"Report to the division commander, the grain in the Taiyue Mountains has been completely destroyed."

Twenty-seventh Division.

Divisional headquarters.

A staff officer reported a message.

"Got it."

The division commander, Mido Mazuo, waved his hand very casually, signaling that he understood.

Completely destroyed?

He knows.

There must be a large number of grinders, and the actual destruction effect is far worse than expected.

It is very good that half of the 2.2 million mu of various fields in the Taiyue Mountains can be completely destroyed.

In the follow-up, Tubalu organized manpower rescue and rescue, and the grain output is estimated to be half of last year's.

But Mido Mazuo thinks it's already very good.

1.1 million mu, calculated based on the loss of 80 kilograms of grain per mu, that is nearly 100,000 tons of grain, plus transportation losses, market factors, and so on, it actually takes more than 200,000 tons of grain to make up for it.

He wanted to see if Tubalu could raise 200,000 tons of grain a year.

"Yaga, where the hell is it?"

The main reason why Mido Mazuo didn't care about the destruction of the fields was because it had been nearly a month since he entered and started to sweep, with more than 20,000 imperial troops, and later increased to more than 10,000 imperial troops.

In the Taiyue base area, it was almost a three-foot search.

The intelligence department of the First Army and the intelligence department of the North China Front Army found thousands of local people to question, search, and also captured some soldiers who had fallen behind in the Eighth Road for questioning.

I don't know exactly how these supplies got in.

I only know that they are all from the independent regiment.

The other troops only received supplies from the independent regiment, which served as the material supply center of the Taiyue base area.

"What the hell went wrong?"

Taking a few deep breaths, Mido Mazuo suppressed the anger in his heart and pondered it carefully.

"General."

"The baggage convoy has arrived."

At this point, a message was delivered to him.

Counting the first assault on the two counties, the third time that the baggage transport wing transported supplies.

"Got it."

The baggage convoy was not affected in any way, and the supplies arrived safely, but Mido Mazuo was not happy.

In the plan, the Eighth Route Army would attack the convoy, and the Locust Army was also ready.

But it's the same as entering the Taiyue Mountains and not finding the Tuba Road transportation channel.

Once again, the plan fell through.

The convoy was barely attacked during the entire process.

The rare battles were also in the fringe areas, and there were sporadic exchanges of fire with the reconnaissance troops of the 386th Brigade, and the two sides won and lost each other.

A division and regiment spent a lot of manpower and materials to launch such a large-scale sweep, but as a result, not a single goal was completed, and it felt like a punch in the air, which made Mido Mafu feel extremely uncomfortable.

"They're not going to fight the locust army?"

Taking another deep breath, Mido looked at the map on the table and thought about it carefully.

···

"Let's go."

Afternoon.

In a village near the Taiyue Mountains, Li Yunlong held a 40-type submachine gun, looked up at the sky, then looked down at his watch, and gave an order with a loud exhalation.

"Let's go."

Behind him, Zhang Dabiao, Wei Dayong and a group of more than 300 people quietly followed the mountain road and touched the direction of the devil's garrison.

···

"Let's go."

The other side.

Three battalions of the Independent Regiment, more than 2,000 soldiers, as well as three companies of the heavy artillery battalion and a battery transport company, a total of 3,000 people, also moved in the direction of the devil.

The direction of its advance is the direction of the station of the Sakata United.

···

"The 27th Division, after nearly a month of carpet search in the Taiyuegen base area, still failed to find any clues about the enemy's foreign material transportation channel, as if those materials appeared out of thin air."

"However, through the questioning of more than 3,000 people from Liao County and Yu County, it is certain that a large amount of grain and materials were transported from the Taiyue Mountains, to be precise, from the independent regiment that was the material supply center of the Taiyue base area."

"Judging from the current situation, we have not found out how the Eighth Route Army obtained imported materials in a short period of time."

"I suggest initiating an espionage investigation."

"Send senior intelligence officers to infiltrate the independent regiment to investigate and collect evidence."

"And."

"Ask international intelligence organizations to cooperate with other countries to investigate the origin of these materials."

"Presumably, other countries will also be very interested in this force supporting the Eighth Route Army."

Also in Yang Village.

Naoto Matsuzaki looked at a completely destroyed newspaper rotary printing press in front of him and continued to write his investigative report.

"Other than that, there is no way to find the source of these supplies."

After writing the report, Naoto Matsuzaki sealed the report in his hand and handed it to a communications soldier, asking him to send it to the North China Front Headquarters as soon as possible.

···

That day.

In the evening.

"It's back!"

Sakata United Station.

Although the wing captain was already a native of Benshan at this time, the superiors were obviously very dissatisfied with the new wing leader, and the junior officers and soldiers were also very dissatisfied, so they still called Sakata United.

Tominojima looked at the familiar team and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

In February this year, after he was seriously injured in the first battle of Cangyunling, he has been tossing and turning in other teams, but he didn't expect to go around and around, and actually returned to the Bantian Blue Team.

As for the reason.

In this battle, the Sakata Wing suffered heavy losses and needed a large number of troops to replenish it, and after the Yamashima Wing was completely annihilated, he had nothing to do with the 29th Brigade, so he was sent over.

He continued to serve as an acting squadron leader.

"Captain Tomino."

Looking at the team in front of him, which was almost all composed of recruits, Tominojima's originally complicated mood suddenly became solemn.

The casualties are so huge.

No wonder he made a lieutenant officer as an acting squadron leader.

"Assemble."

Tominojima ordered the entire squad to assemble.

Half an hour later, when Tominojima looked at the squad of more than a hundred soldiers in front of him, Tominojima's face became more and more solemn.

He's a squadron!

Two-thirds of them were replenished.

The shortage of officers is as high as a third.

From this point of view, the situation of the two teams of Sakata is probably much worse now than after the battle of Cangyunling.

"Assemble and start training."

Funoshima couldn't see his old unit like this, so he immediately began training.

···

"Yaga."

"It's too much of a deception."

Tominoshima is worried, and the co-captain is also anxious.

In the first battle of Liaoxian, a full five-day battle, the Bantian Wing suffered more than 1,900 casualties, and more than 700 Yusha, because the fire on the Tuba Road was too fierce, including the seriously wounded, the actual attrition exceeded 1,500.

A wing went straight to half.

Although he was given fifteen hundred supplementary soldiers,

However, most of the supplementary soldiers were inexperienced soldiers, and there were very few officers, resulting in a shortage of 50 officers such as squadron leaders and squad leaders at the grassroots level, including deputies.

It's really nothing.

The lack of supplementary soldiers in the empire is not a day or two, and in the Battle of Songhu that year, there was also a serious shortage of supplementary soldiers in a large number of wings and not enough officers.

But the question is,

The wing attacking Yuxian was almost exactly the same as his losses,

But the officers of the opposing side were fully supplemented.

The gap is only ten.

Even if he thinks he is incompetent, but is it too deceitful to treat him differently?

Reports

"Divisional headquarters order."

At this time, a communication soldier ran over:

"The division commander ordered us to strengthen the guard of the wing flag."

"Got it!"

Hearing this order, the corners of the mountain's eyes jumped.

How uneasy is this for him?

"Send a squadron to strengthen the wing flag defense."

The division headquarters ordered, and the people of Benshan finally sent a squadron to reinforce it.

···

"To reinforce the Flag Guards?"

When he received the order from the brigade headquarters, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

The Flag Guards are usually co-located with the Wing Headquarters.

It's the safest place in the whole league, not even one of them.

actually asked him to lead the team to protect the wing flag.

"Is it..."

Suddenly, Tominojima thought of several news he had heard not long ago.

Tubalu not only annihilated the Yamashima United, but also captured the Yamashima United's Wing Flag, and even published it in the newspaper, although he had not seen the newspaper, but he had heard a lot of similar news.

and

In June, the flag of the West Field United was also seized by Tu Ba Road.

Could it be that the wing flag has really been captured?

Otherwise, why are the superiors so nervous about the wing flag?

Although he was doubtful and suspicious, Tominojima still took his squadron, more than a hundred people, and walked towards the position of the flag protection team under the leadership of the staff officer of the wing headquarters.

"On the orders of the division commander, strengthen the defense of the wing flag?"

"Yaga."

For the arrival of Funoshima, the captain of the flag guard team was obviously very unhappy.

The squad leader of the flag protection team, although the position is only squad leader, but the military rank is captain, which is equivalent to the squadron leader, because it only belongs to the brigade headquarters, and the position is even comparable to the general captain.

After all, as long as the wing flag is there, the wing is there.

If the wing flag is gone, the wing will be revoked, even if no one is lost.

Therefore, as the captain of the flag protection team, his duty is that the flag is in the people, and the chess is dead.

"Let's just camp nearby."

Tominojima wasn't done yet.

Suddenly··

Boom Boom · ·

The violent explosion rose up in the position of the wing, and several devils were suddenly killed on the spot.

"Heavy artillery!"

The huge power of the explosion made Tominojima's eyes widen suddenly.

From the mouths of his subordinates, he already knew why Sakata United suffered such huge losses.

Not long ago, the two teams of Bantian attacked Liao County, although the defenders of the Tuba Road were not many, but their firepower was strong, and there were even four heavy guns, which were comparable to the Imperial 105 howitzers.

And there were plenty of shells.

The wing suffered heavy losses, all because of the artillery of the Tuba Road.

"Hidden, lying down."

Funojima's order woke up the panicked recruits, and the devil recruits had also undergone half a year of military training and had considerable military experience, so they hid and hid one after another.

Only the flag protection team began to transfer as soon as possible.

Their duty is to protect the flag of the wing, and nothing else, and only at the end will they go to war.

The shelling continues,

Violent explosions, constantly rising in the middle of the position.

"It's stronger!"

"It's stronger than last time."

Looking at the densely falling cannonballs, Tominojima felt a deep fear in his heart.

Compared with the battle in June, when the Yamashima Wing was ambushed, the artillery of the Tubalu Road at this time was obviously more powerful.

And it's a lot more powerful.

The strength of the Soil Eighth Road is rapidly increasing.

And the army of locusts,

Seems to be weakening?

The shelling came and went quickly.

Shells began to shift to other positions,

At this time, the gunshots rang out, and it seemed that the earth was attacking the position of the wing.

Tominoshima also quickly suppressed the panic in his heart and began to direct the troops to move to the flag protection team covertly, not forgetting the order he received - to protect the flag of the wing.

"Yaga."

"Go reinforce the rest of the troops."

"You're a burden here."

Hearing the roar of the flag team, Tominojima was expressionless.

"Go and reinforce the positions of the 3rd Brigade."

After completing the deployment of troops and asking for help from the division headquarters, the people of the mountain walked out of the command room, saw the conflict between the flag protection team and the Funojima squadron, and immediately ordered Funoshima to reinforce the position of the third brigade.

The tone was full of anxiety.

The attack came too suddenly, and although the Sakata Wing was always on high alert, the enemy's fire was too fierce and the attack was too ferocious, which caught him off guard.

In just half an hour, the 3rd Brigade fell into the encirclement of the enemy's interspersed troops.

"Hey."

The anxious tone of the co-captain made Tominojima's heart sink again.

With experience with the Yamashima United, he kept thinking.

After entering the Taiyue Mountains for nearly a month, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has never engaged the locust army on a large-scale front.

At this point, this suspicion, he leaned towards the latter.

What kind of big conspiracy is the 386th Brigade planning.

In a hurry, Tominojima, with his own squadron, quickly reinforced the position of the 3rd Brigade.

On the way, Tominojima suddenly encountered a small force interspersed by the enemy.

The distance between the two sides is less than ten meters.

Fierce clashes broke out between the two sides, and after ten minutes, small groups of the enemy retreated, but Tominojima did not order the troops to attack, but formed positions on the spot.

After a short period of contact, Tominojima's heart was shocked again.

It's not just artillery augmentation.

The Eighth Route Army, even with its light firepower, continued to increase, and the strength of the Eighth Route Army he encountered was only about 30 people, less than one-third of his, but it was equipped with a large number of submachine guns and grenadiers.

There were even 60 mortars.

The firepower is about the same as his.

And··

"Is that a walkie-talkie?"

Holding a telescope to look around, Tominoshima took a deep breath and carefully recalled the battle just now.

In fact, at the beginning, his squadron pressed the enemy's small force to fight, but after five minutes, the enemy's medium-caliber mortars fell in his position, so that the advantage began to favor the Tu Eight Road.

He already knew that the enemy had a kind of 82 mortar with a firing range of more than five kilometers.

But at night,

In complex mountainous terrain,

Five minutes,

Artillery fire can be quickly supported and hit accurately.

There is only one possibility, the enemy carried out detailed mapping, and the front-line troops had the ability to communicate in time.

And in the battle just now, with the help of the fire of the flares, he seemed to see that the Eighth Route Army was carrying a radio on its back.

It's just...

"Walkie-talkies can communicate here?"

Looking around at the complex environment around him, Tominojima wondered in his heart.

The locust army has a radio station.

However, even high-power radio stations between brigades and regiments are difficult to achieve long-distance voice communication in such a complex mountainous environment.

How could Tubalu do it by relying on a single soldier radio?

Boom··

Confused, Tominoshima suddenly heard movement behind him.

He looked back sharply.

Suddenly found out where was the direction of the command.

(End of chapter)