.

Yamamoto Kazuki said: "General, with all due respect, the heads of the officials in charge of ordnance production are too rigid and old, look at what weapons they have equipped the Japanese army." ”

"There are only five rounds of loaded Type 38 rifles, and every time a bullet is fired, you have to pull the bolt to return the shell, and the light machine guns are also under-equipped, and the firepower is too poor."

Although he agrees with Kazuki Yamamoto's theory of special operations, Yoshio Shinozuka has a different view on the issue of army equipment.

Yoshio Shinozuka said: "Japan is a resource-poor country, and if it is equipped with automatic weapons, it will greatly increase the cost of combat. ”

"Based on the base of 150 rounds of ammunition carried by a single soldier, a rifle used for single shot can support almost a day's operation."

"And 150 rounds of ammunition may not be able to settle for an hour for a repeating submachine gun like the one that the Secret Service is equipped with."

"If a million army troops were equipped with submachine guns, the empire's existing resources, productivity and transportation capacity would be at least tenfold larger."

"Such a high-cost war is not something that the empire can afford."

"General, in my opinion." "It's an indisputable fact that the empire is poor in resources, and if it weren't for that, there would be no need for the empire to fight this war. ”

"But from the beginning of the Manchurian Incident in 1931, China's three eastern provinces have become the empire's largest resource supply and military production base."

"Now, most of China's land and resources have fallen into the hands of the empire."

"So such a vast occupation zone, such abundant resources and cheap labor..."

"Why not adjust the production of munitions in time and come up with better weapons and equipment for the troops?"

"At present, in European countries, individual weapons are almost dominated by automatic firearms, and the strength of an army's combat effectiveness is mainly reflected in the strength of firepower."

"Powerful firepower is supplemented by advanced strategies and tactics, such as special tactics, and the empire can achieve hegemony."

Compared with Yoshio Shinozuka, Yamamoto Kazuki, who participated in the Battle of Nomenkan, has a deeper understanding of what it means to be a real modern war.

The sky was roaring, the ground was roaring, and the tanks were storming.

Aerial bombs and large-caliber heavy artillery bombs burned the Japanese positions.

Thousands of tanks came in an overwhelming manner, and the tracks of the tanks mercilessly crushed the bushido spirit of the Japanese soldiers.

Yoshio Shinozuka sighed slightly and was about to speak.

"General!"

Communications staff officer Toshimatsu Kasai walked in quickly, his face a little ugly, as if something had happened.

Walking up to Yoshio Shinozuka, Toshimatsu Kasai said:

"The Baijin Railway was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the bridge was bombed, more than 50 kilometers of roadbed were damaged, the rails and sleepers were stolen by the Eighth Road, and the main force of the Eighth Route also stormed the strongholds and military stations along the railway such as Nanguan Town, and the garrison suffered heavy casualties."

"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka spoke in disbelief and stood up abruptly.

Yamamoto Kazuki didn't move, as if this was all he expected.

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly thought of what Kazuki Yamamoto had said a few days ago, that the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army would never let the Japanese army's cage policy be implemented.

I didn't expect it to come true so soon.

The Eighth Road really started on the Baijin Railway.

Yoshio Shinozuka took the telegram and looked at it, only to see that the telegram read:

Last night, the strongholds, turrets and pillboxes on the side of the Baijin Railway were attacked by the Eighth Route Army on a large scale, and the scale of the attack was extremely large, with at least 10,000 attacking troops, plus militia and civilians, I am afraid that there will be no less than 30,000 people.

According to preliminary estimates, in just one night, dozens of kilometers of roads were destroyed, dozens of bridges were bombed, and one train was damaged.

The rails and sleepers have been stripped away...

The specific casualties cannot be estimated for the time being, and the attack on the Baijin Railway of the Eighth Route Army is still ongoing.

"Yaga!" Yoshio Shinozuka picked up the blue and white porcelain teacup on the table and threw it to the ground.

With a crisp sound, the blue and white porcelain teacup shattered, and the freshly brewed Longjing tea was spilled on the ground.

The railway, which had been built for more than a year after spending a lot of financial resources, was about to be repaired, but it was destroyed overnight.

The Eighth Route Army launched a combat operation when the Baijin Railway was about to be repaired, so that Yoshio Shinozuka had the feeling that he would be fattened by pigs and then killed.

And their Japanese army and the railroad they built were the fat pig.

Suddenly, a bad feeling suddenly appeared in Shinozuka Yoshio's mind, and he hurriedly asked, "Are the Zhengtai Railway and Tongpu Railway under large-scale attack?" ”

"There are no large-scale attacks." Kasai Toshimatsu said, "Gaoqiao Shaozo stationed in Shouyang County reported that the Lujiazhuang stronghold was attacked by the Eighth Route Army last night, and the strength of the Eighth Route Army was about one battalion. ”

"Leave him alone with the small force." Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief.

As he expected, the Eighth Route attack on the Baijin Railway had reached the limit of what they could bear, and there were no more troops to attack Zhengtai Road and Tongpu Road.

After a pause, Yoshio Shinozuka said to Kasai Toshimatsu: "Order the defenders of Taigu, Laiyuan, and Qinxian to immediately rush to the aid of the Baijin Railway." ”

"Order the 9th Brigade and the 4th Brigade to move towards the Baijin Railway."

"Remind Major General Koshisho Toranosuke and Major General Misatake Tsuda that you can scare away the Eighth Route Army, and don't go deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army."

"Hey!" Toshimatsu Kasai was the first to speak.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.