"For the first time, at the headquarters of the 29th Brigade in Yangquan, the chief of staff and the deputy chief of staff of the First Army were attacked by accident."

"But what about the second time?"

Night

Taiyuan.

Kazuki Yamamoto looked at the intelligence materials in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Yamamoto sensed the strangeness of things when he learned that Tsuhachi had ambushed the imperial convoy on the road near Pingxian and had a clear purpose of forcibly killing the new chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the First Army.

The Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the First Army were indeed high-ranking officers.

But not the real power officer!

As long as the military rank is sufficient and the ability is not too bad, these two positions belong to positions that can be taken up by anyone.

The big Zuo who is idle in the empire, and there are a lot of middle Zuo, it's really not good, and there are also a bunch of Shaozuo who can be promoted.

As long as he nods, he can also serve.

Is it necessary?

Send a squadron, regardless of the cost, spend tons of artillery shells, and ambush it only ten kilometers away from the locust army's heavy troops, and if you are not careful, all the elites of more than 100 people will die here.

There is also a great deal of intelligence involved.

If you want to know the whereabouts of the chief of staff, as well as the route, the manpower that needs to be mobilized behind it is not small, and it is very risky when the intelligence forces of the locust army have an absolute advantage.

Obviously not cost-effective.

Not in line with the concept of special operations.

This kind of extremely risky attack must have enough gains.

Although Tubalu will not understand special operations, it is impossible not to understand the simple judgment of interests and risks.

It must be that Tubalu knows that sending troops to ambush and kill these two chiefs of staff, even if it costs more than a hundred elite soldiers, and the price of Yangquan's intelligence force being severely damaged, is also cost-effective.

This made Yamamoto feel extremely weird.

What good can it do to take out two chiefs of staff?

Unless it is General Shinozuka and General Miyano, chief of staff of the North China Front, there is a need and benefit for this.

"Or maybe it's the Tubalu demonstration."

Yamamoto continued to speculate.

It may be that Tubalu has obtained a large amount of weapons and ammunition recently, and he can't wait to confront the locust army head-on.

However, throughout March to the present, Tubalu has kept a low profile enough, and rarely has a large-scale frontal confrontation with the locust army, which shows that they are not arrogant and think that they can confront the locust army head-on.

Then Yamamoto let go of the doubts in his heart.

Whatever it is, it depends on the follow-up actions of the dirt eight roads.

"Tomorrow we will leave for Yangquan."

Yamamoto called his orderlies.

General Shinozuka also noticed that something was wrong, although he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was most likely an accident, but Tsuchihachi found out that there was just an opportunity to demonstrate.

The main purpose of sending him to Yangquan was to investigate the incredible intelligence ability displayed by Tubalu in this ambush battle.

In order for him to investigate without restrictions, he even sent the commander of the 29th Brigade and the deputy brigade commander, two officers who were at the same level as him or even higher than him, to Lixian.

"Hey!"

The orderly soldiers immediately began to prepare overnight.

···

The 16th regiment station, which is more than 30 kilometers away from Yangquan,

Another headquarters correspondent has arrived.

"This is..."

The correspondent holds a stack of photographs in his hand.

In the photo, there are boxes of densely packed and neat silver dollars, and at a cursory glance, there are at least five or six hundred thousand dollars.

"This is the result of your regiment."

The correspondent's tone was solemn and serious:

"Three million silver dollars a month."

"It was the 16th Regiment, the elite backbone of the 16th Regiment who ambushed the devil's convoy outside Pingxian and killed the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the devil's First Army."

"Haha..."

The commander of the 1st battalion and the commander of the 16th regiment burst out laughing.

The commander of the first battalion, in particular, breathed a sigh of relief.

It's worth it!

The ambush battle outside Pingxian, the battlefield is the heavy gathering area of the devils, and the slightest mistake is the end of the annihilation of the whole army, and the risk is extremely high, although the battle was successful, but also paid serious casualties.

The soldiers who died were all the combat backbone of the 16th Regiment, and several of them even joined the army at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War.

Even in a hurry, there was no time to even collect the remains.

There was no way, every second was of the essence at that time, and it might be a minute late, and it would be caught up by the devil.

Although the commander of the first battalion knew that if he died, or if anyone sacrificed, he would hope that the soldiers would leave his body alone, but flee as soon as possible, and only then would they have any hope of driving the devil away.

But as a living person, watching his comrades-in-arms expose the corpses in the wilderness, the first battalion commander is still uncomfortable.

But now...

Looking at the million silver dollars in the photo, the commander of the first battalion felt that the sacrifice of the 16th regiment was worth it.

"Is there any order from headquarters?"

The commander of the 16th regiment asked.

The headquarters correspondent arrived late at night, and at this time, it was impossible to just send these photos and tell them that the three million silver dollars a month were true.

"According to intelligence, the new candidates for the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the First Army have been released."

"It is the former commander of the 29th Brigade and the deputy brigade commander."

"Now these two people are at the headquarters of the First Army in Yangquan."

"And according to the intelligence of Yangquan, there are very few devils in Yangquan City now, only a devil garrison of more than 100 people, and forty-three devils in the headquarters."

"There are only forty-three devils in the headquarters?"

The commander of the first battalion immediately licked his lips and asked:

"If you kill these two devils again, will there still be three million silver dollars a month?"

"Yes!"

The correspondent nodded:

"If you kill these two devils, you can still get three million oceans every month."

"The order of the headquarters this time is also to let the 16th Regiment send troops to cooperate with the Yangquan underground organization to kill these two devil chiefs of staff tomorrow night."

"First battalion commander."

The commander of the 16th regiment immediately ordered:

"You draw a hundred elite backbones from the whole regiment, and you personally lead the team."

"Yes!"

The commander of the first battalion immediately received the order.

···

"How's the transfer of the 27th Devil's Division?"

Headquarters.

The vice president is very concerned about the devil's sweeping movements, and basically asks once a day.

"It is expected that in another seven days, we will be able to assemble around Yangquan."

"Seven days!"

Deputy General Staff looked at the map.

Seven days later, the whole army will be assembled, then within ten days, the devils will launch an attack on the Taiyue Mountains.

The Taiyue base area is ready.

The walls are cleared, the militia units are organized to be ready to transfer the people at any time, and the construction of concealed positions and bunkers is also sufficient, and the two county towns can still block the devils from sweeping the army for a few days.

But there's a catch.

Once the devils start to sweep up, it will take almost a month, and it will not be finished until mid-August.

During this period, transportation from the Taiyue base area to the Taihang base area had to be suspended.

But now the reason why the Taihang base area is able to eat enough and export thousands of tons of grain every month to the base area in southern Hebei, as well as distribute food to the families of the soldiers who died in the base area.

It relies on 20,000 tons of grain and 2,000 tons of lard per month from the Taiyue base area.

Of the 200,000 tons of grain that arrived in April, only 50,000 tons are left in secret granaries everywhere as reserve grain.

Unless this is a last resort, try not to use the food that can be stored for a long time.

"Order the headquarters to directly subordinate the transport team, directly subordinate to the cavalry battalion, the seventeenth regiment, the fifty-ninth regiment."

"Take a trip to the Taiyue Mountains."

"Bring back the food we need for the month at once."

The boss gave the order.

Transporting 20,000 tons of grain at a time, the storage of Taiyue base is a problem, and it is easy to be destroyed by devils.

But in fact, the little devils have limited troops.

Sending a division of 20,000 troops to the Taiyue base area will cause much less pressure in other areas.

···

"The headquarters wants to transport 20,000 tons of grain at one time?"

After receiving this order, Li Yunlong was not surprised, and immediately arranged for the logistics supply department to carry it out.

But then his eyes rolled.

"What are you thinking?"

Zhao Gang knew at a glance that this thing was thinking about bad things.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Li Yunlong smiled, took out the contract with Lu Renjia in July, and said:

"Lao Zhao, you said..."

"The purpose of this devil's raid is to cut off Brother Lu's passage to transport food and supplies to us, right?"

"Yes."

Zhao Gang nodded, his eyes full of doubts.

The 27th Division of the Devils assembled and rushed towards the Taiyue base area, and the purpose was known without guessing.

Others may be concerned about being cut off.

But it is impossible for Li Yunlong not to know, let alone a division of devils, even if the North China Front Army comes together, or even the devils from all over the country come together, don't want to cut off Boss Lu's transportation channel.

It's not a grade at all.

It's like a thousand years ago, when an army of swords, shields, and arrows could shoot down a fighter jet flying at an altitude of 3,000 meters.

So Li Yunlong must have other plans for asking this question.

"During this period, the damage caused by the devils to the base area and the property lost by the people, let's ask Brother Lu for reimbursement, is it reasonable?"

Li Yunlong rubbed his hands.

Although the walls have been cleared, after the devils come, the common people will also hide with their cattle into the mountains, hide the grain, and build new houses afterwards.

50,000 square meters of timber per month is enough to build thousands of houses every month, and it is still a good house, and the speed is still fast.

However, when more than 20,000 devils enter the base area, they will inevitably send troops to search the mountainous areas, and there will also be traitors and other informants who have defected to the enemy, and there will be losses in grain and livestock.

People can be moved in time, but animals can't.

In other words, even if the base area is well prepared, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses in this devil sweep.

"This..."

"Makes sense!"

Zhao Gang groaned for a moment, and suddenly felt very reasonable.

Since the annihilation of the Mountain Island Wing and the capture of the Wing Flag, because of some restrictions, Boss Lu has changed the contract, and no additional weapons and ammunition will be provided in the follow-up cooperation with the Independent Regiment.

And there has been no follow-up actual cooperation.

Only a bounty was given to the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff of the devil's First Army.

But Boss Lu only said that he would not provide additional weapons and ammunition, and he did not say that he would not provide other materials!

According to the terms of the contract, before the devil is completely eliminated, if there is a loss on the side of the independent regiment due to the reasons of Boss Lu, you can apply to Boss Lu for compensation.

The independent regiment also has the name of the 386th Brigade and the logistics supply center of the Taiyue Base Area.

Theoretically, it is necessary to be responsible for the logistical supply of the entire brigade and the Taiyue base area.

In other words, the livestock and belongings lost in the entire Taiyue base area can also be reimbursed by Boss Lu?

At present, although there are no domestic animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs in the convertible list of independent regiments, there are canned meat, as well as mules, horses, and horses.

Although mules, horses, and horses have a military prefix, the meaning of these military mules, horses, and horses is only that they have undergone militarized training and are more suitable for calling.

It's perfectly fine for civilian use, who dictates that only cattle can plough the land? Horses and mules are okay as well.

"I'll just ask."

Li Yunlong called Lu Renjia in a hurry.

And then got the answer:

"Reasonable!"

(End of chapter)