"Your Excellency, Commander."

"The 9th Flying Team has returned."

In Taiyuan, at the headquarters of the First Army, Chief of Staff Hideyoshi Kusuyama reported to Yoshio Shinozuka.

By this time, it was already dark, not that the plane could not take off after dark.

Instead, the pilot could not see the ground target after dark, and it was difficult to find the ground target to carry out bombing and dive attacks.

"Isn't there any news from the 13th Cavalry Wing yet?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked, a feeling of bad feeling suddenly rising in his heart.

"No news for the time being." Nanshan Hideyoshi said, "However, the 13th Cavalry Wing, which should have arrived at the position of the military column at this time, should be in an exchange of fire with the Eighth Road, and the communication team of the 13th Cavalry Wing did not have time to set up a radio station." ”

Yoshio Shinozuka asked again: "Which unit is closest to the dragon king protruding from the infantry rushing to help?" ”

Nanshan Hideyoshi hurriedly said: "The nearest is the 1st Mobile Brigade, which is only 6 kilometers away from the Dragon King Convex, and has already converged with the 2nd Mobile Brigade, but it has been stubbornly blocked by the Eighth Road. ”

"In addition, the 4th Mobile Brigade has arrived at Niangzi Pass, completed the convergence with the defenders of Niangzi Pass, and is advancing towards the Dragon King Convex attack."

"It's just that the speed of advance is very slow, in addition to the Eighth Route Blocking Force, the Eighth Route also placed a mountain artillery wing in each of the east and west attack directions."

Yoshio Shinozuka's brows furrowed.

There is a world of difference between whether a unit has artillery in a war or not, and the firepower of one artillery wing is less than the strength of two brigades, and it is difficult to break through the defense line of the Eighth Route.

At present, if the three divisions of Jinnan are not used, only the 14th Brigade and the 18th Brigade and the two wings of the 2nd Guards Division will be used.

In terms of divisional artillery firepower, it was completely suppressed by the Eighth Route.

Even if the artillery wing of the 2nd Guards Division is in place, it can barely have the strength to fight.

However, to Shinozuka Yoshio's relief, the Japanese army as a whole still has a great advantage in artillery fire support at the squad and squadron levels.

Light mortars and grenadiers were still able to suppress the fire of the eight-way.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi continued: "The military train from Yangquan had only been driving a few kilometers before it derailed, and the soldiers were rushing to the aid on foot. ”

"Not only Yangquan, but also the railway in the direction of Jingcheng and the section from Shouyang to Yangquan have been damaged to varying degrees!"

Kusuyama Hideyoshigo continued, and Yoshio Shinozuka's face was a little ugly.

Yoshio Shinozuka said in a gloomy tone: "It seems that this group of dirt is really well prepared." ”

"Order all mobile brigades to rush to the aid on foot, at all costs!"

"Hey!" Kusuyama Hideyoshi paused, and then walked quickly to the communication room next door.

After about 10 minutes, Kusuyama Hideyoshi walked back again, his steps were hurried, and his face was extremely ugly.

"Your Excellency Commander, there is news from the 13th Cavalry Wing."

As soon as he walked into the war room of the headquarters, Kusuyama Hideyoshi immediately said, his tone hurried.

Seeing Kusuyama Hideyoshi's panicked expression, Yoshio Shinozuka's heart sank, and he asked in a deep voice, "Is something wrong with the 13th Cavalry Wing?" ”

"Yes!"

Nanshan Hideyoshi's face was ugly: "The 13th Cavalry Wing encountered the Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade 3 kilometers southwest of Longwangluo, and after fierce fighting, the 13th Cavalry Wing was defeated by the Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade, and only more than 200 cavalry were left to flee back to Yangquan!" ”

…

"The Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade? That's impossible! ”

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone was incredulous, there was no intelligence that showed that the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Jin had a cavalry brigade, not even a cavalry regiment.

The 129th Division had only one cavalry regiment in total, fighting guerrilla attacks against the Japanese army in the southern Hebei Plain.

And the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Jin Province has only one or two cavalry battalions at most, where did the cavalry brigade come from?

"Your Excellency, Commander." Nanshan Hideyoshi smiled bitterly, "This is likely to be true, the cavalry battalion of the 8th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army, the cavalry battalion of the 2nd Independent Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and part of the military horses of the Black Island Cavalry Wing have all fallen into the hands of the Eighth Road, and it is not surprising that the Eighth Route uses these military horses to form a cavalry brigade." ”

"The strange thing is that the combat effectiveness of this cavalry brigade of the Eighth Route is far beyond the imagination of the imperial army."

"Even the 13th Cavalry Wing, which is experienced in combat, was defeated."

"These military horses were all snatched from the Imperial Army and the Imperial Allied Army?" Yoshio Shinozuka's face turned dark again.

"Your Excellency Commander, not only these military horses, but also many weapons and ammunition such as 38 rifles and Type 92 heavy machine guns in the hands of the Eighth Road were snatched from the Imperial Army and the Imperial Allied Army." Kusuyama Hideyoshi smiled bitterly.

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

"Yaga!" Yoshio Shinozuka scolded, "What is the Imperial Army? The eight-way convoy? What am I, the commander? Is the captain of the transport brigade of the Eighth Road? ”

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka was angry, and his eyes swept over the sand table in front of him, which was built with great difficulty and could not be damaged.

His gaze swept over a radio and a telephone on the desk, both of which were valuables that could not be damaged.

Sweeping to a blue and white porcelain ornament in the corner of the war room, Yoshio Shinozuka finally found an outlet, and immediately pulled out his command knife and smashed the blue and white porcelain vase more than 1 person high.

I only heard a loud noise, and the blue and white porcelain vase shattered to the ground...

……

After dark, the brigade commander also rushed to Longwang Convex.

Seeing that the military column was not blown up by the devil plane, he was immediately relieved.

Immediately, a smile appeared on his face, and now the Eighth Route Army has really made a fortune.

1,000 tons of ammunition materials, 2 million catties of ammunition materials, just like Li Yunlong said, the Eighth Route Army can have a fat year now.

At this time, the supplies in the military column were only halfway moved, and the brigade commander walked towards the military column with several guards.

From afar, the brigade commander heard Li Yunlong's loud voice.

"Haha, 75 mm caliber instantaneous shells! 2 shots in one box! ”

"70 mm caliber shells, 3 rounds in a box!"

"Report to the regiment commander, 6 devil tanks were found at the rear of the train."

"What do you say, and 6 tanks?" Grand Master Li's voice was raised.

At that moment, Li Yunlong was about to take a look at the captured devil tank, and collided with the brigade commander head-on.

"Brigadier Commander!" The moment he saw the brigade commander, Li Yunlong suddenly smiled like a chrysanthemum, with a respectful look on his face, and gave a military salute.

"Li Yunlong, how is the seizure?" The brigade commander returned the salute and asked.

"The ammunition and materials on the military column are basically all captured." Li Yunlong said, "There are all kinds of bullets, artillery shells, grenades and grenades, there are a lot of them, as well as 60 tons of gasoline and diesel fuel each, by the way, there are soldiers just now, and there are 6 devil tanks." ”

…

The load of one carriage is almost more than 60 tons, and this train has 16 carriages, and two more cars are added to the back to load tanks, but the devil tank is covered with army green cloth, and no soldiers found it at first.

The brigade commander showed an interested look on his face and said: "Let's go, look at the tank!" ”

At that moment, Li Yunlong accompanied the brigade commander to the tail of the devil army.

The front half of the entire Devil Army was derailed, and the iron wheels in the second half were still in the rails, which caused it not to roll over.

If you roll over on your side, the devils inside will be killed and injured on the spot.

Not long after, Li Yunlong and the brigade commander came to the rear of the train, and at this time there were already many people gathered here, Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu, Xu Yonghai and others were there.

Li Yunlong and the brigade commander took a closer look, and a total of 6 tanks, 2 Type 95 light tanks, and 4 Type 97 medium tanks, were chained to the train.

"Haha, it's a tank." Li Yunlong was immediately happy, "Brigade commander, now you can form a tank company." ”

The corners of the brigade commander's mouth were also slightly upturned, and he turned his head to the guards and said, "Go and ask, who in our brigade can drive tanks?" ”

"Yes, Brigadier General!" The guard snapped a military salute and walked back.

"Does anyone in your regiment know how to drive tanks?" The brigade commander asked Li Yunlong.

"Brigade commander, there is, but..." Li Yunlong hesitated a little.

"But what?" The brigade commander asked, "If you kid has a tank soldier, hurry up and get it for me." ”

"The Sword Squadron has been taught in books, but it has not been practiced, and those guys should know." Li Yunlong said, "But those guys aren't here now." ”

Grand Master Li was somewhat glad that the group of guys from the Sword Squadron were not there.

The commander of these 6 tank brigades will definitely keep it for himself to form a tank unit, and he has no part in it.

If the members of the Sword Squadron were robbed by the brigade commander to serve as tank crews, it would be over.

The group of members of the Sword Squadron are all the treasures of Grand Master Li, and they will not change the battalion commander.

Grand Master Li thought to himself, the tens of thousands of people in the 386 Brigade, in addition to the sword squadron, it should not be difficult to find a few tank soldiers.

At this time, Zhou Chunyu, the commander of the brigade cavalry, came on horseback, saw the brigade commander and then turned over and dismounted, and gave a military salute: "Report to the brigade commander, the brigade cavalry regiment, the cavalry battalion of the new first regiment, the cavalry company of the new second regiment, and the cavalry company of the independent regiment fought with the devil cavalry wing on the flank, defeated the Japanese cavalry wing, annihilated more than 1,000 devil cavalry people, captured more than 800 military horses, and the captured weapons and ammunition have not had time to be counted." ”

"Huh?" The brigade commander hurriedly asked, "How many casualties are our cavalry?" ”

"We have more than 400 casualties." Zhou Chunyu replied, "About 200 people were killed and about 200 people were wounded, and the specific number of killed and injured has not yet had time to be counted." ”

"When did the combat effectiveness of the devil cavalry become so weak?" The brigade commander was a little stunned when he heard this, shouldn't it, with similar troops, he played a battle loss ratio of 2.5 to 1 between the enemy and us?

"The main thing is that the saber in our hands is good." Zhou Chunyu looked at Li Yunlong, "The Yunlong knife provided to us by Commander Li is simply the nemesis of the devil's 32-style cavalry knife, plus the machine gun firepower and light machine gun firepower of the new regiment of cavalry battalions, we swept the devils first and killed a quarter of the devils, and then we won a big victory." ”

In fact, the cavalry battalion of the new regiment and the cavalry regiment of the brigade have only been expanded for a short time, and half of the cavalry are new cavalry, otherwise the casualties of the Eighth Route Cavalry will be greatly reduced.

"Haha." Li Yunlong said happily again, "This Yoshio Shinozuka is quite particular, and he even sent us a big gift before dark." ”

More than 800 military horses, as well as a full set of saddles, rifles, and sabers, were enough for the Eighth Route Army to expand into a cavalry regiment.

"Yoshio Shinozuka, the captain of the transport brigade." The corners of Zhang Dabiao's mouth curled, "That's what I did." ”

"Da Biao, you reminded me when you said that." Li Yunlong said, "You have drafted a telegram, to the effect that we have received 1,000 tons of ammunition and materials and horses and equipment of a cavalry regiment, and our Eighth Route Army has received it, thanks to Comrade Yoshinozuka Shinozuka, the captain of the transport brigade of our Eighth Route Army, Comrade Yoshinotsuka has come thousands of miles to China to deliver supplies for our Eighth Route Army, what is the spirit of this, this is the spirit of internationalism, and it is sent out by clear code. ”

There was a burst of laughter, and the air was filled with cheerful air.

"Yes!" The corners of Zhang Dabiao's mouth curled up, and his body straightened.

The brigade commander didn't say much, the brigade commander is a humorous character, and Li Yunlong still learned this from the brigade commander.

I'm helping with my sword