About half an hour later.

Kazuki Yamamoto stood on the tower of Takejuku Airport with a major shogun's sword on his shoulder, looking at the sky to the northeast.

In order to save fuel, almost all the Japanese planes from Taiyuan to Beiping went straight to and fro.

So if nothing else, the plane Gu Shoufu was on must have flown from the northeast.

Yamamoto looked at his watch, and there were still about 20 minutes before Gu Shoufu arrived in Taiyuan.

He withdrew his gaze from the northeast sky and looked through his binoculars at the thickened reinforced concrete bunkers and turrets surrounding the airfield.

Iwamatsu Yoshio was afraid of death and was ready to leave from Taiyuan Wusu Airport at any time, so dozens of thickened pillboxes and gun towers were built around the airport.

Yamamoto knows that in fact, this can't be blamed on Yoshio Iwamatsu.

At present, the overall strength of the First Army in Shanxi is weaker than that of the Eighth Route Army.

The combat effectiveness of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi Province alone can be compared to a division of the Japanese army.

The main force of the First Army is the 33rd Division in Zhongtiao Mountain, the 41st Division in Taiyuan, the 37th Division in Yangquan, and a wing directly under the First Army in Taiyuan, as well as some garrison gendarmerie units stationed in the county seat.

Of course, there was also a 1st Brigade of the Cavalry of the Mongolian Army.

The commander of the Mongolian army, Shigetaro Gansu, asked Iwamatsu Yoshio for the 1st Cavalry Brigade several times, but Iwamatsu Yoshio refused.

Iwamatsu Yoshio is ready to follow Liu Bei's example of borrowing Jingzhou, but he has borrowed but has not returned.

Moreover, Okamura Ninji also intended to leave the 1st Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Army to strengthen the 1st Army.

But it was impossible for Gansu Shigetaro to do it, because the 1st Cavalry Brigade was also the main force of the cavalry group stationed in Mongolia.

If the 1st Cavalry Brigade was withdrawn to the First Army, would the Mongolian army still fight Fu Zuoyi's cavalry?

But Yoshio Iwamatsu doesn't care about that.

Looking at these standing reinforced concrete bunkers and turrets, Kazuki Yamamoto couldn't help but sigh.

The locusts still only knew how to defend blindly, and the reinforced concrete bunkers and turrets they built might not be able to stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

According to previous experience, after each battle victory of the new regiment, more powerful weapons and equipment appeared.

Yamamoto thought to himself that if all the masonry bunkers and turrets in North China were built with this kind of thickened reinforced concrete bunkers and turrets, then the security in North China would be greatly improved.

It's a pity that the empire doesn't have so many materials such as cement and steel bars.

Because the masonry bunkers and turrets in North China are conservatively estimated to be at least tens of thousands, all of which are built into such permanent fortifications, how much cement and steel materials are needed?

What Yamamoto Kazuki didn't know was that if the Japanese army built all the tens of thousands of pillboxes and artillery towers in North China into this kind of thickened reinforced concrete pillboxes and artillery towers, I am afraid that Li Yunlong would wake up laughing and dreaming from sleep.

In that case, within a year, the number of 20-mm machine guns and other equipment of the Eighth Route Army will be calculated in 10,000.

But what really made Yamamoto Kazuki sigh.

It is the Eighth Route Army that has been improving, and their troops, weapons and equipment, and even their strategy and tactics and morale have been improving.

Corresponding to the strength of the Eighth Route Army, the strength of the Locust Army has been standing still, and even regressed slightly.

In terms of troops, although the whole country is now mobilizing to join the army, veterans have been being consumed, and the combat effectiveness of those recruits who have been trained for a few months and go to the battlefield has shaken their heads.

The Eighth Route Army has always been fighting in the form of guerrilla attacks, accumulating soldiers' combat experience, and with the help from outside outside where I don't know where it came from, the strength of the Eighth Route Army in the past two years can be described as leaping and bound.

As for weapons and equipment, the changes in the Eighth Route Army can be said to be earth-shaking.

According to intelligence, the number of cannons with a caliber of more than 75 mm in the Eighth Route Army is now close to 500.

This is already the number of artillery pieces of more than 10 artillery wings.

Recently, it has also been discovered that the firepower of the guerrillas and militia attacking the Zhengtai Railway has increased a lot, and there are even 70mm Type 92 infantry guns of the Empire, which are quite a few.

This shows that the Eighth Route Army has been able to independently produce 70-mm infantry guns, and even solved the problem of producing barrel shells.

Thinking of this, Yamamoto Kazuki's mood was clouded with a layer of haze, and he became more and more unoptimistic about the security war in North China.

Kazuki Yamamoto sighed again.

Let's hope that Lieutenant General Kojuo will be able to bring effective law and order tactics......

"General!"

A devil in charge of liaison between the airport and the plane bowed his head to Kazuki Yamamoto and said, "The plane on which the observation group is taking has landed in fifteen minutes, and Lieutenant General Kojuo asked how the security environment of the airport is?" ”

At this time, the planes of the Japanese observation group were about to enter the boundary of Shanxi.

"Call back Lieutenant General Kojuo immediately."

"The First Army of the North China Front is ready to receive the plane and can land at any time!"

Kazuki Yamamoto nodded and ordered to the Devil Liaison Officer.

"Hey!"

The devil liaison officer bowed his head, turned around and picked up the receiver and microphone of the radio station and called in secret language.

Although Gu Shoufu's military rank is only lieutenant general, his qualifications and combat exploits are not inferior to ordinary Japanese generals.

Moreover, this time Gu Shoufu came to North China, and it is estimated that he also came with the orders of the locust and the cabinet.

So Yoshio Iwamatsu received it with the highest standard.

Kazuki Yamamoto thought about the security issue again, found no loopholes, and then carried the major general's sword, got off the tower and joined the flower valley, and walked towards the pick-up position of the airport runway.

……

Almost at the same time.

ki57 transport.

"General......

The Devil crew wearing a flight helmet reported to Gushoufu:

"The First Army responded, it was ready to pick up the plane, and the plane could land at any time."

Gu Shoufu didn't speak, and a big left next to him nodded indifferently: "Then land as soon as possible." ”

"Hey!"

The Devil crew bowed their heads, then turned and entered the cab.

Major General Ai Ihara asked Gu Shouo: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, what are your plans regarding the battle plan for the North China Public Security War?" ”

During his three days in the North China Front, Gu Shoufu had already gained a general understanding of the Chinese Army's Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army's North China Front Army in North China.

In terms of overall strength, the North China Front has the upper hand.

However, the Eighth Route Army also had a local advantage, and it was the Eighth Route Army in the southeast and northwest of Shanxi that was stronger than the First Army.

Even Gu Shoufu had to be careful when he came to Shanxi to observe and inspect.

"My battle plan, compared to General Okamura Ninji's law and order rectification plan, is more simple and crude." Gu Shoufu pushed the round-rimmed glasses, and the gaze behind the round glasses was murderous, making people can't help but be daunted.

The two major generals and Zuo Guan present seemed to feel that the temperature in the cabin was a little lower.

Once the Chinese army and the Chinese people died in the hands of Gu Shoufu, how could there be more than 10,000 people?

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, please!"

Major General Toshikaze Omura suddenly became interested, with a consultative tone and expression.

Gu Shoufu said: "My battle plan is very simple, cut through the chaos quickly, and the core of the plan is only one word, kill!" ”

"Since the North China Front Army can't solve the Eighth Route Army in the southeast and northwest of Jin in a short period of time."

"Then first concentrate forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army in other parts of North China."

"By sweeping up and throwing a large number of poison gas bombs, the Eighth Route Army in other parts of North China will be turned into a no-man's land."

"The law and order rectification plan and the three-light policy implemented by General Okamura Ninji are still too slow."

"That's it." Omura Toshifu said suddenly, "If you solve the Eighth Route Army and the common people in other places, you can finally concentrate the superiority in strength and firepower to defeat the Eighth Route Army in the southeast and northwest of Jin one by one." ”

Gu Shoufu added: "Another advantage of doing this is that it can make the enemy frightened, let them know that fighting against the locust army is only a dead end, and thus lose the courage to resist." ”

"In 1937, in Jinling, the capital of China, five soldiers under my command were able to take 1,000 Chinese soldiers to the execution ground, and none of them dared to resist."

"The Chinese nation is nothing but a cowardly and despicable nation."

"Such a vast land, only our Yamato nation deserves to own."

"Your Excellency the Lieutenant General is wise, I admire it!" On the side, Toshikaze Omura and Ai Ihara even patted on the back, and as for several left officials, they didn't even have the right to speak.

……

About ten minutes passed.

If you look closely at the Purple Mountain under the Japanese route, you can see that the Purple Mountain and its vicinity are densely covered with anti-aircraft fire.

Every 20-mm cannon and 37-mm anti-aircraft gun was camouflaged with branches or weeds, and even the fighters who operated the anti-aircraft fire were covered in leaves and weeds.

In case the devil's plane passes by, the devil sends out a reconnaissance plane to reconnoiter the route in advance.

However, it turned out that Li Yunlong thought too much, and the devil did not expect that there would be anti-aircraft fire waiting for the devil's plane halfway.

Suddenly, there was some faint humming sound in the sky.

About a minute later, Li Yunlong saw in the telescope that three devil planes were flying towards Purple Mountain from the northeast, the first plane was a transport plane, and the other two fighters followed behind the buttocks, escorting one left and one right.

"Here we are."

Looking at the devil's three planes, Li Yunlong's eyes lit up, and he called in the walkie-talkie channel: "Ready." ”

One transport plane, two fighter jets, and the time provided by Boss Chen is almost the same, the transport plane must be Gu Shoufu's old devil!

On and near the Purple Mountain, the soldiers operating 37-mm anti-aircraft guns and 20-mm machine guns were staring at the devil plane, ready to fire at any time.

After a few dozen seconds, the three planes of the devil finally reached the sky above the Purple Mountain, and they were only about 2,000 meters above the ground.

"Fire!"

Li Yunlong ordered loudly in the walkie-talkie, and then stared at the devil transport plane in the sky.

As Li Yunlong's voice fell, a continuous and extremely dense "Tongtong" sound resounded throughout the Purple Mountain.

The sky was instantly filled with orange-red tracer ballistics.

Gu Shoufu and others, who were sitting in the cabin, saw some smoke and ballistics around the plane through the glass of the cabin.

At first, the devils were still a little puzzled, what is the situation?

But the next moment, the expressions of the devils suddenly changed.

"Not good, it's anti-aircraft artillery!"