"Xiazhuang stronghold."

Before leaving, Beijing Nakazuo looked at the lonely road between Liao County and Xiazhuang stronghold on the map, and his face was gloomy.

Since Tubalu dared to encircle the Xiazhuang stronghold, he must have come prepared, and he would not give up the encirclement as soon as his brigade headquarters approached and retreated into the mountains.

He went to support this time, and he would inevitably encounter resistance on the way.

Mine!

Cold gun!

Small forces attacked.

Or even a massive force blockade.

Recently, the strength of Tubalu has skyrocketed, and a large number of weapons and ammunition have been obtained, and these attacks will also be more powerful and more difficult to deal with.

The art of war is cloudy, and the march needs to be taken by surprise.

The best thing to do is to take a different path.

However, Beijing Zhongzuo had no choice, there was only one road from Liaoxian to the Xiazhuang stronghold, and the rest were rugged mountain roads, which were not suitable for the march of large troops at all.

He also considered requesting reinforcements.

However, if a stronghold is surrounded by the Dirt Eight Road, and if he asks for support before he has even set out, the commander's evaluation of him will be greatly reduced, and he will not want to go any further in the future.

There were no other instructions from the superiors, just for him to reinforce the siege.

"When was the last time you received contact from the Xiazhuang base?"

Kitai Nakasa continued to ask.

"Eighty-seven hours ago."

Hearing the answer of the staff officer of the brigade headquarters, Kitai Nakasa's face was gloomy again.

Eighty-seven hours.

More than three and a half days.

According to the communication regulations between the brigade headquarters and the Xiazhuang stronghold that he personally set down, it can be estimated that the time for the Xiazhuang stronghold to be surrounded by the Tuba Road will not be less than three days.

Three days!

I'm afraid the morale of the male intelligence squadron has begun to decline.

Kitai Nakasa knows his brigade well.

Although the Beijing Brigade has participated in many battles and has rich experience in actual combat, it is only a garrison brigade of a garrison division after all.

Even though he has always been strictly trained, compared with the First Division, the North Well Brigade not only has a huge gap in combat quality, but also a very huge gap in the comprehension of the bushido spirit.

Reflected in the troops, it is the gap in morale.

It is also a gap in loyalty to the empire.

Most of the soldiers of the North Well Brigade can have a short period of samurai courage, and can be broken for the empire and the emperor, but they are not durable enough to face difficult situations for a long time.

Over time, there will be a decline in morale, a collapse.

Continue, and there is even a possibility of surrendered soldiers.

Although unwilling in his heart, Kitai Nakasa has accepted the reality.

A garrison squadron is a garrison squadron, and the recruited soldiers are congenitally inferior to first-class divisions and second-class divisions, which is not as normal. It's not something that training can compensate for.

Actually, think about it.

If the millions of soldiers of the Empire, each of whom is elite and infinitely loyal to the Empire, can wholeheartedly fight for the Imperial Holy War, then the plan to destroy the Republic of China in three months will not fail.

"Let's go!"

Regaining his calm expression, Kitai Nakasa waved his hand and left the stronghold with nearly six hundred devils from the brigade headquarters, leaving less than a hundred devils stationed.

Before the Beijing Brigade, there were nearly 800 people stationed in Liao County.

However, not long ago, the Xiye squadron was ambushed in Songjiazhuang, and the Beijing Brigade was ordered to go to reinforcements, but was blocked by the Eighth Route Army in a canyon outside Liaoxian County, with more than 100 casualties.

I haven't had time to add it yet.

"Go collect some livestock and haul them with a lightning rake."

Leaving the county seat and arriving in Liao Town, it was already night, and Kitai Nakazo decided to rest first.

Avoiding night marching as much as possible is the experience he summed up in the battle with Tubalu.

After all, the locust army is an external force, although it is strong and invincible in frontal field battles, but when it marches at night, its vision is severely restricted, and it is easy to encounter Tubalu attacks that are very familiar with the local terrain.

And it is difficult to launch countermeasures.

He also needed time to prepare the means to prevent landmines.

"Captain, we can let only that person go to the thunder, anyway, there are only many people..."

The subordinates were clearly dissatisfied with Kitai Nakasa's order, a rare direct proposal.

"Yaga!"

"Idiot."

Kitai Nakasa, who was already in a very irritable mood, frowned, but his subordinate made another stupid suggestion, and immediately slapped him, and the subordinate who hit him stumbled and almost fell.

He didn't think about letting that person go to the thunder?

Would he be reluctant to have just that person?

Can you use your mind to think about it, Liaozhen is a territory occupied and controlled by the locust army, and forcibly expropriating here will only destroy the direct interests of the locust army, and push the surrounding people to Tubalu.

If you want to recruit them, you have to wait until you reach the so-called base area of Tubalu, and at the very least, you have to enter the so-called guerrilla zone.

Moreover, it takes time to recruit the people, at least half a day, or even longer, and the speed of the people is very slow, far less fast than the speed of the cattle leading the plough and rake.

The Xiazhuang stronghold can't afford to wait.

After a slap, considering that it was his own subordinate after all, Kitai Nakasa still explained the reason in detail.

"Hey."

Wouldn't the requisitioned livestock push the people here to the dirt road?··· The subordinate complained about the strange logic of his boss in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak anymore, just covered his face to carry it out.

···

An hour after the Beijing Brigade left the station, the 1st and 2nd Battalions received information:

The North Well Brigade has set off for the Xiazhuang stronghold!

Nearly six hundred devils, with a Type 92 infantry cannon, among them there was a squadron of more than fifty devil cavalry.

In order to grasp the information of the Beijing Brigade in a timely manner, Li Yunlong sent two squads from the guard platoon of the regiment headquarters, each with a walkie-talkie to be stationed in the county brigade, one of which was hidden near Liao County, and the other was in Xiaoao Village, where he was stationed.

The two walkie-talkies formed a relay link, transmitting real-time information to the 2nd Battalion, which surrounded the Xiazhuang stronghold, and the 1st Battalion, which was responsible for blocking the attack.

Considering the safety of the walkie-talkie, a squad close to the county seat, hidden near a village controlled by a county brigade, five kilometers away from the county seat, tracking and monitoring the devils was the responsibility of the squad fighters and members of the county brigade.

After all, monitoring the devil brigade is a very dangerous task even for veterans who are familiar with the terrain.

After receiving the news, Ding Shenggui, who was commanding the Xiazhuang stronghold, did not make any moves, and his main task was to surround the Xiazhuang stronghold and not let a single devil come out.

"Wang Gensheng, you lead the team and go and give the devil a welcome gift."

"Yes."

Zhang Dabiao, who commanded the first battalion, asked Wang Gensheng to lead the team to harass the devils first.

When the Beijing Brigade was stationed in Liaozhen, Wang Gensheng also led the team to arrive in Liaozhen.

···

The next day.

It's just dawn.

The Beijing Brigade continued to set off and followed the road to the Xiazhuang stronghold.

In front of the devil's team, there are dozens of oxen and mules dragging wooden climbing plows, opening the way in front of the highway, and the climbing plows are tied with stones and other heavy objects, pressing out long traces on the dirt road.

"Second warrant officer."

"Have your squad work in detachments and keep watch around the perimeter."

"If you find a suspicious person, shoot them directly."

In order to guard against cold guns, Kitai Nakasa specially sent a team to disperse the vigilance.

The order issued was to be killed.

"Hey!"

The leader of the devil squad led more than forty devils, divided into four groups, and scattered around the team formation.

···

"Devils of dog days."

More than a kilometer away, seeing this scene in the telescope, Wang Gen was so angry that he scolded his mother.

In order to prevent the devils from catching the common people and going to the mines, the regiment decided from the beginning not to set up a minefield to block the little devils, but the devils actually caught the livestock of the villagers to go to the mines.

"It's good that we didn't lay mines, these animals..."

One of the warriors said happily.

Once a mine explodes, the animals will hardly survive.

"Even if there are no landmines, these animals will not return to the people, and they will either be sold or killed and eaten."

Wang Gensheng was murderous.

After fighting with the devil for so long, he knows the devil's temperament too well.

There is no way to return what has been stolen.

"The little devil raised by the son of a bitch!"

The warrior immediately scolded.

"Let's go and book an ambush first."

Wang Gensheng suppressed the anger in his heart, led the team to copy the path, and went to the predetermined ambush location.

The devil brigade is very cautious, and there are vigilant detachments scattered around the team within a radius of several hundred meters.

Although each of them had a submachine gun and fierce firepower, the number was too small, only five people, and once they encountered these devil detachments, they were easily entangled, and finally surrounded by devil cavalry.

Don't look at Wang Xikui's Xiye squadron has no temper.

However, Wang Xikui was the only person in the regiment who had the ability to first hit a fixed target 500 meters away and move a target 450 meters away.

And it is also the top of the whole regiment of concealment and reconnaissance.

Coupled with the first person in the whole regiment to scout the top soldier, Liu Shun, can easily deal with a devil squadron.

Cold guns are not so easy to hit.

Good marksmanship is only the most basic requirement, but also have a very keen sense of observation, be able to find and dodge the reconnaissance devils around the devil's team, choose the right terrain to shoot, and escape in the search for devil reconnaissance devils.

Yesterday, there was a soldier of the Liaoxian County Brigade who was found and sacrificed by devils in the process of tracking and monitoring the Beijing Brigade.

···

In late May, the weather was already a little hot.

Under the scorching sun, the little six hundred devils drove along the road, and many devils were listless, especially after entering the mountainous area, the slope became more and more, the road became more and more difficult to walk, and the devil's marching speed became slower and slower.

"Be vigilant."

"Speed up."

But the old devil of Beijing did not dare to relax at all, and constantly ordered the troops to increase their vigilance and maintain the speed of the march.

Before being completely annihilated, the Xiye squadron once sent a report that it was attacked by the Eighth Route Army from 500 meters away with cold guns, and before it reached Songjiazhuang, it lost nearly ten soldiers.

A precision cold gun from 500 meters away.

This number sent chills down Beijing's spine.

Although he arranged for four detachments to spread the guard around the brigade headquarters, at a distance of 550 meters, and with the complex terrain of mountains on both sides of the road, it was very easy to conceal a single person.

With a little empathy, Kitai Nakazo can know that if he is a sharpshooter of the Eighth Route Army, he will definitely be the first to attack him.

He ordered his troops to maintain the speed of the march, after all, it was difficult for people to be hit when they were moving, and the old devil did not even ride a horse, but hid in the middle of the queue.

but

The world is always full of surprises.

···

"Fire."

When the devil team passed through a narrow road, the five-man attack team led by Wang Gensheng opened fire, and at a distance of 550 meters, two grenadiers fired fiercely at the headquarters of the devil brigade.

(End of chapter)