May 17th.

Taiyuan

The headquarters of the First Army.

The commander of the First Army Air Wing, Masaaki Shibata walked into Yoshio Shinozuka's office:

"General."

"The results of the investigation are out?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

The three counties where the Yamashima Wing is stationed, three consecutive squadron-level reinforcements have been ambushed and all the jade shatters, plus a piece of information representing the abundant materials of the Tsuchibalu, gradually made Shinozuka Yoshio gradually feel,

Things don't seem to be rosy.

It seems that Dohachi Road has indeed obtained a large amount of foreign food, weapons and ammunition, and the Empire has no knowledge of this.

"According to the analysis."

Shibata handed Yoshio Shinozuka a stack of photographs of Yang Village and surrounding villages and towns.

The photo taken at low altitude is quite clear.

Among them, several scattered teams of mules, horses and donkeys can be seen, winding along the horse road, and many people carry bags of grain to distant places on their shoulders.

"From the analysis of photos, there are a large number of cave-type warehouses in Yang Village and several surrounding villages."

"Through long-term reconnaissance at high altitude, it was found that during the day alone, more than 20 to 30 tons of grain flowed out of the surrounding area. And their main transportation time is in the evening, in the morning, and in the evening, when these imperial scouts are interspersed. ”

"It is estimated that the daily outflow of grain can reach up to 200 tons."

In order to attract devils to attack, Li Yunlong did not hide, but allowed some small-scale militia transport teams, road construction engineering teams to transport grain, and even ordinary people from the warehouses around Yang Village during the day.

To this end, the construction of anti-aircraft concealment facilities has also been strengthened.

"Two hundred tons a day."

Yoshio Shinozuka rubbed his forehead.

The First Army has more than 73,000 people, and the total daily consumption of food is about the same number.

"Can these warehouses be bombed?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

"The warehouses are all underground cave warehouses, buried five or six meters deep or even deeper, and require the use of heavy explosives to effectively destroy."

"And these warehouses are small in size, and the individual capacity is estimated to be around tens of tons, and there are a lot of them, about hundreds."

Shibata Masaaki shook his head.

With enough food and drink, and sufficient manpower, Li Yunlong organized manpower and excavated a large number of cave-type warehouses.

"Understood."

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded.

Meaning that it is possible to bomb, but it requires the use of expensive bombshells to cause damage to supplies.

Small aerial bombs, even if they can destroy the warehouse, but the dirt eight roads can easily save the food.

Use aerial bombs that are manufactured at a high price by the empire and transported into Taiyuan for long distances to consume the manpower of the Tuba Road, or use expensive bombshells to destroy the grain of the Tuba Road?

Yoshio Shinozuka isn't stupid enough to be stupid.

Judging from the current multiple evidences, it seems that the guerrillas in the Taiyue Mountains have obtained a very large amount of food, which is beyond the imagination of the locust army.

With such consumption, the empire will go bankrupt.

He decisively abandoned the idea of bombing.

"The terrain around these warehouses is complex, the mountain roads are rugged, and there are anti-aircraft concealment positions set up next to the mountain roads, and the strafing effect on the transport team is also very poor, and only some grain can be destroyed."

Shibata Masaaki added.

The fighting has been fought for almost three years, and the construction of the base areas has also been almost two years, and the troops have established a mature method of dealing with the strafing and bombing of devils.

In the propeller era, the aircraft was very noisy, and the sound was penetrating, and it could be heard from a distance of more than ten miles or even more, and at this time, it would take four or five minutes for the devil plane to arrive.

When you hear the sound, you should immediately dodge and disguise yourself, which will greatly reduce the probability of being bombed by devils.

"Let's go down."

Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand.

Sending fighter jets to strafe scattered food convoys?

He didn't have that idea in the first place.

For every hour of flight of the Imperial fighter, the flight cost was very expensive.

Aviation fuel is far more expensive than the fuel used in automobiles, every part of an aero engine is equivalent to hundreds of kilograms of food, bullets are also far more expensive than food, and logistics maintenance also requires costs.

"Go and call Enji Hetian over."

Subsequently, Yoshio Shinozuka ordered the staff officer to call the head of the Intelligence Section of the First Army, Enji Karata.

···

"General."

Koda Enji came to the headquarters of the First Army and saluted Yoshio Shinozuka.

"How is the investigation in the Taiyue Mountains going?"

"Have you investigated the source of their supplies?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

"Progress has been very slow."

He Tian Yuanji lowered his head, and his voice was full of guilt:

"Tubalu is very strict in their so-called base area, and it is very difficult for our intelligence officers to infiltrate it."

The small-scale peasant economy has resulted in a small output of materials and a sluggish business in the base areas, resulting in a scarcity of financial revenues in the base areas, but everything is good and bad, and in addition to the deep mass base of the troops in the base areas, strict preventive measures have been organized.

Any devil intelligence officer, even a traitor, who wants to spy on the intelligence of the base area, is very easy to expose.

"Speed up the process and make sure we find out where their supplies are coming from."

Yoshio Shinozuka also knows that this matter is not easy.

Koji Tsukada continued:

"Through the statistics of the amount of imported grain in Wuxiang, Liaoxian, and Yuxian counties, combined with aerial reconnaissance photos, as well as some intelligence, preliminary conclusions can be drawn."

"In April, more than 1,500 tons of imported grain flowed out of the Taiyue Mountains."

"The number of May is even higher, and at the moment there is only the data for the first ten days, and the preliminary estimate is as high as 1,500 tons."

Militia training, food for outstanding militiamen, food subsidies for sacrificed soldiers, seriously injured and disabled soldiers, and food wages in kind, the common people rarely eat themselves.

It can be seen at a glance that the grain distributed by the troops is of good quality and is fine grain.

It is difficult for ordinary landlords to eat all at once.

The prices on the market are very high.

So they are sold in the market in exchange for more coarse grains, or necessities of life.

This has resulted in a large outflow of food.

However, this is exactly what Li Yunlong wants to see, and it is also the situation that the brigade headquarters wants.

"So much!"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.

The Republic of China is a large country with a large population, with a total population of more than 450 million, more than six times the total population of the empire, and its grain output is also very huge.

It greatly relieved the pressure on the Empire's food, and also strengthened the idea of using North China as the base of the Imperial Military Station.

Therefore, aviation reconnaissance found that there were a large number of grain warehouses in Yang Village, and up to 200 tons of grain flowed out of Yang Village every day.

He didn't pay much attention to it at first.

Although it was a bit beyond his expectations, the amount of food was not too much compared to the number of the Eighth Route Army in the Taiyue Mountains and the number of people who supported the Eighth Route Army.

However, the amount of grain flowing into the three counties around the Taiyue Mountains was as high as 1,500 tons in April, and it is predicted that it will reach 4,500 tons in May.

And that's just the prediction, there will be more.

Moreover, it will only flow into the market, only a small part, and the actual amount of grain consumed and distributed by Tuba Road will be even more, several times the amount of outflow, and based on this calculation, the amount of grain consumed by Tuba Road in the Taiyue Mountains in April will not be less than 3,000 tons.

There were even 10,000 tons in May.

What is even more troublesome is that these are imported grains, not the grain produced by the Tubalu Base Area itself, and they are not even imported old grains, but new grains produced this year.

This shows that there is a channel unknown to the locust army, which is constantly transporting grain to the Taiyue Mountains, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger.

Then, flowing into the Taiyue Mountains

"Isn't there any, any discovery of the source of these food?"

Yoshio Shinozuka accentuated his tone.

Thousands of tons, or even 10,000 tons of grain, entered the Taiyue Mountains where the locust army was heavily blockaded in a month, and the locust army didn't know about it?

"No... No. ”

He Tian Yuanji bowed his head and replied.

"Yaga!"

"Rubbish!"

Yoshio Shinozuka is a little out of the line.

A huge amount of food, more than the first army consumed in a month, entered the Tubalu base area, and the locust army that was heavily blockaded didn't know it!

He couldn't understand it.

It's hard to accept.

"Hey!"

The two heads of the field drooped even lower.

"Be sure to find out the source of food for Tubalu within May!"

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone was murderous.

"Hey!"

Beads of sweat the size of beans dripped from the two heads of the fields and fields.

···

Meanwhile.

Liao County, the stronghold of the Japanese army in Xiazhuang.

"Squadron Leader."

"Squadron Leader!"

A devil hurriedly rushed to the leader of the devil squadron in the Xiazhuang stronghold who led the patrol, the male captain of Zhizhi.

"What's the matter?"

The panicked expression of the subordinate made the man very unhappy.

"Eight ways."

"A large number of eight roads were found in the east."

The Xiazhuang stronghold is a stronghold that goes deep into the area of the army's base area, and in the past, Xiazhuang was a base area for the army, and even now, many surrounding villages are under the control of the army.

Although the devils can go deeper along the road, they cannot expand and expand the control area due to the lack of troops.

Therefore, the construction position of the Xiazhuang stronghold is relatively high, standing on the top of the stronghold, you can look around the surroundings, and always maintain external vigilance.

"How many?"

The man's tone was serious.

The Kawazu Squadron, the Daihe Squadron, and the Nishino Squadron, three squadrons in a row encountered the Dohachi Road ambush, and all the members of the team were shattered, which made Nan Shangzhi realize that the Dohachi Road may not be as easy to deal with as before.

The Brigade Headquarters also asked him to shrink his defense in the near future.

"A lot."

"Five or six hundred."

The man's face changed suddenly, and he ordered:

"Order the teams to retreat to the stronghold at once."

Thanks to the order of the Liao County Brigade Headquarters, the Xiazhuang stronghold has recently reduced the number of patrols going out, so with the order of Nan Shangzhi, more than 150 devils in the Xiazhuang stronghold quickly shrank into the stronghold.

"Wai!"

After leading the team to arrive at the Xiazhuang stronghold, Li Yunlong waved his hand, and the second battalion was about to surround the Xiazhuang stronghold.

"Build a position."

"Arrange a vigilance."

"As long as the devil dares to take the lead, he will beat the labor and management."

After the encirclement, Li Yunlong did not arrange an attack, but only arranged for the troops to build positions, arrange minefields, and blockade them layer by layer.

Although the Independent Regiment is now capable of taking the Xiazhuang stronghold, after all, there is no offensive weapon, and the losses of the strong attack will not be small, and in the end, it is very likely that the casualties of the Independent Regiment are similar to those of the devils.

Even if the number of casualties of the Independent Regiment is equal to the number of devils killed, in the eyes of Grand Master Li, it is a loss-making deal.

The loss-making transaction Grand Master Li will not do it.

(End of chapter)