Peiping.

Iron Lion Alley.

Command of the North China Front.

After going to Tokyo, the native of the Japanese country, to meet Hideji Tojo, Okamura Ninji wanted to see the locusts, but he didn't.

The reason is that the locust does not want to see him, and the locust is a little disappointed in him.

"In the past few days, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the New Second Regiment in the northwest of Shanxi have launched an offensive, and six county towns in the northwest of Shanxi have been conquered."

"According to the reports of the defenders of various counties, the artillery firepower of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the New Second Regiment has increased."

“……”

In Okamura's office, an operations staff officer was briefing Okamura.

In addition to the northwest of Jin, the Eighth Route in other areas also launched an offensive against the Japanese army to a greater or lesser extent.

Although they were all petty fights, almost all of them were battles such as picking up railroad tracks and attacking stronghold turrets, but when the small amount was gathered, the casualties of the Japanese army and the puppet army should not be underestimated.

After reading the briefing, the operational staff officer paused for a moment before he said in a tone of horror:

"In seven days, the locust army lost more than 2,000 people, and the locust alliance army lost more than 3,100 people......"

Okamura Ninji suddenly fell silent.

He had only been on the mainland for a few days, and the North China Front had suffered such a large loss of troops?

Although most of these losses were caused by the new Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment in the northwest of Shanxi, if it continued at this rate, how long could the North China Front last?

There are also those puppet armies, if the North China Front Army falls into a big disadvantage, I am afraid that it will run faster than anyone else.

His "law and order strengthening campaign" was only useful when the Japanese army had absolute superiority, but could not eliminate the Eighth Route Army.

Once the Eighth Route Army is given the upper hand, the Chinese people who originally supported the Eighth Route Army will support it more and more, and those who are on the sidelines will fall to the Eighth Route Army, and even the Locust Allied Army that serves the Japanese army will betray the Locust Army.

The "law and order strengthening campaign" is useless.

Fortunately, only in Shanxi at the moment, the Eighth Route Army had a slight upper hand, and the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas in other provinces in North China were all inferior.

However, Okamura is still under a lot of pressure.

Regarding his proposal to transfer the 1st Division from the Kwantung Army to the northwest of Jin to deal with the new 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, Tojo Hideji has not yet made a clear reply.

And.

He heard that the Ishihara faction had made another proposal to the Locust, requesting that Kojuo be promoted to general and then appointed as the headquarters of the North China Front.

If his position in Okamura Ninji is taken away by Kojuo, then he will most likely be incorporated into the reserve forces and retired in disgrace.

"Let's go down."

Thinking of this, Okamura Ninji's eyes became more and more gloomy, and he waved his hand to signal the combat staff officer to leave.

The combat staff officer closed the folder and placed it on the table, bowed his head with both feet, and turned away.

After the operational staff officer left, he looked through the briefings himself, and almost all of them were loss reports, and there were few good news.

In particular, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi posed too much of a threat to the Japanese army.

At present, the three divisions of the First Army and some garrison units can only retreat in the areas of Zhongtiao Mountain, Taiyuan, and Yangquan, and their territory is getting smaller and smaller.

There is also Datong, which also needs to be recaptured as soon as possible, otherwise the Pingsui Railway will be interrupted, and the supply of the troops stationed in Mongolia will also become a big problem.

Okamura Ninji really wanted to immediately gather heavy troops to sweep the northwest of Jin.

As for the war materials, although 5,000 tons of war materials in Datong were robbed, there were still two battle materials in Taiyuan, which was enough for four to five divisions to fight for half a month.

In addition, Tojo Hideji hoarded 50 war materials in the country.

It is a pity that the current strategic focus of the base camp is in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and he applied to transfer a division to North China, and the base camp needed to think twice.

Okamura Ninji snorted coldly in his heart.

According to intelligence, the semi-automatic rifles currently equipped by the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army are all semi-automatic rifles equipped by the US military in active service.

Most of the Eighth Route Army's aid channels were beautiful countries.

Moreover, those arrogant and beautiful Chinese people also stopped selling strategic materials to the Japanese Empire.

This time, let that group of navy bleed the beautiful country and teach them that the Great Japanese Empire was not so easy to mess with.

Soon.

Okamura Ninji pulled his mind back to dealing with Li Yunlong and Shinichi.

After the study of the General Staff of the Front Army, the strength of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army increased dramatically after each battle.

This time should be no exception.

Moreover, in addition to defeating the 10th Division, the new regiment also almost completely annihilated the remnants of the 3rd Brigade and captured Datong.

The old devil's sense of crisis is even more urgent.

"Is there a way to destroy the aid channel behind Li Yunlong?"

At present, the most fundamental reason for the strength of the new regiment and even the Eighth Route Army is because of the assistance channels behind Li Yunlong.

Without a channel for assistance, the heavy weapons of the new regiment will run out of ammunition and become scrap metal.

What is the use of a pile of scrap metal?

If you want to figure out the assistance channels behind Li Yunlong, the feasible methods include planting a spy and developing an inside line.

Originally, Yoshio Shinozuka asked the special high class to train a female spy, which was going to be used to break into the interior of the new regiment.

However, the female spy was killed by a stray bullet in the battle of Li Yunlong leading the Eighth Route Army to attack Taiyuan, and even Yoshio Shinozuka was also killed, so the lurking plan was not successfully implemented.

That's when it happened.

The communications staff officer walked in with a telegram in his hand, bowed his head to Okamura Ninji and reported: "Your Excellency Commander, General Dohi Yuan gave you a secret telegram!" ”

Okamura Ninji's expression moved.

Before returning to Beiping, Okamura Ninji made a special visit to Enji Tohi, hoping to gain his support.

Kenji Dohi, the number one spy of Japan's invasion of China.

From the "September 18 Incident" to Wang Jingwei's treason, he has been engaged in spy intelligence work in China for nearly 30 years, and his shadow is behind almost every major historical event during the Anti-Japanese War.

Although Kenji Dohi Yuan has been transferred back to his homeland at the moment, no one knows how many high-level agents this person has in China.

"Senior Agent: Codename Pangolin ......"

Okamura Ninji took the secret telegram and looked at it, and his expression couldn't help but be slightly happy.

……

Northwest of Shanxi.

Dagu Town, the new regimental headquarters.

Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou, who had been busy all day, returned to the regiment headquarters.

I saw Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo lying on the table muttering something.

"What are you two discussing?" Zhao Gang walked over and asked.

Getting closer, Zhao Gang found a stack of fresh information papers on the desktop.

"It's ...... Has Boss Chen been here? Wang Dehou also knows this information paper, which comes from Boss Chen.

Seeing this paper, Wang Dehou and Zhao Gang both knew in their hearts that it must be Boss Chen who brought new business.

"That's right!" Li Yunlong raised his head, "This time, Boss Chen has brought us a new business, and it's a big business!" ”

Under Xing Zhiguo's explanation and watching the intelligence materials, Wang Dehou and Zhao Gang quickly understood the target and price of this business.

The attitude is the same as that of Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo.

Wang Dehou and Zhao Gang stated:

Gushofu must die, 32 heavy howitzers must be obtained!