April 17th.

"General."

"This is a battlefield investigation that took place between Hexian and Liao counties, and the Dahe squadron was ambushed."

Yoshio Shinozuka took the information handed over by Yamamoto.

After so many days, Yoshio Shinozuka's anger has subsided.

After all, one squadron, one hundred and forty locust troops.

Even if all three squadrons were combined, there would be less than five hundred locust troops, and he didn't even need to use reserves, he could make up for the losses by directly recruiting from the imperial expatriates in Shanxi.

"Go on."

Yoshio Shinozuka looked through the information in his hand again and again, while letting Yamamoto continue to explain.

"The enemy should have obtained the accurate information of the Dahe squadron through the underground organization lurking in Yangquan."

"Including these classified military intelligence, including troops, weapons and equipment, detailed marching routes, and even timing."

"Hmm."

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded.

Ambush warfare requires adequate and accurate intelligence support.

Tubalu can accurately ambush Yangquan to reinforce the infantry squadron in Liao County twice in a row, which shows that there are a lot of Tubalu rats lurking in Yangquan, and they have a certain infiltration ability against the imperial Yangquan garrison.

Seeing that his commander didn't seem to say anything, Yamamoto continued:

"According to the investigation of the battlefield where the Kawazu squadron was ambushed, the troops dispatched by the Tubalu were not many, only 600 to 800 people, but they showed very heavy firepower, especially light artillery fire."

"A considerable number of shell casings were also left at the site."

Collecting shells on the battlefield is a waste of time.

After the battle of the independent regiment ambushing the Hejin squadron in Xingzigou, in order to save time and avoid being bitten by devils, Li Yunlong only asked the troops to collect a few bullet casings.

First, with the support of Boss Lu, the independent regiment is not short of ammunition, and even the brigade headquarters is not short of ammunition.

Secondly, even the Water Kidneys Arsenal had less than 500 rounds of ammunition reloaded per day due to the insufficient production of primers and propellants.

If there are more shells, you can't use them.

"And on the battlefield where the Dahe squadron was ambushed, although the firepower of the Tubalu was not as good as that of the Hejin squadron, it was not bad, and many traces of the explosion of 60 mortars and grenades were found at the scene."

"The number of machine guns is also very high."

"More troops were dispatched, more than 2,000 people, and the bullet casings at the scene were almost clean."

Grand Master Li had the God of Wealth behind him, but Kong Jie and Wu Cheng did not, plus they arranged for the troops on both flanks to block the reinforcements, and the two followed the shooting discipline and collected the bullet casings as much as possible.

But in a few hours, it is impossible to collect them all.

"In other words, in the two battles, Tubalu showed very good firepower?"

Yoshio Shinozuka grasped the point.

"Yes."

"From the analysis of the remaining shells, artillery shell fragments, the manufacturing process is very high, and they are all imported ammunition."

Yamamoto closed the document in his hand and handed it to Yoshio Shinozuka.

"It seems that Tubalu has received support from some foreign forces."

Taking the investigation report handed over by Yamamoto, Yoshio Shinozuka looked through it carefully, thinking about it.

In a unit that was disciplined by the troops, a thousand-man battle could only fire 5,000 rounds of ammunition, and suddenly, in just two ambushes against the Imperial squadron, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, thousands of mortar shells, and thousands of grenade grenades were fired.

It shows that the Eighth Route Army did have a way to obtain imported weapons and ammunition that the imperial army did not know.

And the number will not be less.

Yamamoto glanced at his commander and was a little puzzled.

Isn't the point that there is also an intelligence leak of the Yangquan garrison?

The key to ambush warfare is intelligence, and he understands it all, and it is impossible for the commander and general not to understand.

"Anything else?"

"About the source of weapons and ammunition on the Tuba Road."

Yoshio Shinozuka looked at Yamamoto.

"At the moment the intelligence services have not found it."

Yamamoto shook his head.

After the third group was shattered, Yamamoto's special forces suffered serious losses, and Chief of Staff Miyano reduced his support for special operations, so he had to suspend his special operations activities.

Under the persuasion of General Shinozuka, he began to serve as the deputy chief of staff of the First Army, responsible for the intelligence forces of the First Army.

"In fact, after the ambush of the Kawazu squadron, I began to investigate whether there was a source of weapons and ammunition in the Tsubachi Road, but so far, nothing has been found."

"I got something else."

"What information?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

"According to the information revealed by the personnel of the Liao County Garrison."

"The Liao County Martial Arts Brigade has recently received a considerable amount of grain from their base area."

"It's all fine flour."

"There's even a lot of animal fat."

"It seems to be imported grain."

"Imported grain?"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.

Weapons, ammunition, food!

They are two kinds of materials that the locust army severely blockaded the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army was seriously lacking in these two materials, and they were also the two biggest problems restricting the growth of the Eighth Route Army's strength.

Now there seems to be evidence that there are forces that are assisting the Eighth Route Army with these two materials, or that the Eighth Route has obtained a lot of food, weapons and ammunition through some channel?

"Focus on."

"Investigate the source of these weapons and ammunition, as well as food."

Yoshio Shinozuka spoke in a serious tone.

"Hey."

Yamamoto bowed his head should be.

"General, the 29th Brigade sent a telegram that the Yamashima Wing continued to request tactical guidance, and he asked, will it continue to send reinforcements?"

Yamamoto changed the subject.

"Do you want to continue to send reinforcements?"

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone rose and he sneered:

"The Eighth Route Army must have thought that I didn't dare to send reinforcements to reinforce Liao County."

"Or, think I'm sure I'm going to send more reinforcements."

"Command."

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone was full of disdain:

"The 29th Brigade dispatched a reinforced squadron of Class B infantry and set off on April 24 to support the Liao County garrison through the Xiyanghe County route."

"There is no need to strengthen secrecy in this operation, and since receiving the order, the order to reinforce Liao County on the 24th will be immediately notified in detail to every soldier participating in the reinforcement squadron."

Yamamoto looked at his commander in surprise.

Another squadron was sent to reinforce, and even directly ordered that there was no need to strengthen secrecy, and that it could be reported to every soldier of the Imperial Army, which was a declaration of war on the Tuba Road.

"Order the 29th Brigade to reinforce the reinforced squadron in Liao County and secretly equip a radio station."

"Order, after the reinforcement squadron departs, the garrisons of Liao County, Yu County, and He County are on full alert and ready to go to support at any time."

"Order, after the departure of the reinforcement squadron, Taiyuan Airport will enter a state of combat readiness and be ready to take off for reinforcements at any time."

"I want to see if Tubalu dares to ambush!"

"Do you really think that with a little foreign reinforcements, my first army is afraid of them?"

When the words fell, Yoshio Shinozuka snorted coldly in disdain.

"Hey!"

Yamamoto immediately bowed his head.

Do you dare to ambush it?

Absolutely not.

Even if it was that Li Yunlong, if he gave him ten more dares, he wouldn't dare.

···

Meanwhile.

Yang Village.

Separate regimental firing range.

Bang Bang Bang ·

Gunshots rang out one after another.

Boom Boom · ·

Even, occasionally, there was the sound of grenadiers, 60 mortars.

At this moment, more than 500 soldiers of the third battalion are taking squads, platoons, and companies as units to carry out a live-fire training competition.

After a month and a half of arduous training, the recruits of the third battalion finally reached the physical fitness standard, and also learned trench digging, tactical movements, and other necessary skills on the battlefield.

During this period, due to the excessively high training intensity, more than 50 soldiers of the third battalion were physically exhausted and were forced to transfer to the logistics transport team.

As a result, the training of the three battalions has entered the next stage, which is actual combat and live-ammunition training.

Li Yunlong adhered to the attitude of proceeding from actual combat, and the construction of the shooting range was also to simulate the battlefield environment, trenches, foxholes, and circular fortification groups, and set up straw dummy targets hidden behind the fortifications.

The assessment is also based on actual combat.

Training troops, after entering the battlefield, need not only to complete standard tactical maneuvers, but also to accurately hit, conceal dummies in trenches, foxholes, ring fortifications.

And at a straight-line distance, a lot of hidden targets controlled by ropes were set up to simulate the enemy who suddenly burst out, and trained the soldiers to react quickly.

Finally, according to the qualification of tactical movements, the hit rate is scored.

The worst squads, platoons, companies, battalions.

Yes, all four battalions of the Independent Regiment needed to participate in this training.

That's sorry, I won't punish those who don't eat or anything, just increase training until the next training is no longer last, but cultural learning can't be left behind.

By the way, the construction of the shooting range was arranged by the regimental headquarters guard platoon, as well as one of the battalions with the best results.

"How much ammo do you have to consume at one time for such training?"

Zhao Gang couldn't help but ask.

Although he knew that there was Boss Lu to take care of him, he was still distressed.

With the training of the militia units and the stationing of the second battalion in Shangcun, the independent regiment had four infantry battalions with a full strength of 520 men, an artillery company, a baggage transport battalion, and a communications reinforcement platoon, and the total strength of the regimental headquarters had reached 3,000 men.

And that's not counting the logistical supply depot of more than two hundred people.

"A battalion, one training, the minimum is about 10,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 grenadier grenades, 100 60-mm mortars, a little higher, the consumption of grenadiers and mortar shells even exceeds live ammunition."

Li Yunlong's tone was not distressed at all.

Anyway, with Brother Lu's backing, this is a normal training consumption.

Moreover, these attritions have really become the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"Artillerymen and grenadiers, you still need to strengthen your training!"

The two looked at the actual combat training of the three battalions in front of them.

When one of the infantry squads was attacking a position, it was suppressed by the fire of three crooked 'machine guns' and one Type 92 heavy machine gun.

These four machine guns were extremely difficult to hit, and their own Czechs could not fight them, let alone submachine guns and rifles, and the two wings were also rugged, so they could not go around the side, so they could only rely on grenadiers.

But the grenadier shooter, firing more than forty grenades and draining all the grenades carried by the class, failed to suppress the two Czechs, and had to retreat to stop the attack and replenish the ammunition.

In the end, the company's 60 mortars were discontinued, and it took more than 50 shells to take out this tricky firing point set up by the second battalion.

It took more than half an hour.

This scene made Li Yunlong frown.

Although the machine gun positions set up by the old fritters of the second battalion were indeed tricky and extremely difficult to aim, it also meant that on the battlefield, this company would be blocked by a fire point for half an hour.

"Dididi..."

At this time, the communicator on Li Yunlong's wrist rang, which suddenly made his eyes light up:

"Haha, a new deal is coming."

(End of chapter)