Almost at the same time. The positions of the battalions of the Independent Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment were replenished with ammunition airdrops of 3 bases.

This gave a mouthful of blood to the independent regiment and the new second regiment, which were running out of ammunition. The Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment had to withstand the attack of the Japanese army's four divisions and more than 20,000 puppet troops.

Although 5 ammunition bases were prepared before the war, and the equipment of the main force was better than that of the devils, the gap between the strength and the devil's puppet army was too great.

The devils fought wheel battles with the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, and if they did not have sufficient ammunition and proper tactics, it would be impossible to block the attack of the devil's puppet army.

Peiping. Iron Lion Hutong, headquarters of the North China Front. Commander Okamura Ninji was not originally a suspicious person, but recently he has become suspicious, looking like a spy for the Eighth Route Army.

Sometimes he looked in the mirror and looked at the person in the mirror, as if something was wrong. After the 5th Heavy Artillery Wing and the 3rd Infantry Wing were ambushed in Miaoergou.

Okamura Ninji also ordered the head of the Beiping Special High Division, the head of the Beiping Special Service Agency, and Nanichi Matsui to launch a secret investigation against the communications staff officer and others who knew the departure time of the 5th Heavy Artillery Wing.

The suspicion of the deputy chief of staff has been reduced a lot, but the suspicion of the deputy chief of staff has not completely cleared the suspicion.

This time, the whereabouts of the heavy artillery convoy were leaked, and it was the communications staff officer who was the most suspicious, although this communications staff officer was specially transferred from the mainland by Okamura Ninji.

The only person who can grasp the whereabouts of the heavy artillery convoy and pass on the message is the Ministry of Communications. After all, the gate of the headquarters is only allowed to enter and not exit these days, and no one can pass on the information, so it is very likely that the Eighth Route is the intelligence obtained from the Ministry of Communications.

But after all, there is no evidence, and people cannot be arrested casually. As for Miyano Michichi's whereabouts were leaked, and then he was killed by a bomb, this pot made Ohashi Tsunean carry it, who made him betray the interests of the empire?

In the office, Matsui Nanichi reported to Okamura Ninji: "General, the Special High Division has launched an investigation into the communications staff officer Harada Jiro and the telegraph operator, and no abnormalities have been found so far. ”

"The records of every incoming and receiving telegram are here, and no anomalies have been found." Okamura Ninji heard Matsui's words, and then looked at the investigation report, and his brows were slightly furrowed.

What does it mean when no anomalies were found? There is no problem with the communications staff officer, there is no problem with the telegraph operator who is responsible for receiving and receiving telegrams, is it me, the commander, who has the problem?

The defenders of the railway station along the way must not have known about the heavy artillery convoy. Although the train was pulling cannons, it was basically wrapped in tarpaulin, and the 3rd Infantry Wing had never gotten off the train, so it was impossible to reveal its whereabouts.

Moreover, it is impossible for the communications staff officer to arrange the contact person for the Type 94 armored train, and it is impossible to know what is going on.

Therefore, the only people who knew the whereabouts of the heavy artillery convoy were Okamura Ninji, communications staff officers, telegraph operators, and decoders.

The telegrapher who receives and receives the telegram only receives a string of numbers and does not know the content, while the decoder is responsible for converting the telegram cipher into content, or the content into cipher.

Unless it is the accomplice of the coder and the telegraph operator. Or the communications team of the 5th Heavy Artillery Wing and the 3rd Infantry Wing, someone provided information to the Eighth Route Army.

However, now the 5th Heavy Artillery Wing and the 3rd Infantry Wing have all been shattered, and there is no proof of death. Okamura Ningji is under a lot of pressure, and the Eighth Route seems to have opened the eyes of the sky to fight against the Locust Army, and the Locust Army knows very little about the Eighth Route Army, is this still a fart?

The old devil is very dissatisfied with this investigation report, even if it is better to find a scapegoat. Matsui Nanichi naturally saw Okamura Ninji's dissatisfaction, he was a little uneasy, but he didn't dare to say more.

"Keep investigating, let's go down!" In the end, Okamura Ninji put down the investigation report and waved his hand to Matsui.

"Hey!" Matsui Nanichi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, bowed his head and turned to leave. Soon after Matsui left, Deputy Chief of Staff Seizo Arisue walked in hurriedly and reported to Okamura Ninji, "Report to the commander, I have made a new discovery." Okamura Ningji's expression was shocked, his eyes were shining, and he hurriedly asked in a deep voice: "There is Sue-kun, have you found the spy lurking in the headquarters?" ”

"That's not ......" Yousue Jingsan was slightly stunned, and His Excellency the Commander of the Secret Dao was a little stunned when he checked the spy.

Seeing the light in Okamura Ningji's eyes quickly darken, Yusue Seizan said in a deep voice: "I analyzed the battlefield in the northwest of Jin and found that the Eighth Route Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment were about to be unable to support it. ”

"Oh?" Okamura Ninji's expression moved,

"Why do you say that?" "The two divisions of the Locust Army attacking from the north and the two divisions of the Locust Army attacking from the south have been attacking the two regiments of the Eighth Route for more than five consecutive days. "Coupled with the 5 days of armistice of the Japanese army and other heavy artillery wings, the Japanese army has attacked the base area of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province for 10 days.

Before this, Okamura Ninji and Seizo Arisue never thought that the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army would be able to withstand the attack of the four second-line elite divisions of the Japanese army for so long.

It simply refreshed their cognition. I never thought that in addition to the new first regiment, the new second regiment and the independent regiment would also be so difficult to deal with.

But fortunately, these are the three regiments with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, if all the more than 100 regiments of the Eighth Route Army are like this, then the locust army is still a fart?

Arisue Seizan continued: "The combat effectiveness of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment is indeed impressive to the Locust Army, but the strength is too different from the Locust Army after all, I analyzed the combat reports submitted by the divisions and regiments and found that the casualties of the Locust Army and the Locust Alliance Army have been decreasing in the past two days, which shows that the firepower of the Eighth Route has weakened compared with the previous few days, and the Eighth Route has not much ammunition. ”

"There is a reason for the last gentleman." Okamura narrowed his eyes behind his round glasses and nodded. As the commander of the North China Front, he could naturally see this from the operational report, but his attention was focused on catching spies these days, so he ignored the operational report.

However, not only did the spy not be caught, but even Okamura Ninji exhausted himself. Okamura continued, "As a defensive side, there is a huge disparity in strength between the Eighth Road and the Locust Army, and if you want to stop the Locust Army's attack, you must have stronger firepower. ”

"Especially machine-gun fire and artillery fire."

"If you want to have strong firepower, you must have enough ammunition in addition to machine guns and cannons."

"The airfield of the Eighth Route was blown up by us, and they have no way to receive weapons and ammunition, and once the ammunition is exhausted, the Eighth Route will have no combat effectiveness."

"That's right!" There is a sue essence three said affirmatively,

"I have calculated with several operational staff officers of the General Staff Department, and it is estimated that in a maximum of one to two days, the ammunition of the Eighth Route Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment will be exhausted, and the locust army will defeat them and outflank Li Yunlong's troops from the north and south flanks."

"Yo Xi!"

"You've worked hard." Okamura Ninji nodded happily, and this wave of analysis by Sue Seizo made Okamura's impression of Sue Seizo change a lot.

"It's not hard!" There are three bows of the end,

"Serve the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor." At this moment, Harada Jiro, a communications staff officer, hurriedly walked in with a stack of telegrams in his hand, and reported to Okamura Ninji: "Report to the commander, the 21st Division, the 23rd Division, the 25th Division, and the 35th Division report almost simultaneously. ”

"At 3 o'clock this afternoon, the Eighth Route Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment received a large number of airdrops and supplies at the same time."

"Nani? Is there such a thing? Okamura stood up reluctantly, his expression gloomy. Yousue Jingsan also turned his head suddenly, his face full of disbelief.

The Eighth Route Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment actually received airdrop supplies? The two of them were still discussing just now, and it was determined that the ammunition of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment was about to run out, but they did not expect to receive the news that the other party had obtained ammunition in the next minute.

It's hard.

"Hey!" Harada Jiro bowed his head and said in an affirmative tone: "These airdropped supplies are all airdropped in front of the locust army, the anti-aircraft fire of each division and regiment shoots at enemy aircraft, the enemy fighter attacks, and each division and regiment loses at least one squadron of troops!" "With the exception of the 10th Division, each division sent a telegram to the front command with a copy to the North China Front Command.

There were too many contents of the telegram, and Harada Jiro could only report to Okamura Ninji after reading and summarizing the contents of each division.

Seeing that Okamura Ninji didn't speak, Harada Jiro put the telegram on the table, bowed his head and turned to leave. Okamura Ninji picked up the telegrams one by one and looked at them, and when he saw the third telegram, he couldn't help but tear all the telegrams to shreds in anger.

"Yaga!" …… Northwest of Shanxi. Dagu Town, the headquarters of the new regiment.

"Commander Li, my liaison officer has just sent a telegram that the airdrop of ammunition for the three bases of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment has been put in place." Chen Feng walked into the regiment headquarters with a telegram in his hand, and then handed the telegram to Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong took it and quickly read the telegram, and said with a smile: "Thank you Consultant Chen!" Sure enough, after a while, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment sent a telegram to Li Yunlong, saying that they had received an airdrop supply of 3 base ammunition and thanked Boss Chen.

After reading the telegram, Li Yunlong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. The ammunition problem of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment was solved, and they could hold out for a few more days under the attack of the devils, so that the common people could safely cross the Yellow River.

"Five days at most, when the last group of civilians on the other side of the Yellow River cross the Yellow River, our new regiment will be able to launch a major counteroffensive against the 10th Division." Zhao Gang stared at the map and said.

"But before that." The corners of Li Yunlong's mouth curled slightly, and he looked at Boss Chen,

"We must first trouble Advisor Chen to send a batch of airdrop supplies to our new regiment to ensure that the ammunition for the counteroffensive is sufficient."

"Airdrops?" Chen Feng smiled slightly, nodded and said, "No problem." ”